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== Summary ==
Quanzhi Fashi, or "Full-Time Mage", is a Chinese web novel of the fantasy genre. The author of the web novel goes by the name of 'Chaos'.
The story follows a young man named Mo Fan, and his journey to become one of the strongest mages in the world. He is constantly fighting in dangerous situations, with foes usually surpassing him in strength. These battles allow Mo Fan to breakthrough his inner barriers to awaken higher levels of magic, usually helping him to overcome his challenges.
The web novel focuses heavily on the development of Mo Fan's abilities. Each story arc concludes with Mo Fan profiting either magical equipment or Money, which allows him to strengthen his magical abilities. The story is very descriptive about the various elements and the state of the world.
== Different POV's ==
* Mo Fan
* Zhang Xiou Hou
* Zhao Man Yan
* Salan
* Ling Ling
* Zhang Kong
* Mu Bai
* Apas
* Bora
* Mu Ning Xue
== Story Arcs ==
=== Magic High School ===
Web Novel Chapters: 1 to 89 (Anime: Season 1)
Notable Characters Introduced
* Mo Fan
* Xin Xia
* Mu Bai
* Zhang Xiao Hou
* Mu Ning Xue
* Mu Zhuo Yun
* Mu He
* Mo Jiaxing
* Tang Yue
* Zhang Kong
* Yu Ang
Synopsis
The first arc starts off with explaining Mo Fan's current situation, both personally and with his family. It covers his journey of being a Novice Tier Magician at the Tian Lan Magic High School. Mo Fan's Dual Awakening natural talent is revealed when he awakens two elements at the novice level awakening, Fire and Lightning. Mo Fan keeps his natural talent a secret and only shows his fire element to the public. He also discovers that he his Dark Talisman necklace is a very special Evolving Magic Tool which can devour the energy of other magic tools and energy sources to evolve into a higher quality magic tool. This tool speeds up the rate of cultivation.
He joins a Hunting Squad under the alias Fan Mo, in which he uses only the element of lightning. He does this so that he can earn money and gain experience fighting Magic Beasts, hoping to gain a soul essence to evolve the Dark Pendant.
He becomes a rival to Mu Bai, vying for the position as the strongest magician in their age group. Mo Fan also clashes with Mu Zhuo Yun, the father of Mu Ning Xue, due to an incident when Mo Fan was a child and kissed Mu Ning Xue. The Mu clan were outraged and took out their anger on Mo Jiaxing. Mo Fan therefore establishes a duel with Yu Ang, the foster child of Mu Zhuo Yun, where the winner gets access to the Underground Holy Spring to cultivate for 7 days. Mo Fan also demands the Mu Zhuo Yun apologize to his father for beating him.
During the duel, Yu Ang displays the 3rd stage of the Novice Tier Ice magic, which is outstanding for that age. He is suppressing Mo Fan and it appears he is going to gain an easy victory, until Mo Fan unleashes his Fire element, which is also at the 3rd stage of the Novice Tier. His fire element easily overcomes the Ice, and begins to put pressure on Yu Ang, who uses special magic boots to escape. The fire still catches Yu Ang and is burned, however he reveals fire resistant magical armor, proving that the duel was rigged and Mo Fan didn't have a chance. Mo Fan surprises everyone present by revealing his lighting element, which is also at the 3rd stage of the Novice Tier. This magic destroys the armor and defeats Mo Fan. All the spectators are bewildered by what the had just observed, knowing that they just witnessed a special mage with a bright future,
=== Catastrophe of Bo ===
Web Novel Chapters: 90 to 120 (Anime: Season 2)
Notable Characters Introduced
* ...
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Synopsis
After winning the fight, Mo Fan gets Mu Zhou Yun to publicly apologize to Mo Jiaxing. Later as Mo Fan prepares to enter the holy spring, he goes shopping with Xin Xia and is given a hand's worth of fire bombardment cards by Tang Yue, which would allow a newly broken through mid tier fire mage to immediately cast magic without having the necessary cultivation to control the new 42 additional stars.
When he goes to the Holy Spring, he is greeted by the principal, Mu Zhou Yun and his city hunting team captain before being lead inside. While simultaneously, we see a guard of the holy spring speak with scientists analyzing the liquid drunk by the evolving one eyed wolf from the previous chapter. While at the same time we see some soldiers on patrol beyond the city limits, were they are all killed simultaneously but with 2 light mages being able to release a flare in time. With the fortress seeing this, the soldiers request to raise the alert level to orange, but Zhang Kong foregoes protocol and immediately issues the Blood Red Alert.
While the Blood Red Alert was being issued, monsters had already appeared in town and mass panic ensues. When the monsters reach the holy spring, Mo Fan is evacuated along with the holy spring (stored in a bigger on the inside bottle). When it is assumed that the Black Vatican is behind the attack, Mo Fan is entrusted the Holy Spring as he wouldn't stand out compared to the military and the Holy Spring guards. When Mo Fan returns to school, he finds it under-siege, with the surviving students and teachers setting up a expedition to reach the fortress outside of town.
The survivors divide themselves into 2 groups, an advance group composed of the schools best students and a guiding teacher, with the rest of the students following behind by a kilometer under the guard of the schools teachers. They immediately loose on of the wind mages that was send to recon and the entire group now finally realities that it has gotten real. When they reach the forest in front of the fortress, they are confronted by the summoning master of the military, he reveals himself as a member of the Black Vatican. Demanding Mo Fan hands over the spring, but Mo Fan feeds it to his necklace instead. A fight breaks out, which results in Mu Bai killing the summoner, but the team loses another one of their own.
Mo Fan confronts Zhang Kong on how this could have happened and Kong apologizes, but loses it when he learns Mo Fan destroyed the Holy Spring. Kong later departs to the front lines with his soldiers to face the leader of the monster attack, a commander level winged wolf. Mo Fan then looks around the fortress to find his family, only to find his father. He then resolves to rescue his sister when it was revealed that her high school was the point of origin for the monsters.
He finds her hiding in a freezer in the local mall but is confronted by Yu Ang and an entire mob of Black creatures, which forces Mo Fan to retreat. When he sees Xin Xia almost freezing to death on the security cameras, he manages to break through into mid-tier fire and uses one of his fire cards to destroy all of the Black creatures and forces Yu Ang to retreat. He rescues his sister and appropriates a motor cycle to support the city hunter team in sealing the breach into the city, solving the crisis.
=== Pearl Magic University Admission ===
Web Novel Chapters: 121 to 146
Notable Characters Introduced
* Zhao Man Yan
* Director Xiao
* Qiu Yu Hua
* Luo Sung
Synopsis
With the City of Bo being considered a lost cause to rebuild, all of the people are offered shelter in other cities, with the Mo family choosing Shanghai, as it is home to the Pearl Magic University, the second best university in the country. While on the way, Mo Fan makes a joke about his lack of knowledge about magic and his believe in technology (to disguise the fact that he was born in a world of technology and not one of magic). In the process he managed to offend a magical historian of the Pearl University sitting nearby. Jiaxing managed to calm him down and Mo Fan managed to make him reveal that entry into the university is almost impossible except for shadow, curse and summoning mages.
He was later told that the students from Bo are set back a year in their education, meaning that Mo Fan has to wait a whole year before he could attend the university. While breaking through into mid-tier lightning, he notices that the holy spring has improved his loach, with novice tier cultivation being improved by a factor of 4 and mid tier cultivation by a factor of 2.5. He is then contacted by Tang Yue who requests his aid in a matter, in exchange for more fire and lightning cards.
Tang Yue informs Mo Fan that she has been tailing a known criminal that uses curse magic to kill peoples souls for fun and could use some backup. When traveling to the point of ambush along some hot and dried up farms, they hear a group of hunters talking with one of them of stating that this warm state could only be caused by a fire spirit species. Tang Yue hears this and uses shadow magic to hide both herself and Mo Fan in a nearby location where they could see the spirit species, however another hunting team was already present. A fight breaks out and Mo fan observes both sides bombarding each other with novice tier magic to cover on of their own casting mid-tier magic, with Mo Fan amazed at their skill and teamwork. When one side was routed, the criminal made his appearance and activates his trap, a mid tier Curse that kills the souls of the surviving hunter team. Tang Yue tells Mo Fan to stay down and out of sight. Tang Yue walks out of hiding and confronts the criminal, but instantly falls to her knees and the criminal bursts out laughing, stating that this trap wasn't for the hunters, it was for her.
After revealing that he managed to slip Tang Yue an aphrodisiac when they were at the same diner the previous night, Tang Yue managed to release mid tier fire magic, but it only has the effect of destroying the criminal's armor and Tang Yue collapses again. Mo Fan releases mid tier fire magic but the criminal uses a water shield to intercept the attack, which Mo Fan counters with mid-tier lightning, killing the criminal instantly.
While Tang Yue tries to collect herself, she orders Mo Fan to absorb the fire species.
The following scene is left out as it may be to mature for younger audiences.
Mo Fan visits the magic association head quarters to awaken his next element(s), where he awakens the shadow element and the summoning element. He decides to use the summoning element to enter university and keep shadow as another trump card. On the day of his entrance examination, he is required to show the skill of his creature versus a prospective earth magic student, Luo Song. Mo Fan decides to use this moment to make his first summoning, which turned out to be a summoning wolf, impressing the judges. The earth mage finds himself outmatched and tries to activate mid tier ice magic, which leads to Mo Fan activating Mid Tier lighting magic. Dean Xiao interferes in the fight and accepts both their entry into the university.
Mo Fan is informed that first year students have to live on campus and is subsequently put in the same apartment as a new friend, Zhao Man Yan.
=== Summoning Department Challenge ===
Web Novel Chapters: 147 to 172
Notable Characters Introduced
* Mu Nu Jiao
* ...
Synopsis
Every year, the University allocates resources to each elemental department for distribution to it's students. A competition is also held every year between the 1st year students at Pearl Magic University. The Summoning Department students must be able to defeat a combined total of 100 students from various other departments. Including Mo Fan, there are 7 total summoning mages who can participate, against over 1000 combined first year students from the other elemental departments. If the other departments can defeat all of the summoning mages before they have tallied 100 total students defeated, they will take all resources away from the summoning department to distribute between themselves. This is seen as a very difficult task due to the low number of summoning mages, however the majority of the first year students can only cat Novice Tier magic. Against the servant level beast, they are severely disadvantaged, however they can form teams and go to battle together.
Mo Fan's summoned beast, the Dark Wolf, is currently sleeping due to previous injuries he obtained in the summoning plane. Mo Fan believes he will have to use only lightning magic, so he decides to go last. Luo Sung, who is spiteful towards Mo Fan, decides to use his Mid-Tier magic to wither down the first 6 summoning mages to try and prevent Mo Fan from obtaining University resources over the next semester. He is one of the few mid-tier mages with the capability to dispatch servant level monsters with ease. By the time he has defeated all 6 summoning mages are defeated, only 50 students had been defeated, meaning Mo Fan had to defeat 50 students by himself. Thankfully, his Dark Wolf had awoken, and has grown much stronger.
Mo Fan begins to dispatch the other students by using his lightning magic in sync with the attacks of the Dark Wolf. The combination of Mid-Tier lightning magic and a strong Dark Wolf easily allows Mo Fan to reach the 100 mark, exceeding expectations. He then queries Director Xiao about why there seemed to be no benefits for the summoning department, all risk and no reward. Director Xiao then explains to everyone an old rule that if they can defeat 200 students, the summoning department will acquire all of the resources allocated to each of the other departments. Mo Fan boldly states he will achieve this, however no one believes him until he has reached 179. Mo Fan beats 4 more teams of 5 until there is only 1 challenger remaining. Mu Nu Jiao comes to the stage and shows the Plant Element and the Wind element of the mid-tier. She has the upper hand, believing to have won by trapping Mo Fan in the Forest Dungeon, however he escape using Shadow magic, and forced her to forfeit.
After victory, the summoning department worships Mo Fan, while the rest of the students despise him. It doesn't matter to Mo Fan though, as he is able to win the Bloody Boots, the awakening blood, a week of time in the 3 step pagoda and a sizable sum of money.
=== Clear Sky Hunters Organisation ===
Web Novel Chapters: 173 to 206
Notable Characters Introduced
* Ling Ling
* Ai Tu Tu
* Old Bao
Synopsis
After winning the prizes promised to him in the summoning contest, Dean Xiao stated that for the fastest rate in growth in magic, both cultivation and real world experience are necessary. Believing this, Mo Fan goes to the Shanghai Hunter hall to sign up to a team, but is informed that his ranking it too low to join a registered team and is recommended to seek employment at a private hunting firm.
While arriving at the Clear Sky Hunters Organisation, he sees a woman asking for the employment of the hunters. Stating that her husband is a monster in disguise and is willing to pay for protection for their child. Bao accepts the job but then brushes her off. When Mo Fan asks why he was so rude, he states that her husband had already accused her of the same thing the same morning and hired there help to protect the child. Rather than going through the employment process, he immediately hires Mo Fan and dispatches him to solve this matter along with a girl drinking orange juice at the bar, Ling ling.
Mo Fan and Ling Ling sit on the top of a building nearby the apartment of the husband and wife, Mo Fan asks why they are so far away while ling ling pulls out a tablet, showing that she already bugged the apartment in question.
While observing the house, Ling Ling observes that while in the shower, the wife sheds her human form and puts it to the side on top of her clothes, giving the appearance of a lamia (top halve human with claws, bottom half snake). Mo Fan takes this as the moment to deploy and jumps of the building, uses shadow magic to fall through the shadow of the building and bursts into the house and starts chasing it around. Eventually encountering a girl hanging from a ceiling while being drained of blood, Ling Ling believes her to a subject for transformation into the same creature. Continuing the chase, ling ling suddenly alerts Mo Fan to a bigger problem, the husband had transformed as well.
Racing back to the apartment, Mo Fan rescues the baby just in time but is confronted by both parent monsters. Mo Fan jumps out the apartment with the baby while flipping the bird, but realizes that there is no shadow below to fall through, so while mid flight he uses fire magic to bring down the husband and uses the shadow of the falling monster to land. While the wife monster escapes, out of the burning corpse of the husband monster bursts out the unharmed human husband.
A few days later, Ling Ling visits Mo Fan at the university, indicating that she found a way to track the wife monster, until suddenly on the scanner, a lot more monsters of the same kind showed up, the pair are shocked to find out that the university had become a breeding ground for these parasites. While Mo Fan starts clearing out the scores of monsters, Ling Ling finds the location of the wife demon, in the control booth overlooking a stadium, where a concert was due to perform later that evening. Since the expected attendance exceeded 2500, if the situation wasn't handled carefully, the wife could ascend to commander level if she and her followers were to infect all the people present. So Mo Fan was sent to deal with the wife directly, while ling ling pulled rank on the city hunters to prevent them from interfering, as the wife would preemptively spring her trap before the concert began if they interfered.
On the way, Mo Fan found Zhao Man Yan, who had also been busy fighting the monsters. Zhao Man Yan made an offer, give him all the credit for the incident today and he will repay it down the road, which Mo Fan accepted. They were suddenly surrounded by 20 different lamia's, Mo Fan left Zhao behind to face the wife. Mo Fan won but at the cost of heavy injury. He crashed through the booth into the stage below with the corpse, startling the concert goers. However the wife couldn't be saved from the body of the monster.
Despite the loss of his wife, the husband honors the deal and pays the hunters for their work. Mo Fan who had come home from the hard days work, suddenly found that his shadow element was ready for breaking through and subsequently raised the tier of his shadow element to mid.
=== Black Church Attack on Pearl University ===
Web Novel Chapters: 207 to 248
Notable Characters Introduced
* Bai Tingting
* ...
Synopsis
The Chapter begins with mo Fan looking for next years residence, running into Mu Nu Jiao in the process, their communal friend Ai Tu Tu convinces the both of them to share an apartment with her.
While simultaneously, Tang Yue, representing the Shanghai tribunal, meeting with Old Bao and hiring him to protect Mo Fan from the black vatican, who seeks vengeance for what happened at Bo city. Later Mo Fan shows up, Ling Ling told him of the commission. Initially they thought it was a joke since Mo Fan was one of their own, but since the extravagant initial fee was paid in full and upfront, they decided to take this seriously. Mo Fan said he could handle himself and that all available hunters should be dispatched to his sister and father. On the way back to his apartment, he is attacked by a few students angry about the fight against summoning department fiasco. Believing them to be black vatican, Mo Fan nearly kills them. Dean Xiao asks Mo Fan if is in some kind of trouble, he refuses to awnser and instead asks to use his 1 week in the pagoda, which Xiao gives permission for.
While in the tower, Mo Fan reaches level 2 for both his mid tier fire and lightning and breaks through into summoning mid tier.
At the end of the first year, there is a massive assembly for the azure campus, there is a selection held for the azure campus members to move onto the main campus. It is open only for those who have reached mid tier and must be willing to complete a dangerous assignment, everyone who didn't want to participate was excused. Then Dean Xiao divulged the contents of the assignment. A military shadow cat has gotten loose and is hiding somewhere in the city. Their mission was to find it and put it in a cage by the school fountain.
Mo fan immediately went to call Zhang Xiou Hou, who was an active member of the millitary at the time. He told Mo Fan that the Shadow Cats love Beef. Mo Fan used his position as a hunter to inquire about beef robberies at the local police station, with the desk attendant points Mo Fan to a port warehouse. When investigating the warehouse, he found evidence of the shadow cat being there, but quickly got out when he heard another team of students approaching, realizing that this wasn't going to be easy.
Afterwards, Mo Fan got a call from the desk attendant from the police station, telling him about a burglary in process at a large meat processing plant. However, the desk attendant was being held hostage outside her home by Yu Ang.
At the meat processing, 5 members of the black vatican were setting up a trap for Mo Fan and telling their black animal creatures to get into position. Meanwhile a tall brown haired young man wielding lightning magic broke into the place, causing the black vatican members to panic and scream that Mo Fan was here. However it was not Mo Fan, it was Xu Shaoting. At that moment, 5 more members from the vatican jumped from the ceiling, subdued Xu shoating and dragged him off. Xu Shoating's girlfriend tried to intervene but she was easily driven off until the timely arrival of Mo Fan, who killed the 5 members remaining members and their black animal creatures. Xu Shaoting was brought before Yu Ang and his girlfriend was brought to the hospital.
During the following night, Yu Ang had tossed Xu Shaoting into the transformation pool and turned him into a cursed animal creature, far stronger than normal black creatures. Yu Ang then used him to kill the girlfriend and left laughing. Mo Fan arrived only a little later to find the corpse of the girlfriend in Xu Shaoting's Arms, "She died without despair or anger". Since Xu Shaoting's soul was enslaved to Yu Ang, he asked Mo Fan to burn them both together.
Mo Fan, completely enraged, told Ling Ling to find him the location of the shadow cat and to inform all the students that at noon tomorrow, he will deliver the creature to its cage. The following morning Mo Fan arrived as stated, with all the competing students waiting at the cage, but he arrived on his spirit wolf and nobody dared to make a move. Then Mo Fan called out the black vatican challenging to a fight and offering his necklace, the resting place of the holy spring, as a reward. The members attacked and the whole scene descended into chaos.
The teachers, who saw the whole incident prepare and unfold, deployed a shadow sphere to weaken all magic within while increasing shadow magic. Mo Fan subsequently started systematically kill the members of the black vatican. Then Yu Ang deployed another Curse animal, his own biological father, to kill Mo Fan. But Mo Fan stopped it using mid tier shadow magic and killed the animal along with the rest of the members while Yu Ang flees.
After the shadow sphere clears, all the students see Mo Fan heavily injured and surrounded by bodies, all accusing him of murdering innocent people, except for one, Bai Tingting, a girl he saved during the first attack on Pearl academy. She used healing magic on him and the trial came to clear up the confusion.
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=== Imperial University Exchange ===
Web Novel Chapters: 249 to 270
Notable Characters Introduced
* ...
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Synopsis
The Chapter starts with Zhao Man Yan keeping his word and showing Mo Fan the local, highly private, auction house. Thanks to his work as a hunter, he had no shortage of funds. He used that money to buy a new shield. After buying it he stayed around for interest sake, only to learn that a lightning spirit species was for sale. He wanted to participate, but the starting price was already outside Mo Fan's price range. But later he is shocked to find that the buyer of the spirit species was none other than Old Boa. He used the money that Mo Fan earned for the hunting organisation by protecting himself and gave the spirit species to Mo Fan.
While Hanging out with Xin Xia, Zhao Man Yan called with some urgent news. They were both being drafted and to be sent to the capital as exchange students. Mo Fan heavily protested this, stating his desire to be lazy, but Dean Xiao won him over with a bribe.
When arriving at their hotel in the capital, they were formally challenged to a team duel at noon the following day. Mo Fan was asleep when his loach woke him up. He entered his spiritual universe and saw that all the dust and debris he collected from all the monsters in years previous, had compacted into a soul. Mo Fan overjoyed, tried to remove the soul and earn money, but realized he couldn't. He asked his teachers what could be done with it (without disclosing the necklace) and they said that souls can be used to strengthen the stars of the spiritual universe.
Due to the events of last night, Mo Fan woke up at noon and made his way to the challenge arena. The battle between Pearl University and Imperial University was already underway. With the Pearl team narrowly winning the first fight. Angry, the vice captain of the Imperial team went to join the next round, but was stopped by the team captain, who joined as well. Seeing that the big gun had finally arrived, Mo Fan was ordered by the teachers to join the next round. While Mu Nu Jiao went to deal with the vice captain, Mo Fan came face to face with the Captain of the imperial team, Mu Ning Xue. Mu Ning Xue deployed her spirit ice field, but it was canceled out by Mo Fan's spirit fire. She then lock him up with mid tier ice but it was cancelled by Mo Fan's spirit lightning. The match was called for the Pearl team and Mu Ning Xue wondered how someone without financial backing was capable of overpowering her.
The next day, both teams were called in for a meeting with the dean of the Imperial Magic University, Song He. He explained that they will be sent on expedition, where they will be sent to the fallen City of Jin Lin and determine whether it is worth to try and re-take the city.
Knowing all to well what it takes to make a city fall, Mo Fan used the last of his money to upgrade his spirit wolf to a warrior class star-light wolf.
=== Abandoned City Jin Lin ===
Web Novel Chapters: 271 to 346
Notable Characters Introduced
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* ...
Synopsis
While on the way to the city, the members of the expedition unit discussed what happened to the city, it was revealed that the city suffered an attack on an entire monster nesting group. A group not as large as the one that attacked Bo city, but was still led by a commander class monster.
After some initial fighting and a few days camping, they reached the city. Where immediately looked for shelter, while observing that the city is unusually quiet (which is a bad sign when dealing with monsters), they decided to rest at what appeared to be an overgrown city hall. Mo Fan and Bai TingTing where asked to stand guard outside while the rest explore the building. While exploring inside, the remains of a professional hunter team was found and every was on their guard. While one of the Imperial members was examining the remains of a hunter that was buried under some overgrown roots on the second floor, the roots swiftly moved and pierced through her gut.
At this moment, all the roots and plants started to attack the team members throughout the entire building and they realized that this building was 1 big demon plant trap. While outside, Mo Fan saw the whole building start to constrict and subsequently picked up Bai Tingting and moved her using shadow magic to a nearby building. Then prepared to attack a large pulsing bulb that was attached to the top of the building. But a large lizard dragon flew in and ate the bulb and flew off. While Mo Fan was bewildered by the actions of the commander, the rest of the team came out. While Bai Tingting managed to stabilize her teamate, Mo Fan was accused of running from his teammates. Not wanting to hang around and simply be falsely accused by everyone, he took halve of the measuring equipment neccesary for their survey and left.
The equipment in question was mostly monster sensors, which send out pulses of magic to determine the number and quality monsters in the area. But in the process sends out a signal that monsters can track. Rather than doing all the work himself, he send out his starlight wolf to protect the sensors, and in the process managed to defeat a bone piercing tyrant wolf.
While simultaneously, the rest of the team went out to complete their monster sensors, with the exception of Bai Tingting, the comatose team member and a imperial team member named Ming Cong. When the Ming Cong went out to draw water for the patient, he drew from a well that was inhabited by a mind spider and he was subsequently infected. When he returned with the water, he was driven mad and attacked Bai Tingting, halfway through, he realized what he was doing and promptly retreated to the a corner and cowered.
When Mo Fan and the team returned, completing both their halve of the assignment. Mo Fan found the Ming Cong gagged and bound, but he took one look at him and he knew that the man was innocent. When he tried to talk to Mu Ning Xue and Bai Tingting about it, the room suddenly erupted, with half of the team infected and attacking the other half. Mo Fan realized that he was poisoned with a mental virus at the well. Mo Fan and Mu Ning Xue went to the well to deal with the threat while Bai Tingting and Ming Cong try to contain the situation.
The battle between the spider and the pair was even until Mu Ning Xue pulled out the Ice Bow, a weapon that massively increases her power but its stamina cost is even higher and the spider died after a single shot. While on the other end, the Bai Tingting managed to bring the team back to their senses, but at the cost of Ming Cong.
The team decided to head back to the city, but on the way they met a military patrol, with most of the team believing themselves to be saved, they ran towards them, but the patrol immediately opened fire, killing 4 of the team members. They were led by the Imperial vice captain's big brother and they had come looking for test subjects for their devil element project and knew that the combined team were easy pickings. A fight broke out with more losses for the combined team, but it stopped after the military leader exclaimed that he only wanted Mo Fan, as they found that the chance of success was tied to subjects cultivation and since Mo Fan had 3 elements, he was the best thing they could get under the table. But Mo Fan wasn't eager to get captured and so took the vice captain hostage. While the leader weighed the option of killing his own brother, Mu Ning Xue charged and fired a single shot of her ice bow, killing half of the military patrol while she collapsed from exhaustion. The surviving members decided to retreat with Mo Fan separating himself from the team in order to draw them away.
Mo Fan tried to lead them through dense monster territory in the hopes of killing them, while in fact it only showed them down, so Mo Fan tried to poke the Dragon's Nest. After which a huge wave of monsters came gushing out. Mo Fan managed to hold his own position with all his elements combined while the patrol lost halve of its members again. After which the leader appeared on his white eagle mount, with the eagle carrying a net of all the remaining team mates. Mo Fan was told to stand down or he would drop all his team mates, but they interrupted by the timely arrival of Zhang Kong. Zhang Kong managed to free the captured teammates and kill the mount, but he was ground down to a halt by the military leader. But at the time, the waves of monsters didn't stop.
One of the surviving millitary members came foward and offered Mo Fan a way to save his friends, who were now trapped in a net they couldn't get out of and a wave of monsters were bearing down on them. She offered Mo Fan a blood crystal, containing the blood of a devil, with this, a man with 3 elements at mid tier would have a small chance of success. Mo Fan crushed the crystal and informed the soldier that he had in fact 4 mid tier elements and he transformed into a man-wolf hybrid, looking more like his summoning creature than human.
Meanwhile, the lizard dragon flew out of his nest to find out what all the commotion was, Mo Fan in his new form shot him out of the sky. A fierce battle erupted between the two, but the lizard dragon managed to retreat. Mo Fan then took over from Zhang Kong and killed the military leader. However just as things were to settle down, Mo Fan went into rejection from the devil blood and almost tore his own head off. Fearing killing his friends, he ran off into the distance.
All and all, only Mu Ning Xue, Zhao Man Yan, Bai Tingting and Mu Nu Jiao managed to make it home from the expedition, with only the military and Song He knowing the truth, the remaining members of the military patrol were all executed.
3 months later, the military had a report of large numbers of monsters being slaughtered near a lake with the use of fire, lightning and shadow magic and had their souls stolen. Zhang Xiou Hou realised that this could only be Mo Fan and requested to go look for him. Zhang Kong denied him and sent out another military soldier to investigate the matter. Zhang Xiou Hou disobeyed orders and went out to find Mo Fan with a few slave souls in hand. After running into the independently send mage and Mo Fan respectively, Mo Fan accepted the slave souls Zhang Xiou Hou provided but stated that only a commander level soul would prevent him from going into rejection. He had already tried to kill another commander but he was forced to retreat, so his idea was to stoke that same commander and another into a fight.
The specifics were for Mo Fan to re-stoke the first commander, a 13 legged lizard and for Zhang Xiou Hou to stoke a nearby mountain turtle and the millitary official would oversee where the would meet, a thin valley. After leading them there, they couldn't get out of the valley because a spirit species that just so happened to be there prevented all earth magic, forcing the military mage to use high level light magic to get them the time they needed to get out. After the battle, the mountain turtle stood victorious and retreated, leaving the body and the soul for Mo Fan, which he used to turn back to normal, albeit having a serious reduction in cultivation.
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=== Hangzhou Totem Snake ===
Web Novel Chapters: 347 to 406
Notable Characters Introduced
* Zhu Meng
* Tang Zhong
* Liu Yillin
* Totem Snake
SynopsisThe chapter begins with Mo Fan being on a date with Xin Xia, with her telling a story of how the city of Bo is connected to the ancient capital and its citizens were direct descendants from the emperor himself. But since it was a date Mo Fan wasn't interested and took Xin Xia to a large hotel for dinner at their restaurant. He noticed that outside there appeared to be a new sky scraper built in the time that he was gone and there were a large number of people around it, until they all started running when it turned out that the sky scraper was in fact a giant snake. The giant snake turned around and appeared to look Mo Fan dead in the eyes, before vanishing in a cloud of blue-green smoke. Mo Fan later heard the official statement that it was merely an experiment with light magic, but having looked the thing in the eyes, mo fan didn't believe a word of it. He started to call around and kept being given rebukes by everyone until he mentions to Tang Yue that the snake looked him right in the eyes. She instantly demanded that he visits her village
Arriving at the village near a lake with an island in it. Tang Yue reveals that her village is home to snake and that she is one of its guardians. She revealed that the snake is near its molting period and is very weak during the process, so it likes to scout the area first. But they were interrupted by tribunal officials, stating that Tang Yue was summoned to a meeting in regards to the snake, Mo Fan was brought along as well just in case.
At the meeting, it was discussed that 2 bodies bearing the same blue green colors as the snake were found were the snake appeared and that the snake was now in question. Tang Yue vehemently denied this but the benefit of the doubt was given. Tang Yue, sensing things would escalate, took a bottle not much different from the one used to house the holy spring and summoned the snake into the bottle and asked Mo Fan to come with her to a place where he could safely molt.
When Mo Fan and Tang Yue rested a night in a village on the way to a secret cavern, their worst fears were realized, as the following morning 2 dozen people were diagnosed with the same blue-green stains as the ones the bodies had, causing Tang Yue to fall into despair. Mo Fan managed to get Tang Yue motivated and they moved on to the cavern, but were intercepted by a squad of mid-tier mages.
A few days before, a man that was present at the meeting of the tribunal, organised a unit of mid tier mages including a rather promising fire student Dong Fang Ming, and Liu Yilin to tail and intercept Tang Yue should she try to run. No high tier mages were sent as it was known that the snake could easily sense something that powerful. Liu Yilin immediately deployed wing magic, but Mo Fan tried to intercept with the newly acquired level 4 novice fire magic (note dark pendant) to the shock of the other. They both fired mid tier fire magic at one another, but Liu Yilin won the exchange. This made Mo Fan turn to Lightning magic and Liu Yilin was taken out of the sky. While Tang Yue had recently become a high level fire mage, she easily dealt with the remaining mages. When they reached the cavern, the snake drew some of its own blood for a cure to the disease and Mo Fan and Tang Yue left it to molt.
When they arrived at the head hospital in Shanghai, they handed of the blood, after analyzing the blood it was revealed that the blood was very similar but not the cause of the disease. Tang Yue relieved, but was summoned by the trial, they requested that the snake be summoned. Tang Yue, believing the snake had been cleared of all wrong doing, summoned it without objection. But the moment it was summoned, the trial opened fire on the Snake stating they want to lock it down just in case with super-tier lightning magic. After being put in a lightning cage, the snake tried to say goodbye to Tang Yue while she was still crying her eyes out. But a momentary reprieve was opened when news came from the military, the line around Shanghai was about to be breached.
About an hour before the snake was imprisoned, military mages at the mountain fortress were preparing to go on patrol when their white eagle mounts started to act out and become violent. A trainer of said eagles said that the only that could make these eagle act out like this was a nearby monarch class monster of the same species. Since it is commonly known that monarchs can forcibly mind control members of the same species, the order was given for all eagles to be put down. However a 15 year old kid with a red eagle disobeyed the order and hid his bird. Later on a giant horde of eagles approached, not as a horizontal wave, but as a vertical tower. The birds altitude was attributed to their power level, with the slave level grey eagles being only a few hundred meters of the ground, the warrior level white eagles were a few kilometers above them, the 10 commander level 4 legged eagles were a few kilometers higher and the Silver Giant Eagle was on top. Due to this setup, the military mages could only bring down some grey eagles and the super-tier mages from the trial could only fight the 4 legged eagles.
Believing the snake to be innocent, Mo Fan called upon Ling Ling for help. They went to the town were the infection appeared during their night stay. But upon arriving at the town hospital store-room, they saw military mages quarreling with trial members over the possession of blood agents, as the front lines desperately needed them while the trial was under orders not to hand them out. The trial members gave way and allowed the military to take them. Ling Ling found the incident highly suspicious and convinced Mo Fan to follow them to the military fortress. As expected, when they arrived, there were injured soldiers with blue-green spots on their skin.
Ling Ling identified herself as a hunter investigating the Blue-green skin disease and started to analyse one of the soldiers. Then the 15 year old kid came forward, saying that he had seen these symptoms before, from poison rats a few kilometers from the fortress. The kid tried to take Mo Fan and Ling Ling with him but was stopped by military command trying to kill his red bird and court-martial-ling its owner, but a trainer intervened, since the red bird was only a halve breed, it wouldn't pose any threat. Sure enough, after Mo Fan killed a few rats, Ling Ling identified the cause of the disease as blood agents derived from these rats. Blood agents were drawn from monsters, not humans, due to their higher abundance and higher quality. But due to this outbreak, it was obvious that the blood agent didn't meet regulations standard and someone is trying to cover it up, most likely one of the super tier mages in the tribunal.
The kid revealed that there was a cure for the poison, but the bad news was that the giant eagle attack formation was between them and where it grows. Ling Ling reported her information to the trial and was given the key to the lightning cage around the snake, while the kid took his bird to fly towards the cure.
The kid managed to collect enough of the cure while his bird managed to distract the nearby grey eagles, put it in a void bracelet and used the bird to fly back to the fortress but was intercepted by a super-tier mage. While the guy was busy gloating on how he was going to get all the glory and no one would know the truth about what he had done, the kid managed to turn on his communicator and have the whole conversation recorded. The kid was subsequently put to the same curse that was used by the criminal at the rose spirit species incident. Mo Fan, having found a new level of rage within himself, wanted to use the snake to get revenge, but he couldn't move and was to exhausted due to the damage done by the lightning cage. Ling Ling had the idea of feeding it the contaminated blood agents, since their content wasn't to different from the snake. Afterwards the snake finished molting and came out good as new and ready to fight.
Mo Fan stood on top of the snakes head as it traveled toward the super-tier mage. The mage and his friends tried to open fire on the snake, but they were simply over-powered and the super-tier mage was swallowed whole. Afterwards they had gotten word that the Giant Silver Eagle had broken through the defensive line of super tier mages and was approaching city limits. The Giant Silver Eagle fired upon the city, but the smoke of the snake absorbed all the hits. The snake then used gravity magic to bring the eagle down to the ground. Finding itself outmatched, the eagle retreated and the snake turned back to its home, where Mo Fan received some old snake scales and a kiss from Tang Yue as a reward.
=== Fire Faculty Rankings ===
Web Novel Chapters: 407 to 429
Notable Characters Introduced
* Dong Fang Le
* Wei Rong
* Dinh Yui Man
Synopsis
The chapter begins with Mo Fan walking to school with Mu Nu Jiao and Ai Tu Tu for the first time since leaving for Beijing, where he got the unwanted attention of some unwanted punk. To prevent it from escalating, Liu Yilin intervened and dragged the dude off, as he knew not to mess with Mo Fan halfheartedly. Mo Fan went to speak to Dean Xiao and wanted to change majors from summoning to fire, since they had the best goodies. Dean Xiao didn't object and allowed Mo Fan to join the house of fire.
During the monthly assembly, The head of Fire department called out Mo Fan for transferring out of nowhere and not taking this seriously, to which Mo Fan replied that he was wasting his time. Enraged, the head gave the ranking of 100 to Mo Fan, putting an enormous target on his back. Mo Fan began to hide until challenge week, where he took out the first challenger with a single shot of novice tier 4 fire magic, to which the head commented that even he hadn't strengthened his novice tier magic yet. After about 30 victims he starts to use lightning magic, to which one of the opponents was grateful to the head of the lightning department, who went to see all the commotion, for the new addition, but the head of lightning rebuked, stating that Mo Fan wasn't one of his. After the 50th victim, Mo Fan used his starlight wolf and suddenly everyone realized who this guy was. after victim 85 came rank 101st, the guy that got booted from top 100 after Mo Fan entered. Mo Fan used every ounce of magic energy and tools that he had left, but he did it, he won and kept the rank of 100th. This made the head of fire very angry but Director Xiao stopped him from doing anything more, stating that Mo Fan had earned his spot.
After the fight, Mo Fan was treated by the School Physicians, who observed that most of his injuries had already started healing, stating that there must have been some serious modification to Mo Fan's body.
=== Vampires in Hangzhou ===
Web Novel Chapters: 430 to 455
Notable Characters Introduced
* Liu Zhu
* ...
Synopsis
After keeping his 100th ranking, Mo Fan went to the Magic Association HQ to visit the smiths that could turn the snake scales he received from Tang Yue into armor so that he could challenge the higher levels. The payment demanded from the smith was to high in terms of physical money, so the smith requested an item instead, the canines of a vampire. Meanwhile Mo Fan attained the rank of 45 in the house of fire.
The smith told Mo fan a story about a vampire addicted to young ladies. Mo Fan asked Ling Ling to confirm and she indeed found a story of a women being abducted in a dark alley by a "shadow". Investigating the disappearance of the women, they run into the women's identical sister, Liu Zhu. Believing her to be the next target, Mo Fan tail's Liu Zhu in order to get the vampire in a trap, but Liu Zhu had set her own. The vampire managed to get the slip on them both and vows revenge. Believing the vampire will try again, Mo Fan enlists the help of Zhao Man Yan to pose as her girlfriend. However, the vampire managed to get some help of his own. Meanwhile Mo Fan challenged Liu Yillin for his 49th rank in the house of fire.
While Ling Ling managed to identify the vampire's hideout, the vampire seemed to get the better of Zhoa Man Yan. While the vampire managed to draw Zhao Man Yan away from Liu Zhu and another vampire managed to do Liu Zhu in, leaving her cold dead body behind. After an hour, Zhao Man Yan told Ling Ling what happened, Ling Ling realized that Liu Zhu wasn't killed but abducted, as bodies don't cool that fast and that the body left behind was the one of initial victim. While at the same time, Liu Zhu was bound and had her blood drained, as the vampire wished to turn Liu Zhu into one as well.
Mo Fan breached the hideout and rescued Liu Zhu . But in the process Liu Zhu bit Mo Fan in the neck, completing her transition into a vampire. Realizing what she had become, Liu Zhu managed to get away from Mo Fan and confronted the vampire that kidnapped her. A fight broke out, the vampire expected to easily win as the strength of a new vampire is solely dependent on the purity of the vampire blood they drank. But Liu Zhu appeared to be even stronger, as she drank the blood of a devil, not a vampire. However the vampire's level of skill and experience turned it into an even fight, until the arrival of Zhao Man Yan and Mo Fan. Mo Fan used his blood boots to kick the vampire in the face, removing the vampires canines, completing the assignment and burned the vampire alive. Liu Zhu thanks the gentleman before making her exit, with Mo Fan stating that he will let her live as long as she behaves.
=== Flame Goddess in Dunhuang - Birth of a Fiery Hetera ===
Web Novel Chapters: 456 to 511
Notable Characters Introduced
* Fiery Hetera
* ...
Synopsis
After Mo Fan manages to attain rank 19 in the house of fire (later in this arc or towards beginning of next arc, he achieves rank 9), Mo Fan and Zhao Man Yan go to the auction house to find a good creature to create a summoning bond with, since Mo Fan doesn't have a mid-tier summon creature contract yet. While all the animals on auction are outside Mo Fan's price range, Mo Fan is introduced to the concept of "lottery tickets", where hunters sell what could be quality Intel for practically nothing. After purchasing a few, Mo Fan learns of a strong fire demon that lives far north west of Shanghai. Mo Fan getting a really bad idea, assembles his friends for an expedition. The summoned members are Ling Ling, Zhang Xiou Hou and Zhao Man Yan. Zhao Man Yan says that he can bring his cousin along for extra fire support, which Mo Fan agrees too. Ling Ling requests that another mid tier mage joins them, specifically a double major in mind and healing. Mo Fan recommends Bai Tingting, but Zhao Man Yan informs Mo Fan that after the incident in Jin Lin, she gave up on being a mage. Ling Ling in turn informs Mo Fan that there is only one other mid tier double major in healing and mind in the entirety in Shanghai, Xin Xia. While Zhao Man Yan is immediately happy that another beautiful young lady will be joining them, Mo Fan gets angry at the very concept of her joining the front lines. While Mo Fan and Zhao Man Yan bicker it out, Ling Ling gets Xin Xia on the phone and she agrees to the expedition.
While trying to reach the valley that the Fiery Hetera inhabits, the team needs to cross a desert filled with strong creatures. Rather than fighting their way through, they decide to rely on Xin Xia's mind powers to get them through without incident. A few kilometers before reaching the end, Xin Xia runs out of magic power and are forced to fight their way through. The ladies decide to take 5 and let the boys handle it. With Zhang Xiou Hou distracting them, Zhao Man Yan keeping them still and Mo Fan killing them all.
Sensing a massive change in the mindset of cousin, Xin Xia interrogates her on the matter. She reveals she came along on the expedition on a separate matter. Her mother went to the same region 10 years earlier. She was heavily burned, to the point of needing to be in healing bandages 24/7, during a period known as the Fiery Threat, during this period, there is a massive sudden influx of fire element materials and resources including multiple soul fire species. But during this period, their grows a fruit that is said to cure any fire related injury, but the fruits are the favorite food of the Fiery Hetera. So she thought to come along as she calculated that another fiery threat would appear and that she could sneak a fruit away while the rest focused on obtaining a Fiery Hetera for Mo Fan's contract beast. The group understood and accepted her plan.
When they reach the valley, there was a massive wave of monsters running away from the valley, which appeared to be chased by a huge storm of fire, they had come to the right spot. While on the way what seemed to be the mountain were the fruit grows, they ran into a fire spirit species that was abruptly collected. When they reached the mountain, they realized that several other hunting parties had arrived as well, including members of the military and the Shanghai Trial. At this point it was revealed that a single fruit is also capable of fusing together 10 fire spirit species into a fire soul species, a venture that could easily yield 100 Million RMB in profit. Rather than compete with these teams directly, they decided to go inside the mountain and climb up inwards. This nearly proved disastrous as the mountain was in fact a live volcano and Mo Fan was swept away in a current of Lava.
Floating outside in the current, Mo Fan washes ashore with his body burned, broken and barely alive thanks to the protection of the fire spirit species. He wakes up in a area full of nature and sees a 3 headed snake crossing the lava stream and moving towards him. The snake was very strong and he believed this to be the end. But then a flame goddess arrived and scared the 3 headed snake away. She brought him to the top of the volcano and fed him one a fruit. Mo Fan assumes this is the same fiery creature who saved the life of Jiang Feng. She cannot speak human tongue but seems to understand Mo Fan. Mo Fan asks her directly if she is a Fiery Hetera, which she denies. Whether she was lying or not, he believed any thought to overpower and command her were pointless due her overwhelming power. With the healing power of the fruits, Mo Fan gave thanks to the Fiery Godess and left.
On the way down, Mo Fan met a military office who's unit had been slaughtered by the 3 headed turtle, Mo Fan decided to go back upwards to ask if the Fiery Godess if she could deal with the snake permanently. But instead, the Fiery Goddess attacked Mo Fan in a rage the moment she saw him, but stopped when she realized who it was. The Fiery Goddess had been attacked when Mo Fan left and there was now a massive ice spike through her chest and all the fruits missing.
Later, we see the rest of the protagonist team minus Mo Fan sitting pool side in a mansion owned by the Zhao family playing poker, with Zhao Man Yan now knowing why mind mages are banned from casinos. The story turned out to be that the cousin's parents both came to the valley on a separate expedition and they met up with the team right after they left the volcano. They teamed up and the cousin managed to put the spike in Fiery Goddess before taking all the fruits. Mo Fan later joined them, asking who put that spike in Fiery Goddess, the cousin raised her hand, with Mo Fan's reply "you idiot" and at that moment, the mansion was breached by the Fiery Goddess.
The Fiery Goddess flew over in the form of a meteor and easily breached the protective enchantment, but the cousin's mother had been awaiting her arrival. She formed a defensive line of ice mages to wear down her fire, the Fiery Goddess countered with space magic and gave Xin Xia a mental shock. When the Fiery Goddess was finally grounded, the cousin was given another ice spike and to pierce the Fiery Goddess. Mo Fan thought it was impossible to do so now as she had a magical fire protection around her but the cousin managed to do it and a massive fiery explosion was released, destroying all the ice. While everyone was shocked, Xin Xia had added 2 and 2 together, the Fiery Goddess was in fact Jiang Feng, the cousins real mother, with the elements of Fire, Spiritual and Space/Void.
Xin Xia realized that the Fiery Threat didn't burn the mother but mutated her and that she was saved by a genuine Fiery Hetera before it died. The bandaged woman disguised as Jiang Feng was a high level Spiritual and Curse mage that was in the valley while escaping the military unit she used to be part of and was horribly burned. She was rescued by Jiang Feng with the fruit, and learned her story by use of spiritual magic. Understanding that she required more fruit to return her previous appearance and health, she manipulated Jiang Feng's family into believing she was Jiang Feng. No one knew the truth as she was covered in bandages. After it was revealed, the impostor killed the father with curse magic and used Spiritual Magic: Demonic Obsession to control Mo fan's actions and attack Xin Xia, who was powerless to stop someone this experienced. However the Jiang Feng was healed enough by Xin Xia's magic and was able to managed to incarnate with Mo Fan to supress the impostor, who was burned alive.
Jiang Feng was dying, and told her daughter to collect the fruit. Mo Fan and the other spectators initially thought she needed this to replenish her health, to which she refused with a disgusting look on her face, She infused the last remnants of her flame into the fruit, which began to crack open. It turned out that the fruit was in fact an egg, which is why Jiang Feng fought so hard to protect it. A Fiery Hetera was born and flew over into Mo Fan's arms. Xin Xia tells him that due to his incarnation with Jiang Feng, her flame residue remains in his body and the Fiery Hetera considers him as her father. Jiang Feng hopes that he can look after her and tells him that this is the last ever Fiery Hetera to be born on earh. He promises to do his best and opens a contract with the Fiery Hetera, whoaccepts without any resistance at all. Mo Fan was happy, until told that the little fiery Hetera requires fire spiritual seed fragments for food to accelerate her development and was subsequently hit with a wave of crippling mental and economic depression.
=== The ancient capital of the dead articles (the first chapter) ===
Chapters 512 to 654
The first quarter of this chapter stars Zhang Xiou Hou as the protagonist. He and his team were deployed to find a lost patrol north of the ancient capital of Xi'an, an area that crawls with undead during the night. While on the way to the search area, they stay at one of the villages in the region of the undead. This village and others like it are unharmed by the undead due to them having special wells that keep the undead away and growing a special garlic that makes a person undetectable to slave level undead. The following night the team runs into a warrior level undead, which is can still observe humans under the effect, the warrior level was turned away but not before one of their own was killed, it was noted that undead are significantly stronger than their living counterparts as they have no vital organs, they can only be killed by having their bones completely crushed.
They later run into a gigantic pit of undead all molded together into 1 big ball, at that point the warrior level undead appeared again and ripped the team to bits with the scene ending of Zhang Xiou Hou peering over the edge of the pit and seeing the undead warrior level retreat.
The entire team was considered all hands lost. The next scene, office assistant Jet Li bursts into a top tier meeting stating that a black spot, a forbidden zone, suddenly registered 20 km north of Xi'an. The masters present identified it as the undead mold, but they stated that they couldn't do anything as anything that gets within 100 meters instantly gets torn apart.
The next scene the students are informed of the World University Competition. Where students compete for glory and prices, but first a national team had to be selected. Dean Xio informs the students that the top 10 students out of the entire university will be given one vote and that it is your own responsibility to get the other 3, but to noone's knowledge, he had already gotten 3 votes from Old Bao and the Shanghai trial for his actions . To earn this one vote, the top 20 in every subject will be put in random teams and set up against one another. With Mo Fan being to busy with his cultivation, asks Ai tu tu to inform his team that he will be joining them later. However Ai Tu Tu assumed Mo Fan's identity to try and raise her status.
After blowing not one but 2 matches in Mo Fan's name, she was physically abused by their captain and ran away crying, right into the arms of Mo Fan. Expecting the full might of the devil to come down upon her, she begged for mercy. But Mo Fan simply forgave her and patted her head as she cried into his chest. Afterwards he made a proposition to the opposite team, a rematch but not with Mo Fan replacing Ai Tu Tu but their DB of a captain. And to everyone surprise they won, not through Mo Fan but through team work.
After slapping the DB, Ai Tu Tu was stopped by her big bad brother, Ai Jang Tu ,arguably the best mage student in the country. He subsequently puts the hurt on the guy before the teachers try to interfere, which leads to the teachers being injured as well. He only stops with the interference of Mo Fan. After the trio stop by a bar, Ai Jang Tu said that he didn't come to visit his sister, but Mo Fan and that he wanted to already meet those who were expected to join the national team.
Some time later, during the matches, Mo Fan stands before Dongfang Li, rank 1 in the fire department. Rather than fighting, Mo Fan went to check his phone. Dongfang Li was enraged and immediately sent his strongest attack after this, but at this moment, Mo Fan was formally informed of the Passing of Zhang Xiou Hou. He immediately fused with Mo Fan and knocked out Dongfang Li in a single shot. Mo Fan immediately left to go and try to collect the body of his best friend. The rest of his friend tried to offer help but Mo Fan pushed them all away, with the exception of one, Liu Ru.
When arriving at Xi'an, Mo Fan goes towards the local hunting hall, to find a guard that could lead him to where he died. He finds one but is irritated at the price the little guy offers, but accepts. He, Liu Ru and a few other hunters are lead by the small man to the village, but are attacked by a large number of Warrior level horde on the way. Another hunter summons her black knight to single handily deal with them, stating that her knight never refuses a challenge. When he Mo Fan arrives at the last village, he is greeted by the locals Feng Gu and Su Xiaolu, who happened to find and take care of a seriously injured Zhang Xiou Hou. Mo Fan is overjoyed, but later is told by Zhang Xiou Hou himself that he doesn't remember who Mo Fan is.
Mo Fan requests to take Zhang Xiou Hou with him back to Xi'an, but Zhang Xiou Hou refuses, stating that he doesn't want to go anywhere without Su Xiaolu. As Mo Fan prepares to return without his best friend, the village is attacked by a horde of undead, in broad daylight. The village chief orders the evacuation of the village and everyone follows the little guy back to Xi'an. But to everyone's surprise they are once again attacked in broad daylight by the undead. Although halve the villagers get killed in the second attack, the rest make it back to the city without injury.
While Mo Fan tries to get a doctor to look at his best friend, Zhang Xiou Hou refuses him again, preferring the company of Su Xiaoulu. Seeing that his friend isn't moving an inch, he tries to find some medicine and accidentally runs into Mu Bai and his fatty compatriot. Seeing that the fat one hasn't lost his attitude, he finds out that Mu Bai did lose the attitude. Mu Bai takes Mo Fan out to dinner and meet Zhou Min, she inquires about what happened to rest of the Bo citizens that left for Shanghai, at which point he reveals what happened to Xu Shaoting, which leads to both Mu Bai and Mo Fan clinching their fists to the point of blood running out of them.
Mo Fan later hears that both Zhou Min and Mu Bai are being deployed later at night to combat the undead, having nothing better to do, he decides to join them. After destroying a warrior level undead, the 3 return back to the city, where they are imformed of an emergency summon to all mid tier and higher level mages. He, Mu Bai and Zhou Min join the meeting to be informed of the situation, but before the meetings begin, Mo Fan is greeted by appears to be a row of super tier mages, all of whom know Mo Fan from the snake incident in Shanghai. They explain that a monarch level undead has appeared and that it is the job of all those present to escort the necessary super-tier light and mind mages to the battlefield. Mo Fan is informed that due to his notoriety, he is being made vice captain of an entire platoon of mages.
While on the battlefield, the platoon's captain orders Mo Fan to deal with a major threat that he senses a few kilometers off course and to take a few capable mid tier mages with him. The captain was later proven right as Mo Fan managed to sense with his shadow powers a shadow wraith, a monster that can silently kill people by appearing out of their shadows. After killing it, Mo Fan managed to haggle over the loot with the little guy from the previous expedition, who had decided to come along and make it back to the forward moving platoon.
After the platoon observes a nearby commander level undead, the captain ('Yao Nan') picks up Mo Fan and tells him to just "hang in there". He subsequently drops Mo Fan of at site of the commander level undead and while he fights the commander, Mo Fan has to deal with all his underlings. Mo Fan managed to deal with 3 warrior level undead with the help of Yan Ji while the captain drops an iceberg on the commander and pays Mo Fan for his help with whats left of the undead's soul.
Meanwhile at the camp were the evacuated villagers are resting, they are suddenly attacked by the undead again, but not just by any undead, the ones that were killed in the previous 2 fights were raised from the dead. The culprit revealed himself as Fang Gu, he managed to kill a lot of villagers but was turned away by Zhang Xiou Hou and Liu Ru, but due to the untimely arrival of the city hunters, Liu Ru is blamed for the whole incident and is heavily injured while retreating. While she retreated, she randomly finds a box of life saving medicine in front of her.
When Mo Fan returns back from the city after the mission is completed, he starts a conversation with the leader of the defense (the same one in charge of the defense of Shanghai during the snake incident). Until suddenly it starts raining, Mo Fan immediately expresses horror as he identified the rain as the same one that fell on the day Bo city was assaulted, the leader subsequently issued the purple alert and as the dawn rose millions of undead came out of the Earth.
The leader calls an emergency meeting with all the higher ups to try and find a way to deal with the situation until they are interrupted by a strange man, he says that he has an inside man in the black vatican, that he can tell them how to stop the attack and that he is waiting for them at a important bridge to the west of the city. Seeing no better alternative, they all move, but when they arrive the insider was already dead. The strange man reveals that this was all a trap and that the death of the insider confirms his suspicion, the leader of the attack, a red cardinal name sauron was among them and that the cardinal informed their subordinates to kill the insider. He subsequently activated a curse that will kill them all in a few hours, although there were some objections, the fact that sauron was among them was enough for most for the curse to remain. The strange man reveals that the objective of the black vatican was to create enough noise of undead to raise the Qing emperor himself from the dead, whose rise would bring down all of China.
While Mo Fan retreats from the front lines that were about to fall. He rescues Mu Bai and his friends from a group of undead, Mu Bai said that Mo Fan should do some recon why he collects all the local residents in the garage to lead them to safety. While on recon, Mo Fan is spotted by a high tier mage of the defensive line, he informs the mage of a large group of citizens in the nearby. The mage tells Mo Fan that on signal of the citizens, he and his fellow high tier mages will attack a nearby commander class monster to keep it away from the citizens, but any other monster that comes in their path is theirs to deal with. Mo Fan relays the situation to Mu Bai while Mu Bai informs him that over 700 people have gathered, with over 100 mages reporting. Mu Bai says that the best move is to bring everyone over at once with the mages covering the rush of the normal civilians and anyone that falls behind, is to be left behind. Mo Fan agrees seeing no better option. But halfway through, the high tier mages realize that the commander that they are fighting is capable of producing the undead, one of them leaves to call for backup. This allows the commander to retreat towards the group of citizens, but Mo Fan launches it back with the combined might of his level 4 mid tier and Yan Ji possession, with the move being considered on par with high tier magic.
But with Mo Fan out of magic stamina, he is now forced to refuge. He coincidentally runs into a incapacitated Liu Ru, with Liu Ru drinking a portion of Mo Fan's blood to heal her wounds and in return searched for some energy that comes from killing the undead, to Mo Fan. They both make it back to the group of the little guy and what appeared to be Feng Gu. Liu Ru went on the assault immediately but was stopped, easily, with Feng Gu stating that he wouldn't kill someone who he had just saved (thinking back at the box of supplies appearing before her). Feng Gu explains that he knew that the black vatican were experimenting with the wells of the villages to raise the undead and rather than go on an investigative hunt, he decided to kill his entire village and take the wate rin the well to prevent them from raising the king.
Before retreating behind the final safety barrier, he wanted to collect Zhang Xiou Hou but when they reach the hideout, they find themselves surrounded by a contingent of black church led by a high tier mage. While trying to show of, she tries to cast high tier magic, but is undercut by Mo Fan's pseudo high-tier, mid tier fire level 4 and Yan Ji possession. After almost completely grinding down the enemy forces. The traitor presents himself and puts a knife around Zhang Xiao Hou's throat. Zhang Xiao Hou apologizes for deceiving Mo Fan, as he had been lying about his amnesia in fear for his own and the villagers' lives and uses wind magic to get behind the traitor.
Su Xiaolu asks Zhang Xiao Hou not to kill him, but Zhang Xiao Hou denies the request and subsequently rips the traitor apart while confessing his love for Su Xiaolu, stating that he will do anything for her except spare members of the black vatican. After cleaning up, Zhang Xiao Hou stated that he managed to get away from the undead and travel back to the village. But on the way he ran into a meeting of the Black Vatican and was injured upon retreating and decided to feign mental injuries to determine the traitor in the village. After meeting back behind the final barrier of Xi'an, Mu Bai put 2 and 2 together and identifies his uncle Mu He as a member of the Black Vatican. Zhang Xiao Hou's head begins to hrut after hearing Mu He's name and soon the mysterious 'Hui Bai Man' realises that in his body there is an 'forget centipede', a combination of Poison and Curse Magic that takes away one's memories, so Zhang Xiao Hou didn't even realise that some of his memories were actually wiped. Once he remembers everything, he would die. Before he can, the mysterious Hui Bai Man knocked him unconscious after trying to help with his healing butterfly. After wards, Mo Fan designs a plan were Mu Bai were to feed false information to a known intermediary between the two and then everyone else would jump him at the first opportunity. Mu He sees right through the plan.
Mu He instead confronts Mo Fan directly stating that he will tell them were to find the tomb of the king to prevent him from rising, in exchange from releasing Sauron from the curse that is due to kill her. Seeing that there is a corpse heading towards the city that is the size of an actual mountain, the defense command is unanimous and releases everyone under effect of the curse. After which Mu He simply looks north.
=== The ancient capital of the dead (the second chapter) ===
Chapter 655 ~ 700
Almost instantly, The mold corpse appears a few kilometers behind the lines of Xi'an, Believing all to be lost now, the members of the defense fall into despair, stating that no one can get near it, Zhang Xiou Hou immediately rebukes stating that he managed to get near. Mo Fan suddenly remembers the story told by Xin Xia, stating that the citizens of Bo are descendants of the king and thereby every citizen would have the right, by birth, to enter the tomb of the king. Nevertheless, not all people of Bo City are descendants, and only Zhang Shou Hou, in this case, is, as he remembers seeing similar wood that his grandfather used years ago that the people from the villages also used to grieve the dead. Mo Fan volunteers, asking if he can enter as well as he drank the Underground Holy Water that was basically the stronger form of the water in the well that the villagers have protected year after year. Supposedly yes, and he goes with Zhang Xiou Hou to enter the temple, followed by Feng Gu and Su Xiaolu, saying that they heard the same story about their village. Liu Ru follows secretly.
Due to the enormous amount of Undead numbers, the mages have decided to enlist the help of normal citizens to be bait - many died as a result, but they were able to lure many Undead away from the path that Mo Fan and his team is to take to get to the mold corpse (basically a huge hole with Undead crawling in it).
While being supported by 4 super tier mages and Jet Li, the five enter a wind shelter shaped like a boat and fly towards the mold corpse while undead were given suppressive fire by thousands of mages including over 100 high tier mages and over 30 super tier mages. They fly through to the mold corpse until neither the undead or the super tier mages could go no further. The group lands close to the mold corpse and only Mo Fan feels the pull of the mold corpse as he's not a direct descendant of the Qing Emperor. However, his loach pendant managed to squeeze out whatever is left of the Underground Holy Water it had absorbed back in Bo City and protected Mo Fan from the pull of the mold corpse. The group finds Liu Ru who secretly followed and before Mo Fan can get someone to take her back, they're already all alone in this place. They decides to jump into the pit with Liu Ru who is also under the same protection as Mo Fan. After jumping through the corpses, the bottom turned out to be a private dimension and arrived at the entrance to the kings tomb.
Feng Gu informs them that the previous king was a powerful mage that majored in undead, earth, void and chaos and that there are several trials that must be completed before one may gaze on the corpse of the king. The first is the bronze mirror, the second being the trial of paintings, the third being the trial of power and the fourth being the trial of death. For the first one, one must climb a large staircase and step into a bronze mirror and be accepted by the tomb. After stepping in, the team reaches a long corridor, Su Xiaolu said that one shouldn't look into the paintings as they have a attention focus curse. But as they walked forward, the corridor seemed to go on forever, and Su Xiaolu remembered a story, stating that the answer to the corridor was hidden in the paintings and she looked at one particular painting. For the next trial, they were informed by a written warning that in order to pass the next trial that they had to destroy a lotus flower. But no matter what magic was thrown at it, the lotus flower regrew back from the scattered pieces, so Mo Fan fed it to his necklace. Mo Fan then used the power of the flower to breakthrough into high-tier fire. Throughout these trials and further on, all their actions were monitored by the higher-tiers through a mirror given to them by Xie Sang who wished to redeem himself. They saw most of the things, but some were out of their view.
After passing through, they were faced with the trial of death, where they had to cross one specific bridge out of ten to face the king, but none of the bridges could be differentiated. While Mo Fan recommended teamwork and choose 1 bridge together, Feng Gu thought it no more than a case of bull. So Mo Fan and the team choose 1 bridge while Feng Gu choose another.
While reaching the other side they came to a corridor that was blocked off by void magic and from the roof, 2,000 undead came through. The 2000 undead was from the outside, and the people outside the tomb watched as a large hole appeared that seemed to take those undead away from the battlefield. Rather than retreating, Mo Fan rallied everyone and they managed to win over the undead. But then approx. 10,000 more undead fell through, Mo Fan told his friends to stand back and fused with Yan Ji to test out his new fire powers. But he collapsed due to exhaustion after about 5,000. But at that moment he saw 2 new star paths in his spirit universe, he had self-awakened the void element and the devil element. Having found a new gear, Mo Fan instantly used the devil element and killed the remaining undead. This gave the leaders (mainly high-tiers) battling up above some hope as they were about to give up and simply enact thier escape route, hoping to save at lease some people. One did escape with a few others, but many remained to watch Mo Fan - he did not give up, so they also felt the need to not give up. Afterwards, none other than the mountain corpse started to fall through into the room and with Mo Fan, not wanting to wait around, he instead fired the mountain corpse out of the room and followed through the portal back to the surface while the others were sent through a slightly different portal, which was the exit to the room - as a dimension always has an exit and an entrance, or else it didn't exist. In the process of escaping, the void barrier on the corridor was lifted.
Zhang Xiou Hou, Liu Ru and Su Xiaoulu followed through to arrive in the throne room, where they see Feng Gu sitting in the throne wearing a dark mantle and having broken bones at his feet, stating that who ever wears the mantle of the king and sits upon his thrown, shall be given the full power and authority of the king and that this was original goal. However the power of the mantle - which was the one controlling him - proved to much and he quickly turned to dust. But seeing no other alternative to stopping the onslaught raging on, Zhang Xiou Hou tries to put on the cloak, but is stopped by the timely arrival of Zhang Kong.
While back in the city, Mo Fan engages the Mountain Corpse but is loosing but with the intervention of several very skilled Super Tier mages, the Mountain Corpse was forced to retreat. While the mages put their power together to execute the Mountain Corpse, their combined might is absorbed by a silver portal created by a strange figure in a hood. The mages identify the person as Zhang Kong but Mo Fan rebukes, identifying the person before them as the King of Qing. The mages prepare for a barrage as the next portal opens, but instead the remainder of Mo Fan's team falls through and the King retreats along with all his undead without saying a word.
Back in the city, the citizens realize that the day is theirs and welcomes the remaining mages as heroes, while Mu He is having the biggest breakdown of his life as Mo Fan single-handedly turned the tide, until interrupted by Jet Li, who reveals herself as Sauron. Jet Li kills Mu He as he was the one who put Mo Fan in magic school.
=== Flying birds ===
Chapters 701 ~ 750
Mo Fan retreats to the mountains at an undisclosed location to repair the damage done to his cultivation by the devil element but this time there is no need for monster souls to turn him back to human as this time, the transformation was natural, while the surviving leaders of Xi'an meet to discuss Mo Fan, they managed to keep a lid on the incident and how Mo Fan managed to turn the tide of battle, with the exception of Song Qing, who could raise question to the whole incident.
Meanwhile in the Capital, Song He holds a speech for the strongest student mages of the country and Zhao Man Yan, with the exception of Mu Ning Xue, who had been booted over the fact that both her brother and uncle were members of the Black vatican. She petitions the leaders to let her back in over the fact that she wasn't booted for the lack of skill or power and demonstrates the power of her ice bow. She is allowed back in the team but only as a reserve. But the one of the leaders is still mad that one of their's didn't bother to show up, Mo Fan.
While in the Mountains, Mo Fan is contacted by Tang Yue, who has also arrived on the island to pick him up, that the Totem Snake has awoken from its sleep and has told Tang Yue that on the day it first appeared, it sensed danger from the person behind Mo Fan as it only appears when it senses danger. However, it was mistaken and the person was no danger to the place, therefore it disappeared. Mo Fan realises it was Xin Xia, but doesn't tell Tang Yue. Then he bids farewell to the Taoist of the place in the mountains, mentioning in passing that the old guy from his school in Bo City, the person who guarded the mountains back in his high school (and the person that gave him the loach pendant, I believe) would have been great friends with this Taoist. After Mo Fan leaves, the Monk mumbles to himself, suggesting he was actually friends with the old guy and that the old guy 'chose an interesting guy.'
Tang Yue has come to collect him for the world university tournament. But before Mo Fan leaves he wants to say goodbye to Xin Xia first. He calls her cellphone, only for it to be answered by her teacher, saying that she is in a meeting with the parthenon. Mo Fan travels to her university only to find out that she is currently being loaded onto a plane to Greece, Mo Fan calls for backup in the form of Ling Qing.
Mo Fan arrives just in time to stop the plane, but finds out that the person taking Xin Xia is a super tier mage and Mo Fan is quickly repelled. Seeing his sister in danger, Mo Fan tries to activate his devil element but is interrupted by the arrival of the totem snake. Seeing himself outmatched, the super-tier mage surrenders. Mo Fan gets Xin Xia of the plane, but Xin Xia insists that she still wants to go to greece despite the people being a bunch of Jerks. But Mo Fan gets Xin Xia so far to still spend a week together.
Tang Yue asks the snake how he knew Mo Fan was in danger. The snake said he didn't, he sensed the same energy that was sitting across from Mo Fan on the day they first met.
=== Overseas Experience 1 ===
Chapters 751-844
After berating Mo Fan for not arriving on time, the best student mages and Zhao Man Yan were loaded onto a helicopter, were all blindfolded and had all their possessions taken including their ID's, wallets and cellphones but not their magical equipment. Stating that mages must at the end of the day rely on themselves, they will be waiting for the students in the Main Magic Tower in Tokyo and they must make their way there on their together without outside intervention. And they were informed that anyone who gets caught will be stricken from the team.
The Team is comprised of: Ai Jiang Tu (captain), Nan Xun, Jiang Shaoxu (designated mind mage), Mu Tingying, Nan Rong Ni (designated medic), Guan Yu, Jiang Yan, Zhou Xiu and Zu Jiming with the reserves being Mo Fan (due to only having 3 votes), Mu Ning Xue (due to family ties with black vatican) and Zhao Man Yan (he tried to get on board with money, but was only allowed on if he didn't suck of the team's resources, on the count of experience being just as important as resources.)
The team arrived in the middle of nowhere, but they just decided to walk into a random direction but ended up in a run-down fishing village. They are approached by the village chief who states that they will never sell their village or let it get torn down by force. Ai Jang Tu says they are mere hunters, but the chief doesn't believe it since all the mages are wearing heavy duty battle armor. Acknowledging that the chief has a good point, they decide to leave immediately. Having second thoughts, the chief sends a villager to explain the situation after the mages. There is a nest of small krakens in an atoll not far of the coast, which in turn makes traveling by boat in the entire region impossible. When the team reaches a port town, Zhao Man Yan gets a smile on his face and tells his team that he knows what to do.
At a meeting between a financier and the mayor, the financier asks his assistant to find a way to resolve the situation no matter what. While outside, she is approached by Zhao Man Yan, stating that he has deduced by looking at the state of the port that this was supposed to be a transit hub between for trade from SK, Japan and US reaching the central western and northern cities of China, but because of the monster nest they aren't receiving any ships and they have run out of money to hire enough hunters to deal with the situation and that they are willing to clean up the mess in exchange for some help. The assistant acknowledges Zhao Man Yan as being correct and gets him a meeting with the financier. The Financier accepts the plan and provides the team with some initial resources to get their team going.
The team travels by boat the atoll to search for krakens when they are suddenly surrounded. Guan Yu, having gotten sick of Mo Fan, challenges him to a contest to who can kill the most krakens with the winner being able to ask a favor from the loser. Both boys get to work with Mo Fan bombarding multiple krakens at once with his psuedo high tier while Guan Yu quickly rips up one after another with his psuedo high tier earth magic claw. The scores stands Mo Fan 4 Guan Yu 3 when only kraken is left standing, but Ai Jang Tu interferes, crushing the last one with void magic and telling the boys that squabbling is forbidden, giving Mo Fan the win. However after inspecting the creature, they find the corpses of human babies. While Ai Jiang Tu orders Nan Xun and Zu Jiming back to town to do some investigation, Mo Fan and Jiang Shaoxu put a spiritual tag on a young kraken that had survived the battle to track them down back to their nest.
The team finds the nest located on an island surrounded by smaller islands. Wishing to avoid a naval battle, Ai Jiang Tu asks if anyone has any idea on how to avoid it. Mu Ning Xue says that she can freeze the entire area into solid ice, but needs time to do so and proper protection, Mo Fan and Zhao Man Yan volunteer to poke the nest. About an hour later, Mo Fan and Zhao Man Yan are running through the forest with the krakens right behind them, but they stop chasing once they sense the power of Mu Ning Xue. Instead Mo Fan is faced with poop throwing monkeys, but uses void magic to throw the poop right back with Zhao Man Yan wondering if their is any limit to Mo Fan.
After joining the battle, the krakens are quickly being ground down until a red vein kraken came out to fight, a commander level monster. Ai Jang Tu fights the monster to a stand still by using void to rapidly teleport around the area and setting up curses to grind down the soul of the monster. But the situation changes when Mo Fan uses high tier fire magic, which with the power of the kraken breaks the ice field, allowing the remaining few krakens and the commander to escape.
When returning to port, Nan Xun informs the captain that over 150 babies have been taken since the krakens appeared. While the captain tries to confront the financier over his corruption, Nan Xun inform him that he is innocent, as one of his cousins was taken too. So Nan Xun shows the financier pictures of the babies taken, including the cousin to try and spring him into action. But later he recieved devastating news, another cousin had been taken. Not wanting to wait around for a plan, Zhao Man Yan picks up Mo Fan with his magic wings and tries to trace down the baby, only to find a monkey swimming out towards the islands were they fought the krakens. However when caught, the monkey was only carrying a coconut with straw on top and a smiley face on it. Mo Fan uses Yan Ji to interrogate the monkey, who reveals that the monkeys are being forced as slaves to steal human children and asks Mo Fan to save them.
Not wanting to stick around, Mo Fan lets the Monkey go and talks to a nearby fisherman about places that both monkeys and krakens frequent. Mo Fan quickly gets to the island and intercepts another monkey, but as soon as he puts his hands on the baby, he is whacked in the back by the commander kraken. With both the baby and Mo Fan heavily injured, Mo Fan tells Zhao Man Yan to bring the baby to Nan Rong Ni to heal while he deals with the commander with Yang Ji. Mo Fan manages to bring it down but not before it puts one of its tentacles through the chest of Mo Fan, with both Mo Fan and Yan Ji believing this to be the end.
Zhao Man Yan delivers the baby back to port and Nan Rong Ni managed to save his life. The team enquirers where Mo Fan is with Zhao Man Yan answering truthfully. Mu Ning Xue immediately sets off on her own towards the island where they are fighting using her ice magic, as Zhao Man Yan is out of energy for his wings while the rest of the team believes it to be futile and that he should be dead by now. Mu Ning Xue arrive first and sees Mo Fan lying next to the corpse of the kraken and breaks down crying, believing the worst has happened, until Mo Fan suddenly sits up.
What had happened was that after killing the kraken, the monkey that he had freed brought him valuable seaweed medicine as a thank you for freeing his kind, saving his life. While the rest of the team congratulates Mo Fan on the Win, Mu Ning Xue walks to the other side of the island in irritation and Mo Fan was overjoyed that he had captured a full commander soul, worth at least 100 million.
The Financier kept his word and put Mo Fan and his team on a private cruise to japan after he had recovered. While on this cruise, Mo Fan cashes in his favor with Guan Yu, where he then rips of the top of Jiang Shaoxu in front of the boys. While flying up in the air, Zhao Man Yan spots a massive shadow trailing the boat, but as soon as he warns his team about it the shadow disappears. When arriving at port, there comes their greatest test, getting past customs. While the custom officials confront the team, Jiang Shaoxu tries to imply that this was a domestic outing for deaf students, with Ai Jang Tu and Nan Xun communicating with military hand signals in the back. The custom officials seem to believe it and leave them be.
The team decides to spent the night at a monastery, with Mo Fan striking up a conversation with a rather fashionable young lady. After telling the local priest that she has the herbs the priest wanted, she asked for Mo Fan's name, to which he replied Zhao Man Yan. While on his way to his team, he is stopped by the priest and that he shouldn't talk to the girl. But when he makes his way to the men's dorm, they find Zhao Man Yan in a coma.
Mo Fan explains what happened and everyone divides up and into groups with Mo Fan being with Mu Ning Xue and Nan Rong Ni. Mo Fan manages to find the girl again but he is the only one who sees her, Nan Rong Ni goes back to report the situation. She is willing to explain the situation, but to guarantee their trust, she asks for one of their names. Mo Fan tries to go back, but Mu Ning Xue gives her name, after which the girl simply vanishes. The team berates the both of them for their foolishness and both Mo Fan and Guan Yu volunteer to watch Mu Ning Xue overnight. But the next morning, she too had fallen into a coma.
The team begins another search, but Mo Fan's necklace leads him, Ai Jiang Tu and Jiang Shaoxu to a wooden cabin on a hill. On the door of the cabin is a wooden fish like object, which Jiang Shaoxu identifies as a soul vessel. Believing this fish to be where both the souls of Zhao Man Yan and Mu Ning Xue are being detained, Mo Fan asks Jiang Shaoxu to move his mind into the vessel, to which Ai Jiang Tu joins.
Both Mo Fan and Ai Jiang Tu wake up in a much more lively town than what they saw when they first arrived at the town. They make their way to the temple but see the flower girl get send away by multiple priests. They follow the girl to a cliff, where she carves a message in blood on the cliff, as they believe she had a secret rendezvous with one of the priests, the same one that spoke to Mo Fan, while she actually spend the night on an island in the bay, and island that was now gone. The madness drives her to suicide and she jumps of the cliff. The pair return to the monestary where they see the monks discussing the suicide, with the monk in question being blamed for the whole thing. He later moves towards the mountain and starts writing messages in blood on the way to the top. When the world suddenly starts dissolving, the pair are ejected outwards and return to the body.
Jiang Shaoxu questions Mo Fan on how he is the only who can see the girl, to which Mo Fan replies that he isn't the only one, there was the monk. Jiang Shaoxu asks who has seen the monk, to which only Mo Fan answers. Now knowing what is going on, Mo Fan and Ai Jiang Tu race to the mountain where they saw the priest move to in the soul vessel world. They see a group of monks that are begging for forgiveness for what they had done. The monk tries to kill them all, but the rest were all saved by the teleportation skills of Ai Jiang Tu and Mo Fan is left to deal with the monk. The monk transforms into a red demon and fights Mo Fan, but loses. The monk makes the claim that if he is killed, the souls that he has captured will be destroyed. Mo Fan takes the odds and kills the demon, collecting an all to familiar red soul and Mo Fan returns to find both Zhao Man Yan and Mu Ning Xue up and awake.
The next morning, Zhao Man Yan talks to Mo Fan about this wooden fish that he had found, Mo Fan tells Zhao Man Yan to put it back but Zhao Man Yan said he couldn't stop thinking about it so he took it. Mo Fan calls Tang Yue on a land line to ask her about it. Tang Yue said the wooden fish wasn't much different from necklace that Mo Fan has and that the wooden fish had recognized Zhao Man Yan as its new owner after its previous owner was killed.
To express their gratitude, the surviving monks buy Mo Fan and company train tickets to Tokyo. On the way, Ai Jiang Tu informs them that he has received new marching orders from their masters, they are to stop on the way to collect the Japanese badge from their security team, while Mo Fan manages to see an island covered by mist in the bay. Arriving at a military fortress in Kyoto, the team splits up, with the boys heading straight to the fortress and the girls taking a detour to go shopping. While arriving at the fortress, they run into a girl in a kimono who says they are trespassing, behaving really rude and immediately starts casting plant magic. She is interrupted by the watch leader stating that these are their expected Chinese guests.
While the boys are being unusually selfish and rude in the dinner hall, the girls return from their shopping trip with bags full and all. This causes the Japanese hospitality to finally run dry, stating that even other nations that trained non-stop couldn't break their team and that they will now go straight to the battle. They tell the Chinese to bring forth 5 team members for 1v1 battles. Ai Jiang Tu calls forth Guan Yu, Mo Fan and Jiang Shaoxu, stating that since they are fighting 1v1 battles, they only need 3 to win.
This drives the Japanese even madder, telling Guan Yu to pick his first opponent. Guan Yu picks a skinny looking dude and the battle begins. To everyone's surprise, they both have the same powers, high mobility and a special claw. With everyone quickly loosing track of the mages's movements, the fight ends suddenly with both fighters on the ground with serious injuries. The battle is given to Guan Yu on the count of him hitting the other man first.
Mo Fan is next and having found a new level of egotism within himself, he challenges the rather rude kimono wearing lady. The watch leader tells Mo Fan to pick another, but refuses. Finding herself insulted again, the lady steps up to battle. Mo Fan immediately opens fire, but the lady easily dodges with flower petals attached to her pants. She then quickly uses fast growing seeds to limit Mo Fan's movements, which Mo Fan counters with high tier fire magic to which the lady casts high tier water magic to defend herself. The battle goes on back and forth, with the watch commander stating that even he didn't last this long against her. Ai Jiang Tu came over to ask what kind of student she was, to which the commander replied that she wasn't, she was a combat teacher. Ai Jang Tu asks on how this fight is fair, the watch commander said it wasn't, but that your side was the one who insisted this. Then finally the lady managed to get Mo Fan locked in a ball of plants, which Mo Fan counters by merging with Yan Ji. The recoil of their attacks tosses the lady far back enough for her to have 1 foot over the line, giving a TKO and Mo Fan the win. The lady then asks on how Mo Fan managed to get a Fire domain.
She explains that a domain increases the concentration of a certain element while weakening others. Mo Fan went to ask Mu Ning Xue if that is how she managed to create all that ice when fighting the krakens, to which she replies yes, due to her natural talent. After Jiang Shaoxu makes short work of her opponent, the Chinese are declared the winners and everyone is shown to their rooms where they shall be staying for the night. On his way to bed, Mo Fan hears a massive alarm go off, and subsequently gathers with the rest of the japanese soldiers stationed at the fort for battle. He is informed that a monster several hundred meters in diameter as appeared on the coast, but that he shouldn't worry about it and he is escorted back to his room. On the way he sees the flowers of the kimono girl toss several soldiers off a bridge and kill them. Mo Fan uses his shadow magic to sneak into the kimono girls room several floors up and confronts her.
The lady states that the building they're standing in isn't just a fortress against sea assaults but also the nation's most secure prison, housing the worlds most dangerous criminals with a special curse that weakens prisoners over time. She also said that the flowers he saw belong to her half brother, since they were both given twin flower spirit species but she doesn't know how her brother got tossed into the prison. Mo Fan and the lady break into the prison and knock out the guards outside the brothers cell. The brother says that he found out the jail's secret, the curse is run by a spirit pear, an object that absorbs the spirits of other mages and then gives the owner a massive boost in cultivation and that his father was murdered and himself thrown in prison to keep things quiet by the watch commander.
Mo Fan finds the spirit pear and the lady tries to take it to the Kyoto headquarters, but almost loses control until stopped by the watch commander and Mo Fan. He states that he had succumbed to the desire of the pear but also admits to the crimes he was accused off, saying everything was planned by the ladies's mother, killing the brother's father for trying to get rid of the spirit pear, but everyone was suddenly cured when he died. Mo Fan is entrusted the pear and the lady is sent along to escort him to the magic military head quarters in Tokyo.
On the way to Tokyo, Mo Fan brings up the mysterious island from the girl in the soul vessel, saying that had seen the island in the bay the following morning, believing it to be an island that can moved. The team believes Mo Fan is just delusional, but then he brings up the shadow that was chasing their cruise and the fact that a massive object was spotted in the bay outside the fortress were they were staying at. This makes the team believe that something is in fact tracking them.
Arriving a Tokyo, Mo Fan and the lady make a detour to the military command center, where the man they were supposed to take the pear to has been dead for 3 months, so Mo Fan has to keep the pear for himself. and the rest move towards the magic association HQ, there they are instead greeted by a military commander who informs them that they will be joining the defensive line that will be holding off a massive monster invasion in 2 days. The following morning Mu Ning Xue goes outside to cultivate but is introduced to the drowning woman curse, where a woman would suddenly fall into the water but as soon as she is rescued, she appears to have already been dead for hours.
On the day of the assault, the team (minus Mo Fan who still hasn't returned) are tasked to defend a main street from being overrun and having water creatures reach the inner defensive wall. With the streets underwater, the team is forced to fight on the rooftops. Nan Rong Ni tries to rescue what appears to be a crying baby floating baby in the water. But it's just a bulb on the head of a tentacle creature that subsequently stabs Nan Rong Ni through the chest. With their medic on his death bed, all hands are no in overdrive, with Ai Jiang Tu trying to find another healing mage and leaving Nan Xun in charge. A nearby team informs them that the crying monster is very rare and that the bulb on their hand contains the cure they need. Reporting back, Jiang Yu deploys his demi-commander night rahksha to Mu Ning Xue to find the creature. They manage to track it down but are interrupted by a commander level water demon.
The pair are quickly overpowered until Mo Fan arrives and with Mu Ning Xue's permission, the night rahksha leads the counter attack and the commander is nailed stuck in a floor of ice. They retreat with the bulb of the crying white monster and save Nan Rong Ni's live. After the attack, rewards are handed out and Mu Ning Xue travels to the local auction house to see if she could get something, now that her family no longer supports her due to their ties with the black vatican. While not being able to obtain anything, Mo Fan takes her to a bar where they both get drunk. Mo Fan tries to take her back to his room, but she quickly snatches the key and locks him out.
The next day Mo Fan takes Mu Ning Xue out on date, where he then presents her with a galaxy vein, an item that can assist one in reaching high tier, worth over 100 million, that he had bought while Mu Ning Xue locked him out of his room, with the commander soul he got from the kraken. While Mo Fan wonders whether or not he should have gone on 1 knee while presenting the big rock, Mu Ning Xue flat out rejects it, stating that she has a plan. The next morning, the masters arrive in Tokyo and kick Mu Ning Xue out of the team, on the count that she was the only mage not yet in High Tier. Mu Ning Xue requests that she be added to the state security team, to which the masters state that will happen to all those who get booted from the team. Mo Fan in turn leaves the team as well in order to get more money to keep up with the rich kids and their parents. As both Mu Ning Xue and Mo Fan, Zhao Man Yan cries seeing how far he is willing to go for a Girl.
=== Mu Ning Snow Museum ===
845 ~ 864 chapters
After Mo Fan arrives back in China, he calls Ling Ling for the biggest job around, to which she gets digging. While Mo Fan uses the rejected galactic vein to get lightning to high tier.
Meanwhile in the capitol, the egyptian team arrives to challenge the chinese security team. Stating that this place is a waste of time, a kid named Sid goes to face the team alone. He challenges the chinese to 3 1v1 duels in succession. He defeats the first by summoning an evolving warrior class undead monster, the second challenger proved stronger and Sid was forced to summon an demi-commander and almost killed the girl. The chinese reach despair until Mu Ning Xue arrives and challenges Sid. She manages to use her wind magic long enough for her ice domain the grind down and freeze up all of Sid's undead, whose leg is frozen in the process. Not wanting to lose here, he orders his undead demi-commander to self destruct while he cuts of his leg and stab Mu Ning Xue in the back with shadow magic. Mu Ning Xue saw the move coming and protected herself with a layer of ice armor. This leaves Sid and the Egyptian team defeated. The chinese decide to leave him standing there due to his attitude and him almost killing the previous combatant.
Mu Nu Jiao, who is also a member of the state security team, offer Mu Ning Xue a place to crash since her side of the family has been disowned. However they find Mo Fan at home on the couch and questions him on his relationship with Mu Nu Jiao, but are subsequently interrupted by Ling Ling. While Mu Ning Xue questions how many girls are in his life, Ling Ling accidentally lets slip the term black vatican. While Mo Fan was hoping to keep Mu Ning Xue out of this, she immediately demands to come along on the job.
=== Chongming Island incident ===
Chapter 865-911
The Job entails hunting down what remains of Sauron's team in China, while they believe Sauron is already out of the country, the remaining members are on Chongming island off the coast. Since the island has its own rules, the chinese magic association can't just walk up and arrest everyone so they put bounties on the head of anyone of the black vatican that is killed on the providence of proof of kill and being a member of the black vatican. the magic association will pay half a million per fanatic head, 8 million per priest and 100 million for a deacon (doubled if caught alive).
Mo Fan, Ling Ling, Mu Ning Xue travel as tourists across the island but find nothing. Later they are offered to stay at luxurious country house that he has connections too, but seems to have a crush on Mu Ning Xue and another girl that was staying with them. While arriving, they were all offered tea and shown to their rooms. The rich guy tried to approach both girls but is rejected flat out. While in a wallow in a pit of despair, he is approached by what appears to be a maid, who offers him whatever girl he wants if he were to do as what she says. While simultaneously, Mo Fan goes outside to investigate a rumor and finds evidence that the black vatican are in fact on the estate grounds
The next day, Mo Fan and another guy were bragging on how far they got with each of their girls respectively. They suddenly found the aforementioned female tourist in the arms of the rich guy, terrified. Trying to understand what is going on, he tells Ling Ling that something might be wrong. The next day there was a lecture by a famous magician on estate grounds and the place was fully packed. The following night, Mo Fan and co. were woken up by a barage of Magic outside, a large unit of mages arrested the head maid on grounds that she was working for the black vatican. Mo Fan realizes that the mages managed to sneak in under the cover of the famous mage lecture. The next thing he knows, the mages are all coughing up black liquids and die in large numbers. He tells the rest to stay in their rooms while he goes to investigate.
Mo Fan looks around the premises to find the aforementioned country girl in a pool of black liquid, he manages to squeeze information out of a nearby vatican member that it is indeed the pool that turns people in black vatican creatures, but that before the ceremony that victims can be saved. Creating a space bubble around the girl and killing the black fanatic, he finds a bottle of liquid adept at dissolving bodies. This allows Mo Fan to kill any black vatican member he finds without being detected. He later runs into Mu Ning Xue who had been captured, but she too is coughing up black liquid. Horrified at what happens next, Mu Ning Xue quickly freezes her body solid to put herself in a coma and Ling Ling informs Mo Fan that everyone wasn't poisoned, they were infected by a parasite not much different from the one that they fought back in university. Realizing that he must find the queen, Mo Fan bursts into the main hall of the black vatican and kills everyone except for the deacon, the maid that turned the rich kid, with high tier fire magic.
After getting a call from sauron herself, the deacon turns into giant monster. Realizing that the queen parasite is inside the deacon, Mo Fan tries to fight but looses quickly, until the intervention of Liu Ru, who manages to hold off the monster until Mo Fan unleashes high tier lightning, killing the queen inside the deacon without killing her, taking her alive for the reward money.
Mo Fan saves the day and is given a reward totaling a little over 300 Million, 200 of which was for buying galactic veins and the rest was spend on fire spirit species for Yan Ji and equipment for Mo Fan's void element.
=== State Museum 2 (Mo Fan Museum) ===
Chapter 912 ~ 925
Coming back from Chongming island, they arrive at Beijing for the Rematch between egypt and china. Sid's stronger team members line up to take on Mu Ning Xue but Mo Fan walks up instead, making short work of Sid's country members, as their captain for some reason doesn't want to enter the battle, leaving egypt defeated again.
After which Mo Fan visits the clear sky hunting organization, where he is greeted by Old Bao. He informs him that the pear is capable of absorbing many dangerous things and that if it were to fill up, it would have enough power to combat the backlash of the devil element. But he must keep it secret at all times, especially from Ling Ling as it has to do with her father's disappearance.
The next day the British arrive to challenge china, with the challenging team preferring a team battle of 4v4, chinese master Fengfeng puts their team's chance of winning at none. Mo Fan and Dongfang Li's combined mid tier level 4 quickly grinds down the britain's numbers and Mo Fan attempts bride the leader of the british team, Duchess Irene, with some genuine chinese cuisine, which to everyone's surprise actually works, leaving China victorious again. Fengfeng, while angry, now has no choice but to allow Mo Fan back on their team again.
=== Overseas Experience 2 (Peru) ===
Chapter 926-950
While on the Way to Peru to rejoin their team, his commercial airliner is attacked by a blue-green winged creature, Mo Fan and another high tier mage step outside the rear and climb up to the top of the aircraft. While the high tier mage tries to use wind magic to reach the creature, Mo Fan uses high-tier lightning to instantly shoot it out of the sky, and Mo Fan is praised as a hero.
Upon arrival, Mo Fan finds that all the members that he already knows are still there and finds that Mu Ning Xue had been replaced by a rather obnoxious Li Kafeng. Not knowing what kind of devil he is dealing with, he starts to behave condescending to Mo Fan but before the team can stop him, Mo Fan tosses him out he door with his newly mastered void magic. Ai Jiang Tu interrupts everyone and informs them of a nearby fort that seems to toss out weird winds and lightning bolts, suspecting the presence of both a wind soul species and a lightning soul species.
The team moves towards the fortress the next day but Nan Xun orders everyone to stop once they reach a dense jungle. He explains that most monsters in the amazon rain forest detect threats with sound and not their eyes. So he pulls out a device that nullifies the sound of nearby footsteps, but explains that everyone must start to walk in a column to support the chain of sound nullifiers. Halfway into the forest, Mo Fan picks up his sound device and starts to walk to the front, but Lu Hulin, being sick and tired of Mo Fan, picks his up and leaves Mo Fan to face the monsters alone.
With the team cutoff from Mo Fan, they decide to move on it and leave for an open clearing. But find Mo Fan waiting their for them, having pushed through the monsters. While Lu Hulin is in shock on how he could have done this, Mo Fan uses void to toss him into the forest and threatens to kill anyone who tries to help him, but is willing to forgive him he manages to make it back on his own. The team, realizing that this is between them, let them sort it out between them and Lu Hulin is torn apart by monsters just before reaching the team.
While resting in a cave that looks over the giant hurricane from where the thunder and lightning is spewing, Mo Fan is ordered to stay up and take watch. He gets Zhao Man Yan to cover for him while he breaks through into high tier shadow. In the middle of the night he managed to find some valuables in the cave, which he trades to Zhoa Man Yan for a magic controller.
The next morning, while approaching the hurricane, the team is attacked by a swarm of blue-green birds from before. The team hides in the hurricane and Mo Fan kills them all with high-tier fire. But to his surprise, he receives no souls from the dead monsters. Zhao Man Yan explains that before Mo Fan rejoined the team, they accidentally stepped on the Nazca lines and that these birds have been chasing them since. Going deeper into the hurricane, they find out that the hurricane is actually a ban, a protection field to keep unwanted guests out. While Zhao Man Yan covers everyone with his defensive magic, which as he states has been boosted by the wooden fish by a factor of 2, while Nan Xun undoes the ban. The team arrives in a perfectly preserved but empty village, where the mind pear leads Mo Fan to a statue on the top of a fountain. When smashed, the is a powder inside the statue is absorbed by the pear, but about 2/3 remains, while the pear is still far from being full. Mo Fan calls Ling Ling about it and informs him that the powder is likely a temporal substance, something that can mess with the flow of time, hence why the village is still in a perfect state.
Upon exiting, the team moves towards the capital of Peru to collect the state badge, but they are interrupted by the military commander. The commander brings them to the roof to show that an entire swarm of birds is approaching. The commander blames the team for this and subsequently kicks them out of the fortress, saying that the birds will destroy anything in their path until those who trespass are killed.
The team flees towards an old rundown fortress to make their stand but are overrun not to long later. In a last desperate attempt, he feeds half of the temporal powder that he has left to Yan Ji, who temporarily takes on her adult form, and single handedly slaughters them all. After returning back to the fortress, Mo Fan was about to get his rage boner on but is undercut by Ai Jiang Tu, who gets his on. He informs the commander (with paperwork to boot) that he has been fired and that all chinese mercenaries (who are employed by his father) have currently left their duties all over Peru. While simultaneously, one of magic stone mines in Peru that was under protection of the Ai family has been invaded by spirit monkeys, over 10,000 total, with all the mine workers in the trapped in the middle. The vice commander states that although the commander was a bit harsh, he was telling the truth, only by returning to the Nazca lines and undoing what they did or die trying can they ever be free from the birds.
While arriving at the Nazca lines (and complaining about Ai Jiang Tu's bad flying of a helicopter) they realize that someone has stolen the gem that symbolizes the eye of the bird Nazca Line. Mo Fan realizes that the one who took the gem is likely in the mine that was attacked and is hiding it in the mine, as they heard reports that although the monkeys had taken over, no one was killed. The team and the recalled mercenaries return to the mine to sort out the problem. The recently fired commander was there waiting for them as the higher ups decided to keep him around as work still needed to be done.
While Mo Fan does recon with his shadow magic, he finds a monkey with a golden tail, unlike every other monkey he has see so far. He kills it using shadow magic and suddenly about 200 monkeys around him suddenly disappear. With this intel he returns to Ai Jiang Tu, he gets him to lead an attack from the north end of the mine at dawn, while he sneaks around from the south, destroying all golden tailed monkeys on the way down with shadow magic. Mo Fan manages to reach the center of the mine and tells the leader of the mining team to look for a large gem that one of the miners has hidden here. Once he receives it, he takes it back to the Nazca lines and puts it back. Then suddenly all the birds and monkeys disappear. The team is given the rewards meant for the Peruvian national team and receive new marching orders, they are to report to the american magic association in the statue of liberty in New York, with the bad news being that they'll have to walk.
After the incident, Yan Ji had matured into a commander level being, taking an appearance not very different from Ling Ling
=== Overseas Experience Story 3 (Central America) ===
Chapter 951-971
On the way from Peru to the US, they stop at a village. Mo Fan's pear manage to pick something up nearby and He and Jiang Shaoxu go to investigate while Zhao Man Yan tries to pick up girls. They find a group of Red cloaked mages that are shaking down the village chief, using curse element to kill a man in the process. Having seen the wanted posters for the red cloaks, they decide to make a quick buck and kill most of the red cloaks and taking the rest captive, but are only given 3 million for their troubles.
After arriving in Honduras. They receive new marching orders, they along with the national teams from Mexico and Japan are to capture the head of the red cloaks and to deal with whatever might come in their way, with rewards handed out based on performance and the best performing mage will be granted a special hood from a master shadow mage and that super tier magic association mages will be on standby if things get out of hand. While the meeting between the captains of the national teams is underway.
The Japanese captain came forward stating that he has intel on where the head of the red cloaks is, and the other teams let Japan take lead for the sake of security. Before the operation begins they find that Jiang Shaoxu is missing after having separated from Mu Tignyin while shopping. Mo fan and Zhao Man Yan don't follow the other teams and instead go to look for Jiang Shaoxu.
While looking around town, Mo Fan and Zhao Man Yan find evidence that Jiang Shaoxu was kidnapped, they follow a trail she left and and rescue her from some of the red cloak survivors of the previous incident. On the way back to the ports, they run into the villagers that the red cloaks assaulted, or whats left of them, as the red cloaks butchered most of them for revenge. Mo Fan and crew killed all of the red cloaks and vowed to kill the rest of them.
When arriving at port, Mo Fan finds what the Mayor is spewing nothing but crap, He decides to attack anyway, defeating millitary mages and red cloaks indiscriminately, with the more honorable national team members following suit. The head of the red cloaks notices Mo Fan and uses a positive poison to form up armor and physically overpower Mo Fan, even in Yan Ji form, until the magic association mages active a trap and put the head of the red cloaks in a cage while the rest of the team members deal with the rest of the red cloaks/military mages.
Mo Fan is credited with the best performance and is given the black cloak.
=== Overseas Experience 4 (American) ===
Chapters 972-984
After being allowed to fly the rest of the way, the team arrives in New York ready for a fight, but find that the state security team is currently undefeated and that the match with china already had been crossed out, on the count of their weakness. Finding himself insulted, Ai Jiang Tu personally joins the 5v5 battle against the americans, where he, Mo Fan and Yan Ji are enough to turn the americans away and win the battle.
While exploring New York's china town, he meets a kind chinese girl selling coffee. While getting her number, Mo Fan is attacked by a black vatican executioner and is quickly overpowered by his ice domain and mind powers, but the timely arrival of his teammates manages to drive the mage away.
The american association explains that they fought a fallen one of their own, who had been condemned for comitting a great crime. While the mage himself visits the barista that was injured in the fight, he tells a rather different story. He took the fall for crime committed by one of his superiors in exchange for lifetime protection for his daughter. When said daughter died, he was contacted by Sauron, who said that she would offer him his powers back in exchange for killing Mo Fan. While the barista manages to send and SOS to Mo Fan, he and his team formulate a plan to stop him.
With Mo Fan breaks into the hospital using shadow magic, where he then uses high level shadow magic to make a shadow magic domain, while the mages mind and ice domain are negated by Jiang Shaoxu and Mu Ning Xue respectively. The mage has no other option but to retreat and is subsequently caught in a trap by Ai Jiang Tu.
=== Overseas experience 5 (Portuguese, drowning event) ===
Chapter 985-1010
On the way to portugal, the team sees a giant corpse on the beach all the way from 30,000 feet and having nothing better to do, decide to investigate. The corpse was infact over 300 meters long and by the time of the arrival of the mages, only the bones were still there. Mo Fan asks around and it seems that this town is stricken by an all to familiar drowning curse. Smelling a good opportunity to earn some money, Mo Fan leaves the team again and calls Ling Ling over to Portugal to investigate the matter, with Mu Ning Xue deciding to stick around.
The trio ask around town to find that a total of 9 men, all of whom had connection to the sea, died in the due to the curse. They find a local that lost a brother to the curse and he says that he and his third brother were looking into the matter. When trying to visit the other brother, they find his corpse, not to different from the ones that drown. The owner of the hotel of were the man was staying said that he was here to find the cause of what killed his brother and that he had locked him up because he thought the dude was just drunk. Ling Ling performs an autopsy and finds a weird jellyfish like creature in his pelvis and that it had drained every ounce of energy from the dudes body. Ling Ling theorizes that this creature makes it way inside the target, whether human or otherwise, drains it of every ounce of energy and then uses mind magic to lead them to the sea, were they than exit the body, discarding it like an old skin. But because the guy had been locked in his room the whole night, he died due to exhaustion with the jellyfish still in his body.
Ling Ling puts a tracker on the jellyfish and releases it back into the ocean, stating that in order to find a vaccine for the curse, they need to find an adult jellyfish and that the one they had was only an infant. A few days later, Ling Ling wants to check up on the the jellyfish so she, Mo Fan, Mu Ning Xue and the brother, who happens to be a mid tier water mage, rent a boat and travel to an archipelago where there is dark blue water all around them to where they tracked the creature. The water mage tells them that about a few hundred meters down, there is a swarm of warrior level water sirens. A Thousand meters below them is a swarm of electric cuttlefish, these can both create and redirect lightning, meaning that the swarm can form an entire net of lightning magic. And below them is a water dragon, whose domain they entered and stretches for kilometers around, but Ling Ling informs them that they will have to wait the night to see what creature the jellyfish will choose to host in. While staying up all night to make sure that she doesn't loose track, the next day she informs the team that the jellyfish has indeed chosen the dragon to host in, so in order get the jellyfish they have to kill the dragon.
While Mu Ning Xue draws it out of its cave, Mo Fan stokes the lightning cuttlefish and their lightning net injures the dragon on the way up and once it reaches the surface, its locked down by Mu Ning Xue's ice magic while Mo Fan kills it with lightning magic. Ling Ling inspects the jellyfish and tells the team that it still isn't matured, so she lets it go again. But the next day however, the jellyfish returned on its own, in the form of a water dragon. Having drained the energy of the dragon, it managed to turn itself into one, but only much stronger. While Mo Fan, at the cost of a heavy injury, manages to re-bend its lightning attack and Mu Ning Xue kills the creature with her ice bow.
With the jellyfish now mature, Ling Ling finishes the report and finds a vaccine/cure for the drowning curse and is rewarded with over 350 million, all of which is diverted to Mo Fan since he is the one who desperately needs the money.
=== Overseas Experience 6 (Egyptian) ===
Chapter 1011 ~ 1036
On the way from portugal from egypt, the leaders inform them of a job offer from the egyptian government, they are to look for evidence of a settlement the egyptian government had lost contact with a few kilometers south of their position until qualified mages from egypt arrive. The Team splits in 2 with Mo Fan leading the group that ventures into the desert, accompanied by Mu Ning Xue, Zhao Man Yan, Jiang Shaoxu and Nan Xun. Since the desert is something that one can easily get lost in, the team forms a line in the order of Nan Xun at the coast, Jiang Shaoxu, Zhao Man Yan ,Mu Ning Xue and Mo Fan. With the rest of the team acting as relay points to know their way out of the desert, Mo Fan finds what remains of a tent half sunken into the desert, so Mo Fan puts down a relay point. While the team tries to leave the desert, they find that Nan Xun's signal had gone dark and that they are now stuck in the desert with no way out.
Since Nan Xun is a military mage and not one to lag behind on schedule, the team automatically assumes the worst and the team decides to camp out at the sunken in tent and wait for help to arrive. The next morning, the team is bombarded by a heavy dust storm, with Zhao Man Yan setting up a barrier to protect them and Jiang Shaoxu unwilling to leave the tend. The day after, the team finds themselves surrounded on 2 sides by a swarm of fire ants and desert foxes ready to declare an ethno war. While the rest of the team is ready to get out of there as fast as possible, Jiang Shaoxu is steadfast and refuses to leave the tent, causing the team to be stuck inside a massive battlefield.
Back at the coast, the egyptian mages find Nan Xun unconscious on the coast and wake him up, as soon as he does, he releases his signal and the team come running out of the desert. The mages commend Jiang Shaoxu on her stubborness as having a fixed reference point is the only way to get out of the desert, making staying by the tent no matter what might come the right call. As the mages enter the desert, another large dust storm appears, so large that the team is forced to fell out to sea. And as they leave, Mo Fan sees a ghost standing on a sand dune looking at him, which Mo Fan identifies as a monarch class creature. Neither the villagers of the settlement nor the mages came back from the mission.
Once arriving in egypt, the team is informed that since the chinese state security team defeated the egyptian national team twice, they won't need to do battle. But are instead ordered to join the battle against a mirage pyramid. They are informed that in Egypt, the tomb of every pharaoh that ever lived is guarded by their undead servants. But thanks to the chaos magic of the sahara, a mirage of a pyramid can appear near civilized egypt once in a while, with the guardians of the respective tomb moving in to protect the mirage, as they can't tell the difference between real and fake pyramids. While on their way to report, they run into a medical tent run by none other than Xin Xia. While Mo Fan and her guard argue over what he is and isn't allowed to do with a women he loves, Xin Xia informs them that she will be joining them on the battlefield as a paramedic.
In the intial stages of the assault, Mo Fan accidentally takes the lead of the assault when the chinese team that was on flanking duty, were the only ones that managed to break through the line of undead and Mo Fan, who had gotten lost, manages to single handidly take the hill the vanguard of egypt failed to take. In the final stages of the assault, the main army of egypt got surrounded and now their only choice is to push forward. But when they were only 500 meters from the mirage, half the super tier mages were killed instantly by a large black night on horseback. While the main army commander orders the retreat under the count that despite the knight is only a small monarch, they are not able to do anything, Mo Fan interrupts, remembering a similar black knight from the young lady that was with him on his path to rescue Zhang Xiou Hou, Mo Fan states that the knight doesn't refuses challenges in single combat. Seeing they might have a window, the commander challenges the knight, but is turned away for some reason.
The commander returns stating that the night only accepts challenges from those who have a dark element. With Mo Fan being the only one present at the meeting with a dark element, shadow, goes to challenge the black knight. The black knight accepts the challenge and puts them both in a shadow sphere. While the night berates the weakness of Mo Fan, Mo Fan feeds what's left of his temporal powder to Yan Ji, who retakes her goddess form. The knight immediately shows courtesy to the lady infront of him and asks her why she serves such a weak master, promising to introduce her to his own master. Yan Ji, who now has a level of rage similar to her master, fuses with Mo Fan and the fight begins. While having difficulty dodging the knights 10 meter sword, the pair bring down the horse and injure the knight. The knight subsequently decomposes into bugs and disappears in the shadows, then the pair are compressed down with gravity magic and the bugs move in to cover them. But the pair created a fire explosion with all the last of their power and burn away the bugs, killing the knight. Meanwhile the rest of the chinese team manage to disperse the mirage.
=== Venetian scholar struggle ===
Chapter 1037 ~ 1159
After the egyptian incident, the mages from china have officially qualified for the international tournament and subsequently move straight to venice.
On the way to a auction house to buy a lighting soul species, Mo Fan and Zhao Man Yan run into Zhao Kun San, Zhao Man Yan's older brother. He brushes them off saying that his time is valuable. On the inside of the auction house, Mo Fan and Zhao Man Yan go into a different room from his brother and soon heard another person entering his room, following the sound of something shattering. While Mo Fan decides to look around, Zhao Man Yan goes to his brother, with him saying that he just met his prospective wife, Asha Ya Rui and that she was just playing hard to get. While Mo Fan was looking a black stone in a secure glass display, while thinking out loud on how a simple black stone could be so important. Asha Ya Rui interrupted Mo Fan saying that the stone was immortalized because it was the deciding vote to convict a major criminal and the one who cast it was the criminal's own sister. Even though the women was veiled, he immediately recognized her as the women that accompanied him when he went to rescue Zhang Xiou Hou. After the conversation, Zhao Man Yan returned, saying that there won't be another lightning soul species up for auction for months. As they left, they heard what was something akin to a burglar alarm.
While walking around, Mo Fan again met with Asha Ya Rui, with her treating him on pizza, she had a proposition on. She said that she knew where a lighting soul species with domain is, but requests every single cent that was to Mo Fan's name in exchange for personally taking him to it and letting him absorb it. Mo Fan, wanting to win it all, agrees.
Asha Ya Rui leads him out of Venice and towards the middle mountains of italy. She warns him that this area is dangerous and that the area is inhabited by some very dangerous monsters. The first are the titans, large living mountains that are capable of crushing even the strongest monsters outright and are capable of camouflage. The other are the terrorbirds that have access to lightning, fire and wind magic. Once they correctly control all 3 magics, every adult of the species ascends to the level of commander. Asha Ya Rui led Mo Fan to a cave where a total of 9 terrorbirds were nested upon. Asha Ya Rui pulled an all to familiar black stone from his pocket and tossed it to far away an later a titan appeared. She said that the stone was cast by a member of the Parthenon and the titans hate anything that is related to the Parthenon.
With the titan approaching the nest of the birds, they are quickly drawn away and the pair quickly enter the cave. Halfway to the end there is a lightning soul species. Mo Fan tries to absorb it many times but to no avail. Then when birds return after 3 of their own were killed, Mo Fan's devil element partially activates and Mo Fan instantly absorbs the soul. He activates the domain and lightning claws form around his hands. Mo Fan tries them out on the birds at the exit and manages to bring down 2 birds, but then is pulled away by Asha Ya Rui saying that there are too many. They enter the cave again and go deeper and appeared out onto a ridge high into the mountains right next to a mountain ridge. Asha Ya Rui tells Mo Fan to walk over to the edge and release space waves. But as he does the nearby mountain ridge started to move. Asha Ya Rui ran over releasing her own space waves and the both of them teleported out.
After the landing in what appeared to be Croatia, Mo Fan asks what the heck happened. Asha Ya Rui says that that was the ancient dark dragon of europe, an emperor class monster and that she released her own space waves to allow the both of them to get out of there. Mo Fan asks on how she knew that that was a dragon. Asha Ya Rui replies that she knew that he was there, just needed confirmation and an idiot to take her there. Mo Fan, not entirely happy with the insult and out of magic, grabs her by the throat and starts to squeeze, but decides to let her go.
While Mo Fan is in croatia, Mu Ning Xue is ambushed by Mu Tingying and some mages from the Mu clan, they came to relieve Mu Ning Xue of the ice bow and have subsequently disabled it. They reveal that when the ice bow was first created, they shattered it into many pieces and scattered them across the entirety of the mu clan. Every member of the mu clan that has one of these pieces would have their cultivation boosted and in turn pour in energy into the piece of the ice bow. But when the mu clan takes the pieces back, the cultivation of the mage that had the ice bow was taken along with them and some of the mages even die, including Mu Ning Xue's mother. Over the years they had taken back most of the pieces and sent them to mu ning xue to re-complete the bow, but now that they have the last pieces and that mu ning xue has been kicked out of the clan, they were going to give the ice bow to their new top disciple, na rong ni. He reveals himself has an arrogant, sociopathic man who got close to mu ning xue solely for the pleasure of betraying her. Having enough, mu ninx xue pulls out the ice bow due to the power of her natural ice and opens fire. She freezes everyone and takes the last of the pieces of the ice bow and leaves everyone else frozen.
When Mo Fan returned to Venice and heard of the incident, he said out to challenge both Nan Rong ni and Mu Tingying, with Li Kafeng and Zu Jiming joining in order to settle their scores with Mo Fan, but they were all overpowered by Mo Fan's new lightning claws and Yan Ji fusion. As Mo Fan was about to kill Mu tingying, feng li interupted the fight and called both mo fan and mu ning xue to him. He again stated that there shall be no infighting in the team and that no one shall interfere with the team and that no one shall interfere with the national team from the outside for as long as he watches over the team, for the duration of the competition. After the incident, mu tingying is put on the bench due to her injuries
In the first round of the competition, the chinese face the japanese. Pan Lai sets up; ai jiang tu, mu ning xue, guan yu, jiang shaoxu and jiang yu to face them. The match starts with ai jiang opening with void magic and guan yu chasing down a shadow mage while mu ning xue advances her ice domain. This follows with Jiang shaoxu using high level mind to disrupt the enemy mages, but they counter. While ai jiang tu advances while riding jiang yu's rock golem, Guan yu manages to injure the japanese shadow mage and he in turn releases revenge bees, insects that chase down targets that injure them and Guan Yu is subsequently eliminated. The shadow mage then target's mu ning xue, he gets injured again and releases more revenge bees. But mu ning xue manages to avoid and the shadow mage is frozen solid and ai jiang defeats the remaining japanese.
Meanwhile at the parthenon, Xin Xia meets with the temple mother and she promotes her right past waitress into goddess candidate, due to her valiant actions during the assault on the pyramid. The rest of the parthenon is in an uproar, but she reminds them that as temple mother she has the right to appoint goddess candidates as she chooses. The great sage raises an objection, questioning her skills as a healer worthy of being the goddess. The temple mother agrees and xin xia is dispatched to croatia to solve an epidemic that caused a waitress to fall ill.
Mo Fan, after the match, mu ning xue and mo fan, run into a young man whose guards block the way, the man is identified by the onlookers as the prince of spain, who blocks their way. He is willing to let him go but only if he gets a few minutes alone with the silver haired beauty. Mo Fan, not interested at all, punches out the guards and tosses the prince into the river, with the onlookers recording the whole thing on their cellphones. Afterwards he speaks with his adviser con ti, who informs him to research his opponents.
Afterwards, Mo Fan contacts xin xia and she informs him that she has been dispatched to croatia, having nothing better to do, he travels to croatia and gets ling ling, mu ning xue and Zhang Xiou Hou to join them. Once they arrive, ling ling begins mining data and she wonders why the outbreak appeared in different towns simultaneously, contrarily to the common epidemic theory. She dispatches zhang xiou hou to scout around, she theorizes that all the patients zero were in fact infected somewhere else, a prison where they work, so the actual patient zero is in fact in prison, somewhere else then where both the parthenon and the local governments think they are, zhang xiou hou returns and he has indeed found the prison.
The team moves to the prison to investigate and at first everything seems normal. But later they find that all the prisoners are surprisingly docile. It was later revealed that one of the guards had transformed into a red devil and is using his power to mentally infect both the prisoners and the guards. He uses his power to control the prisoners and attacks. While zhang xiou hou and mu ning xue hold of the prisoners, mo fan attacks the devil. To his surpise his attacks do no damage, mo fan deduces that the red devil is incoporeal, so he pulls out the mind pearl and sucks up the red devil while rebuffing ling ling.
After killing the devil, the people in the towns have yet to subside in their sickness, revealing that the mental sickness only needs to infect the subject and after a while the sickness is self sustaining. Mo Fan decides on a plan by having xin xia connect the spiritual energy of all the infected and divert it into the mind pearl. mo fan lifts the both of them atop a radio tower and xin xia tries to push the spiritual energy, but succumbs to the might of the mind pearl, but with the help of mo fan she manages to regain focus and absorb all the mental energy of the infected and return them to normal.
As both Mo Fan and Mu Ning Xue return to venice, they almost don't make it back in time for the next match, against spain, last tournaments rank 13. At the stands, the team is greeted by the rather obnoxious prince of spain. Mo Fan eggs the dude on into accepting a bet, 200 million at 3 to 1 odds for china, while the prince only bets 100 million due to lack of liquidity. While Mo Fan said it was all a joke to nan xun, she quickly points to the seat where Zhao Man Yan was supposed to sit, indicating that he believed it to be serious and has bet 200 million on his behalf and he asks her that the next time he tries to bet, to just punch him in the face. Originally Pan Lai was going to take it easy on spain, but now that he had to endure the insults of the prince, he decides to let mo fan of his leash and he sends him up along with nan xun, guan yu, nan rong ni and mu tingying. But before they enter the ring, a dozen high tier water mages suddenly turn the entire rocky mountain battleground into a large sea and the team realizes how difficult this is going to be.
The spanish team immediately starts destroying the remaing hills to remove the platforms on which the chinese can stand, while mu tingying creates an ice platform for them to stand on, one of the spanish dives into the water in order to sneak up on the chinese, but it quickly routed by nanxun and his sound magic. After which, the prince's best friend charges at mo fan with is fire magic, while mo fan tries to counter with yan ji. Mo Fan wins the exchange solely due to his void magic and tosses the guy over the edge towards the judges beofre the spanish can heal him. Then the chinese are hit by a super tier class tidal wave and both guan yu and mu tingying are washed out of the stadium. nan xun, theorizes that rather than the spanish actually having a super tier mage, they actually have someone who can put all of his energy into 1 spell, mo fan finds this person and takes him out. While nan rong ni heals mo fan, the spanish defensive mage manages to reflect mo fan. nan rong ni, theorizes that if he manages to charge at the spanish defensive mage and at the last second change his target, he could win. Mo Fan tries this and subsequently defeats the prince's girlfriend and the rest of the spanish team and gives the victory to the chinese.
while con ti informs the prince that his bank account had been relieved of 100 million, mo fan is given 600 million, 200 million at 3 to 1. He gives man yan 100 million as a thank you for being so stupid. He tries to talk to one of his mentors, asking him to help him get his wolf to commander level. The 2 and jiang yu travel the town looking at local shops to get him the resources he needs. The mentor informs him that the best chance of promoting an evolving creature to commander is right after breaking through into high tier. He finds mo fan a galactic vein in a store, stating that you should always look for items in stores, not auction houses as they often lead to price inflation. At another store, they find a commander soul but also a member and a coach of the japanese team to buy it, leading to a dispute. The store clerk asks for their names and the chinese coach awnsers with pan lai, immediately the japanese coach backs off, recognizing the name pan lai as the third best summoning mage on the planet. While Mo Fan gets his affairs in order, Pan lai tells the story of the assault on antartica of which he was a part of, where many super tier mages died. He doesn't know how, but the soul that he bought for with mo fan's money was from antartica and that the wolf will awaken as a snow wolf. While Jiang Yu and Mo Fan are having tea in the backyard of Pang Lai's home, Pang lai is confronted by essendel, the shadow mage that gave mo fan the cloak back in mexico. He states that the "others" are coming for him and asks for help, to which pang lai states that it was his own fault. Afterwards a large shadow domain was activated inside the house and pang lai walks out with a large scar on the face. In the news the next day, it was reported that the criminal essendel was finally caught and was tossed several kilometers by the apprehending team.
Afterwards, the team is informed that they will be venturing into the treasure dimension, where all of the resources for the students in the international competition is kept. They will be given teleportation scrolls to enter and exit the dimension, but they will arrive in random locations. They are allowed to stay as long as they like but there are many dangers and they will be in charge of their own safety and that apart from killing its no hold barred, but if things get out of hand, professional hunters will be observing the situation along with the rest of the world, where the entire event will be broadcast live around the world through the eyes of trained hunter eagles.
Mo Fan arrives at the edge of a forest and uses Yan Ji to track down mu ning xue in the center of the forest. After they defeat a tree monster and collect a crystal that was in its mouth. Mo Fan says that he has an idea, that it would be much easier to rob tired out teams rather than go out and collect resources itself, but they'll need a mind mage to do it. Then by pure coincedence, duchess irene of england pops around the corner and joins the team. They ask how they can find the teams, to which mo fan simply looks up and looks at the white eagles.
They now refer themselves as the snow robbers and after they travel around robbing a total of 6 teams in the full view of the world. The mentor who are all watching from the same booth immediately start disavowing the robbers as being self-taught members to which they have no personal affiliation. Later irene manages to get wind of a group from egypt that have managed to get their hands on a fire soul species. Mo Fan smelling something good, decides to sneak up on the all to familiar vice captian of egypt with shadow magic and fixes her in place with mid tier shadow, steals the soul species and pulls her pants down for good measure. As he makes his getaway, he is hit by an all to familiar super tier class tidal wave. Mo Fan is washed away and subsequently captured.
He finds that the egyptian group is supported by several spanish, canadian and british team members, all of which have been robbed by mo fan and crew. While Mo Fan likens the attack on him as a crusade from the G8, one of the scouts reports a group of chinese members incoming. However they are comprised of Mo Fan's least favourite team members: nan rong ni, li kaifeng, zu jiming and mu tingying and they simply turn around and walk away upon seeing mo fan. Seeing no other way to break him out, since all the loot is stored in his void space, mu ning xue and irene reveal themselves. They are suprised that the honorable duchess irene would go so low and they all immediately blame mo fan.
A fight breaks out and Mo Fan immediately summons both his creatures to fight beside him and uses lightning claws to fight the egyptian members in single combat while mu ning xue and irene fight 4 other members. But the egyptian captian summons his own scorpion commander beast and the snow wolf is routed towards Mu Ning xue. The scorpion manages to break through Mo Fan's armor and injure him. But then came the return of the snow wolf, who managed to gain a power boost into big commander due to the ice domain of mu ning xue and the enemy mages are routed. But there is a problem, mo fan was poisoned by the enemy scorpion and needs a healing mage.
Irene was informed by her team prior that a member of the swedish team had setup shop in the middle of the dimension and offers healing services to anyone at a high price. They find the swedish many named tony and makes them an offer, 100 million for each healing, up to the highest standard with money back guarantee. Mo Fan denies and makes a counter offer, join the team and get a fair and equal share of the loot, tony agrees.
Tony heals mo fan and informs them that he had overheard some canadians, there is a massive fog field to the north that is said to contain a priceless treasure and that his poison magic should be able to overcome it. The team decides to go along as by now the rest of the competition know to be on guard against Mo Fan.
They arrive at the poison fog field and find that the fog only starts floating upwards at a certain level and as such tony clears a way down and they start crawling through the mud while at another point, another team does the same thing.
Back at venice, the venitian governor calls the treasure dimension designer on why they went into the fog, believing the area to be out of bounds. The designer confirmed this and stated that his son must have copied some of his notes believing their to be a special treasure there. The hunter association confirmed this, but abandoned the location due to the presence of too strong monsters. The governor dispatches the hunters to try and resolve the situation and calls in the respective national coaches to inform them of the situation.
While Mo Fan and team crawl through the mud, they hear screaming and Mo Fan investigates. He finds some corpses and a locked black box, the quickly takes the box and runs. He is intercepted by a medusa and tries to use lightning on it, but it is simply rebuffed and Mo Fan is tossed into a rock. Mu ning xue manages to kill the medusa with her ice bow but lands in a coma because of it. A second medusa follows them but keeps his distance as he witnessed the ice bow in effect, but later attacks after deducing that they can't use it anymore. But the hunter arrive in time to kill it.
Afterwards, the team returns to venice and mo fan goes back on his word and gives tony nothing, while irene seems content with only a share worth 200 million, leaving 900 million for mo fan and mu ning xue, each. Mo Fan then opens the box and finds that it contain a spiritual vein. Pan Lai explains that the cultivation of the spirit has 9 realms and that mo fan currently finds himself in the second world of the first realm (3 worlds x 3 realms) compared to Ai Jiang Tu in the first world of the second realm. Pang lai that in the first realm, only basic void magic can be used, in the middle realms void mages can compete with commander class creatures and in the high realms, one can cause mass destruction just by thinking about it. He states that Mo Fan can use the spirit vein to rapidly increase his spiritual attainement if he keeps it with him when he cultivates.
Due to the incidents in the treasure dimension, the chinese have qualified for the top 8 and Mo Fan places 5th in the top mages ranking, behind the 1st place british captian(Jordan), 2nd Place American Captain(Jesse), 3rd place German Member(Rudi) and 4th Place American Member(Milton). In the next rounds the matches are 8v8 but only 5 players per team may be in the field at any time. However the team is informed that they have drawn germany for the next match.
Before heading into the stadium, Mo Fan jokes about offers joining another team. They are interrupted by the chairmen of china, who unlike everyone else is in casual mode. He tells them to do what ever possible as every single point in the rankings directly affect the international resources available to the country. They are interrupted by the secretary of the chairmen who tells mo fan to just piss off and not to drag the team down if he has all those offers from other teams. Pang Lai scolds the secretary stating that if she doesn't apoligize within 2 matches then she will sorely regret it. But they are interrupted by Li Hun, father of the boy that Mo Fan killed and he came looking for justice. He is intercepted by Feng Li who told him to wait off until after the tournament along with the other Mu representative that joined him.
With Mu ning xue still on the medical bench due to the use of the ice bow, the line was made to be: Zhao Man Yan, AI Jiang tu, Jiang Shaoxu, nan xun jiang yu, nan rong ni, mu tingying and Mo Fan. When the match begins, Rudi starts creating a high tier level 2 fire ball and man yan creates a massive earth wall, but the fireball breaks right through. Shaoxu asks if he is even trying, so man yan creates a water wall but another fireball breaks right through and they realize why the guy is ranked third, he has a talent that allows his magic to pass through magic defence barriers much more easily. Now man yan starts to take this seriously and conjures a light wall with the blessing of his wooden fish and for once the barrier holds. Shaoxu and nan xun start to combine their magic to suppress Rudi.
The German team counters by summoning a dragon and sending it along with their mind mage Baldrik, after Shaoxu. The mind mages gives her delusions about her past, which fill her with rage and uses it to take control of the summoning mage and his dragon and uses it to elimate the german mind mage, but both the dragon and shaoxu are defeated by Rudi. While Ai Jiang Tu goes to suppress the german captain Johannes, jiang yu manages to send his shadow cat behind enemy lines and cause havoc. After both sides uses all their subs, the german team immediately goes after Mo Fan as they know his level of violence is second only to Rudi, while the chinese do the same to the last german sub. The tactic pays off and the last german sub is eliminated while Mo Fan holds on. While Mo Fan goes after rudi, Ai Jiang tu and Jiang Yu manage to corner the german captain, but he turns the tables and eliminates Jiang Yu. While the remainder of the german team covers rudi, he casts one last fire ball and hurls it towards the chinese. Man Yan knows what he must do and tells Mo Fan that the first thing he wants to hear when he wakes up in the hospital is that they managed to defeat germany. While Mo Fan looks in awe, Man Yan releases all his powers and charges the fire ball while covered in all kinds of magic. He manages to stop the fireball but is heavily injured in the process. Mo Fan manages to use shadow magic to suspend both rudi and Johannes, subsequently winning the battle for China.
Afterwards he immediately rushes up to the hospital to check on Man Yan and he is informed that he will do fine. Later he meets Pang lai and the chairman's secretary and the secretary apologizes for her actions. What had happened during the match, pang lai had revealed to the world that it was due to the efforts of Mo Fan that the city of Xi'an was saved and was subsequently raised to the status of national hero. To add injury to insult, Pang lai kicks the secretary's candidate, Zu Jiming of the team and adds Mu Nu Jiao to replace him, to which Mu Nu Jiao kisses mo fan on the cheek out of gratefullness. When Mo Fan goes to visit mu ning xue in the hospital, mu ning xue tells him to remove the lipstick of his face first.
The remaining winners are england, greece and very surpisingly, egypt. However things take a turn for the worst when they draw england as their next opponents, the team favoured to win it all. Given that ai jiang tu, mu ning xue and zhao man yan are all on the medical bench, the mentors decide to forfeit to match in order to conserve man power. In the next round, the chinese face the losers from the other match, greece and win with relative ease but then the impossible happens, the team favoured to win it all, lost.
With their third win, Egypt qualifies for the final and after another round of preliminaries, england, china and greece under their new captain azeala all tied for second, so the management decide that the second finalist shall be decided via a threeway bout. Azeala asks mo fan if their nations can team up as she is truly scared of the might of the british captain. Before the match, they are informed that substitutes can only be called in once every 15 minutes and due to the nature of the match, the referees may not be able to rescue everyone in time so everyone will be given a venitian ring, a valuable defensive magical ring to save their lives, but activating it shall be conisdered a forfeit and as to honor their progress so far, everyone will be able to keep their ring.
When all three teams meet in the middle of the map, although expected by ai jiang tu, britain and greece teamed up to settle their scores with the worlds greatest hooligan, mo fan. The chinese manage to retreat while causing casualties but take some themselves. With the help of the first substitute mu ning xue, they manage to cutoff one of the greek substitutes. Seeing her plan being overturned, azeala again pleads with mo fan to help take out the british, but mo fan demands some compensation. As her greek team mates heal the chinese team and give them temporary blessings, azeala states that she has an idea on how to deal with jordan, she has a bracelet that can allow her to teleport jordan to the other side of the map while they deal with the rest of the brits and nan xun deals with duchess irene, but it works only twice.
The combined team begins their assault, before being teleported out, jordan managed to summon her demi-commander beatles to attack and nan xun suppresses duchess irene. After being teleported twice, irene is the only team mate left and jordan orders her to cover her mind while she deals with the rest. The 2 teams open fire and Jordan uses her high level chaos to catch the attacks and throws them back with increased power. She screams on how this didn't work against the egyptians due to it not working against physical attacks and that her beetle were terrified of the undead egyptian mob. Jordan then uses her wind magic to dodge the teleportation of the void mages present (azeala, ai jiang tu and mo fan). Subsequently the void mages combine their void compressions to pin jordan down while the rest of the team opens fire again, but the chaos magician sends it right back again.
Ai jiang tu starts to take this seriously and takes jordan and one of the greek shadow mages into a private space he constructed while the rest of the greek and chinese teams scatter. But due to the ego of the greek mage and chaos magic being able to destroy the mental ideas of void mages, both him and ai jiang tu are eliminated. While mu ning xue, mo fan and mu tingying retreat to a forest, they run into a trap set by nan rong ni and mu tingying is eliminated. After wards they are confronted by jordan and azeala together, mu ning xue is ordered by mo fan to deal with azeala while he deals with jordan.
Mo Fan launches a lightning bolt and jordan sents it right back with increased power, but rather than dodge, mo fan uses the special ability of the tyrant lightning soul and absorbs the lightning while taking damage and sents it back with double the power, jordan sends it back again with more power. Mo Fan absorbs it again and takes more damage, but he sends it back again, while jordan again counters with chaos magic, wondering what mo fan tries to accomplish. Mo Fan's demon blood allows him to sustain the damage and fire it back one more time. But by now all of the boosts added to the lightning added so far prove to much for jordan and all her magic and defenses are destroyed with the exception of the venice ring and mo fan receives a standing ovation from the entire audience. He is now ranked the strongest in the entire competition and jordan is taken away with many loud objections as now the british team has been formally reduced to 4th place in the tournament.
Afterwards Mo Fan is confronted by the designated mind mage from greece and after a mild conversation about cowardice vs surviving, the mind mage tries to attack mo fan but he counters with his anti mind necklace and uses void to toss the mage into a nearby rock, breaking most of his bones. At that time, the chinese mentors erupt, believing that they just might actually win this.
When mo fan arrives at the battle between the 2 ladies, he decides to take 5 and let them sort it out between themselves. The battle is comprised of azeala in a knight suit derived from her dark knight lord on horseback and uses teleportation to attack and retreat from mu ning xue, who uses her wind wings to maneuver and ice powers to further her territory. After mu ning xue suffers minor injuries, she decides to get serious and draws her ice bow. azeala answers by activating a necklace and a dark mist pour from it, but she withdraws seeing that mu ning xue was willing to risk her life to bring her down. Mo Fan goes and thanks her, with her asking why he did that, saying that she was his wife and azeala is infuriated with mo fan. With this the chinese qualify for the final against egypt.
The Final match is not held in venice but on an artificial island outside. The eqyptian team led by mios faces off against Mo Fan, Zhao Man Yan, Guan Yu, Jiang Yu and Mu Nu Jiao. The egyptian team immediately begin pricking their fingers and they all drip blood onto their side of the island and suddenly hundreds of undead pour out. Man Yan immediately builds a fortress and jaing yu orders his golem to block the way but both are overwhelmed quite quickly. Mo Fan heads out to cut the undead off and ends up in a forest with ghosts in them, a trap set for mo fan by mios. Mo fan's lightning and fire don't work on the undead so he resorts to using void to deal with it. Mios summons more ghosts, but her teammates remind her that ghosts are to expensive to summon and should just focus on the undead mob.
After the rest of the team mates are all exhausted from using to much high tier magic. Mo Fan uses mid tier magic to slaughter all the zombies and the necklace compresses all the slave level zombie souls into warrior class souls, which mo fan uses to upgrade his mid tier lightning to level 5, which in turn allows him to face all the undead single handedly. After a while, Mo Fan notices that some of the souls of the undead have a weird signature on them, refuse to enter the necklace and sink back into the ground. The necklace senses something and leads mo fan across the battlefield, afterwards the necklace manages to absorb a weird stream and immediately the egyptian team starts panicking. The egyptians realize that one third of the "pharaoh's source" had been absorbed and immediately call in for a sub. Mo Fan hears this and uses his loach to hunt down more of the source. After all most all of it has been absorbed, the egyptians put their power together and summond a 9 headed snake monster to fight mo fan.
Mo Fan immediately calls for all the backup he has, both his summon creatures and the rested teammates and they face the monster together. After some losses, man yan managed to withstand most of the attacks and with the snow wolf and Guan Yu injured, the beast falls and the egyptians surrender. After it being made official, jiang yu and man yan toss mo fan into the open sea and jump in afterwards and mo fan uses void magic to toss in the coaches as well, to which no objection was raised. Mo Fan talks with Mu Ning Xue in the hospital, asking her what she wants to do now that national tournament is over and the mu clan will be coming for her now, she says that she wants to form her own clan.
The next morning, with the rest of the team being wasted drunk, Man yan and mo fan walk along the seashore and see an additional island to the one created for the final match. man yan says that his father's health has taken a turn for the worse and is not expected to last long, to which mo fan gives him some privacy. When walking across the shore, man yan is approached by a couple who want to have their picture taken, but when he takes the camera, a snake appears out from the sleeve of the man and bites man yan. Man yan immediately figures out that they were sent by yucian and calls him out. Yucian appears and states that despite all the work he has done since he was little, man yan is to be made the next of the Zhao clan. Yucian can't abide by this and orders his assassins to kill man yan. But at that moment a giant turtle head appears out of the ocean and swallows both man yan and the female assassin and the turtle swims under water and both are presumed dead.
=== Parthenon chaos ===
Chapter 1160 ~ 1199
A Week later, the chinese team arrives at the parthenon to receive their blessing. Pang lai leads them up the mountain and they come across the milky way and he tells its story. In ancient times, a young foot soldier wanted to warn the highest authorities of an impending titan attack but due to his rank and the lack of communication between the different halls of the parthenon, the attack happened anyway. Seeing the problem, the members of the parthenon devised a challenge that would allow anyone one time access to the temple of the goddess and speak with anyone in private. While even the highest ranked knights must first request a meeting with the goddess from the temple mother, who, at her own free will, can decide to pass it to the goddess, then the goddess must approve the meeting and then the meeting must be voted on by the 13 saints before it can take place. Even if the meeting is approved, it must still be supervised by the temple mother, but anyone that passes the milky way can just walk into the office of the goddess and everyone else must wait outside.
When reaching the hall of the knights, they see the head of the knights, Heilong, give a speech before the rest of the knights. When he sees the chinese he just walks away and sends one of his subordinates to guide them to their quarters. Pang Lai tells the kids not to worry about it and that heilong is probably still sore from the ass kicking he gave him when he was younger. The guiding super tier knight says this impossible but immediately backs down upon hearing the name Pang Lai. Pang lai tells them that with their current cultivation and skill, the odds of him winning a re match is 6:4, but when they start to take into account all the blessings that he has, pang lai states that he has no chance. Upon reaching their quarters, the chinese are informed that the parthenon has yet to choose a goddess and that they will instead receive a blessing from the temple mother, who is currently busy with work and that they are to be confined to their quarters until the time of the blessings.
At the start of the blessings, Mo Fan chooses lightning as the element to be blessed and he receives a blessing worth 5 times the strength of his power. He is informed that he must cultivate extensively in order to have even a fraction of this power to remain permanent, but he is allowed to stay at the Parthenon until such blessing is made permanent. While the rest of the team is content with a blessing of 1.5, Mo Fan strives for 2. Two months later, As he feels the blessing slipping below the factor of 2, the loach intervenes and uses pharaoh's source to get the blessing to a factor of 2.
After returning from greece, Mo Fan tries cultivating in the 3 step pagoda but finds it ineffective, so instead he tries to visit the clear sky hunting organization and meets a teenage ling ling, whose height no reaches to Mo Fans shoulders. But to his surprise he finds tang yue, ling qing and tang zheng waiting for him. They inform him that Xin Xia has been charged with the murder of another goddess candidate and has formally been identified as Salan of the black vatican and that Old Boa has gone to the parthenon to spearhead the investigation. While Mo Fan takes this as some sick joke, the rest provides him with the evidence.
Xin Xia was found next to the body of the candidate, covered in blood and carrying the weapon used to commit the murder with no one being in the vicinity in the temple of the goddess at the time. Pang Lai himself analysed the spirit of Xin Xia and found that her mind had not been interfered with for the duration of 72 hours. Tang Yue states that the totem snake managed to identify a second soul inside Xin Xia and that this soul is that of salan, not that Xin Xia herself is salan and that the presence of 2 souls in her body is the cause of her disability. The same kind of memory bug that was placed on Xiou Hou by Mu He was found to be on Xin Xia, which would explain why she has no memory of the activites of Salan. And finally, The Holy Sculpture managed to get a hand on one of the blood stones of Salan. When a new red cardinal is ordained by the pope of the black vatican, their blood is used to create a blood stone, a sort of ID card for the cardinal to confirm their identity. This stone is then chopped in 2 and one of them is given to the cardinal and the other half is stored somewhere secret. Xin Xia's blood was dripped on the stone and the stone itself slowly absorbed it, confirming her identity. Mo Fan still doesn't believe it as he has had a conversation with Salan not once but twice and decides to travel to greece, but before he goes tang yue hands him the mind pear and a pearl necklace.
After arriving in Greece, he greets Pang Lai, he tells him to wait for Old Bao to hand out the news as the holy sculpture is currently in session to determine the fate of xin xia. Old Bao arrives and tells them both that the verdict will be made public at sunset, but he implied that xin xia has been found guilty and will be executed. So Mo Fan immediately rushes to the milky way and begins his ascend to the temple of the goddess.
In the Milky way there are 4 monsters that one must face in order to be allowed up to the temple of the goddess. The first one is a commander level giant bronze tiger, which mo fan defeats with ease thanks to his 12x lightning mulitplier (6x of lightning tyrant times blessing factor 2). The second creature is a commander level weightless stone gargoyle that is immune to both fire and lightning magic, but is defeated by mo fan's shadow and void magic. At this point Pang Lai is getting worried, as almost all the challenges to the milky way get turned away at this point. The third monster is a monarch level vampire named bora. Mo Fan is overpowered easily until he sensed Mo Fan's devil blood and questions him on how a human of all races has it without it going out of control. Mo Fan divulged the secrets of the loach and Bora now recognizes Mo Fan as his new master and kneels before him, much to the disgust of all the parthenon onlookers. He states that he is doing this that because his previous master also had devil blood and requires it to live, so he was resigned to live as a statue guarding the parthenon when he died and that Mo Fan may ask him to commit suicide should he become a burden. He also asks if their are any other vampires under his care to which Mo Fan informs him that he now has a little sister to take care of.
Upon reaching the location for the fourth monster. But they are suddenly attacked by a titanium hill that appeared out of nowhere, Mo Fan identified it has a monarch level Silver moon titan. The Titan's sheer size and speed overwhelms both Mo Fan and Bora simultaneously while only attacking 1 at a time and its strong skin absorbs all of their attacks. While Mo Fan summons his snow wolf since the titans aren't very smart and are easily distracted a, Bora manages to poison the titan and break down its armour and Mo Fan destroys it with a single bolt of level 2 lightning.
Having defeated the milky way, Mo Fan barges into the temple of the goddess. While all the guards and the members of the parthenon follow him in and try to obstruct him, he reminds them that he passed the milky way and that until sundown xin xia is still a member of the parthenon, so they all have no right to obstruct him. Old Boa leads them down to the chamber were xin xia is imprisoned but warns mo fan that if he should exit the chamber with Xin Xia, all the knights of the parthenon will immediately open fire. Upon meeting Xin Xia, Xin Xia pleads with mo fan to kill her as she truly believes she is Salan. Mo Fan tells her not to worry and carries her out towards the door. At the edge, Old Boa tries to diffuse the situation, but is interupted by a judging priest Durandel who says that the judging priests should stay out of this mess now that judgement has been cast, identifying old Boa as Song Qiming, the other judging priest of the holy sculpture. Rather than hear all the arguments, Mo Fan pulls out the pearl necklace and the Totem snake pours out.
Mo Fan jumps onto the snake while carrying Xin Xia and all the knights open fire, but they only do a little damage. The snake breaks through the house of the goddess and the knights give chase. Many of the non-super tier knights are killed when the snake releases his poisonous smoke and the rest of the super tier mages including heilong are driven back. When the snake reaches the security barrier of the temple of the goddess, the snake is rebuffed and starts bleeding and the knights see their opening. Under heavy attack, the snake manages to crack the barrier around the temple.
At the same time, the great sage confirms that rather than having Xin Xia commit the murder, the goddess candidate comitted suicide to frame her and that yiddish will revive her once this is over, stating that the only hope for the parthenon lies within yiddish, not because of her kindness but in her strictness. Then the temple mother receives a message from one of the interns. She says that the body of the previous goddess, yiddish has been cut into 8 pieces. Having more important matters going on, she dispatches a waitress to confirm the story.
While standing with 7 of the Jin Yao knights and Old Bao watching the fight between the snake and the knights, they are approached by Con Ti, who came as a member of the unified Mediterranean defense front, to request the aide of the knights of the parthenon to fight seaborne creatures. But she appears in a veil and identifies herself as Salan. The temple mother calls her a liar and throws the blood stone at her feet. She asks on how they managed to get that, Old Bao replies that a lot of judges died to get that. Salan drips a drop of blood on the stone and it evaporates instantly and produces the other half of the blood stone, confirming her identity of salan. She starts complaining of the corruption in the parthenon. Then suddenly one of the lower judges that was accompanying Old Boa starts coughing up black blood and tells old boa that he probably knows. The Jin Yao knights attack salan but suddenly the temple mother suddenly starts coughing up black blood as well. She gets Old Bao to explain what is going on and threatens to turn all the higher ups into black blood fountains if she doesn't get her way and states that all the parasites will activate if she is killed. The temple mother tells the knights to back off and gets called a slut by Salan and she simply goes into the temple to collect something and walks out. Old Bao follows her but simply lets her go.
Meanwhile, Azeala is in the masoleum and sees the cut up body of yiddish and sees that the cuts are somehow healing. She desecrates the body herself and is chased down by one of the guards of her body. She makes it to the bottom to the milky way and she remembers that her adopted father delegated the ownership of the barrier on the temple to her so she runs up the milky way without obstruction and reaches Mo Fan and the snake and leads them down the mountain, leaving the knights behind. Azeala theorizes that Xin Xia holds the soul of the parthenon, an ancient power bestowed upon the goddess of the parthenon and gives the power of resurrection, it was sealed inside her by her birth father.. But when the sun finally sets, 10 black stones appear around xin xia and teleport her away. Mo Fan loses it instantly and activates the demon blood.
While the is gloating on the top of the mountain about how she got away with everything, Mo Fan appears behind her and rips her heart from her chest. One of the Yin Jao knights activates a super tier light level 1 sword and sends it down upon mo fan. But Mo Fan catches it mid air with void magic, then dissolves it with shadow magic and punches the knight away, killing him instantly. 5 other knigths charge at him but are simply pushed aside. Mo Fan notices the dark influence in the area and goes to investigate, he sees xin xia in the middle of a dark sphere and rushes in, with pang lai and old bao looking from the outside in. Meanwhile yiddish wakes up and scolds for the mess that the parthenon is currently in.
In the darkness sphere, he finds a humanoid creature with a gaping hole in his chest, mo fan identifies this creature to be on par with the mountain corpse and the totem snake. Mo Fan manages to injure the creature with his shadow claws but it suddenly releases thousands of bugs that go outside the shadow sphere and dissolve anything they come across, then return to the creature and heal him. While Pang lai and the rest of the onlookers are incapable of stopping the bugs, Mo Fan uses the power of Yan ji, now in her adult form, to burn all of them and injure the creature. The creature in turn teleports to a darker shadow domain and takes Xin Xia with him, to which mo fan follows after.
In this shadow domain, the creature transforms into an entire swarm of insects and surround the pair, while he keeps repelling them, Mo Fan eventually runs out of energy. At this point they both confess their love for one another as the insects bearing down, but Yan Ji escapes out of the body of Mo Fan and self destructs, saving the both of them, killing the creature and removing the shadow domain.
As the remaining fire feathers slowly fly around the moutain, Mo Fan breaks down over Yan Ji's death until Xin Xia grabs one of the feathers and activates the soul of the parthenon. She reincarnates Yan Ji back into a fruit and the members of the parthenon bow down before xin xia. She gives the fruit to mo fan and she says that as long as yan ji is with mo fan, so shall she.
Meanwhile at the base of the mountain, Salan goes to meet durandel, having promised to kill him, but finds him already dead at the hands of his bodyguard, saying that he had a score to settle with him. He strikes up a conversation on why she did all this. She states that she had scores to settle with him and yiddish for what they did to her husband. She also states that all she has done in the world is to get back at it but she ultimately blames her husband for what she did and continues to do as he ignored her requests to resurrect more innocent people and her warnings about the conspiracy of yiddish and durandel. He asks about Xin Xia and she states that she no longer cares about her and left her with some guy in china. She then cuts the conversation short and tells him to follow her in case he has nothing better to do. He refuses and states that at their next meeting he will kill her. Salan accepts this and leaves with a smile.
After the incident of the parthenon. Multiple trials are held to find the truth. A total of 4 judges are killed for their conspiracy for framing wentai and xin xia. Then came the trials of Mo Fan, first for the actions against the parthenon, since mo fan had multiple conversations with the woman who proved herself salan prior to the arrest of xin xia and the corruption of the great sage, mo fan's actions against the parthenon are let slide. As for the use of a banned element, the devil element, the ruling is to be postponed until the other 5 major magic associations can cast their vote on the element, but he is banned from using it until the ruling is cast. The came the trial of yiddish on the grounds of conspiracy to commit double murder, but since the other main conspirators durandel and merola the great sage were already dead, she is released on the ground of lack of evidence. But old bao managed to squeeze out a soul promise to not conspire against xin xia.
In order not to risk another incident between the parthenon and the airport, Mo Fan is to be teleported directly to china. While on their way to the teleporter, Xin Xia tries to confess their relationship with their (step)mother, Mo Fan interrups, stating that he already knows and that he doesn't care, as she is she and salan is salan. When they reach he teleporter, they are greeted by a much more cheerful Heilong who thanks them both for their actions and promises to support Xin Xia for goddess.
=== Western Desert Crisis ===
Chapter 1200 ~ 1240
When arriving back at base. Salan tortures the guy who tried to connect yiddish to xin xia, stating that he wanted to control the parthenon. But Salan objects, stating that yiddish can't be controlled, but lets him live due to good intentions. Later her adviser asks her about her daughter, Salan says he can do whatever he wants with her, but only after she reaches the age of 20 as she has promised to protect her. She later theorizes that the pope of the black vatican is behind the incident at the parthenon as the blood stone is something that you can only test for specifically and that more troubles are coming.
Upon arriving back at his apartment, he receives a phone call from his dad, but at the other end he idnetifies the caller as Yu Ang, he tells him that he has his father and that he is waiting for him on the mountain north of Bo and that he isn't allowed to call anyone for help if he wants to see his father again. Afterwards Yu ang infroms Yu Li, the brother of Yu yilin, the guy that mo fan killed, that Mo Fan is on his way. While Yu Li and his female assistant argue over whether or not all this is neccesary, Yu Li receives a call from his dad, Yu Hun. He tells him that this is to much, but Yu Li goes to fight mo fan anyway and has assembled 20 additional high tier mages to fight mo fan.
On his way to the mountain, Mo Fan is joined by Bora who sensed his master was in some trouble. When arriving at the mountain, mo fan lets bora loose and he instantly breaks 2 high tier mages and continues on. But then Yu Li arrives on the battlefield, he is observed to be a super tier mage. Mo Fan orders bora to fight him, he may break every single bone in his body but the guy must live. Mo Fan then goes to face the other high tier mages, some them start firing high tier magic at him but all of the attacks are stopped mid air with Mo Fan's time delay void magic and simply moves out of the way. Then the mind mages of the group fire a mental assault on him, but because there is a spiritual realm in between the mo fan and the mind mages (Mo fan is level 4 but the mind mages are level 3), the attack does nothing and mo fan whacks them all with void magic. At the rear, a hiding shadow mage tries to bind Mo Fan with mid tier shadow but mo fan appears behind him and gives him a taste of his own medicine and continues the assault. After 10 high tier mages were all defeated, Mo Fan went to Yu Ang who had been watching the fight. He begins pleading for his life but Mo Fan kills him instantly for causing the death of Xu Shaoting. Afterwards the female attendant appears and pleads Mo Fan to stop all this madness. Mo Fan interrups her and demands that they produce his father, she promises that his father is unharmed. Before she leads him off, Bora appears and is carrying Yu Li. As ordered, he has broken every single bone in his body right down to the pinkies and has cut every tendon in his body, but he still breathes.
When arriving at a brand new home, he finds his father alive and unharmed, but he had been heavily tormented mentally. His father seemed to have caught a whiff of what Mo Fan has done, he tells his father not to worry about it. Afterwards he and bora begin to bare down to the Lu compound. Many mages have heard what happened and have assembled infront of the mansion, but seeing that the guy carrying lu yi is a full monarch, they all get out of his way. Mo Fan breaches the compound and is faced with the head of the family Lu Hu. His sister pleads to kill them both outright but lu hu is hesistant as he has already buried his other son. They are interupted by a call from Shao Zheng. Afterwards Lu Hu promises not to go after mo fan again if he lets his son live and that he himself is responsible for both incidents has he hadn't been a good enough parent. Mo Fan and bora let lu yi go and simple get out of there.
When arriving back in Shanghai, Mo Fan tells ling ling the story of what happened at the parthenon and is immediately happy because when she isn't going on an adventure with mo fan, old bao requires her to go to school. She states that yan ji requires a strong source of fire to awaken yan ji from the fruit and that he is in luck. The master of the golden hunter group, the group that was slaugthered in mass on chongming island by salan's subordinates, is planning an expedition into an abandoned desert city with a nearby fire mountain and has been wanting to meet Mo Fan. She tells that they are going to need more than just the 2 of them so Mo Fan calls up mu nu jiao for support and has zhang xiou hou wait for them at the desert due to him being stationed at the other side of the country. At the airport, they are surprised to find that one of the hunters joining them on the mission is their old friend Jiang Shaoxu. She states that her brother dissapeared in the area and wants to take a look. On the plane, the veteran hunters of the golden hunter group question why some young guy along with 3 young women are coming with them and getting angry due to their arrogance. Mo Fan thinks that he has a point, as while the students have the international tournament, all the worlds hunters compete in the hunter games, something far more brutal and that hunting relies on experience more than cultivation. After getting of the plane near the desert, the veterans have reached their limit when they see that they are joined by someone who looks like they just left highschool, but when the pilots of the plane stand at attention and salute their superior officer zhang xio hou, the hunters are simply lost for words.
When reaching the desert, one of the hunters pulls out a monster scanner to determine their path forwards. He explains that there previously was busy city in the middle of the desert because there was a valuable mine in a mountain region in the desert, but a massive storm of desert birds destroyed the city. He warns them that the scanner takes about an hour to complete and that they would have to fight monsters for the entire hour. But to their surprise, not a single monster appears. They get information about the monster compositions for miles around. Ling Ling orders zhang xiou hou to do recon and he manages to lead a few monsters astray to clear their path, he finds a monster tribe in the way and the leader of the team, who is a super tier wind mage, leaves to deal with them. But when the sun starts to set, ling ling finds out why everything is so quiet. She realizes that the ground around them for miles is filled with giant plant traps, the same kind that mo fan and mu nu jiao saw in jin lin city, but they only come out of the ground at night.
One of the traps suddenly springs out the ground and the group has difficulty dealing with this one. Everyone knows they are in trouble and someone needs to find a way out of this mess. mu nu jiao volunteers and runs in 1 direction she believes to be save and all the young ones follow. But one of the veteran golden hunters doesn't trust it and follows in the other direction and suddenly finds him surrounded by 3 traps and is killed outright. mu nu jiao explains that she is capable of restraining the traps while they are still underground with the use of her plant magic and that she can clear the way for them and everyone follows her. After reaching a safe zone, the leader returns and finds that one of his best friends has been killed, but he decides to steady on.
The next morning they reach the side of an old river, one of the team members starts to sink into the ground, she is saved but they realize that the entire river bank is made of super soft sand and that everyone will slowly sink into the ground if they don't do something about it. Several plant, ice and earth mages manage to create a path forward but they eventually run out of power. To make matters worse, there are multiple monster tribes on either side of the river and there is a swarm of desert birds coming up right behind them. They are forced to use a bracelet that allows one to inject their magic stamina in someone else, regardless of the elements from which the magic is converted to/from, but it only has an efficiency of 30%. As such, only a few mages including mo fan have any magic.
After escaping from the river bed, the mages need to do another monster scan to find the next route and all the remaining mages get ready to fight. The golden hunters see this as an oppertunity to showcase their power and brag over their juniors. But it ends quickly when Mo Fan's mid tier level 5 magic boosted by a factor of 12 is more powerful than any of the hunter's magic and they all fall into depression. Afterwards Ling Ling calculates the next path and the magicians reach the abandoned city. While everyone takes a break, ling ling dispatches zhang xiou hou to do recon and to everyone surprise, he finds a survivor of the incident 10 years ago.
He appears to be a soldier from the military that stayed behind in order to complete his mission, but he refuses to divulge anything about it. Mo Fan asks about the fire mountain and the soldier tells him that he will take him to it, one of the other hunters asks the survivor about his sister, who was there the city fell and apparently knew the guy, the soldier agrees to show him something.
On the way to the fire mountain, the soldier tells them all that the mountain will light up in bright flames every night exactly at midnight and that for some reason they see that the desert birds fly into the mountain at this time for some unknown reason. Mo Fan leaves the group to climb the mountain by himself and the rest of the group is diverted by the military soldier. He takes them to his cave of where he was living for the last 10 years and showed them a grave, of where the hunter's sister was buried.
After waiting a whole day for the mountain to ignite again, mo fan takes out the fruit and leaves it on the center of the mountain and starts to cultivate in the giant flames. When the fire storm was over, he sees that the fruit hasn't absorbed enough fire energy yet and mo fan decides to wait another day. While he tries to cultivate, he is interrupted by a rather curious and young mutated desert bird who seems to be immune to the flame of the mountain. Mo Fan feeds it and suddenly starts to become attached to mo fan. At the next night, Yan Ji hatches from the egg and reforms its contract with mo fan. Afterwards Yan Ji absorbs some of the flame of the mountain to create another fire soul species that she and mo fan can use. When going down the mountain, he picks up an obsidian stone and scares away the bird that had been following them. But when he comes to the bottom of the mountain, he notices that something is terribly wrong.
Back at the gravesite, the entire team minus ling ling is surrounded and nailed in place with mid tier shadow. They are surrounded by a military major and around a hundred military mages. The golden hunter commander asks what the heck is going on to which the golden hunter who's sister went missing replies that he conspired with them to find the core of the earth, a priceless artifact and that nothing will stop them. The commander promises the major that he will not get away with this, but the major replies that he will, simply because the core of the earth is too valuable and that pretty much any crime will be let slide for something like that. The major says that only the soldier knows where it is hidden. He promises to lead them there but only if he lets the girls mu nu jiao and Jiang shaoxu. To everyone's surprise he lets the pair go.
When the duo returns to the run down city, they find ling ling, who went in to hiding before the soldiers went and grabbed them. She said that there is no way that the major would just simply let the girls go and has set some sort of trap for them. To her surpise she sees the swarm of desert birds coming towards them and suddenly realises, that the major is a super tier poison mage, that he has found a method of steering the desert birds around using chemicals and that he was probably the cause of the city disaster 10 years earlier. Seeing that there is no way that she can help them, she simply tells them to run and leaves them behind. She later runs into a shadow mage that was going around hunting down other survivors. She feigns ignorance to try to survive but he doesn't care and tries to kill her with shadow magic, but is saved by mo fan who sends him flying with void magic. He subsequently uses teleportation to catch up to the running girl duo and he combines with Yan Ji and uses her new high temperature fire (compared to the old medium temperature, high capacity) fire ability to burn the swarm and save the girls.
He and the girls return to try and save the rest of their team, but they find them in a pit surrounded by the 100 mages. Jiang Shaouxu analyses the situation with her spirit powers and finds that only 12 of the mages are in high tier. While the girls tell mo fan to slow down, he simply uses high tier summoning to summon his snow wolf and about 30 of his strong warrior brethren and lays down an assualt. While all the ~90 mid tier mages try to fight the horde of warrior wolves and fail miserably, 3 high tier mages try to attack mo fan. Mo Fan kills the first one outright with his lightning claws. The second one tries to use petrification to turn his skin to armor and then backs mo fan into a corner. But mo fan uses his shadow cape to dissapear into thin air and appear behind the charging mage and breaks him with high tier fire magic. The last high tier mage tries to back out but is struck by high tier plant magic by mu nu jiao.
After about half the mages were killed, they quickly surrendered and mo fan freed his captured comrades. He finds that both the soldier and zhang xiou hou is missing, the commander said that the major took them to find the core of the earth. Before the sets off to find them, he kills the remaining captured mages. Meanwhile the major a group of his closest allies, zhang xiou hou were lead to the core of the earth by the soldier and he produces it for them. The major sees that the core of the earth is out of energy and subsequently uses super tier poison magic to produce bee like beings to suck out the life energy out of the allies and feed them to the core of the earth. Afterwards he sends the bees towards the soldier and zhang xiou hou. The soldier sacrifices himself for xiou hou and mo fan manages to trap the bees in a cave to save xiou hou.
What's left of the team quickly leaves the desert and goes towards a nearby city and try to warn the local commander about what has happened. The team is kept outside on the grounds that the commander is busy and that a swarm of desert birds had appeared in a nearby town. But when the commander steps outside, mo fan and zhang xiou hou realize that the commander is none other than the girl that helped the both of them get mo fan out of rejection of the devil's blood crystal. She says that she understands the situation and tries to get them to help with the situation in exchange for dealing with the major. After arriving at the front millitary command post, they are in the command room and watch soldier preparing to enter the fray. They see that a city has been completely covered by the flying desert birds. The female commander explains that these events aren't that uncommon and that every city in the area has bunkers for such events and that all the citizens are probably safe, but the citizens have been down there long enough to the point where they have started to run out of food and water. So soldiers are about to be dispatched to deliver supplies to the bunkers. But upon the point of entry, all the mages try to use fire magic to burn the desert birds but none are killed and all the mages are killed instead. Mo Fan grabs the obsidian stone he picked up in the mountain and crushes it in his hands and finds a bird fetus in his hands and states that every single of the desert birds in that city is of the same species as the mutated bird that he found on the fire mountain.
Mo Fan heads towards the city, stating that his new soul fire species is capable of burning the birds and thereby create a barrier against the birds which would allow him to enter the city. He uses his own void pocket, capable of holding as much supplies as a truck. While he sets off for the bunkers, zhang xiou hou joins him in the field. When reaching one of the bunkers, he talks with some of the resident soldiers and they said that someone must have disabled the monster barrier and let the monsters in. He leaves behind the supplies and one of the soldiers leads him to the control center for the monster barrier. They arrive at the barrier and Mo Fan asks if he can substitute the fire source that they have been using for Yan JI, saying that his flame can burn all the mutated birds. The soldiers tries to set it up but finds that the barrier doesn't have any energy sources left to power it, concluding that someone must have sabotaged it. Mo Fan concludes that it was the military major and goes to find him.
Mo Fan finds the guy in a house on the edge of the city in a less than healthy state in a barrier made of poison creatures. He states that all the desert brids have been after the core of the earth aswell. The Major tries to shoo mo fan away but mo fan realizes that the sound of all he desert birds is preventing him from using super-tier magic. Mo Fan dons yan ji and starts to fight mo fan but the major's poison creatures are more than capable of holding of mo fan. But as soon as the major manages to make his way out of the bird storm, he is hit by the super-tier lightning of the female millitary commander and she thanks him for his assistance in this matter and confiscates both the core of the earth and apprehends the major.
=== Totem beast - month moth Phoenix chapter ===
Chapter 1241 ~ 1323
After arriving back in Shanghai, he meets with Mu Nu Jiao in their shared apartment and she tells him that he is still required to graduate in order to move up in the world and that simply getting a passing grade in the mage world simply doesn't cut it. At the head office, Dean Xiao is displeased that despite all of the accomplishments of mo fan, the school has yet to teach him a single thing. He explains that graduation in magic universities is done via a practical assessment and since mo fan is being so difficult in learning lessons, his assignment is to teach other students doing the practical assessment and mu nu jiao is to assist him.
Mo Fan waits in a classroom for his fellow students to arrive. While the students mistake him as a student as well due to them being the same age and all, Mo Fan interrupts them and presents himself and mu nu jiao as their supervisors. Mo Fan explains to them that they will be on security duty of Dean Xiao's new water barrier. He explains that the water source for the barrier has suddenly gone dry and that they will be investigating on why there is no water.
On the way to the source of water, the group finds a lake, although they can't anything wrong with the lake, it seems that the lake has a strange atmosphere until one of them realizes what is wrong, the lake doesn't give of any reflections. While the students want to investigate further, mo fan gets them out of there just to be safe, but one of the students, bai hongfei, younger brother of bai tingting, meets a rather strange lady named yi shishi. He tries to get her to evacuate but she refuses saying that she can handle herself and bai hongfei leaves sensing that something is out of order.
Later in the night, bai hongfei returns to the lake to find what is wrong with it and finds that there is nothing wrong with the lake at all, there is simply a large colony of blue moths basking in the moonlight on top of the lake and they suddenly all fly away. Bai hongfei turns around and finds yu shishi there and she suddenly grows wings out of her back and sheds pollen, causing bai hongfei to fall asleep and yu shishi calls out her moths to carry bai hongfei away. Later another student cao qinqin calls mo fan to report bai hongfei missing and he immediately rushes to the lake. Once he gets there, he hands over his 5-star master hunter badge over to cao qinqin and tells her to go to the local hunter outpost and recruit as many hunters as she can find to help find bai hongfei and that he is willing to pay anyone who helps with hunter points. He goes looking around the lake and runs into yu shishi and she tells him that she has seen bai hongfei wandering around the forest and that she will take him to the last place she saw him. When in the middle of the forest, yu shishi stands behind mo fan and pulls out her wings and bares her fangs, but before she does anything, mo fan finds bai hongfei in a coma and yu shishi quickly pulls her fangs and wings back in. When leaving the forest, mo fan finds the hunters that cao qinqin had assembled, mo fan quickly turns them away but assures them that he will pay the hunter points. But when bringing Bai Hongfei to the hospital, they find that he is not the only one in a coma.
They find that many young children have fallen into a coma as well and that the family members of the ill have taken to the streets to hunt down who is responsible. They manage to get their hands on yu shishi and try to burn her at the stake for poisoning their children. But it is stopped by bai hongfei who had woken up from his coma. He manages to get the crowd to dissipate and speaks to yu shishi. she tells him that she isn't responsible for the sick children but a nearby spider demon is and that this demon is also the reason why she dammed up the lake, to prevent its toxins from spreading. Bai Hongfei goes to investigate and finds all kinds of spider webs with moths tangled in them. He uses his fire magic to burn the webs and set the moths free. Later the Spider comes out and injures bai hongfei, but is saved by mo fan who kills the spider with 2 hits of his high-tier lightning and lightning claws. Mo Fan berates him for taking the word of yu shishi so easily and that he should have discussed it with someone else earlier on, to which bai hongfei apologizes. When they get back to town, they find that all the residents have fallen into a coma.
Yu shishi reveals herself as the mastermind of it all and said that the spider was simply her natural enemy and that it was the only thing hindering the progress of the moths. While bai hongfei tries to get all the sick people out of the vicinity, mo fan engages yu shishi in combat. While yu shishi unleashes a storm of moths, mo fan merges with yan ji and burns most of them down to a crisp. yu shishi quickly surrenders under the firepower of mo fan, but he is willing to let her go if she doesn't cause anymore trouble, on the count of everything being done for the moths. Later back at the university, bai hongfei thanks mo fan for everything and that the experience he had was worth much more than any grade he could have gotten from the university. Later, Mo Fan reports to the dean, who gives him full marks for everything that he has done and he takes him to the universities treasure room for his reward. When arriving he finds a shadow sitting on a chair, which was revealed to be the old man he got in an argument with on the first trip to Shanghai. While dean xioa goes to fetch something for mo fan, he finds the loach reacting to a shining feather on the side, which was explained to be part of the moth totem. Mo Fan takes the feather and is determined to find the moth totem in order to find more energy to feed the loach. Meanwhile Dean Xioa comes back with a shadow gauntlet, a gauntlet he says allows the wielder to change the element of any incoming magic attack, which mo fan's deems useful since his lightning soul allows him to absorb lightning and send it right back to the caster.
After that, the story cuts to Zhao Man Yan, who has miraculously survived, visiting his dying father in the hospital. His father reacts with joy to see man yan but they are interrupted by the surviving male assassin and man yan manages to get away without revealing his identity. Later he is found by Mo Fan who welcomes him back. But man yan remains depressed as his brother has managed to take over the whole family and man yan is in no position to change that. But mo fan promises to help the guy win everything back.
In the Mean time, Shao Zheng is in a meeting in Dubai, the home of the combined asian magic association, over what to do about the south pole since krakens are constantly pouring out from it. While Shao Zheng requests that all the asian nations work together to form a defensive line on the south coast, another member Sulu shoots the idea down and that every country needs to pull its own weight.
Back in Shanghai, Mo Fan asks mu ning xue on the progress of the setup of her own clan. She says that she has run into some trouble, the land she bought for settling was originally cleared by the government but suddenly it was deemed to dangerous. The both of them go to the local government office and the local head official says that although it was previously cleared, 2 monster nesting groups have moved in and that he finds the whole situation to dangerous for any non mage. Although mo fan is ready to attack the guy, mu ning xue stops him, saying that even if he is corrupt, he has a point. Mo Fan uses his shadow magic to sneak into a meeting with the corrupt official and what turns out to be members of the mu clan, promising them that he will do everything in his power to prevent the setting up of the clan.
Mo Fan reports what he heard to mu ning xue and mu shou yun. While shou yun and mo fan bicker over what he is and isn't allowed to do with mu ning xue, mu ning xue reveals the name of her proposed clan FanXueshan. While mu zhou yun immediately gets angry and mo fan instantly smiles, mu ning xue states in a tsundere manner that she only choose mo fan's name is because he is more famous than she is. She also explains that they will have to deal with the monsters themselves and that there some other matters to deal with. First they have to deal with the pre-occupying monsters, that is hiring a large army of mages to hunt them down or use a core of the earth if they could find one. Secondly a 5-star hunter or higher is required to sign of on the monster extermination, to which mo fan thought that ling ling could do it. And thirdly they need a method to permanently keep the area monster free, that is to either employ an army of mages full time or setup a defensive barrier, to which mo fan replies he has an idea. When mu zhou yun leaves, mo fan gets mu ning xue alone and tells her that he can get her a core of the earth but he demands a kiss from her in return. While she simply doesn't believe him, she agrees. Then mo fan simply calls up the military commander from the mutated desert bird invasion and asks if he can borrow the core of the earth for a little while and she agrees, saying that its currenty not being used and that he is allowed to have it for 3 days. After the phone call Mo Fan simply takes the kiss from mu ning xue and she immediately runs away blushing and flustered.
The next day mo fan hands off the core to mu ning xue and she shows a bright smile and then mo fan says that he will deal with the permanent barrier. On his way to see dean Xiao about his natural water barrier, he finds Shao Zheng waiting for him and mo fan immediately feels a chill. He says that he is ordering him to find the remaining totems in china to prepare a defensive line against the oncoming oceanic assault. Afterwards he goes to see Dean xiao, he says that he is willing to divulge the secrets of his barrier but that someone must go to class to learn it, to which cao qinqin volunteers on mo fan's behalf. Then when Mo Fan goes back to the fanxue clan, mu ning xue activates the core of the earth and places a tracker on every monster in a large radius, to the shock of the corrupt official and the mu clan.
Afterwards Mo Fan grabs Zhao Man Yan and ling ling to go investigate the totems. On the way they find members of the chinese magical research society looking for yu shishi as she could be a valuable research specimen. Mo Fan tells them that he let her go and all the magical researches get mad. They start a fight with mo fan but are easily defeated due to them being researchers and not warriors, but they vow vengeance. Later they arrive at the ancestral village of the snake totem and go analyse the murals Mo Fan saw back when he first met the snake. They find that the symbol of the wooden fish is superimposed on the symbol of the totem snake. Zhao Man Yan explains that the totem snake and the world turtle are actually brothers, but that they can't stand one another and that the world turtle doesn't care about humanity and only let himself go quite recently. Right next to it mo fan finds another symbol and finds it to be quite similar to that of the feather he found in the vault of the university. Mo Fan finds that the feather only bears part of the symbol on the mural and thus there are another 2 totems in china. While ling ling goes to do some research, Mo Fan heads towards the academy, but is intercepted by yu shishi.
Yu shishi claims that she is on the run from the research society and that she is willing to help mo fan and mu ning xue with their defensive barrier in exchange for sanctuary. Although Mo Fan likes the idea, he requires a demonstration. Yu Shishi takes mo fan into a forest where they see 2 demons fighting over a mate. Yu Shishi spread some powder and flew over to the demons, not only did they not see her, they immediately fled the scene. Amazed by this, mo fan introduces her to mu ning xue. Yu Shishi agrees to continually add spores to the defensive barrier of fanxue but in return demands safe haven both her and any of her moths, which mu ning xue agrees on.
Later on large flames appear on the mountain, mu ning xue tells everyone to calm down as she had dispatched mo fan to yu shishi to burn away any plant that the moths might deem harmful or inedible, until she realizes that the flames are golden color, not mo fan's brown-red. What had happened is that the members of the research society had come back with backup and are burning away the moths in order to get yu shishi to surrender. Mo Fan arrives and uses void magic to teleport yu shishi away and begins fighting the members until mu ning xue arrives. When mo fan believes he has the upperhand, the chinese research society's dog-god arrives and uses a combination of curse, summoning and undead to summon 2 commander level hell hounds. While mo fan keeps 1 busy, mu ning xue manages to freeze the other and mo fan manages to deal heavy injuries with his lightning claws, which forces dog god to retreat along with his hell hounds.
Mo Fan asks why they are after her, to which she explains that she knows where the moon moth totem is hidden and that in its current state it is very vulnerable. While Mo Fan goes to ling ling to see what she has figured out in regards to the moon moth and while quoting the work of jaing shaoxu's brother, mo fan receives a call from mu ning xue, the research society has found the moon moth.
Mo Fan hitches a ride with the nighthawks, a unit that answers to ling ling's sister leng qing and travels to a remote mountain range. There the research society finds the moon moth in a massive cocoon suspended in a spider-like web on top of an entire lake. In order to break it open, the society starts burning all the ropes but mo fan and mu ning xue arrive to challenge them. While the nighthawk pilot engages the rest of the society, mu ning xue and mo fan focus on dog god. Dog god immediately calls out 3 hell hounds but then he starts a ritual that fuses the 3 hounds into one three headed big commander. Both of them engage but find that they are doing only minor damage. While mu ning xue needs time to freeze the cerebus, mo fan tries to hit it from the sides, but the cerebus uses his three heads to gaze into the soul of mo fan and freeze him with a curse before attacking. Mu ning xue manages to snap him out of it and he teleports them both away. In order to buy time, mo fan summons his frost wolf, which is then strengthened by mu ning xue's ice field in order to buy enough time for mo fan to rip apart its side and mu ning xue's ice enters the open wound and the creature eventually grinds to a halt and dies and mo fan collects 3 complete commander souls. Later on the rest of the research society were all killed by one of them and he subsequently comitted suicide, saying that death is preferable to failing Sulu.
When Mo Fan returns to shanghai, Yan Ji's health suddenly takes a turn for the worse. Ling Ling says that Yan Ji is going into rejection, that her body isn't capable of handling 2 different soul species at this point and that mo fan will have to buy atleast 2 non-domain fire soul species for her to advance to a point where she can handle it. She also states that in the mean time she has made some progress on information on the moon moth totem. Apparently it once fought in a major battle up north and someone who was around at the time is someone familiar to zhao man yan's cousin who went with them to first contract Yan JI. She also says that this region is home to a rare species of trees, where the golden leaves of certain branches of this tree can yield between 200k-500k each and that they will have plenty of money to earn.
On the way north, man yan, mo fan and ling ling stop at the cousins house, who's aunt rock has been there for a long time, but she refuses the trio's questions and they take the cousin to find the awnsers themselves. When arriving at the entrance of the forest, they suddenly faced with an entire mob of hunters and ling ling realizes that they have been had. The entire area had been plagued with monsters, but rather than clean it up themselves, the local government leaked the information about the golden leaves and attract entire armies of hunters, who would clean up the mess all by themselves free of charge. When they reach the bridge leading into the forest, they are stopped by the military to confirm whether or not the group is capable of handling themselves, since the entire area has grown quite restless since the local monarch is dead, but since mo fan is a high tier mage with a 5 star hunting rank, the group is let through.
Once in the forest, ling ling tells everyone that a special type of grass grows in a decent circumference around said special trees and by finding the grass one can find the tree. They manage to find one of those trees and as they are prepared to climb up and grab a few leaves, they suddenly hear screams and the team leaves the tree to investigate. They find halve a hunting team who says that they are missing a few members after hearing calls for help. Mo Fan goes to investigate and finds that 2 hunters had been opened up while still alive and had all their internal organs ripped out and the third was currently being cut in halve. Mo Fan wastes no time killing apes that did this and tries to save the girl that has been ripped in halve. While Mo fan manages to bring the girl back while she is still alive, he asks for a healing mage but finds that said girl is the healing mage. Mo Fan immediately calls out his frost wolf and tells hims to use his sense of smell to track down any hunting team he could find. They finally manage to find one after the frost wolf almost scares them away due to it being a commander. They manage to convince the healer to join their team. But the rest return back to the bridge and inform the military that hunters are being tortured and killed in mass.
After tracking further eastwards they find an entire region filled with 2-3m plant shoots but they decide to track forward as ling ling tells them that her information regarding the moon moth leads them in the right direction. After about an hour of walking, man yan breaks out his light wings and flies upwards to look out ahead and sees nothing but tall plants until he catches a faint whiff of purple leaves in the distance on top of a mountain and suddenly realizes, all of these plants are actually the special grass that grows around the special tree, ling ling tells everyone that this specific tree is called the god tree. After coming back down, he decides to take a leak but is ambushed by grey apes and while he cleans up and flips the bird with 1 hand, he casts high tier magic with the other and cleans house. The rest find themselves surrounded by over a thousand grey apes but Mo Fan unleashes his mid-tier level 5 lightning boosted by a factor of 12 and begins to rapidly grind down the enemy numbers. But when they reach the tree, Mo Fan is somehow incapable of hitting an enemy.
Ling Ling explains that the apes have a hive mentality and that they are dodging mo fan's attacks similar how groups of fish dodge predators collectively and that they must be under the leadership of a commander class ape, a copper ape. Mo Fan summons the frost wolf to fight the commander but is defeated until it was frozen by ice magic. But now that the apes have appeared behind the group, the group has no choice but to climb the tree. Seeing that the apes are climbing faster than the humans, mo fan uses teleportation to shuttle the rest of the group much higher while he stays behind to fight, although he is significantly injured, he manages to break into the 5th spiritual level and pushes the entire ape army back with the use of void magic. At a much higher level of the tree, the group encounters a sleeping 4 life panther, a creature that has a high level self healing abilities, but can only use it 3 times in a short while. While the group hides in a hole in the side of the tree, one of the apes sacrifices himself to wake it up and it starts attacking the group. While the panther attacks the group while sustaining massive damage, it manages to heal itself. Ling ling deduces that the 4 life panther's ability comes from sacks of blood stored in his body and the cousin freezes the panther solid to prevent it from regenerating and the apes retreat down the tree.
Meanwhile back at the bridge. The forest is starting to be evacuated and a battalion of mages tallying over 300 is assembled, including a girl named yu yu. The captain of the battalion orders them to split up into 7 platoons, each one to be headed up by a sound mage including himself and yu yu as they are only ones able to navigate the tall grass around the god tree. While the rest of the platoons engage the apes in combat, yu yu's group is at the flanks. They are suddenly attacked in the front by a group of apes and yu yu herself drives the off, but she is suddenly attacked from behind by another group of apes that managed to sneak up on them, as sound mages can only detect monsters if they try to look for them specifically. yu yu is injured but the apes retreat after reinforcements arrive, yu yu tells them to chase after the apes and that she will be fine. The retreating apes suddenly dissapear and they when the mages return, they find that yu yu has been taken.
While Mo Fan is on patrol on the tree, he spots a large crowd of apes gathering at the bottom and goes to investigate. He finds yu yu heavily injured and surrounded by estatic apes ready to tear her apart. Mo Fan kills the apes and saves yu yu, but they are suddenly jumped by a commander level copper ape, which mo fan kills outright with his lightning claws multiplied by a factor of 12. Yu yu states that she knows who mo fan is, she said that after this she was going to go down to fanxue and challenge both him and mu ning xue to increase her own prestige, but now she doesn't excatly like her chances. After Mo Fan brings her back to the group, the group looks down and see that the battalion of mages have reached the tree and are battling the apes. But Mo Fan observes that the apes are deploying the formation that they used against mo fan's lightning. Ling Ling infers that they are going to have to go down there and kill all the commanders leading the army of over 3000 apes. While yu yu states that she can track the copper commanders, ling ling warns mo fan that something isn't right and that they will be retreating back to the bridge.
While on the bottom, Yu Yu tracks the commanders to a group at the side, likely to setup and ambush the high tier mages leading the attack on the apes. While one of the apes goes out and attacks the leader of the battalion, mo fan kills one with several rounds of high tier magic and helps yu yu deal with another. After the commanders are all killed, the remaining grey apes are starting to get slaughtered and the captain approaches the pair. He thanks them for their help but says it was obvious that the commander he faced was much tougher than the one that mo fan killed, which yu yu silently objects too, as she sees that the fangs on the one that mo fan killed are much bigger than the ones on the head of the copper ape that the captain brought back.
As mo fan, yu yu and the rest of the MC's group leave, the apes are starting to get cornered against the tree and suddenly a large swarm of brids swoop down and start attacking the birds from behind and help the military defeat all the apes. After all the apes are defeated however, the birds then attack all the mages and all the mages are quickly being killed. The captain starts singing his burial song and most of the attacking birds are killed but the captain dies due to the recoil. When mo Fan hears this, he goes to investigate while the rest of the group keeps going. He finds that all the soldiers have been killed and that he now has become the new target for the surviving birds. While the rest of the birds are killed. The tree itself starts to rise out of the ground and starts to see a massive face on the tree facing him. Mo Fan deems this monster a supreme monarch, not inferior to either the totem snake or the mountain corpse. As the tree launches tree branches at high speed towards mo fan, suddenly a mountain jumps out of the ground to take the hit. This was magic cast by rock, who was revealed to be a half forbidden curse mage. While Mo Fan runs for his life, rock casts multiple star palaces simultaneously to fight the demon tree.
While catching up to the group, mo fan runs right past them, saying that they need to hurry and that all the military mages were killed by a supreme monarch. While disbelieving at first, they see all the magical violence over the horizon and they all decide to just run for it. But when almost leaving the area, they see mu ning xue and yu shishi riding the totem moon moth and everyone hops aboard to charge towards the god tree. But when they arrive they see that the tree has already fallen and rock has been mortally injured. She says that 30 years ago, she was the original guardian of the moon moth and she had led it along with an army of mages in battle against a large army of demon eagles near the demon tree. But as they were winning the battle, the moon moth suddenly started producing pollen over the demon eagles near the demon tree. The military thought that the moth had switched sides and decided to kill it, not knowing the dangers of the demon tree. After believing the moth was killed she fell into despair for 30 years but she is now overjoyed to see the moth still alive and passes away in peace.
=== Kitahara crisis ===
Chapter 1324 ~ 1426
Back in the chinese country side, there is a tournament occurring where many clans in the ocean alliance fight over the allocation of resources. Fanxue is part of this alliance and on a island on the coast, a battle is going on over the allocation of resources, however mu ning xue decided to sit this fight out and sends in some lower level underlings to fight ofr fanxue and they are soundly beaten. Then a neighbouring clan to the fanxue claim that they are simply insignificant that they should just become part of their clan. Mu ning xue says that they should earn that right in battle, the opposite clan agrees and sends in their most powerful student, a rather arrogant pretty boy while mu ning xue sends in the newly recruited yu yu. After some struggles, yu yu is victorious and mu ning xue walks away after the meeting is adjourned.
On the beach, mu ning xue is greeted by nan rong ni and members of the mu clan, who have come to take the ice bow back. When mu ning xue tries to draw the ice bow, she finds that this time it has been sealed and she is forced back. Then one of the mages uses water magic to create a massive water tornado behind mu ning xue, but she uses wind magic to toss one of the other mu clan mages in the tornado and then freezes the whole thing using her much more powerful natural ice species. But eventually mu ning xue is pushed back in. This is until the arrival of Mo Fan in a massive meteor that shook the island. Before engaging in battle, mo fan calls for bora and begins fighting everyone still left with the exception of the mu clan representative. This causes the representative to loose it completely due to the continued interference of the both of them to the mu clan, he activates a black widow mid tier curse and sends it towards mu ning xue. This causes mo fan to be enraged and rushes towards the representative and locks him in place with void compression and then spews out high tier fire until the representative's bones have been completely turned to ash. The fight immediately stops and the rest of the mu clan affiliates immediately surrender. They are later joined by a super tier mage of ocean alliance who states that he will get to the bottom of this, but mu ning xue warns that the guy is actually an affiliate of the mu clan and mo fan orders the newly arrived Bora to give the guy some dental work. Bora subsequently activates his rule of the night and begins kicking punching out a few teeth and even manages to rip off the guys nose.
After a formal investigation, mo fan is cleared of all charges as many witnesses saw him deploy the black widow trap and activating a curse that is capable of destroying a person's soul forfeits the casters right to life and both the PR arm of the mu clan and nan clan face expulsion from the ocean alliance. While the PR clan of mu has no issue with this, the representative of the nan clan objects, stating that nan rong ni does not speak for the entire clan and that they are willing to offer compensation. While nan rong ni asks his brother what the hell he is doing, the brother replies that they shouldn't just burn any bridge they can find. As a result one of the sub clans of the mu family is kicked out of the ocean alliance and the fanxue clan receives all of the winnings of the nan clan in addition to their own.
Later back at the fanxue clan, goes to practice with a much better yan ji, who has reached the level of evolving commander, but due to her level, mo fan won't be able to fuse with her until he reaches high tier level 3 in fire so instead he tries to teach her some void magic, since she also has void based powers. After teaching her void claw and dispersion, mo fan tries to teach her void compression but when yan ji uses it, she accidentaly sucks up all the fire magic that the pair previously used in the compression sphere and when she releases the void compression, a massive explosion occurs and the main members of the clan believe that they are under attack by a super tier fire mage, but mu ning xue investigates and finds only mo fan. In a rage, she sends mo fan to isolation at the coast if he wants to practice.
A few days later, yu shishi informs mo fan that the moon moth is about to enter its reincarnation cycle and during the process of its death and re-brith, a large amount of energy will be released, which mo fan could absorb with his necklace. As the moth begins to desintegrate, all the energy is being absorbed by the necklace and mo fan manages to increase his high tier lightning to level 2. But as he leaves, he receives an emergency call from ling ling, her sister leng qing, is dying.
On a rooftop in a city, a young teenager with purple eyes speaks to a tall man, he says that he must kill Leng Qing before she divulges the truth and the man promises that she won't get far and that its only a matter of time. As the kid leaves, the man sees that a mother has dropped her baby from the top of a nearby ferris wheel and the man goes over to watch, telling the mother that he isn't here to save her child but to get a good view of watching the child go splat.
Meanwhile Mo Fan arrives in the city and is lead to a safe house by her assistant. He tells him that when leng qing was passed over for promotion as presiding judge (their equivalent of police commissioner) in this city, she manage to gain a lead on another red cardinal of the black vatican, cold jue. He says that he doesn't exactly know what happened but that when he found her, she was very weak and has growing black marks on her body. He shows mo fan leng qing, who is barely conscious and heavily poisoned by some black markings. As mo fan grabs hold of leng qing and grabs some medicine to heal her, but the assistant interrupts, saying that no medicine has worked so far and that whenever they either of them used any magic, the assassin who did this to her managed to find them. Being heavily frustrated, mo fan decides to go take a walk. He later sees a baby falling from the sky and catches him with void magic. But as he catches him and berrates the mother for her failings, a small shadow bird leaves mo fan and flies up to the guy standing atop the ferris wheel. He realizes that mo fan has been in contact with his target.
The assassin swoops down and begins attacking mo fan, asking him where leng qing is. Mo Fan is amazed by the ferocity of this guy's shadow magic as he summons shadow demons and he asks him why he dares to attack him infront of a magic association. He says that he doubts that anyone serious will be coming and that even if a super tier mage comes, he has already killed a few, but when said super tier mage arrives, he starts to panic. When he tries to flee with shadow magic, but the super tier mage uses super tier wind to catch him and pulls him back. But then the assassin activates rule of the night and escapes as both mo fan and the super tier mage are caught in his shadow domain. The super tier mage asks mo fan what is going on and mo fan tells him that he works for a presiding judge and that the assassin has been hunting them. The super tier mage offers aide and is willing to have a few of his guys stand guard as she receives treatment at the hospital.
Meanwhile at the safe house, ling ling arrives and is very worried about her sister, but they are attacked by the assassin and ling ling calls mo fan for help. While the assistant tries to delay the assassin, he is quickly defeated, but before the assassin can get to ling ling, he is interrupted by the arrival of yan ji, who mo fan had left behind. Yan Ji engulfs the entire block in fire and the assassin quickly retreats. After mo fan and the super tier mage bring leng qing to the hospital and setup a perimeter, ling ling says that she will start tracking down their assailants and mo fan goes up to the roof to meditate. Mo Fan then receives a phone call from Xin Xia. Mo fan asks her how she is doing and where she is now, to which she replies that he simply has to look up. All that mo fan sees is a plane flying over and mo fan realizes that she is on that plane and xin xia reminds him that she can track him with yan ji that she resurrected. But as they have a pleasant conversation, mo fan hears ling ling scream below, Leng Qing has passed away.
Mo Fan runs down stairs and ling ling runs into mo fan's arms crying. Xin Xia who's still on the line asks what happened. What had happened is that during the night, a creature came out of leng qing's shadow and stabbed her in the heart. Upon hearing this, xin xia wheeled herself to the end of the plane, opened the emergency exit and simply jumped down below, landing with her wings with her attendant following behind. When landing on the top of the hospital, she makes her way down and uses resurrection on leng qing and it only just works. Xin Xia says that she will need to take leng qing to the parthenon right away. Afterwards ling ling says that she has laid a trap for the assassin, feeding the local trial, which was likely housing a traitor since the black vatican knew about leng qing, that a carrier will deliver leng qing's intel at night. But in order for it to work, only one person can go and it can't be a super tier mage, mo fan volunteers. While ling ling begs mo fan to come back, he pats her head telling her not to worry.
Mo Fan walks outside to an abandoned park to challenge the assassin but finds him right behind himself. He says that he knew this was a trap but isn't one to turn down a challenge. Mo Fan begins the attack but his attacks are somehow diverted to the side and the assassin counters with shadow creatures. After a few minor hits on mo fan, he uses his shadow cape to escape and attack the assassin from behind, but the attack is diverted again towards a busy highway. Mo Fan retreats to said highway but is heavily injured and rests on the side of a wrecked car. As mo fan keeps talking, he creates a compression bomb, the same attack that yan ji cast that got the both of them in so much trouble, but when its ready, he tosses it in the other direction of the assassin, having figured out that the assassin is using a chaos field to divert attacks in the other direction and the attack kills the assassin outright. As the assassin lays dying, having admitted defeat, mo fan jumps in a car in the built up traffic jam behind the battlefield and orders the lady to take him to the hospital.
The next morning the young gentleman who spoke with the assassin before is busy having a fit, not being able to believe that the high tier mage that salan specifically warned him about was able to kill his favorite assassin. Then it cuts to ling ling, who said that while mo fan was busy fighting, she was busy setting the next trap. Ling Ling had used the her sisters credentials to send messages to other presiding judges, since only they could have known about the safe house they were hiding in and send them messages asking them to meet a carrier in regards to leng qing's intel. Mo Fan rebukes that anyone who knew about the first trap, i.e. the black vatican, would never show up for the meet. ling ling had expected this and had hired hunters to spy on the meetings, to which one of the presiding judges didn't show and that they have their next lead to the black vatican. Overcome with joy, mo fan once again kisses ling ling on the cheek.
Before leaving, he goes to speak with the super tier wind mage that has been helping them so far. He introduces himself as a magic researcher and that he has been analyzing the body of the assassin that mo fan has killed and had found something peculiar. He had awakened 2 elements during his first awakening, but the 2 elements were fused into 1 stardust and that explained his strange abilities. What's more is that mo fan might be able to absorb some of these abilities into his own shadow system if he manages to absorb the soul of the assassin. Mo Fan then takes the soul canister down stairs and begins the process. As the process begins, the souls between mo fan and the assassin begin to fuse and the 2 have a conversation. The assassin initially believes that the soul of mo fan is far to weak to absorb him but finds that (due to dual awakening and the devil element) his soul is much more powerful and starts to lose the fight. The assassin quickly makes a joke on how any of this won't bring his friend back, to which mo fan replies that leng qing is still alive. The assassin looks into the soul of mo fan and finds that leng qing is indeed still alive and the assassin subsequently looses any will left to fight and mo fan absorbs some of his powers.
Mo Fan subsequently begins to practice his new shadow abilities by summoning his frost wolf. He then tags him with a new type of shadow nail called a shadow tag. Rather than nailing him to the ground, he uses it to infect the shadow of the wolf and it allows mo fan to track the wolf every time the wolf decides to use magic. Eventually the infected shadow manages to get enough power and mo fan sacrifices a commander level soul wreck to attack the frost wolf from inside the wolf's own shadow, which he calls a rebellious shadow. Later he reunites with ling ling and begin the hunt for the black vatican.
Once they arrive in the city of the black vatican presiding judge, they find the judge hanging from a noose off the main bridge into the city and they realize that the black vatican had caugth on to their ruse and started tying up loose ends. Ling tells the rest (Mo Fan and Zhao Man Yan) not to worry as there are still likely other members of the black Vatican in the area. Later on, a low level member of the vatian goes to a secret cave and activates a spell behind an altar that allows one to communicate with someone else far away. The woman speaks with someone called red ghost and he tells her that she will soon be extradited and to sit tight until then. But unbeknownst to them, mo fan has been listening to the entire conversation and hits her with a shadow tag.
Mo Fan is later introduced to a special anti black vatican task force with the help of the super tier wind mage. A few days later, the group is driving behind a bus that contains both the target vatican member and her extradition officer and that it is imperative to grab the extradition officer as they hold a record of everyone under their care. But on the bus, the officer is well aware that judges might be following so he mind controls the bus driver and starts killing the fellow passengers, saying that this would lure out any tailing judges. While the judges themselves sit tight, mo fan and zhao man yan can't take it and jump on the bus. Man yan uses a light wall to cut the bus in half vertically, leaving himself and the rest of the passengers and the bus driver in the front half and mo fan with the 2 vatican members in the back half. After the woman recognizes her opponent, the officer summons a shadow satyr to fight mo fan. While mo fan calls out the creature to not to be so tough, it suddenly grows in size and attains the level of evolving commander. Which prompts mo fan to summon his own evolving commander Yan Ji and they start attacking the shadow satyr. When Man Yan returns, he tells mo fan to fight the black vatican rather than the creature, to which mo fan replies not to worry and that he has tagged them with his new shadow powers and that he will know where they are everytime they use magic and man yan simply joins in the fight against the shadow satyr.
Meanwhile in the north, the young gentleman from before finds himself before a statue and an old man. The old man told the story of the lady of who the statue was made. He said that once this region was as dry as a bone due to the fact that the river had dried up. The woman then in question ventured far beyond the known land and found that a demon clan had dammed up the river. She subsequently broke the dam but was killed in the process and the statue was made in her honour and every women in his village regardless of their age is shown proper respect.
The young gentleman answers with a story of his own. Back in ancient egypt, a slave girl managed to get her hands on a lamp and when she rubbed it a genie appeared. The genie made the slave an offer, the genie would make sure that the slave would get all her heart desires but after 10 years she is to surrender her soul. The slave girl accepts and lived like a queen for 10 years. But on the first day of the 11th year, a pyramid appeared outside of her home and a swarm of undead began to attack. However she was not unprepared. Over the years she managed to acquire an item known as the triangular dimensional mirror. And with it she managed to teleport the pyramid to a different city and said city was completely destroyed, with the same process occurring every 10 years. But eventually, a young slave in her service, who she had shown love to, stole the mirror and shattered it with lightning magic to stop the madness. But in reality it only made things much worse, rather than having a minor pyramid appear around a nearby city every 10 years. Now that the mirror has been shattered and its fragments scattered to the wind, any pyramid could appear anytime anywhere in egypt and the slave was promptly hunted down and executed. But then the boy said that the mirror that was shattered was only the triangular chaotic mirror and was only able to make mirages of the pyramids and have the undead follow them and then he opened his hand and told the old man that the mirror in his hands was the true dimensional mirror. He said that he and salan had taken it from its vault in the statue of liberty while mo fan and the national team were dealing with the rogue judge. He then placed the mirror on the ground and a beam of light shot up into the sky and another beam of light was shot over the horizon and a pyramid appeared, followed by a horde of undead.
Meanwhile mo fan and his friends along with the anti black vatican task force, wait around as their 2 targets have done nothing but move from city to city and do meaningless activities, until one of them informs that they have been redirected to the north to investigate an incident. When arriving north they find a village covered in blood stains and loose earth but not a body to be found, whether it be assailant or villager. While the anti black Vatican task force argues that this was caused by a rare creature up north, known to eat even the bones of their victims, mo fan and crew simply go sit in the middle of the village and eat canned dinner. After sunset, the undead appear out of the ground and mo fan quickly kills them all, saying it was obvious that the attack was caused by the undead as he had seen the same scene in xi'an. One of the scouts of the anti black vatican unit managed to find a delirious old man spouting things like pyramid and triangular mirror. While the anti black vatican unit dismisses him as crazy, mo fan and ling ling take note. Mo Fan sends ling ling and zhao man yan to the nearest city in case things escalate and he himself calls pang lai, asking for the location of the tomb of the ancient king. Pang lai tells him and he sets off.
Mo Fan jumps down into the tomb and is ready to face the challenges again, but is suprised to face no opposition and is directly lead to the throne room, where he finds the ancient king facing him. The ancient king tells mo fan that he isn't his descendant to which mo fan replies he doesn't care. He then asks about the undead that attacked up north and that all the undead have been quite since the battle of xi'an, to which the king replies that they aren't his own. Mo Fan tries to ask other questions but the king just stands there and refuses to answer. Then Mo Fan stands up and thanks him for everything that he has done and everything that he has taught him and subsequently stands at attention and salutes him before leaving.
Meanwhile in in the nearest city, zhao man yan and ling ling stand on the city fortification wall. Zhao Man Yan asks ling ling about the supposed usefulness of some stupid wall, which caused man yan to offend a female military officer standing nearby. She says that the wall allowed china to withstand many threats both both foreign and domestic to china and can be called forth anywhere by the inheritors of the power. man yan in turn asks on how this wall wasn't used in the battle of xi'an, to which the mage replied "who do you think made it?" and subsequently walked away, not willing to tolerate man yan any further. Ling ling then asks to herself what the old man earlier was on about and man yan pulls out his cellphone and calls one of the egyptian's national team members who's number he managed to get after winning the finals. He asks her about the story of the triangular dimensional mirror, to which the lady tells the same story the young gentleman did and ling ling subsequently gets to work. But then, man yan sees something over the horizon and the city alerts start going off. Ling Ling asks a nearby mage about the one in charge and he simply points to the mage who man yan offended earlier.
The mage rounds up all the mages and prepares for the defense in addition to calling for reinforcements. On the horizon, a large number of undead are spotted pulling a cart with chains and with a large frog on top, a frog deemed to be a demi-monarch. The commander orders the use of the superimposition tower, which can absorb many spells of the same element to create one powerful attack. As all the wind mages pour their energy into the tower, the tower releases a massive attack towards the group of undead. But the undead use the chains they used to pull the frog to make a massive shield and blocked the attack completely. The commander counters by sending out her summoning division to attack, but they fail to do any significant damage while they themselves suffer minor casualties. Ling Ling points out that the ones pulling the chain are only strong-evovling warriors and that the frog is likely to be giving his underlings a defensive boost. The commander answers with activating the power of the great wall of china. She creates 3 sections of walls 50 meters high and 10 meters thick in 3 100 meter sections to form a u shape facing the undead invaders. She then uses plant magic to load everyone including man yan and ling ling up onto the great wall.
As the undead forces enter the u shape, the mages begin the bombardment to no avail. Then ling ling realizes that instead of the frog, several of the undead among them are casting the defensive spells along the chains that the undead are carrying. Ling Ling asks the commander to take her up a bit higher so that she can find said undead and the commander complies. As she is taken higher she sees that there is a chain attached to the frog itself and realizes that this is only a glimpse of what is to come. But now she identifies the specific undead mages and the commander relays the targets to the mages below. After these undead are destroyed, the rest of the undead loose their advantage and start to be killed. The commander sees this as an opening and orders all the fire mages to pour their magic into the superimposition tower, which in turn kills the majority of the undead. The frog now takes this seriously and steps off his platform and uses his high speed high strength tongue to attack. Man Yan then activates his earth magic, his earth soul, along with his blessing and the boost provided to him by the wooden fish, ending up with a boost factor of 18. He uses this to create an earth defense and to everyone's surprise, it holds of the frog until reinforcements arrive, the previous commander who had been promoted when he became a super tier mage. He subsequently hits the frog with super tier wing magic and injures the frog. The frog then begins to swell up and the commander quickly summons a wall between it and the defenders. The frog then explodes. While the commander wonders why the frog would do something like that, ling ling answers saying that death is likely preferable then face the wrath of what it was pulling. Then the a mob of military mages picks up both man yan and the previous commander and tosses them up high into the air. But then Man Yan sees something strange over the horizon.
After they were done, ling ling tells the commanders and man yan that she has figured out what happened. They did indeed face a pyramid. She said that all the pyramids in egypt line up with a specific star in the sky on the day that construction begins on the pyramid. But these stars line up only once a year and that during the rest of the year, earth moves around the sun and the stars appear to be somewhere else. Then if someone were to place a true dimensional mirror directly below the star where ever its place in the world it is at the time, the mirror would complete the circuit and the pyramid would be pulled to be under the star. She also says that they are currently standing under the Unas pyramid star and that she has contacted the egyptian hunter organisation and that for the last 8 hours while they were fighting the undead, the pyramid of unas was unaccounted for. She then grabs her tablet and begins mapping all the trajectories of the stars until she suddenly drops it. She reveals that the next star to directly above them is the buckle on orion's belt, which corresponds to the pyramid of khufu, one of the 9 emperor class creatures currently on earth.
Meanwhile up north east, 2 black vatican members walk through what was a massive battlefield and hundreds of black vatican members are dead. They find Mo Fan in the middle of it all and wearing a deacon outfit. The girl of the pair asks for his codename and mo fan answers with Northern Deer. The girl seems to recognizes the codename and takes him with her back to home base for treatment. When he wakes up, mo fan immediately gets agressive, to which the girl tells him to cool down and that he is safe at their camp. Mo Fan asks who she is and she replies with the term blue bat. After having a talk about their killing records, they take a walk outside. While walking along a rather peaceful and happy village, mo fan steps on the head of a black vatican priest, saying that he didn't bow deep enough and the rest of them immediately hit the floor which blue bat agrees with mo fan. Blue bat then takes mo fan in front of her superior, who is quite suspicious of mo fan and asks him the name of the one who organized his extradition, to which mo fan replied red ghost and the man loses all his suspicions and identifies himself as purple ghost, one of the 8 ghosts who take orders from the red cardinal Cold Jue. The purple ghost offers mo fan the ability to sign a soul contract with himself and then he would take him to see the summoning of the khufu pyramid. Mo Fan refuses, saying he doens't want to be anyone's slave. Purple ghosts replies that this is the only way to be brought along to make sure there aren't any traitors and that mo fan is still allowed to go to the bunker where the fanatics and the priests are being send. To which mo fan replies that he needs time to think about it. The purple ghost allows this but says that time is short.
Back at the city, the previous commander says that he has marching orders to pull the majority of the soldiers back and evacuate the nearby towns and that they will only be able to return in exactly 3 days. The commander objects to this and manages to get the support of some the soldiers to stay behind. But the previous commander agrees not to pull back other inheritors of the great wall of china in order to mount a proper defense.
Mo Fan uses this time to sneak towards an abandoned house to deliver a message to Zhang Xiou Hou, saying that he isn't quite sure of the idea. Ling ling, who had just arrived as well, says that this is the only way but that the problem is that if he should break the contract by force of the soul, which mo fan should be more than capable of doing, he won't be able to use the devil element. Zhao man yan says that he should be able to kill the purple ghost if they can manage to get the attention of the black vatican. Mo Fan agrees to this and goes back to sign a soul contract and the rest return to the defensive line.
Back at the defensive line, the commander and 7 other inheritors have brought all their physical source of the great wall of china and begin the construction of a wall between a mountain range and a high density monster valley 50 km apart. The wall itself is also 100m high and 20m thick.
Back at the black vatican, Mo Fan signs the soul contract with the purple ghost and he is lead along with other blue deacons to the rest of the ghosts, cold jue and the rest of his attendants. As the rest bow, cold jue places the dimensional mirror on the ground and creates a safety enchantment. Then 10 frogs appear out of the ground with their chains and undead compatriots, pulling the pyramid. They are then followed by undead beasts, followed by large scores of different undead ranging from smiths to mages, followed by mummies, including a super mummy supported by 3000 demi commander swordsman skeletons, followed by 10 dark sword lords. As cold jue simply waves to the undead, they ignore him and march towards the wall.
As all the military mages are concentrated around 8 stations on the impromptu border wall. Each of these stations has an inheritor of the great wall along as the physical source of their power to keep the walls strong and to heal any damage. As the first wave of undead cavalry arrives at the wall, they smash into it head first and get turned into powder as a result, but the wall itself remains standing with only a few large cracks on the face side. Enraged by this, cold jue orders purple ghost to take some blue deacons and take out the sources of this wall. The purple ghosts summons forth a bony bird-like creature and orders the blue deacons that he has recruited to climb on. At the same time the wave of undead zombies has arrived at the wall and starts to climb it, to which the commander responds
The bird then carries the mages to the side of the wall and they begin their attack and manage to silence one of the inheritors along with their sources. the commander, man yan and xiou hou react to this and prepare for combat. In order to be able to face the purple ghost, man yan has chosen to observe from the rear and let xiou hou track him down. However xiou hou didn't just wait for the black vatican to come to him. He opened up his wind wings and charged right at the black vatican. However rather than using other magic, he used his wind wings to rotate like the blades of a blender and subsequently turned all those infront of him into mince meat. While the commander praises xiou hou's ability, the purple ghost appears behind xiou hou and stabs him, telling him that there was nothing he could do to him. Xiou hou on the other hand tells purple ghost that he has a surprise for him and purple ghost finds that his ice blade didn't manage to pierce xiou hou and that the guy has a layer of rock armor around him. Xiou hou tells him that his is the special ability of his earth soul, if there is an enemy within 100m of him, a rock dust armor will form around xiou hou. Seeing that his powers have no affect on this guy, purple ghost immediately evaporates into thin air. While xiou hou wonders what kind of shadow magic could accomplish this, purple ghosts stabs the commander from behind through the heart. But before she dies, she spews blood all over the purple ghost and when he evaporates, the blood stain is still there. Xiou hou realizes that the guy has a similar soul species ability to his own, gathering particles of water over his body rather than earth, this allows him to have a certain amount of invisibility. However now that the ruse is up, xiou hou calls out man yan. While purple ghost berates man yan as an inferior, man yan uses his level 3 earth magic boosted by a factor of 9 to crush the purple ghost outright.
Back at the pyramid, mo fan senses purple ghost's passing but feels that his soul contract is still in place. Then cold jue has another fit and tells another man unas to get help. Unas stands before the pyramid and asks for more aid, stating that a massive wall is blocking all access to the country. Suddenly a loud voice came out of the pyramid and shook all the souls of the people present. He tells Unas to wake up the sleeping cat nearby and tell him to take down the wall. Unas takes mo fan and a few other deacons to see the sleeping cat, which was revealed to be the sphinx, the strongest supreme monarch in egypt. Unas tells one of the deacons to wake him up, but she refuses, but suddenly her body starts moving on its own and she stands before the sphinx. Mo Fan realizes that purple ghost was only a conduit and that this guy is the real holder of the soul contracts and that his soul is far stronger than that of purple ghost. As the woman stands before the sphinx, she tries to speak, the lungs of the sphinx suck up the deacon and she is suddenly turned into paste on the teeth of the sphinx. The sphinx wakes up and unas tells it to go attack the wall. The sphinx senses that these are the instructions of its master and subsequently releases a large dust storm towards the wall. Which ling ling calculates that it should be able to destroy the wall in a few hours.
Back at they pyramid, mo fan rejoins the group of on watching blue deacons until blue bat taps him on the shoulder and thanks him for killing purple ghost, stating that unlike him, her soul contract was with purple ghost. While mo fan feigns ignorance, blue bat walks up to unas and suddenly turns into a fountain of all to familiar black blood. While cold jue screams out "salan" and curses her name for her interference in this matter, unas dies from the poisoning and the soul contract on mo fan is lifted. Then he suddenly heard the voice of blue bat in his hears even after she's dead, she tells him that her master is quite grateful for everything that he has done and that she will be waiting to see him after the world turns its back on him. After being mildly annoyed that he was saved by none other than salan. He activates the devil blood.
Mo Fan turns into a devil and all the blue deacons are in shock. Cold jue orders everyone to attack but mo fan kills them all instantly. Seeing no other option, cold jue turns into a monster himself, stating that he is a descendant of the 2 slaves that caused all the pyramid trouble in ancient egypt and that the damage done by the pair has caused so much hatred, that he is capable of feeding of the hatred to fuel is own power. Cold jue attacks but isn't capable of doing any damage, while mo fan in turn causes some serious damage. Seeing no other option, cold jue releases a black smoke that starts to expand towards the wall. Mo Fan teleports to the wall directly in his demon form and tells ling ling and man yan to evacuate everyone and that he will handle the rest.
Rather than going to evacuate, xiou hou goes towards the tomb of the ancient king. But when he arrives in the throne room, the ancient king is showing his back back towards xiou hou. Xiou hou pleads the king to do something about the undead but the king does not answer. After some pleading and no answers from the king, xiou hou breaks down, admitting that he and his actions in the military were always just a cheap substitute for mo fan and that if they both joined the military then zhang kong would never have helped him get this far. Xiou hou then begs him to just save mo fan and nothing else. But the king again gave no answer and zhang xiou hou leaves in tears.
After all the soldiers have evacuated and the black smoke has dissipated, the undead legions once again bear down upon the wall. But mo fan uses fire magic to single handedly hold all of them off. A medusa, who mo fan identifies as a great monarch, who leads the front, sends some of her subordinate snakes to fight mo fan but they are all killed as well. The medusa then activates her curse and the devil mo fan starts turning to stone. But Mo Fan overpowers the curse and hits the medusa with a flame attack, causing heavy injury and the medusa retreats. Then he sees the sphinx bearing down, but he suddenly stops to a halt, with mo fan believing that he prefers single combat. Then he is faced by the super mummy and his 3000 demi-commander swordsman. While mo fan sends the super mummy a few blows, the demi commanders set themselves up in squads of 100 and put their powers together to form giant black swords. These giant black swords fly towards mo fan with tracking abilities and mo fan deems these swords not inferior to the blows of the sword master yan ji fought in egypt. While mo fan manages to dodge these swords, mo fan is jumped by the sphinx and is dealt a significant injury and the wall is broken through and the undead pour in. Mo Fan then sends an ocean of fire towards the undead with the help of yan ji and begins his assault on the sphinx, to which to everyone's surprise, the sphinx is being pushed back. After sphinx is significantly injured, khufu himself sends an attack from the pyramid towards mo fan and he is defeated.
Mo Fan seeing the armies of undead run rampant, he begins to break down both physically and mentally. But before his face hits the ground, he is caught by a man and he asks why the heck he is crying on a battlefield. Mo Fan recognizes the voice and looks behind him to see the semi-rotting face of zhang kong. Zhang kong picks him up and calls out to khufu to get the hell out of his country, khufu instead calls on the sphinx to attack, but the sphinx is intercepted by the mountain corpse that suddenly jumped out of the ground, he tosses the sphinx back, then picks up an undead frog, tosses it towards the sphinx like a hand grenade and it explodes right in his face. Zhang kong then calls out all his undead from the ground below and begins pushing back the egyptians. The mountain corpse begins the assault by hurling the same kind of undead factories as the one faced by mo fan in Xi'an onto the pyramid and thousands of undead pour out of each.
While the other 7 undead great monarchs of china gather around zhang kong, he leaves mo fan in the care of the nine spectral exmpress, a monarch second only to the mountain corpse and they begin the march forward. As nine spectral begins healing mo fan, he begins returning to human form, but from the corner of his eyes he sees the heavily injured cold jue. While cold jue is throwing a tantrum on how all this is possible, mo fan activates his rebellious shadow ability and a shadow demon appears out of cold jue's shadow and begins strangling cold jue, but as mo fan is tying him up, nine spectral appears behind him and invites him to stand among the undead monarchs and witness the emperor-emperor battle.
Mo Fan, nine spectral and an undead human known as the red dragon all stand on the shoulder of the mountain corpse and see a healthy looking khufu being pulled out of the pyramid on a chariot pulled by the 10 sword masters. Zhang Kong teleports into the sky and khufu diembarks his chariot mid air. When the 2 come face to face, a vortex of energy appears between the 2. Then they both suddenly release beams of pure energy and while the beams cancel each other out, large cracks in space form around the pair. Afterwards they engage in close quater combat at high speed. One of these cracks then fell out of the sky and lands on a group of undead and said undead simply disappear, as if they had never existed. Zhang Kong then releases a strong energy wave in the form of a black dragon and sends it towards khufu, he reflects the attack but finds that his sheperd's wand is cracked and looks down below and finds that in addition to 3 of his sword masters being killed, the great sphinx was tossed towards the pyramid. Khufu ceases firing and tells zhang kong that the underworld needs to unite in order to have a chance against the monsters of the shadow plane, let alone the emperor of the sea. But he also says that it may only have 1 king and zhang kong agrees. Khufu promises to deal with zhang kong later and turns tail towards his pyramid and brings it back to egypt. Zhang kong agrees and flies towards mo fan.
On the shoulder of the mountain corpse, all the undead monarch surround mo fan as zhang kong approaches. He thanks mo fan for what he has done and that from now on he will personally deal with all undead matters in china and that the humans shall have nothing to fear from the undead, stating that the living and the dead are seperate worlds. However he also explains that the humans will have to deal with all living matters. However he also informs mo fan that he has been voluntold to open the doorway into egypt and lead the undead army through. While mo fan heavily objects to this, nine spectral calms him down, saying that they will help him in the process.
=== European Exchange ===
Chapter 1427 ~ 1513
After handing over cold jue to the appropriate authorities, the chinese governement sends mo fan to the parthenon for healing as his spirit pear wasn't at full charge when he activated the demon blood and as such has to go into rehab. He ends up in the isolation ward of the parthenon, an island in the middle of the Aegean. While all the girls on the island gossip on whether or not he was the one to bring in the red cardinal, mo fan lies on a beach chair and senses xin xia coming towards him so he starts acting all smooth. But a chill runs down his spine when he realizes that it was in fact azeala. Azeala asks how on earth mo fan managed to accomplish this but mo fan refuses to answer.
6 months later, mo fan returns to china with his cultivation to the 3rd level of high tier fire magic, so that he once again can fuse with yan ji, he finds man yan waiting for him and he is informed that china is in some serious trouble. During the 6 months that he was in isolation, the worlds water level has risen by about a meter and much land has been swallowed and all the sea bordering countries in the world are having difficulty fighting the influx of seaborne creatures. Mo Fan then receives a call from a worried mu nu jiao. Mo Fan then calls out his frost wolf and rides him towards his home near the university. He finds mu nu jiao sitting on the couch, looking rather scared at the person sitting opposite from her, Shao Zheng. While mo fan assumes this has to do with the fact that he hasn't done anything totem related for the last 6 months. Shao Zheng instead thanks mo fan for everything that he has done. He also offers mo fan the ability to personally hand over cold jue to the holy court but mo fan refuses.
Mo Fan then decides to see what mu ning xue is up to and travels to fanxue shan. But when he arrives, he sees that the city is under attack from the sea and sets out to find a lost patrol. He manages to find them on a cruise ship left adrift and with kraken circling around. He manages to do some damage by using mid-tier lightning but not much progress is being made. Then mu ning xue arrived and freezed the sea around the ship and mo fan unleashes his new high tier level 3 fire magic and takes them out. The patrol thanks their boss for the assist, but mu ning xue points out that mo fan is the actual boss.
Later Mo Fan starts to look for a fire soul species of his own, since the other 2 are held by Yan Ji. mu nu jiao says that she might have an idea. She brings mo fan along with zhao man yan to the her family estate and they manage to get in on a meeting between her family and the dongfang family. They are discussing about how to harvest a large fire vain with nearby soul species but due to the unusually high temperatures, no normal high tier fire mages can be used to help and they are not willing to risk the higher ranked members of each clan. Mo Fan interjects that he might be able to do it with some help.
Mo Fan, zhao man yan, mu nu jiao, ling ling and several other low level family members arrive at the entrance of the fire vain a large volcano that was destroyed by a meteor, they see that their dedicated ice mage is none other than Mu Bai, who has been making a name for himself adventuring after the events of Xi'an. The higher ups tell the group to get a days rest and mo fan, zhao man yan and Mu Bai got to a bar. While mo fan and man yan drink, they tease mu bai on being a virgin as he gets flustered when the waitress approaches him. The waitress decides to take mu bai up a nearby mountain to watch the stairs and mu bai starts to have a good moment with the waitress. But as he returns back at their hotel, he finds both mo fan and zhao man yan passed out drunk outside their rooms and worst of all, the waitress informs him that they have yet to pay their bill and Mu Bai wonders how these hooligans are supposed to be the best and brightest young mages in China.
On the next day, one of the higher ups explains what is down there. The vein itself has 4 different types of molten rock that are causing trouble. The first is a red lava, which a soul species high tier fire mage should just be able to handle. Next comes a brown lava, which would cook the aforementioned high tier mage alive in under just a minute. Then the black lava spreads around in blobs that explode that come into contact with one another. These 3 lava's are found only at the entrance. The final lava, the white lava, is found at the core of the vein next to the fire soul and is said to be able to cook even monarchs. The higher ups also explain that the young ones are on their own as they can't spend the family heirs on a mission like this and everyone else available has to keep watch as a nest of a small monarch is nearby.
As ling ling analyses a path of entry, they get bad news, the small monarch has broken through the line of mages and is heading straight for them. The team starts to run while man yan and mo fan preprare for battle. While man yan was able to stop the attacks, mo fan isn't able to deal any damage but then suddenly gets an idea. Everyone must jump into the volcano in order to escape the monarch. While Mu Bai waits for 2 black laval blobs to collide and create an opening, he creates an ice coffin to act as a landing platform and everyone jumps down to avoid small monarch. Once they all land, all the mages begin casting relevant elements and manage to dig their way down through the lava and reach inwards tunnels. However they are faced with a serious problem, there dedicated healing mage has been severely injured. While mo fan manages to inject some of his fire magic to deal with the heat of the lava she was contaminated with (with mouth to mouth) they need to get out quickly, but ling ling states that their only way out would be through and to collect the fire soul species in order to make their way out.
Ling Ling uses her knowledge of geology in order to navigate the tunnels and lead the team towards the final layer of lava. Mo Fan uses his yan ji fusion and fire magic to build a shield that allows him, man yan and mu bai to press foward while the rest stay behind. After reaching the soul species, mu bai and man yan activate their ice and water magic respectively to cancel out the surrounding white lava and mo fan absorbs the soul species after the demon blood partially activates. When they return, the boys see that everyone except by mu nu jiao and ling ling have been captured by Mu cotton, a super tier fire mage and a higher up of the (evil) Mu clan thanks to an insider that had taken a teleportation beacon with them. While she asks them to kindly surrender, mo fan attacks but doesn't seem to do any damage. The group sees no other option but to retreat behind the white lava. While in the lava, ling ling notes that the white lava doesn't have any fire element in it and thus it must be a ban rather than a natural occurrence. They manage to find a tunnel leading somewhere else but on the way find something carved into a build wall "Zhao Man Yan was here" while man yan says that the last time he did that was in the village in the storm in Peru.
Sure enough, when the group pressed forward, they saw the exact same village that mo fan and man yan saw in peru. Ling ling explains that the white lava and the storm they passed through were but space time tunnels, both leading to a nexus in the centre. While observing that the village looks identical to the village they found before the national team started to destroy a few things in order to find loot, ling ling notes that the village likely has a time based reset function, allowing the village to return to a certain point. Mo fan becomes estatic and start running towards the fountain in order to obtain more temporal powder, he smashes the statue but finds it empty. But then he is suddenly attacked by mu cotton in the back with fire magic.
While trying to counter, they find out something dire, all standard elements have been sealed except for fire. Mo Fan fuses with Yan Ji while mu cotton summons the flame gates (super tier level 1 fire magic). He manages to dodge the first wave of fire and charges towards mu cotton, but is caught in a spider web that mu cotton cast with poison magic, while mo fan burns the webs, it affords mu cotton enough time to surround mo fan with flame gates. Mo Fan manages to escape with his shadow cape and sends a compression bomb towards mu cotton, defeating her.
They manage to capture her and the rest of the subornitates that she had brought along to restrain all the captured mages, but rather than killing her, they decide to ransom them out. However ling ling has some bad news for mo fan, he has been summoned before the holy court on grounds of breaking the ban of the devil element put on him and the family of the Jin Yao knight that mo fan killed is suing him for wrongful death in a separate hearing.
Feeling his back up against the wall, he goes for advice to Dean Xiao, who actually has a solution. The holy court is friendly with the school just south of them, the alpine school, arguably the strongest magic school in the world. Due to mo fan coming first in the world university competition, he would have enough clout to come over and study as an exchange student along with a few friends.
The few friends that were selected were some of his classmates including man yan and very surprsingly, mu bai was sent over to join them as well along with a supervising professor. They arrive at the entrance path and are informed that all the men must wear tracker bracelets for the duration of their stay. Even though heavily objecting to this the boys put them on and follow what appears to be 2 nuns towards the school. While talking trash about the chinese and how their school was obviously better, mo fan calls them out on it and the nuns lead him to a giant waterfall. They tell mo fan that the local challenge is to walk underneath the heavy current to the other side, which only one student managed to achieve in the schools history, their current strongest, Heidi, who also managed to defeat Jesse in a private duel but wasn't allowed to participate in the world competition because the alpine school is an international school.
Mo Fan has had enough of the nuns of the school and starts walking under the waterfall, using his void magic to create a spacial barrier around him. After reaching the safe point on the other side of the waterfall, instead of walking towards the exit, he decides to go into a cave that leads under the waterfall. After walking around for a bit, he accidentally walks in on a girl changing her clothes (SM notes: it was an actual accident for once). While Mo Fan tries to calm her down, the girl tries to kill him. The girl uses void magic to toss him out of the cave and through the waterfall towards the outside. Mo Fan now decides to take things seriously and lets of high tier lightning towards her, which she catches with high tier chaos and prepares to return it, but one of the nuns quickly calls out mo fan's name and reminds the girl that he can just send any lightning he is hit with, so she quickly tosses it towards a cliff. The girl then uses a sound attack to disrupt mo fan's concentration, but mo fan just brushes it off, labeling it as weak compared to the sound of the waterfall. Mo Fan then activates the shadow tag that he had infused the girl's shadow with while still in the cave and a rebel shadow pops out and prepares to strangle the girl, but the girl pays it no mind and attacks mo fan with void magic. Seeing that the girl is willing to die here, mo fan gets the rebel shadow to back off and prepares to be hit, but before the attack connects, one of the head teachers interferes and the fight is disrupted, scolding the girl, being revealed to be Heidi, not to kill so easily.
The Chinese are formally welcomed to the school as exchange students and the chinese, along with heidi and the head teacher, are served dinner, which to the boy's dismay happens to be pure vegetarian. Later when the boys are shown to their rooms, mo fan sends his wolf out to collect some rabbits so the boys can have a barbecue. But halfway through the boys are interrupted by the security team, saying that the sub-head teacher had spotted the frost wolf killing the rabbits and that they are all in trouble. The next morning, the boys are brought before the head of security of the alpine school, Blanche, a woman only slightly older than mo fan but already a 4 line super tier level 1 master. However the boys only get given 1 month probation on the count that no one ever told them the rules of this place. To get revenge on how rigid all these women are, man yan convinces mu bai to cook up an aphrodisiac to put into the women's lunch tomorrow.
After a hard day of ordinary class the next day, mu bai puts his potion into one of the pre-prepared soup bowls in the cafeteria, but are shocked to find that the bowl happens to be served to none other than Blanche. The boys, fearing their end is nigh, quickly split up to collect their things and leave the academy via different paths, but mo fan happens to get cut off by Blanche. While preparing for his death, Blanche instead asks him to bury the rabbit that his wolf had killed and mo fan agrees. While burying the rabbit, he and blanche walk into a massive field of killed rabbits and report it to the head mistress, but she says its better to cover it up while investigating the matter as not to trouble the students.
While the investigation is on going into any outsider, a rather popular flower student ends up getting found dead in Heidi's waterfal. The examination of the body reveals that she had been extensively tortured and that the body was simply dumped in the river. The head mistress presses that the cause must be an outsider and that everything must be cleaned up by the end of the week, as some prominent members of the Casa family, the main sponsors of the alpine academy. While walking around the school, he runs into a rather unexpected girl tending the flowers, Lu Xi, the barrista mo fan saved from the black vatican exicutioner back in new york. Lu Xi tells mo fan that after the incident in new york, she decided to travel around the world and has awakened the spirit element, like the executioner predicted. While they continue talking, they are interrupted by the head guard. Mo Fan asks what he is being accused of now, the guard rebukes that he isn't in trouble, Lu Xi is.
After Lu Xi is brought before the headmistress, with mo fan accompanying her, protesting her innocence. The security guard reveals that the water in the laundry room has a special chemical in it, one that reveals blood on clothing if test for specifically and that the blood on Lu Xi's robes have been confirmed as that of the girl who died. While Mo Fan still continues to insist her innocence, the headmistress has had enough and uses her mind powers to cast an illusion on Mo Fan, but he manages to break through. While mo fan was preparing a counter attack, blanche intervenes to prevent the situation from escalating.
A week later, the culprit still hasn't been found and the envoys of the casa family arrive, one of which happens to be the prince of spain, Bo, who mo fan humiliated, twice. But for some reason he remains calm and avoids mo fan but conveys his identity the the head representative, the previous rank 1 in the world university tournament. Wanting to see what everyone is capable off, he issues a challenge to heidi to fight the best high tier mages the casa family has, to which mo fan interjects, wanting to join the fight aswell. So the fight was setup to be Heidi and Mo Fan vs 2 casa family representatives. Once the fight begins, mo fan immediately fuses with yan ji and uses his high tier level 3 fire magic, which thanks to the 3 souls mo fan can use is comparable to super tier magic and the 2 casa are defeated instantly and Heidi drops her jaw in astonishment. Meanwhile, in secret, Mu Bai sneaks into the main bath being used by the Casa family, who's family had accepted his sister as a servant in order to increase relations. He meets her for the first time since they were little and the girl starts crying, but quickly freshes up and tells him to run quickly. After she gets back in the bath with her boss, he asks what all the noise was and she says that it isn't something worth worrying about.
However, the next day, the head envoy of the casa family was struck by a poison based curse. The rest of the envoys take the guy to the holy court and tell the headmistress that if the culprit isn't found soon, the full might of the casa family will bear down on the alpine school. Mo Fan asks if they can actually do that, to which the headmistress replies that they can, as they have a forbidden curse mage among their ranks. As mo fan continues to ask around, he hears a rather interesting story. Some time ago, a prominent healing mage of the alpine school was invited to come stuy at the Parthenon by a rather high level official. The mage asked permission to study there and see if they could heal the divide between the alpine school and the parthenon, as the alpine school was founded by a exiled sage of the parthenon. But when she returned, she claimed that she was exiled under having vile intention and that her contact had betrayed her. The higher ups of the alpine weren't sure about her story so they make her take the flower test. In the central garden of the alpine school, there is a flower bed with special soil, if blood that isn't related sworn to the parthenon is poured into it, flowers will start to grow. The girl poured in her blood, but flowers didn't bloom. As the girl kept cutting herself, screaming that she hadn't sworn allegiance, she was kicked out of the alpine school. Mo Fan then instantly points towards the sub-head teacher as the culprit.
He states that she was the one that called the guards the night of the barbecue, something that she could only have done if she was near the rabbits. And that she was the one who tortured the popular flower girl, who also happened to be in charge of the main flower beds, continually cutting her in order to make the flowers grow in the bed and tossing her aside when they didn't and then blamed Lu Xi as she happened to be working on the same flower bed with blood still being in the soil. Blanche rebukes, saying that the flower girl was loyal to the alpine school and that her blood would have made the flowers grow, but mo fan already had an answer to that, someone replaced the soil in the main flower bed. One of the students tests this and after her blood was poured in, the flowers didn't grow. Realizing that all the girls were innocent, the sub-head teacher breaks down, saying that all she was trying to do was to protect the alpine school from the vile outside and she tells the head mistress how to release the poison curse. The headmistress however, refuses the woman be handed over to the casa family and states that she will continue to protect the school from everyone.
Then came time for the trials, the trio of boys, along with heidi, blanche and Lu Xi, move towards the holy court. But upon arrival, they just so 'happen' to run into the family of the man that mo fan killed back in the parthenon and their preferred candidate for goddess, Yiddish, and mo fan immediately realizes who was responsible for the intial incident of the alpine school. Before the trial begins the next day, heidi and blanche, with mo fan taggin along, pay respect to the grave of the alpine school girl that was betrayed. Afterwards, mo fan goes to have tea at Blanche's alocated appartment, but halfway through, mu bai's aphrodisiac starts to kick in. Blanche uses her wind magic to seal all the exits and tries to get close to mo fan, but mo fan manages to convince blanche that she is sick and manages to tuck her into bed and then goes to sleep outside her room. When the pair is woken up the next day by Heidi, Blanche seems to have no memory of what happened the previous evening but blushes at the thought of Mo Fan's gentleman behaviour, but quickly gets it out of her head as she is supposed to be his teacher.
During the trials, both charges against mo fan are dismissed, as mo fan was forced to use the devil element as his only means of survival against Khufu's hoard of undead and the charge of murder is dismissed again due to lack of evidence. When Mo Fan exits the building, he finds lu xi waiting for him, but he realizes that this isn't lu xi, its the nine spectral empress. The nine spectral tells mo fan that she can come and go as she pleases and reminds him that he has marching orders. Mo Fan agrees to go to egypt, but requests a favour first, he takes nine spectral to the grave of the Parthenon girl for her to analyze. Nine spectral states that the body is no longer there, she was either dug up or most likely, made into an undead and made to dig herself up and walk away. Afterwards, mo fan informs the rest that he is going to egypt to train and the rest with the exception of lu xi decide to come along with the girls stating that they both need practice. Mo fan then pulls man yan aside and tells him the true nature of his adventure. While man yan goes ballistic, mo fan assures him that he will dump the girls along the way and that he will make sure to drag mu bai along.
=== Egyptian underworld door ===
Chapter 1514 ~ 1614
While on the plane on to egypt, the group looks out the window and sees that the city in which they are supposed to be landing is under assault by snake based demons, with and experienced hunter saying that this sort of thing is common this time of year. However when trying to land, the control tower on the grounds gives out the wrong runway and the plane lands in the middle of a horde of monsters. While blanche manages to lead all the civilans away with the use of super tier plant magic, mo fan cleans up the rest of the monsters with his high tier summoning magic, a group of 40 evolving warriors led by the frost wolf, who is now a great commander. Blanche observes this and offers mo fan a reward, a summoning bracelet that increases the size of one's summoning horde, but mo fan is required to put in an appropriate soul. While mo fan and blanche go to an abandoned lot in the city to test it out, they are attacked by a sneak attack of snake based creatures that were intending to invade the city, with mo fan slaughtering them all with high tier shadow magic and blanche now believing that he is far out of Heidi's league.
Mo Fan then adds his 9 new collected souls to his bracelet, most of which he disguises has pre-owned due to his necklace's soul gathering ability being many times stronger than anything known to mankind. The psuedo-souls are accepted by the bracelet and an additional 10 average warrior monster wolves were added to his summoning tide at no extra cost. With blanche understanding mo fan's nature, she makes him promise not to go out and hunt more souls. He subsequently brakes this promise and after the third day of fighting, blanche is found waiting outside mo fan's room and immediately pesters him about where he has been, shocked to find all kinds of scars on his body, but mo fan just brushes her off. She later informs the rest that she has personal matters to deal with and that she won't be joining them off towards Cairo.
On the way to cairo, the group runs into an expedition of European students and quickly join them. With mo fan and zhao man yan quickly finding a girl to get close to and mu bai being bewildered. Until they are interrupted by a pretty boy who offers all the guys and girls some fancy deodorant. Upon reaching cairo, they find the city under assualt by large numbers of snakes. But suddenly a group of great commander snakes divert from their original path and head towards the group, with the lead hunter on protection detail identifying the deodorant as the cause. He attaches all the remaining deodorant on his summoning creature and tells him to run the other direction. However mo fan can't just sit there and take that, with heidi, man yan and mu bai following. Mo Fan and Heidi quickly reach the summoning creature and send it back, while man yan mu bai stay behind and cover everyone. After Mo Fan and Heidi grind down the enemy snakes one by one, the eyes of a large female snake suddenly light up and retreats and the rest of the group reach they city, with the hunter thanking mo fan deeply for what he had done.
Arriving in Cairo, they get double rooms, mu bai shares with man yan and mo fan shares with Heidi. But as they both start cultivating, they see dark eyes inside their spiritual world and are all shook awake. Heidi goes to the next room and finds the place filled with prostitutes, with man yan and mu bia trying to get past the dark eyes too. They go downstairs to ask about it and the hunter tells them about medusa, how she was the first with curse magic and that she was sacrificed because of it. But for some reason or another, she was reincarnated in the stomach of another snake and since then, every female snake that was born from her could use some of her curse magic. The hunter identifies the particular curse they are suffering from as a hallucinogenic curse that will only get worse from now on. But then they are interrupted by the european students, who also have gotten the curse and mo fan realizes how big of a problem this is.
Mo Fan goes to the local hunting hall for information on the matter and is told that a person can't be infected by the same medusa curse twice and that the tears of a medusa can cure any curse they could cast, with a large bounty of 3.5 billion RMB for a large sample so more tears could be synthesized. He had payed one of the office ladies to buy the necessary information on the whereabouts of a medusa. But on the way out she asks him if he really was the one that solved the drowning curse, to which mo fan replies that she shouldn't have to worry about those things. He brings the information he has to the european students and their teacher, but they didn't believe a word of it, until he pulls out his six star hunting badge, a ranking usually only attained by experienced super tier mages. Mo fan states that he went from senior hunter to 2 star hunter for the chongming island incident and 2 star to 6 star for solving the drowning curse. But they are relieved to hear that while mo fan was out getting information, mu bai had managed to synthesize a temporary antidote.
The protagonist team along with the europeans and 2 hunters from the caravan, travel towards an abandoned temple about 5km from khufu's pyramid. The information mo fan bought stated that a medusa uses this place as a hideout, but is protected by a large number of guards and the temple itself is said to be cursed, inflicting damage to anyone who gets near it. To do initial recon, the protagonist team enters the temple first and the europeans stay outside to guard, as they all seem to have skin infections now that they approached the temple. On the way in, heidi gets seperated after running into a monster patrol, while mo fan spots a rather weird looking tower with an eyeball on top. Man yan identifies it as a demon eye, a monster that inflicts poison damage on what ever creature it wants by just looking at them. Mo fan subsequently rips the eye out from the tower and packages it up as a gift for mu ning xue, saying it might be useful to fanxue shan.
After continuing his recon alone, he runs into a young girl 14-15 years old. Mo fan tosses her away and prepares for mortal combat, calling her out as a medusa. But the girl suddenly starts to break down and starts crying. Mo fan, now realizing what he has done, comes over, comforts the girl and apologizes. After calming her down, she identifies herself as Apas. Mo fan asks what the hell she is doing here. She says that she is a florist from an island in the agean where she was kidnapped and that she was dropped off at the temple. Likely to be a sacrifice to the local medusa as young human girls are their favorite food.
Mo Fan returns to the rest of the group as the europeans that entered the temple after the eye was disabled had located the medusa. The team finds apas tightly hugging him and the girls among the europeans and heidi try to get closer to Apas, but she instantly hides behind mo fan out of fear. The girls realize that it is best for mo fan to take care of her and leave her alone. While mo fan and the teacher try to discuss how to best capture the medusa, since her guards are not far away, the pretty boy from the caravan decides to take action and uses earth magic to put the medusa in a cage. The group scrambles into action and mo fan quickly knocks out the medusa before the rest of the guards arrive. The guards of medusa quickly chase after the combined group carrying the medusa, but heidi leads them into a valley and then uses her void powers the block the valley and halt the pursuit.
The next morning, on their way back to cairo, they run into a large military patrol. The military major of the patrol says that they are willing to lead them back to cairo, under the condition that they use shadow magic to seal their magic powers, in case they aren't nice people. Although mo fan has some objections, he agrees and everyone begins being sealed with shadow magic. But at that point, apas secretly reads the minds of the soldiers and their real intentions. She quickly warns mo fan and heidi, who both quickly break their seals and start teleportation magic on the group. But due to the swift response of the military, man yan, the medusa along with half of the european students had to be left behind and were subsequently captured.
The remaining magicians start opening fire on the egyptian military. The group all use high tier magic against the military but they quickly defend themselves. The european teacher draws out the militaries commanding colonel to the side so their super tier magic won't affect the rest of the battle. After the protagonist group begins to be ground down, mo fan is forced to unleash his summoning horde, which now has 40 extra warrior wolves, making the sum total of his wolves exceed 90 and the egyptians are quickly put on the defensive. The egyptians try to counter mo fan by firing a full salvo of ice magic, which mo fan turns into lightning with his ghost glove, absorbs it and fires it right back. This creates a massive hole in the line of the egyptians and with the covering fire of mu bai and heidi, mo fan slips to the back with shadow magic and manages to take the egyptian major hostage.
After taking the major hostage, the group withdraws and tried to return to cairo. But find that the military had gotten their first and told the guards on watch to attack anything outside the walls that moves, because they stated that they ran into several groups of robbers hunting around the area. The group decides to spend the night outside cairo and think about breaking in the next morning. While everyone is making camp, the major calls out the european teacher, saying that if both him and apas are returned to military unharmed, the military is willing to overlook the situation and get all the students home. Mo Fan tells the major to shut up and everyone goes to sleep. The nights in the desert are quite cold, so in the middle of the night, he tries to pull apas closer to protect her from the cold. But he finds that apas is gone and raises the alarm. The rest of the team finds that both the european teacher is gone and has taken the egyptian major with him. Mo Fan takes mu bai and heidi with him, stating that he had infected the egyptian major with his rebelious shadow and that he knows where he is, but needs the rest to stay back.
Back in the city, the major is getting told off by the colonel. But then the egyptian general ethan arrives. Stating that the problem has yet to be solved and that the major and the colonel have to clean this up. The major then goes to the prison where the europeans, man yan and the teacher are being held. The major says that if the teacher helps clean this up then the egyptain government will pretend this didn't happen. But the pretty boy quickly calls out man yan as not being one of theirs and is quickly moved to another part of the prison, the pretty boy also volunteers to get rid of the protagonist team.
Meanwhile at the city border, mu bai, heidi and mo fan easily break through the lines of cairo due to the guards all being low level high tier mages. They manage to escape their pursuit and reach the military prison on the outskirts of the city, but they find the colonel and the teacher waiting for them. While heidi and mo fan go deal with the colonel and the teacher respectively, mu bai breaks into the prison to spring man yan.
Mo fan runs towards the teacher, who casts super tier magic to create a life size rock based whale to swim in the earth and destroy anything in its path, creating massive destruction. Mo fan subsequently uses high tier shadow magic to create a domain of total darkness. The teacher tries to navigate the domain but can't do anything, until he finds and identifies the wreckage of one of the buildings he destroyed with his rock whale and manages to manuever out of the shadow domain, but finds mo fan waiting there with a compression bomb and tosses it right in his face. But he manages to defend. Mo Fan then activates the rebelios shadow he secretly put in the teacher and the shadow manages to distract the earth mage while he merges with yan ji and uses high tier fire to burn the teacher. The teacher lays there with his skin burned to char and mo fan walks over. While the teacher is trying to scrape for life, one of the female european students that had gotten captured appeared, she pleads for the teachers life, but mo fan is not having any of it and leaves the teacher to die.
Meanwhile Mu Bai has broken into the prison and springs man yan, who subsequently runs into the pretty boy from the european school. Mu bai goes to back up heidi while man yan summons a giant earth golem and the pretty boy is pretty much unable to stop it, but man yan lets him live. Meanwhile mu bai and mo fan arrive to assist heidi in dealing with the super tier colonel, who is now overpowered now that heidi can use all 3 hearts to attack him directly and he to is defeated. But things get more complicated when man yan informs them that apas wasn't imprisoned where he was. Mo Fan then orders the rest of the guys to leave the major so that he can track him to where apas is being held.
Mo Fan tracks him to the main base in the egyptian capital, but on the way is recognized by an egyptian captain that admits to admiring mo fan for his actions in the world university competition. He sees the captain walking to the inside of the heavily fortified military base and uses his shadow magic to hide inside the shadow of the captain and enter the base. Mo Fan uses this trick to hide within the shadows of objects and other people and makes his way to the isolation ward of the prison section of the base. But before he can enter apas's cell, he is spotted by the egyptian high general ethan. Ethan takes mo fan to the cell at the end, but mo fan only finds the medusa that the group and the europeans had captured. He told mo fan that he had fed apas to the medusa and that this was the only way to get the medusa to stop attacking cairo in preparation of the assault of Khafre, grandson of Khufu and the second strongest pharaoh in egypt. Ethan states that although Khafre is nothing compared to the might of Khufu, he has one rather nasty ability, he can raise any that were slain by is forces into one of his undead.
Mo Fan had enough of this and killed the medusa with void magic and pulled a still alive apas from its stomach. Mo Fan then takes the head of medusa and squeezes out the tears needed for the cure and then leaves carrying apas. But ethan just lets him go, as he knows the real reason why he came to egypt. Back at the previous military prison, mo fan gives some of the tears to the rest of the european students even though they opposed him and all are cured of the curse. He then gives the remaining tears to the hunting hall and receives the 3.5 billion RMB rewards along with a promotion to 7 star hunter. And finally he activates the rebellious shadow that he put in the military major and kills him, ethan was there when he died, but he decides to keep quiet for some reason.
A week later, the protagonist team minus apas, who had been convinced to stay home advances towards the pyramid of Khufu along with the egyptian captain (combatant) (who hadn't been informed that mo fan killed the major), one the captains friends (an expert on pyramids) and, very surprisingly, the egyptian university team captain Mios (chaos mage). Only high tier mages have been assigned to them as the pyramids all have bans specifically targeting super tier and forbidden curse mages with mios's chaos magic disabling everything else. As they approach the pyramid, the egyptian captain tells the rest to get down, as there are 10 dark sword lords on patrol outside the pyramid, mo fan rebukes, saying that there are only 7 (since he saw 3 get killed in the kitahara desert), the egyptian captain then observes only 7 dark sword lords along with a sleeping sphinx and believes this must be their lucky day (while in reality, the sphinx was still sleeping off the combined beat down courtesy of mo fan and the mountain corpse). The captain's friend then summons a large mummy and orders it to rip out its guts and then tells the rest of the group to get in. While the groups looks on in disgust, the captain's friend explains that only undead may approach the pyramid and that the main entrance it too fortified, so that they will have to enter one of the inlets reserved for undead prey.
After managing to distract the dark sword lords, they manage to approach the pyramid undetected and are sucked in by one of the inlets. They land into what appears to be a mass butchery of undead. Mios explains that this is what pyramids run on. Every pyramid in Egypt has a section of undead whose sole purpose is to catch undead, cleave out their souls and then sent it towards the higher ranked subordinates that have minor tombs in the interior of the pyramid and that the pyramid of khufu likely has hundreds of these butchers operating like factories. While the group manages to sneak out of the butchery, they are spotted further inwards in the pyramid by undead patrols and entire waves of undead descend upon them. The group manages to shake them, but end up in a tunnel filled with more undead. The group manages to push foward no matter how many undead there are, since none of them are in the commander class. But as there seems to be no end to either the undead or the tunnel, Heidi uses her void magic to investigate and realizes that they are stuck in a space loop. She manages to use her chaos magic to break the dimension lock and teleports the group away to the next part of the pyramid.
The group arrives in a shrine dedicated to hounds, while mo fan imagines what hounds the egyptains mean, his imagination is realized and 4 different 3 headed hell hounds appear, but these are only great commanders. They all jump mo fan at once but he manages to give 2 of them the slip. He manages to kill the first one with the use of lightning claws and use them to bring boulders down from the ceiling to crush it. He manages to kill the second one by fusing with yan ji and killing each individual head on the beast. After the fight, he is about to receive a fine commander soul from the second beast but suddenly stops floating mid air, the captain is using his own soul collection device to pull at the commander soul, stating that as he is an undead mage, he could use it a lot more than mo fan ever could. However mo fan rebukes, as he was the one to kill the creature, he deserves the soul. He orders the loach to give it all its got and the soul starts flying towards the loach, but that is not all. After the loach accepts the commander soul, the soul container of the captain starts to leak soul(s) (fragments) and those are taken by the loach as well, leaving the captain's friend with nothing. While he begs for mercy and his soul collection back, mo fan says no, stating that soul fragments cannot leave the loach.
Afterwards they advance towards the inner section of the pyramid, where all the tombs of Khufu's greatest allies and servants rest. Mo Fan secretly reveals to man yan that his orders are to open the gate to the underworld (afterlife) in the middle of the red sea, so that zhang kong can come in and destroy all opposition undead in one fell swoop. The reason they are in this pyramid is that khufu is the only one known to have a key to this door. Upon arriving at at the first tomb, they see a large pyramid shape room (a square base bottom with the 4 corners converging in the middle at the top) where they see a large coffin being suspended mid air by a large golden spider. The pyramid expert states that this room belongs to one of khufu's close advisers and that they are going to have to kill him in order to advance. When everyone is ready, mo fan shoots the coffin with fire magic and it crashes down to the bottom and a mummy jumps out. But as the mummy jumps out, a door on the other end of the tomb opens. However the group realizes that the guy they released happens to be an undead super tier mage, and they decide to run for the exit, but for some reason the mummy does not persue. Walking through the tunnel, they reach a much smaller tomb with a much smaller coffin hanging from the ceiling, mo fan releases the mummy and another door opens, but this time the mummy's level is comparable to a great commander and the group quickly deals with it, but after the mummy is killed, 2 doors on the remaining sides of the tomb open. The pyramid expert now realizes that the mummy just let them go because in order to get what they want, they may have to get past him. However the group decides the advance forward instead of turning back.
The group takes a special symbolized exit out of the tomb pointed out by the pyramid expert and the group goes through several tombs of filled with either commanders or large numbers of undead, until they reach a tomb that is covered with vines and from the coffin is the sound of a child laughing, as mo fan was about to open the coffin, mios stops him, saying that this child was able to nearly kill khufu in is early days and that if he is released now, they will all surely perish. By this time, the pyramid expert had finished his analysis of the pyramid's tombs. Upon entrance into the system, the tombs can be seen as a perfectly mixed and shuffled rubix cube with an unkown number of squares and an unknown number of sides. Every time they choose a door in a tomb, the squares in the rubix cube will shift one period along the chosen axis and when the rubix cube is solved, they will be taken to where they want to go and that the most important part of it all is that all they need to do solve the rubix cube, how they do it (i.e. which monsters they kill and which they skip) is simply irrelevant. But before they can start, they must return to the first room and take the correct door from there. The team does a U turn through the tunnel from which they entered, but find that they are in a different tomb then which led them to the tomb covered in vines. However the undead in this tomb are manageable and the team manages to find their way back to the first tomb, where the mummy is waiting for them. Mo Fan opens immediately with yan ji fusion and level 3 high tier, but the mummy manages to block it with water magic. The mummy then starts forming a star palace and the group is put under the level 1 super tier lighting, the nine ring ban. While the mummy just stands their waiting as if toying with his food, mo fan orders everyone to attack the nine ring ban. After it getting to a certain level, mo fan absorbs it all with his lightning powers and fires it at the mummy, who subsequently takes heavy damage and is then finished off by the rest of the team.
While the rest of the team decides to cultivate in order to get their magic stamina back, mu bai wakes up mo fan. He says that the spider that held the coffin is active and that the spider is likely the conduit from which the souls from the butcheries are sent to the higher ranking servants. Mu Bai makes an offer, if they both keep quiet on the matter to everyone else, mu bai shall be allowed to have the biological contents of the spiders (since they are of use to a poison mage) both here and in any other tomb they might find and mo fan shall be allowed to harvest the souls still left in the conduit and pipe systems. Mo Fan agrees and he manages to get his hands on a commander soul along with some warrior souls. After the team manages to get their stamina back, they proceed fowards and they kill several tombs along the way. But at the next tomb, they don't find a coffin but an active medusa great monarch. She immediately begins to turn everyone to stone with her curse, but when its mo fan's turn, it suddenly doesn't work and the both of them recognize each other. The medusa was the one that was present at the battle of kitahara and the man standing before her was the demon that managed to temporarily hold back the army of khufu all by himself, since medusa curses don't work twice on the same target. The medusa starts slither backwards and mo fan begins to advance, preparing to activate the demon blood, but suddenly finds that it doesn't work, recalling xin xia mentioning that if the damage isn't healed with the spirit pear, complete cool down may take up to 2 years. However, this doesn't stop him advancing. He calls out the medusa, threatening to destroy everything she knows unless she releases his friends and opens all the gates. The medusa, knowing all to well what this guy can do, does as he says and releases his friends and opens all the gates, before making her getaway. The rest of the group, who could still listen to the conversation despite being turned to stone, ask mo fan what the hell just happened, but he tells them not to worry about it and then he looks down on himself and sees that he has pissed himself.
After a fresh pair of underwear and pants, the group advances towards the next room, but to their surprises its empty with all the remaining doors open and filled with strange drawings and snake scales. Mo Fan theorizes that this tomb contained a few weaker medusa, who all fled after the great monarch medusa spread the word that mo fan was in the building. Mo Fan then decides to take a look at the drawings and starts to decipher them, knowing a bit about the art style since it is quite similar to the ones he studies about totems in china. He states that the original medusa made a formal alliance with khufu, that in exchange of lending their curse powers once in a while, they can freely travel through khufu's territory including his pyramid, which explains how all the medusa have dissapeared.
4 months later, the group is still in the pyramid and have almost solved the rubix cube. They managed to survive this long because before they left, mo fan and heidi stocked up their truck sized personal dimensions with just supplies. At this time, mo fan, mu bai and man yan have all become maxed high tier mages and mo fan has been able to advance his shadow, lightning and fire magic to level 4 and he has added over 300 wolves to his army and has made 10 of them commanders. As they approach the last tomb they need, they see that is occupied by an evolving commander, mo fan activates his level 4 lighting and kills it with but a single blow. As the group is astounded by his achievements and the blow being compared to spirit species super tier magic, mo fan walks towards the final door and reaches a very different square box room with a turnable stone disk at the other side. Believing it to be the end of the pain, man yan rushes fowards, but is ambushed and is almost cut in two.
While the rest cover them, mo fan grabs some parthenon medicine out of his bracelet that he had gotten from xin xia after the left the isolation ward and gets man yan back into action. Man yan identifies the target to not just be a dark sword lord, but also to be a full monarch, much stronger than the previous dark sword lords that they have encountered. Mo Fan tries his level 4 high tier lightning magic but it only scratches his armor. Mo Fan then calls out a formation, the egyptians are to summon their mummies who are all now great commander and above, to delay the dark sword lord along with mu bai's ice magic (which is now second only to mu ning xue) while man yan uses all his powers to defend heidi and mo fan. Mo Fan activates his high tier level 4 lightning and pours all of it into the chaos magic created by heidi, which is powered by her one heart 3 uses. After it was filled, heidi sends it back to mo fan, who absorbs it and fires all of it towards the swordsman. Although the swordsman himself is relatively unharmed, the armour he is carrying is heavily damaged. Mo Fan charges toward him with level 4 high tier fire magic with yan ji fusion, but looses on the draw and gets his hand chopped off. Mo Fan is heavily injured but before he passes out, he manages to summon his summoning horde and they quickly surround and attack monarch. By the time he wakes up, the monarch is already dead and the egyptian captain has managed to get hold of the soul fragment, but mo fan lets him keeps it as a soul fragment does him no good. As mo fan approaches the tabernacle, he tries to turn the dial but it doesn't work and he starts to break down, believing all this was for nothing. But then Mios asks if he has tried turning the dial the other way, and the rest of the group does a massive face palm.
=== Totem beast ===
1615 ~ 1748
After turning the dial, the sky in egypt suddenly turned red and an island appeared in the middle of the red sea. Then an exit appeared in the room and the group walks out through the main entrance of the pyramid unopposed. When reaching the bottom, mo fan is pulled aside by the nine spectral empress. She thanks him for everything he has done and offers him the role of ambassador between the living and the dead, but mo fan declines. After returning to the city, he finds the city under assault from Khavre in the third stage but the city itself is pretty calm. He finds that apas was still at the hotel that he left her at and takes her out shopping as apology for leaving her alone for 4 months. While shopping, mo fan promises to help her awaken and teach her magic, which makes her very happy. But while she hugs him, he tries to paint a summoning mark on her forehead. But the summoning mark sticks, proving that apas isn't human and her face changes completely.
She asks why he had to do that and that they had something special but he had to go and ruin it. She admits to being a medusa like he guessed and that the medusa that he pulled her out of was in fact her maid. She also says that her initial playing up was part of her fun and that at the time she had just eaten a human and that made her a bit weak and she told the story of the girl she ate, but now that her powers are back there is no way he can beat her. While her eyes are turning golden pink, she tells him not to worry and that she will keep him around as a pet. But before the curse can be completed, her soul is attacked by nine spectral. As the battle rages on, nine spectral tells mo fan that her and she are evenly matched and needs his help to pull off a win by attacking her mind one way or another. Mo Fan states he has no way of doing it, but then nine spectral remembers that he is a summoning mage and tells mo fan to re-paint the mark on her forehead. Mo Fan does this and Apas looses her concentration for a moment and in that moment the nine spectral deals heavy soul damage to apas and collapses. As mo Fan tells his goodbyes to apas, nine spectral prepares to execute apas as she begs for help, but mo fan stops her at the last moment, saying that apas has accepted the contract and that killing her will affect him too.
Sometime later, Mo Fan, Nine spectral and apas are sitting in the lobby in the hotel having a conversation. Apas continually insults mo fan for his treatment of her, while mo fan replies that this is her own fault. Mo Fan asks nine spectral why she is so troublesome, she replies by asking if she told him. While apas puffs out her chest, nine spectral explains that the girl in front of her is not some random medusa but the third daughter of the original medusa and the one most likely to succeed her. Mo Fan asks her why she is being so difficult. She says that First: Her 2 elder sisters are continually running around looking for other allies in their fight to succeed medusa and so she must do the same to protect herself and second: Humans have no right to talk, she and her people had only received a few dozen humans, but her scouts report that over a hundred have been taken and if he does want to know why, he can also ask Ethan who is currently on the top floor. Mo Fan heads to the top floor but as he leaves the lobby, nine spectral warns him that other snake species can sense apas's true nature and they will come after her, now that most of her powers are sealed by the summoning contract as mo fan's cultivation isn't high enough to sustain apas's magic.
On the roof, mo fan asks ethan why he is doing all this, ethan replies that this was the only method to have enough mages stationed in cairo to halt the attack of Khavre and that he is fully aware of the sins he's caused, but that because of his rank, no one is willing to drag him to the holy court. Mo Fan says that he will make sure otherwise and tells apas to put a curse on him. She doesn't say a word and walks toward ethan. Ethan calls out mo fan for still not understanding anything, but then apas's eyes turn gold-pink and looks towards ethan. Ethan is shocked and asks what the hell is going on. Apas replies that mo fan is now her master and that she must do what he says. Mo Fan states that the curse he has now received will haunt him with the memories of every depraved thing that the does from now on and that the only cure to the curse is to confess to the holy court of all the crimes he has committed. As Mo Fan leaves, Ethan states that yiddish was correct, mo fan is worse than a natural disaster.
After the assault of Khafre has been repelled, mo fan and crew including apas (of which only mo fan and man yan know her true nature) head towards the egyptain coast and hire a boat to take them to Greece. Mo Fan (who is still missing a hand) tries to steer the boat but decides to delegate to mu bai when he spots a giant sea snake to come up behind them. Mo Fan and Man yan do their best to fend it off, but their opponent is a full monarch and it quickly catches up. Mo Fan orders Mu Bai to try take the boat to shore to give them the advantage, but mu bai replies that that is impossible, as the island infront of them is a tourist hotspot filled with non-mages. On the island, a woman in a bikini gets out from under her reclining chair and parasol and walks towards the shore and sees the snake approaching. But rather than running, she calls down a demon sword and sends the sea snake running. She then flies towards the boat and is revealed to be none other than blanche, the rest of the group thanks her for her help while man yan starts worshipping her as a goddess.
They then take the boat to athens and decide to stay the night before doing anything else. While everyone gets off the boat, mo fan secretly pulls apas out of his contract space and orders her to go have some fun and do some shopping with heidi and apas. But as they get of the boat, they are greeted by a rather surpsing duo, Mu ning xue and Jiang yu. They say that while the boys were busy in egypt, they have made some developments in the case of the abduction of babies by the kraken. They say that there has only been a few cases of babies being actually taken by kraken and that the rest were all done by humans. But for some reason, in each case of human abduction, the baby had its heart removed while still alive before the body was thrown into the sea and that they have come here to settle the matter, as all traces lead to a rather elusive family clan. While all the girls go shopping, the boys go to Mu Bai's room, who is using the venom and the talons of the golden spiders he plundered while in Khufu's pyramid, to draw out the ice element out of a fruit he managed to steal from under the nose of a monarch class creature and that he now can start the process of breaking into super tier.
After telling Mu Bai to go die, man yan and mo fan visit the local auction house to see if they can get something and 2 rather peculiar items are up for sale, the heart of a baby titan and a horn, which for some reason has the mark of one of the totems on it. Mo Fan immediately buys it and decides to take it with him. The next morning, the group goes up the parthenon to see if mo fan can get a new hand, on the way up they find a rather thin looking but very much alive Leng Qing, who says that she can go home in about a year or 2 and that Xin Xia isn't currently here, but one of the available healing mages heals mo fan's hand. In the evening, the group goes for dinner at a luxurious pizzeria until apas hears some lone cries. Apas identifies the creature as a titan and that it is bearing down onto the border of Athens and suddenly alarms around the city go off. While the group is willing to ignore it, apas states that the titan is sad and that is seems to be looking for something, mo fan puts 2 and 2 together and figures out that the titan is infact the mother of the titan who's heart was put up for auction the previous day. The group splits up into 2, heidi, man yan, mu bai and blanche go see if they can slow the titan down while mu ning xue, mo fan and apas go try to find out who was behind the taking of the heart.
While managing to find out who it was, their butler tells them that they are currently expecting other guests and that they can't be seen now, mu ning xue reveals her identity and the butler goes and double check with his master, who allows them to join their meeting. The trio makes their entrance and finds that the other party in question happens to be tied to the mu family and they don't exactly have good meeting. But mu ning xue manages to make them reveal that they took the heart on behalf of someone else, but for some reason they didn't come to collect it. While they are trying to get them to reveal who they sold the heart to, they suddenly hear a large crashing sound outside, the titan has started her attack. The trio quickly rushes out but find that the only injured is man yan. Man yan states that he manage to buy heidi enough time to teleport away all the civilians and that the rest have gotten closer to the titan and that they should just leave him. Mo fan, mu ning xue and mu bai stand on a rooftop watching the silver moon titan get surrounded by mages of the parthenon, led by a golden sun knight. The golden sun knight releases a super tier wind blade but it doesn't do any damage at at all. He also tries a fire attack but that doesn't work either. They are then interrupted by another golden sun knight, who uses super tier void magic on its head and the head of the titan explodes, killing it instantly. He then flies towards the other golden sun knight and rips his badge of his chest, stating that he has now been demoted to silver moon knight for not being able to do anything about that titan. As they both fly away, the trio are told to get away by a blue star knight, but mo fan first asks who that knight was. The blue star knight awnsers that that was Norman, the adoptive son of Wentai and the adoptive brother of Xin Xia and Azeala.
The next morning, the group has a meeting about what to do about the situation. But the meeting is soon interrupted by Azeala herself, stating that mo fan had called her for some information, while mu ning xue and man yan secretly wonders how many pretty girls are in mo fan's life (Heidi, blanche, apas, mu ning xue and Azeala). She states that the heart operation is part of a rather secretive organisation that prefers to make money by any means and that they are just as ruthless as the black vatican, minus the public mass murder. She states that she has an idea of where they will strike next and that they must be prepared for a heavy fight.
Later on, a chinese man kills a farmer in the upper mountains over a rather rare flower which he said he needed for his boss and the boss's employer. After he takes the flower, he is attacked by mo fan who has fused with yan ji and is using his fire taekwondo. But the mage stops it easily with ice magic, wondering why someone with a track record like his would be attacked by a pair of high tier mages. But then Mu ning xue activates her Natural ice soul and prevents the mage from using ice magic. He counters by casting super tier plant magic and creates a domain around him of high speed attacking vines, which both mo fan and mu ning xue dodge with ease. Mu ning xue uses her wind magic, but the mage deflects it with his plant magic. But as mo fan sneaks up behind him, the mage brings down a demon sword, mo fan throws all he has at the demon sword but it breaks through and is heavily injured. And while mu ning xue goes to mo fan, the mage escapes.
Mu ning xue flies mo fan to the parthenon for treatment, but the both of them are arrested the moment they get there as they are charged by one of the heads of the temple of judgement. As they are taken to their holding chamber, mo fan's condition deteriorates and mu ning xue pleads for help, with mo fan being able to hand of a phone number to the same knight he met after the silver titan was killed. The knight identifies himself as kerry and he goes outside to make the phone call, but is surprised to hear that the lady on the other side is one of the 3 goddess candidates, Xin Xia. Kerry quickly explains the situation and Xin Xia quickly comes down on her rainbow bird now that she has returned to the parthenon from Britain. She and her knight Apollo allow kerry to bring them down to the temple of judgement and there they find that mo fan is heavily injured. Mu ning xue finally sees Xin Xia for the first time since the attack on bo and starts talking about what happened. After telling the whole story, Xin Xia becomes enraged and for the first time since she was a kid, stood on her 2 legs and a strong aura pours out of her. She orders mo fan to be healed and gets the one that ordered the arrest to be tossed in prison.
Mo Fan later wakes up in Xin Xia's private quarters. After she scolds him, she asks why he is always getting himself into trouble, mo fan replies that dead babies tend to get him into action. But before xin xia could respond, mo fan tries to leave, saying that before the mage got away, he manage to infect the guy with his shadow magic and that the rest of the group (mu bai, man yan, heidi and blanche) are currently in pursuit and that he needs to join them. On the way out, Kerry volunteers his griffon summoning creature as transport. On the way, kerry complains about the current lack of ethics in the parthenon, but mo fan offers him the possibility of being a servant to xin xia and kerry says that he wouldn't mind. While following the trail left behind, mo fan begins to recognize the surrounding mountains and realizes where they are going, the place where he saw black dragon emperor.
As they begin bearing down on the last known position of the dragon emperor, they are quickly spotted, but the mage on patrol approaches them and informs them that they mean no harm and that they already have captured his friends and that he will allow mo fan to collect them. The mage sends mo fan along with kerry and mu ning xue to the central plateau and find their friends in chains and surrounded by a whole lot of super tier mages. Mo Fan is spoken too by Su Lu, one of the speakers of the Dubai magic association, the main rival of Shao Zheng and a half forbidden curse mage that is close to being able to begin chanting forbidden curses. Su Lu asks why his ritual to control the dragon emperor is being interrupted and mo fan told the whole story, then Su Lu looks down upon the mage that stole the flower and his boss and orders them to be put in chains as well. Su Lu asks them why they collected the hearts of young children and they reply that they couldn't find the necessary number of child titans for the ritual and used the hearts of many children as a close substitute. Su Lu is not having any of it and orders one of his subordinates to kill the pair, which he does by liquifying the 2. Su Lu asks if mo fan is satisfied with this outcome, mo fan says no but promises to takes his friends out of here and not to get in the way of the ritual. While mo fan and crew fly off on the griffon, Su Lu begins his attack. He first orders the release of a rather potent irritant gas, stating that the dragon's breath can destroy any forbidden curse. The attack goes as planned and the dragon wakes up from the burning throat (TL notes: no pun intended) and is unable to breath fire. He subsequently jumps onto the back of the dragon and tells his subordinates that all they need now is large amounts of super tier magic
The crew flies off into the distance as the attack starts. Later on, they see a lake and decide to take 5 and play beside the edge of the lake. But off in the distance, they see a massive fireball crashing into the lake. Investigation reveals that the fireball was actually a heavily injured norman, who managed to cause havoc by interrupting the ritual of Su Lu. After taking in Norman and hiding him, they are approached by 2 super tier mages investigating the matter, but rather than thinking off a good excuse, mo fan just opens fire and the rest of the team follows suit. while mo fan and mu ning xue take care of one, apas appears out of her contract space and uses her mind magic to distract the other, and he is subsequently shot right out the sky while the other retreats. Fearing other mages might soon come, the rest of the group retreats to where mu bai has hidden Norman. As another mage approaches, mo fan challenges him to single combat, but is interrupted by apas, who states that the guy in front of him is way to strong for mo fan and thinks off an excuse to tell the mage in order to let them go. The mage recognizes mo fan and indentifies himself as zu xiangtian. He states that he is willing to wait 6 months for mo fan to enter super tier and then they will have their fight. After he leaves, the group brings back norman to the parthenon to be healed and he thanks them. But before it happens, the group says goodbye to heidi and blanche, who now return to the alpine school.
The group then returns to China with kerry staying in the service of Xin Xia. Mo Fan first stops at the clear sky agency to greet ling ling with hugs and kisses (whom he hasn't seen in 6 months and has grown to mo fan's shoulders) while ling ling struggles to push mo fan away. Then she meets Apas, who asks her what a little girl like her is doing here, ling ling then asks mo fan what is with the stupid snake. Apas tells ling ling to mind her place, ling ling replies that if she doens't zip it, she'll have mo fan reduce her down to a pair of snake skin boots. Mo Fan breaks the 2 up and shows the horn. Ling ling takes a look at the horn and states that they may have to talk to someone else about this. Mo Fan heads to talk to tang yue's uncle, one of the nation's foremost experts on totems. He identifies the totem mark as that belonging to the totem deer and that the deer belongs to a sacred tree who's powers were used to form the chinese trials. He states that there is only 1 person currently alive who knows the exact whereabouts of the tree and that person is an ally of one of the many families that mo fan has insulted over the years so it would take a massive favor to get her to reveal the truth.
After doing some work, ling ling has identified a solution, one of the islands that is owned by the family in question has a massive snail infestation and clearing it up should give them enough clout to get what they want. Mo Fan goes to explore the island and runs into a hunter team looking for more temporary members, as public bounties for complete earth cores in the body of the snails have been established, but a mandatory number of hunters per team are required for hunts to be allowed. Mo Fan is called out with an offer for temporary membership, since they need 1 more member to make up the standard number and that experience is always good for novice tier mages, mo fan rebukes, saying that he is a high tier lightning mage but the mage laughs it off. He then goes to check with the rest of his team and they are ok with being joined by a novice tier lighting mage.
Later on they are walking around the island, with the leader of hte team stating that she has managed to find an excellent spot for hunting these snails. They come up on the shore of the lake that is protected by a natural rock formation. One of the hunters uses wind magic to venture out on top of the lake and manages to attract 4 different snails, as he heads back to the shore, another earth mage pulls down one of the rocks in the formation and shoots it back up after both the mage and snails have passed through, essentially trapping the snails on dry land. The leader of the mage uses spirit species level 3 mid tier on one of the snails but it only scratches them. After 6 hours of continuous magical bombardment (since the hunter put mo fan at the back and he decided to obey their orders to observe the snails) the snails are brought down, but none of of them have an earth core and the entire team falls into despair, noting the amount of time they have wasted. But then they receive a message attached to a small white eagle, a seven star hunter is offering 24 million RMB for 1 lizard that is native to a nearby valley. The rest of the team heads to the valley to recoup their losses while mo fan heads back to town.
Sometime later, at the local hunting outpost, the previous hunter team arrives covered in mud and with the lizard that the 7 star hunter master ordered. But they seem to be a few minutes to late, as another team had already brought in another lizard. This team however turns out to be the previous team of the team captain and the captain is greeted by the wife of the other team's captain (who was also the one who got her booted of the team) and says better luck next time and that the opportunity to meet a 7 star hunter master isn't something to pass up as working for them once can lead to future employment and great rewards. However the hunter outpost clerk isn't as cruel to make one team loose by a matter of minutes and takes their lizard to the 7 star hunter master aswell. After an hour, the lady returns and states that the reward money will go to the team that arrived second, as the lizard they provided was of a much higher quality, but 7 star hunting master also thanks the other team and that they will both be hired for the next assignment.
Mo Fan speaks to ling ling back in town, stating while the snails aren't exactly a huge attacking threat, their shells are comparable to the skin of an evolving warrior and that due to their numbers, nothing short of a squad of super tier mages and the destruction of the lake will get rid of them. Ling Ling states that they may not have to. She says that she has analysed the corpses of the snails along with a lizard that she had bought and that snails are actually a hybrid species of lizards and a type of rock monster. This is both good news and bad news. The bad news is that the lifespan of those snails is only a week, so the dominance of these snails is due to mass reproduction alone. The good news is that a king and queen of both species would have to be continually reproducing and so killing just one of them should stop the problem. As she continues to explain, Mo fan sees that ling ling is quite tired and asks her when was the last time she ate or drank something, let alone slept. Ling Ling replies that she doesn't remember. Mo Fan has enough and tries to drag Ling Ling to bed, but she threatens to scream rape and have mo fan tossed in prison. Mo Fan returns fire by threatening to toss her back into middle school, something she rather dreads and she quickly looses the will to fight. After tucking her into bed, ling ling tells mo fan that she has hired 1 team of members consisting of 1-3 star hunting masters and another 10 teams comprised entirely of senior hunter to assist him in finding the king and queen. Then Mo Fan pulls apas out of the contract space and tells her to curse ling ling in case she doesn't want to sleep and leaves for the hunting outpost.
When arriving at the hunting outpost, mo fan greets the female clerk. The clerk wonders how he has got so far in the hunter world and mo fan tells her not to worry about it. Mo Fan says that she is to greet the hunters on his behalf while he is going to make tea for everyone. As he leaves, the hunter team arrives and the captain shows up so well dressed with make up and hair that the same desk clerk didn't recognize her. She states that appearances are important when dealing with the likes of 7 star hunter masters and asks where he is, with the desk clerk informing her that he will be along shortly since she has arrived so early ahead of time. However the team of her nemesis arrives right behind her and tells them to move aside and that they will be the ones to be friendly with the hunting master. As the other 9 teams arrive behind them, all of them properly dressed and ahead of time, mo fan comes out with the tea. The nemesis hunter team calls out mo fan for a weakling newbie hunter and orders him to quickly serve tea to everyone before the hunter master gets here. Mo Fan asks if they were the weaklings, would they serve tea on demand, she says yes. Mo Fan then pulls his badge out of pocket and shows a massive smile. All the hunters simply don't believe that a 20 something guy is a 7 star hunting master until one of the leaders of the senior hunter teams recognizes mo fan as the man who solved the drowning man curse. Mo Fan explains what they are hunting and that the hunting master team will be split up to lead the senior hunter teams in locating the king and queen, mo fan will handle the killing. the hunting team that worked with mo fan requests something else as they have a bad history with the hunting master team and mo lends them his frost wolf instead.
While walking around, the nemesis hunter along with her husband question on how mo fan is a whole 4 stars higher than their captain, with him explaining that the clerk informed him that this whole thing was organized by the guy's partner and that he is likely the reason why he is 7 stars. While the nemesis's team finds a tunnel to go into and explore while the nemesis and her husband stay outside and wait, promising to go in if they hear something. A few minutes later the senior hunting team is attacked and no help came. Once the husband and wife finally enter the cave they see that half the team has been killed and the captain of that team asks why they didn't come, but a quick look at the wife's wrongly buttoned blouse explains why they didn't hear them. The captain threatens to tell mo fan exactly what happened and the husband quickly kills all the hunters present to keep them quiet. While in the center of the lake, the frost wolf and team arrive in an island in the center of the lake and see a few monsters and quickly kill them, but behind them a large red lizard appears behind them. The team quickly tries to evacuate, since they identify the lizard as a demi commander, the frost wolf quickly runs up to it and kills it quickly and the team identify the frost wolf as a great commander. The team then move back to shore and find the same tunnel and go investigate the inside, with the frost wolf managing to find a survivor of the onslaught of the nemesis's husband, however he is unsure of what actually happened. One of the team members go look around outside and finds the husband and wife not far off and acts like not knowing anything. To be on the safe side, the team decides to keep their enemies close and not act stupid. They setup camp on the center island and while everyone goes to sleep, the husband reveals to the wife that he has poisoned the water supply including hers and that he will leave her behind as the person to blame for everything before he kills the rest of them. But as he goes outside, he finds the frost wolf and the team captain still conscious, not drinking the poison water. But as he releases a anesthetic aura, the frost wolf drags of the captain to shore by jumping on the snails that are in the lake and are greeted by yan ji and one of the other hunting masters, as the frost wolf has a psychic connection with his master. But the hunting master reveals that he knows of the hunting master's murderous antics and teams up with him, before yan ji takes them both out with a single blow.
Back at the hunting outpost, the husband is taken into custody and held until the trial arrived. The husband states that he has many powerful allies and that he will soon be released as their prestige cannot be overstated, but the clerk quickly shows mo fan's record including but not limited to the capture of cold jue, the first black vatican cardinal to ever be caught. The husband screams that there is no way that he could have done this and quickly remembers that he has a partner. The clerk shows Ling Ling's record and the husband loses the will to live.
Meanwhile mo fan, the hunter team and the survivor quickly move to the tunnel where the rest of the team was killed. They find another demi-commander lizard but mo fan deals with it. At the end of the tunnel they find a large opening and find that there is no king and queen, just one. What's weirder is that it is only a king, not a queen. Mo Fan theorizes that every few hours, the rock demon will eat one of the pregnant demi commander lizards and her eggs will absorb some of the rock elements inside the demon and hatch as after the rock demon poops them out. Mo Fan decides to let his summoning creatures handle this and summons yan ji and the frost wolf to split up and deal with some demi-commanders themselves while he does the same. He also summons Apas to take command of the large wolf army to seperate and gang up on individual demi commanders. After all the monsters have been slain, he leaves the 20+ corpses of demi commanders to the rest of the hunting team and goes to FanXue Shan to meet Mu Ning Xue
She takes him to the main estate, but is saddened to find that there are 2 houses on the main plateau and that she will stay in the other one. But mo fan manages to get his mind off it by inviting mu ning xue to go swimming. But just after mu ning xue hits the water, mo fan pulls her out of the water and they kiss.
The next scene is left out as it may be to mature for younger audiences.
After waking up, mo fan tries to pull mu ning xue back to bed, but she refuses, stating that they are both required in an emergency meeting. After arriving, one of Mu Zhou Yun's family friends drags mo fan to the head of the table as he is the one that owns the place. They are greeted by one of the ocean alliance representatives, who explain that a massive island made of shell based creatures appeared in the middle of the pacific ocean and is currently heading towards them. Mo Fan orders one of his students (back from when he was a teacher) to go to japan and see what she can do and see what they are doing to prepare for this invasion and then the meeting is dismissed.
On the way out he is met by another one of his former students, Bai Hongfei, who states that his sister has allowed him to join the FanXue Shan clan and mo fan happily accepts his help. Afterwards he is greeted by ling ling, stating that the lady from the trial has kept her word and has revealed the location of the tree, it may be in demon country but it turns out its nearby of where Zhang Xiou Hou is stationed. Mo Fan says well done but that he also needs one month to prepare. Ling Ling asks why and Apas jumps out of the contract space, stating that Mo Fan needs more bed time with his girlfriend and ling ling frowns.
Meanwhile Ling Ling takes apas to see Yu Shishi for the next mission, who now has been given her own corner for her and the moths. Yu Shishi shows the both of them some baby moths including the newly reborn moon moth who is now just like a normal Caterpillar. Apas asks if she can adopt some of the moth caterpillars and Yu Shi Shi allows it. Yu Shi Shi says that in order for the caterpillar to advance to her moth form, she is going to need a strong energy source and so the both of them would like to tag along to the vow tree.
The next scene cuts back to the holy court in switzerland, where Cold Jue is repeatedly tortured. But he is surprised that the next visitor is none other than Salan herself. She states that she can go in and out of the holy court as she pleases as she has a mole in the Casa family. She also states that she is willing to spring him, if he tells her the real name of the pope of the black vatican and cold jue agrees.
Mo Fan along with ling ling, zhao man yan, Bai Hongfei and Yu Shi Shi travel up north to the mountains in order to find the totem and if possible collects it energy to break into super tier. They arrive at a military base run by Zhang Xiou Hou. He explains that where they have to go is demon country and even worse, it is currently hurricane season over there and the winds are capable of killing even monarchs that haven't properly adapted to the winds. But before they can plan something, a few mages riding atop of a demi monarch earth dragon walk into the base. The driver of the dragon demands to see commading officer of the base and also some experts for an expedition into the mountains. Zhang Xiou Hou steps forward and demands to see his command orders. The rider simply turns his shoulder and states that this is command orders. Zhang Xiou Hou also turns his soldier and shows the same insignia and cites having the same rank as grounds to disobey. The rider states that they have orders from way up but Zhang Xiou Hou simply refuses. Before the situation escalates, one of other soldiers steps in and states that it is better to team up for a while since they are going to the same place.
On the way over the mountains, the rider along with 2 of his compatriots states that they are from the military special forces and that they have special orders to rescue someone from the mountains. Zhang Xiou Hou explains that the mountain is infested with many hunter bird species that continually harass and attack land based creatures. But then the hurricanes start to hit, they start getting into trouble. The rider told everyone to hide behind the dragon, but eventually his skin starts to break. Zhang Xiou Hou explains that the only defense against the hurricane are special willow umbrellas, trees who's leaves can deflect the special winds. After a few days shuttling between willows, the hunter birds manage to find their willow and start using wind magic to break them open and let the hurricanes in. They manage fend the birds off the birds. Several days later, the team runs into a giant eagle up on a higher altitude and zhang xiou hou states that hey have to stay lower, as different altitudes are held by different stronger bird species. Then comes the time for the team to split, but no less than 10 minutes later, one of the soldiers come back begging for help, stating that the rest of the team has been captured.
Mo Fan and the rest of the group sigh at their helplessness and quickly run off to help them. While Zhang Xiou Hou manages to lure the attacking birds away, mo fan manages to pull the rest of the military out of the tree where they were hiding in. But to his surprise, the person the military was sent to save was none other than Jiang Shoaxu, who states that she has been trying to track down her totem loving brother. Mo Fan demands that since they saved them, they have to help him now. The military soldiers down right refuse but Jiang Shaoxu agrees and states that since their job is to secure her, they have to come along aswell. As they walk up a valley, the birds that were chasing the military forces returned and they chase them to the edge of a cliff. One of the military starts building a bridge using plant magic to the other side. But zhang xiou hou couldn't make the jump as flying is strictly forbidden to any outsider and will result in continual hunting from every creature from the entire area.
As they reunite they see 2 strange things, the first is a giant column of bird flying in a circle. Jiang Shaoxu explains that this is their natural election. Long ago, the previous master of the area decreed that every few years there will be a natural election where it is the duty of every bird in the entire mountain range to try to fly in a special hurricane. The natural pecking order of the entire mountain range is determined directly from the highest altitude that every bird can achieve. The second is a rather weak but still very much alive demon tree. Yu Shi Shi states that if they are to have any change of survival, they are going to have to try to climb to the tree during the natural election, but they have to get through the demon tree, who's level is now a standard monarch. She also knows of a way to kill it. The demon tree has a special branch of leaves that it hides at all time, these leaves hold the power of the demon tree and if they were to be fed to the moon moth catapillar, she would immediately ascend towards the monarchy and be able to deal with the demon tree.
They start the attack by mo fan calling down high tier level 4 with yan ji fusion and lights the top of the tree on fire. After the tree springs into action, it compels the nearby animals to attack, but the animals are redirected towards the demon tree by the mental powers of Jiang Shaoxu and Apas. The following attack comes from bai hongfei and zhang xiou hou, who put their powers together to form a storm of fire tornados that burn just about anything in their path. This causes the tree to loose its defenses and the special branch is revealed. Ling Ling and Yu Shi Shi ascend upwards, but find that they can't pick the leaves, so they put the moon moth catapillar on the branch directly and she eats all the leaves. After eating the leaves, the moon moth transforms into a smaller version of the moon moth than what was seen during the other fights against the demon tree. The moon moth then flies inside of the demon tree through its mouth and starts destroying it from the inside out. After the tree falls for the final time, the moon moth comes flying out with a demon fruit, she gives the fruit to mo fan. Yu Shi Shi that this fruit contains the agony of all the victims of the demon tree and mo fan absorbs the fruit with the mind pear.
But after the fight is over, a massive hunter bird along with many smaller ones and the moon moth flies out to meet them. After an argument spoken in bird, the moon moth and the hunter birds fly of in different directions. The moon moth makes a few screeches and Yu Shi Shi interprets. The birds are not happy that their natural election was interrupted and plan on killing every human here. The moon moth manages to interject that they too are joining the natural election and that she herself will fly on their behalf and the rest of the birds agree. After all the birds and the moon moth reassemble on the bottom of the valley for another special hurricane. Once it arrived, all the creatures took off and started gaining altitude, but as soon as it got in the air, several other birds knocked the moon moth out of the sky.
The moon moth realizes that she might not be able to do this herself and flies back towards the corpse of the demon tree and tells everyone to get on board. After pushing past several layer of birds, either by speed or by violence, they ran into the hunter birds, where all the smaller birds are sitting on the back of the larger on to form an aerodynamic flow to increase their altitude together. But when the birds spot the moon moth, they all start flying towards the moon moth, but are deflected by mo fan's lightning and the riders super tier water magic. After pushing past the hunter birds, they run into an old friend from the hangzhou snake incident, the giant silver eagle, who has now risen to the level of great monarch. But since the eagle recognizes mo fan and remembers who he has as back up, he quickly leaves them alone. Eventually the moth gets past the altitude of the vow tree, but at this point the moth reached her limit and decides to cut the adventure short at the tree.
Upon landing, Jiang Shaoxu discloses 2 things. First, since they participated in the natural election despite not having wings of their own, most of the birds of altitude below the vow tree will show them the up most respect. Second, those who reached the vow tree are entitled one vow fruit, which give out one special power per person including but not limited to permanent blessings. After getting fruits for everyone, mo fan moves towards the base of the tree and finds a dead totem, a deer. Mo Fan and Zhao Man Yan pull out their vessels to collect its energy, but only mo fan absorbs some of the titan essence. Jaing Shaoxu explains that since Zhao Man Yan holds a vessel of a sea creature, it can only absorb the essence of sea totems. After getting back to base and convincing Jiang Shaoxu to help find more totems, mo fan breaks into super tier lightning.
=== New City Yucheng ===
Chapter 1749-1804
Meanwhile in the bird city, the city that was saved by the national team from the kraken. A tournament is being held for a new special forces unit to help with dealing with the kraken, with both Bai Hongfei and Yu Yu scoring places. However, the winner of the tournament calls out mu ning xue for not accepting any of his challenges. Mu Ning xue agrees to one challenge in fanxue shan. While he guy arrives arrogant and early, mu ning xue was not yet ready to fight so mu bai stepped up to fight him instead, it ended quickly considering mu bai is a super tier mage and is promptly carried out of the stadium on a stretcher and relinquishes his position as team captain to Mu Bai.
Meanwhile back at he university, Zhao Man Yan receives news that another black vatican cardinal, by the name of Shura, has been caught and brought before the holy court. While the boys celebrate, Ling Ling arrives with some bad news, Cold jue has escaped prison. Most likely, during the time that shura was tossed into prison, they had to disable the bans on the prison, giving Cold Jue and whoever organized the breakout, including the capture of Shura opening to escape.
While simultaneously, a mountain patrol finds Cold Jue, frozen solid.
Meanwhile at an undisclosed lake, Salan talks with a fisherman on why they had to bust out Cold Jue just to kill him. She explains that it was the only way to get anywhere close to the pope and that they couldn't just let him live anyway. After walking into town, she is joined by a rather healthy looking and still very much alive Blue Bat, who quickly latches onto Salan's arm and states that they have a big problem. The Extradition First was identified by her brother Mu Bai and if they were to trace her placement and actions in the Casa family through Mu He, everything could fall apart including her plan against Yiddish. She recommends killing Mu Bai as fast as possible but Salan shoots it down, saying that any obvious move against Mu Bai will be traced right back to them by Mo Fan and that they are going to have to find an alternative.
While walking around school, mo fan runs into a guy looking just like him with all the school girls hanging around him. Mo Fan calls him out for stealing his identity. While the students are quick to defend the fake mo fan, Mo Fan releases some of his lightning and the students realize who is the real Mo Fan, but before the situation escalates the situation is broken up by Mu Nu Jiao, who has become a permanent teacher at Pearl Magic University. After the 2 talk, they realize that there have been many incidents where Mo Fan's identity has been stolen and used to cause mayhem. Before Mu Nu Jiao goes to investigate the incidents, she takes mo fan to the pearl magic association to awaken his 2 new elements. After arriving at the top floor, mo fan goes out to the bathroom and calls out Apas, stating that he is keeping his promise and has brought her to the magic association to awaken magic. Mo Fan goes in first and requests a light stone to awaken. However when he puts his hands on the stone, a unrecognized colour appears, golden brown, followed by a clear color, which is recognized as the chaos system. He goes to ask the awakening master, he himself states that he doesn't know and he asks that mo fan use the element. Mo Fan asks how that is possible, but the master replies that with super tier mages, their innate level of control is enough to force 7 stars together in what ever element they have regardless of their training. He aligns the stars and a golden brown rock pierces through the plinth of the awakening stone. The master then explains that Super tier mages have an exceedingly rare chance to awaken an element with an innate effect build in and that based on the damage he did to the plinth, his effect must make the rocks he creates extremely tough, both offensively and defensively. After exiting the room, Apas is allowed in and to her joy, she awakens the plant element.
After awakening the earth element, he goes out to practice at school, where he is approached by another student trying to act as a good senior and offers him the chance to try his new earth magic on him. The other student activates his mid tier earth magic to create a hill and mo fan activates his earth magic to try and destroy it. The earth starts to move and several tooth like rocks pierce right through the hill and the student is shocked at what he sees.
A few weeks later, Mo Fan is already level 3 at novice tier earth magic thanks to his super tier abilities and continues to practice, until he is interrupted by another earth mage student, who informs him of a class field trip. With nothing better to do, mo fan decides to join the other earth mages on the trip. The trip itself is towards a famous city where stones with high earth element concentrations are mined for the sea walls against the krakens. But upon arrival, they are informed that new strict measures have been put in place, every mage that isn't an earth mage is forbidden to enter and all those who are earth mages, must have all their other elements sealed on entry. Although he doesn't like it, he allows his mind to be sealed by a high ranking mind mage and is permitted entry.
The students are informed that the next day they will venture into the mines and that these mines are a den for earth spirit species. But as they walk around the city, there is an alarm going off and a rock wolf breaks into the city and Mo Fan goes to observe. Many earth mages try to surround it but it easily breaks through their earth magic, until mo fan intervenes. His earth magic slows the wolf down a bit but eventually the wolf is brought down and its belly opens to reveal a perfectly healthy person inside. Mo Fan slept through the trip right up to the next evening due to the events of the previous day. Mo Fan sees that a few of the students didn't come back from the trip and goes to rescue them. When reaching the mines, he finds the students but also a weird earth like wolf is chasing them. They decide to climb to higher ground using earth magic but the rock wolf is right behind them. Mo Fan then remembers the rock whales that were set on him back in egypt and tries to fit magic the same way. Mo Fan manages to create a rock squid about 2 meters tall and sends it after the rock wolf and after a few hits, the rock wolf falls and another student falls out. After they come together, they see a large number of copper wolves running towards them, but they simply run past and head straight to the city.
While the rest of the students decide to stay behind, mo fan heads towards the city, where he finds a group of students chased by one of the copper wolves. The students try to use mid tier earth magic to stop it, but the wolf runs right through it. Mo Fan puts everything he has into his focus and manages to break through into mid tier earth magic at this point. Mo Fan quickly assembles a star map and summons an earth hill of his own and the monster is stopped. Mo Fan then tries creating a rock whale, but only manages to create a rock great white shark. The shark hits the copper wolf and it dies instantly, while the students worship mo fan, 2 more students fall out of the copper wolf and mo fan realizes what is going on. The earth creatures around here are capable of absorbing people and using them as batteries to increase their power.
After killing a few more copper wolves, mo fan manages to make his way to the city center to speak with the leaders. There he runs into the mind mage from before and asks to get his spirit seal removed. She says that it is something she can't do, not because of the magic, but because of the enchantment. The city enchantment is set to activate tonight at midnight and that all these rock monsters are attacking now because they know that once the city enchantment gets up, they will not be able to get through. But the problem is that the enchantment strength is solely dependent on the concentration of the earth elements in the area when the enchantment is activated, so until the enchantment is online, none shall be allowed to use magic other than earth, hence they compromise the power of the enchantment. Although mo fan doesn't like it, he agrees and goes out with the mind mage to destroy a few more copper wolves. But they then run into a black golem. While mo fan's earth magic is useless against this guy, the golem grabs the mind mage until the interference of her teacher, a super tier earth mage, who quickly destroys the golem with a tsunami like rock wave. After being rescued, the mind mage takes mo fan inside the city centre for food as they are both now out of earth magic.
After the clock strikes midnight, the enchantment comes online and mo fan gets his spirit seal removed and then heads out to destroy the golems. He is informed on the way out that there are now 4 black golems bearing down on the city centre. Mo Fan calls out his summoning beasts, Apas and the wolf pack deal with the first, the frost wolf along with the mind mage deals with the second, yan ji deals with the third and mo fan deals with the fourth. When he reaches the golem, he lets loose his lightning claws but they barely leave a scratch. Mo Fan then resorts to using void magic to compress it towards the earth and use void magic to thrown large objects at it, until reinforcements arrive and it is taken down. After the rest of the black golems fall, the mind mage and her colleagues all start to respect mo fan until they are informed that a silver golem is bearing down on them. While none of the mages know how to deal with something like this, mo fan heads to apas, stating that now that he is a super tier mage, she should have enough power to deal with this guy. Apas quickly replies that there must be something wrong with mo fan's head, since the target is already made of rock, her signature curse won't work, but she also states that there might be another way. Since she has mind powers, she might be able to control them, but since their nature is very crude, and the fact that they use other people as batteries, she might be able to take control of the silver golem if it eats mo fan and then through her connection with mo fan, give it orders. Although he heavily objects to this process, she reminds him that this is the only way and that she will also suffer if her master were to die while they are still connected. Mo Fan accepts, but before he leaves, he sees that Apas as a bunch of red crystals, Mo Fan asks what they are but Apas refuses to answer, so mo fan confiscates half of them.
Mo Fan walks up to the golem and allows himself to be eaten and the golem turns gold. But thanks to Apas's mind magic and mo fan's devil blood overtaking things that try to overtake it, mo fan gains physical control of the golem and uses it to go on a rampage. After destroying every single remaining rock creature inside the barrier, the golden golem breaks down and mo fan falls out of the golem unconscious. A few days later, he wakes up after being tended to by some of the students he has saved. Mo Fan is greeted by the mind mage and on behalf of the city, thanks Mo Fan for everything that he has done. She also informs him that he has been made honorary gaurdian of the city, where he is allowed to participate in city council matters and has 2 votes on any given subject, but is only required to vote on those who would represent the city in the national congress.
=== Asahi Island Crisis ===
1805-1872
After the incident is over and Mo Fan returns back to Shanghai, Mo Fan goes out to eat dinner but runs into the super tier wind mage researcher. He shows him the red crystals that he had taken from Apas. The researcher explains that these crystals absorb specific elements in the environment and use them to grow stronger and that they are the basis of every evolving tool and elemental species. After eating, Mo Fan gets a call from ling ling, she and Jiang Shaoxu have got a B line on another Totem.
The totem this time is a sea based creature and Zhao Man Yan is naturally ecstatic. But the problem is that the corpse of the totem is on the coast of a quarantined island of the coast of China. Ling Ling reveals that the island was a base for breeding and taming a strong bird species, but they were deemed to wild and the bird base was abandoned and the birds were allowed to room free ever since. Zhao Man Yan goes to do recon but when he gets close to the island, one of the birds gets out of the water, takes the shape of a boomerang and tries to shoot Zhoa Man Yan out of the sky, only grazing him. He retaliates with high tier water magic but soon finds himself overwhelmed due to their numbers and he retreats. By the time he gets back to the mainland, the injury on his arm has spread on his body and Mu Bai forces him to swallow a rather disgusting worm for it to heal.
While Mo Fan went out to get some food, he mistaken for a waiter in a restaurant, when he turns around to berate the guy, he finds that the women sitting next to him is none other than Tang Yue. Tang Yue explains that they too have come to deal with the island. After taking Tang Yue to the rest of the group, Tang Yue finds Ling Ling and starts kissing her all over her face and Ling Ling tries to squirm out of her grip. She is eventually let go after Tang Yue's eyes land on Mu Bai, who she hasn't seen since the fall of Bo and starts doing the same to him too. Afterwards she asks what the boys have been up to. Zhao Man Yan accidentally said that they went inside a pyramid, while Mo Fan says that it is nothing to worry about, Ling Ling, out of frustration for not coming along, reveals that they went inside Khufu's pyramid. Tang Yue immediately goes to mo fan, grabs his ear and twists it a full 90 degrees while Mo Fan begs for mercy and Jiang Shaoxu noting that there are people who even Mo Fan does not dare mouth off too. While still begging for mercy, Mo Fan points out that Mu Bai will be able to give her a day by day story and she glances him a look and he instantly hides behind Jiang Shaoxu, but she still lets Mo Fan go, but reminds never to lie about his actions again.
Afterwards, Tang Yue reveals that the head of security of the Island lives nearby and that they could use his help in dealing with the island. They go to his cave nearby and ask for his help, he says that it is impossible to get close to the island, until they reveal that there are 3 super tier mages in their team and he is more than happily to help them, in order to get them to put this matter to rest. He reveals that the main problem is all the birds that live in the ocean will attack everything on sight, but he also states that they are weak to the cold and that they like to sleep around dawn. Mu Bai says that he can handle the birds as long he only has to lower the temperature of the water. The second problem is the bird king that lives on the island, as long as he is around, all the birds will be very hostile but there is a solution. If someone were to tame it, i.e. defeat it in single combat and then make it submit, the rest of the birds will follow suit. The team agrees to the plan and they set off.
The team travels on a motor boat to the island and Mu Bai begins cooling down the water around the island with super tier ice magic. The birds are all fast asleep and they land on the island without issue. But once they disembark from the boat, they are attacked by commander level and up birds hiding in the trees and everyone except Mu Bai, the head of security and Mo Fan go attract the birds attention, they will enter the main complex. The head of security leads them around the island to the cage of the bird king, who luckily is still attached to the wall via a long chain. Mo Fan attacks it with flame magic to gets it attention but if just flies into the skies with mo fan following behind. Meanwhile, Tang Yue's coworker has come along with a few friends, including the son of the military man that owns the island and the bird taming camp that was on it. While Mo Fan was fighting the bird king, he realizes that his flame and lightning magic aren't going to do much, so he activates his void magic to try and get him to crash. While it doesn't seem to be enough, he adds the gravitational of earth magic to his void magic and the bird starts to fall towards the ocean, but rather than resist the pull, the bird king goes along with it in order to try and break the chain attached to him. He succeeds, but the recoil of the chain pulls back towards Tang Yue's coworkers and takes the military man's son's head clean off.
Mo Fan goes into the water to follow the bird king, but only sees large amounts of blood and a corpse falling to the bottom of the ocean. Then Mo Fan realizes that the chain that was broken wasn't attached to the bird king but hooked inside of him and now he has some of his internal organs ripped out. As the bird king reaches the bottom, Mo Fan sees that the ocean birds have woken up and are starting to surround the dying bird king. Mo Fan realizes that the bird king never had the respect of the other birds, only their fear. And now that the bird king is weakened, they start to team up to kill the bird king. But Mo Fan intervenes with his void and earth magic and manages to bring the bird king back up to shore, but as he reaches the shore, he is surrounded by commander level birds. But then Mu Bai activates his Super Tier Ice magic and all enemy birds within half a kilometer die instantly. Mu Bai informs Mo Fan that the rest have all been captured and that he must rescue them alone while he heals the bird king.
At the center of the complex, where the rest are being held. Tang Yue's colleague explains that the military man will fix all of this but only as soon as he is elected to parliament. Tang Yue states that such a man would never keep his word and would rather just destroy the island in order to bury all the evidence. Before the situation escalates, Mo Fan arrives and deals with most of the mages with the use of his super tier lightning magic, but some of them manage to escape with a rather special hybrid bird. While the rest stay behind to deal with the totem and collect other pieces of evidence, Mo Fan returns to FanXue Shan. Mu Bai and ZHao Man Yan dive underwater to find the totem and they emerge afterwards with Zhao Man Yan ready to start breaking into super tier. But after waiting a full day in order to wait for the next dawn, they find that when they return to town, the military has arrived and that the entire area has been quarantined.
Meanwhile at FanXue Shan, having unknowingly escape the blockade, Mo Fan receives a call from the mind mage of Yucheng. He is informed that it is time for the election to parliament and that his presence might be necessary to break the tie. After arriving at the city and having his identity questioned, Mo Fan finds that the top contender for the position in parliament is the military man that owns the bird taming center. The city council convenes but by the time it is Mo Fan's turn to vote, he makes a big speech about responsibility and reveals what he knows about the bird base and casts his 2 votes for the opposition candidate, several of the military mages also change their mind and cast their votes for the opposition candidate. This in turn causes the opposition candidate to win the election and he tells mo fan that if he doesn't like the way he is doing things, he can just impeach him.
The military man returns to his privately owned mine after being defeated to try and see what his birds are doing to see if there is any way to recoup the loss he has suffered. To his joy, he sees some of the sea-born birds responding to the commands of the hybrid bird, but suddenly they all start to attack and eventually kill the hybrid bird, the same way they tried to do to the bird king. The birds then spread chaos around the city. Mo Fan, Tang Yue, Mu Bai and Zhao Man yan, who had been laying in wait, try to intervene, but they are soon overwhelmed. But they reinforcements arrive in the form of Jiang Shaoxu, Yu Shi Shi and Mu Ning Xue riding the moon moth and are accompanied by a very much recuperated bird king. The bird king manages to get the rest of the birds under control and the military man is arrested for a long list of crimes.
=== Xiamen Ocean Rescue ===
1873-1939
After coming back, Mo Fan begins to practice with his chaos magic, where he calls out his evolving warrior subordinates using summoning magic and informs them that they will be target practice today. While the wolves instantly begs for mercy, he informs them that he is only going to use novice tier magic and the wolves are suddenly happy to play along. With Yan Ji at the side, mo fan fires novice tier magic and the wolves, but they easily dodge. Mo Fan then fires another fireball and while one of the wolves is mid air trying to avoid it, mo fan casts level 1 novice tier chaos magic, directional change and the fireball redirects directly into the wolves mid air while the rests of the wolves are bewildered and Yan Ji is laughing. Then he starts adding 2 change direction chaos spells, one to one of the other wolves and the other to the fire magic he sends out and as a result, the attack will always homes in on the wolf no matter how he dodges. Then he starts using level 2 novice chaos magic, alter gravity and the wolves all suddenly begin to float mid-air. After this he calls an end to the training.
After the incident, Mu Bai invites Jiang Shaoxu to his apartment to have a chat and she happily accepts. But after he opens the door to his apartment, he finds standing there, in a pajama while cooking, Mu Cotton. Jiang Shaoxu simply doesn't believes what she is seeing and quickly leaves the apartment (TL notes: poor Mu Bai). Mu Bai asks in a not so calm voice what the hell she is doing here, to which she responds that she is the bird city commando's new combat teacher. But before Mu Bai can kick her out, she simply collapses to the ground and Mu Bai rushes her to the hospital. She seems to be dying from the inside, but Mu Bai's tests show that she is neither suffering from a poison or a curse. But then he realizes that she is suffering from an undead attack and quickly calls in a light mage, who activates her purification magic and releases the ghost from inside her body, saving her life.
A week later, Mo Fan meets with Ling Ling inside FanXue Shan and they go to discuss the attack on mu bai, with her stating that this is only the beginning. But then they are interrupted by the arrival of Mu Bai, who says that it has been raining non-stop on the nearby island of Xiamen and that it won't belong until the sea creatures invade the area. He also informs them that both his commando unit and Zhang Xiou Hou's military unit are both being deployed to help with the evacuation of the island population. But Mo Fan and Ling Ling decide to come along.
The bird city commandos, Mo Fan and Ling Ling board Zhang Xiou Hou's military aircraft and they take off. But mid-flight, they are informed that the weather inside the area has already worsened enough to prevent landing of all planes and that they are all going to have to jump from altitude into the hurricane below. Zhang Xiou Hou jumps first and Mo Fan jumps with ling ling in hand. Almost everyone in the plane lands in a different position after clearing the hurricane, but they are all informed that they need to meet at city hall. Mo Fan lands near an evacuation unit and decides to join them under a disguise. However, one of the civilians spots a kraken in the bottom of the street (which is now about 5m of water deep). The civilian continues to stand on look out in order to impress a girl while the leader of the evacuation unit decides to try and kill it. After finding it being found again, the lady mage begins her attack with special ice chains that skewer the standard warrior kraken instantly. Afterwards the rest of the group travels together towards city hall along special raised highways build specifically for occasions like this.
At city hall, mo fan finds that Mu Bai and Zhang Xiou Hou along with several high level officials have already arrived. They inform the rest that in 8 hours, the water level will become high enough for the kraken to roam freely through the city and that by then all the civilians need to be evacuated. The leader of the defence informs them that there are 3 bridges that connect the island and the main land and that all the civilians need to leave using those bridges. He assigns Zhang Xiou Hou and his military unit to protect the northern bridge and Mu Bai's commando unit to protect the middle bridge while he protects the southern bridge. After ling ling decides to stay behind to coordinate and the rest of his friends already have their assignments, Mo Fan decides to rejoin the female mage in rescuing more civilians.
She leads him to a shopping mall that is being overrun with car sized leeches, mo fan tries to use his fire magic, but finds that his mid-tier magic can't effectively deal with all of them and that he can't use magic higher than that since it would bring down the building and kill all the civilians. So Mo Fan decides on another idea. He uses void magic to create void arrows made out of compressed space and space barriers. He launches them at the leeches and kills them, then he re-directs the arrows back with the use of chaos magic ready to be fired at another target. He continues this until all the leeches are either dead or have retreated and all the civilains have been lead up to the roof, where the female mage uses her ice spikes to create a bridge for the civilians to flee from.
After rescuing a few more groups of civilians, she receives a call for backup, that a commander level kraken has entered the city and is continually advancing. She arrives at the scene to find her teacher being tossed into a sky scraper by a great-commander level kraken and large scores of mid tier mages are powerless to stop them. She and Mo Fan quickly rush to the wounded master, who then orders Mo Fan to go get help as this is something the high tier mages can't deal with, but mo fan argues that it would just be better to go kill it. While the teacher thinks Mo Fan is just crazy, Mo Fan activates high tier level 4 fire magic and compresses it into his fist and then jumps down onto the kraken and punches it, but to his surprise, it survives, as this kind of attack has killed evolving commanders instantly. As the giant Kraken flew back over city center buildings with severe burn injuries, mo fan realizes what is going on, the water is inhibiting his power. After seeing that all the 10m deep water in 4 square blocks instantly evaporated, he realized that all the water will block his fire magic and that all the water will dissipate his lightning magic to nearby allies and kill them too. To solve this, Mo Fan uses chaos magic to reverse gravity and lift the kraken out of the water and then he uses his lighting claws to tear it apart, to the shock of everyone watching.
Afterwards, the female mage received a call about something strange in the bay on the other side of the island. Both her and Mo Fan go to investigate. They find 4 whales being guarded by large numbers of undead fish people. The female mage explains that they are tide calling whales and that the bells on their backs are the source of their power. The traditional tidal waves that come forward are about 1 meter tall in this bay, if one of the whales were to ring their bell, that tidal wave would be doubled to 2 meters. However the real problem lies that every additional whale's bells can redouble the wave height, so these 4 whales would be able to call on a 16 meter tidal wave (the author specifically states 32 meters, but that is likely to be just a math error). Mo Fan tells the female mage to stay behind while he deals with the undead and the whales. He tries to bombard them from long range but every time he does, the whales and their undead guards just move out the way. So he decides to get closer, but finds the guards to be much stronger and skilled than originally thought and quickly finds himself surrounded. Mo Fan then accurately times his disappearance with the shadow cloak in order to fool the undead guards into thinking that they killed him. He then uses his shadow form to get close to the first whale and then kills it with his lightning claws.
After retreating, he doubts that the same trick will work twice, until he is joined by Zhang Xiou Hou, who had been called in for backup. Zhang Xiou hou explains a possible strategy for dealing with the second whale to mo fan and he agrees. Zhang Xiou Hou then carries Mo Fan over with the use of wing boots, an enhancement that Zhang Xiou Hou can give to anyone in his presence, thanks to the blessing fruit he got from the vow tree. Zhang Xiou Hou gets into position first and attacks the undead from the side to grab their attention. Then Mo Fan attacks from the other side while Zhang Xiou Hou fakes a retreat in order to make it look like that he was a decoy for Mo Fan and all the undead rush to Mo Fan. Zhang Xiou Hou uses this gap to come close to the whale and uses super tier wind magic to kill it.
Afterwards, there is an emergency summon, a monarch class creature has damaged the central bridge out of the island and all mages are to report back. But by the time Zhang Xiou Hou and Mo Fan had gotten there, things had gotten much worse, a great monarch was starting an attack on the southern bridge. All non super tier mages are required to leave the area and Zhang Xiou Hou and Mo Fan are drafted into the fight. The commander of the city orders Mo Fan to lock up a special bone whip attached to the great monarch with the use of his super tier lightning magic, the nine ring ban while Zhang Xiou Hou is to do recon on the monsters blind spots. But on the way over, they witness a super tier plant mage getting cleaved in 2 by the bone whip and they realize how hard this is going to be. Mo Fan manages to sneak behind the massive beast that his towering out of the ocean and cast his super tier lightning to lock up the bone whip that is coming out of the beast's right shoulder. But as it is locked up, he finds that the beast has another bone whip inside its left shoulder and mo fan quickly retreats. But as he goes to collect Zhang Xiou Hou, he has gotten even worse news, there is another great monarch hiding beneath the first. Seeing that his cover has been blown, the second great monarch starts boiling the ocean into steam and surfaces, ready to attack the super tier mages. Everyone quickly retreats in despair, but hope returns when none other than Zhao Man Yan arrives while riding the world turtle totem. While the great monarchs call for help, Zhao Man Yan tells the rest of the super tier mages that he and the turtle will deal with the great monarchs and that they should deal with the rest. All most all the super tier mages are re-deployed with Zhang Xiou Hou being put incharge of defending the millitary outpost on the north end of the island while Mo Fan is put in charge of defending the island's university at the southern end of the University.
Mo Fan manages to hitch a ride on the back of a sea otter being driven by the schools summoning magic teacher. After reaching the univeristy, he identifies himself as the appointed commander of the university, but they all just scoff at him, saying that he can't be the commander since he is just as old as some of the senior students. However one of the deans confirms Mo Fan's identity, having seen him use the nine ring ban. After sorting out the mis-understanding, the schools void magic teacher reports to mo fan, saying that he has produced his new invention on the roof, a space bridge that can scale down several kilometers in distance to a few meters and that they can use this for long range bombing. Mo Fan goes up to the roof and unleashes his super tier lighting magic in the form of thousands of lightning birds and fires them directly at a nearby narrow valley that the kraken are using to enter the city, killing over 500 normal warriors. After firing another round, mo fan goes to take a breather. He then gets a report that some kraken are bearing down from the other side of the campus. He deploys the schools water, earth and ice mages to defend while the fire mages are to remain on standby and the lightning mages are to continue bombing the valley with the use of the space bridge, but he also sends over his 300+ wolf army to reinforce the position. Afterwards he returns to the roof and fires of several more super tier lighting spells until he is out of power. He then asks the headmaster of the school about the dark force that he felt when he entered the school, to which the head master replies that this might actually help them.
As they walk over, the headmaster of the school explains that they have a special shadow temple that produces a dark moon crystal every decade or so and that this is the most important treasure in their school. But given their current situation, he will allow mo fan to have one of these crystals. After entering the temple, Mo Fan takes one of the crystals and crushes it in his hand. The room suddenly turns black but Mo Fan slowly absorbs all the darkness and in the process breaks through into shadow Super tier. Afterwards, Mo Fan leaves school grounds with the void magic teacher in tow to test his new shadow magic, until they are ambushed by an orthodox monarch. Without Mo Fan's action, a shadow lady with a whip appears and starts whipping the monarch every time it tries to take action. Then Mo Fan uses his power to summon a shadow elder and it swallows the monarch whole. The monarch manages to escape but with heavy soul damage and isn't expected to survive long. Afterwards mo fan releases a dark shadow wave and lets it accumilate properly. Then he activates the accumilated energy and every nearby kraken has a shadow warrior appearing out of its shadow and is subsequently decapitated, with the total kill count over 1,000. Afterwards Mo Fan receives word from ling ling, the 2 great monarchs along with the rest of the kraken navy are in full retreat, but Mu Bai is missing.
=== Tianshan Hunt ===
1940-2054
Mo Fan breaks into the household of the nearest family that has a grudge against him with brute force, but they try and fail in calming mo fan down, knowing full well what this guy can do, until they are relieved that none other than Mu Cotton arrives. Mo Fan however is still angry and tells Mu Cotton he is more than happy to make a repeat of last time. Mu Cotton on the other hand tries to solve this peacefully and asks Mo Fan to take a walk with her. She explains that she has heard a few things and that she is willing to help find Mu Bai, since she owes him one for saving her life.
In the next scene, Mo Fan, Mu Cotton and Zhao Man Yan are on a cruiseship. While Mo Fan keeps his eyes on Mu Cotton, Zhao Man Yan goes after the young lady that Mu Cotton pointed at. After getting to know her better, Zhao Man Yan gets her to reveal her special cargo, a body she had found near Xiamen and is keeping with her for re-search purposes. However Zhao Man Yan calls over Mu Cotton and Mo Fan and cranks open the coffin, finding Mu Bai encased in ice for self-preservation. They take custody of the body and deliver it to the Parthenon.
At the Parthenon, both Xin Xia's assistant Tata and Heilong vehemently object against using the resurrection powers to bring Mu Bai back, stating that Mo Fan can't use the parthenon as his private hospital and that the power of resurrection can't be used everyday and that it should be used for something more valuable, since the other 2 goddess candidates are quickly gathering more allies. Xin Xia says that she would prefer to wait a bit before bringing Mu Bai back will obey any of Mo Fan's requests. Mo Fan agrees to wait a while. Afterwards Mo Fan goes on a walk around the parthenon. He runs into Kerry, who shows him to the rest of the blue star knights. The blue star knights are all eagerly awaiting an opportunity to duel mo fan, since he got first ranking in the world university contest. However Mo Fan is not a fan of waiting around, he says that he will fight them all at once. But the knights request duels, since they aren't allowed to duel with uneven numbers. However Mo Fan finds it all rubbish and tosses insults at them for being weak. The blue star knights however reach their breaking point and all start to remove their blue star uniforms so they can fight Mo Fan together. However Kerry removes his uniform as well but to fight on the side of Mo Fan with the numbers now reaching 40 vs 2.
Mo Fan tells Kerry just to make him watch his rear and that he will handle the rest. The match starts with Mo Fan using high tier level 4 lightning magic and defeats several knights at once. The rest of the knights retaliate with firing several dozens of rounds of mid tier magic at mo fan, but he catches it all with his mid tier chaos magic and sends it right back. Then Mo Fan sees a contingent of mages coming at him from the side, but sends his summoning wolf to deal with them while kerry deals with a few behind Mo Fan's back. After they are dealt with, Mo Fan uses void magic to stop the next round of assault and then returns fire with high tier level 4 fire magic and by then the number of blue star knights have already fallen by halve and the rest are defeated soon after without Mo Fan using any of his real powers. After the duel is over, Norman flies right over the battlefield and informs everyone present including those that came to watch the fight that all the blue star knights that took off their uniforms, including Kerry, have all been fired. Both yiddish and Xin Xia object to this but Norman isn't having any of it. Afterwards he came down and thanked Mo Fan for saving his life.
The next morning, Xin Xia has some dire news. It seems that the Dark King himself has connected himself to the soul of Mu Bai and so even if he is resurrected, the Dark King will come right back and kill Mu Bai for his soul. She reveals that there might be a way to save her but it involves making a deal with a person who wants mo fan as dead as his mother, Yiddish. Mo Fan takes a meeting with Yiddish and she offers him tea, she refuses. She states that she is capable of helping Mo Fan, but requests that the curse on Ethan, the egyptian general is released. Mo Fan agrees and calls out apas, who releases the curse on him, but mo fan warns that if he doesn't behave, there is a chance that the curse would come back on its own. Yiddish explains that there have been many people that have made contracts with the Dark King himself with the use of special shadow stones, if they were to get their hands on one of these shadow stones than it would be possible to bargain for Mu Bai's life. She also tells Mo Fan that there is a source of shadow stones in kunlun.
After the meeting, Mo Fan meets Xin Xia and explains what Yiddish has told him. She tells him that he is in luck as there is a sage that is leaving for kunlun along with an escort the next day and that they can hitch a ride and that a large path into the kunlun mountains has been discovered. However, she requests that Yan Ji remains here with her, as there is likely something in her physiology, along with Mo Fan's summoning contract that prevents her from evolving further and thus would like to keep her here and Mo Fan agrees. Mo Fan calls over Ling Ling to find out everything possible about the shadow stones and to meet him once he arrives in kunlun. After Mo Fan and Zhao Man Yan arrive in kunlun, they are greeted by Ling Ling and Jiang Shaoxu, with the latter saying that there might be a totem in the neighborhood and that she and ling ling will make all the preperations. After looking around town, Mo Fan and Zhao Man Yan run into a group of chinese students with them both being nearly recognized. Mo Fan jokes it off and decides to take one of the girls for a walk, but finds Mu Ning xue waiting around the corner. He subsequently spent the night in the doghouse, outside in the cold rain.
The next morning, he finds Mu Ning Xue more forgiving and they decide to go for a walk together. After walking around the local prayer palace, the pair finds a monk covered in bandages, but then Mo Fan's new shadow powers inside his body activated, warning him of the monk in front of him. The monk then notices mo fan and quickly moves in another direction. About a minute later, a large amounts of alarms go off in the prayer palace and a large amount of trial members fly out in all different directions. One of them lands in front of Mo Fan and asks him what the hell is has done. While Mo Fan asks what he has done, the monk states that he bears a mark from the holy city, but on closer inspection its only an observance mark and then blames Mo Fan for wasting his time and then flies off. Mu Ning Xue explains that the Holy City, Rome, put the mark on Mo Fan due to his devil element is the highest authority on magic in the world, higher than the 5 international magic associations and that they have the final say in all things magic related and prides itself on fairness and equality. They are so fair, that even the Black Vatican is afforded formal representation in its meetings.
The next day, the group (Mo Fan, Zhao Man Yan, Mu Ning Xue, Jiang Shaoxu and Ling Ling) sets out for the mountains and everyone pulls out their national team medals, since they are special objects that allows them to track each others position. But as they pull them out, the medals all have a strange reaction and the group decides to follow it. They end up running into a rather unlikely quartet, Ai Jiang Tu, Nan Xun, Jiang yu and Guan yu. After taking a seat in a local restaurant, Guan Yu asks everyone if there was a reunion that no one told him about and the rest replies that they are all here for their own personal business. Ai Jiang tu explains that he has been hired by a mercenary group to join an expedition in finding a legendary clover that of which only 1 exists at a time in the world and that it will grow 1 additional leaf every century, whose are said to increase ones lifespan by 5-10 years. He invites everyone to join his team and they all accept. When reaching the new entry point into the kunlun mountains, they see several other mercenary groups including one from the Mu Family and one from the Zhao family.
As each group makes their way up into the mountains, Ling Ling explains that the shadow stone they are looking for grows in dark caves at low temperatures, likely emplying that they will need to reach the very top of the mountains to reach the stone. After reaching a ravine, the entire mercenary group walks into the channel and halfway through are attacked by a large group of spiders with camouflage abilties. The group quickly deals with them, but afterwards they decide to walk backwards a bit, since they are walking in camouflage creature infested territory, until one of the hunters accidentally steps on a buried spider and is killed instantly along with 2 of his friends. While the group stands still on deciding what to do, Nan Xun has worse news. She can hear a tidal wave of freshly melted snow bearing down on them and that several hundred spiders have blocked off the only viable exit. Mo Fan and Ai Jiang Tu take this as their cue and begin killing the spiders in mass. The group manages to leave the ravine with only a few of their mages caught up in the massive flood, but they all survive.
Afterwards, the rest of the group reaches a section with large open hills with meadows on top. Once they reach the foot of the hills, they find a group of dead hunters. Ling Ling does an autopsy but concludes that they all died of altitude sickness, rather strange considering they are mages. However as they are climbing the meadow hills, several members of the group start getting altitude sickness as well. Mo Fan and Ai Jiang Tu try feeding them extra air by compressing oxygen but it doesn't work. A few days later, many members of the group are sick including Nan Xun, Guan Yu, Mu Ning Xue and even Ling Ling are sick as well. Rather than leaving everyone behind, the leader of the mercenary group opens up a scroll that she had bought, which states that there is a special lotus that grows in the meadows that is the cure to the sickness that they are feeling. After finding it, several lotuses are added to boiling water to make tea and those who are sick instantly start feeling better due to the smell alone. Everyone, including those who are not sick start lining up for a drink. While Mo Fan tries to feed the tea to a sick Mu Ning Xue, he is interrupted by apas, who senses that something is wrong and asks Mo Fan to wait for a bit and he decides to trust Apas's judgement. The next morning, everyone except the national team group has drunken the tea and are feeling much better and hyper active. One of the mages decides to break into Mu Ning Xue's tent while Mo Fan is away on patrol, she starts firing icicles at the guy and he starts screaming assault. When Mo Fan gets back, he challenges the guy to a duel to settle the matter. The guy opens with special fire magic and Mo Fan makes it look like he just stands there taking the hit without a scratch with the use of his shadow cloak. Then he summons 2 shadow elders and they start eating the guy alive, leaving only bones behind. Some of his friends instantly get angry at mo fan, before they all start collapsing one by one after green goo starts coming out of every orifice. Mo Fan explains that this is the work of the Lotus, where everyone that is sick is forced to eat the lotus and then the lotus begins growing inside the thing that ate it, using them as food. Mo Fan then rips out the core of the lotus out of one of the guys that had been killed and added it to boiling water. Then he fed that tea to the remaining sick and they all get better without side effects.
Afterwards, they reach the mountain rock layer, where they see the rest of the teams are camping out. The team leader approaches a well known hunter king, who explains that everyone is stuck here because the only path forward just so happen to coincide with the seasonal migration route for all the species that spend the summer up at this altitude, which also happens to be a popular hunting ground for a bird species, from which every adult is at least the level of commander. The hunter king calls together all the leaders from all the teams present and they decide to put their man-power together to advance forward.
The group moves out in a caravan formation onto the frozen lake as the walking monsters are distracting the birds. But suddenly the monsters refuse to move forward. This in turn sets the birds on the mages. The birds attack fiercely but most of whom are shot down and the mages loose a few of there own. Afterwards, the Hunter King calls out that a monarch level bird has appeared and calls all super tier mages to the front, both Mo Fan and Ai Jiang Tu answer the call. While Mo Fan is fighting the Monarch, a strange lady in black that was part of the Zhao team releases a strange aura and all the birds suddenly turn towards the National team that remained in the rear. Zhao Man Yan and Mu Ning xue manage to fight them off but Jiang Yu is heavily injured. After the monarch was defeated but more birds are coming and a giant sea creature was spotted under the ice, the hunter king calls the retreat.
After hearing what happened, Mo Fan calls out Apas and takes her along with Zhao Man Yan to spy on the Zhao team. They overhear a conversation between the leader of the Zhao team and one of his subordinates. They reveal that the Zhao team was hired to kill the mercenary group and to obtain the special clover for the grandson of a dying monarch in europe, so he can overthrow the current king and in exchange would offer many business contracts to their boss Zhao Yucian and that the lady in black is just one of their methods of getting that. While Zhao Man Yan and Mo Fan argue on how they can deal with the birds, Apas states that it just might be easier to deal with her and subsequently put a curse on her. As they walk away, Mo Fan complains to Zhao Man Yan on how messed up his family is, he shuts him up by reminding him who his mother is.
The next day the mages decide to try again and appear to be making progress. Then the lady in black steps out again and activates her aura, but the birds attack her instead of the national team and the Zhao team just leaves her behind. As she is being eaten, a giant tentacle creature busts out of the ice and gives the mages a window of oppertunity to escape and they manage to leave the frozen lake behind and push forward. The next day goes on without a hitch until at night when they do roll call, 3 people seem to be missing. The same thing happens for the next 2 days. Nan Xun theorizes that they have walked into the territory of a preditor that sees humans as an easy meal and that it is likely to be fast, silent and quick to dissapear. She takes Mu Ning xue to take a look around the rear and spots to be a white wolf hiding on a cliff. The wolf throws a rock at her but she barely misses it. Mu Ning xue goes to chase it but even she can't keep up with her wind magic and the wolf gets away. Another 3 people dissapear the next day but none the day after, likely due to them moving out of its hunting territory.
At night, Mu Ning Xue begins to tell the story of Yin Quer, the lady that she trained with during the time she wasn't part of the national team. When she was 10 years old, she suddenly gained massive ice powers including being able to induce a blizzard in a city sized area if she ever were to loose control. Her powers were identified as a natural soul in ice and she was locked up in kunlun for everyone's safety including hers. She finally self awakened an ice stardust at 14 and rapidly became able to control her powers. At the age of 17 she left the mountains being able to control her powers and has her ice magic at High tier. She then joined the national team for the next World University Competition and became rather friendly with the captain of that team, Zhang Kong. However while they were training oversees, there was an accident and the Holy City ruled that Yin Quer is to be sealed in ice permanently, until someone or something broke her out and she is still searching for that thing in kunlun till this day.
The next day, the mages hit the layer where the birds are nesting, which oddly enough happen to hollowed out mountains floating in the sky. These mountains also happen to have ice elements crystals growing on the side and Jiang Yu has his summoning creature take a few for everyone. However Nan Xun then warns everyone that a patrol of birds are inbound and they all decide to hide in the nearest cave, which happens to be filled with mages and animals frozen in ice. Ling Ling theorizes that this is the bird's communal freezer, where they store their food for the winter. But while everyone looks around, Nan Xun hears more birds approaching. Ling Ling gets the idea that Mu Ning Xue is to freeze everyone in ice so it would look like that they are all captured food and they won't be looked at twice. While Mu Ning Xue quickly begins freezing her teamates, other ice mages from different teams do the same, not trusting Mu Ning Xue with their lives. Just after everyone was frozen, 2 birds enter the freezer looking for a snack. One begins breaking the ice around Zhao Man Yan and another at one of the members of the Mu team. Howerver, after getting close to Zhao Man Yan, the bird suddenly hits the layer of Mu Ning Xue's ice and finds it unbreakable and goes towards a long dead creature somewhere else but the ice around the Mu team member breaks and is eaten.
After the 2 birds leave, Mu Ning Xue frees everyone and they are all happy to be still alive. While Nan Xun informs them that staying here is the best thing for now, Mo Fan goes to investigate a noise further in the cave, likely to be a baby bird accidentally left here by his mother. But on the way down, he finds something else too, a baby snow tiger with a black stone that it uses as a pacifier. Mo Fan tries to get the pacifier but the snow tiger won't let him and they play not far from a trapped bird. But then its mom starts calling into the cave and Mo Fan quickly releases the bird and leaves the cave, with the snow tiger following mo fan out. After getting out of the cave system, the mages begin advancing forward towards a higher altitude and make camp. At camp, the snow tiger decides to play tag with Jiang Yu's summoning creature and proves to fast for it to catch. After it was done playing, the snow tiger quickly jumped into the arms of Mu Ning Xue but before she can let go of him, he had already fallen asleep. However, Ling Ling notes that its pacifier might be the shadow stone that they are looking for.
The next morning, the mages are attacked by a large pack of snow tigers. Mo Fan moves to the flanks but is intercepted by 4 commander level tigers. He infects each of their shadows with his magic and upon his command, releases 4 shadow warriors, who strangle the tigers to death with garrote wires. Afterwards, the leader of the pack slowly approaches the group, the snow tiger identifies it has his mother. Mo Fan slowly approaches the leader while carrying the snow tiger and tells him that he must return home to his mother, but before he does he must release the pacifier. However the snow tiger declines and makes it known that he will only surrender the pacifier after they lead him out of the kunlun mountains. Seeing no better alternative, Mo Fan releases Apas while everyone else makes a run for it. Apas takes on her medusa form and quickly retreats far way from the rest of the group. Then she looks at the mother tiger and activates her signature curse and the mother tiger along with her surroundings are instantly turned to stone. However, due to the mother tiger's strength and the fact that her own has been inhibited by the summoning contract, only the mother tiger's skin has turned to stone. But while the mother tiger sheds it, the mages manage to get away and apas retreats to the contract space.
Afterwards, the group advanced towards the top of the kunlun mountains, and see a group of mages surrounding and fighting a young lady. Mu Ning Xue identifies her as Yin Quer, with Mo Fan noting that she looks almost identical to Mu Ning Xue. However, the mages identify themselves as following the directives of the holy court and one of them calls out the hunter king, asking for their assistance. Although the hunter king isn't sure, the mage offers the whole group the location of a 7 leafed clover which he has spotted on the way here. The hunter king calls for a meeting with the rest of the leaders of the hunting parties while the mages keep on fighting. While yin queer manages to escape by creating a blizzard, the hunters agree to the offer and will help capture Ying Quer. Mu Ning Xue has different ideas and asks Mo Fan for help, who in turn asks Nun Xun for help. Nan Xun states that she is only willing to help find her and lead the rest in another direction but that is all.
Nan Xun finds Yin Quer hiding in an ice crevice and being stuck inside a plant tentacle while being bombarded by wind. However before Nan Xun can divert everyone else, one super tier mage goes on top of the ice cravice without noticing Yin Quer and goes to stand guard at that location. While Mu Ning Xue sneaks into the crevice, Mo Fan engages the mage. While the mage unleashes some lighting magic, mo fan uses his shadow clone to dodge and move to the top of one of the mountains. He then uses his earth magic to trigger an avalanche and buries the guy alive. Afterwards, he uses void magic to levitate both Mu Ning Xue and Yin Quer out of the cave. Afterwards, Mu Ning Xue offers her safe passage out of kunlun, but she refuses. Stating that she must continue to look for the one that let her out of the ice. After she leaves, the snow tiger comes running out of nowhere with the 7 leafed clover in his mouth. Mo Fan thanks the snow tiger for the treasure and tells everyone to go back down. But before they do, Zhao Man Yan points out that if the snow tiger is carrying the 7 leafed clover, where the hell did the pacifier go? Mo Fan realizes and quickly runs around the mountain tops. He eventually finds the mage that made the offer about the 7 leafed clover with the shadow stone. Mo Fan tries to act cool as if looking for the 7 leafed clover and waits for the mage to discard it and then quickly returns to his team and they head back down the mountains.
After getting back to the hotel at the bottom of kunlun, Ling Ling calls everyone to a meeting and stated that after analyzing the mark on the forehead of the snow tiger, she concludes that the little cub in front of them is the genuine totem beast of kunlun. Mo Fan goes to call Shao Zheng, who supposedly met with the totem of kunlun to confirm, since the one before them is but a baby. Shao Zheng states that he never met a tiger, only a little girl who gave him some solid ice crystals, which he used to get into power. Ling Ling quickly figures out that he met Yin Quer on the mountain and ends the conversation with Shao Zheng. After everyone leaves the meeting, Shao Zheng calls Mo Fan on a private line, saying that after a second attempt, the holy city has managed to capture Ying Quer and that he might want to inform the big guy.
=== Batlle of Holy City ===
2055-2090
Mo Fan immediately heads for Xi'an, where the Nine Spectral Empress is the only undead that remains. He informs of her what happened and she goes to send a telepathic message to the ancient king, who is currently in egypt busting up pyramids and relates his reply, he will deal with it later. Mo Fan asks why and the Nine Spectral Empress explains that this is obviously a trap meant for him and that he will not simply walk into a city of hostile humans and tells Mo Fan to just go home.
Back in FanXue Shan, Mo Fan meets with Yu Shi Shi, so that he can hand over the care of the snow tiger to her. Yu Shi Shi also offers her help in another matter, with the use of her moths, the 7 leafed clover and the crystals that Apas had collected, she might be able to create a heavenly earth species for mo fan to use. Mo Fan wonders what that is and Mu Ning Xue explains that heavenly species are so powerful that they would allow a high tier mage to defeat a super tier mage with a soul species in the same element and Mo Fan couldn't agree fast enough. After leaving, they are greeted by the Nine Spectral Empress.
She states that the Ancient King has heard them and will personally deal with the matter, not wanting to flatten the Holy City with legions of undead. But he is also requiring Mo Fan to take the Nine Spectral Empress to do recon and Mu Ning Xue decides to join them. On the way to the Alpine school, since Nine Spectral Empress will only allow Yu Xi's body to contain her soul, Mo Fan realizes that Salan was the only who could have set this up, since she was the only one who wasn't loyal to Shao Zheng that knew of the Ancient King's real name. After arriving at the city, Bora, who had decided to tag along aswell, explains that they city allows all peaceful non-human species to enter and live in the city, but they may not use their non-human powers and that everyone is watched by the golden dragon statue in the center of the city. At the entrance, Nine Spectral Empress warns the rest that this city is likely going to become a hot-bed of forbidden curses, magic so intense that even undead do not want to enter places that had been victim to forbidden curses decades ago.
After entering the city, the group splits up, Nine Spectral Empress goes to find a way to let her boss in, Bora goes to meet an old friend living in the city, Apas goes shopping and Mo Fan and Muning Xue go find a place to sleep. Apas goes into a beauty salon, which to her horror is run by her second elder sister, Eurielle. She taunts Apas on her weakness and frailty and to make matters worse, she slowly transforms into a human that she had killed and dons her skin, Apas's human mother (It is explained that for high level demons that gender(s) aren't an issue for procreation). If that wasn't enough, the next parton to enter the salon was Zu Xiangtian, who recognizes Apas and asks her what she is doing here and that if she is here, the guy who he is due to beat next month should be here as well. Apas's quickly makes up a lie and gets Zu Xiangtian to leave and then quickly leaves Eurielles eyesight.
Meanwhile, Bora goes to meet an old friend, an elderly clock maker. After discussing the fact that all the way back when Bora was human more than 2 millennia ago, he helped build the holy city and that even today, some of the buildings still bear his name. Afterwards the conversation is interruped by a member of the inquisition, the clock maker's grand daughter. The grand daughter takes Bora for a walk and manages to figure out his real identity, while he in turn manages to get her to divulge the location of where they are holding Yin Quer, in the central plaza and that they do in fact plan to fight the emperor inside city limits.
Meanwhile back at the hotel that Mo Fan had booked, Apas begins to cry and Mo Fan begins to comfort her and tells her not to worry and that he will deal with her sister for her sake. After she calms down, Mo Fan tells her to go sleep everything off in the contract space, but Apas realized what's actually going on, Mo Fan had rented a room for both him and Mu Ning Xue, but she just kicked him out. Apas states that this is her room that was rented for her, but she will do whatever Mo Fan says but she will also inform Mu Ning Xue of exactly what he did first thing in the morning. Mo Fan decides to sleep another night outside. But on the way out he is greeted by Bora, who says that he might have a way of dealing with Eurielle and rescue Yin Quer. He explains that the eyes of Eurielle allow her to copy the appearance of anyone, including their aura and that they might be able to use that to break Yin Queer out.
The next night, Mu Ning Xue goes to Eurielles salon for a beauty treatment and then for some fun afterwards. After arriving at a dark alleyway, Mo Fan and Apas appear infront of the pair and Bora and Nine Spectral empress behind them. Mo Fan jumps Eurielle but finds her to be a copy, imitated by clock makers grand daughter. Then the clock maker and Eurielle, along with a woman who looks like the granddaughter, who in turn reveals herself to be Eurielle. The clock maker apologizes for what he has done to Bora and that this was just to help is granddaughter rise through the ranks. Bora replies by saying not to worry, he saw this coming. After being betrayed many times during his long life, he naturally expected to be betrayed again, so he went to meet with a second old friend. The man that operates the giant void mirror, which allows him to create a copy of the holy city for people to battle him. He had set the void mirror for their current location and time and told him that they can do whatever they want, as long as the law is upheld and Bora finishes with saying that there is no way of knowing who Eurielle is without her revealing herself, as that is the power that her eyes hold. Mo Fan and Mu Ning Xue begin to fight immediately after Eurielle takes her medusa form. While Mu Ning Xue manages to trap Eurielle between some icebergs, Mo Fan unleashes his super tier lightning and it barely does anything to her. Eurielle then sheds her skin to become much faster and begins to chase after Mo Fan, who she almost manages to reach. Mu Ning Xue and Mo Fan then manage to trap her again with the use of wind and shadow magic. Then Mo Fan comes in and rips out one of her eyes, promising that this will be the last that she sees of him if she never comes after Apas again and they leave.
Afterwards they go look around for someone to imitate and oddly enough run into Zu Xiangtian. Apas puts a sleeping curse on him and Mo Fan uses Eurielle's eye to take his identity. Afterwards he approaches the main temple of the city and they let him right in. After telling an annoying nun to go sell her body (to ruin Zu Xiangtian's life), he runs into Zu Xiangtian's grandfather. After feigning ignorance, the grandfather reveals that Zhang Kong is actually Zu Xiangtian's cousin and that after the incident of Yin Quer, he had put him in Bo city to keep him away from the family but he could never have expected that all this could happen. He reveals that the dark cloak of the Ancient King is slowly eroding his soul until only the Ancient King remains and hopes that killing him now would help atone for everything he has done to Zhang Kong. After Mo Fan takes another look around, he sees that there is no way that he can get to Yin Quer and he leaves the temple.
Meanwhile, 2 of the cities forbidden Curse mages, Rapheal and Michael discuss the Ancient King and the upcoming battle against him and they argue whether or not this guy is as bad as Khufu, Michael spots the Ancient King sitting atop one of the statues in the city. He subsequently activates the city wide alert and addresses the city via loud speakers. He publicly challenges the Ancient King to a duel and states that humanity can defeat emperors. Afterwards the cities void mirror activates and a copy of the entire city is placed inverted above the city, as if there was a mirror floating in the middle of the sky. Afterwards a large number of mages take up positions on 1 side of the city along with a dragon that has Yin Quer attached to one of its horns. Then Zhang Kong takes a look at Mo Fan and freezes him in place with void magic, also stating they aren't wrong, his soul is loosing ground to the Ancient King that he must handle this alone and then flies up to take position on the other side of the void city.
The mages make the first move. They form a giant light magic array made of many Super and High tier mages and form a lazer beam, which is then fired at the Ancient King, who stands there and takes the hit without taking any damage. He subsequently retaliates by sending a soul attack and kills the entire defensive line made to intercept the emperors attacks. The mages then try again, building a flame array under the emperor and a volcano errupts. The ancient king still doesn't take any damage and stamps his foot on the ground, destroying the flame array. He then calls out Michael, saying that these guys are far to weak to threaten him and that he is far weaker than the emperor of the Sahara, the emperor of the sea and the Enchanted. He then releases his aura and chokes to death many more mages.
However the mages now begin to take this seriously and a forbidden curse mage steps forward. He tells his friends to get in a hexagonal formation around him and he begins chanting a forbidden curse. He then steps out of the hexagon and a giant golden dragon, not to different from the statue in the middle of the city, appears out of it. The dragon then fires a laser beam towards the Ancient King and he quickly dodges with a teleportation, but then the laser beam turns around and chases the Ancient King around. Eventually the Ancient king stops dodging and activates a red armor and stands to take the hit. The Ancient King, again, takes no damage. While the rest of the mages wonder what exactly is going on, the Ancient king punches the dragon and it flies all the way over the mages to the back of the lines, but survives and the Ancient King starts advancing forward. The mages then try again by forming a wind array and fire of an implosion spell, which to everyone's surprise, actually does damage to the Ancient King, with the red armor showing several big cracks. The Ancient King then sends out a revenge curse and everyone who took part in the wind array have their lungs explode. Then Micheal orders all normal mages to retreat.
The previous Forbidden Curse mage that summoned the dragon tries again with a different curse, he summons down a droplet of ice and it slowly starts expanding in waves above the city, until the Ancient King releases the sound of drums. The sound of drums causes the waves of ice to regress and disappear into nothing. The forbidden curse mage appears behind the Ancient King and asks how this is possible. The Ancient King simply ignores him and continues to release the sound of drums and it causes the forbidden curse mage to start bleeding out of every orifice until he dies, to the shock of the rest of both cities watching.
He then begins advancing again and lays eyes on a squad of mages trying to cast something on the ground, but they quickly run when they see him. The Ancient King then continues advancing towards where the mages were and found that he has walked into a blessed area and finds that his armor has started to degrade, but he continues to walk forward. Michael has enough of his attitude and pulls out his sheperd's wand and uses it to call down a rain of molten metal, which manages to destroy his armor, but the Ancient King simply calls forth a new one. Then Michael retreats and starts chanting his strongest curse, calling down many blue fiery feathers. However the Ancient King reaches him before the curse can finish. He tells him that he will wait for his curse to finish and to please excuse him while he goes to see his girlfriend.
He climbs up to where both the dragons are/landed and kills them both instantly and pulls the chains of her. Yin Quer goes running towards Zhang Kong, but he tells her to stop, saying that any living matter will automatically be absorbed into the armor, but she doesn't care and hugs Zhang Kong. She asks why he let her out of her prison but didn't stick around, with him replying that he isn't the same person anymore. Yin Quer replies that she doesn't care and they kiss. Then Zhang Kong states that she must get out of here, but Yin Quer refuses, saying that she will stay with Zhang Kong, whether life or death. After Michael returns and Yin Quer is half absorbed into the armor, he fires his collection of phoenix feathers at the both of them but neither of them resist and wait to be hit. After the impact, Zhang Kong, Yin Quer and the mantle of the Ancient King have all been reduced to dust with the loach absorbing their souls and nature.
=== White Snow Mountain Duel ===
2091-2132
After returning from the battle of the holy city, they return to FanXue shan. Mo Fan and Mu Ning Xue go to greet Yu Shi Shi while the snow tiger and the moon moth are playing. She states that she has completed her work on the heavenly species but there are some problems. She didn't have enough raw earth elemental material and so the species has been reduced down to an incomplete form, having only 2 abilities instead of 3 and only having a boost factor of 10. After Mo Fan absorbs the species, they go to the mountains to test it. Yu Shi Shi informs Mo Fan of the 2 abilities that he has gained. The first is the dust circles, where everytime someone casts magic in the vicinity, a small amount of that energy is absorbed and stored within a gravel circle around Mo Fan, which he can use to cast magic upon command. The second is the blood golem. Every time he bleeds, the soil beneath him will absorb the blood and upon command a golem will appear out of the ground whose strength will depend on the amount of blood that Mo Fan has lost. Mo Fan then overhears some monsters running around the edge of the mountains and goes to investigate, leaving the girls behind.
Mo Fan looks around and sees 3 wolf like creatures running around the mountains and kills them instantly with Mid tier earth magic. He then continues to look around and fines an earth element mine. After arriving with the use of rock magic, the foreman of the mine tells him not to make such a ruckus and asks him who the hell he is. Before he gets a chance to reply, another wolf creature bursts out of the mine. All the earth mages try to do something about it but it doesn't work, until Mo Fan comes in and deals with it in one blow. Afterwards they are approached by the owner of the creatures who also happens to be riding a warrior class creature. He asks why and who killed his children. The foreman points to Mo Fan and states that they thought they were under attack and simply dealt with it. The man identifies himself as a member of a rather dark mercenary group suspected of many illegal things but nothing was ever proven, then gives the foreman a choice, he will kill everyone here unless he buries Mo Fan alive. After a long argument, he tells the man to go stuff it. The man then sends another wolf after him, but Mo Fan nails it to the ground with earth magic. The man returns fire with mid tier sound magic, but it only grazes mo fan. Then Mo Fan uses the blood that was spilled by the graze to summon forth a blood golem to impale the man. While the man that is impaled is still alive, he calls Tang Yue for some judges to bring these guys into custody. But before that happens, he asks the man who is still impaled to rate his skills and power.
After the rest is brought into custody, Mo Fan travels to the Pearl Magic University to cultivate in the 3 step pagoda. Once he starts meditating, he finds that the energy absorbed by the loach from the Ancient King is used to directly break through into Super Tier fire element. After a week of cultivating, he leaves the tower for some breakfast at the local school cafe, until he is interrupted by Zhao Man Yan, who asks where the hell he has been. Mo Fan replies that he is just getting ready for today's battle, however Zhao Man Yan has to inform him that the battle should have happened yesterday. Seeing that he has messed up badly, he quickly races to FanXue Shan.
In a filled in stadium, Mu Ning Xue prepares to go in and face Zu Xiangtian on Mo Fan's behalf, but he manages to get there on time before the fight. He manages to make up an excuse about the black vatican and is now ready to fight in the duel. The Duel will be held on the coastline on a reef in the middle of the sea, with a half-stadium being built on the coastline. Afterwards, Mo Fan and him start throwing insults at one another, with Mo Fan claiming that he is the strongest young mage in the world and that today he will prove that.
The fight starts with Zu Xiangtian activating a weird type of magic and he suddenly takes the form of a human-wolf like creature. He instantly appears before Mo Fan and begins fighting him in close quarters. Ai Jiang Tu, who is in the stands, explains that Zu Xiangtian comes from a special family specializing in curse magic. Where they have the unique ability to capture the souls of monsters and then use them for their abilities for a short amount of time. Mo Fan tries dodging with space and shadow magic, but his opponent still manages to land a blow and Mo Fan starts bleeding. Then Mo Fan calls forth a shadow elder and transforms him into a shadow dagger. Mo Fan then too begins fighting close quarters. Since they are both using monarch-level powers, they both know that their time of using this magic is limited. However it is Zu Xiangtian who hits the limit first.
He immediately calls out another soul vessel, saying that he has got 2 more like this one. This one proves a match for Mo Fan and lands another blow on him, but Mo Fan manages to defeat it with by unleashing the shadow elder as a storm of shadow daggers. After they both run out, Zu Xiangtian then resorts to using super tier wind magic, which fill the sky as a large army of wind soldiers. He claims that since he has also received the spiritual press on his wind magic, his lightning will not be able to break through. Mo Fan rebukes, saying that his spiritual press is a bit different than his (since the loach boosted his blessing to a factor of 2) and casts Super tier lightning magic and it busts right through the wind soldiers.
Zu Xiangtian now decides to take this seriously and decides to forgo his third soul vessel and immediately activates his 4th, which he claims was collected from a long hunt of a tiger demon in kunlun and he begins to take the form of a white human-tiger. While no one is noticing, the snow tiger totem appears on the battlefield right next to Mo Fan, he makes sure to voice his displeasure at the enemy infront of them, since the tiger demon is the ancient rival of the tiger demon and tells Mo Fan to destroy him. However unlike the previous monsters, Zu Xiangtian uses the power of the vessel to summon a hurricane composed of tiger claw slashes. Mo Fan is forced to retreat to the edge of the reef and dons and armor made of void magic and in the process breaks through into the 6th spiritual level. Even though the armor holds, Mo Fan continues to suffer cuts on his body and all the fish in the area begin to seek shelter from the storm. However, one of these fish begins to take cover behind Mo Fan. Mo Fan praises the fish's intelligence in choosing him as a shield and pick the fish up and carries him towards the deep sea while continuing to suffer injuries. Ai Tu Tu, who is also watching in the stand, calls him out on this and praises him as a kind devil to all the people watching on the field.
After returning to his position, Mo Fan begins to take this seriously and activates all the gravel circles that have accumulated so far and creates a giant rock fortress. The fortress proves itself strong, but eventually it is ground down by the hurricane. Mo Fan then decides to activate his other ability, the blood golem. However after he calls it out, he notices that the golem isn't blood colored, but the color of dark red with a purple hue, the color of the devil and notices that this golem is far stronger. The massive golem over 50 meters tall quickly rushes towards Zu Xiangtian, who keeps retreating while cursing the information broker that got him the information about the wrong intel of Mo Fan's shadow and lighting magic, up until the point that Zu Xiangtian is chased out of the battlefield and the TKO is awarded, declaring Mo Fan the winner. Mo Fan then leaves the battlefield, with Mu Ning Xue asking if he is okay. Mo Fan replies that all his injuries will be solved if he could just spend a night with Mu Ning Xue. But before he can finish his sentence, Mu Ning Xue rejects him.
=== Green Island Crisis ===
2133-2198
After the battle of FanXue Shan, Mo Fan and Zhao Man Yan go to egypt to trade the shadow stone for Mu Bai's life and then goes to the Parthenon. On the way up, he runs into a festival at the foot of the temple. Where a large number of waitresses are dancing around a black clad Azeala. However, the ladies let a man into the scene and he puts a flower on the ear of Azeala and her dress suddenly turns white. One of the nearby waitresses that this is a ceremonial depiction of the Resurrection power of the Parthenon. But Mo Fan wonders who the man could be, since the Parthenon is known world wide for both their healing powers and their misandry. At a banquet the next night, the same man, who is identified as Tours, approaches Xin Xia, asking for a dance. Before Mo Fan gets angry, Xin Xia rejects him and reminds him of the etiquette that she learned in china, gentleman need to be respectful. Tours is now the one getting angry and Mo Fan now starts getting in between Xin Xia and Tours. Before the situation gets out of hand, one of the golden sun knights interrupts them. He states that they aren't allowed to fight here and that everyone else would prefer it if they were to settle it a different manner. Tours agrees and challenges Mo Fan to a sporting competition. A season when titans are highly active around greece is soon approaching and he challenges Mo Fan to game to whoever can kill the biggest baddest titan, where the looser much apologize to the winner and Mo Fan accepts.
Afterwards, Mo Fan goes to Xin Xia's palace, where he meets Zhao Man Yan and a rather elderly looking but very much alive Mu Bai, who used the power of resurrection after the Dark King relinquished his soul, although he does remember all the torture he went through in the shadow dimension. Mu Bai states that he needs some titan organs in order to regain his vitality and that he will be joining Mo Fan on the titan hunt and Zhao Man Yan agrees to join him too.
The next morning, Mo Fan goes to the library to research titans, but oddly enough finds Azeala sitting on a window sill and reading a book. She takes him out to breakfast, but warns him that there are many dark forces at play and that Tours is just one of many parties that seek connections and power in the Parthenon. Afterwards, he heads back to the library to do research and in the night heads up to Xin Xia's palace for the night.
The next scene is left out as it may be to mature for younger audiences.
The next morning, Azeala and Yiddish along with their entourages, meet at a crossroads between the palaces of the Goddess candidates and neither is willing to give way to the other due to their pride. However Mo Fan simply walks in between the 2 of them with a massive smile on his face and the both of them wonder what the heck has gotten into him. But on the way down, he meets Zhao Man Yan, who has some bad news, titan season has come early. An entire farming island off the coast of crete has been attacked by a giant silver moon titan and everything has been destroyed, no survivors.
The trio quickly head to crete to investigate the matter. When they arrive on the farming island, they investigate the rubble and actually manage to find a survivor. However he is suffering from memory loss and the trio decide to hand him off to main camp of the Parthenon, where several golden sun knights along with many silver moon and blue star nights have setup camp to assist the fighting of the titans. Afterwards a general meeting is called, where Mo Fan is allowed to participate because of his duel with Tours. The witness explains that he saw a 100 meter silver moon titan walk around the island and crush everything in its path. Afterwards the meeting is dismissed and the Tours starts organizing his units to kill the titan and Mo Fan takes care of the witness. The witness explains that he didn't tell the golden sun knights everything and that he is more than happy to help them out. He offers to rent them one of the houses on his land along with his services and the trio agree. After sorting out the rent, the trio go out for some food. But after discussing the titan attack and how to defeat them with magic, they quickly get surrounded by a cult. This cult is from ukraine and believe that magic is an affliction on the earth and that it is the cause of all the monsters attacks on humanity, saying that humanity must trust in the gods for protection, but since the invention of magic, all the gods were killed and fought off. After returning back to the rented house, they run into another section of the cult, demanding that they should be housed here. But the landlord quickly smoothes it out and tells them that Mo Fan and co are just non magical farm hands that live in the nearby hut, to the displeasure of the trio.
Afterwards, the trio plus their new landlord have a meeting about how to deal with the titans. Mu Bai explains that the Titans need most is security and healing. Since the titans are free-roaming creatures, they will often get into fights with creatures they meet in the wild. He also explains that in order to heal properly, they need to sleep, but for them to sleep is very difficult for titans to do by themselves, so titans will often harvest poppies. But to make sure that they don't run into any trouble while they are in the open, they will almost always prefer to stay underwater. Mu Bai produces a map and the landlord quickly crosses out locations of where the titans are likely appear until 2 remain. The trio decide to setup a trap and catch at titan and they split up with Zhao Man Yan staying at the first spot and Mo Fan and Mu Bai staying at the second spot.
Sure enough, Mu Bai and Mo Fan see a titan walking out of the water but before Mo Fan can engage it, it seems they weren't the only one expecting to find a titan here. Out of nowhere, a large group of Japanese mages appear. 40 of these mages quickly cast high tier plant magic and quickly tie up the titan, who suprisingly offers no resistance. However on closer inspection, the titan that was caught appears to be only a 40 meter blue star titan and suddenly a 110 meter silver moon titan starts to walk out of the water behind it. After realizing which the real target is, the japanese engage the silver moon titan, but they are quickly defeated and suffer heavy casualties. Mo Fan decides that this target is too strong for him to beat and quickly picked up Zhao Man Yan and leaves. On the way out, he runs into Tours and asks him what took so long.
After regrouping that the house they were renting, Mu Bai has some bad news, Tours has manage to kill the Silver moon titan and that Mo Fan is in trouble. However, Mo Fan doesn't seem to mind much and decides that they should just hunt titans normally and go out again the next night. The next night, they are in luck and come across a 70 meter blue star titan. Mo Fan casts Super tier lightning magic and traps the titan in the nine ring ban. Then Zhao Man Yan activates his super tier light magic and calls down a demon sword, which he uses to spill the vital organs of titan for Mu Bai to reep. After repeating this 2 more times, the trio have earned quite a bit of money and Mu Bai is now back to full strength.
After seeing that nothing near the 110m silver moon titan has appeared nearby since the one that Tours has killed, Mo Fan goes to apply at the local hunter hall. The office lady informs them that a "steel mountain giant" has been terrorizing the Mediterranean alongside a sea dragon and that the children between them have destroyed everything in their path. Mu Bai goes to analyze the movement patterns of the 2 of them and calculates that they are going to converge on one of the many fortresses spread around the Agean and the trio subsequently head there.
They arrive and are greeted by a female military major. The major assumes that the trio are just propaganda artists here to do some photo-ops and promises to lead them around (cursing her role as a female in this matter under her breath). But suddenly, all the alarms suddenly start ringing and the base is assaulted from the sea. The major tells the trio to stay put, but Mu Bai tries to convince her that they are here to kill the steel mountain giant and the sea dragon. The major asks them to stop joking around and leaves them. Not even 10 minutes later, she returns covered in blood, most of it not her own and tells the trio they are being evacuated. But before the process begins, 2 beings slowly appear out of the ocean. The first is a snake like ocean dragon and flies stationary in the sky. Right next to it, a titan slowly climbs out of the water and although it is only a blue star titan, the titan is over 200 meters tall, with the highest point of the base not even getting up to the titan's knees, with Mo fan noting his displeasure to it not being a silver moon titan.
While everyone is covered with shock, Mo Fan silently starts casting Super tier lighting magic. He manages to finish it and fires it at the sea dragon, but the titan puts its hand over it and absorbs the hit. Having been found out, the trio quickly move to the beaches and begins to open fire on the dragon and the titan. Mo Fan however is their first combined target, with the titan creating a spacial trap around Mo Fan and then the sea dragon pours in water as the spacial trap sinks into the sand. Mo Fan finds that his spacial and shadow magic can't get him out of this trap and his fire magic isn't enough to get him out of this. Until suddenly, all the water instantly evaporates and the space trap is removed. He looks up to find a dear little girl, Yan Ji.
Yan Ji however, is now in her queen form and is now an orthodox monarch. Yan Ji, lets out a raging scream, angry that someone tried to killed her father. She creates a giant fireball and fires it at the sea dragon, taking it out of the sky directly. Then as she goes to fight with the blue star titan but it proves its strength and she delivers some fierce blows. But in the meantime, the sea dragon manages to get back up and starts releasing horrible screams. Yan Ji forms a fire bow and fires a fire arrow at the sea dragon and kills it directly. In the mean time, Zhao Man Yan has created his earth golem and boosted it with the power of his wooden fish vessel. However this golem is only 100m tall and gets only to the waist line of the titan. The titan takes a runner stance and breaks right through the golem but takes serious damage and collapses. Afterwards Yan Ji fires one more blow to finish it off and then returns to her little girl form and quickly flies into the arms of Mo Fan.
After the battle, both Mo Fan and the Titan are transported back to Crete on 4 seperate battleships tied together. The knights of the Parthenon praise Mo Fan on his accomplishments, but Tours argues that no matter the size, A blue star titan is a blue star titan and a silver moon titan is a silver moon titan. The next night, Mo Fan is taking a walk through the woods but finds a heavily injured landlord. He collapses but is quickly found by members of the Lang Lang organisation (the same ones that provided the hearts for Sulu in order to tame the dragon emperor). While Zhao Man Yan and Mu Bai arrive, they explain that they have come to silence any witnesses to the agriculture island disappearance and that now they know of their existence, they must die as well. Mo Fan however takes it differently and uses lightning magic to kill all but the leader of the of the group. He threatens him that if to find the biggest superior of his and if he isn't satisfied with the power of them, he will kill him within 24 hours. As the dude runs away, Mo Fan infects the man's shadow, but turns around and sees that the landlord has passed. Mo Fan decides to leave the other 2 behind and begins his hunt.
The goon from Lang Lang quickly runs to the capital of Crete and runs towards his bow tie wearing female superior in her office. The woman laughs at the challenged that was issued at the goon and declares that the guy will easily be killed by the several bodyguards standing around her. However, Mo Fan quickly jumps through the window of the office and activates his shadow domain execution field, killing all the body guards except the goon and the woman. He then gives the same demand to the woman, she has 24 hours to find a superior worthy of his power or she will be killed. The woman quickly runs out after Mo Fan infects her shadow.
Meanwhile on the other side of Crete. The head of the commerce division of crete orders a subordinate to kill a farmer angry over the disappearance of 2 of his daughters in the incident of the agriculture island. The woman obeys the command and stuffs the guy in his car and tosses the whole thing of a cliff, making it look like an accident. Afterwards the bow tie woman arrives, telling the division head the same story the Lang Lang goon told her. The division head quickly scoffs at the idea and summons his bodyguards. Afterwards, Mo Fan and the goon arrive and Mo fan makes quick work of the security guards and continues on with the demand on the division head. After the division head runs off, he approaches the female subordinate, noting that he remembers her from somewhere. After preparing himself to kill her, the subordinate points out that she works for the farmer and not the division head and points out the crashsite and tells him to look closely. After close inspection, Mo Fan finds that although the driver looks dead, he is very much alive and does not have life threatning injuries. Mo Fan decides to believe her story and lets her go, but gets Zhao Man Yan to take him to Golden Sun Knights, as he might know something about what happened to the island. After they both leave, Mo Fan informs the goon that his 24 hours are over and he summons a shadow warrior out of the guys shadow and kills him.
Mo Fan then tracks the division head to the local military base, as he sees the division head go in, he informs the bow tie lady that her 24 hours are up and she too is killed by a shadow warrior. After killing her, he tries approaching the base to see who the division head approached, but he is stopped at the entrance, since he isn't a member of the military. Mo Fan presents his hunter badge along with evidence of collusion between the military and the Lang Lang association. The military office at the entrance still refuses entry to mo fan, stating that he must first show the evidence to the local trial and then come back on official trial business. Mo Fan doesn't like that idea and simply shackles the man to the ground using void magic. Immediately afterwards, the Alarms of the base go off and Mo Fan is quickly surrounded by Mid-tier mages. Mo Fan calls out the division head, stating that if the guy he approached does not present himself, he will destroy the base. The general of the military base presents himself with the division head behind. After an argument, the general is the first to make a move and stomps his feet on the ground and suddenly a giant ice boot tries to land on Mo Fan, with him dodging with shadow magic. Then he throws a normal punch at Mo Fan from a long distance and suddenly a giant fist of ice appears in front of Mo Fan and tries to punch him (Think Hairs moves from Bayonetta). Mo Fan tries to get closer using teleportation, but the general expected that move and throws him an elbow, Mo Fan dodged with the use of High tier void level 3, which allows numerous teleportations in quick succession. Afterwards, Mo Fan used the power of his sub heavenly earth seed to restrain the general.
After he has captured the general, he makes both him and the division head an offer. Who ever tells him the best and the most intel, gets to live. Between the 2 of them, they reveal that the island was not in fact attacked by titans, but by the head of the cult against magic from Ukraine. After testing some new tamed animals on the island, they all suddenly went mad and attacked everything in sight. After they were all defeated, most of the island had already been destroyed and the Ukranians decided to finish the job and blame it all on the titans. Afterwards they dumped all the bodies in a whirlpool in the sea next to the island. Mo Fan deems that the division head had provided the best intel and summons a shadow elder, who chains up the general and takes his soul to the shadow realm, where is soul is to be tortured for eternity. Afterwards he tells the division head to go to the head of the cult and tell him that he will spend the night digging up the bones of the people killed and that if he wants to stop them, he must come himself.
The next night, Zhao Man Yan is digging up bones using water magic and Mu Bai is doing autopsies, who can confirm that all the people did not die from titan attacks. Afterwards they are interrupted by the head of the cult and his bodyguards. He states that he is genuinely impressed with their efforts but this is the end and summons forth his "god", a silver moon titan no shorter than the one defeated by Zhao Man Yan and Yan Ji. The trio decide to take this seriously right from the bat and Mo Fan fuses with Yan Ji while telling the other 2 to deal with the bodyguards. Mo Fan fuses the flames on the wings of Yan Ji, which are now made of pure fire element, taking the appearance of metal and forms them up to make a tube and releases energy from them, effectively making a rocket engine. He then charges at the titan and uses his hands to form a flame hammer. He strikes the titan but doesn't do much damage. He then tries again but sees that the titan is quite agile and blocks the second attack and dodges the third. Mo Fan then calls down the flame robbery, no different than the one he saw when he first arrived at Yan Ji's birthplace. The flames roll over the sky in waves and the Titan starts to get cooked. The titan decides to go underwater but sees that the entire sea does not inhibit the robbery of Yan Ji and continues to be cooked.
Meanwhile back on the island, Mu Bai tells Zhao Man Yan to deal with the rest of these guys himself and that he needs to go check something in regards to the titan Mo Fan is fighting. He runs over to a camp, which was setup by the ukranian cult and sees many elderly and children playing. A few minutes later, the head of the cult looks up and sees that all the faith lines to the titan have been cut and that his power is now much weaker than before (it is explained that the principle of this is not much different from how Cold Jue got his power). After looking through the camp, Mu bai finds a rather weird poppy and after testing it in the water, he suddenly gets very angry.
Meanwhile back at the battle, Mo Fan and Zhao Man Yan have finished their respective fights and converge on the head of the cult, he is immediately killed. Mu Bai then appears with horrible news. The poppy that he has found bears similar properties to the source of the undead that Salan dropped on Xi'an and Bo city. While the titan corpse is deliverd to the golden sun knights (and Mo Fan is declared the winner of the battle between him and Tours), the Trio rushes to the golden sun knight that was caring for the farmer, who is now dying and has his eyes ripped out. Before he passes, he was told to give a message to Mo Fan form the one that freed the farmer, greetings from Blue Bat!.
=== Ojos school ===
2199- 2364
Being angry at missing he this time, but smelling blood. Mo fan aims to track down Blue Bat now that they manage to find her, but suddenly realizes that he has no lead. Mu Bai comes to the rescue. He stated that he know where she is going. It was revealed by him that the landlord was in a secret relationship with one of the daughters of the farmer that was killed in the attack on the farming island and wrote a diary about it. It explains that the man travels the world to cultivate his crops, the poppies. But that his main base of supply is the Ojos School in South America. Having a lead, the trio decide to hunt down and kill Salan. But due to Salan often having spies everywhere, they decide to not tell anyone where they are going, not even Ling Ling. But before leaving, they realize that they need a disguise to enter the Ojos School. Mo fan calls Dean Xiao, who gives them fake identities as members of the Pearl Magic University to go to the school. however, due to the nature of both schools, the only option is to send them over as exchange teachers, rather than students.
Upon arriving at the school a week later, the trio is formally dressed and are all looking like adults in their mid 30's, due to a potion that Mu Bai had brewed. They are then greeted by a female grounds keeper, who is acting quite racist towards the chinese "tourists". However, Zhao Man Yan swings out his teachers ID and the groundskeeper immediately starts beggin for mercy, as it was stated that insulting teachers is quite a Faux Pa in Ojos. The Trio forgave the groundskeeper on the condition that she gave them a tour of the school. About halfway through, she gets slapped by a female student for another undisclosed case of rudeness. The groundskeeper is sent to her supervisors while Zhao Man Yan made the student continue their tour.
The next morning, Mo Fan awakens late and is greeted by the guidance supervisor, who takes him to do his first lecture. Mo Fan is informed that he will be teaching the advanced magic theory course, as Zhao Man Yan had already done a lesson in practical combat and Mu Bai a lesson in demonology. Mo Fan is expecting a small group of students, but is suddenly put infront of a group of exactly 300 students in a filled lecture theater. Being not entirely sure what to do (and even preferring to face the army of Khufu over this), he instead asks the class what they would like to know. After a few questions he did not know the awnser to, a young lady stands up and asks him about the Nazca line incident a few years ago and asks how creatures like that can exist. After actually being in it, Mo Fan went on to explain that this was possible through fusion magic, combining chaos and summoning magic to create many copies of a single creature and then using them to attack. Afterwards, several other students started asking questions about fusion magic and Mo Fan perfectly awnsered most of them, due to being into continous contact with the Fusion magic scientist from the Chaotic Shadow assassin incident.
Afterwards, the supervisor congratulated Mo Fan on his lecture, noting that not may teachers have withstood a barrage of questions like that and they continue to walk on to meet Zhao Man Yan and Mu Bai. The supervisor informs them that there will be a teacher conference this afternoon with all the honorary lectures that have come over this semester to teach. When they get there the next evening, they find rather 2 unfortuate lectureres already present. The elder brother of the prince Mo Fan tossed into the river in Venice, the duke of casa and Yan Qiu's boss/cover story for the black vatican and Blanche, who has come over from the alpine school. While noting that neither of them see through the disguises and that if Yan Qiu is here, they must likely be on the right path. Afterwards, Mo Fan is poked in the back by a familiar student, the girl that asked him questions about the nazca lines. The deputy head of education nearby identifies her as the Student Council President (SCP), after which it is also explained that the student council was invited to join the meeting. While SCP asks Mo Fan more questions about fusion magics, the deputy head interrupts, stating that fusion magic is just stupid. SCP objects, stating that it might be a way to reach power close to forbidden curses. The deputy head interjects, that the curses aren't meant for everyone. She then called out all the teachers and began to explain why they were all called here. The Ojos school has a strong sense of competition, as such, the visiting lecturers from each country will be competing with one another. Each nation represented will be given 1000 gold coins (1 coins is worth 1,000 USD) for them to spend how they see fit. They are to use it to buy equipment and other necessities for them to educate their student. Their students, who can formally assign themselves to whatever teacher they see fit, are then obligated to spend coins to be educated by the teachers at the prices the teacher sets. The students can also win money in official fights and their teachers can also bet money on their or opposite teams. At the end of the semester, which ever nationality has the most coins wins the competition. But in the process, every nationality is obligated to spend at least 10 lectures on combat, 10 on demonology and 10 on magical theory. After some discussion, the trio decide to keep the subject arrangement.
The next morning, lectures are due to start. The duke of casa is first and he holds a lecture on newly discovered material in regards to further classification in mortal, spirit, soul and heavenly seeds. Mo Fan himself along with 999 other students attended the lecture, spending 2 gold in the process. While the duke of casa had only spend 200 gold on rent for the lecture theater (200,000 USD for 1 lecture theatre for 1 hour, are they mad?). After getting scolded by Zhao Man Yan for helping the enemy, Mo Fan's lecture is next, he hires the same lecture theater he used before, but only finds that SCP is the only serious student and that the other dozen are just there to get close to SCP. Mo Fan then notes his loss due to charging only 2 gold coins for entry into the lecture but costing 100 gold to rent the lecture theater.
When returning home, while Zhao Man Yan was doing his lecture, Mu Bai was busy doing the work that they actually came for. He had inspected all the planting grounds on school grounds and found no trace of the mad poppy. However, he also states that there are many plating locations outside school grounds, including some in areas that are beyond the protective boundary enforced by the military. After cross referencing the maps provided by the school with the climate necessities for the mad poppy, he has found one ground that has all the right conditions to grow the mad poppy. However, as not to tip their hand arouse suspicion, he has set up an expedition to the location. He explains that the faculty is allowed to setup their own expeditions as a method of education, but they have full responsibility to protect their students. The other 2 agree and while Mu Bai and Zhao Man Yan are going to lecture the students on their way over, Mo Fan and the supervisor (who agreed to come of his own free will out of lack of faith in the chinese teachers) are on protection duty.
On the way to their target, Mu Bai takes a look at some shrubbery and immediately calls the students to attention, stating that there are monsters nearby. However, one of the students, a major in sound magic, states that the only thing in a 2 kilometer range is a deer galloping towards them. Mu Bai then tells the student to check again. He does and finds that the deer he was listening too was fact the the heartbeat of a monster. While he is trying to locate the monster, Mu Bai then tells him that it is hiding behind the bushes on left and he activates an ice coffin and drops in on the monster to kill it. The student then apologizes to Mu Bai for being a sound mage inferior to him. Mu Bai the reveals to the class that he isn't a sound mage. All the students then wonder how he could have known all that. Mu Bai notes the change in shrubbery. At one point the area was barren until they suddenly came across large shrubs. He reveals that the only way that is possible is through the excrement of large creatures pouring down unabsorbed nutrients, which are then leached into the ground. But the student replies that it doesn't explain how he knew where the creature was. The SCP, who had come along on this trip, points out the mosquitoes flying around the shrubs where the monster was hiding behind. Mu Bai says that she is correct and that little insects are always an indication of where large monsters are hiding. While Mu Bai and Zhao Man Yan continue their lectures, Mo Fan notes that although he is a 7 star hunting master, he knows much less about hunting than Mu Bai.
After some more talks by the pair and some more killing by Mo Fan, they reach a ravine. The supervisor explains that this is an unofficial intermediate boundary, where far beyond the terrain is much more dangerous than what they are currently in. The only ones that dare traverse it are elite educators and only take their best students (note: a good student by their standards is a 1 line super tier level 1 mage) and large numbers of security staff, but charging an extremely large price for the trip. Mu Bai, on the other hand, offers the students a small trip free of charge and all the students happily agree, noting that going over the ravine and coming back alive is akin to bragging rights in Ojos, however Mu Bai still keeps secret where they are really going.
On the way to the planting grounds, the woods are exceptionally quiet. However, suddenly 2 students quickly dash forward and begin destroying the shrubbery in front of them with magic. Mo Fan asks what the hell the students are doing, but they both reply that they heard one of the students call for help. But Mo Fan notes that the specific student that called them was at the back of the pack of students. Mo Fan then looks ahead and sees an all to familiar threat, the ape species from when he went after the demon tree back in china, the type of apes that are good at imitating the voices of other people. After sending it some homing lighting, Mo Fan and the students quickly rush back but find half the students missing along with Zhao Man Yan. Mu Bai says that Mo Fan had told the group to split up, but then Mo Fan explains what is really going on. Mu Bai and Mo Fan quickly lead the students to where the planting ground is supposed to be, but find it abandoned. They order the students to shelter inside and not to leave no matter what they heard. While Mu Bai and Mo Fan go find Zhao Man Yan, the students inside are tormented by voices of their own friends, but they decide to follow orders and stay put. About 20 minutes later, the teachers return and a few students have there limbs twisted the wrong way round, but no fatalities. While the students get healed, Mo Fan asks the sound mage if he could immitate the apes's voices for a change.
The sound mage does as he has asked and acts as one of the apes and calls the retreat. Mo Fan follows the apes to their hideout is a vertical cave system. Mo Fan stands near the entrance, activates super tier fire magic and pours the contents of the flame gates into the cave system, killing all the apes. Afterwards, Mo Fan and apas enter to see if there is any loot, with Mo Fan finding a nice little skull to play with. After getting back to the school, one of the students reveals that he is training under the chinese tutors but also attending combat lessons of other teachers in order to be able to challenge Mo Fan, the strongest young mage in the world. The students, not knowing who is in front of them since they all use fake names, all get behind the idea as it would be good for the publicity of the school. Zhao Man Yan however, decides to play a little trick with this information. He identifies himself and the other 2 as the mentors of Mo Fan, and then tells Mo Fan to call down his lighting claws to confirm their 'identity'. After Mo Fan does so, they all start to rally behind Zhao Man Yan and he tells them that he will teach them combat, but they must be willing to fight for the chinese camp so that Zhao Man Yan can bet money on them. After a few rounds of combat, Zhao Man Yan has quadrupled the chinese's camps money.
After a few days, Mo Fan wakes up in the middle of the night after cultivating and goes out to find some food. However he sees that the only place is still open is the one Blanche was in, but he decides to go in anyway. After finding out that the place is sold out of food, Blanche decides to share her food with Mo Fan, having finally worked out his identity. She reveals that she came to south america to reach all the orphanages on the continent. But the problem is that the alpine school is currently out of money and that the america's are heavily pro-alpine, which makes them anti-Parthenon by default, who seems to have money to spare. Mo Fan offers to talk to the Parthenon on her behalf, but Blanche tells him to stop dreaming.
The next day, Mo Fan helps out a student. The student complains that he isn't capable of absorbing a soul species that was provided for him. Mo Fan identifies the problem as the man's soul vessel. The student wonders how he knew, but confirms Mo Fan's suspicions. He says that his soul vessel was mined from a whole mountain of 5 pointed lightning stones and that the power within multiplies his cultivation rate by a factor of 10. But due to the nature of the lightning stones, the student has to endure electro shocks everytime he tries to cultivate. Mo Fan asks if he can fix the vessel for him. When the students hands it over, the loach absorbs the residue lightning energy and when the student tries to cultivate, he no longer feels any lightning passing through him. Mo Fan then asks if he can fix the rest of the mountain of lightning stones and the students says that he will talk to his family about that.
After lessons are over, Mo Fan takes a rest under a tree. Then he is approached by one of his students named Pooh, who wishes to introduce both her husbands to Mo Fan. After questioning the legality of having 2 husbands, she explains that they both are her legal husband and the Ojos School doesn't place much restriction on love, which they can as an independent state. Mo Fan immediately rushes to the headmasters office, demanding to marry 2 wives. The headmaster explains that he must be a citizen of Ojos in order to make that happen, unless he manages to find some wiggle room under the grounds of freedom of religion in China, as Ojos is an independent state they can argue that believing in its laws is a religion. While the argument about the legality of marrying 2 wives continues, the head master spots Yan Ji playing with a skull, he offers to buy it off them for a steep price and Mo Fan agrees, albeit with the objections of Yan Ji.
The next afternoon, Zhao Man Yan rushes to Mo Fan, saying that the student has heavily injured by the duke of casa in a duel. Mo Fan rushes to where the spanish camp is supposed to be. After they finish giving a lecture on how to make standard element magic have basic homing capabilities, Mo Fan calls the out. The duke of casa formally apologizes, believing that the student would be able to handle his talent, but Zhao Man Yan whispers in Mo Fan's ears that he is simply to lazy to try and control it. Mo Fan then challenges the spanish camp for a duel and one of the other teachers accepts. The headmaster comes to personally oversee the match along with the deputy head of education, reminding both teachers that super-tier magic is forbidden in these matches. But before the match begins, the odds of the fight are posted, 10:1 on Mo Fan's win and Zhao Man Yan goes to bet, along with the rest of the students.
The spanish teacher decides to continue his lecture and show case his homing magic technique, by covering a part of the target's body in the element of which he wishes to cast and then the concentration would automatically attract the magic that was cast. But Mo Fan uses chaos magic to make them miss repeatedly. Afterwards he uses the chaos vortex to capture the wind magic and send it right back. However the teacher dodges it and decides to take this seriously and starts using lightning magic. He creates a giant spider web of lightning bolts and fires them all at Mo Fan, who blocks it with the use of his earth magic. After the gravel circles that he used to create the defensive armor begin to dry up, he looks down and sees many more gravel circles. Realizing that the teacher isn't using 1 large spell but many smaller ones, he begins using all the gravel circles for his defense and he manages to force the teacher to use all his lighting element magic stamina. Mo Fan then begins the counter attack and summons many earth fishes with his magic and sends them to the teacher, forcing him out of the ring and giving him a TKO. The students rejoice, now that they have effectively increased their money by a factor of 10. While Mu Bai goes to see Zhao Man Yan on how much money they have earned, he reveals that he had put it on the spanish's camp and Mu Bai tells him to be prepared for Mo Fan to toss him off the roof of the schools main building.
A week later, Mu Bai had setup another expedition, after realizing that there are supposed to be many farms and factories supporting the Ojos school outside of Campus, as large amounts of basic resources are required to run a school like this. He sets up a cleaning mission, an expedition that is preferred by lower ranked students and rather than going into the wild, they go explore areas that are inhabited in order to track down nests of monsters. Mu Bai reveals that he has marked several places that might be planting the mad poppy and that they will get close to all the possible sites.
After already clearing several locations, Mo Fan dispatches one of his students named burly to chase down several fleeing monsters in the direction of a village that wasn't indicated by Mu Bai. A few minutes later, he comes running back with the village chief chasing behind him. He reveals that he had accidentally used high tier magic to destroy the monsters but in the process had destroyed one of the farms of the village. Mo Fan scolds the student and pays reparations for the village chief. A few villages later, they run into the grounds keeper that was highly racist towards the trio in the beginning, who was subsequently fired and forced to work hard hours on a farm. Mo Fan asks if she saw anything strange in the area. The lady keeps her mouth shut but Mo Fan offers her a bribe, the ability to awaken magic. He explains that he as a teacher can bypass the cue for awakening stones and get people to awaken magic directly and she immediately changes her tune. She explains that her aunt does the paperwork for the nearby farms and that several strange people have been coming around lately. Zhao Man Yan flashes her a photo of the farmer from Crete and she identifies the man as her adoptive father, with her being the man's third daughter.
The trio realize they have hit the jackpot and ask her to lead them around the nearby farms, but they don't find anything. The following night, the boys decide to split up the next day, with Zhao Man Yan checking out the farm that one of the students destroyed and Mu Bai going to investigate the area around the farms that the groundskeeper showed them and Mo Fan is going to the magic association to awaken both the grounds keeper and Apas, who is now mid tier in plant magic. The next morning, while in the magic association, the groundskeeper seems to have a case of Deja Vu. Mo Fan gets Apas to put her in a trance and see what she could remember. After a few minutes, the grounds keeper says that she was once taken to the magic association by her adoptive father and Mo Fan realizes that they are currently standing in the enemy's home base. Afterwards, Mu Bai and Zhao Man Yan rush back with breaking news of their own. Mu Bai found that the areas behind the farms that they looked at are filled with mad poppies and that Salan planned something massive. While Zhao Man Yan found that the farm that was destroyed did indeed grow mad poppies and that it was all a ruse to destroy evidence. And while the grounds keeper and Apas go awaken, the trio realize the true depth of the conspiracy.
The next week, several nations of South america have formed an alliance to share military power against the kraken invasion and are calling themselves the Andean Federation, although some nations have many pockets of resistance within each of the country. There is also a party held for some of the students to attend and while overhearing a conversation with the duke of casa, she overhears that one of the teachers is betrothed to Zhao Yucian and this make Zhao Man Yan intrigued. After getting a student to unknowingly play as a wing(wo)man to paint himself as a helpful and kind man. The trick works and the lady introduces herself as the daughter of a banker, who works at this school. Before continuing, he asks the lady if she is currently in a relationship and she says no, realizing that she is only betrothed due to her status and doesn't even like Zhao Yucian. After talking for a bit, Zhao Man Yan asks her out on a date and she accepts.
A few days later, Zhao Man Yan takes the banker's daughter to a musical performance and gets the banker's daughters body guards, which happen to include burly, to drive them around. After taking their seats, the musical conductor calls out the banker's daughter. Revealing that this entire show was merely a trap for her so that they could capture her and use her father for their own interest against the Andean federation. The musical conductor gets the orchestra to play their music, which turns out to be a massive sound attack which desrupts the magic casting powers of the pair. Zhao Man Yan however activates one of his magical equipment and creates a force field around the pair and protects her from the sound magic. The muscial conductor then gets all the actors in the audience to fire magic upon them, but the shield holds. The musical conductor then tells them to increase their power and Zhao Man Yan then activates another defensive equipment that is powered directly from his magic stamina. The bankers daughter tells him that he only needs to last 5 minutes, after which she would have missed an interval with her security team to check in and they would rush in to protect her. The barrier however only lasts 30 seconds and Zhao Man Yan then activates another magical equiment, which allows them to dissolve in a giant water wave and escape through the plumbing and appear perfectly fine at the other end. The trick works and they are pumped out into a fountain and decide to run. But afterwards, they decide to keep quiet about the whole incident as not to cause to much trouble.
A few weeks later, the farmers daughter manages to remember something, her father once brought her to the ninth security hill. While Mu Bai goes to the security office to hire guards for another expedition, he smells poppies in a nearby room. The desk clerk explains that that room is a supply storage room, from which supplies are sent to the 12 security hills that are setup in a chain between Ojos and the Amazon demon empire. Now realizing what is going on, the boys decide to rush to the 9th hill. Zhao Man Yan and Mu Bai take the subway to the 6th hill while Mo Fan will use the dimensional transporter to rush to the 8th hill, which the security office had lost contact with. The other 2 refuse to take the dimensional transporter since that one is designed specifically for goods, not humans. Mo Fan jumps into the dimensional transporter, but in he proces he manages to twist all his joints and lands in the middle an ape nest. While the apes decide to gloat over what they have received, Mo Fan kills them all with void magic, stating that even though he is disabled, he can still cast magic. Afterwards, he partially activates the demon element to heal all his injuries and he leaves the 8th hill. He then calls out his entire wolf nest and tells them to find the 9th hill, with the wolves splitting up and taking not long to do so.
After finding the entrance behind the waterfall, he knocks on the door and Blue Bat lets him in. While having a nice polite little conversation. Blue bat explains that this entire attack is her graduation mission from Salan's private teaching and that the school has to be destroyed because it just so happens to be run by one of the judges that sentenced Wentai to death. She also explains that this also is to sever her connection to her past life so that she could be free by the time she becomes pope of the black vatican and that getting rid of Shura and Cold Jue were a part of that. She then asks Mo Fan to let her go this time since she was the only reason that Cold Jue was brought in. Mo Fan in turn has had enough of the conversation and activates super tier magic in the form of thousands of thunder crows and scatters them around the area, with Blue Bat seemingly disappearing.
Mo Fan then goes to further investigate the ninth hill and finds a massive factory used for processing the mad poppies. However while preparing to destroy the facility, Blue bat reappears along with several men and an all too familiar man covered in bandages, recognizing him as the man that the holy city was hunting in Kunlun. Blue bat introduces the man as Wu the rain master and she then tells Mo Fan she hopes he has been busy cultivating and then sticks the 6 bodyguards surrounding her on him while she and Wu leave, which suddenly go down on all fours and run like spiders around him, continually covering him in power inhibiting spider silk. While Mo fan goes to take aim at 1 of them, he is suddenly jumped from behind by the other 5 spiders and they cover him in more silk. Mo Fan however remembers what the spanish teacher tought during his lecture, he covers all of the spiders in lightning marks, but then realizes that there are 11 of them and that he waits for all the marks to charge up a bit, before killing them all with lighting.
Meanwhile, Mu Bai and Zhao Man Yan arrive at the 6th hill and see that there is a monster attack and that an entire river has been diverted to another direction, blocking the road between the 6th and the 7th hill. After Mu Bai and Zhao Man Yan deal with the monsters, a group of students that seem to have lost their way plead to the teachers to take them back to campus. Mu Bai says no, but the students continue to plead. Sensing something is wrong, Zhao Man Yan decides to bluff and says that Burly has already been arrested and confessed to everything. The students change their faces immediately and start releasing poisonous insects from their body. Mu Bai tells Zhao Man Yan to go ahead as Mo Fan is likely needing reinforcements while he goes and deals with the students and summons a worm from his pocket that slowly starts turning into a dragon.
While running through the forest between the 6th and the 7th hill, he runs into Wu. He decides to use his bluff again and Wu falls for it. He then uses one of his magical equipment and traps both him and Wu in a cage. Seeing that Wu is a pacifist but far beyond his own power, he decides to go sit down and have a talk with Wu. Wu reads Zhao Man Yan as a family man with a good father and a brother he respects. Zhao Man Yan replies that he personally put his father of life support and that he is currently doing his brother's fiance. Zhao Man Yan then asks Wu about the priest getup. Wu explains that he uses it to pray back at the palace in kunlun, a total of 34,670 times, one for every kill he got in Bo city. Zhao Man Yan, now realizing who he is dealing with, tries to increase the barrier strength to pin him down for longer, but 2 executioners of the black vatican arrive before either Mo Fan or Mu Bai. The executioners quickly destroy the barrier but before they could attack, Mo Fan blows both their chests out with lightning magic and a shadow elder. Zhao Man Yan then informs Mo Fan who he has caught, but Wu summons a rain storm and uses it to flee, easily leaving Mo Fan behind. However, Wu then runs into Mu Bai and his monarch level worm and is subsequently boxed in by the trio.
Wu however decides to sit down and puts a coating over him using water magic. He informs the trio that the rain is due to fall in 3 hours and if they were to break through his coating before that happens, he will surrender. However, he also pinpoints an observation crystal that showcases Blue Bat's location and hands it to Zhao Man Yan, stating that they can either try and fail breaking through his coating or chase after Blue Bat. The trio decide to split up, with Zhao Man Yan and Mu Bai chasing after Blue Bat and Mo Fan staying behind to break through Wu's barrier. As the other 2 leave, Mo Fan casts Super tier lightning, which the coating easily stops. Mo Fan casts his shadow domain and starts summoning his shadow army, including thousands of shadow warriors and multiple shadow elders, each stronger than a monarch. But before the army attacks, a giant rainbow hits the center of the domain and it is immediately dispelled and all the shadow creatures immediately retreat back to the shadow realm. While Mo Fan is blinded by the magic, a voice calls out to Wu, telling him to run. After trying to remember the voice, he realizes something, Salan has arrived.
While Salan pulls out a teleportation scroll and starts activating it, Mo Fan activates the devil element. However before Mo Fan can reach them in his devil form, the teleportation scroll has been completed and are teleported away. After they arrive in headquarters, Wu stops and now believes to be safe. However Salan tells him to keep running and that Mo Fan can tear physical space directly. At the next moment, the physical space behind them begins to crack and demon Mo Fan comes through. However, upon arrival, he is surrounded by 6 teleportation arrays and before choosing 1, he leaves behind a shadow mark to mark the location. After choosing one portal, he arrives in a busy intersection with no pedestrians around and notices Salan had gotten away. He quickly deactivates the devil element so that he wouldn't have to suffer any recoil and quickly heads back to the black vatican local HQ using the shadow mark he left behind, as Blue Bat is now to far away from him. However when he arrives, he finds the place on fire and it being lit by the village chief that he had to pay reparations too. He quickly kills the chief and then runs into the building, managing to save a registry of local black vatican members.
After saving the intel, he calls both Tang Zhong (Tang Yue's uncle) and Zhu Meng (The member of government that went after the Totem Snake) for backup in order to clean up. However, the first person to arrive is pooh, the lady with the 2 husbands and showcases her chinese trial identity under Zhu Meng. She then asks Mo Fan for the intel, which he agrees to give under the condition that she shares her intel. After they exchange paperwork, Mo Fan tells pooh that she only destroyed a copy he made using chaos magic and then flashes the original. She then tries to kill Mo Fan but Mo Fan lets Yan Ji handle it. While Pooh and Yan Ji fight, Tang Zhong's contact arrives, the japanese supervisor. Mo Fan puts his guard up but the supervisor shows his identity with the vow mark, showcasing that the holder of this card had a curse put on him that would take effect if he were to break his oath and Mo Fan believes him to be genuine.
While digging through Pooh's intel, he learns about The Nine, nine different students directly under Salan that take her private lessons, but must complete a special assignment to graduate. He realizes that both Pooh and Blue Bat are members of The Nine and that most likely, the 2 that replaced Cold Jue and Shura are also members of The Nine. After going through the registry he found in the church, he is surprised to find that Burly's name isn't on it. He goes to ask the supervisor about it and he tells him that Burly is most likely a high level executioner, answering directly to Salan. After processing all the intel and handling it over to the supervisor so that he and other reinforcements can round up all the members and put them in jail, Mo Fan returns to school. Upon arrival, he is greeted by Mu Bai who is carrying a dead Blue Bat and a knocked out Zhao Man Yan. He tells Mo Fan that he going to do an autopsy on Blue Bat, as it might reveal some other answers about what she had been doing.
The next day, he is greeted by Zhu Meng, who has come over from china, to apoligize for letting one of Salan's goons run around. Afterwards, they are greeted by Mu Bai, who has found something strange on the back of Blue Bat's body and shows it to the both of them. Zhu Meng identifies it as a trial mark and then goes to make a call. Afterwards, he confirms the suspicion, Blue Bat is a member of the Chinese Trial. Mu Bai begins breaking down over the thought of killing a hard working trial member, but then quickly remembers something. The last words of Blue Bat "A person's body can show the truth" and both him and Mo Fan quickly begin using magic to scan Blue Bat's body, but find nothing. Then Mo Fan remembers something, Blue Bat had ripped out the eyes of the golden sun knight when she rescued the farmer and tells Mu Bai to check the eyes. He instead finds an observation crystal. While Mu Bai and Zhu Meng go to check it, Mo Fan stays behind and apologizes to the remains of Blue Bat, saying that he is sorry for missing Salan.
The next day, Mu Bai confirms that he observation crystal was used to track Wu and that Blue Bat voluntarily died in order to remove any doubts about her loyalty, as she introduced Wu to Mo Fan without ever needing to. But he also states that they can't use the crystal now since Wu is in the middle of a busy city and that it would be impossible to find him now. Zhu Meng however takes Mo Fan for a helicopter ride to the mountain of 5 pointed lightning stones as a method of apology and that this will likely be the last favor before he is tossed in prison for letting a black vatican member on the loose. Upon arrival, the daughter of Zhu Meng, who is running the mine, takes Mo Fan to the waste disposal section of the mine, where they keep the mined stones that neither have enough energy or stable enough energy for it to be used for magic purposes. However, Mo Fan uses the loach to suck up all the energy and then flies back with the helicopter to the coastline, where he then breaks into Super tier level 2 lightning.
While testing it out, he finds that the lightning is continually moving around his nervous system and he goes to ask Mu Bai about it. Mu Bai says that his lightning has now entered the transcendental class and that his magic is now stored in his body and no longer needs to cast star based forms around him and instead he can form them in his body, in addition to a special power/effect. Zhu Meng explains that it is the same for his lightning armor and trident. After he gets back to his room to cultivate, he realizes that his shadow magic is also in the transcendental class and then goes into his spiritual world to ask the loach about it. The loach explains that most of his magic is stored inside his body. Lightning in the nervous system, Shadow in the arteries/veins, Fire in the heart, Chaos in the left eye, Void in the right, Earth in his bones and devil in his blood and that summoning isn't stored in his body.
A week later, most of the members of the black vatican have already been caught and it is time for end of semester exams, where the students of each national camp fight each other, but before the first fight begins, it starts to rain. Mo Fan immediately gets worried but then sees that the rain looks quite normal and sees that no one is adversely effected so he goes to sit down and watch the matches. In the first fight however, one of teams gets a contract beast killed. In the second, a curse mage puts to much power in his curses and nearly causes irreparable damage. In the third, the mage who would dare challenge Mo Fan, decides to use Super tier magic now that the duke of casa is in front of him, however Mo Fan intervenes before the blow lands and the chinese camp is disqualified for using Super tier magic and Mo Fan realizes that this is the rain's doing.
As Mo Fan realizes that the rain is affecting humans and not monsters, he tries to spring into action, but suddenly an all to familiar conductor is entering the battlefield along with his orchestra. He proclaims the rebellion against the Andean federation and orders the orchestra to begin playing. While they play, many of the spectators are crippled with injuries, but the orchestra is quickly forced to flee by the protagonist trio. The trio then look into the observation crystal left to them by Blue Bat. They see a number of wind battleship flying over a river, firing upon andead soldiers and covering the attack of tens of thousands of mages. One of said battleships enters the city and quickly begins demolishing sky scrapers one after another as it presses forward. The trio realizes that Wu must likely be at the river, that he is the one that mixes the poppies with the rain and that they are going to have to cross the battlefield in order to reach him.
The trio run into the city and manage to reach a group of high school students just in time to save them from a collapsing skyscraper, while Mo Fan catches the building with void magic and the other 2 clear the area of people. Afterwards they come face to face with a wind battleship. The battleship fires its main gun, a wind attack comparable to super tier magic and the boys decide to flee rather than fight. After managing to lose the battleship, they reach a rebellion checkpoint and try to get past, showing their teacher ID's from the Ojos University and stating that they are on official business and the rebels guide them through, as the rebellion was against the Andean federation, not the Ojos school. However, in the middle of the city, they are suddenly surrounded by over 2,000 mages and the wind battleship, which itself carries over 2,000 mages. From a nearby skyscraper, Burly gloats at the trap he had set for them and tells the conductor to start playing.
The conductor starts his orchestra and he prevents the trio from casting high tier magic and above, however it doesn't prevent Zhao Man Yan from activating one of his equipment, a barrier dome that he can directly pour his magic stamina in. However it doesn't last long against the barrage of the wind battleship. They determine that the main gun of the wind battleship is powered by a vortex created by a high tier chaos mage, which is then extended by a 10 mid tier chaos mages. This vortex captures large amounts of mid tier wind magic and then fires it at a target up to 2 km away. But oddly enough, its rate of fire is unusually high. Mu Bai theorizes that in the process of capturing the wind magic, all the stars that were used to create it were imprinted in the chaos vortex, so that with each round that is added to vortex, another is created within it, or chaos rubbing as they call it.
While Zhao Man Yan is holding the barrier, Mo Fan uses his transcedental magic and casts a star palace within his body and uses super tier magic to blow open one of the blockades and they rush through. After managing to escape, the boys run into a rebel patrol, however they try the same ruse again and it works, the patrol lets them past and they get out of sight before they double check. After tending to their injuries they received from the wind battleship, they manage to find some uniforms of the andean military and decide to disguise themselves. Afterwards, they are caught by an andean patrol led by a man they refer to as "chimpanzee". The chimpanzee asks what they were fleeing for and threathen to kill them, but manage to talk their way out of it by saying they saw someone running into the building and wanted to check it out. The chimpanzee questions their identity since he has never seen them before, and the trio explain that they are soldiers of the Ojos school originally from a country in the andean federation and volunteered to fight the rebellion and they showcase their school badges. The chimpanzee believes their story.
Afterwards, the chimpanzee leads a whole company of mages (and the trio) towards a rebel trench. Upon getting in range, the rebels cast mid tier magic and the soldiers quickly build barriers to hide behind. Several squads of mages try to rush the trench but are quickly killed. The chimpanzee demands all the soldiers rush forward under threat of execution. But in the meanwhile, Mo Fan uses earth magic to create a gap and rushes the trench and the soldiers kill most of the rebel company present. The chimpanzee thanks Mo Fan and they press forward. Before reaching the next battle, the chimp receives reinforcements in the form of a few hundred more mages from a low level general and she proclaims the chimp as one of her new deputies now that one of the old ones has been killed. Afterwards the chimp leads a battalion of over 400 mages and they reach a junk pile that had been turned into a fortress and a wind battleship on top of it.
After loosing about 200 mages, they manage to set foot on the fortress and capture it, but they don't see a way to capture a flying battleship with over 2,000 mages in it. Mu Bai offers a solution however (since the group decided not to use super-tier magic as that would reveal their identities), he hands every single one of the mages a revenge seed. This seed will rapidly decompose the body of the wielder upon death and within a few sections, will fire an omni-directional barrage of seed bullets depending entirely upon the remaining magical energy of the soldier that was decomposed, so that even the soldiers can still contribute to the cause upon death. However, many of the soldiers find this depressing and even Mo Fan notes this is quite dark (note: that was coming from a guy who literally condemns people to eternal damnation in the shadow realm). After storming the wind battleship, many of the soldiers now turn themselves into suicide bombers and another 100 mages fall until the wind battleship is destroyed, leaving the chimpanzee with only a single company again.
However, the soldiers of the company are all relieved and they are ordered to rest at one of the medical tents. After getting some food and the chimpanzee praising the trio's efforts. The chimp promises to take them to the holy tree that he prayed to when he was little and the primary cause of all his luck so far, located at the end of the river. Noting that the end of the river is likely where Wu is hiding, the trio agree. However, Mu Bai notices a sick man being carried into the camp and sees that the man is carrying an illness. After scolding the medics for carrying a potential carrier in to a medical ward without isolation, he goes on the rest of the one thousand wounded treated here. He finds several others with the same symptoms and quickly orders the separation of injured. He quickly analyzes one of the patient and finds that he has been infected with parasitic worms that embed and then feed on the flesh of humans before reproducing and spreading to other humans. Mu Bai asks the medic on the cause of the infection, to which he replies he doesn't know. But that on the battlefield, there was a mage that releases waves of gas attacks, but most of the people survived and were brought to this and 5 other medical camps. Mu Bai realizes that the mage let the soldiers live on purpose so that they could infect another 5,000+ people with a deadly parasite and they need to leave quickly. But they are quickly followed by the Chimpanzee, who gets the company of mages to deploy with them.
On the way out of the city, they are reinforced by another regiment of 1,000 mid and novice tier mages along with a battalion of 400 beast cavalry. They eventually press forward into a forest containing a walled encampment reinforced with Plant magic based towers, each is highly fortified and containing a platoon of enemy mages. The leader of the beast cavalry battalion says that his cavalry might be able to take the camp if they get close enough, and Mo Fan asks if a beast tide might be enough to get close. But the beast cavalry leader asks why a high tier summoning mage, who would be at least the rank of Major General, would be out here. Mo Fan goes to meditate and enters the summoning world in order to find a suitable beast tide, since his wolf clan isn't suitable for muddy forest battles. After trying a few different beasts, he comes upon a beast tide of ice mammoths, but before he opens the summoning gate to let them in, he changes his mind when he sees that the mammoths are being chased by a whole mob of T-rex's. However he is saddened that when he opens the summoning gate, the T-rex's ignore it and continue rushing towards the Frost Mammoths. Mo Fan then just decides to use the frost mammoths and they quickly jump through the summoning gate.
The mammoths quickly rush towards the enemy encampment and quickly trample everything in their path, still believing that the T-rex's are still behind them. The beast cavalry and the mages move in behind them, but they suffer a heavy counter attack when the beast tide lasts an exceedingly short time and all the plant towers quickly open fire on them. The soldiers do manage to take the camp but only 100 beast cavalry and 400 mages survive. Afterwards, they are greeted by the commander of the encampment, a famous high tier major general said to be able to take on commanders by himself. He demands to see their leader and everyone quickly points to the chimpanzee. The major general realizes that he is staring at a big guy as by this time, many of the accomplishments of his unit (mainly due to the protagonist trio) had reached the higher ups of the enemy. The chimpanzee quickly starts praying for deliverance but Mo Fan simply summons his frost wolf, who is now the level of evolving commander. The major general quickly moves around in the air, but the frost wolf creates several ice hills and uses them as a ramp to sprint in the air and manages to cleave the major general in 2. While the chimpanzee continues praying, Mo Fan hands the guy the head of the major general to be send back to the higher ups of the andean federation and to stop parying, stating that the wolf was just his summoning beast and the chimpanzee quickly falls into depression.
The mages however continue the march forward and end up in a swamp. They find themselves surrounded by fireflies which seem to avoid certain spots in the swamp. However, one of the mages steps into one of those spots and is quickly taken in by quicksand. Mo Fan tries pulling him out with void magic but ends up tearing the mage in half. The same thing goes for other mages but they end up sinking into the quick sand and don't surface. Mu Bai theorizes that something must be pulling these guys under the mud as there was no way that any of the guys were saved. However they realize what happened not much later, the soldiers were indeed pulled under by something, the undead. After realizing that the fireflies can determine the location of the undead ahead of time, they manage to avoid a few of them until they are attacked by a wave of other undead, which just so happen to be some of the soldiers killed in the first attack. Mu Bai states that this is impossible, as even under the best conditions, it takes several years to a freshly dead to become undead.
They push forward into the centre of the swamp and see many undead standing guard around a tree that is streading many large thick branches everywhere, however Mo fan immediately realizes what it is and starts using chaos magic to pull the tree up. Upon pulling it up, they see a long thick center and all the soldiers realize that the tree is upside down in the swamp and that they were actually just looking at its roots. At the bottom of the tree that was pulled up, there are many braches, each connected to a different undead and they realize how all the people were turned into undead so soon, they were all being controlled physically. The undead immediately begin to attack but Mo Fan counters by summoning many earth based alligators to attack the undead and they are all quickly killed. Then a rather angry undead mage appears out of the swamp, angry that Mo Fan and his friends stopped him from getting to the 5,000 kill milestone and promises to kill everyone here and suddenly all the trees started to turn around, as all the treas nearby are undead trees. While Zhao Man Yan activates his defensive skills, Mu Bai uses ice magic to kill all the trees and Mo Fan uses fire magic to kill the undead mage and they once again pass all the glory to the Chimpanzee.
After the undead mage confesses in death that there are other undead mages in the swamp just like him, the soldiers call for reinforcements and they are subsequently relieved out of the forest. The trio and the chimpanzee return to the forward HQ and linkup with the female general and start talking about a plan to push forward. But then they are interrupted by a teacher from the Ojos school named professor silence and several of her students. The professor states that the worm parasites are violation of international wartime law and that she will personally deal with it and demands to be led to the source. Although the general herself is pretty prideful, she acknowledges that she needs help and lets them come along. The trio, the chimpanzee, the deputy general, the professor and her students all ride a giant lizard on the open battlefield and the students start to try and impress their professor.
The first student blocks several rounds of mid tier fire magic with high tier water magic, the second stops an ice lock in the sky with a shadow nail (with even Mo Fan noting the ingenuity of the move) and the third diverts a pair of boulders rolling towards the lizard and the professor praises the third student. However, suddenly a pair of dark claws suddenly rushed towards Mo Fan and he only dodges because the shadow veins warned him it was coming, but the professor however did see them coming but didn't bother telling anyone about it. While wondering where it came from and how the teacher was able to sense it, over the horizon, 4 wind battleships appear and start to open fire.
Zhao Man Yan manages to catch most of the assault, but warns that only super tier level magic could help them. One of the students answers the call and starts casting Super tier level 1 water magic, creating a wave not out of water but out of mud at least 50 meters high and pushes the battleships back and buries every mage (all rebels) in between alive in the mud. However the battleships regroup and start to line up. In doing so, they start to add their main guns together to form 1 massive gun and begin firing upon the giant lizard that everyone was riding. The professor finally springs into action upon seeing this and orders the lizard to create its shield. The lizard grows a crystal shield out of its elbows and then uses it to block the massive wave of wind magic, albeit taking damage.
Zhao Man Yan asks if they have any artillery like that, the general replies that they do, but they have only a range of 500m compared to the battleship's 2,000m. Mo Fan asks if the only problem is the range and general confirms. Mo Fan then offers to create the space compression bridge that he saw back in Xiamen if someone where to create him a high enough point and cover him. One of the students acknowledges the command and begins creating a sky scraper 200m tall while the general gets her guns into position. After creating the bridge, Mo Fan tells the artillery to open fire on the bridge and all the rounds move through space to hit the battleships, taking them all out the sky. The general flies up to Mo Fan and asks what he wants as a reward. He asks for the knowledge of the chaos rubbing spell that the rebels are using and the general promises to make that happen.
After moving forward, they reach another swamp land filled with mushrooms. However, when one of the soldiers goes to inspect one of them, the mushroom releases a weird type of goo that is filled with the parastic worms. Mu Bai and the professor realize that a super tier plant mage has combined their power with that of the poison mage and that it will be impossible to pass through here. However, they later hear some good news, the enemies air force has been completely routed and their own airforce is continuing their advance despite the halt of the ground forces. The general gets Zhao Man Yan and Mo Fan a tamed eagle horse (think pegasus but with wings growing out of their feet instead of the center body) while Mu Bai stays behind to deal with the parasite problem.
Zhao Man Yan and Mo Fan mount the eagle horse with Zhao Man Yan behind the reins and they link up with a regiment of other eagle horse cavalry. The entire unit under the command of a famous general begins their advance past the stalemate of the ground forces and start with their assault of an encampment that was grown with the use of plant magic in between 2 giant sequoia. The general gets one company to get close, but the moment the rebels open fire, he orders the company to retreat with the communication abilities afforded by his sound and mind magic. A second later, a platoon composed entirely of high tier shadow mages create a shadow domain on the entire camp and blind everyone inside of it. But before the domain lifts, all the enemy mages have already been killed.
Afterwards, the cavalry begins their assault on another camp, one containing several thousand of mages, but rather than deploying the same trick, they begin circling the camp from far above, like a group of vultures. The rebels try to open fire from the ground, but they continue to miss due to the insane speed of the eagle horses. Afterwards, groups of eagle horse cavalry continue to do hit and run attacks on unprotected parts of the camp and keep killing rebels. Eventually, a super tier mage comes out of hiding from the enemy camp and casts super tier fire magic, opening a flame gate in the middle of the sky and lava pours out. But he only manages to kill 10 people. After a few more barrages, a single eagle horsemen manages to sneak up behind the super tier mage and manages to kill him by stabbing him with a lance, but before he manages to remount his horse, he is killed by the dark claws, which almost hit Mo Fan on the way in. Mo Fan looks at the body and realizes something terrible, their general had just been killed.
Zhao Man Yan says Mo Fan is just crazy as he points towards the exceptionally large eagle and the rather loud man riding it, who has yet to stop barking orders at everyone, which he has done so the entire time. However, while they are arguing, the general speaks to their mind directly and tells them to come over. The man confirms Mo Fan's suspicions and that the general was indeed killed. He identifies himself as mind mage that is the general's second in command, who has given him the authority to issue orders on his behalf so that he could kill enemy Super tier mages without being noticed. The mind mage then states that he needs their help. The moment that the soldiers realize their beloved general has been killed, they will immediately retreat, so he will need one of them to cover for him. He says that he will continue acting as the general, as his mind magic allows him to imitate the general perfectly and that throughout the battle, was the one that was really issuing the orders, but he can't kill super tier mages by himself and so will need someone to do that for him. Mo Fan gets Zhao Man Yan to volunteer while Mo Fan uses his shadow powers to infiltrate the enemy main base, where they are hiding Wu.
After Mo Fan leaves, Zhao Man Yan uses the mind mage to order everyone to advance further and leave the encampment behind, in order to support Mo Fan. But on the way their, he finds many more encampments. So he creates a giant disk of water magic and boosts it with the wooden fish vessel, who's power now multiplies all defensive magic by almost a factor of 3 and orders all the eagle cavalry to land on it and then uses it to carry them towards the enemy main base while the underside of it takes all the magic hits coming from below.
After using the shadow cloak to make himself invisible, he manages to infiltrate the enemy camp, but finds himself being chased by an enemy super tier light mage that could track his shadow magic. Just before he finds Mo Fan, he is called away by another mage and Mo Fan is capable of pressing forward. Mo Fan eventually reaches a giant waterfall, where he can see the orchestra is preparing to start playing with Wu not far behind. But before he can move forward, his shadow powers are about to run out and he must hide. Mo Fan manages to setup a chaos light bending field, where all the light shown upon the area where the magic is cast will simply bend around the field and appear at the other end, making everything inside invisible. Mo Fan then sets up a chaos vortext casts novice tier lightning magic into it, the chaos vortext returns the power with a 20% increase while Mo Fan absorbs it with his lightning soul species and sends it back with 30% more power. After many more passes, the power has accumilated enough and Mo Fan shoots the lightning into the sky above. It then comes back down as a swipe of dragon's tail and kill every single person in the orchestra including the conductor and everyone looks around and Wu realizes who has come for him.
After wondering how he could have known about his where abouts, he immediately panics and warns everyone about Mo Fan. A man named tiger walks up and challenges Mo Fan to a boxing match. While making a few proclamations about how strong he his and how hurt Mo Fan is going to get, Mo Fan hits the guy with a lightning fist and the man flies backwards, but quickly gets back up. Tiger then tries to return fire, but Mo Fan dodges using void magic. Afterwards, Mo Fan borrows Yan Ji's heavenly flame species and uses a flame fist. But no matter what Tiger does, he is incapable of stopping the flame attack and he is horribly burned. Afterwards, a man named leopard calls for reinforcements in the form of the previous super tier light mage and an assassin named the phoenix. But before they arrive, he manages to trap Mo Fan in a one way ice prison and orders his underlings to open fire on Mo Fan. He then goes to Wu to hand him a few water crystals so that he can continue casting the rain but while they are dropping from leopard's to Wu's hands, Mo fan manages to swipe all of them, having used fire magic to escape the prison, void magic to teleport in and then teleport out with the crystals.
However by this time, the super tier light mage has arrived, but Mo Fan manages to fuse with Yan Ji and use fire magic to deal with him. But in the mean time, Phoenix has arrived or as Mo Fan knows her, SCP. SCP states that really is a cruel twist of fate and that she won't kill her favourite teacher, but she will fight for the sake of her brother, the leader of the rebellion. She then opens up a spellbook and as she reads it, the letters start to light up and an all to familiar pair of dark claws appear and start chasing Mo Fan. Mo Fan manages to dodge them until one scrapes him and then he uses his fire magic to form a flame sword and destroys the claws. SCP states that she can do that too and turns the page to call out a sword of her own. Mo Fan uses his own sword to clash with hers, but he looses the draw and is send flying. But SCP starts to suffer from the recoil of using the book and is forced to retire.
Afterwards, leopard steps up again and starts casting magic, but Mo Fan doesn't notice what is going on and he suddenly finds himself weighing very heavy. SCP accidentally lets slip that leopard has a special weapon, an ice pen that is capable of creating ice out of nothing in the shape of which the wielder draws and simultaneously blocks out the mind of the person that is suffering from the ice from noticing what is going on. Upon hearing this, Mo Fan incarnates with Yan ji and then uses her flames to melt all the ice. Leopard responds by painting icebergs in the sky and starts dropping them on Mo Fan. Yan Ji realizes that Mo Fan himself won't be able to take the physical damage of having an iceberg dropped on him, so she separates from Mo Fan and continues to fight leopard on his own. Eventually leopard runs out of magical stamina and Yan ji kills him.
Afterwards, reinforcements of several thousands of mags have arrived, but mo fan manages to convince them to retreat, showcasing all the damage that he has already done. After everyone but SCP retreat, Mo Fan goes after Wu. While Wu begs for his life, Mo Fan incapacitates him and then summons a shadow elder, who he orders to take the man's soul to the shadow realm and orders him to make Wu suffer 34,670 different painful deaths. Afterwards, the brother of the SCP arrives and starts threatning Mo Fan, but SCP manages to talk him out of it, saying that there already has been enough destruction.
Afterwards he is greeted by both Mu Bai and Zhao Man Yan, who have completed both of their assignments, Mo Fan gives Mu Bai the ice pen that Yan Ji took of leopard and Zhao Man fishes through Wu's remains to pull out a set of water beads that he could use for water magic. Afterwards the trio seperate to continue their own business, Mo Fan goes with the general to study the chaos rubbing technique, Mu Bai goes away to study the parasitic worms that he stopped and Zhao Man Yan flies of with the eagle cavalry. The eagle cavalry had eventually seen through the ruse but decided to follow Zhao Man Yan regardless and had decided to show him some rather appreciative women.
=== Case of the Cold Hunter King ===
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After getting back from China, he is caught leaving the bath by Ling Ling who quickly takes a picture for blackmail purposes, as he left her behind in china. She informs Mo Fan that all the major private hunting groups including them have been summoned for an assignment and that down payment, 1 half of a star ocean vein, has already been delivered too them, with multiple star ocean veins likely following behind.
However, upon arriving at the meeting place, they find that the event is run by the Lu Family, of which Mo Fan killed one of the members during the world university competition arc and gravely injured another soon after. However, he finds the Lu's far more friendly and the uncle of the boy Mo Fan killed seems to be running the event. The uncle informs everyone that he is not their employer and that he is under the same contract as everyone else. He informs them that they all have individual assingnments with seperate rewards and that he will be supervising everyone. They are not to discuss the contents of their individual assignments with the other teams or anyone else for that manner and that not even he will know the contents of their contracts. He states that he will soon deliver the assignments in private and that either braking the rules or quitting the job will require the forfeiture of the half star ocean vein that all the hunter firms received.
After he makes the rounds, the uncle hands the clear sky agency's assignment to Ling Ling, but she immediately throws it away, saying that she is not in the mood for jokes. Mo Fan picks it up and finds it to be a letter of the cold hunter king, Ling Ling's father addressed to Ling Ling on the night she dissapeared. Ling Ling threw it away as she already saw that letter but Mo Fan turns over the page and sees something that Ling Ling never saw, it was a message to whoever holds the letter currently. The cold hunter king explains that he was chasing a red devil and that in the case of his death on that day, he whoever holds this letter, shall be given power of attorney over the matter of his death and upon the elimination of the red devil that killed him, shall be afforded one completed star ocean vein that he had stashed away previously. After Mo Fan reads it out loud, Ling Ling begins breaking down and rushes into Mo Fan's arms with Mo Fan promising to help put her father to rest.
After they try to leave for the assignment, the uncle stops them, saying that they need a chaperone for when they go out, but they are allowed to order them around. The uncle assigns one of his cousins to the matter and they leave for a clue left by the cold hunter king, the last known location of the red devil. However, this place is now underwater due to the rising tide of the kraken threat. After arriving at the site, Ling Ling starts to do some analysis on a nearby overpass and finds a claw mark with 6 fingers. They keep following it around to the top of the water tower, while Ling Ling looks around for evidence, the cousin releases two light orbs and uses them as search lights, while mo fan notices the same color light orbs appearing in his eyes. The cousin explains that this is his talent and that his family all have additional powers in regards to hunting. Ling Ling and the cousin manages to find a trail, but it leads under water. Mo Fan tries to order the cousin to go under water, but the cousin refuses. Mo Fan however manages to bribe him with one Zhao Man Yan's cars and he quickly dives in. After several buildings start crumbling in the distance without Mo Fan being able to notice what destroyed them, he gets a bit worried about the dangers. But before the chaos arrives, the cousin manages to get out the water with a blood sample and they just manage to drive off before being caught.
Back at the mansion, Liu Ru goes to deliver the car promised and Ling Ling starts the blood analysis, he finds a young lady with a slap mark across her cheek, a slap mark with 6 fingers. Mo Fan goes to ask her about it and she states that is was the uncle. He then asks about the 6th finger and she states that she didn't even know. Then she brought out photos up to 6 years old and none of them show the uncle have six fingers. Then the lady decides to try and get the uncle to visit the uncle but he gets mad at the thought of it and Mo Fan is now sure that the uncle is the devil that killed Ling Ling's father. Mo Fan explains that this is possible because devils are capable of absorbing memories as raw power, then they should also be able to read memories and if they have enough of them, they should also theoratically be able to imitate those they killed, especially since they can control their appearance.
Upon further investigation, they find that the uncle runs a work-prison on the other side of Shanghai and Mo Fan decides to take Ling Ling to investigate while they ditch the cousin. On the way over, Mo Fan stops at the old house he was put in when he first came to Shanghai to collect some left behind property. A little girl answers and hands over the box of artifacts, she asks him to see if he can find her father, who had left for work 2 days ago at the prison and hasn't come back and Mo Fan is surprised that she doens't worry about all the potentially dangerous people around her. After that, he meets Ling Ling at the prison and they go in. Inside the camp, prisoners are put to work to mine stones for the sea walls with the use of magic that are built against the krakens and hired workers are processing the materials. Upon inspection, all the miners seem to be model prisoners, a little too model.
Ling Ling realizes that the entire facility has been put under control by the devil and he is farming their thoughts for energy and putting them in a spirit pear. But as they move forward, all the prisoners, workers and guards stop working and look at Mo Fan. He realizes that they have begun to react towards his own spirit pear as a potential threat and they all attack communally. However, most of these mages are only mid-tier and Mo Fan deals with them quite quickly while Ling Ling goes and hide. Afterwards, the guards open all the nearby prison cells and a super tier water mage appears out. He casts Super tier water magic, but Mo Fan counters with Super tier flame magic with Yan Ji's heavenly species and destroys everything in his path. But on his way to the spirit pear, he is attacked by another mob prisoners. This time he opens a shadow domain and summons forth is armies of shadow creatures and they destroy everything in their path.
After reaching the spirit pear, he pulls out his own and uses it to take the energy out of the devil's pear and fills up his own. But after it has been filled up, the energy continued being pulled out of the devil's spirit pear. He goes and finds that all the soul energy is not going towards his own pear but towards the unfinished star ocean vein, which is theoretically possible since star veins are but crystallized thought. Eventually the devil's pear runs out and the star ocean vein is finished. Meanwhile outside, the uncle and a compatriot realize that someone has drained all the energy out of the pear and he sends his compatriot out. Upon leaving the prison, Mo Fan runs into the compatriot, who identifies himself as the duke of Xi'an, a man that became a vampire almost a thousand years ago. The uncle then arrives and asks what the hell is going on and Mo Fan replies that he has come to kill him for revenge of the cold hunter king. The uncle isn't even worried about it and tells the vampire to kill Mo Fan.
While Mo Fan and the vampire trade blows, the fight migrates over to the nearby residential area and the vampire puts a curse on all the residents to continually draw power from them to heal the injuries he received from Mo Fan. Eventually Mo Fan hits him hard enough with flame magic that he transforms into a swarm of bats and separates out to send them to the nearby residents to drain them dry. But before they split up, they are all suddenly trapped in a cage made of blood and Liu Ru appears. She tells Mo Fan that she will deal with the vampire and that he has to deal with the uncle. At this point, the uncle transforms into his devil form and begins the attack on Mo Fan.
Mo Fan then leads him out towards a nearby junkyard at top speed, but as the devil enters, Mo Fan uses void magic to lift 2 wrecked cars at each side of the entrance and then use them to crush the devil. The injured devil then calls for reinforcements from the prison, which happens to be a squad of super tier mages. Mo Fan in turn dispatches Yan Ji to deal with them. At this point, the devil begins to take this seriously and summons many tentacles out from his body. He uses this to form a net and he eventually catches Mo Fan. Afterwards, a red spark emerges out of Mo Fan's heart and the devil explains that this is the power of the devil. He is capable of manifesting the negative emotions of people and then use it as raw power. After reading a few of Mo Fan's memories, he learns about the little girl that asked Mo Fan for help and decides her to be the next victim. However, he finds that the little girl has no negative thoughts at all. Mo Fan then rallies at the thought that a little girl like her can remain so pure even in such horrible conditions and a missing father and then summons all of his shadow powers. He then fuses this into the shape of a ghostly old pirate ship and he uses it to ram directly into the devil and into the ground. While pinned to the ground, the devil screams in agony, but also explains that he isn't the only devil and that the ones above him will be sure to kill Mo Fan, but he is finished off with lightning magic.
After finishing this off, Ling Ling wonders why everything happened like this, as the power of attorney notice should have been out in every hunting hall in the country but now only they have recieved it, but then suddenly Apas jumps out of the contract space and begins explaining this. In the dark realm, there are 4 imperial titles. the ancient king, the shadow king, pluto (currently held by Khufu) and the evil king. The throne of the evil king is currently in contention with even her own mother, the original medusa, in contention. Also in this world, there is the possibility of 8 pure souls existing and each pure soul would get a special power, 4 good and 4 evil. The first is the soul of determination. Now that he continued the hunt for the devil killed even after death, his soul would have become pure. The second is the soul of loyalty, which is likely is the girl that kept cutting herself back in the alpine school who died in the process and had her body stolen from her grave in the Holy Court. The rest of the groups are likely dealing with assignments that would lead to the collection of the 8 pure souls. And she states that whoever holds all 8 souls, can break into emperor class and would allow one of the devils to take the title of evil king. Realizing that this whole scenario is out of their league, they decide to stop there now that the Cold hunter king can be put to rest.
=== The return to Bo ===
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Upon returning to the city, he begins making preparations for his wolf to become a monarch and sets out a hunting contract for a monarch level wolf soul.
He later gets word that a hunter team had accepted the mission and that they are headed to a rather familiar destination, Bo city. Mo Fan decided to follow them to Bo city and after having a talk with his and Zhang Xiou Hou's dad, he buried the bones of Wu among those slain in the incident. A few days laters, was the time for a local festival, he decided to use the atmosphere of the festival and the completed star ocean vein to break into Super tier void. After cultivating for a month, mo fan prepares to leave Bo City, but in the last month a lot has happened. While Mo Fan was isolated, the government had released technology regarding high resolution, magic glare correcting video equipment and long range transmission equipment. This in turn allowed social media to take off and many now shared magic scenes online, with even hunter teams live-streaming their adventures. But before he left, the city alarm system went off.
Mo Fan rushed to the mountain fortress where he had his school trip back in season 1 of the anime and saw that a whole army of mages had lined up and a giant wolf was approaching. However, what was odd was that a couple of soldiers brought out a man in chains in front of the monarch wolf along with a few small wolves. What had happened was that one of the hunters that Mo Fan hired had taken the babies of a monarch level wolf but hadn't killed the mother, said mother now came back for revenge. She ordered her children to attack the mage and they ripped him apart. The general of the fortress then asked for mercy now that the culprit has been dealt with and she replies no. while everyone is shocked at the fact that a wolf can speak chinese, a cave man appeared from under the coat of the wolf. He explains that the wolf blames all of humanity for this and that they all must pay.
But before the wolf could make an attack, Mo Fan had already cast void magic and tossed the wolf into a ravine. While the wolf was in the ravine, the insects hiding under her coat came out and started to fly around and look for energy to heal the wolf. But Mo Fan cast super tier lightning magic and kills them all. The wolf deems herself outmatched and begins the retreat, with Mo Fan giving chase and the general and the leader of the hunter team behind him. Mo then manages to cut of the wolf by putting super tier level stamina into his teleportation magic and then uses his Yan Ji incarnation to create a flame sword and put a cut on the neck of the wolf, forcing it back towards Bo City. Mo Fan then teleports back to Bo city and activates the chaos rubbing spell. The general then ordered the soldiers to fire all their magic into the vortex and while all the spells started to create a mirror star imprint, he fired the first round. The first round managed to stun the wolf into place and then fired the second round to take off the rear left paw of the wolf.
While the wolf was down, the general approached it, but was lured into a trap by the wolf, she tossed him into a neaby mountain but he survived. She then tried to retreat again, but thanks to missing a leg, Mo Fan managed to cut it off again and while he held the wolf still, the hunter leader called down a punishment axe and almost took the head clean off. The wolf however, managed to re attach the hanging off head and continued running. By this time Mo Fan had had enough and uses Yan JI's power to open a flame gate and uses her heavenly seed to power a flame gate and cooks the wolf alive. Afterwards, Mo Fan indentifies himself as their contractor to the hunter leader and collects the monarch level wolf soul that they had taken and they were welcomed back as heroes in Bo City. However, Mo Fan is greeted by Mu Linsheng, who Mu Ning Xue had dispatched to Bo city after watching the whole fight live on tv.
Mo Fan then goes back to FanXue Shan and then decides to take Mu Ning Xue on a date after she points out that all he has tried to do so far is trying to sleep with her. Mo Fan buys the 2 an ice cream and they start walking along the coast. She explains that she is planning an attack on the Mu headquarters to get back at all the crap they are doing to FanXue Shan. Mo Fan asks her to wait while he goes to promote his wolf and she agrees. Mo Fan goes into a separate warehouse and begins the process of evolution. He first replaces the bones and the blood of the frost wolf with that of the female wolf monarch and then feeds the frost wolf the soul of the male wolf monarch. Mo Fan then observes that his wolf has evolved into a star crystal wolf and that he has the same bugs under his coats as the female monarch, which are capable of searching for energy to either heal, boost or give the wolf a new layer of armor. Mo Fan then leaves the warehouse but finds that Mu Ning Xue has already left for the Mu headquarters.
=== The Battle of Mu ===
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Mu Ning Xue then arrive via taxi at the base of the Mu HQ and rather than take the private highway, she decides to walk the way using the stairs. At the top of the stairs, she finds Mu Tingying now waiting for her. She tells Mu Ning Xue that if she grovels, she will release her father. Mu Ning Xue however, simply decides to walk around her. Mu Tingying gets angry at being ignored however and starts casting magic. Mu Ning Xue however starts casting ice magic on her body to make an ice vein and then uses it to smack Mu Tingying into a nearby building, saying that she is not her opponent. That nearby building however turns out to be the Mu's "reforming center", where those who fail to complete the assignments handed down from above are tortured, even to death sometimes. The head of the torture chamber comes out, who says he his sorry that it has come to this. Mu Ning Xue just tries to walk past the guy, saying that he is no longer her opponent.
The head of torture gets angry at this and summons a landslide using his transcendental earth magic. But by the time it hits, Mu Ning Xue has created a bubble of wind magic and rides the landslide down to the bottom of the mountain. She then climbs back up to the top with the use of wind wings and then freezes the head of torture into a solid block of ice. She then walks further up the mountain to reach the entrance into the Mu HQ. Waiting for her at the entrance was another ice mage. This mage happened to be in the same magic training group as Mu Ning Xue and was recruited into the Mu family. He went on to become the strongest young mage in the Mu family. Mu Ning Xue that she has respected him as a great role model, but now, he too, is not her opponent.
The man gets angry at the idea at being called inferior by a junior. So he demanded that she show him her most powerful attack, she refuses on the grounds that an attack like that would kill him. The man gets even more angry and immediately activates his own most powerful, his transcendental level 3 super tier attack and creates an entire forest of ice bamboo. Mu Ning Xue however, decides to use her absolute domain power, ice sneer. This power automatically supresses all other ice magic and the man's ice bamboo forest crumbles into dust. But before he could cast more magic, Mu Ning Xue rushes over and slashes him with an ice blade, almost killing him. She then walks through the entrance into the headquarters with noone trying to stop her, realizing that her talent has evolved into a heavenly species.
Further up in the HQ, the ice phoenix, one of the Mu's that helped to capture Yin Quer, is informed of the situation at the front door. She tells one of the Mu commanders that she will handle it and tells some underlings to prepare one of the stadiums. Back at the front door, one of the underlings informs Mu Ning Xue that the ice phoenix has challenged her and Mu Ning xue accepts. The underling leads Mu Ning Xue to one of the many stadiums in the HQ and meets Nan Rong ni on the way in, who says that judgement day has come.
In the middle of the arena, Mu Ning Xue calls out the Mu Family, both the ice phoenix and all the members sitting in the bleachers to watch the spectacle, that she has come to bring them down. The ice phoenix tells her to stop dreaming and the fight begins. The ice phoenix begins by deploying her talent, 2 ice wings and they begin to attack Mu Ning Xue. She dodges with her wind wings, but then the ice phoenix orders her wings to attack her mind rather than her body. The attack left Mu Ning Xue without control over her powers and she plummets towards the ground. However, she activates her venice ring and a layer of water appears to cushion her fall. Mu Ning Xue then actives her forbidden domain power and supreses the ice phoenix's wings. While the ice phoenix tries to use different magic, Mu Ning Xue draws her ice bow and fires an arrow at the ice phoenix and takes her down. But then the second part of her talent activates.
The wings condense on the ice phoenix and she regenerates the damage done to her body, but notes that it is a one off ability. Mu Ning Xue in the mean time draws a second arrow and fires it. The ice phoenix tries to move out of the way, but finds that the arrow moves right past her and into Nan Rong Ni. Nan Rong Ni is shot through the stadium into a cliff face behind and the arrow just nails her into the cliff, leaving her hanging for everyone to see. Meanwhile the ice phoenix has run to her older brother, the ice hail. They team up and advance towards Mu Ning Xue but before they get there, Mu Ning Xue is reinforced by Mo Fan.
The 2v2 battle gets underway and Mo Fan opens with Super tier lightning magic, which does practically nothing. The ice phoenix then opens fire with her ice wings but it is block by Mu Ning Xue. Mo Fan decides to take it seriously and uses a heavenly seed flame gate. But to his surprise, the sibling's combined ice might managed to stop the attack with only minor damage. The ice hail then retaliates and summons a giant hail storm with car sized hail stones and drops them on Mo Fan. Mo Fan tries to stop them with his heavenly species gravel cirlces but they prove insufficient and Mu Ning Xue is needed to cover for Mo Fan. Mo Fan then asks Mu Ning Xue to cover him while he activates his dragon tail lightning attack. He manages to finish it and drops it on the ice hail, knocking him out of the fight. In the chaos, Mu Ning Xue draws her ice bow and then drips some of her blood on it to remove the final seal on the ice bow.
Instead of opening fire on the sister, she instead fires onto the sky, which then turns blood red. In the blood red sky, a giant ice bow forms and after it fires it arrow, it splits off into many smaller arrows. The entire arrow storm rains down on the Mu HQ and cause much destruction and almost kills the ice phoenix. After the storm ends and Mu Ning Xue almost collapses from magical exhaustion. One of the Mu commanders shows up, producing Mu Zhuoyun while Mo Fan is reinforced by the totem snake. He says that he will cover all the damage done by the pair as the capture of Mu Zhuoyun wasn't at the behest of the Mu elders, but that if they don't hurry to get out of here, they will even make short work of the Totem snake and they quickly leave.
The next day, the ice phoenix and the ice hail are in the intensive care unit with the mu commander lamenting their actions, while the ice phoenix tries to find an excuse, the commander summons forth tentacles and attaches them to the ice phoenix, which to her surprise leads to her loosing her powers and the mu commander gaining her ice wings, with him stating that now that they have lost, they have to pay the price.
Back at FanXue shan, Mo fan goes to meet Yu Shi Shi in regards to Mu Ning Xue's condition, who has lost a significant amount of her life span and is not expected to make it past the age of 40. However, Yu Shi Shi informs him of another problem, the snow tiger's mother came down from Kunlun to collect her son and now the moon moth is crying in the corner being comforted by Yan Ji. But then suddenly the snow tiger bursts into the room and the moon moth and Yan Ji cry for joy. Yu Shi Shi stated that the snow tiger's mother shall be permitted to stay in FanXue Shan but only if it makes a summoning contract immediately, so Yu Shi Shi and Mo Fan immediately head for Mu Ning Xue
After getting in the same room, Mu Ning Xue keeps on refusing the snow tiger's advancement but finally caves in when Yu Shi Shi points out that the mere formation of the contract with the snow tiger might help with the after effects of the ice bow. After she agrees, Mo Fan tries to leave but the snow tiger bites him in the leg and pulls him back. He then runs into the room next door and runs back with several items in his mouth. Yu Shi Shi reveals that while Mo Fan and Mu Ning Xue were fighting the Mu family, the snow tiger raided their family treasury and that some of the things he got back might be of some use.
=== A Matter of dragons ===
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The scene then cuts to Zhang Xiou Hou, who is now in the bird city (the city where Mu Bai is stationed). He is currently Chaperoning a British representative of the Irene family, who specializes in the taming of dragons with the use of the spirit element. The man states that he has many things to show the world in the auction tomorrow and leaves Zhang Xiou Hou be. Zhang Xiou Hou then returns back to his office, which he was given after being made the general of the special forces division of the chinese army after his predecessor was injured in battle. There he is greeted by his assistant (who is implied to have special feelings for Zhang Xiou Hou) who reminds him of the auction tomorrow and then leaves to stand outside to guard.
She is then approach by a rather brash blond man and she immdiately takes it as a hit on her. She brandishes high tier fire magic and fires it at the man, but he stops it with water magic. She then prepares to cast super tier fire magic but Zhang Xiou Hou intervenes. He reminds her not to to burn down the neighborhood and then glances over at the direction of the man and identifies him as Zhao Man Yan. He quickly takes off with him and reminds his assistant not to worry about Zhao Man Yan. Zhao Man Yan takes Zhang Xiou Hou to the beach where Mo Fan and Mu Bai were having a bbq and they all start to drink heavily and simply pass out on the beach.
The next morning, the boys, all utterly hungover from the night before. Show up for the auction. The British representative, reveals that thanks to a new taming technique, the irene family is no capable of taming dragons with a star rating of six (out of seven ranging from simply acknowledging humans are there to as loyal as summoning contract beasts) on a large scale and then reveals 7 dragon hybrids for sale. The dragons sell like hot cakes with Zhang Xiou Hou managing to get the very last 1. After collecting his dragon, he leaves the trio behind saying that he has work to do.
The trio are now convinced that they need dragons for themselves as transportation methods in the wild, but they can't get capable flying ones due to the price inflation nature of auctions. Mo Fan then decides to call Xin Xia to see if he can use her connection to the british royal family to try and get a few dragons straight from the supplier. Xin Xia has another idea instead, the parthenon also has a strong record of taming creatures and that they currently have a dragon in the hold that she could tame, but would need the use of the soul of the parthenon. Mo Fan shoots the idea down then and there. She offer the trio other tamed creatures like a unicorn, but they all shoot it down as well as they want actual dragons and then cut the conversation. The next day, Xin Xia gets back to them, having made contact with the irene family and they have sent over a private jet to take them to the Irene estate to take a look at some dragons and the trio all get aboard.
The scene then cuts back to Zhang Xiou Hou, who is taking his dragon out for a test flight. While doing aerial maneuvers, he looks down below and sees some villages houses simply collapsing. After getting down, he inspects the damage and finds that several houses have all been turned to dust, but for some reason no one was hurt. The locals believe it to be vengeance from the sea dragon for being disloyal to him and so will continue to destroy their houses. But before Zhang Xiou Hou can go investigate, his assistant informs him that he has been called away by someone up the chain of command. Zhang Xiou Hou later meets with the joint chief of the chinese military, who informs him that the matter isn't one big dragon, but many smaller ones known as dragon ants. They specialize in breaking down earth based compositions for food and they are especially adapt at breaking down the newly created earth walls designed to keep the krakens out. He informs Zhang Xiou Hou that he has exactly 12 days to get rid of the dragon ants before he will drop a forbidden curse on them.
The next day, Zhang Xiou Hou calls down a few subordinates to the beach and creates a hole in the beach and then draws water from the ocean and into the hole. He then pours in a purple solution and the whole pool turns purple, with the exception of one thing. The assistant notices a transparent object swimming in the water the size of a normal otter. Zhang Xiou Hou explains that these are the dragon ants that they have been tasked to hunt down and that there are millions of them in the sea and that each one is capable of bringing down the sea walls that they built against the krakens.
After some inital scouting, the assistant reports that there is an inhabited island on in the middle of the sea and that they might have a few ideas about the dragon ants. Zhang Xiou Hou agrees and takes her along with a few subordinates on a white eagle and flies them to the island. While telling the rest to lay low and slowly scout out the island at night, he tells his assistant to ditch the uniform for some civilian clothes and act as his boyfriend who are on holiday on the island (which she is a little happy about). They manage to look around town and manage to secure lodging at an old man and his son's place. Zhang Xiou Hou starts asking a few questions and the old man reveals that the island relies entirely on fishing to sustain themselves but refuses to answer more questions. When night comes around, Zhang Xiou Hou orders the assistant to stay put while he goes off and explore.
He runs around but finds himself at the docks where there seems to be a large net fishing operation, with the prey being the dragon ants. He goes to return to the assistant to tell her what he has learned, but finds that she is the one who knows more, having found the old man's son to be a lot more talkative. The son revealed that the dragon ants have the capability of breaking down just about every type of mineral and metal except for a rather special silver alloy. They use this silver alloy to scoop up the dragon ants from the ocean and then dry them out to extract the silver particles from their bodies to make money. The next morning, the pair leave after breakfast, but come back wearing their uniforms. The old man immediately notices whats up and gets his son out of there. After sitting down, Zhang Xiou Hou explains the situation and the old man reveals that he had no idea what was going on, but that he does know where the dragon ants were originally from and promises to take the military there.
He boards one of the millitary eagles and guides them to a large field of sea weed, he then states that there is a large under water ravine about 20 km to the east of this position. Zhang Xiou Hou decides to setup an underwater base with the use of the army's water mages. Afterwards, a sound mage reports to Zhang Xiou Hou that he has setup their monster observance tower. The good news is that there is barely any monster in the ravine up to a detph of 1.5 km but in the field of sea weed, there is an actual demon tribe and they won't be able to hold their position for long. Zhang Xiou Hou sends out a squad of mages to scout the ravine but he is staying behind in the base. They come back later saying that they manage to make it down to 2.5km depth but then they suddenly lost one of their own and they decided to retreat immediately. Zhang Xiou Hou then decides to go down there himself while leaving the assistant behind to lead the base.
After getting down to the depth of 2.5km, they run into a monarch level kraken just swimming around. Zhang Xiou Hou orders everyone to hide and not to make a move as not to get spotted. The kraken swims by without noticing the soldiers, but in the process, the kraken releases poisoned ice spikes that managed to injure one of the soldiers. Zhang Xiou Hou orders everyone else to retreat why he goes further ahead to find the missing soldier.
After swimming a few hundred meters with his new water element, he knocks on the sea wall of the ravine a military code for rescue and is happy to hear the same code returning. He quickly swims over to the source of the sound but finds the soldiers body ripped to shreds. He then continues forward to scout, but then he looks down and notices a large under water river where water is flowing much faster than in other places. He drops in a purple solution and sees that the river contains a large number of dragon ants. Zhang Xiou Hou decides to follow the river upstream and runs into a kraken standing guard infront of a giant silver mine. The kraken picks up a rock with one of its tentacles and starts beating the rhythm that Zhang Xiou Hou sounded earlier and he realizes what he is dealing with. But things take a turn for the weird when the kraken starts beating the military rhythm for retreat. While he wonders what exactly is going on, he gets surrounded by the tentacles of the kraken and wakes up in a pasture. In the pasture, a human outline made of leaves appears and Zhang Xiou Hou identifies him as the soldier that was killed previously. The soldier explains that the krakens have many powers compared to other creatures know about the forbidden curse plan and that Zhang Xiou Hou must stop it at all cost. While the soldier interferes with the mind of the kraken, Zhang Xiou Hou breaks through the tentacles and quickly dives into the silver mine to escape the kraken.
Meanwhile back at the underwater base, the assistant orders the retreat now that the sea weed monsters have found and started to assault the base. After everyone gets above sea level with their mounts, the dragon dives back into the water and everyone assumes that since the dragon abandoned his post, Zhang Xiou Hou is dead.
2 days later, the dragon manages to drag Zhang Xiou Hou out of the water and fly him to the nearest city, honolulu hawaii. From there, Zhang Xiou Hou contacts Mo Fan. Mo Fan, currently in britain, manages to get duchess irene to give them a dragon of their own and the trio fly to Hawaii. They find Zhang Xiou Hou squatting in a park, as being a member of the special forces, he has neither money nor ID to cover for him. While Mo Fan gets some drinks, Zhang Xiou Hou tries to explain his plan and Zhao Man Yan looses it instantly.
Zhang Xiou Hou theorizes that the krakens are planning to use the forbidden curse to their advantage and he needs to investigate to make sure. He proposes to split the quartet up into the 2, where he and one other person goes to investigate the designated landing site for the curse for anything out of the ordinary and then relay a light beacon incase they find something, while the other 2 go interrupt the guiding process of the forbidden curse. Zhao Man Yan volunteers for the anti guiding mission, but Mo Fan points out that it may or may not involve picking a fight with a full forbidden curse mage and he quickly changes his mind.
After they separate and mount their respective dragons, Zhang Xiou Hou commends Zhao Man Yan on his bravery. Zhao Man Yan wonders why and Zhang Xiou Hou points out that forbidden curses all have gravity wells surrounding the impact zone of the forbidden curse that are nearly impossible to escape that are placed prior to the landing of the curse, so if the other pair fails, they will be forced to take the curse head on. And now Zhao Man Yan quickly turns pale. The duo land their dragon on a reef and then quickly dive into the ocean. Zhao Man Yan manages to find another large underwater river filled to the brim with dragon ants with the river ending at another giant silver mine. Zhang Xiou Hou realizes that the kraken are using the dragon ants to dig large underwater highways for the kraken to move around the pacific at high speeds and they quickly return to the surface.
Meanwhile, Mu Bai and Mo Fan meets with Zhang Xiou Hou's assistant, who he has taken up to speed. She leads them to where the curse is prepared to be cast, which happens to be base atop a mountain that has a staff of over 3,000 people. The assistant reveals that they are going to use 365 elemental diamonds in groups of about 15 to provide the power for the curse to be called down. She then states that at least 40 diamonds need to be stolen to prevent the curse casting, so at least 3 positions need to be taken.
But she comes back later saying that taken all the elemental diamonds won't do them much good if they start the process of calling down the curse before the 40 diamonds are taken. Mo Fan then proposes the idea of using the devil element to kill the curse mage, who by himself has noticed the glances of Mo Fan. But Mu Bai thinks that Mo Fan is just crazy and that the curse mage is far beyond him. The assistant instead tells the duo that they can talk to the joint chief of the chinese military, who happens to be a curse mage himself.
Back at the curse landing point, Zhao Man Yan puts everything he has into a giant beacon of light to pierce through the gravitational barrier of the curse. While he is busy with that, they are attacked by another mage from behind and lungest towards Zhao Man Yan. Zhang Xiou Hou manages to intercept and push the mage back. Zhang Xiou Hou realizes that this guy is a member of another military division that designated this point as the target for the curse and that he too has been put under control of the kraken. Zhang Xiou Hou manages to fight the mage off and kill him and Zhao Man Yan manages to get his beacon through the gravitational barrier of the curse. But then, Zhang Xiou Hou realizes that in order for the plan to work properly, the curse must destroy the silver mine opposing the highway but not touch the highway behind it, as such, the only way that is possible is that the curse mage himself is under the control of the kraken.
Back at the military base, Mo Fan confronts the ice forbidden curse mage of the Mu Family but gets no leeway, he in turn reveals that everything is already setup and that he can start the curse process anytime. But then the joint chief intervenes and manages to push the ice forbidden curse mage far enough to show signs of the mind control and then he orders the entire base to be shut down. The Joint Chief reveals that the ice forbidden curse mage was part of an expedition to the south pole long ago and that Extreme South likely managed to control his mind since that day.
The quartet all decide to meet back at shanghai, but before they even get the chance to meet, alarms start ringing all across the coast line, the invasion has begun.
=== The Kraken Invasion ===
2477-2523
Mo Fan goes to call Shao Zheng, but instead the phone is answered by the secretary, as the speaker has already taken to the battlefield. She insists that he talk to the Joint Chief as he was the secret supporter behind Mo Fan. He goes to meet him and the Joint Chief explains that the devil project was originally his, but he ordered it to be shut down. But later he found out that one of his subordinates continued the research but before he was caught, Mo Fan was already transformed. He also explains that he was the one that got Shao Zheng to get Mo Fan to start the hunt for totems as this is not the first time that krakens have invaded. He reveals that when human magic was still in its infancy, the kraken invaded china, but were singlehandedly repelled by the 4 totem ancestors and they are likely going to need their help this time. He then gives Mo Fan 2 choices, either continue the hunt for totems or get drafted for an assault plan against at least 1 emperor. Mo Fan takes the former and gets his friends to meet him in shanghai.
When they meet, they get reports that the militarizes at the coast are holding the line, but the problem is that the kraken have managed to break through the defensive line of a river and are swimming up stream to further invade the country and the only nearby force of mages is the Pearl magic university. The quartet go to the river and decide to split up: Mu Bai goes up stream towards the lake to destroy the base that the kraken are building, Zhang Xiou Hou goes back to Shanghai to reinforce the military position there, Zhao Man Yan goes directly to the coast to dam up the river while Mo Fan goes down the river to kill all the kraken travelling up.
While traveling down the river, he runs into his old fire department teacher who is having trouble with a commander class kraken. Mo Fan uses high tier fire magic and kills the kraken instantly. He then picks up the teacher and goes further south so that the teacher can re-organize the students into more effective fighting forces. But on the way, they run into a monarch level kraken. Mo Fan dispatches his crystal wolf to deal with hit and he quickly rams into the kraken and deal many cuts across its body while also embedding its parasitic insects into its flesh. The kraken then releases a tidal wave to push the wolf back. The wolf in turn calls back the parasites that are in the flesh of the kraken and absorbs the energy that they have taken. This turn the wolf into a giant raging red monster which instantly rushes up to the kraken and kills it before it releases another tidal wave. Mo Fan then leaves the teacher and dispatches the wolf and apas to go futher upstream and kill any kraken they find.
Mo Fan goes further down stream but is stopped by a student who says that it is far to dangerous to go alone. Mo Fan then instantly kills the commander that was sneaking up behind him and all the students quickly decide to follow Mo Fan. Mo Fan leads them to where the previous student said the school idol was hiding, a title that has been passed down the the mind mage that Mo Fan fought over the 9th position in the house of fire incident. The mind mage was stuck on the bridge while being surrounded by 4 commander class creatures. Mo Fan kills them all instantly and rescues the mind mage. But then the monsters are reinforced by over 20 creatures where the lowest rank is commander. While Mo Fan prepares to fight, the mind mage tells Mo Fan to stand down and suddenly all the monsters start killing one another. She reveals that this is part of her talent, that she can influence the emotions of other beings on a much grander scale. But most of this power is depended entirely on her mood, so she decided to stay at the university to keep the power under control.
The duo then travel further down the river and finds a squad of teachers dealing with mind controlled students. Mo Fan intervenes while the mind mage engages the mind controlling humanoid creature in spiritual combat. But almost immediately, the mind mage starts screaming in agony and one of the teachers tells Mo Fan to kill her. Mo Fan kills the teacher instead and then kills the mind humanoid. The teacher scream in agony, but Mo Fan simply points to the body of the teacher, and they see that it was infact the teacher who was mind controlled. The mind mage asks how Mo Fan knew and he replies that he was looking for it. He points out that this entire setup was a continuous trap for mages, where a controlled high ranking mage would continually call for reinforcements and they would all be killed one by one. But Mo Fan then gets the idea that they should be imitating their moves.
Mo Fan carries the mind mage up to a tower at a point where the river is divided in 2. The mind mage then sends out a spiritual call while imitating the mind controlling humanoid. Suddenly, many kraken respond to the call and start appearing from down stream. Mo Fan starts the process of his dragon tail attack and then he uses it to completely annihilate all the creatures on the left side of the river. While the mind mage is shocked at the power of Mo Fan and the krakens start to realize that they have been had, Mo Fan activates his shadow domain and nails all the kraken on the right of the river to the bottom of the river. Then he summons several shadow elders, who in turn summon their shadow guards, they all then start going through the shadow domain and quickly execute all the kraken they come across.
Afterwards, Mo Fan decides to take a break now that both his lightning and shadow star oceans are dry. They later receive word that Zhao Man Yan has successfully dammed up the river and that he, the mind mage and several other students are being diverted to look for the survivors of a town that has been overrun by kraken but no dead bodies had yet to be found. Mo Fan and another shadow mage look around town and find a bunker whose access has been blocked off due to the rising tide. Mo Fan and the shadow mage manage to find an access vent and manage to sneak in. They manage to find over 10,000 civilians hiding inside. The people are all happy that the military has finally come to rescue them. But Mo Fan reveals that the military is stuck on the coast line and that they only have got a few mages to help them out but that they will be free soon. A high ranking mage in the bunker states that they are quickly running out of food and water and Mo Fan says that he will do something about it.
Mo Fan and the shadow mage quickly return to the rest of the mages, who inform him that they are currently being called away to deal with several kraken attacking a bridge. Mo Fan gets an idea and tells the students to stay put. About 20 minutes later, Mo Fan returns while pulling all the kraken behind him and tells the students that they are to help him cook them. Yan Ji immediately flies out of the contract space and starts preparing several fires while Mo Fan stars filleting the kraken while the rest help out on other matters. Mo Fan then re-enters the bunker and opens up a portal back to the outside and pulls through all the cooked kraken and feeds it all to the survivors.
2 days later, the entire river incident has been solved and the kraken around the area have all been cleaned up. However many of the students have seen Mo Fan fighting and subsequently uploaded footage to the internet about his fights. But none of the students have failed to notice the mind mage behind him, which in turn lead to rumors that Mo Fan has up to 7 girlfriends on school grounds. While the mind mage is sleeping on his couch, Mo Fan is called away by ling ling to the front lines.
While arriving at the front lines, he sees that many military mages are preparing to deal with a rather menacing supreme monarch named the ocean skeleton king that somehow uses water to heal his injuries with an undead nature. The attack starts with a squad of super tier light mages putting their power together and summon a giant light sword and stabs the supreme monarch to gets its attention. The supreme monarch then rushes towards the mages, but at that point, over 2,000 high tier fire mages put their power together and boil the ocean around the monarch and prevent it from healing. The skeleton king doesn't like that and summons his own tsunami, filled to the brim with bones and sends it towards the fire mages.
3 half forbidden curse mages sit atop the shanghai tower and are overlooking the fight with the skeleton king and decide that they must get involved. They all instantly appear on the battlefield and while one of the half forbidden curse mages stops the bone tsunami, a military general uses water magic to block the escape of the skeleton king and another half forbidden curse mage uses a blade comprised of chaos magic to stab the skeleton king and deal heavy injuries. But before they could capitalize, a the ocean water forms a gigantic claw reaches out to the 3 half forbidden curse mages, killing them instantly. While the soldiers are all shocked at the thought that an emperor has appeared, the skeleton king has made his escape.
The next day, Shao Zheng calls Mo Fan, beggin him to deal with the skeleton king since his devil element will allow him to escape the grasp of the emperor. Mo Fan accepts but on the grounds that he gets to take a few friends along. Mu bai, Zhang Xiou Hou, Zhao Man Yan, Mu Ning Xue, Jiang Shaoxue and Ling Ling are all formally summoned to fight the skeleton king. Mo Fan explains that the heavy damage that the skeleton king has suffered has limited its power to 1/5th and that they must kill it now before it heals. When they set off, they find a mage floating in the water who has seemed to lost his mind. Apas indicates that he has been brainwashed and the group further advances to the island that the skeleton has been hiding. Mo Fan and crew find that the kraken have taken control of many healing mages and are no accelerating the regeneration of the skeleton king. While trying to divise a plan and putting jiang shaoxue in the rear along with apas and Ling Ling, Mu Ning Xue begins the assault on the skeleton king.
While Mo Fan berates Mu Ning Xue for her rash actions, she has created an opening and froze the feet of the skeleton king in place with her ice magic. This in turn allows Mu Ning Xue to draw her bow, Mo Fan to summon his lightning claws and Zhao Man Yan to bring down a demon sword, but they all do minor damage and the skeleton king starts to heal. Mo Fan goes behind the back of the skeleton king and is surprised to find a totem mark on its neck. Mo Fan relays this information and Jiang Shaoxue and Ling Ling immediately go to work. Ling Ling explains that this mark belongs to the totem phoenix, a bird that could regenerate any injury as long as it had enough fire element and that this is likely the source of the skeleton king's power, but using water element instead. She says that the bird could be extracted from the skeleton king if enough fire element is provided. Mo Fan immediately incarnates with Yan ji, and starts pounding the skeleton's neck with fire magic. The skeleton king tries to intercept Mo Fan, but is stopped by the power of the Snow tiger, who again has sneaked out of FanXue Shan to help and fight, but now has become much bigger. After dealing many blows, the neck of the skeleton king absorbs all the flame and a small red bird pops out. Zhang Xiou Hou grabs it with the skeleton king in pursuit.
Now that the group has taken away the skeleton's king's immortality, he decides to take this seriously and starts chasing Zhang Xiou Hou. Ling Ling directs the group towards an island on the japanese coast line where there is an active volcano that could be used to restore the totem phoenix to its full power. After a rew rounds of hot potato, the bird ends up in the hands of Mo Fan who has mounted the snow tiger who is freezing the ocean as he walks on top of it. Then the skeleton king starts to take out Mo Fan's friends, squatting away Mu Bai, tossing Zhang Xiou Hou into the ocean and clipping the wings of the dragon that Zhao Man Yan was riding. When they get to the island, the skeleton king summons heavy rain and at this point, Mu ning Xue is also required to retreat.
By the time they get to the top of the edge of the volcano, Mo Fan dismounts the snow tiger and heads towards the bottom with the small phoenix on an earth boat, but the skeleton king summons a water ball shaped like a dragon and hurls it towards Mo Fan, scoring a direct hit and breaking almost every bone in Mo Fan's body. He rolls down to the magma pool of the volcano and the little bird suddenly burrows its way into Mo Fan's chest. Then the volcano begins erupting and a lot of lava starts to be absorbed by Mo Fan and his injuries start to heal. He then makes his way to the to the center of the volcano and causes it to erupt.
Mo Fan then challenged the skeleton head on to the full view of the japanese press on a nearby island, who recognize the skeleton king and broadcast the fight live, believing the god of the mountain has returned to deliver vengeance on behalf of the japanese. They broadcast the whole fight world wide with the whole pearl university and even Shao Zheng tuning in. Mo Fan manages to do some damage but gets heavily injured by an attack and subsequently uses the flame energy of the volcano to heal. After being mortally injured a total of 5 times, the skeleton king finally falls and does not get back up. Mo Fan subsequently decapitates it, takes the head and flies over back to Shanghai where he hangs the head atop the oriental tower, scaring all the nearby kraken into retreat.
=== The Art of last Hope ===
2524-2559
After the Sea king incident, Mo Fan decides to take some R&R until Ling Ling got word of another totem and sends Mo Fan to investigate. While in the neighbourhood, Mo Fan runs into the super tier wind mage fusion magic researcher back from the Leng Qing incident. He tries to show Mo Fan his latest progress, but introduces his new assistant first, a rather familiar Ojos University Student Council President. She explains that her elder brother send her abroad because of his rebellion and she has since joined up with the fusion researcher. She says that they have managed to make a break through but require someone to test it. Mo Fan makes his way to the testing chamber and tries fusing together flame and lightning magic, but it doesn't work as he can only cast 1 magic at a time. The fusion researcher instead hand Mo Fan a harry potter style wand and tells him to use this. Mo Fan uses his fire magic and finds that the wand is capable of storing magic for a few seconds. Mo Fan first casts novice tier fire magic and pours it into the wand and then casts novice tier lightning magic and pours it in the wand. The energy inside the wand combines and creates new a type of magic made of both fire and lightning magic equally and a giant s shapes purple flame wave shoots out the wand. The fusion researcher explains that this new type of magic is at least twice as powerful as conventional magic and promises Mo Fan some new magic gloves that would allow him to cast fusion magic directly.
Meanwhile in England, Mo Jiangixing is on holiday, after being convinced by Mu Zhouyun. But now that the kraken invasion has started, he is currently stuck in london due to all the airports being closed. While trying to visit St. Paul's cathedral, he is stopped by a white mage who is frantically on the search for someone. Instead he goes to an alleyway to open up his phone, but before he can do something with it, an injured chinese women stumbles into him. She asks for help and he tries to take her to the police, but the women strongly objects, stating that the one that is after her is a police officer. Mo Jiaxing takes her to his apartment and while he goes to get some medicine, the women removes all her makeup and face coverings. When Mo Jiaxing comes back, he identifies her as Ye Hao, his ex wife, mother of Xin Xia.
He asks where she has been all these years, but Salan feigns ignorance, that she has lost her memories for some reason. Mo Jiaxing says that he will go out for a doctor, but she begs him not too, that she is to scared of the world around her and Mo Jiaxing agrees, giving her his jacket and taking her outside. While Mo Jiaxing goes to get some tea to drink on the terrace, Salan goes to talk with a guy hiding in the shadows. She tells him that the pope of the black vatican is dead and to brace for impact, but the shadow man leaves before Mo Jiaxing returns. After serving her tea, with her actually drinking it, Mo Jiaxing hears his phone ringing and Salan instantly freezes in fear, knowing better than anyone who is on the other end of that line. Mo Jiaxing tells her not to worry and answers the phone. After asking his son whats going on, Mo Fan immediately senses the presence of a woman, but he tells his son that there is nothing going on. After the conversation ended, Salan stands up and thanks Mo Jiaxing for the tea and leaves. But before she does, Mo Jiaxing tells her that he will always be there for her and that if she has no where else to go, she can always return back to him. Salan replies that she always has nowhere to go.
After walking through the streets, she gets to a dilapidated church. Before she enters, she notices that she's still wearing Mo Jiaxing's jacket, so she walks over to a bin and tosses it in. After entering the church, she calls out for a status update. A voice comes out of a depiction of Jesus on a cross and he reports that there has been an incident in Dubai, where all blame as formally been shifted to them. Salan then replies that their mole in the dubai magic association must get a different secret identity and then must investigate the matter. After leaving the church, she notices that Mo Jiaxing's jacket is still hanging out of the bin and after a long pause, she goes back over to the bin, but the author cuts off the scene before anything else happens.
Back in china, Ling Ling has made another breaktrough in the hunt for totems and runs over to the oriental power to get him. But she finds Mo Fan in a terrible mood, someone killed the fusion researcher while he was making his case for the fusion method in dubai. Mo Fan tells Ling Ling to take care of herself before he boards the wind dragon and he makes his way to dubai. While there, he walks into the dubai magic tower and interrups a meeting involving Zhang Kong's granddad. Knowing all to well who died, he gives Mo Fan all the evidence he has. Salan, through the use of the Lang Lang organisation, assassinated the fusion researcher while he was in the tower. Mo Fan finds the whole thing a gigantic pile of horse sh*t, but the grandfather replies that this is all that he knows. Mo Fan gets angry, but quickly leaves the tower. On the way out he spots a very familiar person, Azeala.
He pulls her to a corner and she reveals that she too has come to find the truth. She tells Mo Fan that she has gotten word of some Lang Lang crew hiding in the desert and quickly leads Mo Fan to them. Mo Fan finds a group of seven members sitting around a campfire, but he sees that they are all just small fries and incapacitates them all instantly with his shadow domain, with Azeala noting that he isn't messing around today. While Mo Fan goes to eat some fruit prepared by Azeala, Azeala starts the interigation process. But she doesn't manage to get anything out of them as they themselves didn't know anything.
The duo continue to scour the desert and manage to find one of he heads of the Lang Lang organisation. He shoots out lightning but Mo Fan catches all of it and sends it back, frying the dude in the process. Before they continue, 2 others appear behind them. Mo Fan uses his fusion magic to create a fiery dust storm that instantly buries the 2 other mages. Azeala gets to work and manages to get them to spill that this entire thing was a ruse, the lang lang organisation was to play decoy while the magic association hunts down the fusion researchers assistant, SCP, in the city. Azeala is angry that someone managed to pull one over them, Mo Fan leaves her behind and says that he will handle this.
He climbs to the top of the burj Khalifa (the HQ for the dubai magic association) and starts broadcasting to the entirety of Dubai through unknown means and says that he is going to demonstrate the magic fusion method. Before he can do so, he is interrupted by a mage on patrol. He states that Mo Fan has no right to stand atop the building, Mo Fan rebukes by showing his badge that he is a super tier mage and thus has plenty of right to visit one of the top magic associations. The patrol mage then states that he has no right to teach and demonstrate magic, Mo Fan rebukes again by showing him his Ojos teaching license. The patrol mages is soon reinforced and they decide that violence is the best way to deal with this guy. But before they jump him, Mo Fan combines super tier fire and lightning magic and pushes all the mages back. Before they can recover, Mo Fan starts fusing together his fire and shadow magic but the entire thing is instantly dispelled by the newly arrived Sulu.
Meanwhile at the other end of the city, SCP is observing the entire incident while mentally communicating with her book. She believes that she must intervene and quickly flips to the back page of the book, ignoring the warning of the book itself. On the last page, there is a picture of an angel and SCP quickly transforms herself into one and quickly flies to the top of the dubai tower. She manages to get in between Mo Fan and Sulu before the latter can attack the former and Sulu is quite surprised that none other than the archangel Gabriel herself was the assistant of the fusion researcher. But he doesn't care and quickly summons the black dragon, whose sheer size covers all of dubai from the sky. Gabriel tells Mo Fan that she will deal with the dragon and quickly flies up with Sulu not far behind and in the mean time, Mo Fan activates the devil element.
This time, Mo Fan's blood begins to show through his skin and rather than having the aura of 3 summoning creatures, they fuse together to form one giant flame medusa with a wolf head several hundred meters long. But then it uses space compression to bring its size down and it wraps around Mo Fan like armor. A half forbidden curse mage quickly stands up and throws her spear straight at Mo Fan, but Mo Fan quickly rips it out and creates an earth spear of his own towards her, nailing her to the top of the burj khalifa and turning her to stone. Before the rest of the mages can act, Mo Fan activates the power of medusa and creates a killing field that executes 4 half forbidden and more than 20 super tier mages.
However, at the end of it, a full forbidden curse mage walks out of it completely unharmed. Sulu looks down and sees that most of his subordinates have been killed and that the forbidden curse mage is the only 1 left standing. The forbidden curse mage wastes no time and starts creating a star universe comprising of tens of thousands of stars. These in turn create 8 star mountains who use gravity waves to shackle themselves around Mo Fan and try to quarter him. Mo Fan uses his own space magic to reinforce his muscles and he manages to over power the gravity waves and pull the 8 star mountains together. Mo Fan then begins returning fire.
Thanks to the power of the devil element, Mo Fan has increased control over his stars and starts forming his own star Manifestation, comprised of Space, Fire and Chaos magic. This in turn creates a spacial distortion field with falling meteors. The Forbidden Curse mage manages to force his way out with void magic and looses most of his stamina. Although shocked at the sight of seeing a spell like this being cast by a super tier mage, he reveal that while Mo Fan was busy, he has made the preparations to cast a forbidden curse.
The forbidden curse mage brings down the curse and aims it at Mo Fan. Mo Fan is shackled into the ground and a giant rainbow comprised of colored beads rain down on Mo Fan. Mo Fan immediately gives up on all chances to defends against the attack and instead uses his senses to scour all of the desert near Dubai for a fire source, as the power of the totem phoenix allow him to regenerate any injury as long as his heart remains and that there is enough flame element to fuel it. Mo Fan manages to find a heavenly flame species and hides it in his face and then takes the hit of the forbidden curse.
The curse reduces Mo Fan down to a pile of ash and bones but his heart and the heavenly flame species are intact. So Mo Fan quickly heals and the forbidden curse mage, who has taken a heavy toll thanks to casting the curse singlehandedly, starts running for his life. Mo Fan instead calls for he giant medusa and it cuts of the escape route of the forbidden curse mage. Mo Fan then calls out hundreds of devil Mo Fan clones with the use of his shadow magic and they all start tearing apart the remaining defenses of the curse mage. Mo Fan then uses his claws to decapitate the curse mage and then quickly takes both the head and the body and dumps it in a random street in Dubai, where news that a forbidden curse mage that can singlehandedly summon a curse, a rare feat even among other forbidden curse mages, has been slain in a battle supported by the black dragon emperor.
Sulu calls for the forbidden curse mage but he is surprisingly pleasantly surprised that Mo Fan answered instead, that a no name super tier mage managed to kill a full forbidden curse mage. Mo Fan looks up and sees that both the dragon and gabriel are both injured in their fight, but gabriel is definitely the one worse for wear, mainly due to the vitality of an emperor and its special scales heavily reduce the damage done by traditional elemental curse attacks. Mo Fan tells Gabriel that she must deal with Sulu while he goes deal with the dragon. The dragon immediately takes this seriously and fires off its signature flame breath. Mo Fan instead dodges but finds the dragon breath chasing him. Mo Fan then calls upon Yan Ji's lixia flame seed and its flame piercing properties and quickly creates a field of fire, in which the dragon breath is dissolved.
The dragon then quickly rushes up to Mo Fan and tries to kill him with his claws, but Mo Fan blocks the attack with his medusa creature and then quickly tackles the dragon by launching himself into the underbelly of the dragon and the dragon is shot right out of the sky. The dragon landed with a minor injury and looses some of its scales, but it immediately gets up, powers up its dragon horns and launches himself at Mo Fan. Mo Fan sees no room to dodge so he turns himself into a flame meteor and charges the dragon head on. They collide head on in the middle of the sky and the collision causes the space around them to start to crack, with the dragon loosing one of his horns and Mo Fan's skin cracks open.
Mo Fan decides to take the fight to the desert, where there is more flame element that he could use but as he is leading the dragon out, he takes another hit and lands in the middle of the desert. But thanks to Mo Fan's sub heavenly earth seed, all the blood Mo Fan has lost so far has been absorbed by the desert and Mo Fan creates a giant golem. The dragon then charges the golem head on, but the golem dodges the attack and tosses the a total of 5 kilometers. Mo Fan notes that the earth golem that swallowed him at Yucheng city was related to the ancient titans of greece and that since his devil element absorbed some power from that golem, he too has their power, a power to fight against dragons.
After being tossed so far and rolling through the desert, the dragon looses many of his scales. The dragon gets angry and instantly rushes towards the golem and destroys it with his claw attack, but the rest of the claw attack is stopped by a flame shield made by Mo Fan, causing burn injuries to the claw of the dragon. Mo Fan re-summons the golem but makes himself the centre and also summons a giant earth sword. Mo Fan charges the dragon head on and jams the flame shield into the face of the dragon while the earth sword pierces the wings of the dragon, causing blood to fall out, which in turn starts to dissolve the desert sand.
After many such charges, the dragon's blood has been spilled all over the desert, which in turn renders Mo Fan's anti dragon earth magic unusable. But rather than charging Mo Fan, the dragon starts to injure himself. Which in the process removes the restraints put on him by Sulu and his power now triples. Before he makes a move on Mo Fan, Azeala calls out the the dragon, whose real name has been revealed to be Austin, that Mo Fan is not his enemy, Sulu is. The dragon acknowledges this and flies towards Dubai with Mo Fan flying off as well.
While the black dragon emperor decides to remodel the burj khalifa, Mo Fan decides to back up Gabriel, who is loosing her fight against Sulu. Sulu manages to crease a star manifestation whose power is not inferior to a curse and fires it at Gabriel, creating a massive thunderstorm. Gabriel counters by drawing an angelic bow and firing an arrow towards the sky, but Sulu manages to intercept the arrow with a curse of his own. His curse dissolves the arrow into red lightning and fires it at Gabriel, who is powerless to stop it. Mo Fan instead intercepts it with his own lightning. Sulu calls out Gabriel and Mo Fan for not knowing what it means to fight their way to the top and being given all their powers rather than earning it. Mo Fan tells Sulu to turn around and he is shocked to see the dragon staring him down.
The dragon begins to claw away at the summoning mark on his forehead and destroys it, dealing heavy soul damage to himself and Sulu. Sulu then decided that he has had enough and activates a rather creepy power, a giant river made of shadow. He sends the river through dubai and Austin, Mo Fan and Gabriel, along with many other civilians and mages are swept up and dragged towards the dark plane. On the way down the river, Mo Fan runs across a rather familar person, Hyle, who instantly runs for it the moment he saw Mo Fan. But due to the strength and wildness of the river, Mo Fan eventually looses consciousness.
The Dark King's Game 2559-2590
Mo Fan later wakes up and notices that the power of the devil element has expired and that his evil beads are all empty. Mo Fan looks around and notices that he is in a dark forest in the dark plane. He continues looking and sees many civilians and mages, but eventually sees a comatose Azeala. Mo Fan manages to wake her up, but she instantly pushes him away, saying that no man may lay her hands on a saint like her without her permission. She then asks what Mo Fan has done to her unconscious body, to which Mo Fan replies nothing, after which she calls him a useless man.
Azeala then stands up and is quick to notice that they are stuck in the middle of the dark plane, a world that might be even bigger than earth. She explains that they must find a way out of here, to which Mo Fan asks how. Azeala points out that Mo Fan had already had opened a doorway into the shadow plane when he opened the door to the underworld, a continent on the dark plane. However to get there, they must play the Dark King's Game. Every person that gets to this world by accident shall be given the opportunity to win their freedom out of it. But in order to change things up, every person's abilities are heavily altered at the discretion of the dark king, ranging from heavy buffs to heavy debuffs in their power and the duo set off to the underworld, under the guide of Azeala's knight, who has now reached the level of great monarch.
Almost immediately, Space and shadow magic started to be activated and the trio along with all the other people that were brought over from Dubai all started to be funneled into three lanes and they all had no option but to walk forward. But suddenly, a giant wheel with blades and teeth was summoned into one of the lanes. Mo Fan tried to use magic, but found that the entire are is a magic vacuum zone and as such none of them could use magic. This in turn lead to the wheel slaughtering every person in one of the lanes. The other 2 lanes eventually lead to a forest and everyone was then freed to walk into a direction of their choice. Azeala quickly lead the trio out of the forest, as it had the powers of injecting precious dark energy into an human that walked into it, which in turn made them rather appealing to other shadow creatures that inhabit the forest. However, they exited the forest and ended up on a chess board and Azeala instantly turned pale.
She explains that this is the Dark Kings chessboard and that they are all in trouble. Suddenly the trio is is covered in a dark red shroud and are all moved along the chess board. Mo Fan is moved to the center while the knight and Azeala are moved a considerable distance to his sides. Azeala explains that they have been assigned as chess pieces on the board, with Azeala and her servant both being classed as knights and Mo Fan being designated as the black bishop. Meanwhile in the trio's respective columns, monsters start to appear. In Mo Fan's column, a 3 headed hell hound appears and Mo Fan wonders how this guy could be the white bishop. Azeala objects, stating that the 3 headed hell hound is infact a pawn. While still believing that one of these is something that he could easily handle, a total of 100 hell hounds appear, but they can't leave the square. Meanwhile in the spaces of the white knights (B1 and G1) 4 dark sword lords appear and they realize how serious this is going to get.
While Mo Fan wonders who will be their pieces, Azeala answers that they are still in the forest, that everything so far has just been a process to seperate the warriors from the weaklings. Sure enough, 10,000's of people, not just people from Dubai but from all over the world, start pouring into the chessboard from the forest and almost all of them are sorted into the line for pawns (A7-H7). While the rest takes notice on who is standing in the king's square, the white kings reveal themselves, a great monarch medusa and a white widow, while MO Fan himself is reinforced by a blond european on the respective square.
Eventually things get more interesting. The next pieces that were placed were the queens, which to their surprise happened to be a shadow elder witch, the next rank up from shadow elder, but it was placed on the human side, not the demon. Eventually a white women was placed on the opposing queen position. One of the people in the pawn section identified her as the dark saint, a saint from the previous generation of goddess candidates that sold her soul out for tower to the dark king and cold jue, but she broke the contract and was subsequently dragged to the dark world. Next came the rooks, which to Mo Fan's delight were a now angel-less Gabriel and a dragon of undisclosed nature, while the enemy camp received 2 units of dubai magic association mages. And finally came the kings, which were revealed Austin for the humans and Sulu for the demons.
Next came the players. As expected, The dark king came to play for the demon side, but to everyone's surprise, the person playing for the human side was none other than Mu Bai. Mu Bai reveals that while everyone else was in kunlun, the dark king made him play chess with him with the stake being Mu Bai's soul, a match he lost. But then Mo Fan came forward with the shadow stone and the dark king saw fit to change the rules, make the game 2 out of 3, which Mu Bai won and earned his freedom. But that didn't sit very well with the dark king and so when he learned that none other than Mo Fan had landed in the dark plane, he challenged Mu Bai with the stake being Mo Fan's soul. However, there was another problem, in the intial setting of the board, Mo Fan stood on the demon side, so Mu Bai betted his own soul in addition to Mo Fan's in order to change the board how he saw fit.
Then the game began with the dark king rapidly forcing the 3 headed hell hounds to advance while Mu Bai setup his pawns in a defensive position with the rooks and knights not far behind. Then first contact was made in front of Mo Fan, with a unit of hellhounds charging at over 1000 mages. But then suddenly a dark cloud hang above the humans and strings were attached to every human. The dark king stated that he forgot to mention this rule but in honor of a fair game of chess, every defending piece shall have their power reduced by 30% for the beginning of the fight.
This in turn proved to be disastrous for the defending mages and not 1 but 2 units are destroyed. Mu Bai counters by sending in Azeala and her Knight and they quickly rip apart the enemy with their swords while the hellhounds are weakened by the debuff. Mu Bai then sends in Gabriel and the Shadow Elder witch not far behind and a few moves later, Azeala and Gabriel are within striking distance of the Dark Saint. Mo Fan notices this however and he finds it unacceptable that to get out of here, they need to loose either Gabriel or Azeala. So Mo Fan convinces Mu Bai to go all or nothing. Mu Bai subsequently uses castling to switch Gabriel and Austin (which for some undisclosed reason is possible), which in turn guards Azeala from any potential threat as Austin's power is supreme to the dark witch. The dark King notices this and realizes that in single combat, Austin and Sulu are in a weight class of their own, so he proposes a rule change. He says that he is willing to provide a 50% power boost to every piece that wins a fight per fight. Mu Bai however, shoots the idea down, stating that this rule would make the pawns useless and guarantees their death, so he proposes different rule. Every piece that defeats a piece of equal value shall be given a 50% boost and every piece that defeats a higher ranked piece is to be given a 200% boost. The dark king accepts this rule.
While Mu Bai prepares to Mobilize Mo Fan so that he can start gaining boosts, the idea is undercut by Azeala, who says that she wants to attack the white widow. She states that even though she was castled, Gabriel isn't out of trouble yet, so she wants to create an opening to attack. Mu Bai agrees and sets her on the attack, but before the battle commences, The Dark King informs her that in the interest of fairness, the powers she received from her knight have been disabled.
When walking over to the white widow's square, the square suddenly turns into a massive shallow lake, with the dark king stated that this is a battlefield most suitable for the fight of 2 ladies. The fight begins with Azeala rushing the spider with her sword and manages to cut off a leg. Azeala then calls forth a rain of swords, but the spider manages to perfectly dodge the entire rainfall and positions herself in the air thanks to her spider web. The spider then counterattacks and manages to cut Azeala, with her noting that she might have to take this seriously. The spider then manages to get behind Azeala to cut her again, but upon contact, she dissolves into dark water droplets. Azeala then appears behind the widow but she dodges again. The widow then goes for the cut again, but fails and Azeala tuns into a bush of rose petals. These petals turn into swords and rush towards the widow but none hit their mark. While trying to looks for her opponent with sounds magic, the widow realizes that Azeala is standing right on top of her but the spider is cut to pieces before she could do anything about it.
Azeala wins the fight and the Dark King admits that he might have made a mistake, but keeps his word and awards her a 50% power boost. Mu Bai then moves the blond european into attack position and moves him towards the other bishop, the great monarch medusa. However, the medusa manages to delay her opponent long enough with her signature curse for the 30% debuff to wear off and manages to win the fight, gaining a 50% boost. The dark king uses this moment to counter attack with the rooks and Azeala's knight was killed. This resulted in Sulu being placed not far from Mo Fan. Mu Bai had send in a pawn to intercept but they are quickly slaughtered. Mo Fan tells Mu Bai not to worry and that he is willing to "retire". Mu Bai has none of it however and he quickly moves Mo Fan away. However, the Dark King moves the medusa to intercept.
The Dark King tells the medusa not to be so overconfident, but the medusa wonders why, since the guy before was but a weak human. The Dark King tells Mo Fan to bring his "maid" out and Apas appeared and the Medusa begins grovelling before the third daughter of medusa. But the Dark King made Mo Fan pull her back and informed him that all the summoning contracts will be sealed for now in the interest of fairness. The fight begins in the middle of a desert mountain range and the medusa opens with a torn tail, which Mo Fan manages to dodge. Mo Fan then counters with lightning claws, which do nothing. Mo Fan then used his heavenly fire seed and the scales of medusa became burned. Medusa then started playing with her hair and suddenly all kinds of insects poured out of it. These insects quickly push Mo Fan into a corner to the point where neither his lixia flame seed nor his void magic has any effect on the insects. However, Mo Fan is quick to figure out that it was mostly an illusion cast by the medusa.
Mo Fan subsequently put everything he had into the lixia flame seed and all the insects start to burn and it is the Medusa who is quickly driven into the corner, due to the cumulative effect of the Lixia flames. While Mo Fan is starting to draw the flames onto his body, the medusa quickly rushes over and stabs Mo Fan in his chest with her tail. While believing she has the win (while her tail is still melting), Mo Fan begins drawing on the flame elements of the burning insects and heals his injury while the Medusa burns to death. Mo Fan is then awarded the 50% power boost by the Dark King and Mu Bai sets Mo Fan up against one of the rooks, while Sulu tells the rook that someone must suppress his fire magic.
The fight begins by 7 of the mages forming a formation in the sky, which in turn create strong winds which are then send to Mo Fan. Mo Fan inturn counters with his shadow magic (boosted by the Dark King) and turns himself incorporeal and walks right through the wind. Mo Fan subsequently sends out a few clones and begins approaching the leader of the mage unit. But before he could attack, a super tier light mage put a protective barrier around the mage leader and rebuffs a Mo Fan clone. But behind the super tier light mage, the real Mo Fan appears.
Mo Fan quickly rips up the super tier light mage, but the Dark King notices that the source of the power were the dark elders. While the dark elder quickly defends himself, saying that he trying to minimize his influence, the Dark King says its fine, since the opponent in front of him is a rook. The mages then re-attempt to put the same formation in the sky, but Mo Fan intercepts the process by building a shadow tower with his magic and locks the mages in the sky. Mo Fan then activates his dragon tail attack and takes one of the mages out of the sky. But he quickly gets back up and asks if that was all. Mo Fan in turn activates the chaos rubbing field and reveals that he has another 8 dragon tails ready. Mo Fan fires 2 more before the mage is killed and the rest of the mages quickly debate what to do next.
The mages decided to use earth magic and quickly make a series of massive earth waves to destroy Mo Fan's tower. But before that happens, Mo Fan manages to use all of his dragon tails and kill 4 more mages. While Mo Fan is thinking what to do next, a giant earth claw comes out of the ground and tries to kill him. While Mo Fan is dodging with his shadow magic, the shadow elder comes out of Mo Fan's shadow and stabs him. Mo Fan asks what the hell he is doing, the shadow elder replies that Mo Fan needs to get serious. As the blood drips onto the ground, Mo Fan realizes what he meant and subsequently begins to create another earth titan similar to the one he created in his fight with Austin. He then summons another earth sword and this time he puts his lightning and fire magic into the tip of the sword and quickly kills all but one of them. The last one committed suicide before Mo Fan got to him.
The Dark King keeps his word and gives Mo Fan another 50% boost. But Mu Bai identifies another problem, the dark saint is in fact much stronger than their shadow elder witch counterpart, so the only possible path to proceed forward, so that Austin can attack Sulu without issue, is for their queen to be the bait and then have the saint killed by Austin. The Dark notices this and castles Sulu and the last rook. But Mu Bai reveals that this was their plan all along and sends Mo Fan kill another rook and gain enough power to challenge the dark saint. But Mu Bai also makes sure to comment that the Dark King needs to brush up on his chess skills.
Mo Fan killed the other mage group without incident and is awarded another 50% boost, putting him in the weight class of the dark saint. However, the Dark Saint in the meantime prays for her son that was killed by Mo Fan, Cold Jue. She also asks Mo Fan how it happened but while Mo Fan is thinking about an answer, she turns her attention towards the Dark King. She demands to know why Yiddish was resurrected but not her or anyone else for that matter. The Dark King refuses to answer so the Dark Saint calls him out by his real name, Wentai.
Initially the entire chessboard thinks the Dark Saint is crazy, but the Dark King responds by saying that Earth always seemed to be a nice wedding dress for her. The Dark Saint in turn tells everyone that Wentai used Yiddish to banish himself to the Dark World as Earth didn't suit his ambition and everyone now believes the story. Azeala goes to ask the Dark King directly to double check. He confirms that he isn't Wentai, but that he isn't the only Dark King that is vying for the power of the Dark Plane and that the official title of Dark King is simply put on the guy that is the strongest among them at the time, which Wentai is aiming to be.
The Dark King then goes back to the chess board and puts the Dark Saint on Mo Fan, who is then given a 30% debuff. The Dark Saint then opens by transforming herself into a monster not to different from the appearance that Cold Jue took in his fight against Mo Fan. She creates a field of red sparks that hinders Mo Fan's movement. Mo Fan counters by creating a net made of compressed space to clear the way and then uses rapid teleportation to dodge the Dark Saint's attacks and then creates a star palace of void magic and uses super tier void magic (the death axis) for the first time and pierces through the neck of the Dark Saint. However, the Dark Saint's head is only dislocated and no blood is spilled. Mo Fan notices the red aura around her and wonders if this is the faith energy that Cold Jue drew power from too. Mu Bai interjects and tells Mo Fan to look at the tethers. Mo Fan looks up and sees many red ghosts in the sky hooked to the Dark Saint. But Mo Fan decides to stay back because of the 30% debuff
After the debuff passes, Mo Fan turns the shadow elder into a hammer and quickly smashes all the red ghosts in the sky with the assistance of teleportation. The Dark Saint tries to intercept but Mo Fan uses the lightning stored in his nervous system as a shield and both are blown away. Mo Fan follows up by fusing together a phoenix made of fire and a dragon made of lightning and brings down the Dark Saint. He then follows up by executing the Dark Saint with the use of 10,000 shadow spears and finally burns the body with the use of the heavenly fire seed. After the fight, the Dark King concedes the chess match. Sulu asks why, but the Dark King is quick to point out the Dragon that is approaching.
Austin decides that everything needs to end now and begins preparing his most powerful dragon breath while Sulu receives the 30% debuff. The dragon breath is so powerful that is breaks right through the chessboard setup and begins burning down Sulu until nothing remains. But due to the special poisons used to seal the dragon breath of Austin back when he was first captured in the Alps, his body begins breaking down and he too, passes away. The Dark King keeps his word and releases the surviving humans, which are lead out to the red sea through the door that Mo Fan had opened previously. But upon reaching the exit, both Azeala and Gabriel notice that on earth, an entire year has passed since they entered the dark realm. 
The Ice Age 2591- 
The trio decide to stay at a nearby house for the night, where they feast and cheer on surviving in a addition to forming a sister hood (yes, Mo Fan can now officially be addressed as "sister"). However, Gabriel has to inform the other 2 that due to her revealing her true identity, she is now forced to return to the holy city and serve the holy shrine. But before separating, they decide to wait a day and sleep next to each other on the floor. Mo Fan wakes up the next day to feeling a rather soft sensation, followed by receiving 2 slaps to the face. 
The remaining duo then say farewell to Gabriel before venturing to the Parthenon. While climbing the mountain, they notice that over half the waitresses of the Parthenon are outside are on duty on the outside and things are looking grim. After explaining that she isn't really that worried about her chance at being goddess, since her position as candidate is live-long, she offers Mo Fan 2 things. First is some brand new equipment, second is to make one of the blessings of the Dark King permanent. Azeala then leads Mo Fan to the special cultivation room of the Parthenon, there she explains that before they can use the blessing, they must first cleanse the evil spirits contained within the dark energy, but Azeala herself isn't strong enough to do it. Azeala instead gives Mo Fan her blessings through a connection between her souls and Mo Fan uses his soul (which has been strengthened due to the excessive use of the devil element) to clean the darkness, then parses the darkness back to Azeala, who then re-divides it and blesses the both of them. 
Meanwhile outside, one of the waitresses reports to tours that Azeala and an unknown man have entered the special cultivation room. Hoping to catch Azeala in a scandalous act, he sorties a group of knights and faith officers to breach the room. However he finds the pair just lazing around while fully clothed. Azeala screams out in anger over being disturbed in a sacred room. Tours immediately points to the waitress that spotted the pair. Azeala orders the leader of the knights to take her away. Before the rest can leave, Azeala demands Tours be taken as well. But the rest of the knights don't move at all. Mo Fan however interrupts Azeala, saying that he is more qualified to deal with scum. Mo Fan subsequently activated his shadow magic and grabbed Tours by the throat with Azeala telling everyone not to interfere. Mo Fan subsequently breaks an arm and both his legs, with Azeala telling that anyone who tries to heal him will be her enemy. 
Mo Fan subsequently spends another month inside the secret cultivation room, during which he breaks through into super tier earth magic. Afterwards, Mo Fan goes to Azeala's office, where she presents him with the promised gear, a full set of black armor plus wings. Azeala explains that the materials were made from the body of the black dragon emperor before they left the Dark Plane. But she also states that before he died, she had received his blessing and subsequently put it in the armor. This in turn made the armor resistant to traditional magic attacks up to the level of forbidden curse and she then gives everything to Mo Fan with the exception of a sword. 
She then reveals that each piece has a special ability. She explains that the helmet boosts Mo Fan's spiritual attainment, but at the cost of higher magical stamina in addition to a very powerful ability that is activated when the armor is called forth. The gauntlets can be used to form a claw or a fist that can cause mass destruction with no cost of magical stamina. But as soon as Mo Fan puts on the wings, he picks up Azeala and takes her to 90,000 meters above sea level. She then explains that the wings are strong enough to carry Mo Fan across the Pacific Ocean, in addition to the ability to suppressing the elements opposite to Mo Fan. But for some reason she refuses to disclose what the ability of the boots are. 
The next day, Mo Fan takes of from Athens and begins the flight to China. Due to the wings high service ceiling, he is out of the reach of the rest of the worlds monsters and as such he can fly without issue. When Mo Fan reaches the chinese border, he gets down from the sky and calls out his wolf instead and uses him to travel to Hangzhou, where Xin Xia is staying. But on the way over, he finds that almost everything in his path is frozen including all the land, rivers and cities. He gets into Hangzhou after putting his wolf away. When he gets to her apartment, he finds her standing in between 2 trees overlooking the lake. However, before Mo Fan can act all smooth, Xin Xia informs him that things are very bad. During the time he was gone, the Extreme South has caused all lands around the Pacific to enter an ice age and prevent evacuation further inland. This and the failure of the initial coastal defense plan has forced Shao Zheng to resign and worst of all, china only has 5 cities left. 
The pair then decide to take a walk outside, with Xin Xia getting recognized on the way. A young lady asks if it is possible for her to join the parthenon academy, with Xin Xia answering that if she continues to train hard, she should be able to enter. After the girl leaves, Xin Xia explains that she has made peace with the Alpine Academy and is using their connections to recruit mages for the Parthenon Academy. 
Later on, she explains that Mu Nu Xin is due to get married tonight and brings Mo Fan along to the ceremony. Mo Fan first sees Mu Nu Jiao and Ai tu tu at the reception. Ai tu tu is the first to respond and quickly calls out the man in front of her to be a fraud. But Mu Nu Jiao quickly covers her mouth and tells Mo Fan to get inside and takes him to where the rest of his friends are seated. While Mo Fan goes to prepare to tell the story of what happened in the Dark Plane, his face freezes when he overhears Mu Bai talking about it, he already told everyone. When he showed his face to everyone, Zhao Man Yan was the first to respond. But after greeting him, he gets kicked in the leg from behind by Ling Ling, who has now grown to reach Mo Fan's nose. After sitting her down and looking around, he finds out that it is in fact Bai Hongfei's wedding and he congratulates him. He continues to look around but can't find Mu Ning Xue. Xin Xia instead tells him that she's in a meeting down the hall. 
Mo Fan walks over to the meeting but finds that Mu Ning Xue and co are in trouble. The previous Mu Commander has begun his assault on FanXue Shan and Mu Ning Xue now that the Bai family, the other Mu family and the FanXue Shan are forging an alliance, with Mu Linsheng stating that they are unable to do something about them,. Mo Fan subsequently walks in and says that he will do something about it himself. Mu Ning Xue tries to tag along, but Mo Fan brushes of, stating that she is an important guest to the wedding. Mo Fan makes his way over to the site of the supposed attack to find the mu commander and an associate elder along with other mages busy torturing members of the Bai family. 
The Mu clan notices Mo Fan and immediately spring into action. Knowing all to well the power of his flame magic, all the mages immediately cast Super Tier ice magic, creating a massive ice forest. Mo Fan in turn activates the power of his wings and the entire ice forest immediately turns into flames. The Mu Commander activates his super-tier level 3 light magic and sends it down to Mo Fan, who is unaffected due to the dragon armor. While all the mages around him are utterly shocked at what they see, the associate elder immediately activates a curse field to prevent Mo Fan from casting magic. Mo Fan however activates his dragon wings and claws and immediately flies up to the mage and kills him with his dragon claws, while the rest of the mages deal with the flaming forest, leaving the Mu commander alone. After the rest of the mages die from fighting the forest fire, the mu commander runs out of magic energy and surrenders. Mo Fan subsequently drags him back to the wedding, where he formally apologizes on behalf of the Mu clan for all the sh*t they pulled, but he runs the moment Mo Fan loosens his grip on him. The next person to crash the wedding is the new minister of coastal defense. After an argument about responsibility, he takes note of Xin Xia and Mo Fan and his face instantly changes. 
However he quickly leaves after his assistant informs him of something undisclosed. Later on, Mo Fan takes both Mu Ning Xue and Xin Xia for a walk, but as he leads them to his apartment, the both of them quickly make their exit, as they both know what Mo Fan is thinking. The sad Mo Fan then walks into his apartment to find both Zhao Man Yan and Mu Bai getting drunk. He gets them to divulge their current relationship status. The banker's daughter back in Ojos was quick to realize Zhao Man Yan's identity and her father is quickly making preparations for her to marry both him and his brother, as bigamy is allowed over there. While Mu Bai seemed to have found a girl while he was clearing the lake in the initial stage of the Kraken invasion. The next morning, a hungover Mo Fan makes his way down to the breakfast hall to learn some bad news, the mind mage from the house of fire and the kraken invasion, has been killed. 
A vigil is held for her the same night on the top of the sea wall, where classmates of her let loose floating lanterns on on the sea with her last words written on them, until one of them is picked up by a mermaid. A week later, a prominent defending point for the coastal defense was destroyed, without leaving behind evidence or witnesses. The next day, the sea levels fall for the first time in several years and a unit of mages goes to investigate. They advance several kilometers over the now dry land, until suddenly a giant tidal wave of undead monsters comes towards them. All the mages due their best to scatter, but all are caught up in the wave. But at the last moment, the wave parts and Ying Dumian appears out of it, as the leader of the attack. The waves then continues on to reach the lines of Shanghai, but there they are stopped by a gigantic plant-based Forbidden Curse class defensive enchantment. 
Mo Fan wakes up the next morning and notes that the enchantment is going to last less than a day. Another student comes by and ask how many of the undead monsters he could kill, he replies that he won't be able to kill that many of them. After the conversation, he is picked up by Dean Xiao, who drags him off to a meeting regarding the defense of Shanghai. There he provides evidence that the attack is lead by none other than the mind mage that died last week. And that she is capable of controlling all the undead because she also happened to be an undead mage. It was then revealed that the mind magic teacher that replaced the one killed by Mo Fan in the first stage of the kraken invasion, kicked her out of the pearl university and then fed her information to the minister of coastal defense. Who then approached her with the plan for her to become a tactical weapon. But later the decision is made to visit the site where she died. 
Upon arrival, which is possible due to the receding water level, the university's head of undead magic, raises the spirit of the mind mage back from the dead. There she reveals that she doesn't exactly know the circumstances of her death. The undead magic teacher then asks her about her soul that has been raised from, she replies that she doesn't want to be with them. While Mo Fan wonders what she means, the undead magic teacher reveals that due to her forbidden curse class powers, she developed multiple personality disorder right down to the soul, the rest of whom are currently leading the attack on Shanghai, but Dean Xiao manages to convince her spirit to come to the front lines in Shanghai. 
Back in the city, the undead have broken through the first layer of the barrier and are subsequently spreading across the city. The group arrives and the undead magic teacher covers them in undead magic to make them invisible to the undead. They managed to advance forward to reach the undead mind mage. The undead incarnation states that she is tired of everything and that she wants to die and that Shanghai seems like a nice funeral pyre, while Mo Fan says that if she is so interested in dying, there are 2 forbidden curse mages on the other side of the river if she is so interested. She however has another proposal, she is willing to call of the undead kraken if they sacrifice the coastal defence minister like he sacrificed her. While Mo Fan is quick to agree, she let the city know of her demands with the use of her mind magic. Whose citizens quickly start demanding the head of the coastal minister. 
After noting that all humans are a******s, she goes back on her word and sticks 2 gigantic sea creatures on Mo Fan and crew while she herself advances towards the city. Dean Xiao tells Mo Fan to catch up with her with the use of his shadow magic. An ice mage steps forward and attacks the mind mage with a blizzard, but she dodges and in turn uses her powers to instantly kill the mage. She then turns her powers on the rest of the mages and controls them to commit suicide. She then shows a dagger to the coastal minister. But while Mo Fan and apas note that her mental strength is beyond the both of them, the dagger suddenly accelerated and pierced the heart of the coastal minister. While the mind mage immediately assumes it was Mo Fan, a figure appears behind him. 
That figure turned out to be Dean Xiao. He says that coastal defense minister can't live. While he is begging for his life, no one around him lifts a finger and he dies. The mind mage makes another offer, if the good soul of the mind mage rejoins her, she and the undead will leave shanghai. The good soul rejoined the bad souls of the mind mage, but suddenly her and the rest of the undead begin convulsing. Dean Xiao reveals that the undead magic teacher had modified the good soul of the mind mage to kill all the undead kraken the moment she made contact with the bad souls. This in turn causes her death. 
A week later, all the undead bodies have been cleaned up, but things have only gotten worse. During this period, the citizens of china start to suffer from a cold based disease that causes the death of many people, especially the elderly and the young. Both Xin Xia and Ling Ling begin their investigations. Ling Ling went through the data and finds that a large number of people aren't suffering from the disease and they all happened to come from the same city prior to the kraken invasion. She had subsequently send out a hunter team, who managed to find that the local water supply system was managed by a company that had a rather surprising logo, the totem mark the Mo Fan found in the treasure room of the Pearl Academy. 
The crew (Mo Fan, Ling Ling, Jiang Shaoxu, Mu Bai, Zhao Man Yan and Xin Xia) arrive at the city to investigate. Ling Ling explains that the city is occupied by the humaniod shark tribe, one of the most dangerous in all of the oceans. The crew manages to run into one of the sleeping generals of the army, which Xin Xia prevents from waking up with a sleeping spell. Ling Ling then reveals that not only the waterworks, but several other major conglomerates also use the totem bird mark. This in turn causes Ling Ling to suggest the team splits up. The girls head for the waterworks, Mo Fan heads for the office building for a major corporation, Zhao Man Yan heads to the local university and Mu Bai is on patrol to see if he can find anything else. But on the way over, Mo Fan spots 3 sharks walking down an alley (they are real sharks but with additional hands and legs attached) after they managed to spot something hiding in a garbage truck. This was revealed to be an oversize porcupine. As the sharks begin to chow down, one of the sharks begins to puke up a dozen more porcupines. These in turn start to run around the city with other sharks following them. Effectively making hunting a sport for these kraken. Mo Fan continues to move forward with the use of shadow magic and runs into a human hiding in the corporation main office, realizing that the sharks don't only hunt monsters. 
The Man however walks up to Mo Fan and cuts him with a knife then quickly makes his escape, although the wound is healed instantly through the use of Parthenon medicine, the smell of blood remains. This smell attracts 4 different sharks that position them at either side of the bridge that Mo Fan used to travel to the main office building. The sharks all attack at once but 3 of them are simultaneously impaled through the brain with the use of Chaos magic. The last one thinks twice about what to do, but is killed to and Mo Fan dissolves their bodies with the use of shadow magic, but he senses more sharks coming. 
Then the scene cuts to Zhao Man Yan, who has managed to get into the girls dormitory of the university. After looking around the deserted university, he spots a giant worm bursting through the top of the teacher's quarters. He follows the worm to the central libary, where he finds a giant egg 7 stories tall. While Zhao Man Yan decides to leave it be, the worm burrows itself into the shell to eat the unborn baby. He goes to investigate and finds that the worm is actually eaten by the unborn baby, so he pulls out a ring that would allow non-summoning mages to make summoning contracts. Zhao Man Yan pulls out a crystal ball and puts in in front of the the baby silver-blue shark. While the shark plays with it, he puts the summoning ring on the forehead of the shark, but the summoning contract doesn't seem to form. Zhao Man Yan deems the ring broken and exits the egg to continue the find for information. 
After finding nothing, he heads for the exit, but at that point the egg hatches and the baby shark is swept out and lands in front of Zhao Man Yan, where it then returns the crystal ball. Zhao Man Yan tosses the crystal ball high, but the shark then returns it. Zhao Man Yan then points to the building that contained the worms and tells the shark to go eat them. He then goes out to continue to look for information, but he is then ambushed by a massive porcupine, but before it lands a blow, its head is bitten off by the baby shark. After it eats the porcupine, it goes over to Zhao Man Yan and rubs his head on his hands. This in turn causes Zhao Man Yan to re-attempt to form the summoning contract and he succeeds. But then they are interrupted by giant shark creature covered in iron. Zhao Man Yan opens fire and the shark is pushed back, but then its head is swiftly bitten off by the baby shark. After he finishes eating the shark, it breaks through into commander level. Afterwards, Zhao Man Yan tries to get the shark into the contract space, but the shark refuses and continues to look for more food. 
Meanwhile, Mo Fan has evaded his persuers and has located he man that tried to get him killed. He force chokes the man with shadow magic and begins to question him on what he knows. While the has difficulty talking due to the aforementioned choking, Mo Fan tries asking about a guy Ling Ling has been hired to find in the city. Mo Fan deems the man simply scum and tosses him into the deep end of the water. But on further inspection of the ID photo given, Mo Fan finds that the guy he just tossed into the river was the guy he was supposed to find and he quickly fishes him out. He then takes the guy to a pre-arranged meeting point, where it is revealed that the baby shark has now awakened the ability to fly. 
In the meantime, the girls have reached the water works center and Ling Ling identifies the source of the water as an underwater cave system and Jiang Shaoxu goes down to investigate. 
Meanwhile back at the rendezvous point, Mo Fan and Apas have lured other shark creatures towards the rendezvous point for the baby shark to eat, who is now the size of a small cruise ship. Afterwards, Zhao Man Yan has finally convinced the shark to enter the contract space in the ring. Directly afterwards, Mu Bai arrives with more than a dozen other survivors he has found in the city. Mu Bai then asks what is next and Zhao Man Yan says that he may have found something. In the university, there was a record of an underground magic cavern not to different from the one in Bo City that housed the holy spring. The man that tried to get Mo Fan killed then speaks up, saying that he knows where it is. 
He leads the trio, leaving behind the survivors, to the parking structure next to the conglomerate building and leads them down to the bottom. Their they find the entrance to the main room to be booby trapped with lightning. Before they can decide how to proceed, the trio of girls come up behind them. Once they have reunited, Xin Xia begins leading the way by the use of he high spiritual attainment being able to detect the ambient magic of the surroundings. After breaking through, the crew comes up to an empty hot spring, to which they all dive in. 
After diving in, Zhao Man Yan spots what seems to be magma on the bottom floor of the pool and Mo Fan goes to investigate. Mo Fan however finds that they are maple leaf like feathers. The feathers then suddenly converge on to Mo Fan. The Feathers react with the totem phoenix heart of Mo Fan and subsequently boost the natural heavenly flame species of Mo Fan to the strongest level. Afterwards, Yan Ji is pulled out of the summoning contract space and the feathers all suddenly fly towards her. The feathers cause her to be promoted to her goddess form, the more complete form compared to the Flame empress that fought against the Sphinx. While the rest of the crew analyse what is really going on, that the feathers are the last remnants of the bird totem, the baby shark has manged to force his way out of the contract space and has started eating things again. However, these things turn out to be shark eggs. It turns out that the sharks have been using the pool as an incubator for their eggs. But while discussing what is going on, the crew looks up and sees that the sharks have finally caught up to them. 
Before the sharks could jump into the pool, Mu Bai draws the ice pen and paints a mountain of ice atop the entrance to the pool, but it is quickly ground down by a monarch level shark. The rest of the crew tries to retreat and let Mo Fan deal with them, since he had absorbed the main source of their incubator. But the sharks have another idea and go right past Mo Fan towards Zhao Man Yan. While the rest retreat Mo Fan convinces Zhao Man Yan to leave things to him. Zhao Man Yan falls back but the contract shark catches up to him. It stretches out its tail for Zhao Man Yan to grab on to, but it accelerates away before he could grab on. Zhao Man Yan activates the contract ring and shark is returned to it, before he calls it out again. This time, Zhao Man Yan orders the shark to let him ride it, with it complying. After trying to get a handle on the steering, their path is obstructed by a mob of sharks, but while Zhao Man Yan tries to steer away, the contract shark opens his mouth and the sharks are swallowed whole. 
While Zhao Man Yan dives deeper with his shark, now named Xiaoqing, Ling Ling contacts Mo Fan about the possibility of a fire based core of the earth that could be at the bottom of the pool, which would be able to secure the entire city and that all the sharks are rapidly going deeper because they too know it is down there. While Zhao Man Yan continues to evade the sharks, the sharks eventually stop their pursuit and Zhao Man Yan accidentally enters a giant underwater red bubble. The bubble proves to be very hot in the centre and Zhao Man Yan guides Mo Fan to the bubble. But when they discuss what to do with it, the survivor speaks up. 
The survivor claims allegiance to the northern holy bear. Xin Xia explains that this is a large PMC that even the Parthenon does not dare to argue with. Ling Ling quickly deduces that the man they were hired to find was actually the scout send by the Northern Holy Bear to find the core of the Earth. While the survivor states that they are going to take the core of the earth away from them, Mo Fan is quick to give up. 
Mo Fan states that he was only here to find clues about the totem and that completing the commission was only a side objective, so he simply wants to get his money and get going. Then the rest of the PMC's dive into the water and the leader, along with his younger brother (aptly dubbed Santa Clause) pay Mo Fan the bill and they begin the process of extracting. As they leave, the little brother asks why they are just letting them go, with santa clause stating that if they take too long, they will be surrounded by sharks and that they have already set up a jamming field outside. 
As they leave, Jiang Shaoxu and Zhao Man Yan are quick to raise objections to just giving up. Mo Fan explains that getting between them and some sharks is going to be difficult, so why not wait for them and the sharks to grind each other down a bit and then swipe the core of the earth out of their hands. Ling Ling strongly objects to this and demands they fight the PMC head on. After travelling a sufficient distance, Ling Ling opens up a map, revealing that Mo Fan had added a shadow tag to santa clause. But then they realize that the PMC are moving really fast after extracting the core of the earth, almost too fast. But then Ling Ling looks at the map and sees that they are heading south, not north towards the border and suddenly stop. The crew then realizes that they must have setup a teleportation gate to get them out of china. Ling Ling then tells Mo Fan to go ahead while the rest of the group arrives at a river that has been widened several times over. They also see many sharks moving in the same direction they are, likely wanting the core of the earth too. Thus Xin Xia states that they now only have one path forward, as they are now also surrounded by sharks, is to grab the core of the earth while they aren't looking and use their teleportation gate to get out of there before the sharks arrive. 
Meanwhile, Mo Fan has reached the enemy camp and notes that their defensive enchantment isn't made from elemental magic, but of mind magic, giving every monster nearby a giant boost of fear, causing them to run. Mo Fan subsequently activates his dragon helm and begins scanning the wall for weaknesses with his mind. While in the centre of the camp, the mind mage that constructed the enchantment senses the power of Mo Fan and goes to investigate, with the younger brother following. The mind mage eventually finds Mo Fan and begins probing his mind for weaknesses to exploit. He subsequently creates an illusion of Mo Fan being trapped in a maze, stating to Mo Fan that they only need to buy time and telling the little brother that this guy is way to strong due to having multiple heavenly seeds. But almost immediately, they are informed that Apas had destroyed the teleportation gate, who was sent ahead by Mo Fan while he lured away the mind mage. 
While the mind mage retreats, the younger brother attacks Mo Fan with light magic and causes minor damage. Mo Fan subsequently Mo Fan summons several shadow clones to lure away the brother, but he isn't fooled and Mo Fan is forced to rely on chaos magic to redirect the attack. The brother subsequently uses his power to summon a giant golden flame bear to attack Mo Fan, who responds with summoning his black dragon armor. But because the attack isn't pure magic, the armor's ability isn't activated and Mo Fan is sent flying. 
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