Recaps

Tagelise offered Kang De generous peace terms that would make him ruler of Goth and send him to reclaim Cathay, while Hong San recognized the proposal as a trap. Kang De refused to decide for Goth and insisted that Tina and her father join any further discussion; afterward, Tagelise told Elandil that his offer had been sincere.

• Tagelise offered to return Goth's territory, pay reconstruction costs, provide loans and support, and make Kang De a ruler with a possible role in Cathay.
• Hong San realized the proposal could pull Kang De into Cathay's war and make the Goths blame him if he rejected peace.
• Kang De questioned the proposed marriage to Cathay's empress and said he was more interested in the Phoenix King.
• Kang De said he could not decide for Goth and would consider the offer only after Tina and her father discussed it with the elves.
• After the meeting, Hong San warned Kang De that his response had effectively agreed to the elves' terms, and Kang De said the Goths could bear the consequences of their choice.
• Elandil praised Tagelise's plan to manipulate Goth and constrain Kang De, but Tagelise insisted he had meant the offer sincerely.

After the elves offered Goth generous terms, Kang De left the decision to the Goth People while weighing the scheme’s consequences and the pressure other nations might bring to bear. He decided to ask Tagelise about the elf empress and request a meeting with her, just as Tagelise arrived.

• News of the elves’ proposal spread through Valentan, and nobles and spies crowded around Kang De’s residence seeking information.
• Hong San announced that Kang De would leave the decision to Goth and that the Teldrassil Family should negotiate with the elves.
• In a secret chamber, Kang De told Hong San that what he did next depended on whether Goth and the elves knew how to behave.
• Hong San warned that the Empire and other nations might use stories of Cathay’s suffering to pressure Kang De into leading an expedition east.
• Kang De told Hong San he would ask Tagelise whether the proposal came from the elf empress and request a face-to-face meeting with her.
• Tagelise arrived with a bottle of Sprite.

Kang De agreed to drink privately with Tagelise, while Leona resolved to build wealth or power of her own and Hong San realized Kang De came from a realm beyond the heavens. The chapter ended as Kang De and Tagelise prepared to talk without other elves present.

• Tagelise appeared inside the Vidal Chamber of Commerce without being detected, and Kang De decided to meet him with A Xing.
• Leona recognized that she had fallen behind Kang De’s other companions and resolved to gain wealth and influence by helping unite the wilderness orcs; she asked her steward to contact the orcs and summon her father.
• Hong San concluded from Kang De’s reaction that Kang De had no connection to Cathay and inferred that his master’s claim of a realm beyond the heavens was true; he recalled a heart formula to protect the secret.
• A Xing teased Kang De before Tagelise interrupted them, and Kang De led her into the banquet hall to meet the duke.
• Tagelise said he had come as a private guest to get drunk with Kang De and share a few things, and Kang De agreed.

Kang De listened as Tagelise drank Sprite and admitted he wanted to end the war, then revealed his belief that powerful beings were suppressing the world and its progress. The chapter left Kang De connecting Tagelise’s claims to the magical animals of the Holy Seal Archipelago.

• Kang De let Tagelise talk freely over Sprite while A Xing interrupted when Tagelise tried to get too familiar with him.
• Tagelise accused Kang De of guarding against him, then admitted he understood Kang De’s war tactics and was serious about wanting peace.
• Tagelise argued that victory would mean little if elves and humans remained trapped fighting over scraps instead of seeking a wider future among the stars.
• Tagelise said wars wasted the world’s resources and that powerful beings deliberately hindered progress, suppressed unusual people, and destroyed their discoveries.
• Kang De recognized that Tagelise’s claims matched things he knew and suddenly remembered the magical animals of the Holy Seal Archipelago.

Kang De connected the Holy Seal Archipelago’s magical animals to the hidden force Tagelise said was manipulating the world, but kept his suspicions about the archipelago to himself. Tagelise warned that the force had targeted Kang De and proposed that they work together to ambush and capture its agents.

• Kang De recalled how A Xing and the other magical animals had cared for him, and wondered about their origins and the history of the Holy Seal Archipelago.
• Kang De decided not to reveal the archipelago’s secrets to Tagelise because he still distrusted the elf and feared putting the animals in danger.
• Tagelise told Kang De that a hidden organization had learned of his power and would soon send agents to capture or kill him.
• Kang De questioned Tagelise’s motives and demanded proof, while Tagelise offered to help capture the incoming agents so Kang De could verify the warning.
• Tagelise admitted that he had told Kang De early to show sincerity, then asked him to join forces and make an ambush plan.

Kang De questioned Tagelise’s motives before learning that hidden forces had engineered Cathay’s collapse and were blocking magical progress beyond the planet. He agreed to cooperate against them, and Hong San revealed that his master had been driven overseas by the same forces.

• Kang De challenged Tagelise’s assumptions and asked why the elf had offered help despite their nations’ history of conflict.
• Tagelise described Cathay’s rapid collapse and said the hidden forces had manipulated events there for generations.
• Tagelise explained that the Dusk Moon Dynasty’s magical research had stalled because attempts to explore outer space were repeatedly obstructed, risking a devastating war between elves and humans.
• Kang De agreed to work with Tagelise against the hidden forces and asked whether they were connected to the Veil.
• Tagelise identified them as the self-proclaimed guardians of the Veil, and Hong San said they had forced his master to flee overseas.

Hong San warned Kang De about a mysterious force targeting him and sent a coded letter to his master for help. When Tagelise visited to discuss an ambush, Kang De unexpectedly activated Phoenix Vision, leaving the elf stunned as Kang De joked that he was Tagelise’s ancestor and demanded a hundred million gold coins.

• Hong San recalled his master’s drunken fragments about a mysterious power that had helped bring down Cathay and wrote him a coded letter seeking advice about the threat to Kang De.
• Hong San suggested Kang De visit his master, but Kang De told him to send the letter and said they would prepare cautiously for the mysterious force’s arrival.
• Hong San warned Kang De that news of his proposal to the Phoenix King and the Cathayan empress’s supposed competition for him had spread, and Kang De insisted he had only been mocking the elves.
• Tagelise arrived, admitted he knew little about the enemy’s strength or numbers, and explained that his royal bloodline let him sense threats within roughly ten or twenty kilometers.
• Tagelise demonstrated Phoenix Vision, and Kang De unexpectedly manifested brighter golden flames in his eyes, shocking the elf.
• Kang De claimed he was the reincarnation of the Phoenix King and demanded a hundred million gold coins from Tagelise.

Kang De and Tagelise agreed to build trust and share secrets, while Tagelise offered to teach him to use Phoenix Vision. Meanwhile, the Elf Expeditionary Force received new orders and major air forces, apparently preparing for a strike against a target the commander recognized.

• Kang De denied knowing the missing Phoenix King, but withheld his suspicion that the Fire Thief’s inheritance might explain his Phoenix bloodline; he and Tagelise argued over wartime hatred and trust.
• After Tagelise left, A Xing admitted she feared the mysterious organization, and Kang De promised to protect her; Hong San identified Kang De’s new ability as Phoenix Vision.
• Tagelise returned, proposed earning Kang De’s gratitude through aid and instruction, and exchanged a verbal pact with him to build trust and avoid using Phoenix Vision against the elves except in self-defense.
• At the Elf Expeditionary Force headquarters, Vice Speaker secretly delivered new orders, three Royal Air Force wings, an air-defense network, an airstrike plan, mages, and promised dragon riders to commander Xierfankai Le.
• Xierfankai Le asked whether the orders came from the empress or the council, but the visitor replied that it did not matter.

Tina learned that Kang De was alive and had forced the elves toward peace, leaving her torn between guilt and longing to see him. As her aunt urged her to go south, urgent intelligence about elven troop movements arrived and Tina turned her attention back to the war.

• Tina's fundraising scheme and the rumors surrounding it surged into a market frenzy after news spread that Kang De had destroyed six elven warbands and the elves had proposed peace talks.
• Tina's aunt found her sleepless and distressed, and urged her to travel south to meet Kang De and make amends.
• Tina admitted she feared facing Kang De and worried that he might love someone else, while her aunt threatened to go to him herself.
• An officer brought Tina urgent intelligence about troop movements and deployments by the elven invading army, and Tina left her tent ready to respond.

Tina learned that the elves were reinforcing their positions and feared they might be preparing to target Kang De, while her guilt over the sprawling financial scheme she had created deepened. Elsewhere, a hooded conspirator arranged to feed Tina false intelligence and manipulate Kang De into a trap, confident that his faction would profit regardless of the outcome.

• Tina reviewed intelligence showing that the elves had halted major offensives, dispersed their forces, and brought in air troops and heavy magical machinery; Sword Saint Cascading Snow believed they were preparing to defend against Kang De.
• Tina worried that the elves might be actively hunting Kang De, but Sword Saint Cascading Snow argued that the depleted forces near Valentan made such an attack unlikely and teased Tina about her relationship with him.
• Tina confessed that she feared seeing Kang De and asking him to help Goth, because her scheme would eventually ruin its investors and she could not bear to make him clean up her mess.
• Sword Saint Cascading Snow embraced Tina and urged her to trust that Kang De might find a solution, promising that the Taidariel Family would repay him if he helped them.
• A hooded figure learned that Tina had received the intelligence and ordered an accomplice to send her false information about an imminent attack on Goth's capital, hoping to lure Kang De into danger.
• The hooded figure and a powerful northern Imperial noble discussed profiting from Tina's scheme and prepared for the lords to descend into the lower realm.

Kang De learned more about Phoenix Vision and the former Phoenix King's legacy from Tagelise, while their growing trust remained complicated by the war between the elves and Goth. Princess Tina uncovered the elves' plan to trap Goth in a decisive battle and decided to return home to seek her family's blessing.

• Tagelise explained that Kang De could awaken only one Phoenix King's bloodline inheritance, then described the former queen's efforts to defend the world and unite its peoples against threats beyond it.
• Tagelise trusted Kang De because of his connection to the Phoenix King and asked him not to betray her legacy; Kang De agreed to take less from the elves during formal peace talks.
• Kang De and Tagelise practiced Phoenix Vision, joked together, and exchanged a promise not to lie to each other.
• Princess Tina learned that the elves' troop movements concealed a plan to attack Goth's capital and settle the conflict in a decisive battle.
• Tina told Sword Saint Cascading Snow that she wanted to write Kang De and send him gifts, but would first return home to seek her father's approval and her family's blessing.

Kang De trained in combat and Phoenix Vision with Tagelise, then recognized that he could no longer treat all elves as enemies and agreed to pursue peace talks while holding the war’s instigators accountable. As he prepared to ambush a mysterious enemy, Horus complained that Myanmar’s Wi-Fi was too slow.

• Kang De discovered Tagelise was a poor magic teacher but an exceptionally skilled combat instructor, and learned an axe technique from him.
• Hong San pointed out that the axe technique was not created by a Phoenix King, but Kang De decided he was still impressive for learning it.
• Kang De reflected on the humanity of the elves and agreed to peace talks, while insisting that those responsible for the war must eventually pay.
• Kang De and Hong San agreed to give Cleveland and Nick an answer and wait for replies from Goth and Princess Tina.
• Kang De planned to discuss an ambush with Tagelise to capture the mysterious enemy alive, while Horus was confined to homework.
• Horus examined Kang De’s weapons in the White Mist World and complained that Myanmar’s Wi-Fi sucked.

Kang De and Hong San prepared to intercept the visitors from beyond the sky, but Kang De’s unease and doubts about Tagelise led him to question whether the threat was real. A messenger then arrived with a letter from Princess Tina.

• Kang De mocked Tagelise about his sister’s detection range and received doubled extra training.
• Kang De wrote formal letters to Tina and the Grand Duke of Goth, asking the Taidariel Family to lead the peace talks, while he and Hong San planned for the visitors from beyond the sky.
• Hong San suggested that Kang De travel to the capital of Goth to draw the enemy into an interception, but Kang De hesitated because he was unsure whether Tagelise could be trusted.
• Kang De wondered whether the visitors were ever coming for him and whether Tagelise was trying to keep him in Valentan.
• A messenger announced that a letter from Princess Tina had arrived.

Kang De received and read Tina’s heartfelt letter, learning that she planned to travel south to see him. Her decision changed his military plans, while Tina and Sword Saint Cascading Snow secretly set out toward home and prepared for a later trip to Valentan.

• Ulysses delivered Tina’s letter to Kang De and reported that she was safe and in good spirits.
• Kang De removed the magical ice seal and read Tina’s letter, in which she shared her feelings and said she would come see him.
• Kang De told Hong San that Tina’s journey meant they could not carry out their plan to draw the enemy toward Goth’s capital, and Hong San suggested using the elven delegation’s air force to prepare for her arrival.
• Tina and Sword Saint Cascading Snow secretly set out south with a light cavalry detachment, planning to travel on their own after reaching Fenuya.
• Tina asked Sword Saint Cascading Snow to make a trip to Valentan after they returned home.

Tina returned to Danfeng Lucerne and reunited with Grand Duke Reknos-Teldrassil, who welcomed her and asked when Kang De would arrive. While Kang De waited in Valentan for Tina and the approaching enemies, three figures descended from the heavens and were ambushed by Phoenix King Malegith.

• Tina secretly returned to Danfeng Lucerne, where Grand Duke Reknos-Teldrassil embraced her as she broke down in tears.
• Grand Duke Reknos-Teldrassil teased Tina about Kang De, then asked when he would come to Danfeng Lucerne; Tina said she had invited him and he would set out after receiving her letter.
• Tina told her father that the Elf Expeditionary Force was moving, and he assured her that Danfeng Lucerne was prepared to defend her.
• Kang De waited in Valentan as Hong San arranged scouts to intercept Princess Tina's party, while Tagelise reassured him that an expected ally would come.
• Three visitors from beyond the heavens descended at a remote altar and discussed finding Kang De and checking a seal.
• Phoenix King Malegith appeared in the sky and attacked the three visitors, sealing the area in flames.

Phoenix King Malegith fought three visitors from beyond the heavens after breaking free of her seal, and the visitors fled when she pursued them. The little boy escaped her and encountered a powerful white-haired old man on a green ox, who struck him down with lightning as the chapter ended.

• Phoenix King Malegith fought Mengdi, the little boy, and the old man, trading injuries with the boy before regenerating her severed arm with the Phoenix Undying Body.
• The old man ordered the three visitors to attack Malegith, but all three fled in different directions; Malegith pursued the old man while the little boy escaped.
• The little boy flew away, hoping to heal by feeding on the lower realm's inhabitants, and spotted a white-haired old man riding a green ox.
• The little boy and the old man recognized each other and immediately fought, with the old man summoning talismans and lightning to shatter the boy's blood demon form and hurl him into a mountain.
• The old man lowered his spiked club and charged the injured little boy again on the green ox.

The Dusk Moon Dynasty sent a covert force to stage raids as Goth attacks and reignite the war, while Kang De sensed a powerful enemy approaching Valentan. Elsewhere, Dong defeated Meifeite and Mengdi fled into a concealed army, triggering a battle that drew Sword Saint Cascading Snow’s attention.

• An elven commander ordered 255 warriors to attack Sawada forces at Halin Fortress while posing as Goth rebels and keeping the Dusk Moon Dynasty’s involvement secret.
• Kang De sensed that a formidable enemy was coming for him and worried about the coming fight as he waited at Valentan.
• Dong defeated Meifeite, refused to be drawn into the conflict at Valentan, and began removing Meifeite’s celestial bones.
• Mengdi escaped from Phoenix King Malegith, discovered the hidden force using her Windwalking Formation Diagram, and attacked it after mistaking it for an ambush.
• The commander ordered the force to raise shields and engage Mengdi, while Sword Saint Cascading Snow sensed the distant battle and wondered why powerful fighters were clashing during peace talks.

Malegith defeated and captured Leituo, then discovered that the other two envoys were dead and found herself lost in a frozen wasteland. Meanwhile, Cassandra rescued the badly injured Sword Saint Cascading Snow and brought her to Kang De in Valentan.

• Malegith explained how she predicted Leituo’s spatial jumps, overpowered him, and bound him with thorny chains after he revealed the threat of more envoys from the upper realm.
• Malegith told Leituo that the new Fire Thief was someone she had slept with, then wondered why the other two envoys were dead and where she had ended up.
• Cassandra encountered the injured Hilmeria-Teldrassil, recognized her as Sword Saint Cascading Snow, and agreed to take her to Kang De.
• Cassandra warned Alexios to keep Cascading Snow’s arrival secret from the elves and reported that the situation in Goth was serious.
• Hong San woke Kang De, and he saw the wounded Sword Saint Cascading Snow in Valentan.

Kang De absorbed the divine power afflicting Hilmeria and learned that she had killed an invader who had attacked Goth soldiers. Their accounts revealed that Tina had gone to Danfeng Lucerne instead of Valentan, while her letter had told Kang De to wait in Valentan, leaving them to suspect that something had gone wrong.

• Cassandra reported finding the wounded Sword Saint Cascading Snow, and Kang De discovered that foreign divine power was raging through her body.
• Kang De extracted the foreign energy with the Fire Thief's power, absorbed it, and woke Hilmeria, who identified herself as Tina's aunt.
• Hilmeria reassured Kang De that Tina was safe and said she had killed the attacker, who had been targeting him and had already fought someone else before their battle.
• Hilmeria described finding the attacker slaughtering Goth soldiers near Halin, and Kang De agreed to investigate the battlefield and recover the soldiers' bodies.
• Hilmeria said Tina had reached Danfeng Lucerne and that she had come to fetch Kang De, while Kang De revealed that Tina's letter had told him to wait in Valentan.

Kang De learned that Tina had returned to Danfeng Lucerne despite writing him a letter telling him to stay in Valentan, and Hong San concluded that the elves were preparing a surprise attack. Kang De decided to spend an hour gathering weapons on Earth before rescuing Tina, but Xiaoman then told him that war had broken out in Africa and Uncle Kang’s company had been taken hostage.

• Kang De, Sword Saint Cascading Snow, and Hong San examined Tina’s letter and realized her written message conflicted with her decision to return to Danfeng Lucerne.
• Sword Saint Cascading Snow revealed reports of elven troop movements, and Hong San concluded the elves were preparing to attack Danfeng Lucerne while arranging a pretext for war.
• Hong San stopped Kang De from rushing to Danfeng Lucerne and urged him to make a careful relief plan; Kang De agreed to prepare for an hour and told him not to notify the elves yet.
• Kang De returned to Earth with A Xing and decided to seek more powerful weapons from Xie Liqian before rescuing Tina.
• Xiaoman arrived and told Kang De that war had broken out in Africa, Molako had been invaded, and everyone in Uncle Kang’s company had been taken hostage.

Kang De learned that his father was trapped in Comora during the war and decided he had to go there himself, despite Uncle Wang’s efforts to arrange a professional rescue. After Xie Liqian offered him passage on a private plane bound for a neighboring country, Kang De prepared to leave for Africa.

• Wang Xiaoman told Kang De that his father was among the Chinese people detained in Comora after Gambia invaded, and Kang De decided to go to Africa.
• Kang De read online accounts of the lopsided war and questioned why France, which handled Comora’s naval and air defenses, had not intervened.
• At the villa, Uncle Wang told Kang De he had hired rescuers and ordered him not to go to the battlefield, but Kang De left with Wang Xiaoman.
• Kang De called Xie Liqian, who arranged a private plane to Belgrade and a place for Kang De aboard an An-12 flying toward a country near Comora.

Kang De left Xiaoman and traveled by private plane, while Xie Liqian arranged money, communications gear, an interpreter, and weapons for his trip to Comora. After the Gulfstream took off, Kang De used his ability to return to the White Mist World.

• Xiaoman embraced Kang De and urged him to be careful before he left their residential complex.
• Kang De met Xie Liqian, who provided travel documents, cash, communications equipment, and other supplies for the journey.
• Kang De offered gold to have an arms shipment diverted near Comora and asked Xie Liqian to seek additional heavy weapons and local maps.
• Kang De declined to take Xie Liqian's employee with him and boarded the Gulfstream alone.
• After the plane took off, Kang De entered the lavatory, fixed the spatial anchor, and crossed back into the White Mist World.

Kang De prepared to divide his forces between rescuing his father in Africa and helping A Xing and Sword Saint Cascading Snow reach Danfeng Lucerne, while Hong San stayed in Valentan to investigate whether war with the elves could still be avoided. After the group departed, Kang De returned to Earth and learned from Xie Liqian that people in the arms trade found the war strange.

• Kang De ordered Horus to turn most of the weapons and ammunition into components for his combat system, reserving heavy firepower to break through elven forces.
• Kang De created and tested Quantum Signal Generators, confirming they could communicate across worlds despite their different time rates.
• Hong San supplied A Xing with gear and helped Kang De explain how she and Sword Saint Cascading Snow could summon him if they encountered enemies on their way to Danfeng Lucerne.
• Kang De refused to trust Tagelise with the plan, while Hong San chose to remain in Valentan and risk being taken hostage to prevent the worst outcome of war.
• A Xing and Sword Saint Cascading Snow left Valentan through an underground passage, and Kang De returned to Earth aboard the private plane.
• Xie Liqian arranged an arms deal and warned Kang De that people in the arms trade thought something was strange about the war.

Kang De learned that France might be involved in Gambia’s invasion and detention of his father, then contacted arms dealer Kirov through Xie Liqian to arrange weapons in Belgrade. He left the call with a large order and a growing sense that he needed more power and freedom to prepare for war.

• Xie Liqian told Kang De that France might be involved in the conflict in Gambia and connected him with the arms dealer Kirov.
• Kang De accepted Kirov’s friend request and began a video call to discuss weapons for his rescue mission.
• Kirov showed Kang De a shipment in Serbia and offered heavy machine guns, ammunition, RPGs, and automatic grenade launchers.
• Kang De ordered twenty M2 heavy machine guns with spare parts and specialized ammunition, along with other weapons and supplies.
• Kang De asked Kirov to prepare a powerful, accurate, portable gun and ammunition for him to collect in Belgrade.
• After the call, Kang De reflected on how access to weapons and chaos abroad could help him prepare for the wars ahead.

Kang De landed in Belgrade and met Kirov, who arranged a military airfield departure for their humanitarian supplies. At a firing range, Kang De demonstrated extraordinary strength with an anti-materiel rifle and asked Kirov to attach a bayonet before they left.

• Kang De landed at Nikola Tesla Airport, cleared customs, and met Kirov and his attendants.
• Kirov introduced Kang De to Dimitri and presented him with a GM6 Lynx anti-materiel sniper rifle.
• Kirov brought Kang De to Batajnica Air Base, where an An-12 waited with Kang De's supplies aboard.
• Dimitri demonstrated the rifle at a firing range, and Kang De fired all five rounds one-handed without the muzzle wavering.
• Kang De removed the rifle's bipod and asked Kirov to put a bayonet on it.