Chapter Summaries

Kang De killed the remaining French combatants despite the Chinese instructor’s pleas to negotiate, then faced the approaching Grewind Swarm as international observers watched. He activated the citywide holy-light network and raised a radiant dome that sealed Moyani off from the swarm.

• The French president learned that Kang De had defeated the French team and ordered calls to China and France’s allies while hoping Big Bob would still negotiate.
• Kang De pursued and killed the French wind-controlling woman, rejecting the instructor’s demand that he stop and settle the dispute with France.
• Kang De killed another French transcendent in front of the Americans, then refused to let them leave as the Grewind Swarm approached Moyani.
• Horus confirmed the ritual preparations were complete, and Kang De activated the Divine Ring of Stellar Authority before international observers and the city’s residents.
• Holy-light structures rose around Moyani and joined into a dome that kept the Grewind Swarm outside the city.

Kang De raised a sacred canopy over Moyani to shield the city from the Grewind Swarm, stunning superhumans and world leaders. He confronted Bob Buruo above the canopy and prepared a hidden counterattack as the swarm tried to tunnel beneath the city.

• Kang De used the Church of the Sun’s power to raise a dome of light that protected Moyani from the Grewind Swarm.
• World leaders and the superhumans witnessed Kang De’s feat, while he forced the Americans to choose between cleaning the ground and being killed.
• Kang De ordered the instructor to gather the monsters and superhumans in the city, then flew beyond the canopy to confront Bob Buruo.
• Kang De and Bob Buruo exchanged threats as Bob Buruo revealed that locusts formed his avatar and sent tunneling worms beneath Comora.
• Kang De snapped his fingers to activate buried sacred artifacts and violent totems that shook and sealed the earth, preparing to stop Bob Buruo’s attack.

Kang De defeated Big Bob’s Grewind Swarm over Moyani with lightning, a blizzard, and Dragon Might, then reunited with his father and prepared to pursue Big Bob in Gambia. He left Chakat II with plans to take over Gambia and declared that he would conquer the country.

• Goth’s forces stopped the underground locust attack while Kang De held the swarm’s attention above Moyani.
• Kang De summoned a vast lightning storm and blizzard, exploiting the Grewind Swarm’s weaknesses as the extraordinary individuals and world governments watched.
• Kang De revealed Tacitus’s power, then used Dragon Might to break Big Bob’s control of the locusts and bring down the swarm.
• Kang De returned to the embassy, embraced Kang Jinzhu, and told him they were going home.
• Kang De told Chakat II to prepare to take over Gambia, then told Qin Mengjin he would hunt Big Bob and conquer the country.

Kang De breached Big Bob’s underground palace and discovered the Grewind Swarm’s hive, where abducted people were kept in living pods to sustain the swarm. He confronted Big Bob as the former mercenary emerged from the hive’s central pool.

• Big Bob called the president of the Fifth Republic of Fr*nce and demanded protection in exchange for sharing the secrets beneath Zhuerban.
• The president rejected Big Bob’s pleas, but Big Bob sent evidence to his private email and asked him to send the frigate Knight Astolfo to Banjul.
• Kang De reached the underground palace and used the Power of the Fire Thief to remove its outer wall, then illuminated the enormous chamber with the Sun God Ring.
• Kang De saw that the hive held countless abducted people in transparent pods while the Grewind Swarm covered its interconnected veins and branches.
• Big Bob rose from the central pool, connected to the hive’s network, and confronted Kang De.

Kang De confronted Big Bob in the Grewind Swarm’s hive, rejected his bargain and refused to be deterred by the tens of thousands of captives Big Bob threatened. As Big Bob set the swarm to gnawing through their cages, Kang De tried to destroy the locusts with the Power of the Fire Thief and was overwhelmed by a torrent of Elements, mental power, and memories.

• Big Bob gathered the Grewind Swarm around himself and challenged Kang De, who mocked him and launched an attack.
• Kang De fought through the hive’s tentacles, struck its central core with a mass of mountainside, and forced Big Bob to flee through the hive.
• Big Bob offered Kang De the swarm’s secrets and control in exchange for his life, but Kang De refused and said the hive should be destroyed.
• Big Bob ordered the locusts to gnaw through the captives’ fruit-like cages, threatening to kill them one by one while he hid in the hive.
• Kang De searched the hive with his mental power and used the Power of the Fire Thief to break down the locusts, but a flood of Elements, mental power, and memories surged into him.

Kang De traced the Grewind Swarm’s memories to a primordial power that demanded he accept his destiny, then returned to find the hive subdued and Big Bob fleeing. He realized that the swarm had been created from White Mist extracted from humans, linking it to the empty mirror world.

• Kang De searched the memories of Gambia’s people and discovered centuries of Grewind Swarm activity and the suffering it had caused.
• While Kang De remained absorbed in the hive, Big Bob tried to trap him with explosives, but Big Bob’s body refused to detonate them and the swarm cast the explosives away.
• Kang De followed the hive’s memories back to its ancient defeat and saw a familiar East Asian man fighting alongside powerful companions.
• At the end of the world, a mysterious voice offered Kang De the hive’s power and urged him to fulfill his mission, but Kang De rejected it before being sent back.
• Kang De awoke to find the hive silent and learned Big Bob had fled; he then concluded that the hive had obtained its energy and materials from the White Mist he had extracted from humans.

Kang De discovered that the Grewind Swarm produced White Mist and feared it was connected to a coming catastrophe that could turn Earth into the White Mist World. After Horus helped him regain his composure, Kang De pursued Big Bob aboard a French warship and prepared to end his story.

• Kang De realized that the Grewind Swarm’s essence was White Mist and worried that Earth might become a lifeless world as the White Mist World’s time anchor drew closer.
• Horus reminded Kang De how he had faced danger during the Battle of Glittering Sand, and Kang De steadied himself and decided to act rather than wait.
• Kang De left the hive’s human captives in its care and told Horus they would kill Big Bob, whose location the Swarm had heard.
• Big Bob fled aboard the French frigate Knight Astolfo, but Kang De appeared on the bridge and subdued the captain and crew with an invisible force.
• Kang De confronted Big Bob, rejected Qin Mengjin’s warning that a leader wanted to speak with him, and told Big Bob to look into his eyes.

Kang De rejected the French president’s plea to spare Big Bob for the sake of humanity’s research and killed him, then told the watching world leaders that his own power and control of the insect nest made him the bigger picture. The president was left furious and shocked as Kang De asserted his dominance.

• The French president contacted Kang De remotely and endured his insults before asking him to spare Big Bob so the world could study the insect nest and prepare for future threats.
• Kang De questioned the president’s appeal to the bigger picture, pointing to the victims of Big Bob’s crimes and comparing the president’s reasoning to the pardon of Japanese war criminals after World War II.
• Kang De used the Power of the Fire Thief to destroy Big Bob’s body and soul in front of the watching leaders.
• The president demanded to know why Kang De had killed Big Bob, and Kang De replied that he controlled the situation and could destroy the insect nest whenever he chose.

Kang De forced the world powers to consider his demands for Zhuerban, a unified Gambia and Comora, and an extraordinary-individual school in exchange for access to the Grewind hive. After returning to the White Mist World, he explained that he wanted Earth’s scientists to study the coming threats, while secretly planning to obtain their research and equipment; the chapter ended with him discovering the hive had no people in it.

• Kang De killed Big Bob, rejected the French president’s objections, and demanded that Gambia and Comora unite under Chakat II, with Zhuerban becoming his fief.
• Kang De offered the nations access to the hive’s research in Zhuerban, where they would pay for land and rent, station troops, and fund his school for extraordinary individuals.
• Kang De warned that tens of thousands of people were hanging inside the hive and urged the leaders to act quickly; after the call ended, he asked the ship’s captain to take him back to Gambia by sea.
• Kang De returned to Zhuerban and told Horus he wanted Earth’s scientific experts to study the Grewind Swarm and prepare for future disasters.
• Kang De explained that he could secretly acquire the nations’ research data and equipment through the White Mist World, then discovered that the enormous hive held only locusts and no people.

The five permanent members rushed to deploy forces in Zhuerban, while Kang De let Chakat II handle Comora’s impending union with Gambia and said goodbye to his father. After Kang Jinzhu left under international escort, Kang De returned to the White Mist World to prepare for the coming battle with the dragons and the Grewind Swarm.

• France’s advance party reached Zhuerban, where it found a Chinese camp already established with heavy vehicles and supplies, prompting the United States and Russia to revise their deployment plans.
• The five nations moved to conceal the Swarm disaster in Gambia, while Chakat II took charge of negotiations and prepared to absorb Gambia’s remaining regions into Comora.
• Chakat II offered to build an elite Comoran force loyal to Kang De, and Kang De advised him to consider a public trial for Gambia’s king.
• Kang Jinzhu departed for home in a convoy escorted by forces from five countries, and he urged Kang De to protect himself and those he cared about.
• After the convoy left, Kang De returned to the White Mist World with Horus and planned to repair the frigate, study the hive, and prepare for the dragons.
• Kang De boarded the Horizon-class frigate and declared that they needed to find a way to get it moving before the dragons came from the sea.

After negotiating a deal with the five permanent members, Kang De reunited with his family and Xiaoman before preparing to return to the other world. The chapter left him facing the dragon race’s challenge and seeking answers about the Grewind Swarm and the Sound of Destruction.

• Kang De negotiated an eight-billion-dollar deal with China, the United States, Russia, Britain, and France to dig a shaft to the insect nest, accepting most of the payment in goods.
• The five countries’ explorers reached the insect nest and discovered humans being cultivated and harvested among dormant locusts.
• Kang De returned to China and reunited with Mama Kang, Papa Kang, Uncle Wang, and Xiaoman.
• Uncle Wang reprimanded Kang De for leaving him to handle pressure from people seeking cooperation, and Kang De asked him to keep acting as an intermediary.
• Kang De told Xiaoman he planned to return to the other world, where he would face the dragon race’s challenge and investigate the Grewind Swarm and the Sound of Destruction.
• The next morning, Mama Kang praised Xiaoman and told Kang De to eat and leave.

After returning to Maple Leaf Fort, Kang De reassured Tina and A Xing before heading out to speak with Lily about the Grewind Swarm and the previous Fire Thief. He learned that Lily knew little about the swarm’s creator, then left to seek answers from a cheeky parrot.

• Kang De returned to Maple Leaf Fort, where Tina asked whether everything had gone smoothly and welcomed him back.
• Tina noticed Kang De’s awkward response to her affection and asked A Xing, “What’s her name?”
• Kang De brought Horus from the White Mist World and discussed plans for calling his mother between worlds and operating the Knight Astolfo.
• Kang De confronted Lily with a recording of her earlier pleas, told her he had dealt with the insect nest, and asked about the Grewind Swarm’s creator and the phrase “Bring down the veil of doomsday.”
• Kang De told Lily that the Fire Thief’s power had shown him memories of the previous Fire Thief, and Lily reacted angrily when he said she was pretty.
• Kang De ended his conversation with Lily and set out to question a cheeky parrot.

Kang De tested Horus’s new Transformer body while traveling to the elf encampment to meet the empress. When an officer obstructed him, Kang De escalated the confrontation and left the elves watching a blazing meteor descend from the sky.

• Kang De rode Horus’s newly built motorcycle body and joked with him about its combat forms and possible powered armor.
• Kang De reached the Elf Expeditionary Force’s camp and asked a patrol to arrange a meeting with the empress.
• Xinqiduo-Gelipeng challenged Kang De’s unannounced visit and refused to pass along his message without hearing his reason.
• Kang De fired rockets into empty ground to wake the camp, then warned the officer that he would answer for provoking a grand forbidden spell mage.
• Xinqiduo-Gelipeng drew his sword, and a huge blazing meteor appeared in the sky as the elves stared at Kang De.

Kang De intercepted a fiery object falling toward the elven camp and sent it through a portal into Zhuerban, where it caused extensive destruction. After Horus ejected him during their return, Dairila caught him and publicly hinted that he had come to the camp for her.

• Kang De and Horus flew toward the elven camp to intercept the falling object, which the elves had mistaken for Kang De’s forbidden spell.
• Kang De discovered the object was not an ordinary rock and sent it through a portal into Zhuerban, where it shattered buildings and damaged the city.
• Silver-gray locusts emerged beneath Zhuerban and devoured fragments from the impact site after Kang De and Horus left.
• Horus ejected Kang De when his power system could no longer carry them both, and Dairila caught him in a princess carry.
• An elf accused Kang De of staging the incident, but Dairila cleared him and hinted to the assembled elves that she knew why he had secretly visited the camp.

The Phoenix King defended Kang De from her officers, then privately revealed herself as Malegith, the ancient Phoenix King, who had been impersonating Dairila. Malegith claimed Dairila was sealed inside her own body, but Kang De trusted that Malegith would not harm her.

• The Phoenix King rebuked Oliverjia for condemning her friendship with Kang De and ordered the elven forces to stand down and patrol the area.
• The Phoenix King dragged Kang De into her tent, dismissed concerns about his engagement to the Princess of Goth, and explained that she had been happy to see him protect her.
• Kang De mistook the Phoenix King’s confession for a prank by Parrot and rejected it, prompting the disguised figure to burst into laughter.
• The figure revealed herself as Malegith, defeated Kang De in a scuffle, and claimed she had sealed Dairila’s soul and taken control of her body.
• Kang De asked what had happened in Twilight Moon, then told Malegith he trusted her not to harm Dairila because of the sacrifices she had made in the past.

Kang De asked Malegith about the Fire Thief’s mission and why he had been chosen, then confided everything that had happened to him on Earth. Malegith said he was not ready to learn the answers and left him with an ambitious plan to unite both worlds, starting by pursuing the dragon’s daughter.

• Malegith teased Kang De while wearing Dairila’s appearance, then admitted she could not answer several of his questions about A Xing, the dragon, the Grewind Swarm, and other mysteries.
• Kang De asked what his mission was and why he had been chosen, and Malegith comforted him as he wondered whether he could trust her.
• Kang De explained how he had used the Fire Thief’s power to create Horus, and Malegith compared his ability with the previous Fire Thief’s failed experiments.
• Kang De recounted everything that had happened in Comora, including his father’s kidnapping, the fighting on two fronts, and Big Bob’s death.
• Malegith said Kang De was not qualified to know the answers yet and urged him to prepare by uniting the human and elven worlds, then Earth and Cathay.
• Malegith proposed that Kang De begin by winning over the dragon’s daughter, and offered to advise him.

Kang De reunited with Malegith, disguised as Parrot, and teased her while trying to learn about the magical animals’ pasts and her plans concerning the dragons. After he brought her Earth technology and left the elven camp, he felt reassured that he was no longer alone.

• Malegith complained that Kangaroo had destroyed the television after losing at a fighting game, and she refused to tell Kang De the magical animals’ true identities.
• Malegith threatened to leave lipstick marks on Kang De and pushed him to pursue Dairila, but Kang De teased her about marrying him, prompting her to throw him out.
• Kang De brought Malegith a new television, game consoles, a laptop, games, snacks, and a walkie-talkie, and encouraged her to study Earth technology and share what she learned.
• Kang De told Malegith that he was glad to see her before leaving the tent, where elven generals had gathered to watch him.
• Kang De met Horus, forgave him for abandoning him at the camp, and returned feeling happy and reassured by Malegith’s presence.

Kang De reunited with Parrot, now disguised as the Phoenix King Malegith, and was summoned to meet her at Maple Leaf Palace to discuss peace between Goth and Twilight Moon. After the formal meeting, Malegith revealed that she had arranged the private encounter to reenact a provocative scenario Kang De had once taught her.

• Kang De savored memories of reuniting with Parrot before Grand Duke Reknos told him the Phoenix King had requested his attendance at peace talks.
• Tina encouraged Kang De to meet the Phoenix King and accompanied him to Maple Leaf Palace.
• Kang De and the Phoenix King endured a formal greeting while he pretended to work on a magical terminal, then discussed Tina and Kang De's relationship during negotiations.
• The Phoenix King claimed to have urgent intelligence and arranged for everyone except Kang De to leave the room.
• Malegith rushed at Kang De and explained that she wanted to kiss him while Tina waited anxiously outside, copying a scenario Kang De had once described to her.

Kang De and Malegith traded threats and jokes before Lily revealed that Dragon Island had learned of their Dragon's Covenant and sent a hostile investigation team to Goth. The team’s leader and his followers vanished in Goth’s territorial waters, and their fading soul flames left the dragons fearing a crisis.

• Kang De tricked Malegith into speaking about A Xing while he recorded her, then threatened to reveal her words and identity if she caused trouble.
• Malegith teased Kang De about Lily and said the dragon girl was already present.
• Lily told Kang De that Dragon Island’s conservative elders opposed the Dragon’s Covenant and had sent an investigation team led by a dragon with improper designs on her.
• Lily revealed that the team leader and his underlings disappeared after entering Goth’s territorial waters, and Dragon Island had detected their soul flames fading.

After the dragon delegation vanished in Goth, Lily warned Kang De that Dragon Island might go to war unless Goth submitted to its demands. With Grand Duke Reknos granting him authority to speak for Goth, Kang De rejected the dragons’ threatened intervention, while the Phoenix King offered Twilight Moon’s support and renewed its proposal to Kang De.

• Lily explained that Dragon Island had lost contact with its delegation in Goth and that dragon elders wanted to use whatever means they deemed necessary to investigate, risking war.
• Kang De accepted responsibility for resolving the crisis, and Grand Duke Reknos granted him temporary authority to speak for Goth.
• Kang De declared Goth’s airspace sovereign, demanded that unauthorized dragon entry be treated as a hostile act, and offered a paid investigation into the missing dragons.
• Tina and Kang De rejected the dragon elders’ demands and threatened to defend Goth, while Santos warned that another war would leave the country vulnerable to the elves.
• The Phoenix King publicly backed Goth and renewed Twilight Moon’s offer to Kang De, prompting the gathered humans and elves to realize that the proposed marriage alliance was still on the table.