Chapter Summaries

At Moonwhite Shoal, Shisui absorbed refined soul energy and advanced to the Heaven Realm Second Realm Peak, while Beastfolk leaders discussed recovering Demon Race biological modification technology. At Demon Race headquarters, Bai Ye visited Li Nai'an and tried to gather information under the pretense of wanting a frontline assignment.

• Beastfolk leaders learned the Moonwhite Shoal operation had been exposed but decided to accelerate their plan to obtain the biological modification experiment's core technology.
• Shisui absorbed soul energy refined through his Rc Cell cocoon and strengthened his soul and body.
• Shisui broke through to the Heaven Realm Second Realm and reached Peak before the soul energy ran out.
• Shisui concluded that soul, body, and Psychic Energy needed to advance together, then left his secluded cultivation.
• Bai Ye visited Li Nai'an, pretended she wanted to join her unit, and tried to fish for information.
• Li Nai'an warned Bai Ye that joining another frontline unit might suit her better and offered her a box of snacks from Shahai City.

Yan Fei and his group entered Shahai City using their permits and blended into its population. Shisui left Moonwhite Shoal for the ruined Yin City, where he examined the lingering effects of a Chain Explosion and considered turning his Feather Bullets into missiles.

• Yan Fei entered Shahai City after soldiers checked his permit, and Lu Qianyu and the rest of the group followed without incident.
• Shisui sensed weakened but still dangerous golden-chain power around the Bound Captives investigating the Beastfolk attack at Moonwhite Shoal.
• Shisui left Moonwhite Shoal and appeared above the ruined Yin City.
• Shisui detected lingering Psychic Energy disturbances from a Chain Explosion in Yin City's ruins.
• Shisui studied the Chain Explosion's effects and considered radically modifying his Feather Bullets into missiles.

Shisui sensed an unknown creature escape from Yin City toward Mao City while sealing the ruins. In Mao City, Li Nai'an's Undying Legion captured the Sea Race commander-in-chief and chief of staff, then Li Nai'an received orders to retrieve a test subject in Kaiyang Continent.

• Shisui sensed a strange creature flee from Yin City in the direction of Mao City and memorized its form and aura.
• Li Nai'an led forty-five Undying Legion soldiers through the Sea Race camp to attack its command post.
• Li Nai'an's squad killed the guards, captured the Sea Race commander-in-chief and chief of staff, and defeated the reinforcements that arrived.
• The allied forces drove back the Sea Race troops, and Li Nai'an received a deployment order to follow a locator signal to Kaiyang Continent and retrieve a test subject.

Miao Xingyu resolved to venture deeper into the forest to grow stronger, unaware that the Demon Race had sent Li Nai'an to retrieve him. As Li Nai'an and He Jie raced toward his location on behalf of their respective sides, both learned the mission could bring them into conflict.

• Miao Xingyu recalled his captivity and the deaths he had suffered, then decided to leave his cave and seek greater strength in the forest.
• Eagle Hound briefed Li Nai'an on Miao Xingyu's abilities and ordered her to kill him and return his body intact.
• Eagle Hound learned that the Yinling Sect had sent He Jie, a Bound Captive, to pursue Miao Xingyu, and warned Li Nai'an about He Jie's [Oppression Hexagram].
• Li Nai'an resented being ordered to return a Demon Race test subject who had entered Human Race territory.
• He Jie complained about the strategic alliance and the Yinling Sect's forced service, then hurried into the forest to find Miao Xingyu.

Miao Xingyu encountered the Faceless One, which foretold his death by decapitation, before Li Nai'an captured and killed him at midnight. Nine Lives Cat preserved his soul, and Li Nai'an carried his body toward the Laboratory while He Jie’s group prepared to collect a tissue sample.

• While fleeing He Jie through the mountains, Miao Xingyu passed the mass grave near Chou City and encountered a shifting shadow that predicted he would die by decapitation at midnight.
• Li Nai'an ambushed Miao Xingyu with her spiked whip, breaking his legs and judging his healing too slow to escape her.
• At midnight, Li Nai'an struck Miao Xingyu in the neck, killing him by decapitation as the shadow had foretold.
• Nine Lives Cat activated and preserved Miao Xingyu’s soul, while Li Nai'an put his body in a special bag and set off for the Laboratory in the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range.
• He Jie arrived too late to catch Li Nai'an, so she ordered her group to collect a sample of Miao Xingyu’s tissue from his cave.

Shisui improved his Composite Radiant Feathers by giving them a formation that absorbed Psychic Energy from the air. Li Nai'an defeated Zhan Yuxin in a canyon ambush and continued toward the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range with Miao Xingyu's body.

• Shisui used a Sea Race formation to make his Composite Radiant Feathers absorb enough Psychic Energy to sustain flight and conceal their movements.
• Zhan Yuxin waited in a canyon for Li Nai'an, hoping to take the body bag she carried.
• Eagle Hound detected unusual movement above the canyon, but Zhan Yuxin trapped Li Nai'an with her [Oppression Hexagram].
• Li Nai'an awakened her [Blood-Born Flower] talent, broke the hexagram, and drained Zhan Yuxin's blood with thorny vines.
• Li Nai'an left Zhan Yuxin alive at Eagle Hound's order and headed toward the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range with the body bag.

Li Nai'an reached the Laboratory in the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range after receiving hunting permission, while researchers discussed the importance of Miao Xingyu and Shisui continued testing Radiant Feathers. Hua Yixuan traveled toward the Kaiyang Continent to help his father after the Beastfolk defeat, unaware that Ghouls occupied Yin City.

• Li Nai'an hurried toward the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range because her Undying Cells and Blood-Born Flower were draining her Psychic Energy and driving her to hunt.
• Eagle Hound monitored Li Nai'an and learned that Miao Xingyu belonged to a major Laboratory project because of his unusual talent.
• Shisui tested Composite Radiant Feathers in Yin City and found their attacks weak against Heaven Realm targets.
• Hua Yixuan changed course toward the Kaiyang Continent after learning that the Beastfolk had suffered a crushing defeat and his father Hua Guangqi might face blame.
• Li Nai'an reached the Laboratory, handed a researcher the body bag, and left to hunt; a lead researcher warned a colleague not to insult her near the Undying Legion.

Li Nai'an hunted in the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range while researchers took Miao Xingyu back to the Demon Race laboratory to study his Undying Cells. The Demon Race's Heaven-Controlling Realm expert prepared another experiment and revealed that the cells he was studying came from his own body.

• Li Nai'an pierced a snowfield bear with thorns and absorbed its blood to restore some Psychic Energy.
• Researchers brought Miao Xingyu to their laboratory, where he awoke and was sedated for examination and sampling.
• A maid told the Demon Race's Heaven-Controlling Realm expert that the test subject [Nine Lives Cat] had been retrieved.
• The expert reviewed Miao Xingyu's data and ordered the researchers to bring him to a hidden laboratory.
• The expert broke off one of his own branch-like tentacles, which was made of his cells and served as the prototype for the Undying Cells.

Yan Fei’s group established a covert base in Shahai City and began investigating an unusually guarded shelter after Lu Qianyu noticed the city garrison’s suspicious patrols. Two agents posing as diners overheard soldiers mention an escaped “evil spirit,” giving the group a new lead.

• The chapter explained that Basket-Tailed Snake survivors settled on Lantiao Continent, joined the Beastfolk’s main lineage, and later became connected to the origins of the Demon Race and Shahai Laboratory.
• Yan Fei took over a teahouse in Shahai City as the group’s quiet base while Lu Qianyu monitored the city’s garrison and Psychic Energy fluctuations.
• Lu Qianyu noticed soldiers repeatedly patrolling near a shelter in the eastern district and reported the behavior to Yan Fei.
• Yan Fei decided to investigate the shelter indirectly rather than risk exposing the group or the Shahai intelligence team.
• Two agents disguised as Demon Race residents listened to off-duty garrison soldiers at a popular eatery.
• The soldiers complained about guarding against a rumored “evil spirit” that had escaped before, giving the agents a new lead.

Two agents in Shahai City overheard soldiers mention a laboratory inside a shelter, while Chi An killed the soldiers after they left the restaurant. Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu later reviewed the intelligence report and decided to investigate the shelter cautiously, suspecting a Demon Race trap.

• Two agents overheard soldiers discussing a laboratory inside a shelter, but learned little more as the soldiers became drunk.
• Chi An followed the soldiers from the restaurant and killed them on a quiet street.
• Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu reviewed the teams' intelligence reports and identified the shelter mentioned by the soldiers.
• Yan Fei proposed investigating the shelter with surveillance and listening devices because he suspected it was bait for a Demon Race trap.

Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu began investigating the suspected Demon Race shelter, while Hua Yixuan rushed toward Yin City after learning his father would be taken to meet the Beast King. Lu Qianyu's mechanical insects uncovered a hidden passage beneath the shelter and flew deeper underground.

• Yan Fei warned Lu Qianyu that the Laboratory might be a Demon Race trap, and Lu Qianyu prepared surveillance devices to investigate it.
• Hua Yixuan emerged from the sea on Kaiyang Continent and set off toward Yin City, hoping to reach his father before daybreak.
• Lu Qianyu connected his senses to mechanical insects and began the intelligence-gathering operation, leaving his body unconscious under medical staff's care.
• The mechanical insects slipped past the guards at the shelter entrance and found a section of floor that concealed a passage underground.
• Lu Qianyu sent the insects through the passage to search for intelligence deeper beneath the shelter.

Lu Qianyu discovered signs of recent activity in the supposedly abandoned Shahai Laboratory and set his mechanical insects to search and monitor it. In Yin City, Shisui decided to develop soul-damaging Radiant Feathers and identified Hua Yixuan and the Insect Mother as a potential source of knowledge, while Chi An arrived near a shelter in Shahai City.

• Lu Qianyu found fresh bloodstains in Shahai Laboratory and realized someone had used the facility recently.
• Lu Qianyu sent mechanical insects to search for research records and hide as monitors.
• Shisui concluded that his Radiant Feathers needed soul damage to threaten powerful souls and Spirit Race targets.
• Shisui sensed Hua Yixuan and the Insect Mother approaching Yin City and spread the fog toward the coast to trap them.
• Chi An landed on a rooftop opposite a shelter entrance in Shahai City and watched the patrolling soldiers.

Chi An infiltrated the Shahai Laboratory, drove Lu Qianyu into a soul-shattering madness, and used his blood-red eyes to send the surrounding Demon Race army into a frenzy. He escaped as the bombs he had planted destroyed the laboratory, while Hua Yixuan unknowingly approached trouble near Yin City.

• Chi An entered the underground Shahai Laboratory and scattered civilian bombs throughout it.
• Lu Qianyu recognized the bombs through his mechanical insects, but Chi An caught the insects’ gaze and severed their connection, leaving Lu Qianyu unconscious and bleeding red tears.
• Chi An emerged from the laboratory and revealed his blood-red eyes and black wings to the surrounding Demon Race army.
• The soldiers fell into madness and attacked one another, allowing Chi An to slip away unnoticed.
• The bombs exploded, setting off a massive blast that shook Shahai City.
• Hua Yixuan traveled through a foggy valley toward Yin City, unaware that trouble was about to begin.

Hua Yixuan raced through the fog to stop the Beastfolk from taking his father, Hua Guangqi, but Shisui ambushed and defeated him. Shisui captured the Insect Hive and discovered that Hua Yixuan’s tentacles could deliver a soul attack, giving him material for his research.

• Hua Yixuan rushed toward the Spirit Resonance Rainforest after learning that Hua Guangqi’s departure had been delayed only until six in the morning.
• Hua Yixuan became trapped in the fog and was attacked by Radiant Feathers, but his tentacles shielded him from the explosions.
• Shisui emerged from the fog and stabbed Hua Yixuan in the eye with his Rinkaku Scorpion Tail.
• Hua Yixuan’s tentacles turned blood red and struck Shisui’s Bikaku, attacking Shisui’s soul without causing him harm.
• As Hua Yixuan’s brain began to die, he sent Psychic Energy into the Insect Hive, but Shisui sealed it with Spatial Energy and seized it.
• Shisui left with the Insect Hive, pleased that Hua Yixuan’s attack had provided material for studying soul attacks.

Shisui decided to attack the Spirit Resonance Rainforest Beastfolk for Flesh Crystals, while the Beastfolk leadership struggled to locate Hua Yixuan and chose to engineer Hua Guangqi’s death. The chapter ended with Song Xinrong heading to Hua Guangqi’s detention site to tell him his son was dead and steer him toward suicide.

• Shisui sealed away his experimental materials, checked that his traces in Yin City were erased, and decided to attack the Spirit Resonance Rainforest himself.
• The Spirit Resonance Rainforest Settlement Management Committee worked through the night to locate the source of the Soul Energy and contact Hua Yixuan.
• The old chairman concluded that Hua Yixuan was unlikely to return in time and decided Hua Guangqi should die rather than be sent to Lantiao.
• The old chairman ordered Song Xinrong to tell Hua Guangqi his son was dead and guide him toward self-destruction.
• Song Xinrong destroyed the written order and went to Hua Guangqi’s temporary detention site.

Song Xinrong manipulated Hua Guangqi’s grief and anger to ensure he would resist the Lantiao Main Branch, while Shisui surveyed the Spirit Resonance Rainforest and discovered a recently engineered cultivation treasure land. Shisui recognized the Beastfolk territory’s potential, but expected its ambitions to be cut short soon.

• Song Xinrong visited Hua Guangqi in his guarded room and told him that his son was in grave danger, blaming likely attackers from Lantiao.
• Hua Guangqi nearly fainted from the news, and Song Xinrong summoned a doctor before telling him he would be sent to Lantiao Continent at six in the morning.
• Song Xinrong used his talent to suggest the Lantiao Main Branch might recruit Hua Guangqi, provoking Hua Guangqi to vow he would not help it harm his home.
• Shisui spread his Psychic Energy across the Spirit Resonance Rainforest and sensed a powerful concentration of spirit mist in the core region.
• Shisui discovered that an aboveground settlement and underground structures had been modified into a cultivation treasure land.

Shisui launched a devastating fog attack on the Spirit Resonance Rainforest Beastfolk settlement, overwhelming its defenses and killing Beastfolk as crystals formed in the Alternate Space. The old chairman headed for military headquarters to restore contact while the fog continued to consume the settlement.

• The old chairman ordered the military to investigate Hua Yixuan’s last signal, but the dispatched team’s communications were cut off moments later.
• A dense fog attacked the management committee building, shattered its windows, and forced the leaders to declare a state of war.
• The old chairman left for military headquarters to reestablish contact as the fog spread through the building and killed employees.
• The fog ravaged Beastfolk throughout the settlement, while Flesh Crystals appeared and vanished amid the chaos.
• Shisui watched from above as Psychic Energy Crystals and Flesh Crystals accumulated in the Alternate Space.

Shisui’s Feather Powder overwhelmed the Beastfolk settlement, but the old chairman ordered the army to deploy Forbidden-Class Weapons. An underground attack struck Shisui with a beam that inflicted pain and madness, as the Insect Race surged into the settlement and prepared another attack.

• Shisui noticed the old chairman moving through the mist toward Beastfolk military headquarters and sent Composite Radiant Feathers to follow him.
• The old chairman urged the commander-in-chief to activate the Forbidden-Class Weapons, and the commander-in-chief agreed to submit an emergency request while acting before approval arrived.
• Shisui sensed Psychic Energy being diverted underground as the Insect Race multiplied beyond the Feather Powder’s ability to kill it.
• A beam blasted out of the ground and struck Shisui, filling him with pain and frenzied whispers.
• The Insect Race swarmed into the settlement, and its rapidly growing blood-red eyeballs gathered Psychic Energy and prepared another attack on Shisui.

Shisui survived the Insect Race’s soul attack and vanished when its second beam struck. He then returned with swarms of Radiant Feathers, trapping the Insect Race and Beastfolk leaders as his hunt began.

• The Insect Race’s first beam ravaged Shisui’s soul, but [Predator] consumed the attack’s energy and restored his senses.
• Nearly twenty thousand Insect Race members fired a more powerful second beam, and their bodies exploded after the attack as the underground leaders assumed Shisui was dead.
• A Radiant Feather triggered explosions among the Insect Race, absorbed the blood mist, and sent it to Shisui’s Alternate Space to become Flesh Crystals.
• Swarms of Radiant Feathers swept through the Insect Race, while Feather Powder sealed the space within a hundred li and trapped the Insect Race and Beastfolk leaders.
• Shisui emerged from the Alternate Space with his scarlet Kakugan and unleashed his Kagune as the hunt began.

Shisui survived the beam attack and unleashed a devastating assault on the Spirit Resonance Rainforest Beastfolk settlement, trapping its survivors underground. In the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range, a Demon Race expert sensed the Eye of Madness and ordered his forces to investigate and intensify the coming conflict.

• Shisui escaped the collapsing alternate space after the beam damaged its koukaku defenses.
• Shisui transformed into kakuja, bombarded the settlement with Composite Radiant Feathers, and sealed the area with Feather Powder.
• The Beastfolk and Insect Race leaders found corpses filling the pit and realized they faced a hunter they could not defeat.
• Thick fog and spatial lockdown cut off the settlement, preventing the leaders from contacting reinforcements.
• A Demon Race heaven-controlling realm expert sensed the Eye of Madness and planned to seize it amid the coming war.
• The expert sent a squad to investigate the Spirit Resonance Rainforest, mobilized the Undying Legion, and ordered Hu Lingling to find Soul Modification Technology.