Chapter Summaries

Shisui destroyed the underground Insect Hive and crushed the defenders’ resistance. The old chairman died trying to help Hua Guangqi escape, and Hua Guangqi took his own life after Shisui blocked the escape route.

• Shisui’s Radiant Feathers slaughtered the Insect Race while the swarm continued to pour into the crater.
• Shisui used his Bikaku to reopen the crater and demolish the underground tunnels and buildings, sending the Beastfolk and Insect Race defenders into a rout.
• The old chairman of the Spirit Resonance Rainforest Beastfolk challenged Shisui to give Hua Guangqi a chance to escape.
• Shisui noticed the old chairman’s Psychic Energy leading toward the management committee building and blocked the fog-free escape route with Feather Powder.
• Hua Guangqi saw his escape vanish and cut his own throat; something picked up his head before his brain died.

Shisui searched the Insect Race settlement for information about the Eye of Madness and discovered an Insect Mother and a Heaven Realm Beastfolk underground. Meanwhile, Chi An killed the Demon Race pursuers following him, sensed the Eye of Madness, and fled to find somewhere safe to hide.

• Shisui retrieved Hua Guangqi’s head and sent Radiant Feathers deeper underground to search the Insect Race settlement for higher-ups.
• Chi An led twenty Demon Race pursuers into the desert and killed them before they could capture him.
• Chi An absorbed the pursuers’ blood to heal his wounds, then sensed the Eye of Madness and hurried away to find a safe hiding place.
• Shisui’s Radiant Feathers searched the settlement’s underground core and found an Insect Mother and a Heaven Realm Beastfolk.

Feather Powder and Radiant Feathers overwhelmed the underground Insect Race settlement, and Shisui killed the old chairman after he tried to resist. The Beastfolk leaders who fled to the Insect Mother's residence learned too late that she had taken them in as food to replenish her depleted energy.

• The old chairman sent the frightened Beastfolk leaders to the Insect Mother's residence while ordering the remaining forces to hold their defenses.
• Radiant Feathers breached the final defenses and slaughtered the people in the command room and the fleeing Beastfolk leaders.
• Shisui sensed the old chairman and the Insect Mother, then attacked the old chairman with slashes.
• The old chairman survived Shisui's first slash through his strength and rapid healing, but Shisui severed his head and sent it into a Wormhole.
• The Insect Mother accepted the Beastfolk leaders into her residence so she could devour them and recover energy.

Shisui ambushed and killed the Insect Mother, then searched her brain and the brains of two Beastfolk leaders for information about the Eye of Madness. He learned that the weapon had two forms and began examining the Insect Mother's memories.

• The Beastfolk leaders entered the Insect Mother's residence, where a psychic shield sealed them inside as Shisui and his Radiant Feathers waited nearby.
• A Demon Race investigation team crossed into the Kaiyang Continent and planned to divert Chou City's attention before heading toward the Spirit Resonance Rainforest.
• Shisui's Radiant Feathers attacked and killed the Insect Mother while she replenished her psychic energy.
• Shisui searched the brains of Hua Guangqi and the Beastfolk settlement's chairman, learning that the Eye of Madness came in contagious plague-like and transplantable paired-eyeball forms.
• Shisui broke through the weakened soul defense around the Insect Mother's brain and began examining her memories.

Shisui probed the Insect Mother’s memories and discovered that the Eye of Madness was an experimental weapon being developed under orders from a powerful superior. After preserving the brains for later study, he realized he had little time before the Beastfolk main branch’s escort arrived and prepared to leave without obtaining a sample.

• Shisui suppressed the Insect Mother’s resistance and searched her layered memories, carefully avoiding the core to prevent her brain from self-destructing.
• He found a memory of the Insect Mother warning her superior that the Eye of Madness caused severe pain and many deaths among parasitized soldiers.
• The Insect Mother’s superior urged her to continue observing the weapon, promising supplies and suggesting it could help her overcome a bottleneck; Soul Energy in the superior’s voice turned the Insect Mother’s fear into fervor.
• Shisui concluded that the Eye of Madness used against him was likely unfinished and considered using [Fire Thief] and [Predator] to absorb its abilities into his Kakugan.
• After storing [Spirit Dream Recall] and keeping the brains for later, Shisui noted that the Beastfolk escort was due soon and decided not to risk encountering the main branch.

Shisui destroyed the Insect Race settlement and concealed the evidence by making the Demon Race look responsible. He returned to the Human Race's Unified Exam Secret Realm and found a spatial anchor connected to Lantiao Continent.

• Shisui scattered Psychic Energy Cannon shells throughout the Insect Race settlement and detonated them, burying it beneath a crater and flames.
• Shisui detected several Heaven Realm auras and found a Demon Race investigation team approaching the blaze.
• Shisui let the demons continue toward the settlement, reasoning that the Beastfolk would suspect them because of their old grudge and the Human Race cannon traces.
• Shisui left through a Wormhole and entered the Human Race's Unified Exam Secret Realm again.
• Shisui searched the secret realm and discovered an anchor connected to Lantiao Continent, despite finding no large Human Race settlements there.

Shisui discovered a hidden anchor leading to the Tree Spirit Species’ territory on the Lantiao Continent, then hurried toward Shahai City to investigate the Eye of Madness. Meanwhile, the Demon Race investigators found a surviving Insect Hive in the burned Beastfolk settlement and encountered an arriving Beastfolk escort party, setting the two groups on the verge of battle.

• Shisui found a hidden anchor in the secret realm and used it to teleport to a forest on the Lantiao Continent, which belonged to the Tree Spirit Species.
• The Demon Race investigation team searched the burned Spirit Resonance Rainforest settlement and found a dying Insect Hive hidden in a ruined building.
• The Demon Race leader ordered the team to return and report that the supposedly extinct Insect Race had survived and might have a settlement.
• Three Heaven Realm Beastfolk scouts arrived and confronted the fleeing Demon Race investigators at the settlement ruins.
• Shisui flew toward Shahai City at tremendous speed, leaving the city unaware that he was approaching.

Arakawa Jiushu searched for a Tree Spirit Species heart while Hu Lingling received orders to retrieve Soul Modification Technology as war broke out between the Demon Race and the Beastfolk. The chapter ended with the Dragon King summoning Yuanli, as the Sea Race prepared to enter the widening conflict.

• Arakawa Jiushu searched among ancient trees for a Tree Spirit Species heart to use as a catalyst for reaching the Heaven Realm.
• Hu Lingling received orders from her superiors to find the Soul Modification Technology and return to her assigned military district after war was declared.
• The Demon Race investigation team surrounded and destroyed a Beastfolk fleet and its three Heaven Realm defenders at the Spirit Resonance River.
• The Demon Race and Beastfolk leaderships declared all-out war after receiving reports of the battle.
• The Dragon King, bound in golden chains, ordered someone to bring Yuanli to him.

Yuanli learned that the Demon Race and Beastfolk had declared war, then carried out the Dragon King's order to contact undersea research bases while [Survival in Desperate Situations] transmitted his memories. Hu Lingling infiltrated the Dragon Palace as the Beastfolk and Insect Race launched their first attack on Shahai City, where Shisui was heading.

• The Dragon King told Yuanli about the conflict between the Demon Race and Beastfolk and ordered him to visit the major research bases with Yuan Shun.
• After leaving the Dragon King Hall, Yuanli briefly lost control as [Survival in Desperate Situations] sent his recent memories to Shisui.
• Hu Lingling slipped past the Dragon Palace's outer wall and headed toward the location marked by her signal receiver.
• The Beastfolk and Insect Race joined forces and sent an army led by three Heaven Realm Second Realm powerhouses toward Shahai City.
• Shisui spotted the advancing army and sped toward Shahai City without slowing down.

An insect tide descended on Shahai City as Shisui used the chaos to locate and enter a hidden Demon Race laboratory near the harbor. He began looting it while the city’s defenders were overwhelmed by the approaching insects.

• The Insect Race and Beastfolk advanced across the Sea of Sand toward Shahai City, prompting the city to request reinforcements.
• A force of twenty thousand Demon Race soldiers reached Shahai City, but the mayor saw the insect tide closing in and sent a desperate call for help.
• Shisui identified the hidden Shahai Laboratory near the western harbor and used a Space Wormhole to reach it.
• Shisui killed the nearby Demon Race people with his Radiant Feathers and let the surviving civilians flee.
• Shisui began looting the laboratory, expecting the city to be overrun by insects before he emerged.

Shisui broke into the Shahai Laboratory and sent Radiant Feathers to collect its records while the Insect Race breached Shahai City's outer shield. The city's defenders held the wall against the insect swarm, but a Beastfolk and Insect Race heavy cavalry charge damaged it and prepared to strike again.

• Shisui drilled through the ground and the laboratory ceiling, then used Feather Powder to incapacitate the researchers on the sixth level.
• Shisui sent Radiant Feathers to gather the laboratory's data and documents, and they covered the entrance with containers before hiding nearby.
• The Insect Race destroyed Shahai City's Psychic Energy Shield and advanced toward the city wall as the mayor rallied the defenders.
• Demon Race gunners blasted the insects climbing the wall, but a Beastfolk and Insect Race heavy cavalry charge struck the wall and left dents in it.
• The mayor ordered the defenders to target the cavalry, but the charge hit before they could stop it, and the cavalry withdrew to prepare another attack.

Shahai City’s defenders struggled to hold off the Insect Race until Demon Race aerial reinforcements arrived. Beneath the city, Shisui investigated the Laboratory’s experiments and caught its director while searching for clues about the Eye of Madness.

• The mayor ordered Shahai City’s soldiers to bombard the heavy cavalry, but the advancing Insect Race used the gaps between the explosions to reach the wall.
• The mayor saw that the Insect Race attackers were paired creatures combining shields and offensive limbs, and they struck the wall hard enough to shake it and drain its formation.
• Demon Race soldiers appeared overhead and shot down the flying Insect Race, disrupting the attack and providing aerial support.
• Shisui explored the Laboratory and found a massive cultivated lump of flesh that he identified as the source of the Undying Cells.
• Shisui’s Radiant Feathers found no information or experimental materials concerning the Eye of Madness, so he changed tactics and caught the Laboratory’s director hiding in a materials freezer.

Shisui killed Shahai Laboratory head Jie Yangwen and searched his memories, learning that the laboratory was trying to fuse the Eye of Madness with Undying Cells for a transplant into a Demon Race Heaven-Controlling Realm expert. He discovered the Eye came from Beast King Qiongqi, but the original eye’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Shisui found Jie Yangwen hiding in the refrigerated materials storage and killed him with his Rinkaku Scorpion Tail.
• Shisui extracted Jie Yangwen’s brain, refined his body into Flesh Crystals, and used [Spirit Dream Recall] to search his memories.
• Shisui learned that the Shahai Laboratory was attempting to fuse the Eye of Madness with Undying Cells for a transplant into a Demon Race Heaven-Controlling Realm expert.
• Shisui learned that Heaven-Controlling Realm experts faced a planetary limit on their evolution and that the Demon Race expert sought a breakthrough through biological modification.
• Shisui discovered that the Eye of Madness came from Beast King Qiongqi, then wondered where the original eye had gone.

Chi An encountered a blood-red eyeball that fused with his own, subjecting his body to renewed torment as he continued toward Shahai City. At the battle outside the city, Shisui searched for the escaped Eye of Madness and prepared to hunt the fighting troops, while the Beast King Qiongqi stirred briefly beneath its golden chains.

• Chi An dodged a blood-red eyeball in the forest, but it flew into his eye socket and fused with the eye already inside him.
• Chi An endured his body tearing and regenerating, then continued through the forest while Beastfolk and Insect Race forces attacked Shahai City.
• Demon Race soldiers and an Undying Legion cavalry company fought to hold back the insect swarm and its heavy cavalry near the city's eastern wall.
• Shisui spread fog across the battlefield, searched for the escaped Eye of Madness, and began preparing to hunt the soldiers around him.
• Qiongqi sensed a disturbance, briefly opened several red eyes, and was forced back to sleep by the glowing golden chains.

Shisui attacked the battlefield outside Shahai City, slaughtering Demon Race, Insect Race, and Beastfolk soldiers before destroying the city’s eastern wall with Radiant Feathers. As the stunned armies faced his next attack, Beastfolk search teams set out to find the person emitting the Eye of Madness’s aura.

• The Beast King briefly regained consciousness and ordered his guards to find whoever was giving off the Eye of Madness’s aura and bring them back alive or dead.
• Beastfolk higher-ups sent search elites and three guards toward the forest east of the Sea of Sand Desert after suspecting the target had fused with the Beast King’s cells.
• Shisui struck the battlefield outside Shahai City with his Bikaku and Radiant Feathers, killing large numbers of Demon Race, Insect Race, and Beastfolk soldiers.
• Shahai City’s defenders fired Psychic Energy Cannon shells at Shisui, but his Radiant Feathers evaded them and flew toward the eastern wall.
• Shisui’s Radiant Feathers exploded repeatedly, killing the defenders and bringing down Shahai City’s hundred-year-old wall.
• The armies stared in fear as Shisui prepared to attack again.

Shisui annihilated the Insect Race and Demon Race forces attacking Shahai City, then covered the battlefield and fled toward the Sea Race's Second Research Institute to feed on the Undying Cells. In Shahai City, Human Race spies Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu realized the fighting had ended and decided to venture out for firsthand intelligence.

• Shisui used his enormous Bikaku and Radiant Feathers to kill the armies of both forces, including their Beastfolk and Undying Legion cavalry, and gathered the resulting Flesh Crystals.
• Shisui concealed the battle's traces with a sandstorm, left Shahai City, and headed for the Second Research Institute after failing to find the escaped Eye of Madness.
• Lu Qianyu tried to contact his companions while Yan Fei told him the sandstorm was worsening and the distant battle was growing fiercer.
• After a roar shook the city and the fighting to the east fell silent, Yan Fei urged Lu Qianyu to leave and seek firsthand intelligence.

Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu searched the battlefield outside Shahai City’s eastern wall and found traces of a Chain Bomb detonation, which they planned to report to the intelligence team. On their way to its main base, they discovered a hidden tunnel beneath shipping containers and decided to investigate where it led.

• Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu searched the eastern-wall battlefield, where Yan Fei detected faint Psychic Energy fluctuations left by a Chain Bomb detonation.
• Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu decided to report the discovery to the Shahai City Intelligence Group and collected armor fragments for testing.
• The Demon Race’s third wave of reinforcements arrived, and its commanding officer ordered soldiers to search the battlefield before leading others toward the Shahai Laboratory.
• Lu Qianyu’s Mechanical Insects found a hidden tunnel beneath moved shipping containers in a plaza near the harbor.
• Yan Fei decided to enter the tunnel with Lu Qianyu and investigate where it led.

Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu searched an evacuated laboratory for clues about why the Beastfolk were targeting the Demon Race, shifting to records of supplies and purchases after finding the main research data had been taken. Meanwhile, Hu Lingling fled Chongming City with a case containing Soul Modification Technology records, as soldiers pursued her, and Demon Race reinforcements reached Shahai City's western harbor.

• Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu entered the underground laboratory and found its cell culture room abandoned, with researchers having taken important documents and samples.
• On the lower floor, Yan Fei realized Shisui had already ransacked the observation area and told Lu Qianyu to search for account books, consumables records, and purchase lists instead.
• Hu Lingling triggered an alarm when she touched a case containing the record of the modification technology and escaped the research institute with it.
• Soldiers tracked Hu Lingling through Chongming City and rushed to alert the gates while she tried to escape before the Sea Race's top fighters arrived.
• Some Demon Race reinforcements reached the edge of the harbor in Shahai City's West District.

The Demon Race reinforcements reached Shahai City and entered the deserted Laboratory through its underwater harbor entrance. Lu Qianyu and Yan Fei escaped after spotting the soldiers, leaving a trap behind; the commander then discovered a breach to the surface and suspected it explained the Laboratory’s evacuation.

• The Demon Race commander led his reinforcements to the Laboratory’s underwater entrance after finding Shahai City’s battlefield empty and its eastern wall shattered.
• The commander opened the hidden entrance with his handprint and ordered soldiers to search the deserted Laboratory.
• Lu Qianyu detected the search with his Mechanical Insects, gathered materials, and signaled Yan Fei to withdraw.
• Lu Qianyu and Yan Fei escaped through the microorganism cultivation room’s tunnel, and Yan Fei planted a miniature Psychic Energy Cannon shell at its exit.
• A searching soldier found a hole leading to the surface in the microorganism cultivation room, and the commander hurried there, suspecting it was connected to the researchers’ disappearance.

After a Demon Race soldier was killed by a blast that sealed the tunnel, Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu agreed to draw the army away from Shahai City’s intelligence bases. Meanwhile, Shisui used Rc Cells at the Sea Race Second Research Institute to consume a piece of Undying Cells.

• A blast destroyed the tunnel beneath the laboratory, killing a Demon Race soldier, and the commanding officer ordered troops to search west and kill the thief if he resisted.
• An intelligence agent warned Yan Fei that the Demon Race army’s search could expose the Shahai City Intelligence Group’s bases.
• Yan Fei offered to act as bait, and Lu Qianyu joined him, confident they could draw away at least eighty percent of the Demon Race army.
• The intelligence group agreed to transmit the intelligence, protect its agents, and let Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu take whatever they wanted from the armory.
• Shisui awakened the Rc Cells in the Sea Race Second Research Institute, turning its inhabitants into Flesh Crystals that the cocoon absorbed.
• Shisui released a piece of Undying Cell tissue into the cavern, where the Rc Cells rapidly swallowed it.