Chapter Summaries

Shisui devoured the Demon Race expert’s Undying Cells, overcame their soul fragments, and advanced to the Early Fourth Realm of the Heaven Realm. The Undying Cells also greatly enhanced his Rc Cells, while the detached cells began reaching toward Yuanli aboard a distant Sea Race warship.

• Shisui’s Rc Cells devoured the Undying Cells as the Demon Race expert’s soul fragments screamed and cursed inside his mind.
• Shisui crushed the soul fragments with Soul Energy and absorbed the energy from the destroyed Undying Cells.
• Shisui advanced to the Early Fourth Realm of the Heaven Realm, then stopped before breaking through to the Fifth Realm.
• Shisui discovered that his Rc Cells had grown stronger, formed tighter connections, gained an almost undying lifespan, and could control conscious hosts.
• Shisui tried to connect with his detached Rc Cells, while Yuanli’s foreign talent, [Survival in Desperate Situations], sensed something aboard a Sea Race warship tens of thousands of kilometers away.

As Shisui’s changes strengthened the Rc Cells, he ordered Yuanli to gather his staff officers at the Second Research Institute. Meanwhile, Jiqu learned that his Undying Cells had been devoured by a mysterious being with black-and-red eyes, and his investigation mobilized much of the Demon Race, drawing the attention of its Human Race ally.

• Shisui’s command reached [Survival in Desperate Situations] with unusual clarity after the Rc Cells changed.
• [Survival in Desperate Situations] took control of Yuanli and ordered the staff officers to gather in the conference room in half an hour.
• Jiqu awoke from a nap after sensing his Undying Cells being devoured and glimpsed the black-and-red eyes of the culprit.
• Jiqu suppressed his fury, ordered his personal guard to investigate, and sent information about the eyes through the Undying Cells.
• The Demon Race mobilized more than half its forces, and the Human Race was the first to notice the unusual activity.

Human Race leaders debated the Demon Race’s biological experiments when news arrived that the Demon Race had issued a highest-level wanted notice and attacked settlements of other races. Meanwhile, Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu traveled toward Layered Peaks City, while Sea Race military elites moved through the Azure Nether Ocean.

• The neutral speaker chaired a Human Race meeting where speakers debated infiltrating or destroying the Shahai Laboratory and Wanren Laboratory.
• An official reported that the Demon Race had issued a highest-level wanted notice and attacked several Beastfolk and mixed-race settlements.
• The official told the neutral speaker that Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu had escaped Shahai City and were heading to Layered Peaks City.
• The grand speaker considered the Human Race’s alliance with the Demon Race as the leaders debated the attacks.
• Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu continued north toward Layered Peaks City, while Sea Race military elites traveled through the Azure Nether Ocean.

Cheng Yan led a Sea Race elite squad to the Second Research Institute, unaware that Shisui had turned the facility into a deadly trap. Meanwhile, Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu reached Layered Peaks City with Demon Race forces close behind, while a planted rumor set the stage for the Cheng Family to send more people to the institute.

• Cheng Yan realized his mission could also reconnect the Third Research Institute with the Second, then led his squad through the ice wall into the institute.
• Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu arrived at Layered Peaks City, where officials sheltered them and called the Zi City council to ask how to handle the pursuing Demon Race army.
• Cheng Yan's squad emerged into blood-red fog, which filled their lungs and dissolved more than a thousand awakened soldiers into energy for Shisui's cocoon.
• [Survival in Desperate Situations] used Yuanli to spread a rumor that a Cheng Family member had gone missing, prompting the Cheng Family's old master to travel to the Second Research Institute.

Cheng Wenjie sent a force to investigate the Second Research Institute after Cheng Yan’s mishap, while Crown Prince Yuanli secretly dispatched another group to create a pretext for blaming the Institute. New evidence of the Demon Race’s secret dealings with Beastfolk led the Human Race’s leaders to end their cooperation, and Shisui prepared for the forces approaching the Institute.

• Cheng Wenjie learned that Cheng Yan had met with an accident on the Crown Prince’s task and sent ten powerful family members with sea beasts to the Second Research Institute.
• Yuanli spread rumors about the Institute and sent a final force there, intending to blame it for their deaths and conceal his motives.
• Human Race leaders reviewed purchase lists and account books from the Shahai Laboratory and decided to secretly end their cooperation with the Demon Race over its suspected ties to Beastfolk factions.
• Shisui reduced his energy use as the blood mist thinned and waited for the next groups of Sea Race members to arrive.
• A force sent by the Crown Prince reached the ice wall, and Shisui made the gate’s lock more complex while waiting for the others.

Shisui grafted [Fire Thief] and [Spirit Dream Recall] into Rc Cell tissue, then used the altered [Fire Thief] to extract a Sea Race member’s remnant soul. He sent Cheng Yan to the ice wall with a false message intended to draw the waiting Sea Race members into the cave, where Shisui hoped to gather enough energy to reach the Fifth Realm.

• Shisui used Rc Cells and Psychic Energy to transfer [Fire Thief] and [Spirit Dream Recall] into sturdier vessels, and both talents recovered.
• Shisui tested [Fire Thief] on bones and extracted a Sea Race member’s remnant soul instead of a talent.
• Shisui used [Spirit Dream Recall] to recover the soul’s memories, fashioned a body for it, and sent it outside with a false message.
• Shisui sensed ten awakened members of the Cheng Family and sea beasts near the ice wall, judging that devouring them could complete his accumulation for a breakthrough to the Fifth Realm.
• Cheng Yan reached the ice wall under Shisui’s influence as the Sea Race members opened it, then told them they could not enter yet.

Cheng Yan lured the Crown Prince's forces and the Cheng Family troops into the Second Research Institute, where Feather Powder carrying [Bone-Deep Rot] had already surrounded them. Meanwhile, Suo Qiaoyun reviewed a report on the Demon Race's activity and noticed a brief detail that caught her attention.

• Cheng Yan told the arriving forces they could not enter the Second Research Institute because a top-secret project had triggered an information lockdown.
• The Crown Prince's unit refused to leave, and the Cheng Family's leader kept his troops there too, revealing a vast force of sea beasts.
• The Crown Prince's leader secretly signaled Yuanli while Cheng Yan led everyone into the passage, where Feather Powder had sealed the space and exposed them to [Bone-Deep Rot].
• Suo Qiaoyun questioned her Bound Captives about the Demon Race's activity and read a report that mostly repeated what she already knew.
• Suo Qiaoyun spotted a small item in the report that caught her attention.

Suo Qiaoyun recognized Eight-Tailed Owl on a Demon Race wanted notice and ordered her Bound Captives to find him. Meanwhile, Shisui trapped a Sea Race group in the Second Research Institute and killed them with a Death Herald’s prophecy, leaving his identity and power undiscovered.

• Suo Qiaoyun recognized Eight-Tailed Owl as a wanted fugitive whose recorded strength had risen from the Yellow Realm to the Heaven Realm, and ordered the Bound Captives to find him.
• Cheng Yan led the Sea Race members into the Second Research Institute’s ice cave, where the formations sealed the exits and trapped them.
• Shisui spotted a shifting spirit that foretold the Sea Race leaders’ deaths by suffocation, though most of the group could not see it.
• The Cheng Family leader identified the spirit as a Death Herald and ordered everyone to retreat, but toxins and Feather Powder immobilized the Sea Race members.
• Exactly two minutes after the prophecy, the Sea Race group died of suffocation.

Shisui absorbed the Sea Race’s remains and advanced to the Heaven Realm Sixth Realm before leaving the ice cave. As the Human Race began ending cooperation with the Demon Race, Jin Yuze learned that war might break out again and watched Jin Yuxi leave.

• Shisui searched the Sea Race members’ memories and learned that only those with near-Heaven Realm Psychic Energy could see the mysterious Death Herald.
• Shisui absorbed the blood-red substance in the ice cave and broke through to the Heaven Realm Sixth Realm middle stage.
• Shisui withdrew his kagune, tossed Composite Radiant Feathers into the empty ice cave, and left through a Space Wormhole.
• The Upper Council announced that Human Race settlements would gradually cease cooperating with the Demon Race.
• Jin Yuxi confirmed Jin Yuze’s fears that war was approaching, then left without promising he would return.
• Jin Yuze received an order to report to the council building and put on his smiling, carefree facade.

The Human Race publicly abandoned cooperation with the Demon Race while claiming the alliance remained unbreakable, then sent Jin Yuze and four Earth Realm Bound Captives to retrieve two intelligence agents. Meanwhile, Shisui spread an enormous cloud of spatially charged Feather Powder over Shahai City, alarming its demons and troops.

• A Human Race liaison placated the Demon Race with promises of talks, though Human Race leaders had no intention of repairing the alliance.
• Jin Yuze arrived at the parliament building and received a mission to escort two intelligence agents from Layered Peaks City to Zi City without letting their information leak.
• Jin Yuze set out for Lantiao Continent with four Earth Realm Bound Captives.
• Shisui, now at the Sixth Realm of the Heaven Realm, spread a vast cloud of Feather Powder over Shahai City to track the Eye of Madness.
• The demons in Shahai City panicked as the mist darkened the sky, and the stationed troops began organizing an investigation.

Shisui destroyed Shahai City with Feather Powder, then traced the Eye of Madness east using Psychic Energy left on a beast’s bones. In the forest, Chi An realized the Eye of Madness was revealing his location to a Beastfolk pursuer, so he stopped running and prepared to fight.

• Shisui’s Feather Powder descended on Shahai City, killing Demon Race soldiers and civilians and reducing the city to ruins.
• Shisui sensed a faint Psychic Energy trace on a beast’s bones and used it to determine that the Eye of Madness had fled east toward the forested mountains.
• Chi An ran through the forest while being chased, then planted an ear feather carrying Undying Cells as a trap.
• The Beastfolk pursuer cut the infected flesh from his leg, destroyed it with Psychic Energy, and continued following Chi An.
• Chi An realized the Eye of Madness in his body was likely revealing his whereabouts, stopped fleeing, and decided to try to kill his pursuer.

Chi An turned to fight the Beastfolk soldier sent to capture him, discovering that the pursuit was meant to force his growth. As the battle pushed him to absorb more of the Eye of Madness, Shisui approached from beyond the forest.

• Chi An stopped running, revealed his wings, and prepared to resist being taken back to the Laboratory.
• The Beastfolk soldier tracked Chi An with a signal detector, but Chi An attacked from behind and activated the Eye of Madness.
• Chi An fought the stronger soldier, healing from injuries and redirecting the soldier’s force into counterattacks.
• The soldier realized Chi An’s capture mission was intended to pressure him into growing, then gave in to the Eye of Madness’s influence and tried to kill him.
• Chi An understood that killing the soldier could make the Eye of Madness grow further, but fought on as his attacks became increasingly frenzied.
• Shisui flew toward the forest, following the energy fluctuations left by the Eye of Madness.

Chi An defeated a Beastfolk soldier, but the Eye of Madness cells from the dead expert began destabilizing his body and draining his Psychic Energy. As Chi An struggled to find shelter, Shisui detected his energy and rushed toward him, while the Beastfolk researchers tracked the test subject without knowing their prize was about to be taken.

• Chi An killed the wounded Beastfolk soldier with his dagger after the soldier's final attack missed.
• The Eye of Madness cells entered Chi An, causing intense pain and rapidly draining the Psychic Energy that powered his [Outsider] talent.
• Chi An forced himself to move and search for a safe place before his talent stopped working.
• Shisui detected Chi An's violent energy fluctuations and flew toward him at high speed.
• The Beastfolk researchers monitored Chi An through the undying cells and warned each other not to transplant them into other test subjects.
• The researchers believed Chi An's condition was stabilizing, unaware that Shisui was closing in on him.

Shisui took a break from cultivation to prepare a meal from the Beastfolk Hua Yixuan, making chocolate cake and pairing it with white wine. As he enjoyed the dessert, his Kagune finished preparing ingredients for a red wine stew.

• Shisui stopped cultivating and took the freshly captured Hua Yixuan from his Alternate Space.
• Shisui found a kitchen in a duplex apartment among the ruins of Yin City and cleared it with Feather Powder.
• Shisui prepared ingredients for red wine stew while shaping minced parts of Hua Yixuan into a chocolate cake.
• Shisui opened a bottle of white wine, poured a glass, and ate the cake with it.
• Shisui savored the dessert and wine while controlling his Kagune as they finished preparing the stew ingredients.

Chi An lost control of his body as the Eye of Madness Cells and Undying Cells clashed, while Shisui watched and intervened to search for the source of the proliferation. Shisui found two parasitic eyeballs inside Chi An but could not locate the recently introduced cell tissue.

• Researchers lost Chi An's Psychic Energy and vital-sign signals, and the laboratory erupted into panic.
• Shisui observed Chi An and determined that his soul's Psychic Energy had been sustaining him against the competing cells.
• Chi An's Psychic Energy ran out, and he collapsed as the cells damaged his body and soul.
• The Eye of Madness Cells and Undying Cells began merging in Chi An, and Shisui used Feather Powder and Rc Cells to search his body.
• Shisui found one parasitic eyeball in Chi An's eye socket and another in his lung, but he could not find the mass of cell tissue.

Shisui used his Bikaku to prepare red wine stew and enjoyed it with meat from a Demon Race member. Afterward, he considered seeking out tastier prey and wondered what the Heaven-Controlling Realm tasted like.

• Shisui directed his eight Bikaku as they prepared vegetables, made stock, and stewed meat with red wine.
• Shisui ate the finished stew, enjoying the tender meat and the chewy pieces from a Demon Race member's tentacles.
• Shisui decided he should stockpile prey with especially good-tasting meat while collecting Flesh Crystals.
• Shisui ate Flesh Crystals for dessert and wondered what the Heaven-Controlling Realm tasted like.

Shisui searched Chi An's body for the last clump of Eye of Madness Cells, but Chi An's cells counterattacked and began recovering. Shisui's Rc Cells overwhelmed them, while an operations team sent to locate Chi An became trapped in the fog and died, leaving Shisui poised to deal with Chi An.

• Shisui divided Chi An's body into regions and spread Rc Cells throughout it to find the last clump of Eye of Madness Cells.
• Chi An's Undying Cells and Eye of Madness Cells attacked the Rc Cells as his body absorbed psychic energy, but Shisui's psychic energy dispersed the whispers and his Rc Cells crushed the counterattack.
• The Rc Cells quadrupled in number, began slaughtering the opposing cells, and continued their invasion of Chi An's body.
• Researchers at the Beastfolk's underground laboratory lost contact with Chi An, and the higher-ups sent an operations team to his last known location.
• The operations team entered Shisui's thick fog, lost its communicator signal, and became trapped; Rc Cells inside and outside their bodies killed the team members.
• Shisui used Radiant Feathers and spatial energy to turn the team's corpses into Flesh Crystals, then focused on Chi An, whose original scent had become distinct.

Shisui devoured Chi An and a self-aware clump of cells from a Heaven-Controlling Realm expert, absorbing enough energy to reach the Heaven Realm’s Sixth-Realm Peak. Meanwhile, Yan Fei arrived at Layered Peaks City, where its lord prepared an unusually formidable defense against the approaching demons.

• Shisui tasted Chi An’s flesh, then stored the Eye of Madness and took the blood-soaked remains for himself.
• Shisui identified a self-aware clump of Eye of Madness cells that had tried to seize Chi An’s brain and decided not to fuse with it.
• Shisui pulverized and drank the clump of cells, gaining energy that raised him to the Heaven Realm’s Sixth-Realm Peak.
• A large force of demons advanced through the mountain forest toward Layered Peaks City, where Yan Fei and the city lord discussed the intelligence agents’ information.
• Layered Peaks City’s walls bristled with psychic energy cannons as its lord explained that the defenses had helped the Human Race establish itself on Lantiao Continent.

Layered Peaks City repelled the Demon Race's first assault, but its commander ordered a feint while the rest of his troops dug toward the city. Elsewhere, Shisui seized control of a Beastfolk army to distract its leaders, while Hu Lingling hid from the Sea Race as the Demon Race began a coastal battle.

• Layered Peaks City's cannons devastated the Demon Race vanguard, and its commander ordered some soldiers to feint while the others circled around to dig a tunnel.
• Yan Fei reassured the city lord that reinforcements were coming, though the city lord remained doubtful.
• Shisui used Rc Cells and Bone-Deep Rot to turn ten thousand Beastfolk soldiers into puppets and send them back toward Beastfolk territory as a diversion.
• Hu Lingling received a warning that the Sea Race was lying in wait and that the Demon Race would attack soon, so she hid on the seabed to recover.
• The Demon Race and Sea Race clashed along Moonfall Continent's coast, with the fighting intensifying as the Demon Race provoked its enemy.

Hu Lingling escaped the Sea Race pursuit while the Demon Race attacked their forces, and Shisui used a Beastfolk settlement assault as cover to locate the hidden laboratory. Shisui reached a point just outside the laboratory, one meter from its barrier.

• Hu Lingling killed the Sea Race soldiers pursuing her and swam toward the Moonfall Continent.
• The Sea Race learned that its tracking squad had been wiped out and that Demon Race troops were attacking, so it ordered nearby sea beasts and Cheng Wenjie to intercept the thief.
• Shisui sent ten thousand Beastfolk Main Lineage soldiers to attack a settlement, drawing the Beast King’s attention away from other areas.
• Shisui followed the laboratory’s repeated signals underground and found its hidden structure thirty meters below the surface.
• Shisui used Spatial Energy to move into a cavity beside the laboratory, stopping one meter from its barrier.