Chapter Summaries

Shisui used toxin to drive Suo Qiaoyun’s Bound Captives into risking their lives against her. Jin Yuxi led a wave of soul-bearing energy attacks that exploded beside Suo Qiaoyun’s soul, and Shisui prepared to finish her off.

• Shisui sent [Bone-Deep Rot] through Suo Qiaoyun’s golden threads and into the Bound Captives, unnoticed as they struggled against her energy drain.
• Jin Yuxi remembered his parents and younger brother, and the memories turned his anger toward Suo Qiaoyun into a resolve to take revenge.
• Jin Yuxi attached a fragment of his severed soul to condensed energy and let Suo Qiaoyun draw it into her body.
• Jin Yuxi’s soul fragment exploded beside Suo Qiaoyun’s soul, jolting her out of her blank, self-protective state.
• Energy balls from many Bound Captives surged toward Suo Qiaoyun’s soul and exploded inside her body, and Shisui recognized that it was time to kill her.

Shisui killed Suo Qiaoyun, freeing the Bound Captives and plunging the Human Race into political upheaval. As former captives declared independence, Jiqu and the Insect Mother prepared to seize Human Race territory.

• Shisui used his kakugan to isolate and devour Suo Qiaoyun's brain while her soul was dazed, killing her.
• Jin Yuxi waited until Suo Qiaoyun's presence vanished and his chain broke, then died as the Bound Captives celebrated.
• The freed Bound Captives staged coups across Human Race settlements, and most declared independence within ten minutes of Suo Qiaoyun's death.
• Jiqu revived at Wanren Laboratory and ordered Demon Race armies stationed along Human Race territory to advance.
• The Insect Mother learned of Chen City's independence, realized the Human Race's Heaven-Controlling Realm expert was dead, and prepared to plunder Human Race settlements.

Shisui finished digesting Suo Qiaoyun’s energy and sampled the demons trapped in the mist, while the Human Race’s political turmoil intensified. He killed Hu Lingling at her request and left Miao Xingyu sealed away for [Fire Thief] to extract his [Nine Lives Cat] talent.

• Shisui ate a spoonful of Li Nai'an’s brain, then regretted that Suo Qiaoyun had destroyed the Yuwen Family and ended his supply of the delicacy.
• Shisui tasted several ordinary demons, found them unremarkable, and turned them into Flesh Crystals.
• Shisui put Miao Xingyu into a coma, attached [Fire Thief] to his soul, sealed him in Koukaku, and stored him in an alternate space to extract [Nine Lives Cat].
• Hu Lingling asked Shisui to eat her so she could help kill the Demon Race’s Heaven-Controlling Realm experts, and Shisui snapped her neck.
• The Human Race’s internal turmoil worsened, and factions in its high command began questioning why they had to share power.

After the Golden Silk Chain was destroyed, Chou City declared independence, and the Human Race Council in Zi City fell into turmoil. Aristocratic families launched missiles toward Chou City and killed the two young men who had pressed the launch buttons.

• The freed Yinling Sect members rallied against the Human Race Council, and Chou City declared independence half an hour after the chains broke.
• Councilors in Zi City maneuvered to win support as sect forces considered how to seize power.
• Aristocratic families took control of a Citroën Company weapons warehouse and decided to destroy Chou City with its missiles.
• A young aristocratic scion stabbed the councilor after he activated the missile launch buttons, then cut his own throat as the missiles rose into the sky.

Shisui watched a missile barrage devastate Chou City and shake Kaiyang Continent, then revealed his plan to consume the intelligent races. The planet tried to restrain him, but Shisui stopped its psychic energy and declared that it had no right to refuse.

• Shisui watched missiles approach Chou City as its residents fled and awakened leaders raised a psychic energy barrier.
• A barrage overwhelmed the barrier, destroyed Chou City, and unleashed blasts that tore through the land and destabilized the planet.
• Shisui said the races would keep damaging the world and vowed to help himself by eating them all.
• The planet unleashed psychic energy to restrain Shisui as the explosions shook Kaiyang Continent and sent tremors through Moonfall Continent.
• Shisui halted the planet's psychic energy with a greater force and told it that it had no right to refuse.

As settlements united against the Human Race Council, Yan Fei warned that foreign invaders remained a threat but decided to leave the uprising army. In Zi City, Lu Qianyu organized an attack on a Council meeting, where explosions tore through the hall and killed numerous members.

• Yan Fei reminded the Layered Peaks City uprising army that the foreign races were still a danger, but the city lord dismissed his warning as less urgent than Zi City.
• Yan Fei decided to find a way out of the immature resistance and hoped Lu Qianyu and their former Bound Captive companions would avoid rash choices.
• Lu Qianyu passed intelligence to the former Bound Captives in Zi City, confirming that at least eighty percent of important Council officials would attend a meeting at Grand Meeting Hall No. 1 and ordering them to eliminate those present.
• The next morning, the Grand Speaker prepared to begin the Council meeting when a loud commotion outside alerted him that something was wrong.
• Attackers blasted open the meeting hall doors and unleashed powerful attacks, collapsing parts of the building and killing more than a dozen Council members.

The Insect Race and Demon Race launched invasions as Shisui crossed to Chen City and confronted former Bound Captives preparing to flee. The chapter ended with Shisui killing them in the city lord’s office.

• The Grand Speaker tried to defend the Human Race Council, but attackers killed five Speakers and wounded him.
• The Insect Race sent one force toward Chen City and another toward Chou City, while the Demon Race invaded the Huaihuang Continent.
• Shisui flew across the continents and reached the insect tide surrounding Chen City, where the insects had destroyed the river port and blocked escape by water.
• Former Bound Captives gathered in Chen City and decided to abandon it and flee as the insect tide grew.
• Shisui appeared in the city lord’s office and killed the Awakened preparing to leave, then collected their crystals with his Radiant Feathers.

Shisui slaughtered the insect tide and the people fleeing through Chen City, turning the city and its surroundings into a barren desert covered in Flesh Crystals. The Insect Mother realized her offspring had been wiped out and began planning how to recall her remaining insects and buy time.

• Shisui sealed off the insect tide’s escape route with Feather Powder and Spatial Energy as fleeing people reached the city lord’s residence.
• Humans who entered the plaza burst into Flesh Crystals, and the crowd finally stopped advancing after thousands died.
• Shisui crushed a man who begged him to save the people, then vanished into the Alternate Space.
• Shisui turned everything within a hundred-li radius into powder, leaving hundreds of thousands of Flesh Crystals floating above a barren desert.
• The Insect Mother sensed the destruction of her nearly three hundred thousand offspring and considered how to recall her remaining insects.

Shisui harvested hundreds of thousands of Flesh Crystals in Chen City while the Insect Mother planned to flee from him and replenish her forces. She summoned the Beastfolk, intending to take their flesh and blood for her revenge plan, as Barton prepared them to assemble.

• Shisui opened a Space Rift in Chen City and swept hundreds of thousands of Flesh Crystals into it before disappearing, leaving a widened Wunu River and barren desert behind.
• The Beastfolk lived in the Insect Hive under Barton’s leadership, relying on the Insect Race for protection after losing the Beast King.
• Barton received the Insect Mother’s summons, which claimed she planned to relocate because Shisui had targeted the Insect Race, and ordered the Beastfolk to gather by noon the next day.
• The Insect Mother watched Barton organize the gathering and admitted to herself that she meant to collect the Beastfolk’s flesh and blood rather than evacuate them.
• After convincing herself the Beastfolk owed her compensation and should help avenge the Beast King, the Insect Mother resolved to gather more flesh and blood before Shisui reached Zi City.

Shisui attacked Zi City, destroying its central district and the Human Race Council while Lu Qianyu’s rebellion was in the midst of overthrowing the city’s rulers. With the council gone, the Human Race formally descended into chaos, and Shisui turned his attention toward the southern region of Moonfall Continent.

• Shisui harvested the creatures and prey in the surrounding area before heading to Zi City to take revenge on the Human Race.
• Lu Qianyu and the former Bound Captives killed the officials gathered at the council building to prevent the old rulers from returning to power.
• A vast cloud of Feather Powder engulfed Zi City, and Lu Qianyu tried to reach the council building to warn the city and organize its defense.
• Shisui sent a swarm of Composite Radiant Feathers into the council building, collapsing it and killing many rebels, employees, and civilians inside.
• Shisui’s attack destroyed Zi City’s Central District, leaving the Human Race divided and fighting among itself.
• Shisui collected Flesh Crystals from the ruins and turned his gaze toward the southern region of Moonfall Continent.

After Zi City was destroyed, the Insect Mother hurried the Beastfolk’s assembly and slaughtered them for flesh and blood. Old Barton bargained for some of their lives by offering surviving Beastfolk agents in the Demon Race’s army, while a message reached Bai Ye in the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range.

• News of Zi City’s destruction alarmed Jiqu and the Insect Mother, who feared Shisui would continue hunting the Human Race and then target her.
• The Insect Mother ordered the Beastfolk to assemble that night, and Old Barton passed the order along despite his unease.
• Old Barton gathered the Beastfolk in the square, where the Insect Mother emerged and began crushing them beneath her body.
• Old Barton offered the Insect Mother the Beastfolk agents embedded in the Demon Race’s army in exchange for sparing some of their descendants, and she agreed.
• In the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range, Bai Ye received a signal from her dormant Insect Hive and heard someone ask whether she had been well.

Bai Ye refused Old Barton’s demand to mislead a Demon Race army toward the southern Moonfall Continent, and Barton and nearby Beastfolk young were killed by the Insect Mother. Demon Race missiles exposed and flooded an underground Insect Hive, drawing Shisui to the Moonfall Continent to investigate.

• Old Barton contacted Bai Ye and ordered her to direct a Demon Race army toward the southern Moonfall Continent.
• Bai Ye rejected Barton’s threat involving the Doves-kind, crushed the Insect Hive, and decided to draw the Demon Race’s attention toward them by other means.
• The Insect Mother attacked Old Barton and killed him and the Beastfolk young near him, absorbing their blood mist.
• The Insect Mother recognized incoming Demon Race missiles as they struck the southern Moonfall Continent.
• Shisui killed the humans he had been pursuing, sensed the missiles exposing and flooding an underground Insect Hive, and traveled through a Space Wormhole to the Moonfall Continent.

The Insect Mother retaliated against the Demon Race with a swarm of lethal carnivorous wasps, while Bai Ye fled with stolen supplies before the army could hold her responsible. As the wasps slaughtered the Demon Race, Jiqu awoke, sensed the attack, and unleashed an avalanche against the swarm.

• The Insect Mother repaired her hive and sent out a swarm of specialized killer wasps to attack the Demon Race.
• The Demon Race decided to seek peace and arrested the officer who had ordered the missile strike.
• Bai Ye fled the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range with stolen supplies before the Demon Race could question her.
• The carnivorous wasps descended on the Demon Race, causing panic and slaughtering its soldiers.
• Jiqu sensed the attack through the Undying Cells and sent an avalanche crashing down on the swarm.

Shisui appeared during the devastation at the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range, captured most of the Killer Bees, and confronted Jiqu and the Insect Mother. After the two Heaven-Controlling Realm experts attacked him and failed, Shisui opened a giant Space Wormhole and began hunting the remaining forces.

• An avalanche crushed many Killer Bees and devastated Qiongfang City and the Demon Race army, leaving Jiqu furious and anxious.
• Shisui captured more than half the Killer Bees in an Alternate Space, where Feather Powder restrained them while keeping them alive.
• Jiqu urged Shisui to spare some intelligent creatures, but Shisui dismissed his plea and said he understood that Jiqu was afraid to die.
• The Insect Mother and Jiqu attacked Shisui together to buy time for their forces to retreat, but Shisui vanished and their attacks collided.
• Shisui reappeared with a giant Space Wormhole that engulfed the remaining swarm, while Feather Powder spread across more than half the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range.

Feather Powder and Rc Cells wiped out Bai Ye, Qiongfang City, and the Demon Race army, leaving only protected laboratories and a mansion holding out in the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range. Meanwhile, Shisui confronted the Insect Mother’s five elite soldiers on the southern coast and swiftly overwhelmed their battle formation.

• Feather Powder spread across the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range, and Rc Cells consumed Bai Ye and the other exposed creatures.
• The Psychic Energy Barrier around Qiongfang City shattered, and Feather Powder killed its inhabitants and the retreating Demon Race army.
• The laboratories and the Heaven-Controlling Realm expert’s mansion remained protected for the moment, while Shisui faced the Insect Mother’s five elite soldiers on the southern coast.
• One of the insects attacked Shisui, but he deflected its blades with his Bikaku and broke through the soldiers’ coordinated formation.
• Shisui transformed into his Kakuja state and drove an attacking insect back, shattering the formation again.

Shisui defeated the Insect Mother’s five fighters, leaving her facing certain death. As the planet sought to recruit the anxious Dragon King with the promise of power, news of the Insect Mother’s death pushed him toward a choice between himself and the Sea Race.

• Shisui tore an insect’s wing and pierced its brain, breaking the Insect Mother’s control and collapsing her battle formation.
• Shisui killed the remaining four insects with Koukaku blades and Space Wormholes, ending the fight in forty seconds.
• The Insect Mother trembled inside the Insect Hive, knowing she was about to die.
• The planet offered the Dragon King enough power to resist his enemies if his body could withstand it, and the Dragon King considered accepting.
• After the planet told the Dragon King that the Insect Mother had died, he closed his eyes and chose between himself and the Sea Race.

The planet secretly used a Soul Contract to reinforce the Dragon King's willingness to accept its energy, while Shisui harvested the Insect Mother and hive for energy. Shisui headed to deal with Jiqu and the surviving Demon Race as deadly fog neared Wanren Laboratory.

• The planet issued a one-sided Soul Contract through the dormant Planetary Will and planted a suggestion in the Dragon King's mind to keep him committed to accepting its energy.
• The Dragon King agreed to accept the planet's energy, then began preparing to activate the grand array despite an unexplained feeling of unease.
• Shisui dismantled the Insect Mother's corpse and discovered the hive contained vast numbers of living earthworm-like insects, which he began collecting with Feather Powder.
• Shisui planned to deal with Jiqu and the remaining Demon Race before spending ten days or more absorbing the energy he had gathered.
• At Wanren Laboratory, the fog broke through another Psychic Energy Barrier and approached the facility as the Demon Race researchers watched in fear.

Shisui destroyed the laboratory and killed Jiqu, whose weakened body could no longer protect him from the Ghoul’s attack. The surviving core researchers were left to die in the fog, unaware that Jiqu had already been devoured.

• Shisui crushed the laboratory’s metal shell, allowing Feather Powder to flood inside and devour researchers and test subjects.
• The laboratory head tried to reassure the last core researchers that Jiqu would save them.
• Jiqu sensed Shisui’s return after the Insect Mother’s death, and Shisui appeared before him.
• Shisui struck Jiqu with his Rinkaku Scorpion Tail, spreading toxin and Rc Cells through his Undying Cells.
• Shisui used a Kakugan to pin Jiqu’s soul in place, and Rc Cells tore it apart.
• The core researchers wailed and cursed Jiqu, unaware that he had already been killed.

The Dragon King completed a formation around Chongming City and gathered leaders from dozens of Sea Race settlements under the pretense of granting fiefs. With hundreds of thousands trapped inside, he began sacrificing them to absorb their energy and strengthen himself against the Ghoul.

• After learning that a Demon Race Heaven-Controlling Realm expert had died, the Dragon King hurried to prepare the Sacrificial Formation before the Ghoul finished digesting its prey.
• The Dragon King's personal guards secretly installed formation nodes throughout Chongming City while its nobles chose to ignore their movements.
• The settlement leaders and their elite guards arrived in Chongming City after the Dragon King summoned them to receive fiefs.
• At a palace banquet, the Dragon King's formation sealed the city with barriers that blocked outsiders and trapped the Sea Race inside.
• The Dragon King ordered the sacrifice to begin, and the victims' flesh, souls, and Psychic Energy were forcibly separated.
• Protected by barriers in the Dragon King Hall, the Dragon King absorbed the converging energy as the planet focused its attention on him.

The Dragon King completed the Sacrificial Formation, devoured Chongming City, and grew powerful enough to receive the planet’s energy. Shisui continued absorbing Flesh Crystals in the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range as the Dragon King’s blessing gathered above him.

• The Sacrificial Formation spread magma through the Dragon Palace and Chongming City, consuming the Sea Race, the guards, and the city’s inhabitants as their energy flowed to the Dragon King.
• Shisui isolated the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range behind a spatial barrier and rapidly absorbed Flesh Crystals while the planet watched.
• Two days later, the Dragon King completed the ritual, shed his old skin, and emerged larger and stronger.
• The planet began bestowing its blessing, forming a vast mass of Psychic Energy that hurtled toward the Dragon King and parted the seawater.