Chapter Summaries

Shisui staged explosions across Chongming City to implicate the three Crown Prince candidates and inflame suspicion among the Sea Race. He then unleashed a human-skin puppet at the Chancellor's Residence, and the massacre left the ruling class demanding war against the Demon Race.

• Li Nai'an escaped the staged explosion by blending into the fleeing crowd, while Shisui used the destruction and surveillance footage to frame the three Crown Prince candidates.
• Shisui activated a human-skin puppet that had taken the form of Qi Mingyou, causing it to attack guests at the Chancellor's Residence.
• The puppet transformed into a tentacled monster and slaughtered Sea Race officials and nobles inside the sealed front hall.
• The spatial barrier dissipated after the massacre, but the culprit and puppet had already disappeared.
• The Sea Race ruling class, enraged by the deaths, rallied behind sending troops to war against the Demon Race.

After reaching the Profound Realm Ninth Realm, Shisui learned that the Human Race and Demon Race had become temporary allies against the Sea Race. He teleported from Chongming City to Mao City to await the coming battle for Ringwater Continent.

• Shisui consumed most of his stored Flesh Crystals and advanced to the Profound Realm Ninth Realm.
• Shisui sensed the Sea Race standoff in Mao City and overheard Li Nai'an and Hu Lingling discuss the growing threat and possible alliance.
• Human Race leaders received news that fighting with the Demon Race had paused and the two races would jointly attack the Sea Race.
• Shisui left a note at his house in Chongming City and opened a long-distance Space Wormhole to Mao City.
• Shisui arrived at a vacant villa in Mao City and waited for the allied forces to retake the city before advancing toward Ringwater Continent.

Shisui slaughtered the withdrawing Moonfall Continent Southern Military Region army during a night raid. After killing the officer and his guards, he declared that he was outside their game.

• The Sea Race Campaign Allied Coalition arrived at Mao City, and the Moonfall Continent Southern Military Region garrison withdrew to recover.
• Shisui vanished from Mao City and followed the garrison as it marched north and camped for the night.
• Shisui silently killed the soldiers on watch and raided the tents, turning the bodies into Flesh Crystals.
• The officer and his personal guards confronted Shisui, but he pierced their heads with radiant feathers.
• Shisui told the dying group, "I'm outside your game."

Shisui gathered Flesh Crystals from a massive battle between sea beasts and the allied Human and Demon army, then headed for Ringwater Continent to deploy the Radiant Feathers. The allied army began its counteroffensive against the Sea Race by destroying its command center with an underwater Psychic Energy-guided weapon.

• Shisui burned the Moonfall Continent Southern Military Region's abandoned tents and added the crystals from its soldiers to his storehouse.
• The Radiant Feathers collected nearly a hundred thousand Flesh Crystals from the battle as the allied army drove the sea beasts back.
• Shisui decided that large-scale wars were the fastest way to gather enough Flesh Crystals and traveled to Ringwater Continent to deploy more Radiant Feathers.
• Sea Race soldiers sent distress signals from Mao City, but their command center received no response from the million sea beasts in the nearby seagrass forest.
• The Sea Race chief of staff ordered a report to the Third Highness and a reconnaissance mission to the seagrass forest as Mao City's defenses faltered.
• The allied Human and Demon army fired an underwater Psychic Energy-guided weapon that destroyed the Sea Race command center.

The allied fleet set out for Chongming City as the Sea Race prepared attacks on Mao City and the Ringwater Continent. After Shisui struck a harbor to draw the fleet back, allied headquarters ordered it to return and destroy the invading Sea Race legion.

• An allied submarine struck the Sea Race's temporary command center while the Ringwater Continent evacuated its residents to Mao City.
• Yuanli concealed Mao City's loss from Chongming City and ordered a simultaneous attack on Mao City and the Ringwater Continent.
• Shisui saw the allied fleet departing and attacked a harbor on the Ringwater Continent, unleashing sea beasts and drawing the Sea Race's legions ashore.
• The Sea Race attacked settlements across the Ringwater Continent, while its forces also counterattacked near Mao City.
• At allied headquarters, a general rejected the plan to continue toward Chongming City and ordered the First Legion to return and outflank the Sea Race invaders.

Shisui gathered Flesh Crystals as the sea beasts ravaged Ringwater Continent, forcing the allied fleet to turn back. The Sea Race ambushed and captured the Human Race’s advanced submarine with specially developed sea beasts, then advanced to intercept the allied army.

• Shisui monitored the Radiant Feathers as they covertly absorbed flesh and Psychic Energy across Ringwater Continent and refined it into Flesh Crystals.
• The allied army turned its fleet back toward Ringwater Continent, and the Third Prince Faction prepared a legion of Sea Race soldiers and special model sea beasts to confront it.
• The Human Race submarine raced ahead of the fleet toward Ringwater Continent, but special sea beasts sabotaged its gun and damaged its Psychic Energy Shield.
• The Sea Race legion commander ordered the First Battalion to attack, and Sea Race soldiers overwhelmed the disabled submarine.
• The Sea Race commander recalled the barnacle-like Special Sea Beasts and ordered the legion to reach its designated position before the allied army noticed the submarine had gone silent.

Shisui sensed intense psychic energy fluctuations as the allied fleet approached Ringwater Continent, where the Sea Race ambushed the Human Race and Demon Race ships. Lu Taoyu rallied the fleet and ordered a counterattack as Shisui’s Radiant Feathers reached the battle.

• Shisui sent Radiant Feathers through the corpses to collect flesh and psychic energy, then sensed strong fluctuations from the distant sea.
• Lu Taoyu learned the fleet had lost contact with its sentinel submarine and ordered the warships to prepare for a Sea Race ambush.
• The Demon Race fleet formed a defensive formation as the allied fleet reached the waters above Ringwater Continent and Sea Race spears burst from the sea.
• The Sea Race sent sea beasts against the Human Race fleet and spear-wielding soldiers against the Demon Race fleet, while Shisui redirected his Radiant Feathers toward the battle.
• Lu Taoyu received reports that the fleet’s weapons were ready and ordered the underwater Psychic Energy Cannons to fire and the Mechanical Birds to launch.

Shisui watched the allied fleet battle the Sea Race, whose regular army arrived and smashed three warships. Earlier, the Dragon King had ordered Guan Xiangming to lead the defense, while Jiang Ning secretly arranged for him to receive military intelligence and maps.

• Lu Taoyu fired the underwater Psychic Energy Cannon, giving the allied forces an advantage against the Sea Race prince's guard legion.
• Barnacle-like sea beasts attached themselves to the Human Race fleet's hulls and damaged the ships, interrupting the underwater cannon's attack.
• A mountain-sized Sea Race force burst from the water and destroyed three warships as the regular army arrived.
• At court in Chongming City, Guan Xiangming urged the Sea Race to answer the Human Race and Demon Race's invasion, and the Dragon King ordered him to lead the defense.
• A mid-ranking official delivered military intelligence and maps to Guan Xiangming on behalf of a prince, then reported to Jiang Ning that he had received the documents.
• When Arakawa Jiushu questioned Jiang Ning's cooperation with Guan Xiangming, Jiang Ning said there were no eternal enemies.

Jiang Ning learned that Demon Race spies had caused explosions in Chongming City and that an unidentified person had escaped the Hidden Dragon Palace, while White Owl and Bai Ye pursued their own covert dealings. At sea, the three-way battle intensified as Shisui escaped through a Space Wormhole and the Radiant Feathers fed the Predator’s attempt to reach the Earth Realm.

• Jiang Ning read Arakawa Jiushu’s secret report about the Demon Race spy, the explosions in Chongming City, and the unidentified escapee, then hurried to the center of the base.
• Arakawa Jiushu secretly spoke with White Owl, who agreed to work with him before crushing the communicator; Bai Ye later crushed her own communicator while monitoring the Sea Race legion.
• A gigantic sea beast sank Human Race warships, while Demon Race officers used Li Nai'an’s intelligence to prepare for the Sea Race’s arrival and repel the beasts.
• The Sea Race legion and the Third Prince’s personal guard attacked the Human Race fleet as the three factions’ forces converged.
• Shisui entered the sea and vanished through a Space Wormhole, while the Radiant Feathers gathered the battle’s flesh, blood, and Psychic Energy to support the Predator’s Metamorphosis.

Shisui entered the sea battle in his Kakuja form and attacked the forces below, drawing out powerful Earth Realm combatants from the Human, Demon, and Sea Races. The four combatants turned on the Sea Race officer, but Shisui’s unfinished breakthrough and the Demon fighter’s failed talent left the fight escalating.

• Shisui broke through his suppressor’s concealment, carpet-bombed the battlefield with Feather Bullets, and plunged into the sea to hunt the survivors.
• Lu Taoyu and a young woman appeared for the Human Race, while a white-haired Demon Race combatant and a Sea Race officer emerged as the other Earth Realm fighters.
• Shisui attacked the Sea Race officer with eight Bikaku, and Lu Taoyu and the Demon fighter joined the assault.
• The Sea Race officer spun his scale-covered body and repelled all three attackers, while Shisui sensed the officer’s combat skill and began absorbing Psychic Energy to advance.
• The white-haired Demon fighter tried to halt the Psychic Energy around Shisui, but [Predator] broke the effect and caused backlash; the Sea Race officer kicked the Demon fighter into the sea.

Shisui killed an Earth Realm Demon and then defeated Lu Taoyu amid the sea battle, while the Radiant Feathers’ fog trapped and attacked distant observers. The battle continued with Shisui turning his attention to the remaining fighters and intelligence operatives.

• Shisui impaled the Earth Realm Demon underwater, used [Fire Thief] to steal his talent, and took his corpse into the Alternate Space.
• Shisui struck Lu Taoyu from behind, forcing her out of her fight as the other Earth Realm Human and the Sea Race commander continued battling.
• Shisui expanded the Feather Powder fog across the battlefield and surrounding area, where Radiant Feathers attacked the trapped intelligence operatives.
• Shisui evaded Lu Taoyu’s spear, broke her right ulna with a kick, and pressed her with Radiant Feathers.
• Shisui used poisoned feathers to paralyze Lu Taoyu, then pierced her skull with his scorpion tail.

Shisui killed Lu Taoyu, then ambushed and devoured a Human Race Earth Realm expert before defeating a Sea Race Earth Realm expert. He avoided the Sea Race warships’ artillery by using the Alternate Space and creating explosions that disrupted their targeting.

• Shisui took Lu Taoyu’s heart and storage ring, sealed the ring in Koukaku, and stored both the ring and corpse in the Alternate Space.
• Shisui attacked two weakened Earth Realm experts who were fighting at sea, poisoning and devouring the Human Race expert.
• Shisui drove back the Sea Race expert, who signaled the warships to target him with their artillery.
• Shisui dodged into the Alternate Space and teleported Human Race artillery shells near the warships, disrupting their targeting with explosions.
• Shisui shattered the Sea Race expert’s saber, pierced his eye and brain with his scorpion tail, and sent the corpse into the Alternate Space.

Shisui unleashed his killing intent, and the spreading fog swallowed the battlefield, including the Sea Race army, the First Allied Fleet, and the Third Prince Faction’s liaison unit. After learning of the disappearance, Jiang Ning reported it to Yuanli, who sent him to contact the Second Research Institute with a token bestowed by the Dragon King.

• Shisui released his full killing intent, freezing both armies before the fog swallowed the battlefield and everyone on it.
• Jiang Ning learned that the Sea Race army, the First Allied Fleet, and the liaison team had vanished near Ringwater Continent.
• Jiang Ning reported the loss to Yuanli, who said the Sea Race could use the time gained to secure Ringwater Continent.
• Yuanli told Jiang Ning to contact the Second Research Institute and make use of the captured test subjects.
• Yuanli gave Jiang Ning a black jade token bestowed by the Dragon King, and Jiang Ning left to carry out his orders.

After escaping the battlefield, Shisui examined his spoils and discovered that a Sea Race token resonated with the Lou Family’s Spatial Ring, suggesting the family had been connected to the Sea Race. The token’s safeguard exposed him to its owner, but Shisui destroyed most of it and plunged into the sea as Jiang Ning’s search party arrived too late to find him.

• Shisui landed on an uninhabited islet, hid it in dense fog, and processed his battlefield spoils into Flesh Crystals.
• Shisui found that the Sea Race’s Black Jade token resonated with the Lou Family’s Spatial Ring and deduced that the Lou Family had been bait connected to the Sea Race.
• Shisui examined the token’s dragon carving and concluded that the Sea Race had been planning to expand onto the Kaiyang Continent through the Lou Family.
• The token’s safeguard activated, but Shisui resisted its Psychic Energy, destroyed most of the token, and sealed the remaining fragment with Koukaku.
• Shisui flew into the sea to investigate the Ringwater Continent, while Jiang Ning arrived with soldiers and found no trace of him on the islet.

Shisui planted dormant Radiant Feathers in Human Race prisoners being shipped as potential Human Skin Puppets, then tracked a familiar Psychic Energy fluctuation to Qing Wufei. As Qing Wufei prepared to transfer to the Second Research Institute, Shisui attacked him, and both vanished in the resulting dust and ash.

• Shisui used Radiant Feathers to implant dormant Rc Cells in reserve puppets and sent them aboard several Sea Race ships carrying prisoners.
• Shisui sensed a familiar Psychic Energy fluctuation near a temporary Sea Race encampment and went to investigate.
• A white-robed Sea Race researcher told Qing Wufei that his body had reached its limit and that he would be sent to the Second Research Institute.
• Qing Wufei agreed to finish handing over military affairs before the base bodies were loaded onto ships.
• Shisui appeared above Qing Wufei and struck with his Bikaku, leaving a crater as both disappeared before the soldiers arrived.

Shisui captured Qing Wufei and probed his memories, discovering that the Sea Race had extensively modified him as an experimental subject. The chapter left Shisui wondering whether the same research had enabled his soul to inhabit Lou Shisui’s body.

• Shisui knocked Qing Wufei down, paralyzed him with venom, and dragged him through a Space Wormhole.
• Jiang Ning reprimanded the guards for failing to prevent Qing Wufei’s abduction and ordered them to search, then contacted White Owl for help.
• Shisui sealed off a stretch of sea with Feather Powder and used [Spirit Dream Recall] to enter Qing Wufei’s soul.
• Shisui recovered memories identifying Qing Wufei as experimental subject A0005 in a joint project by the first and second research institutes.
• Shisui found that Qing Wufei’s soul and body had been heavily modified, then wondered whether the research was connected to his own ability to inhabit Lou Shisui’s body.

Arakawa Jiushu found Qing Wufei’s body on an isolated island and reported that its heart was missing, while Shisui used the extracted heart to preserve Qing Wufei’s soul. Shisui returned unnoticed to the heavily guarded island and waited for the Sea Race fleet to depart.

• Arakawa Jiushu received Jiang Ning’s mission to locate A0005 and flew to the provided coordinates.
• Arakawa Jiushu found Qing Wufei’s body with a hole where its heart should have been and was ordered to bring back the body.
• Shisui left Qing Wufei’s body as bait after learning that trackers had been implanted in it.
• Shisui stored Qing Wufei’s soul in the extracted heart, sealed it inside Koukaku, and planned to follow the Sea Race fleet to the Second Research Institute.
• Shisui returned to the island, evaded the patrolling Sea Race soldiers, and waited on a rooftop while eating barnacles.

Jiang Ning launched a large Sea Race cargo fleet toward the Second Research Institute as the Second Prince Faction prepared a surprise attack on Yin City. Yuan Yuan approved a plan to split the attacking forces between the Spirit Resonance River and the southern coast, while Shisui secretly followed the cargo fleet.

• Jiang Ning received word that the army in the Canglang Ocean had moved and ordered his cargo fleet to set sail.
• A Sea Race legion carrying the Second Prince's personal guard flag sailed toward the southern coast of the Kaiyang Continent.
• Second Prince Faction officials discussed routes for landing troops and agreed to split their forces between the Spirit Resonance River and the southern coast.
• Yuan Yuan approved the plan, beginning the countdown to the surprise attack on Yin City.
• Shisui followed Jiang Ning's flagless cargo fleet from a distance, tracking it with more than a dozen Radiant Feathers.

Shisui and Bai Ye continued their covert operations as suspicion gathered around their contacts, while intelligence about a coming Sea Race attack was passed toward the Beastfolk. The chapter ended with a guard delivering anonymous military intelligence to the Chief of Staff during the Human-Beastfolk war.

• Shisui followed the fleet under a Psychic Energy Suppressor as Arakawa Jiushu returned to base and sensed Jiang Ning's suspicion.
• Arakawa Jiushu crushed a hidden object in his quarters without the surveillance devices detecting it.
• Bai Ye noticed White Owl's signal go dark and reported to Li Nai'an, who ordered her to prepare to close the net.
• Bai Ye urged her contact to pass intelligence about the Sea Race's planned surprise attack on Kaiyang Continent to the Beastfolk, and he said he had already sent it.
• A guard received anonymous military intelligence from a low-ranking soldier and carried the letter into the tent for the Chief of Staff.

The Beastfolk and Human Race learned that the Sea Race planned a surprise attack on southern Kaiyang and began making preparations. As Shisui’s prisoner fleet entered the Canglang Ocean, he used a Space Wormhole to travel toward the southern coast.

• The Beastfolk chief of staff received a warning that the Sea Race’s second prince intended to attack southern Kaiyang and ordered the vanguard to hold while the rear army withdrew to defend the rainforest.
• Cao Yuxin received the Sea Race intelligence and, fearing the consequences of failure, ordered soldiers below the Second Realm of the Profound Realm to guard the southern tidal flats.
• Shisui followed the prisoner fleet across the Sea-Splitting Reef into the Canglang Ocean and traced the blood scent to the fighting near the Spirit Resonance River.
• Shisui checked the puppets carrying Radiant Feathers and opened a Space Wormhole to cross hundreds of kilometers toward the southern coast of the Kaiyang Continent.