Chapter Summaries

Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian’s allies covered up Mu Qing’s defeat, while He Piaojian arranged a match with Principal Fu and then won his next exhibition bout through insults and a kick. Olivia’s anger grew, and the Chinese representative sent a subordinate away as he anticipated international criticism.

• Fan Daoyi had Mu Qing’s twisted body cut apart again so the medical team could treat her, and he confirmed she would survive.
• Principal Fu and He Piaojian admitted they had helped Fan Daoyi keep the incident quiet, then agreed to settle their rivalry in a match at the upcoming grand competition.
• He Piaojian accepted his next bout against one of Olivia’s students and mocked the opponent before kicking him out of the arena.
• Olivia condemned He Piaojian’s conduct, but the Chinese representative defended him and privately ordered a subordinate to leave.

Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian withdrew from the top-ten contest alongside two other domestic contestants, leaving He Piaojian to face the six foreign contestants alone. He defeated the first challenger, a blind man with Vision Sharing and Pain Sharing, and called for the next opponent.

• Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian advanced to the top ten, while their remaining domestic teammates also qualified.
• After Weiyang secretly told He Piaojian to cripple the foreign contestants, He Piaojian challenged all six to fight him in succession.
• Fan Daoyi transported himself and the two other domestic contestants to Weiyang, and the three withdrew from the top-ten contest.
• Weiyang accepted their withdrawal, and the two teammates gave up their attempt to reverse the decision.
• A blind foreign contestant used Vision Sharing to blind He Piaojian, but He Piaojian dodged his attacks and kicked him.
• He Piaojian used One Heart of the Sword, broke his own arm to force the blind contestant to end Pain Sharing, then knocked him unconscious and taunted the next challenger.

He Piaojian defeated Leonard Rost after Rost used a drug to reach the Fusion Realm and tried to kill him, then killed Rost under the judgment of [Eight Trigrams]. When Olivia attacked and her father intervened with lightning, Weiyang faced the apparition in the sky.

• He Piaojian defeated Rost’s blood attacks and charged into the giant axe strike, forcing Rost to disperse it and injure himself.
• Rost took Olivia’s drug, reached the Fusion Realm, and skewered He Piaojian with blood spikes, but He Piaojian survived and declared him guilty.
• He Piaojian pinned Rost down with his true strength and used flying leaves to kill him.
• Olivia accused Weiyang of breaking the rules, then attacked He Piaojian with her charm ability, but he resisted and sent leaves at her.
• Olivia’s defensive item carried her out of danger, and her father appeared in the sky and attacked the arena with lightning.
• Weiyang stopped the lightning and challenged Olivia’s father for bullying a junior.

Fan Daoyi, Weiyang, and He Piaojian fought a storm-cloud giant in the Governance Realm after he trapped the arena and cut off contact with the outside. Fan Daoyi redirected the giant’s lightning while He Piaojian unleashed Heaven-Slaying, but the giant gathered power for a devastating attack.

• Weiyang trapped the storm clouds with his ability, but Fan Daoyi moved him away from the giant’s lightning strike.
• Fan Daoyi split the clouds and discovered the Governance Realm domain blocking escape, while Weiyang warned that the arena was cut off from outside messages.
• Fan Daoyi told Weiyang to lower his protective plane and redirected the falling lightning back onto the storm-cloud giant.
• He Piaojian revealed his ability, Heaven-Slaying, and used its time-based power to freeze the giant in place.
• The storm-cloud giant absorbed and compressed lightning, threatening to destroy the country along with his opponents.

Fan Daoyi helped defeat the Olivia Family’s giant and saved He Piaojian and Weiyang, then passed out from overusing his abilities. After waking in the hospital, he questioned Azure Dragon about his identity and learned that many people shared Azure Dragon’s high vantage point in a larger plan.

• Weiyang shielded He Piaojian as White Mark struck the giant, whose power vanished before the attack dispersed the dark clouds.
• Fan Daoyi caught the exhausted Weiyang and restrained He Piaojian after White Mark left him unconscious.
• Azure Dragon ordered White Tiger to eliminate the Olivia Family and decided to announce the Insect Disaster.
• Kan Water treated Weiyang and He Piaojian, and Fan Daoyi passed out after admitting he needed help too.
• Fan Daoyi woke in the hospital and asked Azure Dragon whether he truly existed and how many others shared his vantage point.
• Azure Dragon described a grand plan and asked whether the Lord of Guixu had been deceived by Guixu, and Fan Daoyi suggested he might have deceived them instead.

Fan Daoyi discovered that his spatial ability could draw particles into He Piaojian and Weiyang, accelerating their recovery. Kan Water and He Piaojian realized this power could make Fan Daoyi a target, so the Azure Dragon erased their memories of the conversation and replaced them with illusions.

• Kan Water examined Fan Daoyi, then took him to see the unconscious He Piaojian and Weiyang.
• Fan Daoyi used his ability to draw particles into He Piaojian and Weiyang, and they soon woke up.
• Kan Water questioned whether Fan Daoyi’s unusual power truly belonged to the spatial category, while Fan Daoyi insisted He Piaojian was the era’s only genius.
• Kan Water explained that others might try to seize or kill Fan Daoyi if they learned his ability could rapidly restore people’s powers.
• The Azure Dragon warned that too many people knew about Fan Daoyi’s ability, erased the conversation from Kan Water’s and He Piaojian’s memories, and planted illusions in its place.

Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian investigated Four Fiends Cult traces in Azure Cloud City and found a Taowu-linked ritual breeding swarms that might accelerate the Insect Disaster. Their target discovered them and sprang a deadly trap, forcing them to flee as insects pursued them through space.

• Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian received early graduation notices, then spent several months out of school as He Piaojian reached the Fusion Realm bottleneck and Fan Daoyi revealed his overwhelming strength.
• Qian Heaven assigned Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian to investigate Four Fiends Cult traces in Azure Cloud City, where they suspected Taowu would appear.
• Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian hid inside the target’s barrier and used equipment to watch him grow a blood-fed plant from his spine and summon swarms of insects.
• He Piaojian and Fan Daoyi suspected the insects were artificially bred and that the cult might be accelerating the Insect Disaster.
• The target sensed Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian, revealed that his preparations were meant for them, and triggered a Death Gate and a thorn-filled mist trap.
• Fan Daoyi teleported away with He Piaojian as swarms of scarlet-eyed insects followed their spatial trail.

Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian fought Taowu, a Governance Realm member of the Four Fiends Cult, in his Rainy Ice Domain. After they countered his attacks, Taowu questioned whether the person impersonating his cult had been one of them.

• Fan Daoyi isolated the insect swarm in separate spaces and crushed it, causing the thorns it supported to wither.
• He Piaojian attacked Taowu with the insect corpses and a sword strike, prompting Taowu to reveal his Rainy Ice Domain and summon freezing rain and ice spikes.
• He Piaojian survived Taowu’s ice attack by regenerating and cutting through the spikes, while Fan Daoyi redirected another attack through space.
• He Piaojian threatened Taowu and asked why he was not using an escape technique like Shrinking the Earth to an Inch, reminding Taowu of Taotie’s complaint about an impersonator.
• Taowu insisted the impersonator was not from the Four Fiends Cult, and He Piaojian argued that anyone dealing with Guixu must belong with its worshippers.

Dao Er used Guixu’s Hundred Forms, Thousand Faces to convince Taowu that he was Taotie, allowing Dao Er and Taowu to leave Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian behind. At the Four Fiends Cult meeting, the real Taotie found himself facing both an impostor Taowu and the confused Taowu, while Dao Er claimed to be Taowu.

• Dao Er appeared in the Domain and confused Taowu by claiming they had switched identities until Taowu believed he was Taotie.
• Fan Daoyi identified the disguise as Guixu’s Hundred Forms, Thousand Faces, and he and He Piaojian watched Dao Er lead Taowu away.
• He Piaojian questioned why he had stood by doing nothing, while Fan Daoyi redirected him toward handling loose ends and reporting back to Qian Heaven and the others.
• Dao Er followed Taowu to the Four Fiends Cult’s hiding place, where they were summoned to a meeting.
• The real Taotie became bewildered when Taowu called himself Taotie and Dao Er called himself Taowu; Chaos and Qiongqi attacked Dao Er, who evaded them and took the seat of honor.

Dao Er joined the Four Fiends Cult and urged its members to seize control of Guixu, but Dao Yi stopped him from taking over the cult. Back in the present, He Piaojian's sudden breakthrough made Fan Daoyi suspect it was connected to Dao Er's agreement to join.

• Dao Er shattered the Four Fiends Cult's defenses, then explained that he wanted to join because he admired their worship of Guixu.
• Chaos welcomed Dao Er into the cult, and Dao Er condemned its followers for acting like Guixu's vassals.
• Dao Er rallied the four members to chant about controlling Guixu, then slipped in a call to slay Dao Yi.
• Dao Yi warned Dao Er not to take over the Four Fiends Cult, and Dao Er complained that Dao Yi had broken his promise to let him do as he pleased.
• He Piaojian announced that he had suddenly broken through, and Fan Daoyi linked the timing to Dao Er agreeing to join the cult.

He Piaojian and Fan Daoyi finished checking Azure Cloud City’s anomalous sites and returned to celebrate New Year’s Eve with Qian Heaven and the others. He Piaojian’s unexpected fifth-rank breakthrough surprised everyone, and the chapter ended with the group toasting together.

• Dao Er took back his claim that a Guixu loyalist had betrayed Guixu, while He Piaojian’s rank stopped rising at the fifth rank of the Governance Realm.
• Qian Heaven called He Piaojian and Fan Daoyi, learned they had checked twelve anomalous locations, and invited them home for the New Year.
• Fan Daoyi teleported He Piaojian back after they finished checking the sites, and He Piaojian told Qian Heaven about meeting Taowu of the Four Fiends Cult and breaking through his limit.
• Qian Heaven learned that He Piaojian had reached the fifth rank of the Governance Realm and called others to share the news; Chen Dragon told him Weiyang’s rank had also surged.
• The group discovered their chicken soup had turned pitch-black, then Xun Wind led a New Year’s toast and everyone raised their glasses to Fan Daoyi.

The group celebrated the New Year with affectionate teasing, food, and drinks, while Xun Wind was overwhelmed by a mysterious vision of He Piaojian standing in the rain and asking whether someone had died. Xun Wind concealed what he saw and chose to hold on to the warmth of the celebration.

• Everyone forced He Piaojian into festive red clothes and a tiger-head hat while Fan Daoyi watched and called him cute.
• Feiyin arrived with food, and the group tried to replace Qian Heaven’s dishes before Qian Heaven caught them and they blamed Li Fire.
• The group toasted together, but Xun Wind wished for everyone’s happiness and then felt his consciousness pulled into a fog filled with anguished voices.
• Xun Wind saw He Piaojian standing drenched in the rain and asking, “He... died?” before abruptly returning to the celebration.
• Xun Wind hid his unease from the others, claiming he was groggy from sleep because he wanted to preserve the moment’s warmth.

Xun Wind struggled to reveal a vision but could write only “Five Three” before collapsing, and Fan Daoyi guessed the words meant Five Disadvantages and Three Deficiencies. The group rushed to Azure Cloud City after receiving an urgent message, where a black hole and Guixu’s crimson entrance threatened the city and a half-bone, half-flesh creature appeared.

• Li Fire and Kan Water encouraged Xun Wind to share his vision, but the world’s rules caused him and Kan Water to bleed when he tried to speak or write.
• Xun Wind wrote “Five Three” before losing consciousness, and Kan Water confirmed he was stable while Fan Daoyi guessed the words meant Five Disadvantages and Three Deficiencies.
• Qian Heaven sent Kan Water and Feiyin to stay with Xun Wind and led the others to Azure Cloud City, where Fan Daoyi teleported them.
• The group found a black hole beside Guixu’s crimson entrance as flowers released host-seeking seeds and Four Fiends Cult puppets helped the black hole expand.
• Chen Dragon told Azure Dragon that the single black hole differed from Xun Wind’s vision, while the controlled cultists were nearing death.
• A half-bone, half-flesh creature with a black crow and a golden scale appeared in the sky, met Fan Daoyi’s gaze, and tipped the scale by picking up a weight.

Fan Daoyi lost control of himself and tried to seize the Scales from a bone-and-flesh creature, which trapped him in a bubble before he broke free and took them. The Scales tilted, unleashing insect swarms from black holes; fireworks restored Fan Daoyi’s clarity, and the creature vanished after hinting that his perception had been manipulated.

• Wu Ma shot an arrow at the creature, but multicolored balloons turned it back toward him, and Chen Dragon carried him to safety.
• Azure Dragon gathered mist and clouds around the creature, but the Scales dispersed them.
• Fan Daoyi teleported toward the creature and tried to take the Scales, but the creature trapped him in a bubble.
• Fan Daoyi used Analysis, broke free, and took the Scales as black holes filled the sky and released giant insects and swarms.
• The creature tossed a chip onto the Scales, which tilted back toward balance and exploded into fireworks, restoring Fan Daoyi’s clarity.
• The creature denied causing Fan Daoyi’s altered perception, hinted at a meeting arranged through lies, and vanished with the crow.

Azure Dragon and [Twenty-Four Stars] fought to defend Azure Cloud City as the insect swarm evolved and breached the city’s defenses. Fan Daoyi appeared with the Scales, and Azure Dragon prepared for the next stage while questioning the prophecy’s uncertain future.

• Azure Dragon sealed Azure Cloud City while the guards reinforced its formation, and Wu Ma, Li Fire, and Zhen Thunder attacked the swarm.
• As the insects evolved despite their attacks, He Piaojian reversed their evolution with his sword technique, but the swarm transformed again and counterattacked.
• The seeds breached several formation cores and controlled civilians, prompting Azure Dragon to order them shot, but an invisible barrier stopped the bullets.
• Fan Daoyi appeared above the battlefield holding the Scales, while Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise reported that the parasitized Four Fiends Cult followers had died.
• Mao Rabbit questioned whether the prophecy had gone too smoothly, and Azure Dragon declared that the battle would be a great victory.

As the evolved insect swarm overwhelmed the defenders, Fan Daoyi revealed that he had deceived the Insect Mother and invoked Balance of the World. The balance restored the battlefield and empowered the people below, leaving them stronger as the battle continued.

• He Piaojian’s sword strike tore through the swarm, but its black blood corroded the defenders as the insects rapidly evolved.
• Weiyang, Gen Mountain, Zhen Thunder, Li Fire, Kun Earth, and He Piaojian struggled to contain the swarm, while Qian Heaven warned that Kan Water’s clone was close to failing.
• Apothecary and Flower Tender appeared with the space-devouring insects, and Fan Daoyi recognized them as part of the Insect Mother’s plan.
• Fan Daoyi used black and white game pieces to reveal that the Insect Mother had been deceived, causing the black hole and crimson entrance to vanish.
• The Insect Mother fused its swarm with the space-devouring insects and shattered the Barriers, but Fan Daoyi summoned enormous scales and declared, “Balance and Return to One, Covenant for Ten Thousand Generations.”
• Fan Daoyi’s Balance of the World restored the scales and returned power to the people below, whose strength began to break through.

Fan Daoyi used his phantom scales to suppress the Insect Mother and elevate the Four Symbols Guards to the Limit Break Realm, turning the battle against the swarm. He coordinated the warriors’ attacks and left Qian Heaven wondering whether he even counted as human.

• Fan Daoyi trapped the Insect Mother with the phantom scales, and the balance between the insect race and the battlefield’s warriors pushed the warriors toward the Limit Break Realm.
• Gen Mountain, Zhen Thunder, Li Fire, Kun Earth, Azure Dragon, and He Piaojian fought back against the swarm and its poison energy forms.
• The Insect Mother accused Fan Daoyi of luring the entire insect race down to exploit its fear, and Fan Daoyi invited it to use its ultimate move.
• Fan Daoyi asked Azure Dragon to trust him, then took command of the Four Symbols Guards and linked everyone through silver threads.
• Fan Daoyi shifted the warriors through space as they attacked, helping them pierce the giant insect, while Kun Earth reassured Qian Heaven that the [Eight Trigrams] were a family.

Humanity and Fan Daoyi defeated the Insect Race, while a hidden Insect Mother was captured and destroyed. The Insect Disaster ended as Fan Daoyi regained and surpassed his former power, and the mysterious bone-and-flesh creature departed after hinting that he would need Fan Daoyi’s help in the future.

• Fan Daoyi and the humans overwhelmed the Insect Race, whose fear helped him suppress the swarm.
• An Insect Mother hidden in a soldier was torn from its host by a crow and a black cat, then captured by the bone-and-flesh creature.
• The bone-and-flesh creature brought the captured Insect Mother to Fan Daoyi, while Xuan Miao withdrew the Apothecary and the others from the creature’s harmless bubble trick.
• The creature gave Fan Daoyi the last Insect Mother as an apology and hinted that he would need Fan Daoyi to witness a future spectacle.
• Fan Daoyi crushed the Insect Mother and regained even more power as the Insect Disaster came to an end.

After the Insect Disaster, Fan Daoyi vanished and found himself in a strange black lake beneath an endless white sky, where chains dragged him down toward Guixu. He broke the chains and lay at the lake’s bottom, while an author’s note explained the first volume’s deception and previewed the next.

• He Piaojian asked Azure Dragon where Fan Daoyi had gone, and Azure Dragon said he did not know.
• Fan Daoyi wandered through the black lake and white expanse until he found a towering door and heard a familiar voice calling him.
• Chains rose from the lake, wrapped around Fan Daoyi, and dragged him beneath the water as familiar voices called to him.
• Fan Daoyi reached toward a faint light, then lowered his arm and sank into the lake.
• Fan Daoyi broke the chains into fragments and lay at the bottom of the lake, watching the white sky.
• The author explained that Guixu’s creatures had acted according to Fan Daoyi’s wishes and announced that the second volume would focus on man-made disasters.

National leaders discussed the Insect Disaster, and Chen Dragon questioned how Fan Daoyi had joined the [Eight Trigrams]. After the meeting, Chen Dragon and Qian Heaven joked about their friendship, while Kun Earth sensed something ominous.

• Qian Heaven presented his assessment of the Insect Disaster at a meeting led by Azure Dragon.
• Black Tortoise questioned why the Four Fiends Cult had unleashed a disaster that threatened humans and seemed disconnected from Guixu.
• Chen Dragon noted that Guixu vanished just before Fan Daoyi appeared, then challenged Azure Dragon over allowing Dao Yi into the [Eight Trigrams] without investigating his background.
• Qian Heaven and Mao Rabbit defended Dao Yi, citing his help during three world-saving crises, and Chen Dragon left when the meeting ended.
• Chen Dragon caught up with Qian Heaven and joked about their friendship, but Qian Heaven suddenly apologized before teasing him about his taste.
• Kun Earth watched their exchange and felt a growing sense of foreboding.