Chapter Summaries

Wrath and the surviving Authority Holders prepared for a new round of the War of Kings, where contenders would fight for vacant thrones. Su Xian decided to join the struggle to escape the City of Sin, while Li Chen continued pursuing the power he believed could break fate.

• Wrath watched fighters in his arena and anticipated challengers seeking to claim the vacant Authority Holder thrones.
• Uncle Mu told Su Xian, Su Zhe, and Mu Hen that the next War of Kings would let a new generation compete for the thrones, and that Su Xian needed an Authority Holder's power to leave the City of Sin.
• Uncle Mu explained that the unregistered newcomers would be treated as criminals by the Heavenly Eye System and would need connections or strength to get out.
• Su Xian concluded that Li Chen was also fighting for a throne, then left the tavern to join the contest.
• Su Xian wondered whether Li Chen had changed and feared that they might become enemies.
• Li Chen stood over a lake, cut its surface with his Demon Blade, and vowed to stake everything on pursuing his choice and breaking fate.

As the new War of Kings began in the City of Sin, Su Xian and his companions waited for a chance to claim the Greed Throne while Li Chen vanished from a tower. A masked leopard briefly took the throne before a blue-robed swordswoman drove him away, and the other contenders continued to wait in the shadows.

• Su Xian told Su Zhe that they needed to secure one throne, while Uncle Mu searched for Li Chen and their group targeted the Greed Throne.
• At midnight, the siren sounded, the Heavenly Eye System shut down, and Li Chen disappeared from a tower as Eerie Monsters emerged there.
• A man in a frilled cat mask sat on the Greed Throne and challenged the hidden contenders to come fight him.
• A blue-robed woman attacked the masked man with her sword, and he abandoned the throne and fled when she unleashed her sword qi.
• Su Zhe and Su Xian watched the powerful pair leave and chose to keep waiting for a safer chance to claim the throne.

Li Chen challenged Pride in his plague-ridden territory and overwhelmed him with Lust, Ling, and several Calamity Realm Eerie Monsters. He spared Pride and had Ling transform him into an Eerie Monster, then named him Calamity, who pledged his loyalty to Li Chen.

• Li Chen entered Pride’s territory, where his presence erased the plague, and summoned several Calamity Realm Eerie Monsters to attack Pride.
• Pride fought back with his cane, but Lust and the other Eerie Monsters overwhelmed him as he recognized Lust among them.
• Pride tried to attack Li Chen, but Ling broke his cane and stopped him.
• Li Chen chose to spare Pride, and Ling transformed him into an Eerie Monster while preserving his memories.
• Pride pledged himself to Li Chen, who bestowed the name Calamity on him.

Li Chen ordered Calamity to spread the Forbidden from Sinful City, declaring that he would shoulder most of the world’s evil while the Human Race survived. Meanwhile, Su Xian held back from pursuing the Greed Throne and used a forbidden spell to search the mind of a captured member of the Ferocious Beast Association.

• Li Chen questioned whether ordinary people would survive the chaos and told Calamity to begin spreading the Forbidden from Sinful City.
• Li Chen vowed to shoulder nine-tenths of the world’s evil, preserve the Human Race, and urged others to run before his memories faded.
• As the contest for the thrones grew violent, Su Zhe urged Su Xian to seize the Greed Throne, but Su Xian chose to wait for hidden factions to reveal themselves.
• Su Xian subdued a captured Animal Sequence User who claimed to belong to the Ferocious Beast Association and taunted him about the faction.
• Su Xian used his Wangchuan Realm magic to pin the captive down and began casting Forbidden Spell Soul Search.

Su Xian used memory probing to learn about the Three Associations and confirmed that the decisive battle for the thrones would come at dawn. At Yanwu Street, the Human, Superpower, and Ferocious Beast Associations fought over a throne until black water transformed people into Eerie Monsters and an umbrella-carrying figure arrived.

• Su Xian extracted memories from a man and learned about the Three Associations, their goals, and the coming battle for the thrones.
• Su Zhe kept watch for Li Chen while Su Xian considered the Ferocious Beast Association's attempt to claim two thrones.
• At Yanwu Street, Weilan and Jingang led the Superpower and Human Associations in a fight over Lust's abandoned throne, and Cat Man announced that he had claimed it for the Ferocious Beast Association.
• Black liquid poured from the fire pipes, causing splashed people to suffer agonizing transformations into Eerie Monsters.
• Cat Man saw the transformed Eerie Monsters kneel as a figure carrying a black umbrella approached through the falling black water.

Li Chen and his Eerie Monsters overwhelmed the factions fighting over the Lust Throne, killing Weilan and transforming Jingang after he chose to live. Li Chen then set out to cleanse Sinful City and headed toward Wrath’s territory, while Wrath reflected on how empty the struggle for power had become.

• The transformed Eerie Monsters attacked the association members, and Calamity’s plague forced Jingang and Weilan’s people to retreat.
• Lust intercepted Weilan’s escape, while Calamity infected Jingang and Li Chen arrived with a horde of Eerie Monsters.
• Li Chen asked Weilan and Jingang whether they wanted to live or die; Lust killed Weilan, and Jingang chose to live.
• Ling transformed Jingang, whose mutation left him apparently mindless, and Li Chen continued toward Wrath’s territory to cleanse the city.
• At the Abyssal Gladiatorial Arena, Wrath watched the conflict and lamented that the struggle for power had become dull.

A white-haired woman learned that the Child of Destiny was in Sinful Pass and urged Cang Yue to awaken before their connection was severed. Meanwhile, Mu Ziliang imprisoned Mu Hen in the Soul Coffin to cut the Mu Family’s ties to Li Chen and keep his son safe as Sinful Pass neared collapse.

• A black-robed man told the Holy Maiden that the Child of Destiny was in Sinful Pass and that the cult leader would soon arrive.
• The Holy Maiden ordered the man to keep investigating, then called on Cang Yue to wake and find Li Chen before she dissipated as a sacrifice.
• Mu Hen begged Mu Ziliang to release him so he could help Su Xian, but his father kept him locked in the Soul Coffin.
• Mu Ziliang explained that Sinful Pass was close to breaking and that the Mu Family had to sever its connection to Li Chen by making Mu Hen sleep in the coffin.
• Mu Hen resisted the coffin’s drowsiness and threatened to destroy it, but Mu Ziliang bound it with death-energy chains and prayed to the family’s forefathers for his son’s future.

Su Xian and Su Zhe faced a worsening battle for the Greed Throne as the Ferocious Beast and Human Associations clashed and black water transformed fighters into Eerie Monsters. In the Abyssal Gladiatorial Arena, Greed warned Wrath that the Child of Destiny and the Evil Cult threatened Sinful City, while the Pass Master was coming down from the pass.

• Su Zhe worried that Mu Hen and Uncle Mu had disappeared, leaving him and Su Xian short of powerful allies for the fight over the Greed Throne.
• A jackal representing the Ferocious Beast Association challenged the Human Association, and the two sides began fighting.
• Black water burst from the sprinkler pipes, turning fighters into Eerie Monsters and throwing the battle into chaos.
• Greed returned to the Abyssal Gladiatorial Arena and told Wrath that Eerie Monsters had overrun the road inland, leaving no way out.
• Greed warned Wrath that the Child of Destiny might be working with the Evil Cult and that the Pass Master was coming down from the pass.

Li Chen continued his bloody purge of the City of Sin as his power grew and his memories rapidly faded. After Wrath escaped, Wrath and Greed climbed the checkpoint wall, hoping to break through and flee.

• Ling told Li Chen that about fifty thousand Eerie Monsters had been born, while his growing power further mutated his body and erased his memories.
• Calamity reported that Wrath's territory lay ahead, and Li Chen ordered him and Lust to bring Wrath back alive.
• Calamity returned with a half-dead man and said Wrath had escaped; the captive died in front of Li Chen.
• Li Chen concluded that the Seven Sins had effectively fallen and turned his thoughts to the Greed Throne.
• Wrath and Greed climbed the checkpoint wall, planning to have Greed tear an opening through it so Wrath could escape with his family.

Weiyang promised a dying friend that she would carry his dream beyond Sinful City, while Su Xian and Su Zhe witnessed the slaughter caused by the Black Water. Li Chen arrived with Ling and the Eerie Monsters, ordered them to spare the two men, and faced an old acquaintance who wondered whether he was still the same young man.

• Weiyang’s wounded friend refused the water and asked her to carry his dream of seeing the outside world.
• After the boy died, Weiyang vowed to escape the cage and see the world for herself and her fallen friends.
• Su Xian and Su Zhe observed the Black Water turning people into Eerie Monsters as the Human Association and Ferocious Beast Association joined forces against them.
• Li Chen approached with Ling and the Eerie Monsters, then ordered Ling to let Su Xian and Su Zhe go unharmed.
• Su Xian recognized Li Chen and wondered whether he was still the young man he had once known.

Li Chen rejected Su Xian and Su Zhe’s attempt to bring him home, declaring that he would annihilate all living beings and reset the world. As the purge at Sinful Pass neared its end, a man in a cyan robe fought the heavens in the Black Mist to claim godhood for the Human Race.

• Su Xian and Su Zhe asked Li Chen to stop killing and come home, but Li Chen told them they could not return to how things were.
• Su Xian demanded to know what Li Chen was pursuing, and Li Chen revealed his plan to annihilate all living beings and reset the world.
• Li Chen told Su Xian to search the future for a way to kill him, and Su Xian left with Su Zhe after wishing him well.
• The Eldritch God mocked Li Chen for still being ruled by human emotions, while Li Chen put on his mask and surveyed the nearly completed purge.
• Beyond Sinful Pass, a man in a cyan robe challenged the Cosmic Consciousness and fought through the Black Mist as lightning struck him.

After Li Chen devastated the factions in Sinful City, he learned that the God-Slaying Cult was entrenched there and set his sights on confronting it. As he gathered the Eerie Monsters through the Forbidden Door, the mystery of the Great Old Ones and Li Chen’s own identity remained unresolved.

• Su Zhe mourned Li Chen’s departure, while Su Xian urged him to face the coming era and follow Li Chen’s path.
• Li Chen learned that the Throne Authority Holders had fallen, the Seven Sins had splintered, and the pass’s master had stayed away from the fighting.
• Calamity told Li Chen that the Evil Cult was moving toward the pass wall and identified the God-Slaying Cult as the faction entrenched in Sinful City.
• Li Chen considered the cults’ knowledge of his Forbidden Door and the possibility that he was connected to the God who caused the Black Mist.
• Li Chen opened the Forbidden Door and drew the Eerie Monsters inside, while Ling stopped Jingang from entering and Calamity asked whether a God was imprisoned there.

As the Evil Cults attacked Sinful City, Li Chen watched their assault and anticipated a new conflict with the God-Slaying Cult. Warden Qin Jiao mobilized the enforcers to defend the city while continuing secret experiments with S-rank ability genes.

• Li Chen observed the Evil Cults attacking the pass wall and decided to wait and see what they intended, intrigued by the world beyond the wall and the God-Slaying Cult.
• Ling struggled to reconcile his human memories with his Eerie Monster perspective as he watched people destroy the pass wall.
• Qin Jiao ordered enforcers in Chijie Armor to guard the city exit and sent Special Squad 001 to arrest the Evil Cults, authorizing lethal force and Heavenly Eye Sanction.
• Qin Jiao recognized that the Evil Cults' arrival might mean Li Chen's identity had been exposed and accepted the danger this posed to her.
• Qin Jiao entered her hidden human experimentation laboratory, injected herself with a syringe, and concluded that S-rank ability genes accelerated cellular absorption.

After losing contact with Mu Hen and Uncle Mu, Su Xian considered fighting for the throne as the only way to escape Sinful City. At the Rose Garden, Li Chen confronted Cang Yue, who revealed she had summoned him and could manipulate Black Mist.

• Su Xian and Su Zhe discussed their lack of identities, their inability to leave Sinful City, and their lost contact with Mu Hen and Uncle Mu.
• Su Xian decided he would have to fight for the throne and help the others before leaving.
• Li Chen arrived at the Rose Garden with Calamity and Lust and met Cang Yue, the God-Slaying Cult’s saintess and his former acquaintance.
• Cang Yue flirted with Li Chen and claimed she loved him, while Li Chen demanded to know why she had guided him there.
• Cang Yue manipulated the Black Mist into a sofa, and Li Chen formed a throne from it as their negotiations began.

Cang Yue revealed that the God-Slaying Cult intended to sacrifice her to summon an unknowable God, and claimed she had brought Li Chen there to rescue her. She proposed that the world was false, humans were invaders, and the sleeping God inside her might awaken within Li Chen and reveal the truth.

• Li Chen asked Cang Yue why she had summoned him, and she said she was the God-Slaying Cult’s holy maiden and intended sacrifice who needed rescuing.
• Cang Yue described the cult’s God as an indescribable terror, then asked Li Chen whether the Black Mist might shield the planet from greater threats beyond the stars.
• Li Chen considered that the Black Mist could be a barrier against cosmic monsters and questioned whether his own power had been meant to strengthen humanity against them.
• Cang Yue claimed the world was false, humans were invaders, and Li Chen also had a God inside him that had been corrupted.
• Cang Yue told Li Chen that the God inside her was asleep and that she needed to become one with him so it might awaken and provide answers.

Li Chen sought the truth about the world from the awakened Cang Yue in the Throne Space. She revealed that humanity had survived the annihilation of its previous world through Li Chen’s reincarnation authority, but the current world was still being invaded by Eerie Monsters.

• Li Chen entered the Throne Space and found the white-haired Cang Yue following him.
• Cang Yue woke, mistook Li Chen for her father, then thanked him for ending her slumber.
• Cang Yue told Li Chen that the distinction between reality and falsehood depended on a person’s will and beliefs.
• Cang Yue warned that humanity faced annihilation in the river of time unless Li Chen gained Forbidden’s recognition.
• Cang Yue explained that Elder Gods had destroyed the previous world after humanity drew their attention, and Li Chen’s reincarnation authority had created the world anew.
• Li Chen asked why Eerie Monsters still invaded if the reincarnation authority had already been used.

Cangyue revealed that Li Chen’s world was humanity’s last protected refuge and that he had to master Forbidden Authority to become the Lord of Taboo before the Elder Gods arrived. Accepting that this was his final chance, Li Chen chose to pursue freedom despite the deadly path ahead and called Cangyue to follow him.

• Cangyue explained that the Elder Gods’ gaze had destroyed the universe, while Li Chen’s planet survived behind a barrier created by his father using Rule Authority.
• Cangyue warned Li Chen that the barrier would disappear when he approached godhood, exposing humanity to Eerie Monsters from the planet and the wider universe.
• Cangyue told Li Chen that humanity had reincarnated countless times and that this was the final cycle, in which he had to master Forbidden Authority and become the Lord of Taboo.
• Li Chen voiced his fear and despair over being humanity’s only chance, then resolved to face the truth and pursue freedom even if he died.
• Li Chen walked deeper into the darkness and asked whether Cangyue would come with him; Cangyue nodded and vanished.

Li Chen learned that the God-Slaying Cult’s leader would arrive at Sinful Pass in two days, then chose to attack the cult immediately and rescue Cang Yue. As the battle began, a cultist summoned Ghost Infants and declared that killing Li Chen would earn him eternal life.

• Cang Yue told Li Chen that the God-Slaying Cult leader would come to Sinful Pass in about two days for the sacrifice.
• Li Chen decided to rescue Cang Yue before the sacrifice and ordered Calamity and Lust to kill the cultists.
• Calamity spread a plague through the garden while Li Chen attacked the cultists with a giant hand of Black Mist.
• A cultist sent Ghost Infants to devour Li Chen, but Ling bound and crushed them.
• The cultist used the remaining Ghost Infant to raise dead cultists and vowed to kill Li Chen to gain the leader’s approval and eternal life.

Li Chen’s forces battled the Evil Cult in the garden as Ling attacked the Ghost Infant and Blood Charm turned against his fellow cultists. Lust and Calamity overwhelmed their opponents, leaving the remaining cultists exposed to Calamity’s plague.

• Li Chen ordered Ling to kill the cultist, and Ling attacked the enormous Ghost Infant, whose strength grew despite the explosions inside it.
• Blood Charm revealed his identity as Skeleton, attacked an Evil Cult member, and said he would no longer fight against destiny.
• Lust struck two cultists with his black saber and pursued them, cutting them down in a frenzy.
• Calamity revealed himself as Pride and spread a plague that made two cultists bleed black blood.
• Calamity approached the infected cultists and identified himself as Calamity.

Li Chen watched his forces crush the Evil Cult in the Rose Garden, accepted Blood Charm’s surrender, and then broke through the shattered dome toward a mysterious black stairway. As his followers watched, he stepped onto the stairway and saw visions of his former self and familiar figures vanish.

• Blood Charm killed a pleading Evil Cult member, then knelt and pledged allegiance to Li Chen, who accepted him as a useful recruit.
• Ling destroyed the Ghost Infant, mutilated its creator, and killed him after he cursed Li Chen and threatened that the Cult Master would retaliate.
• Lust, Calamity, and Ling slaughtered the remaining Evil Cult members while Li Chen watched from his throne.
• Li Chen sensed an unseen consciousness watching him and decided to take the next step toward surpassing his current bottleneck.
• Li Chen shattered the Rose Garden’s dome and stepped onto a black stairway that appeared before him, as his followers watched and visions of familiar figures vanished.