Chapter Summaries

As Li Chen climbed toward the Calamity Realm, he endured the Eldritch God’s attempts to corrupt him and began treading the Desolation Tribulation. Qin Jiao denied the Heavenly Eye’s request to erase the detected energy explosion, while Uncle Mu reflected that Xiao had failed.

• The Heavenly Eye detected an energy explosion near Sinful City, and Qin Jiao ordered it not to erase the threat after seeing that Wrath and Greed were involved.
• Li Chen continued climbing the stairway as the Eldritch God tried to tempt him with promises of power and freedom.
• Li Chen rejected the Eldritch God’s view of the universe and pressed onward despite the chains and monsters hindering his steps.
• Uncle Mu watched from Sinful Pass and realized that Li Chen had begun the Desolation Tribulation before reaching the Calamity Realm.
• Uncle Mu looked toward the black fog and concluded that Xiao had failed.

After reaching the Calamity Realm, Li Chen tried to climb farther up the God-Ascending Staircase but was attacked by swords linked to the Justice Alliance and a powerful Supreme Being. With Sinful City devastated and the Black Mist too dangerous to enter, Li Chen decided it was time to leave and head inland.

• Li Chen reached the Calamity Realm and tried to take another step on the God-Ascending Staircase, but flaming swords attacked him.
• Li Chen used Vector Manipulation and the Demon Blade Vermilion to stop the swords and found the word “Justice” engraved on one.
• Blood Charm explained that the swords belonged to the Order of Justice, led by the Judgment Angel, one of the nine Supreme Beings.
• Calamity proposed slaughtering the remaining people in Sinful City and making it a stronghold, while Ling suggested moving into the Black Mist.
• Li Chen rejected Ling’s suggestion because he feared the powerful Eerie Monsters in the Black Mist and said it was time to leave for the inland.

As Sinful Pass crumbled, Su Xian and Su Zhe forced the city guards to open the gates and led the crowd toward the inner route. Wrath attacked Qin Jiao, but her Heavenly Eye Judgment drove him across the rooftops as the pass continued to fall.

• Black branches struck Sinful Pass and began crumbling its walls, while the absent Pass Master left the city in chaos.
• Su Xian ordered Su Zhe to clear a path through the crowd, and they confronted the guards who were blocking the gates.
• Su Xian ordered the guards to open the gates, and the officers let the crowd flee toward the inner route.
• Su Xian and Su Zhe left with the crowd, and Su Xian said they would reunite with Li Chen and Mu Hen someday.
• Wrath attacked Qin Jiao, but she summoned Heavenly Eye Judgment, whose red beam chased him across the rooftops.

After Sinful Pass fell, Li Chen left the ruined pass and traveled toward the inland while the Special Affairs Bureau branded him a fugitive and ordered his arrest. He approached the bounty hunters’ grounds, uncertain what identity he would use to enter the first city.

• Li Chen walked away from the fallen pass as Cang Yue and the other Eerie Monsters followed and protected him.
• At a meeting in the Imperial Capital, Light Fiend ordered factions to reinforce border cities and announced that Li Chen was wanted as a member of the Evil Cult.
• A red-haired woman wondered what had happened to Su Xian and the others, while Light Fiend studied Li Chen’s photograph after the meeting.
• Li Chen crossed the barren land outside the inland, with Cang Yue and Ling discussing love behind him.
• Blood Charm told Li Chen that the inland was about fifty li away and that they had entered the bounty hunters’ hunting grounds.
• Li Chen wondered whether he would enter the first city as a criminal, an Evil Cult member, or a trainee.

After Sinful Pass fell, Su Xian and Su Zhe learned that false reports had made the inland blame Li Chen as a calamity and the Evil Cult, leaving them unable to clear his name. Su Zhe prepared to leave for Magic City with a token from the Order of Justice, while Sister Sun hunted mutated creatures in the Black Mist.

• Ji Shao told Su Xian and Su Zhe that the public wanted a scapegoat and that false reports had made it impossible to free Li Chen, whom the inland viewed as a calamity tied to the Evil Cult.
• Su Xian gave Su Zhe an Order of Justice token, told him to keep Li Chen's return secret, and said the Order of Justice had begun to act.
• Su Zhe agreed to leave for Magic City and report Mu Hen's disappearance as its special-grade adjudicator.
• Su Zhe sat alone, wondering what conviction he was defending and whether this was the kind of world Li Chen had lived in.
• In the Black Mist, Sister Sun complained about the low Merit paid for hunting mutated dogs as a man guided her toward the remaining bounty locations.

Li Chen and Calamity reached the Black Mist near Huizhou City, where bounty hunters lured them into a Skeleton Guild ambush. Li Chen and Calamity overwhelmed the attackers, and Li Chen prepared to question their leader.

• Calamity asked Li Chen whether he should kill Sunjie and her two companions, but Li Chen immobilized them and asked for the nearest city.
• Sunjie's companion revealed that the city was Huizhou and warned that it checked identities, then signaled the Skeleton Guild to open fire and teleport the three bounty hunters away.
• The Skeleton Guild's masked members emerged from the Black Mist, and their leader taunted Sunjie before ordering his men to capture Li Chen.
• Calamity killed the guild members who approached Li Chen, while Li Chen emerged from the smoke unharmed and approached the leader.
• Li Chen's pressure broke the guild leader's legs and forced him to kneel, and Li Chen told him to answer his questions.

Li Chen learned from Sunjie's memories that humanity had branded him a demon and treated him as an enemy, then ordered Ling to unleash the Eerie Tide. At Huizhou City, Lin Hua and the other men on the walls remained unaware of the danger approaching.

• Li Chen questioned a wounded man about freedom and a cage, but the man died from Calamity's ability despite giving an answer Li Chen considered good.
• Li Chen asked Sunjie to make the same choice, and she recognized him as the demon who had destroyed a pass.
• Li Chen probed Sunjie's memories and learned that the cities and major organizations regarded him as an enemy.
• Li Chen vanished into the Black Mist after telling Ling to unleash the Eerie Tide.
• In Huizhou City, Lin Hua declined a drink and talked with the other men on the city wall about marrying Di Li after he became stronger.

Lin Hua’s quiet night on Huizhou City’s wall turned into a sudden Eerie Monster attack, while Calamity, Lust, and their allies led an assault through the city gate. The Special Affairs Bureau mobilized Judicators as the city struggled to respond to the unexpected Eerie Tide.

• Lin Hua carried his drunk companions to their tents, reflected on his defeat by Jianping, and went to sleep before his wife’s birthday.
• Eerie Monsters burst into Lin Hua’s tent, and he rescued a sleeping soldier and used vines to protect the others while calling for reinforcements.
• Lin Hua discovered the monsters were climbing the wall in a ladder of bodies and advanced to hold them off, sending Lizi a message as he prepared to fight.
• An alarm woke Huizhou City as Eerie Monsters covered the wall, and Calamity, Lust, and Blood Charm entered through the blasted city gate.
• Lust attacked a white-robed defender while Ling ordered Calamity to contain the plague; Ling and Cang Yue then left without telling Blood Charm where their Master was.
• The Special Affairs Bureau called all Judicators to support the defense and urged them to face the Eerie Tide.

Li Chen recalled his conversation with the remnant consciousness of his former self, who questioned whether destroying the world would bring freedom and urged him to explore what lay beyond the universe. He remained committed to moving forward and led an Eerie Tide toward Huizhou City, leaving his allies warning that humanity and powerful beings would oppose him.

• Li Chen entered the fourth door in the Throne Space and met a remnant version of himself, who asked what he would do after learning the truth about the world.
• Li Chen declared that he would annihilate humans and Eerie Monsters, return the universe to zero, and create a Realm of Freedom in the name of the Forbidden.
• The remnant Li Chen warned that the Forbidden might protect the universe from outside threats, but Li Chen insisted he would follow his own will and make his own rules.
• As the remnant consciousness shattered, it urged Li Chen to explore the world beyond the universe and carry its old will with him.
• Back in the rain, Li Chen led the Eerie Monsters toward Huizhou City while Cang Yue warned that he would become humanity's enemy and Ling vowed to kill anyone who opposed him.
• Li Chen said he had no way back and could only move forward, then told Ling to go inform Calamity.

As Huizhou City fell to an Eerie Monster attack, Ling questioned the fleeing humans while Cang Yue explained their fear and reflected on Li Chen’s ambitions. Di Li prepared to leave for Lin Hua, who, wounded and surrounded on the city wall, chose to fight to protect his hometown.

• As Huizhou City’s defenses failed, panicked residents fled, and an obese man from the Skeleton Guild shoved a boy aside before the boy and his sister joined the crowd.
• Ling asked why humans with great power ran instead of resisting, and Cang Yue explained that fear and the desire to live shaped their choices.
• Cang Yue wondered whether the ruined city was the world Li Chen wanted and said that becoming king required resolve.
• After reading a message, Di Li put on her Special Affairs Bureau uniform, looked at her wedding photo, and left, promising to return for Hua.
• Wounded and trapped in a plant cage on the city wall, Lin Hua regretted not seeing Di Li again, then gathered his resolve and faced the Eerie Monsters.
• Lin Hua declared that he would protect his hometown and called out, “Rise, great wind!!”

Lust, Ling, Calamity, and Cang Yue helped Li Chen’s forces overrun Huizhou City as the Eerie Tide spread, while the Special Affairs Bureau struggled to protect civilians. With no reinforcements coming, the city’s defenders rallied to fight on their own.

• Lust stood among the dead after killing twenty thousand people, while Calamity told him their mission was complete and confirmed that plague had spread through the rain and mist.
• White-robed Sequence Users fired arrows at Lust, and he charged at them; Calamity left to spread plague and hunt survivors while Ling and Cang Yue went into a supermarket for food.
• At the underground Special Affairs Bureau, an officer learned that the Eerie Tide had been deliberately caused and that the city’s defenses were close to collapse.
• The officer bowed and told the Sequence Users that no reinforcements were coming, then urged them to defend the city; they answered by pledging to fight.

Li Chen walked through Huizhou during a devastating Eerie Tide, killing those who tried to stop him and reflecting on the cruelty of the world. At the giant wheel, he confronted the Special Affairs Bureau’s chief commander, who recognized him as the cause of the disaster, and tore off the man’s arm.

• Li Chen ignored a wounded Special Affairs Bureau captain’s curses after defeating his squad and severing both of the captain’s legs.
• Li Chen walked toward Huizhou’s center, seeing civilians waiting helplessly as the Eerie Tide overwhelmed the city.
• At the giant wheel, the Special Affairs Bureau’s chief commander recognized Li Chen and ordered the crowd to flee.
• Li Chen used his blood-control ability to knock the civilians unconscious, while the chief commander dispersed the energy and confronted him.
• The chief commander accused Li Chen of causing mass deaths and attacked him, but Li Chen blocked his golden fist and tore off his arm.

As Li Chen fought Mr. Yan, the agent helped civilians flee while a father carried his daughter away and left his elderly father behind. Li Chen killed Mr. Yan but spared the fleeing crowd, then faced a boy who blamed him for his mother’s death and called him a bad guy.

• An agent urged the crowd to escape while Mr. Yan held off the Eerie Monsters, and a father carried his daughter away despite leaving Grandpa behind.
• Li Chen attacked Mr. Yan with countless energy particles, steadily overwhelming his defenses.
• Mr. Yan attempted a final assault, but Li Chen’s particles swallowed the golden light and reduced him to nothing.
• Li Chen considered attacking the remaining crowd, then lowered his hand and walked away, deciding not to slaughter innocent people.
• A boy threw pebbles at Li Chen and blamed him for his mother’s death, and Li Chen acknowledged to himself that he had become a bad guy.

Li Chen’s group finished taking Huizhou City, and Cang Yue warned that humanity would soon counterattack. She whispered a possible plan to Li Chen, leaving the next move unresolved.

• Li Chen knocked out a boy and reflected on the approaching fall of the city as the rain intensified.
• Ling asked Cang Yue why humans exploited the poor and fought among themselves, and she explained that she could not fully understand human emotions.
• Cang Yue stored Ling’s potato chips before they joined Li Chen, Lust, and Calamity above the ruined city.
• Li Chen asked which city was connected to Huizhou City, and Cang Yue named Raccoon City and warned that human reinforcements would arrive at dawn.
• Li Chen considered avoiding a direct battle with humanity, and Cang Yue whispered a plan to him.

The Order of Justice and Special Affairs Bureau reinforcements sailed through the Blood Net toward Huizhou City, where Calamity prepared to spread a plague and block the underground passage. Lust continued breaking holes in the city walls as Huizhou City neared collapse.

• The Order of Justice leader ordered her vessel to race ahead and rescue Huizhou City before dawn.
• The Shi Family Saint Son told an anxious agent that they had to support the city despite the danger, then reflected on his coming clash with Destiny.
• The reinforcements continued through the Blood Net toward Huizhou City.
• Calamity approached the Blood Net entrance, where his green haze caused people to faint and scream, and planned to seal the passage while releasing a plague.
• Lust made more holes in Huizhou City’s walls, allowing Eerie Monsters inside and bringing the city closer to collapse.

Li Chen triggered the final stage of the siege, transforming Huizhou City's surviving humans into Eerie Monsters as he waited for the Special Affairs Bureau's reinforcements. In the Blood Net, the Order of Justice fought through an ambush on its way to the city.

• Li Chen recognized Lin Hua's corpse on the city wall and reflected on his role in the Eerie Tide.
• Li Chen unleashed the Black Mist and the Forbidden Door, causing the remaining humans in Huizhou City to mutate into Eerie Monsters.
• Ling reported that no living beings remained in the city, while Calamity warned that people hiding underground in the central district had not undergone Mutation.
• Li Chen dismissed the hidden survivors as only a few more lives and waited for dawn as the reinforcements approached.
• The Order of Justice fought Eerie Monsters in the underground river, and the angelic woman attacked them with a flaming sword.
• Eerie Monsters boarded the Order of Justice's boat, and its soldiers fought on without retreating.

Li Chen and his companions faced the forces sent to retake Huizhou City, where Cang Yue revealed her time-related ability and the Justice Alliance launched an attack. As the battle began, an old man quietly immobilized the Eerie Monsters across the city, leaving the conflict between the two groups unresolved.

• Explosions opened the blood net entrances, and Sequence Users poured into Huizhou City as Li Chen watched from the wall.
• An angel woman from the Order of Justice challenged Li Chen, but Cang Yue used her Clock Gun to slow the woman and her bullet.
• An old man used Golden Hook Fishing to pull the angel woman away, then assigned Pan Dong to secure the gate and Shi Kun and the others to attack Li Chen.
• The angel woman and Shi Kun charged Li Chen while the old man reflected on fate, Yu Qingnian, and whether the new generation could create a miracle.
• Pan Dong discovered that the old man had already immobilized the Eerie Monsters throughout the city with a strange thread.

Li Chen confronted the human experts sent to stop him, while his allies engaged them across Huizhou City. He unleashed energy bombs throughout the city, leaving the old man watching in horror as the casualties mounted and the city began to collapse.

• Li Chen ordered Calamity and Lust to face the approaching experts, Ling to stop the figure beneath the city, and Cang Yue to confront the angel woman.
• Cang Yue battled the angel woman in the sky, using her time-affecting ability to weaken her and age her.
• Shi Kun challenged Li Chen over his revenge and the fall of Canghai Pass, while Li Chen rejected the Special Affairs Bureau's blame and declared that the era belonged to him.
• Li Chen triggered energy bombs across Huizhou City, killing agents and destroying buildings as the old man realized the city was doomed.

Shi Kun confronted Li Chen to protect Huizhou City’s surviving people, using the blood gathered from the dead to empower his Forbidden Blood Halberd. As their battle began, Shi Kun recalled the factions debating whether a God inside Li Chen was humanity’s hope or a threat, and ended by trying to break through Li Chen’s defense.

• Shi Kun took up the Forbidden Blood Halberd and declared that their battle would settle his grudge with Li Chen.
• Shi Kun gathered blood from the ruins to armor himself and strengthen his power, while Li Chen reflected on his longing for dawn and let black energy rise around him.
• Shi Kun blocked Li Chen’s attack with blood and reasoned that he needed to delay him long enough for people nearby to be rescued.
• Shi Kun recalled how the Special Affairs Bureau had split into Conservative, Radical, and Neutral factions over the possibility of a God inside Li Chen, leading to Li Chen’s confinement at Sinful Pass.
• Shi Kun charged Li Chen inside a blood tiger and struck with his halberd as Li Chen formed an ink saber to meet the blow.
• Shi Kun roared and tried to break through Li Chen’s defense as the Black Mist overwhelmed the blood-red radiance above the city wall.

Li Chen prepared to unleash a catastrophic explosion with Vector Manipulation as Shi Kun tried to escape, while Cang Yue and Ling fought their own battles. The chapter left the city on the brink of destruction and Pan Dong realizing Ling was likely a half-human, half-Eerie being.

• Shi Kun questioned why humans feared Li Chen and suggested someone had once considered him hope and a miracle.
• Li Chen reflected on whether the old man from the Academy Tournament had placed his hopes on him, then decided to end the fight.
• Li Chen gathered energy for a city-wide explosion, and Shi Kun turned into blood and fled as Calamity Realm fighters sensed the danger.
• Calamity and Lust kept their opponents from escaping while Cang Yue used the Time Engraving Gun to make the angelic woman’s aged body burn from within.
• Pan Dong fought Ling and concluded that Ling was likely a half-human, half-Eerie being whose existence could reveal how Eerie Monsters gained intelligence.