Chapter Summaries

Chang Wei warned the Old Emperor that Imperial Advisor Pudu Cihang was a Centipede Demon consuming the court’s Dragon Qi and officials. The Old Emperor appointed Left Qianhu Grand Commander of Demon Slaying and equipped him to secretly investigate the court.

• Chang Wei told the Old Emperor that Pudu Cihang was a powerful Centipede Demon seeking to absorb the dynasty’s Dragon Qi.
• Chang Wei explained that Pudu Cihang’s subordinates had devoured the court officials and advised the Old Emperor to use Left Qianhu to expose the demons.
• The Old Emperor secretly summoned Left Qianhu and appointed him Grand Commander of Demon Slaying.
• Chang Wei gave Left Qianhu the Demon Slaying Sword and Ghost Dispelling Armor, which could harm demons and ghosts.
• The Old Emperor ordered Left Qianhu to secretly inspect the civil and military officials for demons.

After Left Qianhu discovered that the court’s senior officials were all demons, Chang Wei and the Old Emperor ordered him to purge them quickly before Pudu Cihang noticed. Pudu Cihang sensed an ominous warning and suspected the coming Heavenly Dog Devouring the Moon might expose his descendants.

• Left Qianhu investigated senior officials and found that every one he examined was a demon.
• The Old Emperor fainted from shock, and Chang Wei revived him and advised replacing the demons with recalled or newly appointed officials.
• Chang Wei warned that the demons were Pudu Cihang’s descendants and urged a rapid purge; the Old Emperor gave Left Qianhu the manpower he needed.
• Pudu Cihang sensed a foreboding while conducting rites outside the Capital City and suspected the coming Heavenly Dog Devouring the Moon could endanger his descendants.

Pudu Cihang worried that something had gone wrong in the Capital City and decided to return there, while the Old Emperor considered restoring capable officials to his court. Grand Commander Zuo’s raid on a minister’s residence revealed monsters feasting on people, and he attacked them.

• Pudu Cihang reflected on his secret plan to weaken the dynasty and absorb its Dragon Qi, then suspected a problem in the Capital City and prepared to return.
• Chang Wei recommended Zhuge Wolong and Fu Tianchou for civil office and Left Qianhu for military leadership to the Old Emperor.
• The Old Emperor considered how to retrieve Zhuge Wolong from a prison in Guo Bei County, while Chang Wei avoided personally bringing him back.
• Grand Commander Zuo led his men into a minister’s residence, where his golden sword warned him that monsters were present.
• Grand Commander Zuo and his subordinates found the minister’s guests eating human flesh and attacked the monsters.

Grand Commander Zuo defeated a band of invisible monsters, while Chang Wei planned to strengthen humanity by giving the imperial court cultivation methods. Chang Wei warned the Old Emperor that he could not attain immortality and resolved to confront Pudu Cihang as it sought to transform into a dragon.

• Grand Commander Zuo used the Demon Slaying Sword and Ghost Dispelling Armor to kill invisible monsters, revealing the rest with Heart Blood after they attacked his men.
• Grand Commander Zuo decided to petition the emperor for troops as monsters grew more dangerous and court officials suffered.
• Chang Wei created two basic cultivation methods for the imperial court and explained his experimental Qi Refining and Foundation Building stages.
• The Old Emperor asked whether he could cultivate to immortality, and Chang Wei explained that emperors could not escape the burden of their fortune and reincarnation.
• Chang Wei planned to seek methods in the underworld after dealing with Pudu Cihang, which was returning after completing its ritual to transform into a dragon.

Chang Wei exposed the demon centipedes infesting the imperial court and helped the Old Emperor destroy them. Pudu Cihang returned to the Capital City and confronted the Old Emperor, asking who had killed his descendants and the court officials.

• The Old Emperor attended court with Chang Wei, where Grand Tutor Yin and another official challenged the presence of an immortal.
• Chang Wei unleashed the Great Power of Demon Subjugation, forcing the demon officials to reveal themselves as centipedes, while hidden guards and a Golden Armored Divine General joined the fight.
• Grand Commander Zuo's forces and the Daoists and monks defeated the centipedes, and Chang Wei warned the Old Emperor that demons might infest sites across the land where Pudu Cihang had held ceremonies.
• The Old Emperor vowed to hunt demons and spread Chang Wei's two immortal arts, while Chang Wei sensed Pudu Cihang's return to the Capital City.
• Pudu Cihang arrived on a lotus platform and demanded to know who had slaughtered the court officials and his descendants.

After mastering Pudu Cihang’s Golden Body method, Chang Wei created the Great Black Heaven Golden Body and Infinite Darkness Dharma Appearance, then forced Pudu Cihang to transform into a dragon. Pudu Cihang’s karmic debts drew down a heavenly tribulation, and his Golden Body appeared before the Capital City as Chang Wei prepared to confront him.

• Chang Wei learned Pudu Cihang’s Tathagata Golden Body method and reshaped it into the Great Black Heaven Golden Body and Infinite Darkness Dharma Appearance.
• Chang Wei poured imperial Dragon Qi into Pudu Cihang and ordered him to transform into a dragon as his future mount.
• The will of the Heavenly Dao descended, and Pudu Cihang’s accumulated sins formed a heavenly tribulation.
• The first bolt of lightning shattered Pudu Cihang’s physical body, so he manifested his mature Tathagata Golden Body.
• The Old Emperor and Left Qianhu watched the Buddha form appear above the Capital City, and the Old Emperor ordered Left Qianhu to deal with demons across the regions.

Chang Wei watched Pudu Cihang face the Five Elements Heavenly Tribulation and revived it after each fatal trial. The Heavenly Dao resumed the tribulation after every resurrection, leaving Pudu Cihang to face the next wave.

• Chang Wei recognized the Five Elements Heavenly Tribulation and saw the Essence of Geng Metal pierce through Pudu Cihang’s Tathagata Golden Body, destroying it and killing the centipede demon.
• After the tribulation began to disperse, Chang Wei revived Pudu Cihang, whose body had become more resistant to damage from the Essence of Geng Metal.
• The Heavenly Dao gathered the tribulation again, and the Jia-Yi Wood Double Kill restrained Pudu Cihang, killed it, and caused Yi Wood to sprout through its body.
• Chang Wei waited for the tribulation to disperse, then revived Pudu Cihang, whose lifespan increased by ten thousand years from the remaining Yi Wood vitality.
• The Five Elements Heavenly Tribulation gathered once more, and Pudu Cihang realized it would have to face another wave.

Chang Wei forced Pudu Cihang through the remaining Five Elements Heavenly Tribulations, using the Divine Light Virus to keep him alive through the torment. After surviving the final Earth Tribulation, Pudu Cihang emerged as a Yellow Dragon, but he turned on Chang Wei and faced an overwhelming display of virus-born dragons.

• Pudu Cihang endured the Weak Water Tribulation as the Divine Light Virus repeatedly repaired his dissolving body, then begged Chang Wei to kill him and was restrained.
• The Karma Fire Tribulation ignited across Pudu Cihang, burning his accumulated karma while the virus kept him alive and Chang Wei watched warily.
• The qi of the Five Sacred Mountains crushed Pudu Cihang underground, where he remained buried for three days and nights.
• Pudu Cihang broke free as a Yellow Dragon, having completely shed his centipede body and gained vastly greater strength.
• Pudu Cihang glared at Chang Wei with killing intent, and Chang Wei answered by summoning more than a hundred five-clawed dragons formed from the Divine Light Virus.

Chang Wei entered the Underworld through a vast Yellow Springs road and searched for powerful ghosts to obtain an Underworld cultivation method. He found Black Mountain Old Demon and discovered its Ten Kings of Hell technique and extraordinary origins.

• Chang Wei used his five True Dragons to burn Pudu Cihang to ash, then decided to seek a cultivation method in the Underworld.
• Chang Wei opened an enormous passage to the Underworld, unleashing Yin and Yang energies that alarmed cultivators and devastated nearby ghosts.
• Chang Wei crossed into the Underworld and used his immense Magic Power to clear away Yin Energy as ghosts wailed.
• Chang Wei located Black Mountain Old Demon, who mistook him for an immortal and prostrated itself.
• Chang Wei used the Great Supreme Great Black Heaven Golden Body to acquire Black Mountain Old Demon's Ten Kings of Hell technique and learned that it possessed an ancient great demon inheritance.

Chang Wei used Black Mountain Old Demon's knowledge of ghost-god methods and the underworld to forge a supreme Dharma Body. He left with a new Great Divine Ability that could judge life and death, while wondering why the immortals had not reacted.

• Chang Wei took Black Mountain Old Demon's cultivation method and memories, learning about Ghost Immortals, Yin Gods, and the ruined Underworld.
• Chang Wei combined his Great Supreme Great Black Heaven Golden Body and Infinite Darkness Dharma Appearance, using the Underworld's laws and concepts to shape a supreme Dharma Body.
• Chang Wei created the Ten-Armed Chaos Appearance and Thousand-Faced Thousand-Eyed Hundred-Armed Appearance, then fused them into his Asura-inspired Dharma Body.
• Chang Wei refined the Underworld into a Great Divine Ability and a Divine Eye between the Dharma Body's brows, capable of killing, saving, or imprisoning souls.
• Chang Wei looked toward the sky and wondered whether the immortals had abandoned the world, since none had reacted to his transformation.

Chang Wei collected the demons, monsters, and specters of A Chinese Ghost Story, learning that its Heavenly Dao was using the gods and supernatural beings as fuel to resist the Age of Dharma Decline. After refusing the Heavenly Dao’s offer to stay, he fought its puppet gods and Buddhas and began turning them into his own forces.

• Chang Wei transformed into his vast Dharma form and collected every demon, monster, and specter in the realm despite the Heavenly Dao’s lightning.
• A lightning strike revealed that the Heavenly Dao had merged the gods and Buddhas with itself to preserve the world’s rank as it faced the Age of Dharma Decline.
• The Heavenly Dao tried to tempt Chang Wei into staying, then sent puppet gods and Buddhas through black vortices after he refused.
• Chang Wei copied a golden Buddha’s palm strike, modified it into an attack of Great Destruction, and destroyed the opponent.
• Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole and other traditional Daoist and Buddhist figures appeared, and Chang Wei claimed their powers and summoned matching counterparts with the Divine Light Virus.
• Chang Wei used a Great Divine Ability combining the Underworld and Legion so his summoned gods and Buddhas would not be puppets.

Chang Wei left the Three Realms after driving the Heavenly Dao toward hibernation and entered a Japanese-language world he recognized as Tiga's. He arranged to join the Victory Team as a Chinese elite and learned that its technical officer was investigating him.

• Chang Wei's incarnations defeated the Heavenly Dao's Gods and Buddhas, but the Heavenly Dao targeted them as new Kings of Embers.
• Chang Wei withdrew his incarnations and left, after which the Heavenly Dao searched the Three Realms, burned newly born Demons and Monsters, and entered hibernation.
• Chang Wei reflected that the cultivation methods he had left behind could help humanity prosper, then traveled to the New World.
• Chang Wei encountered Jūgen Hui and learned she was divorced, single, and the Victory Team captain.
• Chang Wei changed his inserted identity to a Chinese elite joining the Victory Team, and the next day Neri investigated his background.

Chang Wei joined the Victory Team as a special envoy from the China Far East Branch, and Captain Jūgen Hui introduced him to the team. He quickly won the others over with his friendly manner and began meeting his new colleagues.

• Neri read Chang Wei’s file to the Victory Team, revealing his experience as captain of the China Far East Branch’s Special Operations Team.
• Lieutenant Munakata and Daigo Madoka wondered what Chang Wei’s arrival would mean for the team.
• Chang Wei reported to Captain Jūgen Hui, who welcomed him and was surprised by how easily he accepted her invitation to treat the team like family.
• Captain Jūgen Hui took Chang Wei to meet the Victory Team, whose members scattered after they had been discussing the newcomer.
• Chang Wei introduced himself warmly, and the team members lowered their guard and introduced themselves in turn.

Chang Wei joined the Victory Team’s investigation of the ruins and discovered that two Giant Statues responded to his Super Ancient genes. He rejected them, they blocked him, and he blocked them back as the team stood before the statues.

• Chang Wei questioned Daigo Madoka about the events surrounding the meteorite and the Super Ancient machine, then volunteered to join the investigation team.
• Captain Jūgen Hui approved Chang Wei’s assignment, and Shinjoh asked him whether Chinese kung fu could fight aliens.
• The Victory Team reached the conspicuous pyramid, entered the ruins, and found the Giant Statues.
• Chang Wei sensed that the two statues beside Tiga reacted to his Super Ancient genes, but he rejected them as ugly.
• The two rejected statues blocked Chang Wei, and Chang Wei blocked them back.

Daigo Madoka awakened Tiga after Golza and Melba attacked the Giant Statues, and the Victory Team began investigating the giant. Chang Wei made a miniature Ultraman statue and planned to transform, while reports of monsters emerged at a stone-excavation site.

• Daigo Madoka and Chang Wei received the Spark Lens structure, then hurried aboard the Victory Swallow as Golza and Melba approached.
• Golza and Melba destroyed the pyramid and attacked the Giant Statues, and Daigo crashed the Victory Swallow while trying to stop them.
• Daigo responded to Tiga’s call, transformed into light, and awakened Tiga, who fought the monsters while Chang Wei stayed out of the battle.
• The Victory Team questioned Daigo, and Lina ordered a medical examination that found him healthy; Captain Jūgen Hui reviewed the incident and the team named the giant Tiga.
• Chang Wei sculpted a miniature Giant Statue and planned to transform, while miners reported disappearances and monster rumors at a stone-excavation site.

The Victory Team investigated Golza’s disappearance, then responded when two Gakumas emerged and petrified workers at a mine. Chang Wei drew the monsters’ fire until Daigo transformed into Tiga, who charged at them.

• Jūgen Hui, Neri, and Nanbara searched for Golza, but Neri said they lacked the information needed to track it.
• TPC learned that a monster called Gakuma had turned two miners to stone, and Director Sawai went to investigate.
• Chang Wei brought two Gakumas to the surface, forcing the Victory Team to respond before its aircraft could be armed.
• Jūgen Hui sent the team into action while Lina and Horii stayed behind to modify the Victory Swallow.
• Chang Wei piloted his aircraft between the Gakumas and evaded their Petrifying Rays, drawing their attention as the team struggled to keep up.
• Daigo used the Spark Lens to transform into Tiga, who charged toward the two Gakumas.

Daigo struggled against the two Gakuma until Chang Wei's intervention and a mysterious black-and-gold giant turned the battle around. The newcomer saved the falling Victory Swallows and destroyed one Gakuma with a single punch, leaving the Victory Team stunned.

• The berserk Gakuma overwhelmed Daigo, and Chang Wei flew in to distract them with the Victory Swallow.
• Daigo transformed into Power Type to protect Chang Wei, but Gakuma's Petrifying Ray turned the aircraft to stone, forcing Daigo to catch its falling wreckage.
• The Gakuma attacked Daigo while the Victory Team tried to draw them away, and several Victory Swallows were struck as they rushed to help.
• A black-and-gold giant appeared, caught two falling aircraft, and safely lowered them before giving Daigo a nod.
• Chang Wei attacked one Gakuma with Intentional Punch, causing it to explode into fragments.

Chang Wei destroyed the remaining Gakuma and reunited with the Victory Team, while Daigo learned the mysterious black giant's name was Ultraman Lucifer. Daigo left to meet Yulian again and began to accept his destiny.

• Chang Wei parried Gakuma's Petrifying Ray, struck it with a blade of light, and destroyed it before leaving with Daigo.
• The Victory Team found Chang Wei safe, then debated the black giant's origins and what to call him.
• Daigo heard a voice identify itself as Ultraman Lucifer and suggested that name to the team.
• Jūgen Hui named the black giant Ultraman Lucifer and ordered the team to search for traces of him and other Giant Statues.
• Daigo left without meeting Lina for their planned movie and went to find the Time Machine, where Yulian helped him understand his destiny.

Daigo and Shinjoh detected a fast-moving object that landed near the high-purity energy storage station at Kashima Beach, where Rigelgon attacked. Rigelgon absorbed the station’s energy and escaped into the sky, leaving Daigo unable to transform while Shinjoh watched.

• Daigo wondered who Ultraman Lucifer was, while Yulian could not answer because she knew nothing about Chang Wei.
• After the monsters’ attack, Director Zejin ordered the Victory Team and TPC to prepare old Earth Defense Force weapons, and Daigo and Shinjoh went on patrol in a modified Victory Swallow.
• Daigo and Shinjoh spotted an unidentified object descending toward the high-purity energy storage station at Kashima Beach, and Captain Jūgen Hui alerted the station and sent Chang Wei and Lina to support them.
• The object landed in the water, and Rigelgon emerged and advanced on the station as Daigo and Shinjoh attacked it with beam cannons.
• Rigelgon destroyed the station’s Defense System, drained its high-purity energy, and blasted into the sky while Daigo could not transform with Shinjoh nearby.

The GUTS team discovered that Rigelgon had transformed from Jiputa 3 after a mysterious light consumed the spacecraft and its astronauts. Chang Wei urged the team to find a way to track Jiputa 3 and defeat the monster, leaving Neri to search for its signal.

• The team questioned how the DCS System had been shut down, and Captain Jūgen Hui said only Dr. Jiang Qi, its inventor, could bypass its safeguards.
• Chang Wei argued that humans should not rely entirely on Ultramen, and Daigo privately wondered who among the team might be an Ultraman.
• Dr. Jiancun’s analysis showed that Rigelgon’s fragments contained material from Jiputa 3’s hull.
• Chang Wei suggested checking the astronauts’ personal computers, and Neri found Dr. Ezaki’s recording describing how a mysterious light consumed Jiputa 3 and transformed it into Rigelgon.
• Chang Wei urged the team to defeat Rigelgon to free the astronauts and asked Neri to track Jiputa 3’s signal.