Chapter Summaries

Chen Nan set out to prepare the Nature Masters for battle and scout the outside world, crafting a disguise so he could investigate safely. After confirming a wanted man’s crimes and taking his face with the Thousand Faces artifact, Chen Nan was disgusted by the resulting mask and began to doubt his plan.

• Chen Nan decided to send the students who had not reached Path Entry outside to cultivate, after first checking whether the world beyond the botanical garden was safe.
• Chen Nan made the cruel Thousand Faces disguise, and Yang Yugan disapproved but kept quiet.
• Chen Nan left the botanical garden, searched the internet for obscure murderers, and tracked a suspected killer to Malong Suburb.
• Chen Nan captured the man, used mental pressure to confirm his crimes, and pressed Thousand Faces onto his face until it formed a skin mask.
• Chen Nan held the mask and felt sick, questioning whether his plan was worth carrying out.

Chen Nan used a dead man’s face to disguise himself, investigated the former Qingyang Kingdom, and confirmed that Transcendent cultivation remained possible despite Demonic Orc rule. He returned to the botanical garden with hope that the students could safely cultivate after the hunt for Nature Masters eased.

• Chen Nan disguised himself with the dead man’s facial skin, destroyed the corpse, and teleported away without leaving evidence.
• Chen Nan found a Transcendent Academy still operating in a core city and learned that cultivation remained available under Demonic Orc rule.
• Chen Nan secretly contacted Chen Shimei, who reported that Su Luoyu was protecting Jiang Lili and the others while pretending to have returned to her Lineage.
• Chen Nan decided to wait about a year for the hunt for Nature Masters to subside, then returned to the botanical garden and reassured its residents that the students could cultivate outside.
• Yang Yugan privately asked whether Chen Nan’s promises were true, and Chen Nan assured him that the students would have opportunities to cultivate.

After more than a year of cultivation, Chen Nan left the botanical garden to prepare for the next stage of his plans. In the ruined districts of Qingyang Kingdom, he saw the suffering under Demonic Orc rule and resolved to wait calmly for an opportunity to act.

• Fifteen Nature Masters entered the Unity stage, including Lin Xi, who wanted to accompany Chen Nan outside but accepted his advice to stay hidden.
• Chen Nan left the botanical garden in disguise and returned to the former Qingyang Kingdom, where Demonic Orcs enjoyed privilege while humans were treated as slaves.
• Chen Nan gathered information about the humans’ oppression and entered the ruined settlement known as Rotten Graveyard.
• Chen Nan saw starving, hopeless people living amid filth and death, and felt responsible for failing to prevent their suffering.
• Chen Nan controlled his anger and decided to wait for a real opportunity rather than act recklessly.

Chen Nan took a porter job to enter the Demonic Orcs’ inner city and secretly contacted Chen Shimei, arranging a future meeting. He accompanied an Orc noblewoman on her shopping trip and began exploring the mall while waiting for a chance to act.

• Chen Nan learned that job flyers offered humans a way into the inner city, then accepted a job carrying a noblewoman’s purchases.
• Chen Nan and four other humans endured invasive cleaning and preparation in the buffer zone before being taken into the city’s inner ring.
• Chen Nan used the Phantom Network to message Chen Shimei, who filmed his home so Chen Nan could teleport there safely.
• The Orc noblewoman arrived, and Chen Nan’s group followed her into a luxurious mall.
• Chen Nan saw a statue of the Free Orc Woman in the mall’s grand hall, then followed the noblewoman into a store.

Chen Nan accepted the Orc noblewoman’s invitation to become her lover, then killed her in bed after they were alone. He laid her body out to look asleep and began using an unexplained method on her corpse.

• The Orc noblewoman favored Chen Nan while they shopped, gave him food and clothes, and invited him to her home.
• Chen Nan used the name Zou Qi at dinner, where the noblewoman offered to connect him with Orc elites if he became her lover.
• After confirming her husband was away, the noblewoman dismissed the household and took Chen Nan to her bedroom.
• When the noblewoman pressed down on him, Chen Nan snapped her neck and arranged her body beneath the blanket to look asleep.
• Chen Nan stared at the corpse, climbed back onto the bed, and placed a hand on her forehead with his eyes closed.

Chen Nan learned from the dead female Orc that the Demonic Orcs had uncovered seven manufactured gems with powers capable of challenging Nature Masters. He devised a plan to disrupt the Demonic Orcs while using recorded battles to train the Nature Masters, then escaped before the female Orc's husband discovered him.

• Chen Nan probed the female Orc's consciousness and learned that the Demonic Orcs had found a civilization's ruins on Karst Star and suffered devastating losses exploring them.
• Chen Nan learned the seven gems' powers and discovered that the Demonic Orcs had manufactured them, raising the threat they posed to the Nature Masters.
• Chen Nan decided to create chaos for the Demonic Orcs and use AI System battle recordings for holographic combat training, followed by real-world practice for the Nature Masters.
• At dawn, Chen Nan heard a servant announce the master's return and left with a spatial shift before the male Orc arrived and ordered the door opened.

After killing the Orc mistress, Chen Nan escaped and learned the Demonic Orcs had issued a warrant for him. They planned to slaughter every human in the rundown district, and Chen Nan prepared to retaliate against the Orcs.

• A servant discovered the female Orc mistress dead with her neck twisted, and the investigators concluded that a stronger intruder had been in the bedroom.
• The investigation identified Chen Nan as a murder suspect, and the city began hunting for him.
• Chen Nan decided to act alone and punish the Demonic Orcs for their crimes rather than forgive them.
• Chen Nan returned to the rundown district and used the internet to learn that the Demonic Orcs planned to slaughter all the humans there.

After the Demonic Orcs massacred thousands of people in the former Qingyang Kingdom, Chen Nan changed his face to evade the worldwide manhunt and began planning retaliation. He chose explosives for an attack on the densely populated Duomanao complex, but still needed to obtain or make them.

• Ye Zifeng, a former Qingyang Kingdom resident and Demonic Orc slave, publicly praised the Demonic Orcs’ punishment and called for humans to submit.
• Demonic Orc patrol officers and robots massacred people in a ruined district and broadcast the slaughter worldwide.
• Chen Nan seized a soul during the massacre, used it with Thousand Faces to create a new face, and adopted another identity.
• Chen Nan asked Chen Shimei for information about Demonic Orc civilian residences and learned that the recent massacre had killed more than eight thousand people.
• Chen Nan selected Duomanao, a residential complex with more than nine thousand residents, as his target and decided to use explosives, though he had not yet obtained or made them.

Chen Nan disguised himself as a delivery rider and planted explosive Rune Talismans in twenty-four buildings occupied by Demonic Orcs, then detonated them and announced the attack as retaliation for their killings of other intelligent beings. The devastation sparked fear among Demonic Orc civilians, and the next day the Demonic Orc United Nations president began addressing the massacre but could not read his prepared speech.

• Chen Nan secretly made thirty explosive Rune Talismans and used a Heavenly Eye-like spell to find a delivery rider who could enter the residential district freely.
• Chen Nan stole the rider’s belongings, trapped his soul in the Spirit Shattering Mirror, and used the rider’s identity to deliver orders and plant talismans in all twenty-four buildings.
• Chen Nan returned the rider’s soul, then broadcast a message condemning the slaughter of ordinary people and warning that the explosions were retaliation for Demonic Orc killings.
• Chen Nan detonated the talismans, destroying all twenty-four buildings and killing more than one thousand Demonic Orcs as the disaster spread into the surrounding area.
• Demonic Orc officials launched an investigation but could not identify who caused the explosions or how they had been carried out, while civilians grew fearful of further retaliation.
• The Demonic Orc United Nations president stood before reporters the next day and said he could not deliver his prepared speech because its words reminded him of the dead.

After another massacre killed two thousand people, Chen Nan resolved to retaliate against the Demonic Orcs and the fifteen human Transcendents who carried it out. He waited for them to lower their guard, then went to the first Transcendent’s home to uncover who had ordered the killings.

• The Demonic Orc president framed the earlier massacre as an act of intimidation and vowed to eliminate the remaining obstacle to freedom.
• The Demonic Orcs planned another massacre to lure Chen Nan out, assigning human Transcendents to carry it out so they could shift the blame.
• Chen Nan watched the slaughter, memorized the fifteen human Transcendents involved, and let the situation settle before planning his retaliation.
• After another two thousand people died, Chen Nan decided to kill the fifteen traitors and two thousand Demonic Orcs, while seeking the mastermind behind the killings.
• Chen Nan used his ability to question a soul as he began investigating the human Transcendents, then arrived at the home of the first target.

Chen Nan captured a Transcendent who had been massacring Qingyang Kingdom civilians and forced him to confess who ordered the killings. After the man named Durut, director of the city's Population Control Department, the Spirit Shattering Mirror shattered and the captive died.

• Chen Nan confronted a Transcendent in his home and asked who had ordered him to kill Qingyang Kingdom civilians.
• The Transcendent tried to resist, but Chen Nan subdued him with the Spirit Shattering Mirror and tortured him until he agreed to talk.
• The Transcendent confessed that Lord Durut of the Kroya Kingdom, the city's Population Control Department director, had assigned the massacres, but said he knew of no one behind Durut.
• Chen Nan forced the Transcendent to call Durut a huge bastard, then the Spirit Shattering Mirror shattered and the man died.

Chen Nan hung a victim’s head from a flag outside the Population Control Department and posted a video threatening further killings, triggering a mass flight from the city. The department’s leader, Durut, ordered his subordinates to capture Chen Nan as the crisis escalated.

• Chen Nan hid the head he had taken and went at night to the Population Control Department, which he knew had used plagues and political violence to control populations.
• Chen Nan hung the head from a flag outside the department, uploaded a video, and threatened to kill fifteen human Transcendents before taking one life for each Qingyang Kingdom civilian killed.
• Demonic Orc civilians panicked and fled the city as photos of the head spread online.
• Durut gathered the Population Control Department’s key members and ordered them to capture Chen Nan, vowing to publicly torture him.

Durut prepared to catch Chen Nan by assigning Gem Warriors to guard the eleven human Transcendents, while Chen Nan arranged for the Nature Masters to begin training at a hidden cultivation site. After transporting them there and reassuring Yang Yugan, Chen Nan left to check on his father.

• Durut ordered eleven Gem Warriors to hide near the human Transcendents and wait for Chen Nan.
• Chen Nan received Chen Shimei's message that the training site and equipment were ready, then decided to prioritize moving the Nature Masters there.
• Chen Nan and Yang Yugan teleported the group to the guarded mining region while Yang Yugan concealed the area with an illusion.
• Chen Nan and Yang Yugan returned to the botanical garden, where Chen Nan told his master he might do reckless things and asked him not to blame him.
• Yang Yugan promised to bear the guilt for Chen Nan, and Chen Nan left to check on his father.

Chen Nan instructed more than one hundred trainees, then assured Chen Shimei that he was safe before hiding and resting for three days. He began targeting another Demonic Orc, using a delivery route and a space spell to reach her home, where the woman opened the door dressed in transparent clothing.

• Chen Nan met Chen Shimei, Su Luoyu, and the trainees, then gave the trainees cultivation guidance and entrusted their care to Chen Shimei and Su Luoyu.
• Chen Shimei asked whether Chen Nan was behind the events outside, and Chen Nan confirmed it before leaving to keep his father out of danger.
• Chen Nan hid in a ruined alley and cultivated for about three days before choosing a second target at random.
• Chen Nan tracked a parcel delivery route, followed the deliveryman using Spatial Overlap, and reached the target woman's home.
• The woman opened the door in revealing transparent clothing, and Chen Nan moved to intervene before the deliveryman lost control.

Chen Nan killed the woman during his escape from a hidden Demonic Orc hideout, then posted her head outside the Population Control Department as his second warning. Kaba and Luxi realized their enemy could use spatial magic and saw Chen Nan's challenge online.

• Chen Nan emerged from the deliveryman, subdued the woman, and searched the house until an orc named Kaba came out of a hidden compartment.
• Kaba attacked with his Disintegration Gem and blasted the woman apart, while Chen Nan protected himself and kept her head intact.
• Chen Nan struck Kaba hard enough to force him back, then used a displacement spell to escape before reinforcements arrived.
• Luxi questioned Kaba about Chen Nan's apparent spatial magic, and the orcs decided to report the encounter to the Population Control Department.
• The orcs found Chen Nan's online image of the woman's head hanging from the department's second flagpole, accompanied by a threat to send stronger opponents.

Durut’s department reviewed footage of Chen Nan and debated his identity and abilities, while Chen Nan continued his campaign against the Demonic Orcs. After eliminating all nine human lackeys, he left the Population Control Department’s flagpoles bearing their heads, and opposition to the Demonic Orcs began to surface online.

• Kaba and Luxi returned to headquarters with footage of Chen Nan, but the recording first exposed Kaba’s private encounter with a woman and embarrassed him in front of the department.
• Durut’s staff found that Chen Nan did not match any known Nature Master, then speculated that he was a powerful hidden figure; Kaba said he saw no sign of a disguise.
• Chen Nan returned to cultivate and prepare for about seven days before setting out to attack another target.
• Chen Nan killed the remaining human lackeys one by one and hung their heads on the Population Control Department’s nine flagpoles.
• People shared a composite image of the heads online and voiced opposition to the Demonic Orcs, while Chen Nan resolved to keep resisting them.

Chen Nan challenged the Demonic Orcs’ last two targets despite their elaborate defenses, using the Time Watch and Vajra Gourd to strike at one of them. He escaped the room’s destructive trap by activating the watch and returned to his original location, leaving the Demonic Orcs baffled by what they had witnessed.

• The Demonic Orcs fortified the final two human residences with disintegration rays and spatial gems, then publicly dared Chen Nan to attack.
• Chen Nan prepared for three days and planned a swift assault using his Time Watch and Vajra Gourd.
• Chen Nan entered one residence through a window, captured its human Transcendent with the Vajra Gourd, and raised his Adamantine Shield against the disintegration rays.
• Chen Nan pressed the Time Watch after twenty-three seconds and vanished as the rays destroyed the room and collapsed the building.
• Chen Nan returned to his original location, while the Demonic Orcs could not explain how he had escaped.

Chen Nan killed both Demonic Orc targets and displayed their heads at the Population Control Department, publicly humiliating the Demonic Orcs. After identifying the mysterious attacker as almost certainly Chen Nan, Musk ordered a sweeping search of the city, putting Chen Nan’s students at risk.

• Chen Nan emptied the Vajra Gourd and sent the first target’s head to the Population Control Department, where he hung it on a flag and posted timestamped photos and videos online.
• The Demonic Orcs gathered in the former Qingyang Kingdom to review footage, and Father Su pointed out similarities between the attacker and Chen Nan.
• Musk ordered technicians to compare the attacker’s physical traits and defensive skill with Chen Nan’s, while Chen Nan launched another attack before the Demonic Orcs could strengthen their defenses.
• The comparison showed a 99-point-something-percent match with Chen Nan, and Musk ordered a citywide search for him.
• Chen Nan killed the final target, hung the fifteenth head at the Population Control Department, and publicized the kill online.

Chen Nan reached the Void Realm, ended the conflict on Kabudan Planet, and restored the Nature Masters to greatness. He then left with Lin Xi to roam the Great Void, while his legend spread across the universe.

• Chen Nan reached the Void Realm and scolded the masterminds in the West and East for meddling in mortal affairs.
• Chen Nan subdued the Demonic Orcs, and peace returned to Kabudan Planet.
• Under Chen Nan's leadership, the Nature Masters became Kabudan Planet's greatest civilization, and he was hailed as the sole Great Sage Grandmaster.
• Chen Nan took Lin Xi with him to roam the Great Void, and they vanished without a trace.