Chapter Summaries

Wang Teng severely wounded and then killed the Eight Arms Demon General, who tried to flee across the battlefield. Absorbing its Attribute Bubbles raised Wang Teng's Spirit to King Realm, while the other human fighters remained locked in a desperate battle with the Black Nightmare Demon Lord.

• Wang Teng struck the Eight Arms Demon General with his spear, severely wounding it and shocking Yang King and the others.
• The Eight Arms Demon General attempted to flee toward the Space Rift, but Wang Teng used the Demon Citadel and his Space Talent to strike it with the Seven Stars Departing Water Sword Art.
• The Eight Arms Demon General died from the sword strike, while the Black Nightmare Demon Lord intensified its attacks on Tantai Xuan and the other human fighters.
• Wang Teng collected the Attribute Bubbles from the Eight Arms Demon General and advanced his Spirit to King Realm.

Wang Teng absorbed the Eight Arms Demon Body and strengthened his physical power, vitality, and recovery, but the human defenders were nearing defeat against the Black Nightmare Demon Lord. As the grand array began to activate, Golin called out to Wang Teng.

• Wang Teng absorbed the Eight Arms Demon Body, gained its physical enhancements, and raised his Eight Extremes Devil Art to great success.
• Yin Tongfang was smashed into a deep pit, and Wang Teng saw that Tantai Xuan and the other human War General Level Martial Artists were struggling against the Black Nightmare Demon Lord.
• More human War General Level experts were knocked down, deepening the despair among the defenders as Wang Teng urged Golin and the others to finish the array.
• The grand array trembled as runes lit across the thirteenth Lightning Attraction Pillar, and Golin shouted Wang Teng's name.

Wang Teng activated the Ten Thousand Thunder Nirvana Array and endured its lightning strikes, gathering Thunder Power to fight the Black Nightmare Demon Lord. As the array began to threaten her, he held her off long enough for Golin and the Rune Grandmasters to activate the Yi Wood Fire Fusion Array, which ignited with Wang Teng’s Azure Jade Glazed Flame.

• Wang Teng and the twelve Rune Grandmasters activated the Ten Thousand Thunder Nirvana Array as human fighters renewed their assault.
• Wang Teng drew repeated lightning strikes, absorbing Thunder Element Source Power and feeding Thunder Power into the array.
• The Black Nightmare Demon Lord attacked Wang Teng, while Tantai Xuan and the other War General Level fighters tried to stop her and were driven back.
• Wang Teng used the array’s lightning to shatter the Demon Lord’s sword beam and keep her at bay, then asked Golin and the Rune Grandmasters to activate the Yi Wood Fire Fusion Array.
• Golin and the Rune Grandmasters activated the second array, and Wang Teng’s Azure Jade Glazed Flame spread through it.

Wang Teng used Azure Flame within the Yi Wood Fire Fusion Array to trap and relentlessly attack the Black Nightmare Demon Lord. As she grew enraged, she began a drastic transformation.

• Azure Flame filled the array, astonishing the Rune Grandmasters and forcing the Black Nightmare Demon Lord to retreat.
• Tantai Xuan, Yang King, and the other injured experts used the opening to recover while Wang Teng controlled the array.
• Wang Teng formed Azure Flame chains and spears that repeatedly grazed the Black Nightmare Demon Lord and kept her from reaching him.
• The War General Level experts joked and argued over matching Wang Teng with their daughters, while the Rune Grandmasters asked Golin to let them study his Azure Flame.
• The Black Nightmare Demon Lord roared, surged with Black Light, and began transforming.

Black Nightmare Demon Lord transformed into a monstrous, chaotic creature and attacked Wang Teng, while he used his King Realm Spirit to protect the humans and fought back with Azure Flame. As the flames failed to stop her, Wang Teng gathered more Thunder Power, forming the shape of a Thunder Beast.

• Black Nightmare Demon Lord began demon transformation, frightening the Darkness Breeds into fleeing from the battlefield.
• Wang Teng unleashed King Realm Spirit to counter her chaotic spiritual impact and warned the human martial artists to close their eyes.
• Wang Teng gathered Thunder Power through the Ten Thousand Thunder Nirvana Array and attacked Black Nightmare Demon Lord with Azure Flame.
• Black Nightmare Demon Lord revealed her monstrous transformed body, asked Wang Teng's name, and lunged at him.
• Black Nightmare Demon Lord regenerated after the Azure Flame burned her flesh, so Wang Teng gathered Thunder Power until a Thunder Beast began to take shape.

Wang Teng pushed the Ten Thousand Thunder Nirvana Array to its limits as the Black Nightmare Demon Lord survived his attacks and grew stronger by absorbing Darkness Breed. Despite his body cracking under the strain of drawing in more lightning, Wang Teng completed four colossal lightning beasts, which met the Demon Lord’s destructive black beam in a clash that shattered space.

• Wang Teng summoned a Thunder Beast that intercepted the Black Nightmare Demon Lord’s attack and protected him from its flesh fragments.
• The Thunder Beast dissipated after destroying many of the Demon Lord’s fragments, but a blood-red eyeball revealed that the Demon Lord had survived.
• The Black Nightmare Demon Lord absorbed fleeing Darkness Breed and formed a larger, more terrifying body.
• Wang Teng drew more lightning into the array despite his body cracking, while four lightning beasts took shape.
• The Lightning Dragon, Thunder Tortoise, Thunder Phoenix, and Thunder Beast Qilin unleashed a combined lightning pillar against the Black Nightmare Demon Lord’s black beam, and the collision shattered space.

Wang Teng and the Black Nightmare Demon Lord fought a desperate beam clash as the Ten Thousand Thunder Nirvana Array collapsed around them. After replenishing himself with Attribute Bubbles and Healing Pills, Wang Teng unleashed a final strike that broke the demon’s black beam and engulfed her in lightning.

• Wang Teng drew on heavenly thunder to strengthen the four thunder beasts and push his purple lightning beam against the Black Nightmare Demon Lord’s black beam.
• The shockwaves cracked and destroyed the Lightning Attraction Pillars, collapsing the Ten Thousand Thunder Nirvana Array and leaving its Thunder Power berserk.
• As his body cracked and his strength failed, Wang Teng collected Attribute Bubbles from the battlefield and swallowed Healing Pills to recover.
• Wang Teng restrained the unstable thunder beasts with his Emperor Realm Mental Power and merged them into his lightning beam for a final strike.
• Wang Teng’s enlarged lightning beam shattered the Black Nightmare Demon Lord’s black beam and swallowed her as the faces on her body screamed.

Wang Teng killed the Black Nightmare Demon Lord and ended the battle, but as everyone celebrated his victory, a sudden attacker knocked him into a spatial fissure. A bloody streak followed him into the void, leaving Tantai Xuan and the others unable to rescue him.

• Wang Teng and the Black Nightmare Demon Lord's clash shattered the surrounding space, and the Black Nightmare Demon Lord vanished when the lightning subsided.
• The warriors confirmed that the Black Nightmare Demon Lord was dead, and the battlefield erupted in cheers as everyone praised Wang Teng for saving them.
• Wang Teng admitted he was too injured and exhausted to move, while Tantai Xuan offered to help him down.
• An unseen attacker struck Wang Teng from behind, sending him toward the still-open spatial cracks.
• Wang Teng used his Space Talent to tear open the unstable space and vanished into the void, followed by a streak of bloody light.
• Tantai Xuan tried to rush into the fissure, but Yang King stopped her and warned that the chaotic rift would kill her.

A cautious little creature living in a dangerous forest discovered an apparently dead, badly wounded stranger occupying its burrow and debated whether to flee. After it kicked the stranger, he awakened and fixed his bright eyes on it.

• The little creature tried to catch a Dark Green Lizard-like creature for dinner, but its numb legs caused it to fall into a mud pit and lose its prey.
• The little creature returned to its hidden burrow, where an injured stranger had appeared two days earlier without leaving signs of entering.
• Unable to tell whether the stranger was alive, the little creature worried about moving, then kicked him in frustration.
• The stranger opened his eyes, and the frightened little creature backed toward the entrance as he stared directly at it.

Wang Teng woke injured in a cave and realized he had been dragged into a place saturated with Darkness Source Power, possibly the Darkness World. He recovered overnight while the frightened, starving childlike creature watched him.

• Wang Teng remembered that Black Nightmare Demon Lord had survived and sent him through a Space Rift after their battle.
• Wang Teng restrained the little creature with Darkness Source Power and questioned it, but learned only that they were in a forest.
• Wang Teng used healing medicine from his Space Ring and spent the night recovering while the little creature stayed in the cave.
• Wang Teng roasted Star Beast Meat with his remaining Fire Source Power, and the sleeping little creature drooled at the smell.

Wang Teng reviewed the massive gains he had collected from the battle while recovering in the wilderness with the starving little creature that had sheltered him. He ended by worrying about the friends and family he had left behind before closing his eyes to heal.

• Wang Teng gave the hungry little creature a piece of roasted meat, and it devoured it gratefully.
• Wang Teng checked his Attribute Panel and found that his comprehension and Spirit had reached the King Realm, his Battlefield Awareness had risen to 9-Star, and many of his talents had improved.
• Wang Teng discovered that his Five Elements Source Powers had reached 9-Star, his Darkness Source Power had advanced to the 10-Star War General Level, and his Thunder Element Source Power had climbed to 9-Star.
• Wang Teng reviewed the Heaven-rank cultivation methods and battle techniques he had obtained, along with the Azure Jade Glazed Flame.
• Wang Teng thought of Ironclad Flame Scorpion, Little White, Tantai Xuan, and his family, then stopped dwelling on them and continued recovering from his injuries.

At a high-level military conference, the leaders discussed the worsening threat from the Darkness Breeds and Wang Teng’s fate after the battle at Star Maple City. They confirmed he was still alive, vowed to prioritize rescuing him, and promoted him to Major General despite concerns about his age.

• A burly old general warned that the Darkness Breeds were becoming more active as conflicts continued at the Northern Border and Star Maple City.
• Tantai Xuan confirmed that Black Nightmare Demon Lord had survived and taken Wang Teng into the Darkness World, but Little White’s spirit pet contract showed that Wang Teng was still alive.
• The three senior leaders praised Wang Teng’s role in the Star Maple City battle and agreed that humanity should spare no effort to rescue him.
• Tantai Xuan explained that the other world had awarded Wang Teng the title of Honorary Earl for his contributions.
• The burly old general proposed promoting Wang Teng to Major General, and the thin old man finalized the decision despite objections that the rank was excessive for an eighteen-year-old.

After recovering from his injuries, Wang Teng left the cave and took Little Thing with him through the forest in search of water. At a lake, he forced Little Thing to bathe and killed a giant black fish that attacked him.

• Wang Teng blasted through the cave ceiling and accidentally destroyed Little Thing's nest.
• Wang Teng told Little Thing to follow him, and it hurried after him into the forest.
• Wang Teng tested Little Thing's speed as they traveled toward a lake, despite its warning that the area was dangerous.
• Wang Teng used his Mental Power to toss the frightened Little Thing into the lake, then jumped in to wash.
• A giant black fish attacked Wang Teng, but he killed it with a Dark Wind Bullet and continued bathing.

After killing a black fish, Wang Teng discovered that Little Thing was a girl named Zi Ye and took her with him out of the forest. They encountered four Vampire Darkbreed who mistook them for Mixed Blood Breeds, and Wang Teng attacked them after they demanded he kneel.

• Wang Teng collected two Attribute Bubbles after killing the big black fish, then told Little Thing to wash herself.
• Wang Teng realized Little Thing was a girl, decided to keep her with him, and flew out of the forest with her.
• Little Thing told Wang Teng her name was Zi Ye and said her mother had brought her to the forest.
• Wang Teng and Zi Ye encountered four Vampire Darkbreed, who called them Mixed Blood Breeds and demanded that Wang Teng kneel to Pure Blood Breeds.
• Two Vampire Darkbreed attacked Wang Teng, and he slapped them away before the four threatened him with banishment from the Abyss World.
• Wang Teng struck all four Vampire Darkbreed with Darkness Source Power, leaving them bloodied and afraid as they demanded to know who he was.

Wang Teng interrogated four Blood Race members and learned about the divide between Pure Blood and Mixed Blood Darkness Breeds. After discovering their true purpose, he killed them and disguised himself as Snow Viscount.

• Wang Teng defeated the four Blood Race members, forced their leader Snow Viscount to answer questions, and learned about the hierarchy between Pure Blood and Mixed Blood Breeds.
• Wang Teng used Bewitch Heart on Snow Viscount and discovered that the group’s purpose was not hunting.
• The four Blood Race members fled, but Wang Teng killed them with the Meteor Cone and collected their attribute bubbles.
• Wang Teng changed his appearance and told Zi Ye to call him Snow Viscount.

Wang Teng disguised himself as Snow Viscount and entered Graystone Town with Zi Ye, settling into Snow’s castle to learn about the Abyss World. Their meal was interrupted when an unknown figure crashed through the bedroom window.

• Wang Teng took Snow Viscount’s ring and an ancient Beast Skin Scroll from the slain Blood Race, then burned the bodies and flew toward Graystone Town with Zi Ye.
• Wang Teng entered Graystone Town disguised as Snow Viscount, passed the guards, and found Snow’s castle while Zi Ye drew suspicious stares from the townspeople.
• Wang Teng told the castle’s butler, Annie, not to disturb him, then searched the bedroom for anything unusual before reading a book about the Abyss World.
• After Zi Ye said she was hungry, Wang Teng roasted Star Beast Meat and shared a meal with her under the scarlet full moon.
• An unknown figure crashed through the bedroom window while Wang Teng and Zi Ye were eating.

Wang Teng captured a Mixed Blood Breed old man who had broken into the room and learned that he intended to rescue young Mixed Blood Breeds from Graystone Town. The old man mistook Wang Teng for Snow Viscount and pleaded for Zi Ye, while Wang Teng insisted she would stay with him.

• A cloaked man broke into Wang Teng and Zi Ye’s room, but Wang Teng restrained him with Mental Power when he tried to flee.
• Wang Teng and Zi Ye finished their meal while the captive watched, then Wang Teng removed the man’s hood and recognized him as a Mixed Blood Breed.
• Wang Teng used Bewitch Heart to learn that the old man had come to rescue young Mixed Blood Breeds and that several hundred Mixed Blood Breeds lived in Graystone Town.
• After the old man regained consciousness, Zi Ye said Wang Teng was not Blood Race, but the old man dismissed her and pleaded with Wang Teng to spare her.
• Wang Teng said Zi Ye would stay with him, and the old man begged him to remember that she was still a child.

Wang Teng pressured Rodney into believing his claim of having half Blood Race blood, then forced him to take a poison pill and investigate nearby towns with Space Rifts. After Rodney returned to his fellow Mixed Blood Breeds, they decided to help Wang Teng and see what he intended to do.

• Wang Teng changed his appearance and claimed he possessed half of the Blood Race bloodline, then threatened to kill Rodney until the old man agreed to believe him.
• Wang Teng made Rodney swallow a poison pill and ordered him to investigate towns with Space Rifts, requiring him to return every seven days for an antidote.
• Wang Teng asked Zi Ye whether she wanted to leave with Rodney, but she refused because she thought Rodney was too weak.
• Rodney returned to a safe house in Graystone Town and told the assembled Mixed Blood Breeds that Snow Viscount had been replaced by a powerful impostor.
• Rodney and the others decided to help Wang Teng find information about Space Rifts and learn what he planned to do.

Wang Teng learned that the Darkness World had a history of destroying other worlds and discovered that the Abyss World was only a lower realm within it. After Rodney found a possible Space Rift in Black Crow City, Wang Teng decided to travel there and agreed to meet the Mixed Blood Breeds’ Mutual Aid Society first.

• Wang Teng read about the Darkness Breeds’ ancient races and their destruction of other worlds, then realized the Abyss World was not the core of the Darkness World.
• Rodney reported that the nearest possible Space Rift was in Black Crow City, and Wang Teng decided to leave for the city the next day with him.
• Wang Teng gave Rodney a month’s supply of antidote and agreed to meet the Mixed Blood Breeds’ Mutual Aid Society that night.
• Wang Teng disguised himself as a Mixed Blood Breed, took Zi Ye with him, and followed Rodney through the air toward the meeting place in Graystone Town.

Wang Teng, posing as Purple King, won over the Mutual Aid Society in Graystone Town and traveled with Zi Ye and Rodney to Black Crow City. At a tavern there, he defeated Dalle with one punch after Dalle injured Rodney, leaving the Mixed Blood Breeds stunned by his strength.

• Wang Teng introduced himself as Purple King to the Mixed Blood Breeds in Graystone Town and promised them supplies and assistance through his Snow Viscount identity.
• Wang Teng, Zi Ye, and Rodney left Graystone Town aboard a Source Power Airship and reached Black Crow City after nightfall.
• Rodney brought Wang Teng and Zi Ye to a Mixed Blood Breed tavern, where Dalle mocked Rodney for calling Wang Teng a lord.
• Rodney challenged Dalle but was struck in the stomach and sent flying before Wang Teng caught him.
• Wang Teng punched Dalle once, defeating the 5-Star War Soldier Level fighter and shocking the tavern crowd.