Chapter Summaries

After Metallica accepted the Magnetism Blessing Seed, Blood Spider refused several offers to become a Reserve Chosen and chose instead to spend her divine energy on an Immortal King Set component for Bai Pu. The Seven Kill Divine Envoy revealed Xi Lou and his two green set pieces, but raised the price if Bai Pu wanted to choose between them.

• Metallica became a Reserve Chosen of the Lord of Magnetism and thanked Bai Pu for helping him keep eighteen Coulomb Divine Energy.
• Blood Spider declined the Divine Envoys' offers, despite the Wushan Goddess urging her to choose one, and said she wanted an Immortal King Set component.
• The Wushan Goddess realized Blood Spider wanted to give the component to Bai Pu, who urged her to choose benefits for herself instead.
• The Seven Kill Divine Envoy summoned Xi Lou, who produced two Immortal King Set components he had brought when trying to recruit Bai Pu.
• The Seven Kill Divine Envoy priced each component at ten Coulomb Divine Energy and said choosing either one would cost more.

Bai Pu accepted the Iron Horned Helmet of the Immortal King from Blood Spider and helped her obtain a way to escape any Awakened Spirit Realm. The Seven Kill Divine Envoy offered a fourth Immortal King Set piece for Bai Pu’s next sacred artifact, but Bai Pu proposed a different deal involving his Glory necklace and Doomsday spear.

• Bai Pu accepted the Iron Horned Helmet of the Immortal King from Blood Spider, then arranged for her to exchange two units of divine energy for a Blessing of the Source Water Lord.
• The Seven Kill Divine Envoy told Bai Pu that trading his next sacred artifact would earn him the Iron Chest Armor of the Immortal King, twenty units of divine energy, and information about the other set pieces.
• Bai Pu offered the Glory necklace to the Seven Kill Divine Envoy without asking for the extra twenty units of divine energy.
• Bai Pu revealed that he also had the Doomsday spear and asked the Divine Envoys to value their help in converting it into equipment usable by Awakened.

Bai Pu asked the Divine Envoys to convert a sacred artifact into equipment for him, but they refused because the task exceeded their capabilities. He turned to the Spirit Realm Will with the same request, which answered, “Impossible.”

• Bai Pu offered a sacred artifact as payment for having another converted into equipment, but the Divine Envoys refused and said only their Deities could do it.
• The Seven Kill Divine Envoy offered Bai Pu 30 units of Coulomb Divine Energy and the Iron Chest Armor of the Immortal King for a sacred artifact, but Bai Pu rejected the deal.
• The Pitfall Divine Envoy suggested that Bai Pu contact the Spirit Realm Will before he and Metallica departed.
• Bai Pu explained to Wushan Goddess and Blood Spider that he had expected the Divine Envoys to refuse and believed the Spirit Realm Will could convert the artifact instead.
• Bai Pu requested that the Spirit Realm Will change the Scavenger Mission reward to convert the Doomsday spear for his use, and it replied, “Impossible.”

Bai Pu learned that the sacred artifact spear Doomsday could be converted into King-rank equipment, though its requirements exceeded even Wushan Goddess’s abilities. He secured its conversion as a Scavenger Mission reward and rose to lieutenant, then considered pursuing a higher military rank to gain greater access to the Spirit Realm Will.

• The Spirit Realm Will showed Bai Pu Doomsday’s equipment requirements, and Wushan Goddess confirmed she could not meet them.
• Bai Pu learned that a few Awakened might wield King-rank equipment and insisted that Doomsday be made the Scavenger Mission’s reward.
• The Spirit Realm Will agreed to convert Doomsday after ten Earth Days of exposure to fiendish power, and Bai Pu handed over both sacred artifacts.
• Bai Pu received 1,500 Honor Points for the mission, bringing his total to 3,440 and raising his rank to lieutenant.
• Bai Pu discussed the benefits of higher military ranks with Wushan Goddess and Blood Spider, then Wushan Goddess asked which Spirit Realm Plane he planned to visit next.

Bai Pu chose to focus on Flesh Plague: World of Aberrations while he gathered tickets for other worlds, and he formed a permanent team with Blood Spider. Back at Xi Polytechnic, he mocked the proposed division of the school team’s bonus before leaving the final decision to Principal Cai Xiang.

• Bai Pu chose Flesh Plague: World of Aberrations as his priority because he had a Fief there and could pursue its remaining Legendary Point.
• Blood Spider gave Bai Pu the Three Arrows Oath, and they formed a permanent team with one slot left vacant.
• Bai Pu and Blood Spider returned to Xi Polytechnic to attend the school team’s celebration and claim its one-hundred-thousand Spirit Energy Point bonus.
• Bai Pu proposed taking eighty thousand for himself and forty thousand for Blood Spider and Xuan Pin, then said Jing Xi and another teammate should cover the twenty-thousand shortfall.
• Jing Xi showed a West Capital University post that mocked Bai Pu’s proposed split, and Bai Pu told Principal Cai Xiang to decide the distribution instead.

After Xi Polytechnic celebrated its championship, Bai Pu and Blood Spider told Principal Cai Xiang they planned to train for another year before seeking early graduation. Cai Xiang introduced them to Shi Yi, a promising young Awakened whose sword technique came from memories in her dreams.

• The team divided the remaining prize money among Bai Pu, Blood Spider, and Xuanpin, then celebrated their championship.
• Principal Cai Xiang asked Bai Pu and Blood Spider about their plans, and Bai Pu said they would train for a year before applying for graduation.
• Principal Cai Xiang promised to support them and offered Bai Pu a B-grade-or-higher Spirit Realm ticket.
• Cai Xiang brought Bai Pu and Blood Spider to meet Shi Yi, who impressed them with her sword technique despite being only level 2.
• Shi Yi told Blood Spider that she had no sword-related talent ability and learned her sword postures from memories of her past life in dreams.

Bai Pu investigated Shi Yi’s possible past-life memories, handled school and business matters, and learned that Sweden faced coordinated foreign pressure and internal opposition. He arrived in Flesh Plague: Aberration to help Qin, who showed him a state letter demanding major concessions from Sweden and marriage to the new Tsar.

• Bai Pu scanned Shi Yi and confirmed she was an ordinary human, then asked Li Ling to investigate her background with the Old Principal.
• Principal Cai named Bai Pu captain of the school team, and Bai Pu left without holding a handover ceremony.
• Bai Pu instructed Li Ling to sell obsolete items and received Mr. Ohlson’s letter about the Empress Dowager meeting Marshal Dio Fulei in Scania.
• Bai Pu traveled to Flesh Plague: Aberration, where Qin explained that foreign powers were disrupting Swedish grain imports and encouraging revolt.
• Qin told Bai Pu that nobles opposed her regency and showed him a joint state letter demanding Swedish territory, Christina’s title, and the Empire’s status be surrendered, while the new Tsar demanded that Qin marry him.

Bai Pu and Qin planned to restore Sweden’s maritime route by exploiting Denmark’s lingering Flesh Plague monsters, while Bai Pu sought a Spirit Realm ticket to extend his stay. He used a historically significant sword from his manor to enter a new quest, which required him to restore Sweden’s sea route within ten days.

• Bai Pu learned that Denmark’s navy had blockaded Sweden’s maritime trade and decided to target Denmark before dealing with Russia.
• Qin offered several of Empress Christina’s artifacts as possible Spirit Realm tickets, but Bai Pu could not use them because he did not own them.
• Bai Pu converted a decorative sword from his manor into a Spirit Realm ticket by paying 5,000 Spirit Energy Points.
• Bai Pu gained two days of free exploration time and received the A-rank Main Quest to restore Sweden’s maritime route within ten days.
• The quest offered a Blood of the Mad Lion Elixir and Swedish Empire reputation, with exile as the failure penalty.

Bai Pu traveled to Denmark’s Zealand Island to recruit wild Aberrants and build an army before confronting the enemy in Copenhagen. In Helsingør, he claimed every difficult bounty mission on the tavern wall, leaving the adventurers wary of his strength.

• Bai Pu and Qin compared the short-lived potion Qin made with the much stronger Blood of the Mad Lion Elixir he had received as a quest reward.
• Bai Pu sailed from Malmo toward Denmark, then traveled north to Helsing before crossing the Oresund Strait to Zealand Island.
• Bai Pu planned to convert wild Aberrants and strengthen his forces rather than attack Copenhagen alone.
• In a Helsingør tavern, Bai Pu overheard two Awakened discussing the remaining bounty missions and began taking notices from the wall.
• Johnson tried to stop Bai Pu from claiming multiple missions, but Bai Pu’s killing intent frightened him into backing down.
• Bai Pu left with every mission notice, and the tavern’s adventurers let him go.

Bai Pu gathered hundreds of Aberrant monsters across Zealand Island while Yayoi and Ye Zi secretly followed him. He recruited the two awakened ones to collect bounty notices from other cities, then prepared to use a cursed seal scroll on the monsters.

• Yayoi and Ye Zi followed Bai Pu from the tavern and watched him lure mutant dogs out of Helsingør Woodland with pure blood.
• Bai Pu led the monsters from settlement to settlement, gathering several hundred Aberrants as Yayoi and Ye Zi trailed him.
• Bai Pu confronted the two awakened ones and heard their offer to serve him and gather companions.
• Bai Pu issued Yayoi and Ye Zi a side quest to collect Aberrant bounty notices from every tavern on Zealand Island.
• After Yayoi and Ye Zi departed, Bai Pu took out a cursed seal scroll and looked over the assembled monsters.

Luther warned General Rudolf that a powerful Swedish infiltrator was gathering the aberrant monsters around Zealand Island and suspected the intruder was Dio Fulei himself. The monster sites were empty, and Luther believed Dio Fulei was assembling an aberrant army for an attack.

• Luther told Rudolf that Dio Fulei had defeated the bandits at Scania's Bai Song Silver Mine and might be more powerful than King Gustav with a legacy weapon.
• Rudolf described a mysterious adventurer who accepted every quest in Helsingør before quest notices disappeared from taverns across Zealand Island.
• Luther inferred that the adventurer was too powerful for anyone to challenge and asked whether the aberrant monster gathering sites had changed.
• Rudolf's investigators reported that the monster sites were empty, with no signs of battle or blood.
• Luther concluded that Dio Fulei had likely come to Zealand Island and was gathering aberrants into an army.

Bai Pu assembled nearly two thousand loyal Aberrant monsters and revealed his plan to capture Copenhagen, winning Yayoi and Ye Zi’s eager support. The army attacked the Danish capital, where Rudolf’s troops surrounded the Aberrants as the battle began.

• Luther urged Rudolf to evacuate Copenhagen and move the royal family to safety, but Rudolf refused, and Luther left to defend his homeland by other means.
• Bai Pu gathered nearly two thousand Aberrant monsters, and Yayoi and Ye Zi completed their side quest and earned his trust.
• Bai Pu told Yayoi and Ye Zi that he intended to capture Denmark’s royal capital, and both asked to join his plan.
• A Copenhagen sentry spotted the advancing Aberrant army, raised the alarm, and was killed before the watchtower’s beacon fire could stay lit.
• Rudolf assembled Danish troops and directed them into a pincer formation that surrounded the Aberrant Legion.

Bai Pu led a mounted charge that broke through the Danish Imperial Guard and sent parts of the army fleeing. General Rudolf confronted him, but Bai Pu’s Blood River Territory left Rudolf and his guards in danger.

• Bai Pu charged through the Danish troops on horseback, leading his mutant hounds and Aberrant Legion into the Imperial Guard formation.
• Bai Pu used Mountain Collapse and Earth Shatter to slice through several ranks of Imperial Guard soldiers and open a gap in their formation.
• The Danish soldiers’ morale collapsed, and many fled despite Rudolf’s orders.
• Rudolf put Boas in command and charged Bai Pu himself, meeting his sword with a Lance Thrust and following with a Shockwave.
• Bai Pu’s Blood River Territory slowed Rudolf’s personal guards, while Mountain Shattering Mystery gave him an advantage against Rudolf’s defense.

Bai Pu overwhelmed Rudolf and used the Saigon Eye to trigger explosions in Copenhagen, throwing the Danish army into confusion. He then pursued Luther, who fled using a skill that created four illusions, and the chapter ended as Luther launched a diving sword attack.

• Bai Pu used his immense strength to overpower Rudolf, while the Aberrants broke through the Danish Imperial Guard’s formation.
• Luther arrived with adventurer parties and claimed the king’s reinforcements would arrive within two hours.
• Bai Pu crushed the Saigon Eye, triggering explosions and fires in Copenhagen’s main district.
• Rudolf urged Luther to retreat to the city, but Luther refused and said he had arranged adventurers to defend it.
• Bai Pu activated Pureblood and Gene Fusion, killed two adventurers who tried to stop him, and chased Luther.
• Luther split into four black shadows to escape, but Bai Pu’s Blood River Territory and Storm Eye shattered the illusions before Luther attacked from above with Spiral Comet Strike.

Bai Pu killed Luther and Rudolf, routed the Danish forces, and took Copenhagen. As Yayoi and Ye Zi began their mission to cause chaos in the city, members of 18K arrived and ordered them to leave.

• Bai Pu killed Luther with Mountain Shattering Mystery, then defeated Rudolf and shattered his corpse with Divide the World into Three.
• The Danish soldiers' morale collapsed, and they fled toward Copenhagen as the Battle of Copenhagen ended in a Swedish victory.
• Yayoi and Ye Zi waited for the Danish Imperial Guard to leave Copenhagen before acting on Marshal Fulei's orders.
• Yayoi received the order through the Saigon Eye and detonated a Goblin Engineering Bomb, starting a blaze as the Awakened allies looted and caused chaos.
• An 18K member identified as Steel File ordered Yayoi and Ye Zi to leave Copenhagen and abandon the mission.
• Yayoi agreed aloud but continued the sabotage with Ye Zi, setting fires at new locations.

18K pursued Yayoi, Ye Zi, and their allies through Copenhagen, but withdrew after learning Dio Fulei had defeated the Danish army and killed Luther and Rudolf. Bai Pu’s Aberrant troops captured the city and its royal family, while Yayoi and Ye Zi received rewards for completing their quest.

• Black Hawk hunted Yayoi, Ye Zi, and the remaining Awakened, but 18K abandoned the pursuit after learning that Luther was dead and Dio Fulei had defeated the Danes.
• Steel File ordered 18K to flee Copenhagen and join Christian IV as Aberrant troops entered the Outer City Area.
• Yayoi and two companions led the Aberrants into the palace, where Bai Pu captured Queen Anna Katarina and the Danish princes and Princesses.
• Bai Pu met Ba Fang and acknowledged Yayoi and Ye Zi’s success in recruiting Awakened to spread unrest through the royal city.
• Yayoi received 300 Swedish Empire Army reputation, 100 Merit Points, and increased favorability with Dio Fulei.

After Copenhagen fell, Bai Pu assessed the next Danish naval threat and opened the battle’s treasure chests, finding powerful knee pads that reduced energy consumption. The three Awakened decided to sail to Sweden and asked him for a letter of recommendation to join its army.

• Ye Zi, Ba Fang, and their companion received mission-completion notifications, and Ba Fang officially joined the Swedish Empire military faction.
• Bai Pu received the reward for completing Main Quest Step 1 and calculated that Christian IV’s navy would reach Copenhagen Harbor in about ten hours.
• Bai Pu opened Luther’s and Rudolf’s treasure chests, obtaining swordsmanship insights, a Golden Enhancement Crystal, and Iron Wall Knee Pads.
• Bai Pu replaced his Black Tortoise Rock Guard Leggings with the Iron Wall Knee Pads for their energy-saving skill.
• Yayoi told Bai Pu that the three Awakened had decided to return to Sweden and asked him for a letter of recommendation to join the army.

Bai Pu persuaded Yayoi, Ye Zi, and Ba Fang to remain in Copenhagen by showing them the Triangular Swordsmanship Draft and offering them a difficult mission. The three awakened ones then led twenty Claw Predators in an assault on the Danish Royal Shipyard and confronted its commander, Moriqi.

• Ba Fang told Bai Pu that the three awakened ones wanted to return home, but Bai Pu showed them the Triangular Swordsmanship Draft and they agreed to stay in Copenhagen.
• Yayoi asked Bai Pu to give them a difficult mission, and Bai Pu agreed to test their resolve.
• At the Danish Royal Shipyard, General Moriqi learned that Dio Fulei had defeated General Rudolf and sent a magical request for help to the King.
• Yayoi, Ye Zi, and Ba Fang led twenty Claw Predators into the shipyard to destroy it, using all three of their Merit Points to obtain the monsters.
• The three awakened ones blocked Moriqi as he tried to escape by ship while the Claw Predators fought his overseer soldiers.

Bai Pu lured Christian IV’s Danish army away from its ships and into Copenhagen, where he confronted the King with his captured family and challenged him to a duel. Swedish reinforcements arrived to erase Denmark’s numerical advantage, leaving Christian to choose how to save his family.

• Christian IV arrived at Copenhagen Harbor, saw the Royal Shipyard in ruins and General Moriqi dead, and ordered his army to reclaim the city.
• Christian IV assigned Steel File, Black Hawk, and the 18K team to guard the Danish warships while he led his troops into Copenhagen.
• Bai Pu offered Christian IV a duel and revealed Queen Anna and the King’s children as captives.
• Anhalt ordered the Danish troops to charge, but Gawain and General Goodwin arrived with Swedish Aberrant armies.
• Bai Pu told Christian IV that his forces no longer held an advantage and demanded that the King choose for his family’s sake.

Bai Pu accepted Christian IV’s challenge and fought the Danish king, using his defensive abilities to withstand Aslat’s blows before turning the duel in his favor. Christian revealed Aslat’s true power as the battle continued.

• Christian IV dismounted, summoned Bai Pu to a duel, and Qin warned Bai Pu that Aslat greatly enhanced the king’s strength.
• Bai Pu and Christian exchanged blows, and Bai Pu used Blood River Territory to slow Christian and hold him to an even fight.
• Bai Pu discarded his shield and endured Christian’s axe strikes with Skin of Steel, whose reflected damage disrupted Christian’s attacks.
• Bai Pu used his Chainsaw Greatsword to cut through Christian’s armor and drive him backward with a rapid assault.
• Christian split Aslat into two one-handed axes and unleashed a blood-red whirlwind that weakened the effects of Bai Pu’s Blood River Territory.