Chapter Summaries

Bai Pu used his authority in the Holy Roman Expeditionary Force to send scout teams into nearby regions and gather intelligence on powerful aberrant monsters. He learned Mad Zen had entered the world with the Blood Ring Fortress faction, while Overlord’s team might also be present, leaving the two factions poised for a more complicated conflict.

• Bai Pu received Main Quest 1 and permission to deploy the Expeditionary Force’s scouts, then found blue bracers in a treasure chest.
• Bai Pu used his reputation and silver ingots to motivate the scouts, divided them into teams, and sent them to investigate Skåne, Karlsk, and Kalmar.
• Blood Spider teased Bai Pu for using the scouts to investigate powerful monsters, and Bai Pu explained that gathering intelligence was within his authority.
• Mad Zen contacted Bai Pu by walkie-talkie and said he had chosen the Blood Ring Fortress faction to gather information for Bai Pu’s class-change mission.
• Mad Zen reported that Overlord’s team might be among the groups entering the world, and he and Bai Pu agreed to coordinate across opposing factions.

Bai Pu liberated enslaved Blood Ring people from five plantations and used their treasure to strengthen his resources. An observation log led him to identify Ista Town as the settlement governing the plantations and estimate its location.

• Bai Pu sent Blood Spider to scout with the unit while he pursued his class-change mission alone.
• Bai Pu killed the elite soldiers at five plantations, prompting the enslaved Blood Ring people to rebel and travel toward Malmo City with the food.
• Bai Pu opened five Blue Treasure Chests, gaining Spirit Energy Points, blue equipment, and an Ista District Observation Log: Blood Mist Butcher.
• Bai Pu inferred that the plantations formed five outstretched fingers and estimated that Ista Town lay about twenty degrees north by east on his map.

Bai Pu found Ista Town burning and learned that an attack had killed its residents and the Blood Ring forces there. The Spirit Realm Will conscripted him to clear an Otherworld Time-Space Node at the Flesh Factory, and he set out after telling Mad Zen to join him.

• Bai Pu reached Ista Town and found burning sheds, dead Plague Dead overseers, and no living people nearby.
• The Spirit Realm Will conscripted Bai Pu into the Spirit Realm War and assigned him the Scavenger Mission to clear the Otherworld Time-Space Node at the Flesh Factory.
• Bai Pu found a dying mother in a doctor's home and learned that fish-like monsters had killed her family.
• Bai Pu promised to avenge the family, contacted Mad Zen, and told him to head for the Flesh Factory.
• Bai Pu ran toward the Flesh Factory and passed the bodies of more Plague Dead and two dead Blood Ring Hammer Knights.

Bai Pu infiltrated the Flesh Factory in Ista Town and discovered Otherworld Travelers fighting Mad Rhino Lutz while guarding a time-space node. When Bai Pu entered the adjoining workshop, a third Traveler revealed itself and restrained him.

• Bai Pu found the Blood Ring Plague Dead guards at the Flesh Factory gate dead and received a Spirit Realm prompt pointing toward the time-space node.
• Bai Pu saw Mad Rhino Lutz battling two fishlike Otherworld Travelers and learned that killing them could earn Honor Points.
• Bai Pu identified Lutz as a powerful Blood Ring leader whose armor and skills made him difficult for the Travelers to defeat.
• Bai Pu circled the workshop before entering, where a third Otherworld Traveler activated a restraining force around him.
• Bai Pu realized the third Traveler had stayed behind to protect the node while the other two purged Ista Town.

Bai Pu fought the octopus-headed Otherworld Traveler guarding the Time-Space Node, but was overwhelmed by his powerful ice and control abilities. As the Blood Mist Butcher burst into the workshop, the octopus head faced a new threat.

• Bai Pu broke free of the water prison with Evil Spirit and used Wind Riding Slash to approach the octopus-headed Otherworld Traveler guarding the Time-Space Node.
• Bai Pu revealed the Time-Space Node and struck it twice while using it as cover, but the octopus head blinded and immobilized him before blasting him away with a Void Ice Spike.
• The octopus head drank a recovery potion rather than finishing off Bai Pu, prioritizing the Time-Space Node and preparing for other enemies.
• The Blood Mist Butcher smashed through the workshop wall, entered with his serrated greatsword, and fixed his gaze on the octopus head.

Bai Pu lured the Blood Mist Butcher to the workshop and feigned serious injury to make Octopus Head face the monster. Octopus Head summoned oceanic fighters, but the Blood Mist Butcher began slaughtering them and regenerating from their deaths.

• Bai Pu poured Rare Blood-scenting powder into the Flesh Factory's blood barrels and smeared foul ointment on himself to attract the Blood Mist Butcher while avoiding its attention.
• Bai Pu pretended that Octopus Head's Void Ice Spike had badly wounded him, using imitation blood and his Icy Body ability to conceal his true condition.
• The Blood Mist Butcher arrived and attacked Octopus Head, who activated his set skill and summoned a group of oceanic subspecies.
• The Blood Mist Butcher activated Slaughterhouse, killing a Lobsterfolk soldier and eating its tail as his wounds rapidly healed from the damage he received.

Bai Pu destroyed the Otherworld Time-Space Node despite Octopus Head’s desperate attack, completing his mission and earning a Black Iron Medal, the rank of Corporal, and a translation function. The node’s destruction erased the other Otherworld Travelers, while Octopus Head, Mo Shate, vanished vowing revenge.

• Octopus Head slowed Blood Mist Butcher with ice spells while Bai Pu recovered and attacked the Time-Space Node.
• Octopus Head redirected his summoned creatures to stop Bai Pu, but their attacks failed to interrupt him.
• Mad Zen arrived and engaged the two other Otherworld Travelers as Bai Pu continued damaging the node.
• Octopus Head sacrificed his Water Vine Staff to launch a strengthened Void Ice Spike, but Bai Pu endured it with his shield and defenses.
• Bai Pu shattered the Time-Space Node and received a Black Iron Medal, the rank of Corporal, and Stellan Star’s translation function.
• The two weaker Otherworld Travelers disintegrated, while Mo Shate vanished after declaring himself blessed by Mu Sulu and vowing revenge.

After Mo Shate vanished, Bai Pu let Mad Zen flee from Blood Mist Butcher so he could preserve his mission evaluation, then fought and took control of Mad Rhino Lutz. With Blood Mist Butcher expected to return, Bai Pu prepared to kill him and learned more about military ranks and the Black Iron Medal.

• After Mo Shate disappeared, Blood Mist Butcher turned on Bai Pu and Mad Zen, but Bai Pu refused to fight him alongside Mad Zen to protect his mission evaluation, so Mad Zen ran.
• Bai Pu confronted Mad Rhino Lutz, fought him until he was severely wounded, and used pure blood to replace the Blood Ring Curse Seal's control.
• Bai Pu's Limit Breaker title raised Lutz's Fighting and Two-Handed Swordsmanship specializations to Advanced Level 7, and Bai Pu selected new effects for both.
• Bai Pu ordered Lutz to retrieve information and alchemical medicines for dealing with Blood Mist Butcher, who was expected to return to the Flesh Factory.
• Bai Pu checked his military rank and Black Iron Medal, learning that the medal was required for promotion from Staff Sergeant to officer and should not be exchanged for Honor Points.

Bai Pu obtained the Inertia Potion formula and used it to weaken the Blood Mist Butcher before confronting him alongside Mad Rhino Lutz. The battle began with Bai Pu holding off the monster and landing a poison attack that bypassed its resistance.

• Bai Pu learned that military rank could be exchanged for rare items and received the Inertia Potion formula and materials from Mad Rhino Lutz.
• Bai Pu checked in with Mad Zen, who reported escaping the Blood Mist Butcher while it devoured corpses in Ista Town.
• The Blood Mist Butcher entered the Flesh Factory basement, drank potion-laced mimetic blood, and smashed the containers after realizing it was counterfeit Rare Blood.
• Mad Rhino Lutz ambushed the Blood Mist Butcher with Whirlwind Slash, but the monster shattered the attack and sent him flying.
• Bai Pu blocked the Blood Mist Butcher's strike with his Spider Demon Tower Shield and used Manticore's Thorn to poison it through its resistance.

Bai Pu used advanced swordsmanship, poison, and the Golden Bull Horn Armor’s Gravity Ball to wear down Blood Mist Butcher while avoiding his attacks. After Earth Shatter forced Mad Rhino Lutz to withdraw, Blood Mist Butcher had lost over half his Health Points and unleashed Piercing Roar.

• Bai Pu repeatedly poisoned Blood Mist Butcher with shallow cuts while using his swordsmanship and shield to evade or block the butcher’s attacks.
• Mad Rhino Lutz slowed Blood Mist Butcher with Ring of Shock, but Blood Mist Butcher used Earth Shatter to blast Bai Pu and Lutz away.
• Bai Pu suffered heavy damage from Earth Shatter, while Lutz was severely wounded and had to withdraw from the fight.
• Bai Pu activated Flesh Armor and used Gravity Ball’s shifting pull to disrupt Blood Mist Butcher’s attacks as the butcher lost over half his Health Points.
• Blood Mist Butcher unleashed Piercing Roar, blasting the workshop with sound waves.

Bai Pu endured Blood Mist Butcher’s attacks, pursued him when he fled, and killed him after setting a trap with his sword. He took the corpse to bring to Qin and won several valuable rewards, including Blood Mist Butcher’s Chainsaw Sword.

• Bai Pu used Keratinous Skin and Unstable Shield to survive Blood Mist Butcher’s Chain Cutting, then focused on reading and dodging his attacks.
• Blood Mist Butcher’s strength waned as Bai Pu’s blade drained his vitality, and he fled when his Health Points fell below 20%.
• Bai Pu chased Blood Mist Butcher, tripped him with his sword, and killed him with a pair of critical strikes to the neck.
• Bai Pu chose to store Blood Mist Butcher’s corpse and bring it to Qin rather than place the Living Tissue of the Source Heart inside it.
• Bai Pu opened Blood Mist Butcher’s treasure chest and received 12,339 Spirit Energy Points, an A-Grade Enhancement Card, Nore’s Old Pocket Watch, and a Lucky Bag that granted 40,000 Spirit Energy Points.
• Bai Pu obtained the sealed Hero-grade Blood Mist Butcher’s Chainsaw Sword, which provided 30 Armor Penetration and a powerful armor-breaking attack.

Bai Pu activated a side quest to find Alchemy Master Norel at Kalmar Fortress, then returned to Malmo and shared an academic exchange with Qin. Blood Spider brought back an observation log, and Bai Pu revealed that he had already killed the Blood Mist Butcher, leaving her shocked by how much he had progressed.

• Bai Pu used Nore's Old Pocket Watch to activate the Silver Side Quest Buried Truth, which tasked him with finding Alchemy Master Norel at Kalmar Fortress.
• Bai Pu decided to postpone infiltrating Kalmar Fortress until he had advanced his main quest, then returned to Malmo exhausted from his battle with the Blood Mist Butcher.
• Bai Pu met Qin at her alchemy laboratory and taught her about the Inertia Potion during an academic exchange.
• Blood Spider returned with an observation log from the Signa District, and Bai Pu explained how such logs could reveal an Aberrant's appearance patterns.
• Bai Pu told Blood Spider that he had killed the Blood Mist Butcher, leaving her astonished by his growth since the Three Kingdoms: Red Cliffs scenario.

Bai Pu taught Blood Spider about mission strategy, explained why Qin could not join their class advancement mission, and finished the Blood Ring reconnaissance objective. While waiting for Qin’s potions, he trained with Blood Spider until Qin interrupted them in an embarrassing position.

• Blood Spider asked how Bai Pu found Ista Town, and he explained how the Blood Ring’s Post Roads could have led her there.
• Bai Pu said he would wait for Qin to finish researching potions before heading to find Scarlet Wing, and explained why Qin could not join his mission.
• Blood Spider reasoned that they might encounter the Blood Ring’s Awakened in the Signa District, but Bai Pu said they could still pursue Scarlet Wing if the faction captured her first.
• Bai Pu mapped the Blood Ring’s deployments across Skåne, Karlsk, and Kalmar, completing Main Quest 1 before deciding to wait for Duke William before submitting it.
• Blood Spider sparred with Bai Pu and taught him Advanced Fighting, but Bai Pu used his strength to tackle her and pin her down.
• Qin interrupted and teased Bai Pu and Blood Spider about their position, and Bai Pu embarrassed Blood Spider further by saying the leather armor had made it feel like nothing.

Bai Pu received Qin’s modified Inertia Potions and other supplies before Hidden Snake’s team ambushed Scarlet Wing with a Harpoon Cannon. The harpoon pinned her wing, but she broke into the fight and lunged at Golden Butterfly.

• Qin gave Bai Pu two modified Inertia Potions tailored to Scarlet Wing and Grand Duke Bergen, along with several Alchemy Potions.
• Hidden Snake’s team used Golden Butterfly’s illusion to conceal Awakened on the cliffs while anesthetic weakened Scarlet Wing as she fed on farmers.
• Green Headscarf fired a Harpoon Cannon and pierced Scarlet Wing’s wing, while a second shot missed.
• Night Wing’s subordinates reeled in the cable as Hidden Snake, Golden Butterfly, Night Wing, and File confronted Scarlet Wing.
• Scarlet Wing attacked Hidden Snake, evaded the team’s counterattacks, and then lunged toward Golden Butterfly.

Bai Pu and Blood Spider arrived as Hidden Snake’s team fought Scarlet Wing, a Level 6 enhanced leader, and chose to observe rather than risk lowering Bai Pu’s mission evaluation further. Scarlet Wing overwhelmed the Awakened fighters, leaving File disarmed and draining his blood as Hidden Snake struck her from the shadows.

• Hidden Snake’s Upper Spin Slash launched Scarlet Wing into the air, while Night Wing shot her in the eyes and she tore the barbed spear from her wing.
• Bai Pu and Blood Spider arrived, and Bai Pu decided to watch the fight while prioritizing the chance to obtain Scarlet Wing’s corpse.
• Scarlet Wing’s Super Wave Oscillation knocked Hidden Snake and Golden Butterfly unconscious, but Hidden Snake used Shadow Walk to escape her bite.
• Scarlet Wing’s speed and combat skill overwhelmed Night Wing and File, and she severed both of File’s arms.
• Hidden Snake emerged behind Scarlet Wing and wounded her with a shadow-infused attack, but Scarlet Wing seized File and drained his blood, growing more ferocious.

Bai Pu watched Hidden Snake’s team fight Scarlet Wing before Overlord arrived and demanded a duel. Bai Pu agreed to a Spirit Realm-notarized wager and entered a sound-muffling vine circle with Overlord, who wielded a golden halberd.

• Bai Pu explained that Hidden Snake’s team was poorly suited to fighting a lifesteal-heavy Reinforced Elite because its tank was too fragile.
• Blood Spider sensed three people approaching, and Bai Pu recognized the leading figure as Overlord, accompanied by Uncle Yi and Uncle Cui.
• Overlord challenged Bai Pu to a duel and threatened to reveal his position to Hidden Snake if he refused.
• Bai Pu accepted the duel and demanded a Spirit Realm-notarized wager: if Bai Pu won, Overlord’s team would leave the Spirit Realm.
• Uncle Cui grew Ghost Breath Vines around the dueling ground while Uncle Yi maintained a Mental Shield, and Bai Pu faced Overlord’s golden halberd.

Bai Pu fought Overlord, using his durability and quick weapon changes to keep the stronger hero on the defensive. As Overlord charged his ultimate skill, a sniper shot interrupted him and struck his lower back.

• Bai Pu blocked Overlord’s halberd with a tower shield, then slipped inside his reach and traded blows with him.
• Overlord used lightning-enhanced attacks and Dance of Steel, but Bai Pu’s high Endurance kept him from being knocked away.
• Bai Pu broke Overlord’s shield with Mountain-Crushing and followed with Wind Seeking, forcing Overlord to retreat under repeated strikes.
• Overlord began charging Yellow Heaven’s Arrival, while Bai Pu prepared an insulating coating and tried to interrupt him with Whirling Throw.
• A sniper bullet pierced Overlord’s defenses and struck his lower back, prompting Bai Pu to identify the attacker as Mad Zen.

Bai Pu defeated Overlord after Mad Zen’s sniper shot interrupted their duel, then joined Scarlet Wing’s fight against Hidden Snake’s team. He targeted Golden Butterfly but was confronted by Hidden Snake, whose Black Iron Lieutenant rank suppressed Bai Pu and barred him from using spatial items for 300 seconds.

• Mad Zen’s sniper shot broke Overlord’s ultimate move, allowing Bai Pu to launch a five-slash attack that forced Overlord to escape with an item.
• The Spirit Realm Will canceled the duel’s stakes because of outside interference, and Yi left with the other surviving Awakened.
• Bai Pu and Mad Zen charged Hidden Snake’s team after the sniper shot alerted them, with Bai Pu targeting Golden Butterfly while Scarlet Wing fought Hidden Snake.
• Bai Pu saw through Golden Butterfly’s illusions and drove her backward with a blade strike and a boosted charge.
• Hidden Snake intercepted Bai Pu, matched his attack, and used his Black Iron Lieutenant authority to suppress Bai Pu’s rank, preventing him from using spatial items for 300 seconds.

Bai Pu held off Hidden Snake while Scarlet Wing and the allied teams turned the battle against Hidden Snake’s forces. Hidden Snake escaped with Golden Butterfly and Night Wing, leaving Bai Pu to regroup as Mad Zen hunted the fleeing Awakened.

• Hidden Snake attacked Bai Pu with twin swords, but Bai Pu endured the assault while continuing to wound Golden Butterfly.
• Mad Zen, Blood Spider, and Mad Rhino Lutz attacked Hidden Snake’s teammates, while Scarlet Wing drained Green Headscarf alive.
• Hidden Snake used a whistle to prompt Golden Butterfly to heal and speed up him, herself, and Night Wing, who carried Golden Butterfly away by gliding.
• Bai Pu blocked Hidden Snake’s Upper Spin Slash as Hidden Snake escaped, and Scarlet Wing pursued the fleeing core members.
• Bai Pu acknowledged Hidden Snake’s advantage, and Blood Spider reassured him that he had lasted impressively long against the assassin.
• Mad Zen killed one fleeing Awakened and urged Bai Pu to use his area-slowing skill so they could catch more enemies.

Bai Pu prepared to ambush Scarlet Wing, using Blood Spider’s observation log to locate her nest and a new special effect on Unstable Shield to improve his chances. He and Mad Rhino Lutz caught Scarlet Wing inside her cave, but she recovered from their opening attack and faced them down.

• Bai Pu declined Mad Zen’s offer of help, recovered with Qin’s potion, and rode toward the forests of Signa District with Blood Spider acting as lookout.
• Bai Pu’s Wind Riding Slash reached Level 3 and Unstable Shield reached Level 4, giving him a special effect that bolstered his plan to kill Scarlet Wing.
• Scarlet Wing returned to her cliffside nest carrying an unconscious human girl after failing to catch Hidden Snake.
• Scarlet Wing sensed someone hiding in her cave, but Qin’s improved Inertia Potion burst into yellow smoke and made her cough.
• Bai Pu and Mad Rhino Lutz rushed from hiding and blocked Scarlet Wing’s path, but she quickly adapted to the smoke and prepared to fight.