Chapter Summaries

Meng Chao and Lü Siya led the exhausted survivors in a desperate rooftop battle against the insect horde, with escape seemingly impossible. As an Abyss Giant Scorpion cornered them, a crimson spear pinned it down, and a blazing griffin descended from the sky.

• Meng Chao joked about lifting the survivors into the air, then charged the monster wall with the last bullets and his battle saber as Lü Siya attacked with her Rock Dragon.
• The survivors fought back with whatever weapons they had, but more insect monsters climbed onto the rooftop and surrounded them.
• Lü Siya offered to escape with Meng Chao, but he refused to abandon the survivors; after another Heaven Realm cultivator was struck down while trying to fly away, Lü Siya returned to fight beside him.
• An Abyss Giant Scorpion leaped onto the rooftop, forcing Meng Chao and Lü Siya to face it despite their exhaustion.
• A crimson spear pierced and pinned the Abyss Giant Scorpion, and a blazing griffin descended through the night sky.

Meng Chao helped repel the monster assault on the Imperial Grand Hotel as powerful fighters and reinforcements arrived. Afterward, he spent his Contribution Points to heal and strengthen himself, reaching the threshold of the Four-Star Spirit Vibration Realm and coming within half a step of the Heaven Realm.

• Li Yingzi killed the Abyss Giant Scorpion, and Luo Wu arrived to cut down monsters attacking the rooftop.
• Qingtian Corporation's Fire God Assault Team, Crimson Dragon Army armored airships, and other reinforcements joined the defense and overwhelmed the monsters.
• Meng Chao reviewed his combat gains in the medical camp and earned 170,000 Contribution Points from the battle.
• Meng Chao spent 100,000 Contribution Points to heal his injuries and boost his Spiritual Energy, advancing to the Four-Star Spirit Vibration Realm.
• Meng Chao realized he was half a step from the Heaven Realm and felt eager to return to battle.

After the battle at the Imperial Grand Hotel, Meng Chao recovered, learned that Xiao Fanghua and her newborn twins were safe, and promised to find Zhao Feixuan. As he prepared to leave the search to other fighters, he noticed the monsters had selectively targeted the 101 Project experts and questioned how they had identified them, leaving a possible clue to the ambush unresolved.

• Lü Siya told Meng Chao that their rescue had succeeded, reinforcements had arrived, and the team leader would cover for their false military report.
• Meng Chao visited Xiao Fanghua and learned that she had safely given birth to twins; when she asked about Zhao Feixuan, he promised to find him.
• Lü Siya urged Meng Chao to rest while the authorities and powerful fighters searched for Dr. Lu Tianxing and the anomalous beast mastermind.
• Meng Chao noticed that the monsters had spared most hotel guests and staff while targeting the 101 Project team, and he questioned how the Insectoids had identified their targets in the battlefield conditions.

Meng Chao and Lü Siya investigated how the monsters had identified and captured the Transmigration Seminar attendees. Their tests confirmed that the commemorative badges had been deliberately altered, narrowing the search for Blue Homeland’s mole to those who made or distributed the badges and a survivor who stayed with Dr. Lu Tianxing.

• Meng Chao reasoned that a mole among the survivors could have guided the monsters to Dr. Lu Tianxing, but that alone did not explain how the monsters tracked every attendee.
• Meng Chao realized the seminar’s commemorative badges could have marked the attendees and identified the people who made or distributed them as suspects.
• Meng Chao and Lü Siya tested a badge from a survivor at the medical camp.
• Lü Siya detected weak radioactivity in the badge that might have made its wearer conspicuous to Insectoids.
• Meng Chao’s reagent revealed biological material in the badge, confirming that it had been tampered with.

Meng Chao traced the dangerous badges back to Zhou Tianshui and tried to capture him, but Zhou escaped after detonating a flashbang in the ambulance. Their chase ended with Zhou releasing a stream of pale green gas at Meng Chao.

• Meng Chao learned from Xiao Fanghua that Zhou Tianshui had supplied the commemorative badges, identifying him as the likely mole who had helped the anomalous beasts target the 101 Project team.
• Meng Chao and Lü Siya rushed to the medical camp, but Zhou had already left in an ambulance after passing his infection screening.
• Meng Chao caught up with the ambulance and approached Zhou Tianshui, while Lü Siya and the Fire God Assault Team moved to surround it.
• Zhou Tianshui detonated a concealed flashbang, blasting the ambulance apart and injuring its occupants before fleeing.
• Meng Chao pursued Zhou and exchanged blows with him, but Zhou escaped his restraint and inflated his body before spraying pale green gas at him.

Meng Chao followed Zhou Tianshui through a hidden passage beneath the subway, hoping to track him to the anomalous beast mastermind. In an abandoned tunnel, Zhou’s trail vanished, and Meng Chao was attacked by a scaled humanoid monster bearing Zhou’s face.

• Meng Chao and Lü Siya let Zhou Tianshui escape after secretly marking him with a Tracking Potion, then Lü Siya agreed to alert headquarters while Meng Chao pursued him.
• Meng Chao followed Zhou’s trail into a closed subway station and discovered a concealed shaft leading to an abandoned tunnel beneath the modern subway.
• Meng Chao tracked Zhou through a wrecked Earth Era train, passing the remains of passengers who had died during Dragon City’s crossing.
• Zhou’s trail vanished in the second-to-last carriage, where Meng Chao was ambushed by a powerful attacker.
• Meng Chao recognized the attacker as a humanoid monster with Zhou Tianshui’s face, bronze scales, bone spurs, claws, and a heavy tail.

Meng Chao fought the transformed Zhou Tianshui, who defended his attack on the Imperial Grand Hotel as a necessary step toward Dragon City's expansion. Rejecting Zhou's argument, Meng Chao overwhelmed him with a relentless barrage of heavy punches.

• Meng Chao shattered his saber against Zhou Tianshui's scales, then struck him with a chain-wrapped fist and sent him flying.
• Zhou Tianshui got back up and claimed he had betrayed no one, arguing that Dragon City had to conquer outward and that the 101 Project wasted resources.
• Zhou Tianshui explained that he wanted to kill Transmigration Experts and disable the 101 Project so Dragon City would abandon the Homeland Faction and commit everything to expansion.
• Meng Chao considered Zhou's argument but rejected it and charged him with both fists.
• Meng Chao unleashed a rapid series of heavy punches that cracked Zhou Tianshui's scales and battered his internal organs.

Meng Chao fought Zhou Tianshui before discovering that the real Gao Ye was waiting in the abandoned tunnel. Gao Ye defeated him with a shattering ultrasound attack, but Meng Chao awoke cocooned underground and planned to recover with Strange Fire.

• Meng Chao battered Zhou Tianshui until Zhou severed his tail and tried to escape, but Meng Chao struck him through an abandoned subway train.
• Meng Chao detected the enormous Gao Ye in the tunnel and realized Gao Ye was the real Earthquake and the anomalous beasts’ main brain was nearby.
• Meng Chao tried to stall Gao Ye with conversation, then attacked by leaping toward Gao Ye’s throat.
• Gao Ye trapped Meng Chao between his fangs and used a shattering ultrasound that broke Meng Chao’s chains and knocked him unconscious.
• Meng Chao awoke suspended upside down inside an Insect Cocoon, badly injured, and resolved to use Strange Fire to recover and continue the fight.

After healing from Gao Ye’s attack, Meng Chao discovered that the captives, including Dr. Lu Tianxing and Zhao Feixuan, were still alive and reasoned that Gao Ye’s mind might remain unconditioned. A powerful spiritual presence stirred the abandoned station as the Other Beasts’ Main Brain began to emerge.

• Meng Chao healed his injuries with the Strange Fire and realized Gao Ye’s attack had brought him closer to breaking through into the Heaven Realm.
• Meng Chao spotted Dr. Lu Tianxing, Zhao Feixuan, and other captives suspended in Insect Cocoons, all apparently alive.
• Meng Chao assessed the surrounding monsters and considered how to delay the enemy, noting that Gao Ye might still resist the Other Beasts’ control.
• Meng Chao concluded that Gao Ye’s body had been conditioned but his mind might not have been, leaving a chance to turn him against the Other Beasts.
• A powerful mental presence shook the abandoned station, and dozens of high-level monsters made way as a tentacle dragged the Main Brain out of the tunnel.

Meng Chao recognized the tentacled creature as the Abyss Demon Eye and realized it had pushed Lin Chuan, Gao Ye, and Zhou Tianshui’s beliefs to violent extremes. The Abyss Demon Eye overlooked Meng Chao, then devoured Zhou Tianshui after he celebrated their failed plot.

• Meng Chao identified the creature as the Abyss Demon Eye when his quest progress increased, and recalled how it amplified people’s buried thoughts into obsessive Mind Imprints.
• Meng Chao concluded that the Abyss Demon Eye had driven Lin Chuan, Gao Ye, and Zhou Tianshui to extremes by corrupting ideas that had once held reasonable aims.
• Wounded Zhou Tianshui urged the Abyss Demon Eye to kill Meng Chao and destroy the Homeland Faction, while Meng Chao hid his strength and endured its scrutiny.
• The Abyss Demon Eye withdrew its gaze from Meng Chao and wrapped its tentacles around Zhou Tianshui, who realized too late that it was going to consume him.
• The Abyss Demon Eye devoured Zhou Tianshui, and Meng Chao recognized that the exposed infiltrator was no longer useful to the abnormal beasts.

Meng Chao realized the Abyss Demon Eye was exhausted and interrupted its feeding by drawing its attention to himself. As they communicated mind-to-mind, the Demon Eye questioned what humans and monsters truly were and proposed that they explore the mysteries of life together.

• Meng Chao deduced that the Abyss Demon Eye had paused to recover after exhausting itself controlling the Insectoids, and worried that feeding on captives would restore its strength.
• When the Abyss Demon Eye reached for another captive, Meng Chao struggled and pretended to be burning out his own mind to lure it away from its prey.
• The Abyss Demon Eye approached Meng Chao, touched his temples with its tentacles, and spoke directly into his mind in the voice of a young girl.
• Meng Chao tested the creature's mind-reading ability and learned that it could sense thoughts he focused on, so he filled his mind with irrelevant information while questioning it.
• The Abyss Demon Eye said it did not know what it truly was and asked why humans and monsters had awakened to wisdom, then suggested they cooperate to seek answers about life and the worlds.

Meng Chao debated Abyss Demon Eye’s claim that humans and monsters had grown stronger through their mutual slaughter, while resisting its mind-control. He realized that the vision of the Frost Giants came from the hidden memories of Doomsday Meng Chao, not from Abyss Demon Eye.

• Abyss Demon Eye raised questions about humanity’s origins and destiny, drawing Meng Chao into deep thought and subtly weakening his guard.
• Meng Chao recognized that Abyss Demon Eye was using mind control, but pretended to engage with it so he could stall for time.
• Abyss Demon Eye argued that humans and monsters had cultivated one another through conflict and could unite to conquer the Otherworld.
• Meng Chao briefly entertained the idea of an alliance before catching himself and noticing that the vision included the distant Frost Giants.
• Meng Chao concluded that the Frost Giants and the thoughts behind the vision came from Doomsday Meng Chao.

Meng Chao realized Abyss Demon Eye had been probing the darkness within his soul, where Doomsday Meng Chao’s memories and ruthless instincts lay buried. As Abyss Demon Eye’s bewitchment stirred those instincts and amplified his spiritual power, Meng Chao understood it had unleashed something it could not control.

• Meng Chao suspected Abyss Demon Eye had prolonged their conversation because it was fascinated by his soul, not because it feared his attempts to stall.
• Meng Chao reflected on how his reborn self and Doomsday Meng Chao coexisted, and how his past-life memories had gradually influenced his personality and actions.
• Meng Chao recognized that Abyss Demon Eye had sensed the radical ideas within him and was trying to persuade him that humans and monsters should unite.
• Under the bewitchment, Meng Chao heard his own thoughts argue that the war had strengthened both civilizations and that survival justified merging with Monster Civilization.
• Meng Chao felt his spiritual power surge as his buried extreme thoughts emerged, and realized Abyss Demon Eye had summoned a beast it could not control.

Meng Chao resisted the Abyss Demon Eye’s mental assault until Li Yingzi, Luo Wu, and the Fire God Assault Team arrived to fight it and Gao Ye. The Abyss Demon Eye escaped behind an illusion, and as Gao Ye unleashed an ultrasonic attack, Meng Chao warned the others to watch out.

• The Abyss Demon Eye abandoned its attempt to control Meng Chao and attacked him with its tentacles, but he broke free and survived.
• Meng Chao realized that the Abyss Demon Eye’s mental disruption might let Gao Ye regain his self-awareness, while the demon sent swarms of Insectoids against him.
• Li Yingzi and Luo Wu burst into the station, followed by Lü Siya and the Fire God Assault Team, and their attacks forced the Abyss Demon Eye and Gao Ye to retreat.
• The Abyss Demon Eye created an illusion of the station collapsing to conceal its escape, while Gao Ye blocked the tunnel entrance.
• Meng Chao warned Li Yingzi and Luo Wu about Gao Ye’s ultrasonic pulverizing attack as its invisible waves swept through the station.

Meng Chao pursued the wounded Gao Ye and Abyss Demon Eye into the tunnels, fearing the Demon Eye had learned too much from his memories. With Lü Siya at his side, he found a passage transformed by a nearby illusion, leaving them inside a grotesque, living-looking tunnel.

• Li Yingzi and Luo Wu blocked Gao Ye’s ultrasonic attack, but the Abyss Demon Eye commanded the insects to swarm them and escaped with Gao Ye.
• Lü Siya and the Fire God Assault Team rescued Dr. Lu and the other captives, while Meng Chao insisted on pursuing the wounded fugitives.
• Meng Chao explained that the Abyss Demon Eye might have accessed his memories of the apocalypse and decided it had to be silenced.
• Lü Siya joined Meng Chao as they followed the fugitives’ trail through a collapsed tunnel and found a passage leading deeper underground.
• The tunnel became covered in writhing, plasma-seeping folds, and Meng Chao realized the Abyss Demon Eye was nearby.

Meng Chao and Lü Siya fought the exhausted Abyss Demon Eye and Gao Ye, then Meng Chao tried to break the monster's control over Gao Ye by appealing to his humanity. Gao Ye attacked him repeatedly, but Meng Chao realized the Abyss Demon Eye was continuously controlling him and believed its depleted strength might give Gao Ye a chance to resist.

• Meng Chao and Lü Siya shattered the Abyss Demon Eye's crude illusion with gunfire and Incendiary Bombs.
• Meng Chao urged Lü Siya to stay close and drain the exhausted Abyss Demon Eye's remaining strength rather than let it escape.
• The Abyss Demon Eye stopped using illusions and directed Gao Ye to attack them with the Super Sandworm's feeding cavity.
• Meng Chao lowered his weapons and pleaded with Gao Ye to resist the monster, but Gao Ye blasted him with a firestorm that hurled him into a rock wall.
• Meng Chao asked Lü Siya to scan the Abyss Demon Eye and concluded that its rising temperature and mental link showed it was continuously controlling Gao Ye.
• Meng Chao again appealed to Gao Ye's human soul, but Gao Ye fired a barrage of rocks at him, forcing Lü Siya to shield him.

Meng Chao and Lü Siya realized the Abyss Demon Eye was exhausting itself by forcing Gao Ye to attack, so Meng Chao used his healing arts to endure the assault and appeal to Gao Ye’s original purpose. Gao Ye showed signs of awakening, but the Abyss Demon Eye tightened its mental control over him.

• Meng Chao deduced that the Abyss Demon Eye’s forced control over Gao Ye was taxing its main brain and that Gao Ye was resisting its orders.
• Meng Chao explained that his healing arts would let him trade injuries with Gao Ye while wearing down the Abyss Demon Eye.
• Meng Chao confronted Gao Ye and condemned the destruction and deaths caused by his actions.
• Meng Chao blocked Gao Ye’s charge with the Demon Subduing Pestle, was hurled into Lü Siya, then healed himself and returned to Gao Ye.
• Meng Chao urged Gao Ye to prove that a human soul could control a monster’s body and fulfill its mission, rekindling a different light in Gao Ye’s eyes.
• The Abyss Demon Eye convulsed and sent its command to kill Meng Chao directly through its mental control link to Gao Ye.

Meng Chao urged Gao Ye to resist the Abyss Demon Eye and endure its control, while his Spirit Energy awakened and strengthened him enough to withstand Gao Ye's Ultrasonic Wave. Gao Ye broke the Demon Eye's mental shackles and struck back, but the wounded creature immediately surged toward his head.

• Meng Chao resisted Gao Ye's Ultrasonic Wave and urged him to reclaim his humanity, arguing that ordinary people and Transcendents could work together.
• Meng Chao's accumulated Spirit Energy surged through his body, tempering him until he could speak through the attack.
• Lü Siya withdrew behind collapsed rocks while Meng Chao stayed beside Gao Ye and encouraged him through his struggle.
• Gao Ye convulsed as his human soul fought the Abyss Demon Eye's control, then shattered its mental shackles and inflicted a backlash on the Demon Eye.
• The Abyss Demon Eye shrank but enlarged its tentacles and crawled toward Gao Ye's head.

Meng Chao and his allies fought to stop the Abyss Demon Eye from taking over Gao Ye and the Super Sandworm. Gao Ye sacrificed himself to break the Demon Eye’s final Mind Attack, giving Meng Chao the strength to drive the Golden Scythe’s Blade Limbs into its eye.

• The Abyss Demon Eye pierced Gao Ye and began directly controlling the Super Sandworm’s body, while Meng Chao struggled to get past its tentacle defenses.
• Lü Siya attacked the Abyss Demon Eye from behind, drawing its attention and giving Meng Chao an opening to strike.
• Meng Chao stabbed the Demon Eye’s eyeball, but its membrane stopped the Blade Limbs as tentacles trapped him and the Demon Eye unleashed a powerful Mind Attack.
• The Super Sandworm slammed its head into the tunnel ceiling, interrupting the Demon Eye’s attack, and Gao Ye sacrificed his spirit to shatter the illusion.
• Gao Ye’s sacrifice filled Meng Chao with power, strengthened the cracking Blade Limbs, and let him plunge one deep into the Abyss Demon Eye’s eyeball.

Meng Chao broke through to the Heaven Realm while fighting the Abyss Demon Eye, then survived its final Mind Attack by overwhelming it with memories of his previous life. He absorbed fragments of the beast’s memories and saw a human operation marked with the symbol of Crossed Eyes sharing a single pupil.

• Meng Chao burst free of the main brain’s tentacles and drove his Spirit Flame-enhanced arm into the Abyss Demon Eye, while Lü Siya realized he had broken through to the Heaven Realm.
• The dying Abyss Demon Eye burned its brain to unleash a Mental Storm that invaded Meng Chao’s mind.
• Meng Chao’s memories from his previous life overwhelmed the Mental Storm, destroying the Abyss Demon Eye’s soul and leaving fragments of its memories behind.
• Meng Chao saw memories of the beast’s battles, its refinement in a blood pool, and its origins among ordinary Void-Rending Demon Eyes.
• Meng Chao’s final memory fragment showed a bound figure undergoing an operation while white-coated humans used a Spirit Flame-wreathed scalpel bearing the Crossed Eyes symbol.