Chapter Summaries

Tang Qi and Sally changed their roles in Norma’s Illusion World, then Tang Qi used the Life Curse to give Norma’s imprisoned personality a real body. As the new body began to collapse and corruption spread, Tang Qi forced Norma to reveal what she knew about Samuel Winston and Count’s Castle.

• Tang Qi and Sally treated Norma kindly, accompanied her to meet Samuel Winston, and stayed aboard his ship as her parents.
• After Samuel died again and Norma’s parents appeared to die in the chaos, Tang Qi returned and seized Norma as the Illusion World began to reset.
• Tang Qi used the Life Curse to grant Norma’s personality true life, causing Norma’s Sin to disintegrate and a new body to form.
• As Norma’s new body rapidly collapsed and corruption spread through her, Tang Qi questioned her about the new Immortal Count Samuel Winston and what happened at Count’s Castle.
• Norma found herself unable to resist Tang Qi’s questioning and began revealing her secrets.

Norma revealed that she was the true Immortal Count before melting away, while Scarlet Moon Day arrived early and lifted the curse surrounding Winston Town. As the Immortal Count began awakening in the ruins of Count's Castle, Tang Qi sent Sally to safety and went to face the coming threat.

• Norma confessed that she had eaten Samuel Winston, taken his identity, and become the Immortal Count, then melted and died after regaining a real body.
• The Crimson Moon appeared a day early, turning Winston Town blood-red and disrupting the factions’ plans.
• A mysterious presence shattered the Illusion Cube above the ruins of Count's Castle as Tang Qi sensed a terrifying monster awakening there.
• Sally announced that the curse had been lifted, and black mist surged around the town while the danger within the ruins grew stronger.
• Tang Qi sent Sally toward Grandma Tree Bookstore, then transformed into mist and headed toward the ruins to confront the Immortal Count.

Tang Qi sought Jensen and Dr. Raphael’s help to protect Sally and survive the looming conflict with Count Samuel Winston. After they agreed, Tang Qi sensed an even more terrifying presence inside the Church’s temporary chapel and continued toward Grandma Tree’s bookstore.

• Tang Qi entered Winston Theater and revealed himself to Jensen and Dr. Raphael, explaining that he needed their help to leave Winston Town alive.
• Jensen recognized Tang Qi but kept his hunting rifle trained on him until he lowered it and heard Tang Qi’s request.
• Dr. Raphael judged that Samuel Winston’s power was near Demigod Level and said the Church might be able to stop him, but would not necessarily help Tang Qi.
• Tang Qi explained that his interests and the Manor Bureau’s aligned against the evil forces, and Jensen accepted Tang Qi’s One-Way Iron Plate and agreed to help.
• As Tang Qi headed toward Grandma Tree’s bookstore, he sensed a terrifying aura appear and vanish inside the Church’s temporary chapel.

Esmeralda and the Melada Witch Group arrived in Winston Town, where she reunited with Sally and recognized Tang Qi as her guardian. Tang Qi urged Esmeralda to discuss Sally and the prophecy in private as a terrifying presence began awakening in the Void Nest.

• Esmeralda led the Melada Witches through a strange doorway and found the Tree Fiend granny and Sally outside a bookstore.
• Esmeralda embraced Sally, praised her growth, and joked about making her the heroine of a comic.
• Esmeralda noticed Sally's changed nature and identified Tang Qi as her guardian.
• Tang Qi analyzed Esmeralda, learned that a bloodline curse had held back her potential, and decided to speak with her about Sally and the prophecy.
• Tang Qi and Esmeralda sensed a destructive aura stirring in the Void Nest, and Esmeralda agreed to talk with him privately.

Tang Qi asked Esmeralda to lower her Soul Protection so he could verify something before revealing how to lift the Melada Witches’ curse. As Count Samuel Winston’s castle began flooding Winston Town with Crimson Seawater and the Progenitors summoned their altars, Esmeralda agreed, and Tang Qi drew her soul into an Illusory World.

• Esmeralda brought Tang Qi into her private studio, where he told her he might know how to resolve the Melada Witches’ curse.
• Tang Qi asked Esmeralda to lower her Soul Protection and explained that he needed to verify something before he could help her.
• Esmeralda showed Tang Qi an image of Winston Town as Samuel Winston’s castle appeared and Crimson Seawater began flooding the town.
• The Twelve Progenitor Descendants summoned their altars, and their power pushed back against the Crimson Seawater.
• Esmeralda agreed to lower her Soul Protection, and Tang Qi drew her soul into an Illusory World of Golden Flame and crimson.

Tang Qi questioned Esmeralda inside Crimson, and she emerged knowing how to lift the curse. As Winston Town’s residents were saved inside Kiya’s Canvas, a colossal figurehead from the warship called the Immortal appeared through the vortex.

• Tang Qi asked Esmeralda whether she was willing to kill her progenitor, and she reacted with shock.
• Esmeralda told the Witches that Tang Qi had revealed how to lift the curse and that everything would end that night.
• Jensen used Kiya’s Canvas to draw Winston Town’s residents and travelers into the painting before they drowned.
• The crimson sea erupted into tsunamis and clashed violently with the black fog as the vortex expanded.
• A gigantic monster figurehead smashed through the illusory Count’s Castle, and Tang Qi and Sally recognized the warship’s name as the Immortal.

The Immortal emerged from the black vortex with an army of Dwarf Demons serving Samuel Winston, who ordered them to attack the Progenitor Descendants and seize the Blood of the Deity. The battle began, and a Giant Dwarf Demon overwhelmed members of the Gluttony Family.

• A Dwarf Demon appeared aboard the Immortal and eyed the Witches, while Tang Qi learned it was a low-ranking sailor.
• Nearly ten thousand Dwarf Demons swarmed from the Immortal, followed by a white-furred Dwarf Demon Priest and several powerful demon leaders.
• The Dwarf Demon Priest declared that the Progenitor Descendants had stolen Samuel Winston's Blood of the Deity and ordered the demons to attack them.
• The Dwarf Demons divided into thirteen groups and charged the Progenitor Descendants, including the Witches.
• A Giant Dwarf Demon sprayed corrosive blood into the Gluttony Family's black mist, then seized and ate one of its injured members.

The Twelve Progenitor Descendants defeated the first dwarf demon attack, but a priest aboard the Immortal unleashed nearly a hundred newborn high-level demons. Tang Qi left the Witch Group to retrieve Diana's Corpse and prepare the ritual to lift the curse, trusting Esmeralda to protect Sally.

• Esmeralda froze nearly a thousand dwarf demons, while the other progenitor descendants suffered heavy losses before their bloodline powers strengthened the survivors.
• The surviving descendants wiped out the dwarf demon army, reducing their own numbers from over five hundred to fewer than one hundred.
• Tang Qi warned that the dwarf demon priest had not finished, and the priest revealed a horrific delivery room aboard the Immortal.
• The childbearers gave birth to nearly a hundred high-level dwarf demons, while the priest declared that they would slaughter the remaining descendants.
• Tang Qi told the witches that Diana's Corpse, held by the Vite Family, was needed to lift the curse and questioned whether they could protect Sally while he retrieved it.
• Esmeralda promised to protect Sally and agreed to Tang Qi's conditions, and Tang Qi vanished into a nearby shadow.

Tang Qi secretly watched the Dwarf Demons overwhelm the Progenitor Descendants until the Twelve Progenitors awakened from their altars. The Dwarf Demon Priest died after completing its mission, but its heart empowered the figurehead of an unknown evil god, releasing an unprecedented wave of malice.

• Tang Qi used the Night Beast's Shadow Magic to cross the battlefield unseen while the Dwarf Demons attacked the Progenitor Descendants in overwhelming numbers.
• The Elder Level Progenitor Descendants, including the female Gluttony Descendant and the Anna Descendant, were killed, and the final Vitt Descendant fell as the Eye of Vitt vanished into the shadows.
• The Dwarf Demons attacked the altars, triggering the awakening of the Twelve Progenitors, whose Divine Radiance began destroying the invaders.
• The dying Dwarf Demon Priest announced that it had completed its mission for the Great Captain, then tore out its heart and sent it toward the figurehead.
• The Dwarf Demon Priest's severed arm crushed the heart above the figurehead, merging its magical power with the image and releasing unprecedented malice.

The figurehead used the Twelve Progenitors’ divine power to reveal that Samuel Winston had been trapped and slowly devoured by the sleeping evil god Dark Dominator. Samuel escaped through the vortex and returned to Winston Town aboard the Immortal, leaving the Progenitors and everyone else facing his arrival.

• The revived figurehead seized the Twelve Progenitors’ divine power and used it to open a view into the other realm, revealing Samuel bound to the Dark Dominator.
• Tang Qi identified the flesh ball as the dormant Dark Dominator and realized that the Dwarf Demon Priest had sacrificed himself to help Samuel escape.
• Samuel absorbed the divine light, broke free from the monster’s tentacle, and traveled toward the vortex while everyone feared awakening the Dark Dominator.
• Samuel escaped the other realm without disturbing the Dark Dominator, and the vortex closed behind him.
• The Immortal returned to Winston Town under the scarlet moon with Samuel standing on its restored figurehead.

Samuel Winston returned to Winston Town and began reclaiming the divine blood from the Twelve Progenitors, who resisted with the help of the Church. As a Red Robed Bishop invoked holy light through twelve Holy Grails, Tang Qi sensed that the Progenitors and the Church had joined forces.

• Samuel Winston emerged aboard the Immortal, cleaned its bloodstained figurehead, and asked who the Twelve Progenitors were.
• Samuel recognized Melada’s descendants among Esmeralda’s witches, asked after Melada, and threatened to strip them of their power after dealing with the Progenitors.
• Samuel’s presence drew the Progenitors’ divine radiance from their bodies, and he declared that he would reclaim it and make them ghost servants.
• Ragnar called on the Progenitors to act, and all twelve pulled matching two-handled Holy Grails from their bodies to halt Samuel’s divine attraction.
• A Red Robed Bishop and his priests chanted from the temporary church, summoning holy pillars around the Progenitors and their Holy Grails.
• Tang Qi realized that the Progenitors had joined forces with the Church and focused on the twelve Holy Grails.

Tang Qi identified the holy grails as the Corpse Holy Grail, a Curio that formed a black-mud Mystic Realm capable of suppressing supernatural beings and devouring them. The progenitors trapped Samuel Winston in the realm to kill her and seize her divinity, while Tang Qi watched her surrounded in the black sludge.

• Tang Qi learned that the Corpse Holy Grail contained the concentrated corpse of an unknown Alien Monster and could create a realm that drained life and magic.
• The twelve progenitors activated the holy grails, pouring black mud into the Crimson Seawater and destroying the Immortal.
• Samuel Winston fell into the black-mud realm, where her powers were suppressed and drained alongside those of the progenitors.
• The progenitors revealed that they had borrowed the holy grails through a deal with the Church of Light and planned to devour Samuel to end their curse and keep their power and long lives.
• Ragnar and the other progenitors surrounded Samuel and taunted her as Tang Qi emerged from hiding and recognized a familiar image in her sorrowful aura.

Tang Qi and Sally witnessed Norma reveal her true face and unleash the power she had gained by consuming flesh from the Dark Dominator. Norma killed and devoured the God of War Progenitor Ragnar, then declared that consuming divinity was true immortality and demanded more food.

• Norma removed her mask, driving many supernatural beings mad with her seductive face and causing them to rush into the Black Mud Domain, where they dissolved.
• Raphael recognized that Norma had revealed the answer to the mystery of what Samuel Winston looked like, while Tang Qi understood that Norma and Samuel were fused as the Immortal Count.
• Norma approached Ragnar and used his desire to lure him into attacking her.
• Norma impaled Ragnar with flesh-covered tentacles and devoured him, absorbing his divinity.
• Norma praised the taste of Ragnar's divinity, proclaimed that this was true immortality, and demanded more food.

The Immortal Count devoured the progenitors while the Church remained bound by its contract, and the surviving Head Maid claimed the Count needed the god’s blood to revive Diana. The Count revealed that Diana herself had been the source of that blood, leaving the Witches, Church, and Manor Bureau stunned as they looked toward Esmeralda.

• After Ragnar’s divinity was absorbed by the Immortal Count, the other progenitors attacked her, but she drove them off with her tentacles and devoured the Beastkeeper.
• The Count ate the progenitors one by one, growing stronger, while the Red Robed Bishop explained that the Church could neither intervene nor reclaim the grail until the progenitors were dead.
• The Count kept the Head Maid alive to prevent the grail from being reclaimed, then approached the black mud flowing from it as if she intended to taste it.
• The awakened Head Maid mocked the Count, saying she could not revive Diana without Melada’s portion of the god’s blood.
• The Count revealed that Diana herself had been the source of the god’s blood, stunning the Head Maid, the Witches, the Church, and the Manor Bureau as they turned toward Esmeralda.

The Immortal Count revealed the truth behind Diana’s death and the massacre that inspired Legend of the Immortals. Tang Qi and his allies brought Diana’s corpse before the Count, and Diana was reborn as the chapter ended.

• The Immortal Count told the gathered supernatural beings that she had raised Diana Winston as an Immortal vessel, then killed the witnesses after Diana’s divinity became contaminated.
• The Count revealed that Melada had been Diana’s close companion and had concealed the truth, then asked Esmeralda to bring her the comic.
• Esmeralda entered the Forbidden Life Zone, where its power drained her magic and vitality, and the Count seized her.
• Tang Qi spoke through Esmeralda and summoned Sally and Diana’s corpse, confronting the Count with the daughter she had killed.
• Unknown Divine Radiance restored Diana’s body, and Diana Winston was reborn before the Count.

Tang Qi resurrected Diana through the Life Curse, and she reclaimed her divinity from the Immortal Count, the Head Maid, and the Melada witches. Though the Corpse Holy Grail sealed away the black mud, the Count transformed into a Dark Devotee and remained a threat.

• Tang Qi used the Life Curse on Diana's corpse, creating a confused new life that recognized the Immortal Count as her father.
• The Immortal Count attacked Diana, but Tang Qi distracted her by calling her Norma, allowing Diana to reach her.
• Diana pierced the Count's chest and reclaimed the divinity that the Count had taken from her.
• The Head Maid and the Melada witches lost their divinity to Diana, while the Head Maid died and the Corpse Holy Grail sealed away the black mud.
• The Count realized Tang Qi had orchestrated Diana's return and transformed into a Dark Devotee.

Tang Qi and Sally interrupted the Count’s transformation into a Dark Devotee by awakening Norma’s buried personality, but the three personalities began fighting for control. Tang Qi trapped the Count’s shifting soul in the Illusion World, leaving her fate to be decided there.

• The Count transformed into a monstrous Dark Devotee after losing the divinity she had sought, and Tang Qi abandoned the idea of sacrificing her directly.
• Tang Qi attacked the Count with Furnace Power while Sally cast the Word Spirit Curse and ordered Norma to return.
• Norma’s personality resurfaced, causing her to battle the Count’s and devotee personalities as their bodies shifted between forms.
• Tang Qi cast the Flame Curse to keep the others away and used the Scarlet flask and Illusion Incantation to send the Count’s soul into the Illusion World.

Tang Qi manipulated Norma's dream to suppress the Dark Devotee long enough to sacrifice the tendril-covered mass within her. Norma vanished peacefully, and Diana's Corpse became a High-Level Mystical Item, but an unexpected woman snatched it and fled.

• Tang Qi guided Norma through a dream in which she chose an imagined immortality with Samuel, suppressing the other personalities long enough for Eternal Wine to take effect.
• Tang Qi plunged Furnace Power into Norma's chest and sacrificed the tendril-covered mass, removing the Dark Dominator's power.
• Norma lost the Immortal Count's divinity, returned to her original form, and dissolved with a relieved smile.
• Diana's Corpse absorbed divinity as Diana collapsed, becoming a High-Level Mystical Item.
• An unidentified woman swept past Diana's Corpse, took it, and tried to disappear from Winston Town before Tang Qi could stop her.

Tang Qi revealed that the mysterious being who had taken Diana’s Corpse was Melada, the First Witch, hidden inside Sally. With Jensen’s Time Dice forcing Melada back and preventing her from escaping for ten minutes, the chapter ended as Tang Qi exposed how she had orchestrated the witches’ curse and events surrounding Diana.

• Sally seized Diana’s Corpse and began to disappear, but Jensen used his Tyros Time Dice to rewind her and trap her for ten minutes.
• Melada transformed Sally’s appearance to resemble Diana and unleashed Nightmare Space across Winston Town, revealing her terrifying power.
• Melada admitted she had gained the Misfortune Witch’s Origin Magic Power and questioned Tang Qi about how much he knew.
• Tang Qi identified Sally’s possessor as Melada, the forgotten First Witch and Diana’s older sister.
• Tang Qi explained that Melada had manipulated the curse, hidden within Sally, and guided events toward obtaining Diana and the divinity.

Tang Qi confronted Melada, the First Witch, and exposed her scheme to take Sally’s body and claim divinity. He and Esmeralda led the Melada Witches in invoking a blood curse that killed Melada, leaving Sally safe and Tang Qi claiming Diana’s Corpse.

• Tang Qi revealed the Immortal Count’s past and deduced that Melada had hidden within Sally and manipulated events for centuries.
• Melada admitted she had planned to take Sally’s immortal body and merge two gods’ powers, then unleashed Misfortune Magic against Tang Qi and the others.
• Tang Qi revealed that he had wanted Melada to confess and called on Esmeralda, who confronted Melada over the Witches sacrificed to fulfill her prophecies.
• Esmeralda and the Melada Witches cursed their progenitor, and the witnessing spirits tore Melada’s soul from Sally’s body and destroyed it.
• The Misfortune Magic receded, Tang Qi caught the collapsing Sally and confirmed she was herself, then Gluttony swallowed Diana’s Corpse.