Chapter Summaries

Tang Qi and the other Transcendentals fought the Visare​s Blood Cannon, and Tang Qi blew it apart by firing Dragon's Roar into its muzzle. As the Tower of the Sky opened a passage into the sinkhole, the cannon attacked Tang Qi again, but its shot was suppressed before the passage pulled him inside.

• The Mamba School Elder drank the secret potion and charged the Blood Cannon while the Jungle Puppeteer and Rena Swinton attacked it with a toxic storm and lightning.
• Timothy and Tang Qi approached the cannon, but its strange pulling force threatened to absorb them as fuel, so Tang Qi abandoned his plan to use Diana.
• Tang Qi shoved Dragon's Roar into the cannon's muzzle and fired, causing the Blood Cannon to explode and leaving the others amazed.
• The Blood Cannon reactivated and targeted Tang Qi, who fled toward the Tower of Corruption as the Tower of the Sky began purifying itself and opened a passage into the sinkhole.
• The Blood Cannon's shot weakened and vanished just before it could strike Tang Qi, and an irresistible force pulled him into the passage.

Tang Qi and the others explored the contaminated Goddess's Womb, where they encountered deadly mutants and learned the place was breeding monsters from Foreign Races genes. After Tang Qi helped destroy an Eight-Eyed Gate and they rescued the Elder, the passageway transformed into a vast hall covered in ancient red patterns.

• Tang Qi suspected an unseen force had maneuvered the group into the passageway, while the six supernatural beings sensed its contamination and moved deeper inside.
• The group watched a deformed mutant be born from a cocoon, suffocate, and dissolve into the membrane, and Tang Qi identified the passageway as the Goddess's Womb.
• The group avoided a towering mutant carrying a baby in a brood pouch, and Tang Qi learned that mutants survived only if they inherited Transcendental Power.
• An Eight-Eyed Gate trapped the Elder from the Mamba Secret Medicine School and attacked the group by invading their memories, but Tang Qi burned it with Furnace Magic Power and the others shattered it with bullets.
• The group found the unconscious Elder alive, and the membranes receded as the passageway transformed into a vast hall covered in ancient red patterns.

Tang Qi and the others learned from the Origin Mural that the Ancient Mayans arose from slaves transformed by a crashed Foreign Realm Spaceship, while Tang Qi discovered that Kels, the Mayan God of Wisdom, had fallen. A hidden teleportation symbol carried the group to another passage, where two humanlike guards awaited them.

• Tang Qi and the others examined the Origin Mural, which depicted the Vira People’s collapse and the rise of the Mayans after their ancestors entered a crashed spaceship.
• Tang Qi’s Information Fragments revealed that the mural’s creator was Kels, the Mayan God of Wisdom, who had fallen and could no longer be contacted through it.
• Rena Swinton concluded that Teotim and the Tower of the Sky had been built around the spaceship and urged the group to find another mural hall to learn how the Mayans were destroyed.
• Tang Qi noticed a teleportation symbol that seemed out of place and suspected an unseen force was guiding their movements, but he kept quiet and watched the others.
• Haisen activated the symbol with his magic power, and the group allowed its ghostly glow to transport them to a passage with a stone doorway and two humanlike guards.

Tang Qi and his companions crossed a passage of brain-related monsters and entered the second Origin Mural hall, where they learned of the gods’ rivalries and Serxi’s birth. Tang Qi noticed that the sacred land in the mural had become a pitch-black sinkhole.

• Tang Qi identified the Brain Eaters, while Timothy stopped the Mamba School Elder from attacking them and the Jungle Puppeteer destroyed a hypnotic Dream Brain.
• The group waited as the Brain Eaters completed their feeding cycle, then passed through the gateway when the danger vanished.
• Rena Swinton opened the second mural hall, and the group examined murals depicting the Mayan gods’ chaotic lives and factions.
• Rena explained that Bamor left Ivannab and returned from the sacred land with Serxi, whom the Sky God and many other gods despised.
• Tang Qi noticed the sacred land in the mural contained only a dark sinkhole, with no spacecraft remaining.

Tang Qi and the others crossed a contaminated passageway, slipped past an Aberrant Poison Dragon, and discovered murals depicting Serxi’s fall from divine favor. The chapter left them preparing to teleport onward after learning that Serxi’s imprisonment began the Twilight of the Gods.

• Tang Qi reflected on the Foreign Realm Spaceship and the unexplained origins of the Maya gods and Serxi.
• Rena Swinton teleported the group to a silent passageway, where they found an Aberrant Poison Dragon guarding a nest outside the next mural hall.
• Timothy used hallucinogenic incense to lull the Aberrant Poison Dragon into a dream, letting the group pass safely.
• Tang Qi and the others entered the third mural hall and saw Kels’s account of Serxi’s birth, growing following, and punishment by Ivannab.
• Rena Swinton read Kels’s annotation that Serxi’s wailing in the fire prison began the Twilight of the Gods, then urged the group onward.

Tang Qi and the expedition passed through the final mural hall, learning how Serxi ruled the Mayan People and led them into brutal sacrifices before following a summons into a dark sinkhole. The murals ended without explaining the civilization’s destruction, but the group discovered Namba’s footprints forming a teleportation array that led to a space filled with Mature Aberrations.

• Tang Qi and the others entered the seventh mural hall and found that Serxi, rather than Kels, had painted its murals.
• Rena Swinton concluded that Serxi had seized the authority of the Heavenly God and the power of the God of Wisdom and Writing, then led the Mayan People into massacres and flesh-and-blood sacrifices.
• The final mural showed Serxi following a summons into a forbidden sinkhole, where a pair of crimson eyes watched her from below.
• Rena Swinton found that the usual teleportation symbol was missing, leaving the group unsure how to continue.
• Haisen spotted faint red footprints that formed a Magic Array, and Tang Qi identified them as Namba’s trail from before the evil seed devoured him.
• Tang Qi learned that the array led to an unknown space containing Mature Aberrations.

Tang Qi and the five other survivors escaped the Goddess’s Womb through a teleportation passage as the Ancient God Power weakened and monsters pressed into the hall. They emerged in a divine passage covered in murals, where Tang Qi recognized the goddess The Writer as Bamor, Serxi’s mother and the sole Outer God Maya.

• Tang Qi learned that the mutants were rioting as the Ancient God Power weakened, and he decided to trust Madam Dorothy’s divination and activate the footprint array.
• Tang Qi and the other five survivors followed the red footprints and opened a teleportation passage while monsters entered the hall.
• A four-legged woman reached through the passage after them, but Tang Qi and the group vanished with her hand as they teleported away.
• Tang Qi and the others arrived in an ancient passage lined with glowing murals and felt a great terror beyond its far end.
• Tang Qi recognized a mural’s subject as The Writer, the moon goddess Bamor, Serxi’s mother and the sole Outer God Maya.

Tang Qi and the others discovered murals revealing how Serxi summoned the Evil Seeds, then turned against them and sought to create a new divine race. The murals left them racing onward to uncover what happened next.

• Tang Qi and the others learned that Serxi ignited the Sky Tower and summoned the Foreign Realm Evil Seeds to the Great Amazon Jungle.
• Serxi led the Mayans in defeating the Evil Seeds and capturing their King, then announced she would marry him.
• Serxi’s union with the Evil Seed King created a Great Black Hole that devoured living beings, while he summoned a World-Ending Meteor.
• Kels stopped the meteor with part of Vela Volcano, exposed Serxi’s nature, left three Prophecy Stone Tablets, and was struck down by Serxi.
• Serxi seized the Evil Seed King’s power, summoned the Foreign Realm Spaceship, and fused it with her body to create a womb for a new divine race.
• Tang Qi and the others hurried to the next mural, eager to learn more about the hidden history.

Tang Qi and the others discovered how Serxi’s plan ended and how the Mayan civilization fell, but a dark force then possessed Rena Swinton and drove her to open the ancient gate. The Prophecy Stone Tablets revealed Tang Qi as an aberration and showed Rena entering a temple tied to her ancestor’s service to Serxi.

• Tang Qi and the others were rescued from the corrupting darkness by a warm radiance and found a gate covered in symbols from both Mayan and Aztec gods.
• Tang Qi learned from the murals that Maya defeated Serxi at the cost of her own life, exiled her, and helped the Aztecs replace the Mayans.
• The group relaxed after seeing the murals, but strange whispers spread and Rena dropped her notebook before walking toward the gate and chanting an ancient incantation.
• A dark storm erupted as three Prophecy Stone Tablets emerged from the gate, showing Teotim’s fall, a future meteor, and eight inheritors entering the holy city.
• The third tablet depicted Professor Cassel in Tang Qi’s place, identifying Tang Qi as an aberration, and showed Rena entering a temple as a descendant of Serxi’s maidservant.

Tang Qi and the others learned that Namba’s Evil Seed sub-body had contaminated Rena Swinton and driven her to open the Gate of Gods, but a divine ghost intervened and revealed a revised prophecy. As the ghost counted down before freezing the Mature Form Evil Seed, Timothy questioned who Serxi’s father was.

• Tang Qi saw that Namba’s parasitic sub-body had wrapped around Rena Swinton and was compelling her to open the Gate of Gods.
• A ghost tied to Kels and the Maya deities froze the group and drew Rena, Tang Qi, and Timothy’s souls from their bodies.
• Tang Qi explained that he had inherited knowledge from Professor Cassel, and the ghost accepted his truthful answer as the reason the prophecy had gone astray.
• The ghost altered the final Prophecy Stone Tablet, revealing that Rena and Timothy would destroy the spaceship and escape through Vela Volcano.
• As the ghost began a ten-breath countdown, Timothy asked her who Serxi’s father was.

The ghost revealed that Krat, a dying Tanik scientist, had given the Maya ancestors powerful genetic templates and fathered Serxi, whose plan was to create a supreme race. As the countdown forced the group toward Black Prophet’s Control Room, Tang Qi stopped Timothy from destroying Krat’s Stone and summoned Diana, discovering the stone was actually the Eye of Kels and that the ghost’s instructions concealed a deeper purpose.

• The ghost showed how Krat’s spaceship Black Prophet crashed on Origin Blue Star and how the Maya ancestors gained Supernatural Powers from the Tanik Gene Vault.
• The ghost revealed that Bamor conceived Serxi using Krat’s Reproductive Fluid and that Krat’s message drove Serxi to create a powerful divine race.
• Rena Swinton asked about rescuing Old Man Mamba, the Jungle Puppeteer, and Haisen, and learned that the Escape Pod could carry ten people.
• The ghost opened the route to the Control Room and instructed the group to destroy Krat’s Stone before Black Prophet’s self-destruction burned away Serxi’s descendants.
• Tang Qi stopped Timothy from stabbing Krat’s Stone, then summoned Diana and froze everyone in the Control Room with her Divine Domain.
• Tang Qi identified Krat’s Stone as the Eye of Kels, activated its message, and watched the ghost’s face twist as its murmurs abruptly stopped.

Tang Qi uncovered Serxi’s plan to use the contaminated ghost and a sacrificial altar to descend into the Black Prophet, while Kels’s message revealed how to stop her. Diana purified the Control Room as Rena Swinton and the others began the ship’s self-destruction, and Tang Qi’s hidden Golden Flame destroyed the altar guiding Serxi’s descent.

• Serxi’s contaminated ghost revealed that it had deceived Rena Swinton and Timothy to seize control of the Black Prophet and free Serxi.
• Tang Qi received Kels’s final message, which explained the ghost’s corruption and provided the Black Prophet’s self-destruction instructions and escape-pod authorization.
• Namba used a sacrificial altar made from the Kituga People to guide Serxi toward a Divine Shell formed by the ghost and the ship’s monsters.
• Serxi began descending and her power harmed Rena Swinton and the others, but Diana used Absolute Purification to drive it back.
• Rena Swinton, Timothy, and the others activated the Black Prophet’s self-destruction process while Tang Qi’s hidden Golden Flame destroyed Namba’s altar and extinguished its guiding power.

Tang Qi escaped the Black Prophet with the survivors after Serxi’s plan collapsed and the ship’s self-destruct sequence began. He sacrificed Serxi and the Tanik Evil Seeds to the Furnace, leaving them facing destruction in Eternal Fire Purgatory.

• The rift closed after the altar exploded, leaving Serxi incomplete and unable to become a whole Goddess.
• Serxi crawled into the Control Room and unleashed contamination as the aberration monsters exploded, sending a Filth Tide toward the gateway.
• The Black Prophet’s self-destruct countdown began, and Tang Qi used Diana’s Divine Domain to repel the tide before throwing Serxi beyond the gateway.
• Tang Qi and the others escaped in a pod as the Black Prophet sank into Eternal Fire Purgatory and exploded.
• Tang Qi sacrificed Serxi to the Furnace, and the broken Gate of Gods revealed the Tanik Evil Seeds to the golden figure and the lava beyond.

Tang Qi used a Furnace Avatar to sacrifice Serxi’s weakened Tanik Evil Seeds, but the avatar and the Black Prophet were consumed by Eternal Fire Purgatory. He survived in the Escape Pod, claimed the ancient Mayan gods’ rewards, and watched a new volcano form as the ruined vessel plunged into the depths.

• Tang Qi sacrificed twenty Tanik Evil Seeds with his Furnace Avatar before it ran out of power, and Eternal Fire Purgatory engulfed the Black Prophet, the holy city, and the avatar.
• Tang Qi awoke in the Escape Pod beside the Eye of Kels and discovered that spending two Sun Merits had earned him five.
• The Eye of Kels rewarded Tang Qi, Rena Swinton, Timothy, and the others with Curios, rare materials, and mystical knowledge, with Tang Qi receiving the largest share.
• Tang Qi absorbed ancient Mayan secret-medicine knowledge while Gluttony swallowed his share of the Curios and materials.
• The Escape Pod disintegrated in the sunlight, and the Black Prophet’s plunge into Eternal Fire Purgatory triggered an upheaval as a new volcano began rising beneath the sea.

Tang Qi and his companions visited Erebus Haunted House Market, where the market’s proprietor, Schuttel, recognized Tang Qi and greeted him as an idol. Meanwhile, the Maya Empire’s Red Hat Dogs investigated the ruined Ancient Mayan Ruins and began searching for the six survivors.

• The Red Hat Dogs investigated the Black Squid Sea and concluded that the Ancient Mayan Ruins had been destroyed by the newly emerged Vela Volcano, with six people having escaped alive.
• The Maya Empire’s official agency vowed to identify the supernatural beings who had entered the country and protest anyone who had taken the ruins’ treasures.
• Tang Qi and his five companions watched a gruesome stage play at Erebus Haunted House Market, and a severed arm contaminated their food.
• A Ghost Bride waitress replaced the group’s meal, added complimentary dishes, and waived their bill, prompting them to suspect the market’s proprietor, Schuttel, was responsible.
• Schuttel turned from his piano, recognized Tang Qi as his idol, and enthusiastically leaped toward him for a hug.

Tang Qi and his companions read news that a team of six had unearthed Ancient Mayan ruins and revived Watcher Volcano, drawing the attention of the Maya Empire’s supernatural agency and other Transcendentals. Tang Qi concealed their identities, gave his companions invitations to teach at his school, and prepared to part ways with Schuttel.

• Schuttel enthusiastically embraced Tang Qi, recorded their meeting in his diary, and peppered his idol with questions.
• A Ghost Bride delivered the Sweet Magic Daily, whose headline reported the excavation of Ancient Mayan ruins and the rebirth of Watcher Volcano.
• Tang Qi and the others recognized that the six people in the newspaper’s picture could be identified by their number and genders, so Schuttel hid them with a spell and Tang Qi added an illusion.
• After hearing that the Maya Empire’s Red Hats and other Transcendentals might hunt the explorers, Tang Qi decided they should leave rather than wait for trouble.
• Tang Qi gave Rena Swinton and the other four Special Badges and invited them to lecture at Melada Special Education School; they accepted and prepared to depart separately.

Tang Qi flew back toward Mihuang City after settling the crisis in the Southern Continent, reviewing the knowledge and artifacts he had gained from Kels. He discovered that one of the Black Prophet’s relics was a Tanik Stone, a long-lasting energy source that could power most mechanical creations.

• Tang Qi boarded the Rainbow Parrot after watching his appearance on Flesh Beach and left Sweetwater City later than the other members of the expedition.
• During the flight, Tang Qi reviewed the Rubber Fruits, Demonic Rubber Tree sapling, and knowledge he had received from Kels for resolving the Ancient Mayan crisis.
• Tang Qi inspected the Eye of Kels and the Curios and materials taken from the Black Prophet inside Gluttony.
• Tang Qi found an instruction manual identifying a dark blue gemstone as a Tanik Stone and learned that it could supply energy to most mechanical creations for centuries.

Tang Qi returned to Dragonheart Castle and discovered that Selma’s Progenitor Fruit cultivation experiment had turned the secret realm into a monster-catching competition. He removed the flowers from two parasitized animals, revealing that the fruits’ strange maturation method had succeeded.

• Tang Qi arrived at Dragonheart Castle and initially mistook the cheering children and teachers for signs of a monster tide.
• The children asked Tang Qi to help catch a giant golden-bristled boar, and he removed the seven-colored flower from its head, causing it to shrink back to normal size.
• Tang Qi examined the flower and learned that Progenitor Fruit cultivation bodies parasitized animals and transformed them while their flowers bloomed.
• Tang Qi spotted Selma and Kriyas chasing a giant Silver-White Wolf and realized its flower was dimming as it began to digest the fruit’s power.
• Tang Qi intercepted the Silver-White Wolf, removed its flower, and caught the creature after it shrank into a Little Wolf.

Tang Qi discovered that Selma had successfully activated the Progenitor Fruit, producing fruits with different powers and a regenerating fruit that might help the burned Hannahs. He saw the Progenitor Flower she had cultivated and encouraged her to experiment further, even if it caused another explosion.

• Tang Qi returned with a Silver-White Little Wolf and told Eva that his adventure had yielded good gains but might cause trouble later.
• Selma explained that Demon Spirit Blood had activated the Progenitor Fruit without side effects, though her first attempt had exploded Dragonheart Castle.
• Tang Qi captured a Crimson Soundbird, took its regeneration Progenitor Fruit, and considered whether it might help the burned Hannahs.
• Tang Qi ordered the Night Beast and Wilnas Sprite to collect unusual fruits, then let the students resume their competition.
• Tang Qi inspected Selma’s dormant Progenitor Flower and learned it could bear more fruits and seeds for cultivating later generations.
• Tang Qi gave Selma a fresh rubber fruit and told her to experiment with it farther away, even if it exploded.

Tang Qi returned to Melada Special Education School and learned that a powerful armored abnormal had settled in Green Dragon Ridge Lake, robbing collectors and teaching combat students. After discovering it had robbed the Gold Mine Devil, Tang Qi opened a portal to confront it and learned it called itself Legendary Knight Nicholas.

• Tang Qi designated the former laboratory a restricted zone and ordered a new Cultivation Room for Professor Selma.
• Eva told Tang Qi that Order-aligned abnormals and Supernatural Creatures had been settling around Green Dragon Ridge Lake under his protection.
• Eva described how an armored abnormal defeated Supernatural Creatures with collecting obsessions, then became a combat instructor for the students.
• Tang Qi learned that the abnormal had robbed the Gold Mine Devil and examined Black Beech's report on its history and habits.
• Tang Qi opened a portal to the sunken ship graveyard, where Noah and the students were training with the abnormal, and Eva identified it as Legendary Knight Nicholas.