Chapter Summaries

Tang Qi arrived as a Furnace Witch King while the Church of Light’s Divine Kingdom on Earth was defeating the Chaos Faction. He used the Holy Covenant Tablet to enter the kingdom and disrupted Taka Kenstan’s transformation, leaving the New Pope facing him.

• The Church of Light formed a Divine Kingdom on Earth, blocking the Evil God Organizations and beginning to transform Taka Kenstan into the Good Seamstress.
• Tang Qi descended as a Furnace Witch King, and the Evil God Organizations made way for him.
• The New Pope condemned Tang Qi and sent a pillar of holy light to kill him.
• Tang Qi used the Holy Covenant Tablet to turn the attack into a passage of light and enter the Divine Kingdom on Earth.
• Tang Qi landed on Taka Kenstan, unleashing Furnace Flame that disrupted his transformation and created a Furnace World.
• Tang Qi put away the tablet and greeted the New Pope as “Handsome Dancer.”

Tang Qi fought the New Pope, Chuck Mario Chrisworth, after the Pope invoked the power of Charles I to avenge their unfinished battle at Thorn Peak. Tang Qi was knocked out of the Divine Kingdom, where he trapped several lower-level evil figures and selected them to join the fight.

• Chuck Mario Chrisworth explained that Tang Qi had been foretold to repent publicly on the second Festival of Light and declared that he would finish Charles I's battle against him.
• The Pope attacked Tang Qi with the Judgment Holy Sword, but Tang Qi struck him with the Furnace Hammer and joked that using a hammer suited a Furnace Witch.
• Tang Qi and the Pope clashed in a fierce battle across Taka Kenstan, hurting the Seamstress as their holy light and Furnace Flame collided.
• The Pope punched Tang Qi out of the Divine Kingdom and pursued him among the Evil God Organization members watching outside.
• Tang Qi used a Furnace Magic Array to pin several figures below the Demigod Level and announced that he had randomly selected them to participate in his performance.

Tang Qi let the Church of Light weaken Taka Kenstan before revealing that his escape and capture had been part of his plan. As the true Tang Qi cast the Transformation Curse on Pope Chuck Mario Chrisworth, the Pope began turning into a rabbit.

• Pope Mario used the Church's power to keep Tang Qi from reaching Taka Kenstan while the Lord of Light shattered the Gnawing Maw and began transforming the deity.
• Tang Qi fled toward the edge of the Divine Kingdom on Earth, but the Pope used three divine artifacts to capture him and bring him before Taka Kenstan.
• Tang Qi revealed that he had waited for Taka Kenstan to become weak enough to sacrifice, and a light barrier stopped the Pope's holy sword from striking him.
• The real Tang Qi cast the Transformation Curse on Pope Chuck Mario Chrisworth, who began shrinking and growing white fur as he turned into a rabbit.

Chuck Mario redirected the Lord of Light’s will toward Tang Qi, but Tang Qi summoned forty Furnace Witches to call the Furnace Master and sacrifice Taka Kenstan. As the Church of Light’s plans collapsed and the Furnace Kingdom withdrew, Tang Qi escaped aboard the Wooden Boat with the witches.

• Chuck Mario ended his rabbit transformation and redirected the Lord of Light’s will toward Tang Qi.
• Tang Qi resisted the holy light long enough to order the Furnace Witches on the Wooden Boat to act.
• Forty Furnace Witches spent their Sun Merits to summon the Furnace Master, whose power devoured Taka Kenstan as a sacrifice.
• The Lord of Light’s will overwhelmed the Furnace Kingdom, causing its gateways to collapse in a chain of explosions.
• Tang Qi shouted, “Thank you for the meal!” and escaped into the Furnace Kingdom aboard the Wooden Boat with forty Furnace Witches.

The battle’s aftermath made the Church of Light’s failure and Tang Qi’s victory impossible for the Mystic Side to conceal. As the witnesses departed, an unseen Black Mud Man transmitted the battle to a dark universe, where countless copies were created and identified Tang Qi Number Two as their target.

• The Second Head of Decay argued with Ludwig before Ludwig took control of their body and left, while the other Evil God Organizations and the audience withdrew.
• Stan Duplessis suppressed the urge to transform into a Furnace Witch and left with Arisa to prepare breakfast for Rachel and the children.
• Witnesses concluded that the Church of Light had failed and that the battle would accelerate the revelation of the Mystic Side to the public.
• A Black Mud Man transmitted scenes of the battle to a dark universe watched by an eye-like symbol.
• Black mud poured through a radiant portal and formed countless identical black Androgynous Beings, whose voices declared Tang Qi Number Two their target.

Tang Qi and forty Furnace Witches completed their operation, drew attention toward his avatar, and split the loot. Meanwhile, Tang Qi and Tom Larkin explored Knova Island while Sword Bearers investigated their troubled branch, leaving Tom eager to enjoy the island’s beaches and company.

• Tang Qi watched the forty Furnace Witches recover from the Furnace Master’s rebuke and announced that they would split the loot.
• Tang Qi reflected that the operation’s public spectacle would draw danger toward his avatar and give his true body room to act.
• On Knova Island, Tang Qi and Tom Larkin sampled a local fruit, and Tom discovered it did not enhance male ability as its sellers claimed.
• Tang Qi ate grilled chicken and watched Chief Conan and the Sword Bearers investigate the branch while concealing their identities.
• Tom urged Tang Qi to join him in meeting young women while the Sword Bearers continued their investigation.

Tang Qi studied the True Love Fable and learned that Flora and Ispatranie had a daughter named Sharlimie, who disappeared before becoming a goddess. Meanwhile, Tang Qi Number Two became a celebrated Furnace Witch King, and a suspicious visitor arrived at Tang Qi’s hotel room.

• Tang Qi read the fable’s account of Flora and Ispatranie creating a daughter, Sharlimie, who should have become the Goddess of True Love and Life.
• Tang Qi received reports that supernatural newspapers across Origin Star were calling him the First Furnace Witch King of the New Era and a likely challenger for Myriad Spirits.
• Tang Qi accepted his growing notoriety as bait intended to draw attention away from his main body.
• Monica brought a seemingly drunk Tom Larkin to Tang Qi’s room and introduced herself as a model.
• Tang Qi used his special ability on Monica and learned she was a Yasha Star Native and a senior agent of the Behemoth Containment Foundation, codenamed Beautiful Beast.

Tang Qi met Monica, a Yasha Star Native and Behemoth Containment Foundation agent who came to evacuate him and Tom Larkin after Chief Conan’s mission went wrong. As corrupted Sword Bearers broke into the room, Monica transformed and began swallowing Tom to carry him away.

• Tang Qi recognized Monica as a Yasha Star Native and learned she was a powerful Behemoth Containment Foundation agent with thirteen genders and supernatural abilities.
• Monica showed Tang Qi Chief Conan’s authentic Eagle’s Nest Emblem and explained that Conan had asked her to evacuate the scholars because a dangerous threat had awakened on Knova Island.
• Dozens of corrupted Sword Bearers gathered outside Tang Qi’s room, and the one at the door transformed into a plant-like creature before breaking inside.
• Tang Qi accepted Monica’s warning and told her to get them out of the room.
• Monica transformed into a huge, furry monster and used her tentacles to swallow the unconscious Tom Larkin.

Tang Qi and Monica escaped Knova Island after Teglas’s pollen turned its residents and the Sword Bearers into puppets. They reached a hidden shelter, where Tang Qi saw a familiar figure and sensed that their trouble was far from over.

• Tang Qi petrified the mutated Sword Bearers, while Monica warned that Teglas had awakened and contaminated everyone on Knova Island.
• Tang Qi used cleansing, flight, and swiftness spells as he and Monica fled through the pollen-filled sky above the puppet-filled island.
• Monica blasted a path through the pollen with corrosive liquid, and the pair escaped beyond the contaminated zone.
• Tang Qi learned that Teglas’s pollen could control most living beings and that the parasitism could be reversed with an antidote or Teglas’s death.
• Monica said the Behemoth Containment Foundation and the Eagle's Nest Society might need to cooperate to prevent Origin Star’s destruction, then led Tang Qi to a shelter on a sea-fog-covered reef.
• Tang Qi entered the shelter and recognized a familiar figure, which made him fear that they had encountered serious trouble.

Tang Qi and the others learned that a Teglas monster had occupied the Knova Island branch and was spreading parasitic pollen across the archipelago. Chris revealed that the Teglas were guiding beasts sent ahead of the life planet Essex, which was preparing to invade and devour Origin Star.

• Tang Qi found Chief Conan resisting parasitic pollen with a Curio and bloodline power while Chris Anderson guarded him.
• Monica spat out Tom Larkin, and Chief Conan warned that all of Origin Star faced a devastating crisis.
• Chief Conan explained that a monster had overrun the Knova Island branch, contaminated his colleagues, and seized several powerful Mystical Items.
• Chris projected an image of Knova Island wrapped in Teglas vines and showed how its flowers spread pollen toward the surrounding islands.
• Chris explained that Teglas served Essex, a life planet whose monsters invaded worlds before it arrived to consume them.

Tang Qi, Tom Larkin, and the Foundation agents realized Teglas had reached its Final Form and was preparing to open a gateway for Essex’s monsters. They began assessing how to stop the invasion and alert the wider world, while Tang Qi still had not chosen a course of action.

• Tang Qi explained that Essex could not devour Origin Star, but a Monster Army could plunge the planet into chaos and a new Dark Age.
• Chris Anderson revealed that Teglas’s Final Form was already preparing to open the Gate of Guidance and could bring either a terrifying monster or an entire army.
• Chris accused Chief Conan and the Eagle’s Nest Society of withholding information about the Dangerous Weapon hidden beneath Knova Branch.
• Monica explained that powerful godslaying weapons could attract dangerous beings, and Tang Qi and Tom Larkin inferred that Teglas had come to feed on the weapon’s energy.
• Tom asked the Foundation for information about the gate and Essex’s forces, and urged that the threat be reported to the Eagle’s Nest Society and nations across Origin Star.
• Tang Qi considered how to resolve the crisis but had not yet chosen a method.

Tang Qi and the others watched Teglas emerge and corrupt the Knova Archipelago, while the Federation’s hidden Mystic Core Atomic Ore was swallowed by the monster. Tang Qi discovered the Federation had planned to turn the ore into a bomb powerful enough to kill gods.

• Chris and Monica explained that Teglas’s Final Form would open the Gate of Guidance and bring Demigod Level monsters to Knova Island.
• Tang Qi and the others saw pollen-infected islanders lay down as black waves and enormous, phosphorescent vines engulfed the archipelago.
• Tom Larkin succumbed to terror and corruption, so Tang Qi knocked him unconscious before he could go mad.
• Teglas emerged from the sea, transformed the surroundings into a fetid, corrupted world, and swallowed the runed metal cubes beneath Knova Island.
• Tang Qi identified the cubes as Mystic Core Atomic Ore and learned that the Federation had planned to use it to create a bomb capable of slaughtering gods.

Tang Qi witnessed Teglas opening the Gate of Guidance and summoning otherworldly behemoths to Origin Star, while Natalie Morgan appeared among the figures emerging from giant flowers. Two immense, beautiful, humanlike behemoths descended on Knova Island and drew the submission of its contaminated inhabitants, leaving Tang Qi and the others stunned.

• Tang Qi weighed whether to evacuate Chief Conan and the Chrises before Teglas noticed them, but a gateway began forming inside the behemoth.
• Two Phosphorescent Giant Flowers emerged from Polynesia City, carrying an unconscious Natalie Morgan and another figure toward Teglas's throat.
• Tang Qi learned Teglas was transmitting energy to summon an unknown number of behemoths, and two emerged from the Gate of Guidance.
• Monica unleashed her full strength to protect the group from the pollen, exposing them on the Black Stone Reef.
• Two enormous, humanlike behemoths arrived on Knova Island, and the contaminated inhabitants knelt in submission to them.

Tang Qi discovered that Mevonatur, the mixed-blood son of Essex and a Knova princess, had seized control of the Knova Branch and fused with the Emperor Beast to gain Demigod power. Trapped with the others as Mevonatur prepared to begin his reign, Tang Qi contacted Chadwick for help.

• Tang Qi identified Mevonatur as Essex’s mixed-blood son and learned that he had infiltrated the Eagle’s Nest Society and taken control of the Knova Branch.
• Mevonatur and Natalie Morgan completed their fusions with the Emperor Beast and Empress Beast, unleashing two Demigod-level auras.
• Teglas’s vines surrounded the Black Reef and trapped Tang Qi, Monica, Chris, and the others; a Red Dragon Breath strike weakened Chris.
• Mevonatur declared that the captives would witness his first step as king and ordered his subjects and territory to be claimed.
• Tang Qi abandoned the idea of handling the crisis alone and contacted Chadwick Morgan for help.

Mevonatur used realm-crossing projections to summon leaders of Origin Star’s official Supernatural Organizations and announce that he had taken control of Knova. He declared the Knova Archipelago State and the Central Sea of Atlan independent from the Divine Eagle Federation and claimed them for himself, leaving Chief Conan furious.

• Mevonatur caused mechanical Information Emitters to rise from the seabed and project images across the sky.
• Leaders of official Supernatural Organizations from political powers around Origin Star appeared in the projections, including Thomas Berenson.
• Mevonatur sat upon the Iron Thorn Crown and told the assembled leaders that they were there to witness and notarize his rule over Knova.
• Mevonatur demanded that Berenson summon the President, but Berenson refused.
• Mevonatur declared that Knova and the Central Sea of Atlan would break away from the Divine Eagle Federation and belong to him.
• Chief Conan’s Giant bloodline neared an explosion as he heard Mevonatur’s declaration.

Mevonatur demanded that the Divine Eagle Federation surrender the Knova Archipelago State, threatening to open the Gate of Guidance and unleash Essex’s giant beasts if his demands were refused. As the officials weighed the bargain, Tang Qi recognized the danger remained unresolved, and an elderly man appeared aboard Tang Qi Number Two’s Ship of Fools to ask for help.

• Chief Conan began transforming in rage, but Monica subdued him and left him unconscious.
• Mevonatur proclaimed the Kafka Empire and offered to secure Essex’s promise not to invade Origin Star in exchange for the Knova Archipelago State.
• Thomas Berenson revealed that Essex had caused Mevonatur’s mother’s death to provide the means for the invasion, enraging Mevonatur.
• Mevonatur threatened to sacrifice the people and creatures in the sea and summon Essex’s giant beast army unless his commands were fulfilled.
• Tang Qi judged that exposing Mevonatur’s motive had not solved the threat, while officials from several nations appeared tempted by his offer.
• An elderly man boarded Tang Qi Number Two’s Ship of Fools and asked Scholar Tang for help.

Tang Qi accepted the Federation’s request to act as its diplomat and prevent Mevonatur from opening the Gate of Guidance, while Chadwick offered him a series of public appointments and honors. As Mevonatur’s countdown reached its final moments, Thomas Berenson agreed to sign over territory but demanded a binding contract that Mevonatur’s father would never return to Origin Star.

• Chadwick Morgan privately informed Tang Qi that the Federation needed him to delay Mevonatur until its forces arrived, and offered him prominent positions and honors.
• Tang Qi recognized that the Federation’s plans suggested it was preparing to reveal the Mystic Side to the public, then agreed to hear Chadwick’s plan.
• Chadwick gave Tang Qi a Parchment Scroll and asked him to serve as the Federation’s diplomat.
• As Mevonatur’s countdown reached two, the Maya Empire’s representative pressed Thomas Berenson about the Federation’s response, and Berenson told him to shut up.
• Berenson agreed to sign a supernatural contract and a mundane cession treaty, but demanded that Mevonatur first prepare a Divine Contract barring his father from Origin Star.

Tang Qi Number Two accepted the Hero Contract and wore John Hamilton’s Heroic Spirit Set before arriving in the Knova Sea Area to confront Mevonatur’s territorial claim. The chapter ended with Mevonatur celebrating his apparent victory and declaring himself king.

• Chadwick gave Tang Qi Number Two the Hero Contract and John Hamilton’s Heroic Spirit Set, explaining that the set would let him act as a Contract Guardian.
• Tang Qi Number Two reassured Chadwick that Natalie would be fine, then traveled with the accompanying personnel to the Knova Sea Area.
• Chris and the other leaders recognized Tang Qi Number Two as John Hamilton’s Heroic Spirit Body and reacted with shock at the Federation’s choice of guardian.
• Tang Qi Number Two concealed his true aura beneath the set and led the group through the storm and Teglas’s tentacles toward the Gate of Guidance.
• Mevonatur laughed and declared that he had reclaimed the territory for his people and was about to become king as phosphorescent vines and dancing puppets filled the sea area.

Tang Qi discovered hidden conditions in Essex’s Promise and realized that a being ranked above Essex could nullify them. He approached the contract to sign it before Mevonatur could, leaving the Mad King reaching for an empty hand.

• Tang Qi arrived on Knova Island disguised as John Hamilton and examined Essex’s Gate, Mevonatur, and Natalie Morgan.
• Mevonatur announced the return of the Kafka Tribe’s territory, and Essex’s Promise appeared through the gate, pledging that Essex would never invade Origin Star in exchange for the Federation ceding the Knova Archipelago State.
• Tang Qi used Omniscience to learn that Essex’s Promise would become invalid if the Federation perished or Essex reached Master rank, but those conditions could not take effect against a higher-ranked signer.
• Tang Qi avoided Mevonatur’s attempt to seize the Hero Contract and approached Essex’s Promise, declaring that he would sign the Divine Contract first.

Tang Qi used Furnace Blood from the Master of the Furnace to sign Essex’s Promise, causing Essex’s Gate to crack and collapse before the Giant Beast Army could enter. He rescued Natalie Morgan, then struck Mevonatur with the Furnace Witch King’s body as witnesses wondered who Tang Qi really was.

• Tang Qi exchanged ten Sun Merits for Furnace Blood and chose to use the Master of the Furnace’s divine signature on Essex’s Promise.
• Tang Qi completed the contract, and the Furnace Master’s imprint caused Essex’s Gate to crack as Mevonatur felt the backlash.
• Tang Qi clenched his fist and destroyed the gateway, preventing the Giant Beast Army from descending.
• Mevonatur attacked Tang Qi, who vanished, rescued the unconscious Natalie Morgan, and placed her aboard the Ship of Fools with Chadwick.
• Tang Qi summoned the Furnace Witch King’s body and smashed it into Mevonatur’s red dragon head, shattering the Iron Thorn Throne and driving Mevonatur completely out of control.