Chapter Summaries

Fang Li killed two gorilla Patrol Officers with Moon Blade after they and the other Crimson Realm Denizens mocked him. Libelzard ordered the surrounding Crimson Realm Denizens and Rinne Son legion to attack Fang Li together, and they charged at him.

• Fang Li severed the black gorilla Patrol Officer’s arm and carved its body into pieces, then burned the remains to ashes.
• Fang Li challenged the Crimson Realm Denizens’ contempt for humans, provoking them and angering Libelzard.
• The white gorilla Patrol Officer charged Fang Li with a powerful punch, but Fang Li severed its arm, cut off its head, and kicked it toward Libelzard.
• Libelzard crushed the white gorilla’s head and ordered everyone to attack Fang Li.
• The Crimson Realm Denizens and Rinne Son legion charged forward and surrounded Fang Li.

Belphegor, Shudenan, and Fekir discussed Fang Li’s escape and concluded that the forces already pursuing him were insufficient. The Three Pillars prepared to hunt him together with their specially made Treasure Tools, while Black Catty insisted on joining to question him and recover the Reiji Maigo.

• Fekir reported that Fang Li had escaped after destroying the temple, and Belphegor and Shudenan considered how he had broken the imitation chains.
• Belphegor and Shudenan agreed that Libelzard and the Patrol Officers could not capture Fang Li without overwhelming force.
• Belphegor ordered Fekir to send another powerful figure after Fang Li and said she would join once she retrieved her Treasure Tool.
• Shudenan said he would use his full strength and retrieve his Treasure Tool to avenge Black Catty.
• Black Catty insisted on joining the pursuit to get an answer from Fang Li and recover the Reiji Maigo, and said she would bring her Treasure Tool.
• Fekir realized that all three of Bal Masqué’s highest-ranking Three Pillars would be pursuing Fang Li with their Treasure Tools.

Fang Li slaughtered the Crimson Realm Denizens and Rinne soldiers in the hall, fighting with the direct, lethal style Fan Xinglu had identified as his strength. Libelzard tried to stop him by turning its prayer beads into copies of itself, which charged at Fang Li.

• Fang Li cut through the Crimson Realm Denizens and Rinne soldiers with Moon Blade, killing them faster than they could react.
• The narration recalled Fan Xinglu teaching Fang Li that his talent lay in the direct assaults of “kill,” rather than the stealth of “dark.”
• Libelzard watched Fang Li's slaughter and questioned how a human could kill Crimson Realm Denizens so easily.
• Libelzard tore off its prayer beads and set them ablaze, transforming them into copies of itself.
• The Libelzard copies charged at Fang Li, who turned toward them with his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes.

Fang Li destroyed Libelzard’s crystal bead clones and killed him in the hall. The surviving Apostles and Rinne fled, leaving Fang Li alone as the slaughter ended.

• Libelzard sent his crystal prayer bead clones charging at Fang Li.
• Fang Li met a clone’s powerful punch with a kick, then cut the clone apart and destroyed its bead with his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
• Fang Li used Flash Sheath—Moonflower to cut down and destroy Libelzard’s three remaining clones.
• Fang Li used Flash Sheath—Eight Pierces to decapitate Libelzard, whose body and head burned to ash.
• The surviving Apostles and Rinne screamed and fled, leaving Fang Li alone in the hall.

After defeating a small force of Bal Masqué, Fang Li tried to escape the Starry Sky Palace but was caught in a devastating attack. Wounded yet alive, he faced Bad Blade as the attacker closed in.

• Fang Li recovered from his Killer Demon state and assessed that the troops he had slain were only a small fraction of Bal Masqué.
• Fang Li decided to leave the Starry Sky Palace before Bal Masqué's main force arrived.
• A wave of dark crimson flames and blades erupted beneath Fang Li and destroyed the hall.
• Fang Li survived the blast with numerous cuts by strengthening his defense with Star Pulse Energy and Breath of Lightness.
• Bad Blade emerged from the flames and attacked Fang Li, whose crescent-moon dagger blocked the thrust.

Fang Li fought Sabrac, a powerful Crimson King assassin hired by Bal Masqué, amid the burning ruins. He countered Sabrac’s flame-and-blade assault with Bō Xié’s wind, but landed badly wounded as the battle continued.

• Fang Li recognized Sabrac as a formidable Crimson King assassin and realized Bal Masqué had commissioned him to kill him.
• Sabrac unleashed his Inherent Skill, Wrath of Flames, sending blades through a surging tide of fire as Fang Li fell into the collapsed pit.
• Fang Li summoned Bō Xié and used compressed wind to meet Sabrac’s attack with a hurricane.
• The wind and flames collided, destroying the surrounding ruins and sending Fang Li flying.
• Fang Li landed on one knee and saw his wounds widening as blood seeped from his body.

Fang Li used his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes to destroy Sabrac’s Holy Mark and healed his wounds, resetting their fight. He then launched a counterattack and struck Sabrac with Flash Sheath—Seven Nights.

• Sabrac explained that his Holy Mark made Fang Li’s wounds widen until he died.
• Fang Li used his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes and Bō Xié to kill the Inherent Skill affecting him, then healed himself with the Healing Gem.
• Fang Li declared that the situation had returned to square one and vanished into an attack.
• Sabrac blocked Fang Li’s Moon Blade and countered, but Fang Li parried with Bō Xié.
• Fang Li used Flash Run—Bright Moon to kick Sabrac away, chased him through the air, and slashed him with Flash Sheath—Seven Nights.

Fang Li crippled Sabrac in their fight but was wounded when Sabrac detonated his flames, while Bal Masqué’s forces converged on the Starry Sky Palace. Fang Li fired a flash bullet to blind Sabrac and disappeared, leaving Sabrac stunned by his escape.

• Fang Li’s strike severed Sabrac’s lower body and prevented him from regenerating.
• Sabrac detonated his Wrath of Flames, and Fang Li survived the explosion but suffered a slash wound from a blade.
• Fang Li destroyed the wound-expanding Inherent Skill affecting him and saw Bal Masqué’s forces gathering above the hollow.
• Fang Li drew his Glock and fired a Flash Bullet into the sky, blinding Sabrac.
• Fang Li vanished, and Sabrac realized that he had escaped.

Fang Li escaped Sabrac’s devastating attack but was left wounded inside the Starry Sky Palace as Bal Masqué launched a search for him. Sabrac restored his avatar and resumed the pursuit while Fang Li prepared to face an approaching patrol team.

• Fang Li escaped during the chaos, leaving Sabrac’s avatar badly damaged in the Great Hollow.
• Sabrac revealed that his true body was a colossal creature of dark crimson flames and rebuilt his avatar.
• Sabrac declared that he would keep pursuing Fang Li, and Fekir ordered Bal Masqué’s forces to search the Starry Sky Palace and guard its exits.
• Fekir concluded that Bal Masqué would need to wait for the Three Pillars to retrieve the Treasure Tool before dealing with Fang Li.
• Wounded and hiding in a corridor, Fang Li watched a patrol team approach, then burst forward to attack.

Fang Li used stealth to slaughter squads inside the Starry Sky Palace while Fekir learned that three battalions’ worth of forces had been wiped out. Fekir feared Fang Li was deliberately hiding in the fortress to evade capture and continue his assassinations.

• Fang Li killed a Patrol Officer and his Rinne squad, then left as Sabrac arrived too late to find him.
• Fang Li attacked another squad in a corridor and continued his slaughter through the Starry Sky Palace.
• Fekir received an adjutant’s report that numerous squads had been wiped out and Searcher Hunters could not keep up with Fang Li.
• Fekir realized the Starry Sky Palace’s Treasure Tool could not detect Fang Li while his Assassin skill concealed his presence.
• Fekir feared Fang Li had chosen to hide inside the fortress and carry out assassinations rather than escape.

Fang Li used the Starry Sky Palace’s maze-like layout to ambush Bal Masqué’s troops and manipulate their search, while avoiding Sabrac. After mapping the palace and waiting for the forces to move away, he prepared to escape through a gap in the surrounding encirclement.

• Fang Li hid in the Starry Sky Palace and assassinated search parties to thin Bal Masqué’s forces and create confusion.
• Fekir reorganized the search teams into larger formations, but Fang Li struck quickly and withdrew before reinforcements arrived.
• Fang Li repeatedly evaded Sabrac, even ambushing him and cleaving his body in two before Sabrac began moving stealthily.
• Fekir coordinated the search from the command room as Bal Masqué’s troops flooded through the palace.
• Fang Li drew the main forces toward the western side, then emerged on the eastern side and checked that his bleeding had stopped.
• Fang Li spotted a gap in the encirclement outside a guarded window and prepared to escape.

Fang Li exploited a gap in Bal Masqué’s encirclement to escape the Starry Sky Palace, then shattered its Hidden Sanctuary barrier with a powerful slash. As he flew toward the opening, a terrifying pressure swept across the space.

• Fang Li waited for Bal Masqué to thin its outer guard while pursuing him inside the Starry Sky Palace.
• A sand-filled gust obscured the guards, and Fang Li burst through a gap, killing a Patrol Officer and several dozen Rinne as he escaped the castle’s encirclement.
• Bal Masqué’s forces spotted Fang Li and sent a massive army after him, but he flew toward the barrier.
• Fang Li used Flash Sheath—Ten Lives to cut apart the Hidden Sanctuary’s night-sky barrier, revealing a blue sky beyond it.
• As Fang Li flew toward the opening, a terrifying pressure suddenly swept across the space.

Fang Li was cornered by the Three Pillars, who demanded that he hand over the Reiji Maigo under orders from their Alliance Leader. He refused, and Shudenan launched a devastating attack as Fang Li vanished from its path.

• A violent pressure stopped Fang Li just before he could escape through the breach in the Starry Sky Palace.
• Shudenan, Belphegor, and Black Catty appeared around Fang Li and trapped him with their auras.
• The Three Pillars revealed their powerful Treasure Tools and demanded that Fang Li surrender the Reiji Maigo.
• Fang Li refused, and Shudenan unleashed a torrent of murky purple flames with his steel spear.
• Fang Li vanished as Shudenan's attack struck the ground in a massive explosion.

The Three Pillars unleashed devastating attacks on Fang Li, blasting him into a crater and then raining down a meteor-like assault. As they watched the crater and presumed him dead, a voice said, “Be released,” and white phosphorescence began to burn below.

• Fang Li witnessed a violet-flame explosion destroy part of the Starry Sky Palace before an attacker struck him with a steel spear and sent him crashing through a building.
• Belphegor ordered the ordinary Crimson Denizens and Rinne to retreat from the battle.
• Black Catty summoned a sky-blue meteor shower that devastated the ground around Fang Li and formed another enormous crater.
• Shudenan and Belphegor discussed whether Fang Li had died while Black Catty silently watched the crater.
• A distant voice said, “Be released,” and white phosphorescence appeared inside the crater as the ground began to shake.

Fang Li revealed a transformed state and overwhelmed Shudenan in a series of attacks. Black Catty and Belphegor trapped him in chains and dragged him into a barrage of meteors, which exploded around him.

• Fang Li rose from the rubble transformed, his white phosphorescence and Ice-Blue Demon Eyes making the Three Pillars sense his immense presence.
• Fang Li appeared before Shudenan and slashed him twice, cutting his body into four pieces before Shudenan reassembled himself.
• Shudenan attacked Fang Li with his steel spear and giant arm, but Fang Li knocked the weapon aside and kicked him through a building.
• Black Catty fired a barrage of powerful Meteors at Fang Li while Belphegor bound him in chains and pulled him toward the attack.
• The meteor barrage struck Fang Li and the steel cage, causing a tremendous explosion in midair.

Fang Li cut through Belphegor’s chains and struck her down, but she survived by revealing that the body he had split was only a decoy. Belphegor called on Black Catty and Shudenan to attack together, and Fang Li expanded his dagger into a greatsword to counter their three-pronged assault.

• Fang Li sliced through Belphegor’s defensive chains with his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes and attacked her with Bō Xié.
• Belphegor’s apparent body split apart and became a chain link, revealing that she had escaped the strike as a decoy.
• Belphegor recognized Fang Li’s sudden strength as a hidden power and ordered the others to attack together.
• Black Catty launched sky-blue meteors, Shudenan sent a tornado of purple flames, and Belphegor hurled flaming chains at Fang Li from three directions.
• Fang Li transformed his white dagger into a greatsword and swept its blade light toward the three attacks.

Fang Li used the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception to break apart the Three Pillars’ strongest attacks and pressed his assault, but they coordinated to restrain him and expose him to Black Catty’s point-blank strike. He unleashed a white shockwave that blasted all three Demon Lords away.

• The Three Pillars attacked Fang Li with their strongest lethal techniques, but Fang Li used Bō Xié to slash through the Death Lines in their attacks and destroy them.
• Fang Li charged Shudenan, blocked his spear, and struck at his flank with the Moon Blade.
• Belphegor caught Fang Li’s Moon Blade with her chain while Shudenan bound Bō Xié and Fang Li’s sword hand with a python-like arm.
• Black Catty aimed the Triangular Censer Staff at Fang Li’s exposed chest as the other two held him in place.
• Fang Li released a shockwave of white phosphorescence that struck Shudenan, Belphegor, and Black Catty and sent them flying.

Fang Li defeated the Three Pillars with the Holy Mark’s power, but its duration ended and its backlash left him unable to move. Shudenan struck Fang Li with purple flames, sending him crashing to the ground.

• Fang Li blasted Black Catty, Belphegor, and Shudenan into separate craters, leaving the Three Pillars severely injured.
• Fekir urged Sabrac to rescue the Three Pillars, but Sabrac realized Fang Li’s power had a cost and said the fight was already over.
• The Holy Mark’s white phosphorescence vanished, and Fang Li’s aura weakened as the backlash left him barely able to remain airborne.
• Shudenan launched a tornado of purple flames at Fang Li, who could only brace with Bō Xié and his remaining Star Pulse Energy.
• The flames engulfed Fang Li and drove him into the ground, where he rolled through the dust before coming to a stop.

Fang Li lay gravely injured after the Three Pillars defeated him, and he challenged Black Catty to question whether she was truly alive. As Shudenan and Belphegor prepared to take him back into custody, Fang Li received an A-Class mission to escape before being recaptured.

• Fang Li endured severe physical and spiritual pain as the purple flames around him faded, and the Three Pillars approached.
• Black Catty asked Fang Li how he could face death calmly, and he explained that he had grown accustomed to death.
• Fang Li told Black Catty that she might not count as living because she lacked emotions and acted according to others' plans.
• Shudenan threatened Fang Li for upsetting Black Catty, while Belphegor ordered that he be taken back and guarded.
• Fang Li received an A-Class side mission to escape the Three Pillars and Bal Masqué's base before being recaptured.

Unable to move or fight, Fang Li realized that his only chance to escape was for someone to rescue him. Shana arrived at Bal Masqué’s Starry Sky Palace, caught him, and decided they had to retreat.

• Fang Li concluded that the mission’s chance of success depended on an unexpected rescue, and he called out to Shana.
• Shana descended in crimson flames, embraced Fang Li, and carried him into the sky.
• The Denizens and the Three Pillars recognized Shana as the Crimson-Eyed Flame-Haired Killer, while Belphegor noticed the breach in the palace’s defenses.
• Alastor identified the location as Bal Masqué’s Starry Sky Palace and warned Shana that they could not defeat the surrounding forces.
• Shana decided that she and Fang Li would retreat.