Chapter Summaries

Shen Lang was taken from the underground tomb and forced by Ying WuQue to activate a Dragon's Regret, allowing Ying Guang to establish counter-deterrence against the Great Yan Empire. After the missile destroyed its target, Ying WuQue prepared to cripple Shen Lang, who called them idiots.

• Shen Lang met the transparent Floating Pagoda Mountain Princess, guessed at the cause of her condition, and promised to find a cure, but she refused to give him ancient texts.
• The Master of Floating Pagoda Mountain and Ying Guang reconciled after Ying Guang disclosed New Qian's strategic secrets, then agreed to launch three Dragon's Regrets.
• Shen Lang was taken to Ying WuQue, who revealed that Ying Guang needed him to authorize a Dragon's Regret launch and threatened to kill him if he failed.
• Shen Lang mixed his blood with the Ancient Human blood fossil and smeared it over the Dragon's Regret inscription, activating the weapon.
• Ying Guang fired the Dragon's Regret, which destroyed another city and restored strategic balance with the Great Yan Empire.
• Ying WuQue declared Shen Lang had outlived his usefulness and prepared to destroy his brain, but Shen Lang called him and Ying Guang idiots.

Shen Lang proved that Dragon's Regret required his spiritual resonance, but Ying Guang and Ying WuQue used him to activate and launch it again. After the weapon destroyed the Yu Lan Kingdom’s capital and the Great Yan Empire denied the attack, Ying WuMing agreed to represent Floating Pagoda Mountain at the Transcendent Forces Council in exchange for striking Raging Tide City; the chapter ended as Dragon’s Regret flew toward the city.

• Shen Lang explained that mixed blood alone could not activate Dragon's Regret, and Ying WuQue confirmed this by testing it while Shen Lang was unconscious.
• Shen Lang activated Dragon's Regret while conscious, and Ying Guang and Ying WuQue realized they needed his spiritual resonance to launch it.
• An eagle rider reported that Dragon's Regret had destroyed the Yu Lan Kingdom's capital, and the Great Yan Empire falsely blamed an earthquake while concealing the attack.
• The Imperial Crown Prince pressured Ying WuMing to represent Floating Pagoda Mountain at the Transcendent Forces Council and use Dragon's Regret against Raging Tide City.
• Ying WuQue forced Shen Lang to activate Dragon's Regret at a remote fortress, then launched it toward Raging Tide City.

Ying WuQue’s fleet launched Dragon’s Regret at Raging Tide City and believed the city had been destroyed, but Shen Lang revealed that the blast was faked and that he had secretly prevented two Dragon’s Regrets from exploding. He left the fleet with both weapons headed toward Raging Tide City, while Ying WuQue realized he had been tricked.

• Ying WuQue’s fleet launched Dragon’s Regret at Raging Tide City, and eagle riders reported seeing an explosion.
• Ying WuQue revealed to the unconscious Shen Lang that Raging Tide City had supposedly been destroyed, then ordered the fleet to withdraw.
• A Dragon’s Regret approached the fleet from the north, and Shen Lang persuaded Ying WuQue to launch their last Dragon’s Regret to intercept it.
• The two weapons missed each other, and the fleet’s warriors dived underwater to escape the incoming Dragon’s Regret.
• The northern Dragon’s Regret struck the sea without exploding, and Ying WuQue’s warriors recovered it and discovered it was unusually light.
• Shen Lang revealed that the northern weapon was fake, that the apparent destruction of Raging Tide City had been staged, and that he had used a hidden cancellation mark to send both real Dragon’s Regrets toward the city without detonating them.

Shen Lang was captured after stealing two Dragon's Regrets, while Ying Guang celebrated Great Yan's concession at the Transcendent Forces Council and prepared to meet him. In the Underground City, Shen Lang faced the threat of mutilation but persuaded his captors to wait two hours for White Jade Capital's envoy.

• Ying WuQue knocked Shen Lang unconscious and fled with Floating Pagoda Mountain's fleet, while Chou Yao'er, Hella, and Princess Dora abandoned their failed rescue attempt and returned to Raging Tide City.
• Ying WuMing attended the Transcendent Forces Council as Floating Pagoda Mountain's representative, and Great Yan's concession encouraged powers across the world to send secret envoys to Ying Guang.
• Ying Guang learned that Shen Lang had stolen both Dragon's Regrets but remained a prisoner, then hid the Dragon Egg and set out to meet him.
• Ying Guang, the Master of Floating Pagoda Mountain, and Ying WuQue confronted Shen Lang in the Underground City and threatened to cut off his fingers unless Raging Tide City returned the weapons.
• Shen Lang offered the Master of Floating Pagoda Mountain ten Dragon's Regrets and a cure for his daughter, then invoked White Jade Capital and won a two-hour reprieve before Ying WuQue could cut his finger.

Shen Lang persuaded White Jade Capital’s envoy to guarantee his safety during a half-month deal with the Master of Floating Pagoda Mountain, offering secret information about the Ancient Civilization in exchange. He proposed opening the Mountain’s hidden ruins to obtain Dragon’s Regrets and cure Ren Yingying, but the Master tested his claimed abilities by trapping him in a secret chamber and starting a thirty-second countdown.

• Shen Lang waited for White Jade Capital’s envoy to arrive, and she appeared amid summer snowfall and agreed to arbitrate a transaction after he revealed that the supposed comet was a product of the Ancient Civilization.
• The envoy guaranteed Shen Lang’s safety while he negotiated with the Master of Floating Pagoda Mountain: within half a month, he had to provide ten Dragon’s Regrets and cure Ren Yingying, or surrender the two stolen weapons and lose one Zuo Shou.
• Shen Lang argued that his knowledge of Ancient Ruins could let him open the Mountain’s sealed laboratories and obtain Dragon’s Regrets, urging the Master to take him to the ruins.
• The Master of Floating Pagoda Mountain knocked Shen Lang unconscious and brought him to a featureless secret chamber, where he demanded that Shen Lang open it within thirty seconds.

Shen Lang exposed the supposed secret chamber as an illusion and remained imprisoned while the Floating Pagoda Mountain Princess and her father tested his resolve to enter the Southern Sea Area Ancient Ruin. After seeing Kutou Huan transformed into a mindless, powerful creature by its Energy Vortex, Shen Lang still agreed to risk entering it to try to save the princess, and leapt inside.

• Shen Lang identified the white chamber as a spatial illusion, but his captor knocked him unconscious and returned him to his familiar prison.
• Shen Lang told the Floating Pagoda Mountain Princess he wanted to enter the Ancient Ruin’s Energy Vortex to cure her, while claiming his own bloodline would protect him.
• The Floating Pagoda Mountain Princess showed Shen Lang that Kutou Huan had survived the Energy Vortex experiments but lost his memories and reason, and Shen Lang insisted he would still take the risk.
• The Master of Floating Pagoda Mountain agreed to let Shen Lang try to save his daughter, despite the danger and the political consequences of acting behind Ying Guang’s back.
• At the Ancient Ruin, Shen Lang confirmed he was ready and leapt into the Energy Vortex.

Shen Lang appeared to lose his memories after entering the Energy Vortex, but he secretly pretended to be broken-minded so he could uncover the Master of Floating Pagoda Mountain’s deception. He revealed the truth to Ren Yingying and asked her to escape with him to save Lord Jun and the people trapped in the Ancient Ruins at Diamond Peak.

• Shen Lang emerged from the Energy Vortex with fragmented memories, and the Master of Floating Pagoda Mountain believed he had failed and lost his sanity.
• The Master allowed Shen Lang to move freely, then had him activate Dragon's Regret to destroy Shen Lang's own chemical base, leaving him seemingly numb and obedient.
• Ren Yingying visited Shen Lang and gave him surveillance records, which he used to reveal that his apparent memory loss was an act.
• Shen Lang told Ren Yingying that the Energy Vortex was a fake device designed to destroy memories and that the Master had staged the rescue attempt to hide his real motives.
• Shen Lang explained that he had sought access to the true passage to Diamond Peak so he could rescue Lord Jun and tens of thousands of loyal people.
• Shen Lang revealed that the Master had raised a gu worm inside Ren Yingying and caused her mother's condition, then urged her to escape with him.

Shen Lang convinced Ren Yingying to help him enter the Ancient Ruins, and she escorted him south disguised as a White Jade Capital envoy. After Ying Guang warned the Master of Floating Pagoda Mountain that Shen Lang might be faking his amnesia, the Master raced to stop him from reaching the ruins.

• Shen Lang truthfully explained his motives to Ren Yingying, who agreed to help him if he freed her mother from her father's abuse.
• Ren Yingying killed the attendants and eavesdroppers who tried to report her, then disguised Shen Lang as a White Jade Capital envoy and led him out of the Underground City.
• Ren Yingying carried Shen Lang south with the help of a female warrior, while Shen Lang's disguise allowed them to pass the Floating Pagoda Mountain guards.
• The Master of Floating Pagoda Mountain told Ying Guang that Shen Lang's memories had been damaged, but Ying Guang suspected Shen Lang was acting because he had not mentioned the Dragon Egg.
• After learning Ren Yingying had gone south with the envoy, the Master of Floating Pagoda Mountain rushed to launch himself toward the Ancient Ruins to stop Shen Lang.

Ren Yingying disguised her plan to bring Shen Lang to the Ancient Ruins’ Energy Vortex as an inspection, forcing him to solve passwords and using his success to seize control of the expedition. As the Master of Floating Pagoda Mountain raced south by fake Dragon’s Regret, Ren Yingying sent Ren Tao and Shen Lang through the vortex while she fought off their pursuers.

• The Master of Floating Pagoda Mountain traveled between Secret Bases inside fake Dragon’s Regrets, then resumed flying south on a snow condor to stop Shen Lang.
• Ren Yingying confirmed that Shen Lang’s destroyed island base had been a fake Dragon’s Regret attack, then entered the Ancient Ruins with him in a coffin.
• Ren Yingying intimidated the Ancient Ruins’ scholars, killed those who had been faking their work, and used the spectacle to establish authority over the gathered forces.
• Ren Yingying made Shen Lang calculate passwords under a staged threat, and he opened fifteen ancient facilities in less than an hour, including a warehouse containing more than ten Dragon’s Regrets.
• Ren Yingying led Shen Lang toward the Energy Vortex, but the Master of Floating Pagoda Mountain approached, so she ordered Ren Tao to take Shen Lang through it while she held back the pursuing forces.

Shen Lang passed through the Energy Vortex into the Ancient Civilization passage, while Ren Yingying and Ren Tao remained behind as Sect Leader Ren vowed to destroy Raging Tide City. After collapsing from thirst during his long trek, Shen Lang awoke in the Diamond Peak Ancient Ruins and found Lord Jun beside him.

• Ren Tao hurled Shen Lang through the Energy Vortex, and he vanished safely as Elder Wu's ballista bolts disintegrated against it.
• Sect Leader Ren stopped his forces and confronted Ren Yingying, who admitted she had chosen to help Shen Lang and demanded that Ren Tao remain with her.
• Sect Leader Ren imprisoned Ren Yingying and threatened to destroy Raging Tide City within ten days if Shen Lang did not return.
• Shen Lang heard Sect Leader Ren's threat through the transparent Energy Vortex, promised to rescue Ren Yingying, and continued into the dark passage toward the Diamond Peak Ruins.
• Shen Lang walked for fifty hours without food or water, fainted, and later awoke in a warm, brightly lit place beside Lord Jun.

Shen Lang reunited with Lord Jun and the survivors who had taken refuge in the Diamond Peak Ancient Ruins, then learned their remaining energy would last only about two months. Lord Jun revealed a sealed temple at the ruins’ summit, and Shen Lang set out to investigate it.

• Lord Jun welcomed Shen Lang, who had returned after years of uncertainty, and reunited with the tens of thousands of followers he had led into the Diamond Peak Ancient Ruins.
• Shen Lang greeted Xian Nu, Madman Lan, their son, Su Nan, Nangong Ao, and the Ten Lan Brothers, and named Xian Nu and Madman Lan’s child Lan Mou.
• Madman Lan reported that the Blood Soul Army had reduced their forces from over three hundred and fifty thousand to fifty thousand, including thirty thousand trained to Nirvana Army standards.
• Lord Jun explained that Kutou Huan had crossed the Energy Vortex during a brief change after the Fire Dragon Comet struck, and that the Diamond Peak Ruins’ energy would run out in about two months.
• Lord Jun told Shen Lang that Lei Zu had opened the ruins to save them and identified the settlement as a sacrificial city with a temple sealed by an Energy Vortex at its summit.
• Shen Lang decided to go with Lord Jun to the temple at the summit.

Shen Lang entered the ancient temple on Diamond Peak and found no treasure except a mysterious ring worn by a fossilized Ancient King. He put on the Ancient King Ring and collapsed as a blinding force erupted inside his head.

• Shen Lang and Lord Jun discussed the Sha Barbarians' burned forests, Lord Jun's service as Prime Minister, and the looming threat to Raging Tide City.
• Lord Jun judged that Ying Guang and Floating Pagoda Mountain would attack Raging Tide City to force Shen Lang to submit, while the Emperor of Great Yan remained a powerful unknown.
• Shen Lang passed through the temple's Energy Vortex and found a huge statue of a crimson-haired, golden-eyed male with a Human-faced Snake Body, along with a fossilized Ancient King.
• Shen Lang failed to damage the statue or move or cut the Ancient King's fossilized body, and he found no treasure in the temple.
• As Shen Lang prepared to leave, he noticed the Ancient King's ring differed slightly from the rest of the fossil and removed it easily.
• Shen Lang put on the Ancient King Ring, whereupon a tremendous light erupted inside his head and he collapsed.

Shen Lang discovered that the Ancient King Ring protected him from suffocation, extreme heat, and energy blasts, allowing him to cross a ruined passage into another Ancient Ruins. There he found hundreds of thousands of fossilized Ancient Humans, an Ancient Scroll, and a vast abyss of creature nests, before a huge beast swallowed him.

• Shen Lang tested the Ancient King Ring, discovered that it opened and closed Energy Vortices, and failed to move the Ancient King fossil or the giant divine statue.
• With all fifty thousand people trapped in Diamond Peak Ruins and both known exits guarded, Shen Lang entered the damaged western passage alone while the ring protected him from its deadly conditions.
• Shen Lang crossed the ruined passage and entered another Ancient Ruins, where he found hundreds of thousands of fossilized Ancient Humans and opened a stone coffin using the ring’s handprint.
• Shen Lang took an Ancient Scroll from the coffin and searched the plaza, finding an open stone door that led down into a vast abyss lined with enormous creature nests.
• After searching many nests without finding an egg or living creature, Shen Lang entered a deep cave containing a pond, where a huge creature lunged out and swallowed him.

Shen Lang escaped the ancient behemoth, used the Ancient King Ring to control it, and discovered that it was an ancient aerial war beast named Da Chao. After arranging for Lord Jun and the others to remain in the ruins, Shen Lang opened the abyss exit and flew toward Raging Tide City with Da Chao to confront Floating Pagoda Mountain and Ying Guang.

• The Ancient King Ring repelled the behemoth’s attacks, and Shen Lang discovered it could reflect the creature’s ultrasonic waves.
• Shen Lang linked the Ancient King Ring to the beast’s Nightmare Stone device, gained control of it, and named it Da Chao.
• Shen Lang examined the Ancient Plaza fossils and deduced that authority rings had controlled ancient battle beasts and held great power.
• Shen Lang returned to Lord Jun and the fifty thousand people, then promised to fly to Raging Tide City and defeat the enemy armies before bringing them out.
• Shen Lang and Da Chao reached the abyss gate, and Shen Lang opened it with the Ancient King Ring.
• Da Chao carried Shen Lang out of the underground ruins and flew toward Raging Tide City to face Floating Pagoda Mountain and Ying Guang.

Shen Lang traveled north on the Ultrasonic Flying Beast, which hunted and fed before carrying him back toward Raging Tide City. Meanwhile, Ying Guang and Floating Pagoda Mountain sent a massive allied army to destroy the city, and the chapter ended with Shen Lang arriving ahead of it, ready to fight.

• Shen Lang rode the Ultrasonic Flying Beast from Sha Barbarian territory to the Qiang Kingdom Plateau, where it hunted wild cattle and sheep, ate, and killed a Qiang Kingdom warrior who witnessed them.
• Ying Guang and Sect Leader Ren ordered their allied forces to level Raging Tide City, kill its people, and capture Shen Lang's family as hostages if he appeared.
• Ying Guang and Ying WuQue welcomed Lian Prince and Min Prince as Great Yan Empire commissioners, who agreed to accompany the Northern Expedition and supervise it.
• Ying Guang, Sect Leader Ren, and Lian Prince saw off the hundred-thousand-strong fleet as Ying WuQue, Min Prince, and Elder Wu took command and sailed toward Raging Tide City.
• Shen Lang arrived at Raging Tide City on the Ultrasonic Flying Beast while the allied army was still more than five thousand li away, and he called for it to come.

Shen Lang returned to Raging Tide City with Da Chao and reviewed the city’s projects and defenses as Floating Pagoda Mountain and Ying Guang’s fleet approached. He prepared to use one of Raging Tide City’s two Dragon’s Regrets, leaving the enemy fleet one thousand li away as the battle neared.

• Da Chao landed Shen Lang in Raging Tide City, where Hella, Chou Yao'er, Xueyin, and others welcomed him; Chou Yao'er eagerly inspected the flying beast.
• Zhang Chunhua reported that the Doomsday Plan had made little progress, while Nightmare Stone research had advanced and work on a smaller Dragon Force Launch Device had begun.
• Shen Lang learned that the Nuwa Plan had made no progress and heard reports on the western trade mission and experiments with Hellfire Liquid.
• Five airships surveyed the sea and spotted the combined fleet of Floating Pagoda Mountain and Ying Guang roughly three thousand seven hundred li from Raging Tide City.
• Shen Lang visited Ning Yan and met baby Shen Mo, then told Ning Yuanxian that the coming battles would not take place at Raging Tide City.
• As the enemy fleet drew within one thousand li, Shen Lang rejected Hella's proposal to move the Dragon Force Launch Device and Dragon's Regret onto an Ancient Warship, preparing instead to stage a major strike from Raging Tide City.

Shen Lang used four fake Dragon's Regrets carrying magnetic blast bombs to weaken Ying WuQue's fleet and make its troops dismiss the warnings. He then launched a real Dragon's Regret, which destroyed the detached fleet as Ying WuQue fired a parasite missile at Raging Tide City.

• Suo Xuan reprimanded the Crown Princes of Wu and Chu and Young Lord Zhong for losing focus on their administrative duties, then granted them leave to visit the battlefield after Jin Zhuo intervened.
• The Crown Princes, Arunana, and Aruzhuang watched Raging Tide City's defenses prepare for battle as the New Army took positions on the walls.
• Shen Lang launched four fake Dragon's Regrets, whose magnetic blasts disrupted the fleet's Energy Cores and prompted Ying WuQue to split his forces.
• Ying WuQue ordered his fleet to evade the repeated warnings by jumping into the sea, while Shen Lang prepared a real Dragon's Regret.
• Ying WuQue launched a parasite missile and jumped overboard as the real Dragon's Regret descended, but the blast annihilated his detached fleet.

Shen Lang’s Dragon’s Regret destroyed Ying WuQue’s fleet, and Elder Wu led a force of Snowy Eagle Warriors to attack Raging Tide City with gu insect bombs. Da Chao intercepted them, and its ultrasonic attack began wiping out the aerial force as the chapter ended.

• Shen Lang’s Dragon’s Regret detonated among Ying WuQue’s fleet, killing Ying WuQue and destroying the warships and troops caught in the blast.
• Elder Wu reunited with Wu Jue, and they decided to withdraw the fleet and launch an air raid on Raging Tide City using gu insect bombs.
• Elder Wu led one hundred and fifty Snowy Eagle Warriors toward Raging Tide City with one thousand five hundred gu insect bombs.
• Shen Lang sent Da Chao, ridden by Chou Yao'er, to intercept the incoming aerial force.
• Elder Wu ordered the Snowy Eagle Warriors to fire their Ancient Battle Ballistas, but Da Chao’s ultrasonic attack blasted aside the arrows and shattered a snowy eagle and its rider.
• Da Chao’s attack ruptured the rider’s gu insect bombs, spreading gu worms that began killing the Snowy Eagle Warriors and their mounts.

Da Chao and Chou Yao'er destroyed Floating Pagoda Mountain's aerial force, and Chou Yao'er captured Elder Wu after surviving her gu-insect trap. Wu Jue retreated with his fleet, while Shen Lang's forces salvaged valuable ships and equipment; Chou Yao'er later found and captured the injured Ying WuQue.

• Da Chao wiped out Floating Pagoda Mountain's Snowy Eagle Warriors and pursued Elder Wu, while Chou Yao'er pursued her into the sea.
• Elder Wu's gu-insect bombs failed to kill Chou Yao'er, who fought her with Da Chao's help and captured her after a fake Dragon's Regret disabled her Ancient Armor.
• Wu Jue ordered his fleet to retreat, abandoning Elder Wu and ending the search for Ying WuQue and Min Prince.
• Chou Yao'er searched the Dragon's Regret wreckage and found more than a dozen Ancient Warships and five intact Energy Cores for Shen Lang's forces.
• Chou Yao'er found the badly injured Ying WuQue on a wrecked ship and knocked him unconscious, capturing him.

After securing Raging Tide City, Shen Lang studied an ancient king’s scroll, treated Elder Wu, and brutally punished Ying WuQue while planning to seize the initiative against the New Qian Kingdom. At Black Stone Island, Ying Guang learned that Shen Lang had destroyed half the allied army and that Ying WuQue and the Empire’s Min Prince had been killed.

• Shen Lang scanned all fifty-three thousand pages of the ancient king’s scroll and found its technical language nearly impossible to decipher.
• Ning Yuanxian discussed ancient divine beasts with Shen Lang and inferred that Shen Lang planned to attack the New Qian Kingdom next.
• Shen Lang treated Elder Wu’s reattached arms, rejected her proposed prisoner exchange, and tried to turn her into a mindless walking corpse warrior.
• Shen Lang maimed Ying WuQue, forced him to kneel and beg, then ordered his execution by Death by a Thousand Cuts.
• At Black Stone Island, Wu Jue reported that Shen Lang had fired a Dragon’s Regret, killing fifty thousand soldiers and destroying half the ancient fleet, while Ying WuQue and the Empire’s Min Prince had been killed.
• Ying Guang froze in shock as Wu Jue delivered the news to him and the Empire’s Lian Prince.