Chapter Summaries

Fang Cheng shattered White Ghost’s sword and pummeled him through the Auxiliary Building, leaving him buried in the ruins. As a blood-red phenomenon enveloped Golden City Resort, Lin Chuqiao and Lark watched from a nearby village, where Lin Chuqiao’s Mental Link was blocked by a Space Barrier.

• Fang Cheng broke White Ghost’s Heavenly Cloud Severer with Infinite Combo and Death Tornado, then struck him through the Auxiliary Building with Chained Straight Punches.
• Fang Cheng prepared to enter the ruins and finish off White Ghost, but a freezing wind, extinguished flames, and blood-red clouds spread over the Resort.
• Lin Chuqiao and Lark saw the red glow from a mountain village and recognized it as the phenomenon Lin Chuqiao had foreseen.
• Lin Chuqiao tried to contact Fang Cheng through her Mental Link, but a Space Barrier blocked her outside the Resort.
• Lin Chuqiao connected her Mental Link to the reconnaissance teams and asked them to report their status.

Lin Chuqiao’s reconnaissance teams discovered that Utopia was using four Skull Gates to form a barrier around the Golden City Resort, so she ordered a coordinated assault before it sealed Fang Cheng inside. Outside the resort, police and reporters found the site swallowed by black mist, and a scouting dog disappeared after entering it.

• Pan Wendi, Li Jie, Ye Zhi Ren, and Eagle Eye reported strange activity around the resort, including a red energy pillar, spreading black mist, and a Skull Gate on each surrounding hill.
• Ye Zhi Ren deduced that the gates were spatial nodes forming a barrier that would isolate the resort, while Eagle Eye reported that armed Utopia guards protected each gate.
• Lin Chuqiao ordered all four reconnaissance teams to attack their assigned Skull Gates before the barrier fully formed and cut Fang Cheng off from outside help.
• Pan Wendi, Li Fei, Ye Zhi Ren, and Eagle Eye agreed to lead their teams against the guards and gates, while Lin Chuqiao waited outside and hoped Fang Cheng would survive.
• At the resort entrance, reporter Chen Xuan described the vanished site and spreading fog as Zhao Jianping’s police equipment failed to penetrate it.
• Zhao Jianping sent the Rottweiler Black Panther into the mist with a tracking collar, but its signal vanished and it did not return to the handler’s calls or whistle.

Zhou Yongnian led two SWAT officers into the black fog engulfing Golden City Resort to investigate the hostage crisis and search for his daughter, Xiumei. They reached the ruined entrance and found a monster eating the missing police dog, Black Panther.

• Zhao Jianping ordered a scouting team into the fog after recalling a similar supernatural incident from twenty years earlier.
• Zhou Yongnian arrived with A Zhong, identified himself as a Jiangbei investigator, and volunteered to lead the search.
• Zhou Yongnian and two SWAT officers entered the fog with safety ropes, lights, and weapons, finding the ground covered in sulfurous black material.
• The team reached the shattered resort entrance and began searching for Building 3, where the hostages were held.
• Zhou Yongnian spotted a hairless monster eating the remains of Black Panther and stopped a SWAT officer from firing as they tried to sneak around it.

Zhou Yongnian and two SWAT officers were trapped in a fog-bound dimension after their safety rope was severed, and they searched for an exit before red light reached their refuge. Elsewhere, Fang Cheng killed three attacking monsters, while the creatures gathering in the ruins froze at the sight of him.

• Zhou Yongnian and the two SWAT officers shot one monster, destroying one of its yellow eyes, but its cries and their gunfire drew many more creatures toward them.
• Zhou Yongnian activated the buzzer and led the officers back along the safety rope, but they found it severed and realized the black fog had isolated them from the outside world.
• Zhou Yongnian concluded they were at the edge of another dimension, where the monsters would not cross into the dark area, and ordered the officers to search for an exit before the red light spread.
• Fang Cheng charged three monsters, crushed one with his hand, kicked another through walls, and skewered the third with a length of rebar.
• Fang Cheng blasted the skewered monster apart with qi force, and the monsters emerging from the red mist froze as they watched him.

Fang Cheng learned from the defeated White Ghost that Utopia had opened a Hell Gate at Golden City Resort as a test of its plan to establish monster footholds in the real world. White Ghost explained that Utopia intended to replicate the method worldwide, while Fang Cheng waited to hear why he had revealed the organization’s secrets.

• Fang Cheng drove the surviving monsters into the mist, and White Ghost emerged from the ruined Auxiliary Building after surviving Fang Cheng’s punch.
• White Ghost told Fang Cheng that the Hell Gate connected the resort to another world and that stronger monsters would emerge once the passage stabilized.
• White Ghost explained that Utopia had created the spatial formation to capture Fang Cheng and test a method for turning locations in the real world into stable monster outposts.
• White Ghost revealed Utopia planned to reproduce the experiment in cities around the world using replica Saint Relics made with technology deciphered from an ancient ruin.
• Fang Cheng asked White Ghost why he was telling him the organization’s secrets.

Fang Cheng learned from White Ghost that Utopia’s ritual was creating an Inner World, then faced a Calamity-Class dragon emerging through the Abyss Fissure. After the dragon attacked, Fang Cheng activated Overlord Body and broke free of its lightning strike, leaving the battle unresolved.

• White Ghost explained that Utopia’s cadres were expendable and that the Inner World would soon assimilate the resort, while Fang Cheng considered how to break the barrier.
• White Ghost described two possible ways to break a newly formed Inner World, and Fang Cheng prepared to try using his power.
• A Calamity-Class dragon tore through the Abyss Fissure and attacked Fang Cheng and White Ghost with its dragon breath.
• Fang Cheng punched through the dragon breath and struck the dragon’s claw, damaging its scales and forcing it back.
• The dragon unleashed a barrage of lightning, and Fang Cheng activated Overlord Body and endured the attack.
• Fang Cheng burst out of the lightning sphere in a golden blaze, appearing naked and muscular in midair.

Fang Cheng used Overlord Body to battle the dragon barehanded above the ruined Golden City Resort. After the dragon swallowed him, he burst out from inside and tore it apart, leaving White Ghost awestruck.

• Fang Cheng shattered the dragon's lightning and charged into a fierce aerial brawl, landing blows that cracked its armor and slowed it down.
• The dragon feigned weakness, teleported close to Fang Cheng, and swallowed him with a mass of dragon breath.
• White Ghost feared Fang Cheng had been trapped inside the dragon's scorching stomach as the dragon roared in triumph.
• Fang Cheng protected himself with Overlord Body and Body Protection Qi, then battered the dragon's insides with Infinite Combo.
• Fang Cheng tore open the dragon's belly and the dragon plunged into the ruins in bloody chunks.
• White Ghost watched Fang Cheng stand above the ruins and praised the satisfaction of seeing him tear a dragon apart barehanded.

Fat Tiger and Flying Shadow celebrated Boss Bai’s victory over a giant monster, while Pei Tianci decided Red Devil would join the Illumination Society. In the underground shelter, a monster snake attacked the crowd, and an unidentified figure with Beast Claws crushed its neck.

• Fat Tiger and Flying Shadow confirmed Hai Zhu was dead and watched Boss Bai tear a huge monster apart in the sky.
• A Kun urged Pei Tianci to join the Illumination Society, and Pei Tianci agreed while vowing to settle Red Devil’s blood debt with General Ruan later.
• An East City Association officer reassured the shelter’s occupants as more than two thousand people waited underground amid tremors and distant howls.
• Gray-black mist seeped into the Service Hall, making two girls suffer chilling hallucinations and a bleeding rash.
• A blind, clawed monster snake fell from a ventilation duct and attacked the shelter crowd as East City Association guards opened fire.
• A fur-covered figure with Beast Claws caught the snake mid-lunge and crushed its neck.

Old Wolf killed a monstrous snake that had entered the underground shooting range, and the shelter's occupants sealed the poisoned vents while waiting out the destruction above. The chapter ended with Fang Cheng hovering over the ruins as the black rift in the sky widened and poured out sulfurous mist.

• Old Wolf revealed his strength to kill the strange snake barehanded and warned A Le that monsters and poison were entering through the ventilation ducts.
• A Le ordered the central ventilation system shut down, and the enforcers sealed the remaining vents and gaps.
• Du Juan and Sanchai recognized Old Wolf as a powerful ability user and kept watch over Zhou Xiumei.
• Shen Wei reassured the officials and businessmen sheltering in the shooting range, while Zhou Xiumei worried about Fang Cheng amid the continuing tremors.
• Fang Cheng hovered above the ruined buildings as the black rift in the sky widened, releasing thunder, sulfur, and black mist.

Fang Cheng weighed the risks of pushing his spirit attribute past 100 to stop the Hell Gate’s expanding barrier and, after learning that Lin Chuqiao’s team had been ambushed, chose to break through himself. His spirit reached 103, triggering a spectacular surge of power that drove back the Blood Mist.

• Fang Cheng realized the spreading Blood Mist would endanger the people sheltering underground and considered destroying the Hell Gates or destabilizing the rift with his mental power.
• Fang Cheng contacted Lin Chuqiao and learned that her teams had found four Hell Gates, while her team at Position Three was ambushed by Utopia.
• Fang Cheng sensed Lin Chuqiao rushing to aid the ambushed team and decided he could no longer wait for the outside forces to break the barrier.
• Fang Cheng allocated all 15 saved points to Spirit, raising the attribute from 88 to 103 and breaking through the human limit.
• Lightning tore across the blood-red sky as Fang Cheng’s power erupted, driving back the Blood Mist and illuminating the area with Golden Flame.

Claude entered the unstable Blood-colored Space to investigate the disruption, while Fang Cheng broke through the barrier in his Sea of Consciousness and unleashed overwhelming psychic power. Fang Cheng struck toward the blood-red sky, leaving the barrier's fate unresolved.

• Claude ordered Xu Dog to open the Hell Gate and entered the passage after the formation began to destabilize.
• Fang Cheng's mental power reached one hundred, shattering the barrier that had imprisoned his soul and causing his consciousness to overwhelm his body.
• Fang Cheng fused his psychic power with the Solar True Fire, forming a blazing pillar of golden light and stirring the Blood-colored Space.
• Fang Cheng's power lifted and shattered ruins, drove away the blood mist, and formed four tornadoes around him.
• Fang Cheng declared that neither earth nor sky would bar his path, then clenched his fist and struck toward the heavens.

Fang Cheng tested his newly awakened Abyss-Class power against the blood-red sky, but the barrier’s lightning and his rapidly draining energy forced him to stop. Ravenously hungry, he killed two mutated hounds that tried to eat the dragon corpse and began devouring it to replenish his strength, leaving nearby monsters terrified.

• Fang Cheng’s punch cratered the blood-red canopy and revealed a vast space rift, but the barrier healed and struck him with lightning.
• Fang Cheng blocked the first lightning bolt with psychic power, then fought a storm of lightning with his fists until his true qi and mental energy were nearly depleted.
• Fang Cheng recognized that he needed to restore his vitality and spotted two mutated hounds eating the Calamity-Class dragon’s corpse.
• Fang Cheng killed both hounds, chased off the other monsters, and ate more than ten pounds of dragon meat to replenish his energy.
• Fang Cheng lifted a several-ton section of the dragon’s remains and continued devouring it as the other monsters watched in fear.

Fang Cheng replenished his strength with dragon blood, then battered the space barrier with psychic power and punches until the blood moon cracked open. As he faced the storm and the retreating figures within the rift, a flame-wreathed figure stepped through and ordered him to stop.

• Fang Cheng drank the dragon's blood to restore his vitality and true qi.
• Fang Cheng discovered that psychic power could penetrate the spatial barrier and began striking the rift with a barrage of empowered punches.
• Fang Cheng's assault destabilized the barrier, drawing a storm of blood-colored lightning while the figures inside the rift retreated.
• The blood moon cracked open into a narrow doorway, and a tall figure wreathed in crimson flames stepped through and told Fang Cheng to stop.

Fang Cheng broke the blood-red barrier and ended Utopia’s cross-world experiment, then faced Claude August above the ruins of Golden City Resort. Claude revealed his history with Fang Cheng’s father, and the two prepared to fight.

• Claude attacked Fang Cheng with a massive fire dragon, but Fang Cheng destroyed it with a powerful punch.
• Fang Cheng’s assault shattered the blood-red moon and barrier, causing the Skull Gates and space rift to collapse and revealing the ruined Golden City Resort.
• Claude introduced himself as Claude August and confronted Fang Cheng, whom he suspected was White Owl.
• Fang Cheng revealed he knew Claude had killed his family to join Utopia, and Claude defended the act as necessary to build a new order.
• Claude recounted watching Fang Shijie die in a fire after he defied Utopia, but Fang Cheng showed no reaction and challenged Claude to fight.
• Claude and Fang Cheng exchanged threats and let their auras clash, but neither made the first move.

Fang Cheng and Claude ended their standoff when the Special Search Team approached, and Utopia withdrew from the Western Mountains. Exhausted and suffering from the effects of his breakthrough, Fang Cheng regrouped with his allies, retrieved the Silver Key, and opened a mysterious blue doorway.

• Fang Cheng and Claude exchanged threats but agreed to postpone their fight when the Special Search Team's helicopters neared Golden City Resort.
• Claude ordered Xu Dog to evacuate Utopia from the Western Mountains, and they escaped through the Crystal Skull Gate as it vanished.
• Fang Cheng contacted Lin Chuqiao and told her to lead everyone out before the police arrived.
• Fat Tiger, Flying Shadow, Pei Tianci, A Kun, and A Mang found Fang Cheng, and Flying Shadow returned his Canvas Bag with the Silver Key inside.
• Fang Cheng used the Silver Key to open a glowing blue doorway in the air.

Fang Cheng opened a Space Gate to a volcanic realm, collected the dragon meat, and withdrew there to cultivate after his mental power breakthrough. Meanwhile, Old Wolf informed Shen Wei that Fang Cheng had won, and the people sheltering underground learned that the immediate danger had passed.

• Fang Cheng opened the Space Gate and ordered Fat Tiger, Flying Shadow, Pei Tianci, A Kun, and A Mang to carry dragon meat through it; Pei Tianci declared that the Blood Demon Mercenary Group had joined the Illumination Society.
• Fang Cheng said his mental power had broken through and instructed Flying Shadow to tell Miss Lin and the professor to avoid trouble while he cultivated in seclusion.
• As police and helicopters closed in on Golden City Resort, Fang Cheng sent his people toward the Back Mountain secret passage, then crossed the Space Gate and began eating dragon meat in the volcanic realm.
• Old Wolf received Fang Cheng's message through the Mental Link and told Shen Wei that Fang Cheng had defeated Utopia's expert and driven the enemy back.
• Shen Wei announced to the people in the underground Service Hall that the police had taken control of the resort and that East City Group would arrange their return home once it was safe.
• Zhou Xiumei's companions celebrated their rescue, while Zhou Xiumei quietly felt relieved that Fang Cheng was safe.

Xu Fei and Chen Lei cleared the monsters at Golden City Resort and learned that Shen Wei had sheltered more than two thousand people in an underground shooting range. As survivors evacuated, Xu Fei investigated White Owl’s role and Du Juan and Sanchai left to meet Brother Tian and Boss Bai, ready to serve the Illumination Society’s President.

• Xu Fei and Chen Lei, aided by an attack helicopter, killed the monsters around the ruined resort and heard from Lin Rui that Shen Wei had led more than two thousand people into a shelter before the attack.
• Lin Rui told Xu Fei that Shen Wei had been warned by a strange man who threatened to make Golden City Resort a sacrifice for Utopia, and that Shen Wei had noticed ominous signs before the disaster.
• Lin Rui reported that the production crew and contestants had survived in the shelter and credited White Owl with rescuing them; Xu Fei ordered further investigation and planned to question Shen Wei and the production director.
• Guests emerged from the shelter and were evacuated, while Zhou Yongnian reunited tearfully with his daughter, Zhou Xiumei.
• Old Wolf warned Xiao Bei to act like an ordinary, law-abiding citizen, and Du Juan and Sanchai left the Back Mountain to meet Brother Tian and Boss Bai as members of the Illumination Society.

Fang Cheng’s attempt to break through the Abyss Threshold brought his consciousness under attack from higher-dimensional beings, but the wish power of more than two thousand people he had saved at Golden City Resort replenished him. He resolved to disperse every shadow over the world, and his contracted inner sun erupted in a blaze of light.

• Fang Cheng’s consciousness faced visions and whispers from higher-dimensional beings as darkness spread through his Inner Scenery World.
• Fang Cheng resisted the assault with the Wisdom Fist Mudra and Great Brightness Mantra, but his life energy and true qi rapidly dwindled.
• A golden river of wish power formed from the gratitude and relief of the people Fang Cheng had saved at Golden City Resort and flowed into his inner sun.
• Fang Cheng recognized the river as the karmic echo of his deeds and declared that he would disperse every shadow over the world.
• Fang Cheng’s inner sun contracted to its limit, then erupted with boundless light.

Fang Cheng used his breakthrough and the gathered Merit and Wish Power to unleash his ultimate, Sunshine Illuminates All, destroying the higher-dimensional threats and transforming his Inner Scenery World. After awakening the monks and establishing his Golden Palace as the world’s nexus, he stabilized the world and entered the Abyss Threshold realm.

• Fang Cheng’s Solar True Fire overwhelmed the darkness, burned away the hostile entities and illusions, and let him cross the Abyss Threshold.
• Fang Cheng concentrated the solar storm into his ultimate attack, named Sunshine Illuminates All, and drove the remaining higher-dimensional beings away.
• Fang Cheng’s Inner Scenery World expanded and flourished as spirit rain nourished its land, seas, and new life, while the sun and blood moon became a harmonious pair.
• The old monk and hundreds of monks awakened at Lone Peak Temple, and Fang Cheng granted them arhat bodies to serve as guardians of his world.
• Fang Cheng anchored the world through the Golden Palace, took the Golden Throne, and stabilized the Inner Scenery World as he entered the Abyss Threshold realm.

After reaching Abyss-Class, Fang Cheng reviewed his battle gains and visited the Truth Society headquarters on Yong'an Island. He tested his new mermaid-silk clothes and their defense, then Zheng Hongxin raised the question of traveling to the Other Shore World.

• Fang Cheng finished three days of secluded cultivation and reached Abyss-Class, then saw experience gains from the Golden City Resort battle.
• Fang Cheng visited the Truth Society headquarters, where Zheng Hongxin, Zhao Lei, and Chen Jiandong felt the pressure of his increased strength.
• Wu Yingshan delivered the mermaid-silk clothes and explained how the fabric had been cut and sewn.
• Fang Cheng tried on the mermaid-silk T-shirt, moved and punched in it, and found that it did not hinder him.
• Fang Cheng let Zhao Lei slash him with a military saber, which left the shirt unmarked and damaged the blade.
• Zheng Hongxin asked Fang Cheng whether they should discuss going to the Other Shore World.