Chapter Summaries

Mugamuga used a rented Gravity Aura to infiltrate the underground complex and followed an elevator to a bizarre waterless sea filled with creatures and floating islands. Li Aoz recognized the blue mist as Abandoned Mist and suggested the Hydrogen Bomb or Elf Island might be concealed within it.

• Old Blindeye gave the Murloc Guild's rented Gravity Aura to Mugamuga so he could scout the facility for the Hydrogen Bomb.
• Mugamuga explored the underground research complex, photographed its experiments and equipment, and shared his findings with his teammates and forum viewers.
• The viewers analyzed Mugamuga's map, and Old Blindeye directed him to a hidden elevator shaft at H3.
• Mugamuga rode the elevator down for twenty minutes and emerged onto a sandy shore beneath a clear sky, facing a sea with no water.
• Mugamuga livestreamed the strange landscape, and Li Aoz identified its blue mist as Abandoned Mist, where the Hydrogen Bomb or Elf Island could be hidden.

After the Murloc Guild escaped Abandoned Mist, Li Aoz used the stolen intelligence to prepare for the Nine Dragons Gathering and contacted Xiajian Jing and Ms. N4. The chapter then shifted to Ya Wen, stranded in the Outland and reliving the wartime hunger that had led to Dai Sijia's death.

• The Murloc Guild withdrew from Abandoned Mist after its mission reached 100%, and players shared the evidence of Hojo Conglomerate's experiments.
• Li Aoz saved the experiment photos and videos, considering how to use them against the Hojo Family and Sky Ring.
• Li Aoz warned Xiajian Jing about the Black Knight's prison and the Hydrogen Bomb, and she agreed that the Red Squad would act during the Nine Dragons Gathering.
• Li Aoz decided to prepare for possible schemes by Law Enforcement Division Three and called Ms. N4 to discuss joining Nethermark Heavy Industries.
• After two months lost in the freezing Outland, Ya Wen ran out of food and recalled being stranded with Dai Sijia during Sky Ring's invasion of Frostplate.

Yawen succumbed to guilt and Malefic Calamity in the Outland, but Li Aoz’s words gave her a reason to keep living. As she crawled toward him, Igolai—who called himself Sailor—healed her and welcomed her as a councilor.

• Yawen relived Dai Sijia’s death and blamed herself for killing her little sister, then decided she had no right to live.
• A mysterious voice bound Yawen to its organization, named her a councilor, and gave her the word “Tailor.”
• Malefic Calamity rapidly transformed Yawen as her memories and loved ones’ accusations overwhelmed her.
• Remembering Li Aoz’s request that she live, Yawen resolved to reach him and ask whether he still needed her.
• Igolai appeared, treated Yawen with silver medicine, healed her deformities, and introduced himself as Sailor.

At the Nine Dragons Gathering, Li Aoz spotted Frostplate agents trying to provoke Sky Ring’s powerful figures and decided to use their scheme to his advantage. Yanagimon Shinsuke challenged him to a contest judging the value of ten treasures each, and Li Aoz accepted as the contest was about to begin.

• Li Aoz attended the Nine Dragons Gathering at Nine Dragons Temple and identified several Frostplate Law Enforcement Division Three Auxiliary Agents watching him and approaching influential guests.
• Li Aoz browsed the weapon exhibition while Frostplate agents’ provocations helped Yanagimon Shinsuke pick a quarrel with him over his criticism of a Wakizashi.
• Kim Tae-hyun tried to stop Yanagimon from harassing Li Aoz, but Yanagimon mocked him and exposed the limits of his authority against a Hojo Family retainer.
• Yanagimon proposed that he and Li Aoz each choose ten treasures and let judges compare their total value, wagering that the loser would pay the winner’s expenses.
• Li Aoz accepted the contest and said he would clear out Yanagimon’s shopping cart, while Yanagimon believed the Frostplate agents’ list of swordsmiths would secure his victory.

Frostplate agents engineered a weapons-selection wager to provoke Li Aoz into a public fight and damage his reputation, while Yanagimon Shinsuke believed his costly master-crafted picks would secure victory. Li Aoz made seemingly careless choices and selected the cursed Tsu Shadow Edge, leaving one selection slot and the wager unresolved.

• Law Enforcement Division Three agents discussed their plan to use Yanagimon Shinsuke to provoke Li Aoz, hoping the Heavenly Ring People would punish Li Aoz if he started a fight.
• Yanagimon selected ten renowned craftsmen’s exhibits, learning their value exceeded 190 million Derby, and mocked Li Aoz’s apparently unimpressive choices.
• Li Aoz ignored the onlookers’ criticism and casually chose a blade from an obscure novice bladesmith, irritating Yanagimon.
• Li Aoz sought out Honda Isshin and bought the famous Tsu Shadow Edge for 1.3 million Derby.
• The agents valued Li Aoz’s selected weapons at under six million Derby, and he had only one selection slot left as his defeat seemed certain.

At the Nine Dragons Gathering, Li Aoz revealed Yanagimon’s unfair wager by claiming the weapons Yanagimon had selected and crushed him under immense gravity. As four Gamma-rank experts confronted him, Li Aoz activated Overlord Form, declared he had come to rob them, and attacked the gathering.

• Li Aoz’s selections were appraised at 330 million Currency, while Yanagimon’s totaled 10.685 billion Currency, and Yanagimon claimed victory and demanded payment.
• Yanagimon threatened Li Aoz and boasted that the strong could do as they pleased, so Li Aoz forced him to kneel with eighty times gravity.
• Li Aoz argued that the combined value of his selections and Yanagimon’s weapons made him the winner, then flattened Yanagimon with 180 times gravity.
• As the crowd panicked and four Gamma-rank experts targeted him, Li Aoz activated Overlord Form and told Xiajian Jing he had bought them time.
• Li Aoz told the Gamma-rank experts he had come to rob them and slammed everyone within fifty meters to the ground with gravity.

Li Aoz fought four Gamma-rank powerhouses guarding the gathering, using his life-draining tendrils and enchanted weapons to counter their coordinated attacks. He revealed that Dust-Sealed Sanctuary concealed a radiant treasure sword as the battle continued.

• Chu Wei attacked Li Aoz, but Li Aoz endured the wound and pierced him with tendrils that drained his life.
• Chu Wei warned his companions about Li Aoz's life-draining ability, while Miyamae Suzuka summoned a giant white spirit fox and struck Li Aoz with lightning talismans.
• Li Aoz used Pegasus Force to smash the spirit fox's nose and repel it, then evaded Chu Wei and Suzuka's attacks.
• Li Aoz's purple-black sword energy pierced Chu Wei's protective aura and inflicted severe radiation damage.
• Li Aoz planted Dust-Sealed Sanctuary in the earth and activated it, revealing a radiant treasure sword.

Li Aoz used his Timeless Masterpiece weapons and Aoneng abilities to fight Chu Wei and the others, but the battle remained dangerous. After Chu Wei retreated, Ryo Gūheisan stepped forward to face Li Aoz, who met him with Tsu Shadow Edge.

• Li Aoz summoned Dust-Sealed Sanctuary, and Chu Wei used Reverse Flow Qi Alteration to resist his gravity and attack the greatsword.
• Li Aoz parried Chu Wei's strikes with Dust-Sealed Sanctuary and revealed that it was a Magic Weapon.
• Chu Wei landed a blow on Li Aoz, but Death Link redirected its damage; Chu Wei then retreated after realizing Li Aoz had linked their lives.
• Ryo Gūheisan dismissed Chu Wei's warning and entered the fight while Yin Shuya lowered her sniper rifle.
• Li Aoz swung Tsu Shadow Edge at Ryo Gūheisan, who raised his hand to block the blade with his hardened flesh.

Li Aoz fought off Ryo Gūheisan, Yin Shuya, and Miyamae Suzuka’s spirit fox while his damage-sharing ability kept him alive. He killed the fox and escaped the collapsing skyscraper, but Sky Ring’s Great Onmyoji entered the battle as his health remained dangerously low.

• Ryo Gūheisan overwhelmed Li Aoz with his Cross Spear, while Li Aoz linked his life to Ryo Gūheisan and Chu Wei to share damage and restore his health.
• Yin Shuya shot Li Aoz with an anti-armor rifle, blasting apart his upper body, but he regenerated by transferring the damage through Death Link.
• Miyamae Suzuka and her spirit fox pursued Li Aoz through downtown, forcing him into an office building and then an elevator shaft.
• Li Aoz used stacked Blood of Immortality and Natural Ignition to burn the spirit fox, then killed it with Dust-Sealed Sanctuary as the skyscraper collapsed.
• Li Aoz flew from the collapsing building with his health nearly depleted, and Sky Ring’s Great Onmyoji entered the fight.

Li Aoz rejected Abe Tadayuki’s attempt to make him submit, and Sky Ring’s Great Onmyoji prepared to fight him as demons overran the venue. A revolutionary uprising began elsewhere, and Li Aoz received a quest to keep four Gamma-ranks from intervening and turn the people against their rulers.

• Abe Tadayuki summoned the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons and confronted Li Aoz at the Nine Dragons Gathering venue.
• Abe tried to guilt Li Aoz into apologizing, but Li Aoz resisted his psychological suggestions and accused Sky Ring of discrimination and human experimentation.
• Abe explained through his actions that he wanted Li Aoz to submit so Sky Ring could save face and avoid provoking the Red Arrow Empire, but Li Aoz refused.
• Li Aoz denounced Sky Ring’s king and Dragon God as relics and said the people would destroy their old dream.
• The Red Squad, represented by Xiajian Jing, launched an attack on Shiratori Town Prison as revolutionaries called for freedom.
• Li Aoz received the Black Sun Rising quest, with objectives to keep the four Gamma-ranks from suppressing the uprising and make the Heavenly Ring People recognize their enemy.

Ozawa Izumitaro dismissed an intelligence warning that Red Squad might attack Shiratori Town Prison and arranged to weaken the inmates with poisoned food. As Xiajian Jing endured a supernatural transformation and nearly gave in to despair, memories of Gretwar Night Song gave her the strength to rise again.

• A SCIA agent warned Ozawa Izumitaro that Red Squad might attempt a prison break, but he dismissed the threat after learning the nearby brigade had been redeployed.
• Ozawa questioned how Gretwar Night Song could endure prison labor and poor meals, then approved the secretary’s plan to weaken inmates with poison from the Hojo Family.
• Xiajian Jing’s body mutated as an unseen society overwhelmed her with the suffering and injustice of the Real World.
• Xiajian Jing recalled Gretwar’s opposition to war and his promise to protect her, then forced herself to stand and called him a hopeless idiot.

Xiajian Jing rallied the Red Squad to fight the Heavenly Ring Nation and rescue Big Brother, while Li Aoz battled three Gamma-rank enemies and killed Chu Wei with Dust-Sealed Sanctuary’s Ship-Breaker Mode. The remaining opponents prepared to attack as Li Aoz revealed his immense Stardust Wings.

• Xiajian Jing addressed the Red Squad, denounced the Heavenly Ring Nation, and led them forward beneath their black sun flag.
• Li Aoz survived a coordinated assault by Ryo Gūheisan, Chu Wei, and the Great Onmyoji, using Death Link to turn attacks against the summoned evil spirits.
• Chu Wei shattered Li Aoz’s head, but Li Aoz’s corpse ignited with Phoenix Bomb and then seized Chu Wei in Overlord Form.
• Li Aoz activated Dust-Sealed Sanctuary’s Ship-Breaker Mode and pulverized Chu Wei in a storm of holy particles.
• Ryo Gūheisan and the Great Onmyoji recoiled and called for a united attack, while Li Aoz identified himself as the Stars King and unfurled three-hundred-meter Stardust Wings.

Gretwar’s prison meal gathering turned into a riot after he challenged the Ring King’s rule, but a pregnant prisoner’s labor forced him to focus on saving her. When a guard refused medical help and demanded Gretwar kneel, Gretwar struck him and rushed toward the cells; Jing then stormed the prison and declared the prisoners free.

• Prisoners recognized Gretwar and discussed how the Sky Ring had imprisoned political opponents, while Gretwar questioned whether a nation needed a ruler.
• Gretwar provoked the guards by declaring that the Heavenly Ring People could become their own masters, and prisoners attacked the guards.
• Miura reported that Lady Nano was in labor, but the guards said there was no prison doctor and refused to help her.
• Gretwar explained that he could not safely deliver the baby without medical conditions or his sealed power, while a guard taunted him and ordered him to kneel.
• Gretwar knocked the guard down and rushed toward Lady Nano, and Jing broke into the prison with the warden’s corpse and freed the prisoners.

Li Aoz survived devastating attacks by healing and transferring his death to nearby demons, but the Heavenly Ring forces escalated their assault with missiles, drones, and lasers. As Li Aoz was trapped in the air, Yin Shuya launched in a Mobile Armor to bring him down.

• Li Aoz regenerated after Ryo Gūheisan and Yin Shuya grievously wounded him, then used Death Link to kill the demons around him by transferring his damage to them.
• Miyamae Suzuka Miko and Yin Shuya withdrew with Ryo Gūheisan, recognizing that Li Aoz's recovery and damage reflection made him difficult to kill.
• The Heavenly Ring forces deployed missiles, drones, lasers, and Qiongan Capital's barrier to confine and bombard Li Aoz.
• Yin Shuya recovered from her injuries, entered an aerial-combat Mobile Armor alone, and launched to attack Li Aoz.

Li Aoz fought Yin Shuya in her Mobile Armor, using stealth and a surprise attack to cripple the machine. Yin Shuya escaped its wreckage by ejecting and stunned Li Aoz with a bomb, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Yin Shuya used her Mobile Armor, Suzi’s tracking, and focused vision to find and shoot the cloaked Li Aoz, but he shed his armor and tricked her into pursuing it.
• Li Aoz ambushed Yin Shuya’s machine, dodged its counterattack, and shattered its arm with a gravity-wrapped punch.
• Li Aoz broke into the cockpit, but Yin Shuya shot away his facial armor and ejected from the damaged machine.
• Yin Shuya hurled a specially made bomb at Li Aoz, and its sound waves pinned him in place.

Li Aoz killed Yin Shuya with the Tsu: Shadow Edge, then raced toward Beitiao Building to seize the Hydrogen Bomb while Sky Ring forces pursued him. A great yokai blocked his route, but a Mobile Armor suddenly arrived and destroyed it with a charged blast.

• Li Aoz used Death Transfer to inflict radiation damage on Yin Shuya, then relentlessly cut her down and killed her with a blade through the skull.
• Li Aoz considered the threat of Sky Ring’s reserve Gamma-ranks, recovered briefly, and set off to seize the Hydrogen Bomb.
• Sky Ring’s regular forces and supernatural troops attacked Li Aoz, who turned invisible and flew low toward Beitiao Building in Qiongan Capital.
• The Great Onmyoji detected Li Aoz, and a crimson great yokai named Shuten blocked his path behind a barrier.
• The barrier shattered, and a pale Mobile Armor struck Shuten and killed it with a charged Blast Magnum shot.

Li Aoz revealed to Du Zexin that he was an alien envoy seeking a way to save Azure Planet, and explained his plan to use a 140-megaton Hydrogen Bomb to reach space. As Du Zexin climbed back into his mech, he warned that one Hydrogen Bomb would not be enough.

• Du Zexin confronted Li Aoz over taking Frostplate's Colonies and questioned his loyalties and identity.
• Li Aoz convinced Du Zexin that he had never lied to him, then claimed to be an alien envoy from the Fiennes Federation.
• Li Aoz explained that Azure Planet was about to be destroyed and said he had been seeking a way into space to save it.
• Li Aoz told Du Zexin he planned to use a 140-megaton Hydrogen Bomb beneath Beitiao Building to blast himself into space.
• Du Zexin returned to his mech after a long silence and told Li Aoz that one Hydrogen Bomb was not enough.

Li Aoz and Du Zexin escaped the Hojo Conglomerate’s Beitiao Building in a Mobile Armor, with Li Aoz retrieving a powerful Hydrogen Bomb and Old Era records from the underground facility. As they drove through Heavenly Ring forces, Li Aoz urged Du Zexin to imagine a future in space.

• Du Zexin smashed into Beitiao Building and ordered its employees to leave while Li Aoz gathered weapons and followed him.
• Li Aoz explored the underground Abandoned Mist, recorded Old Era knowledge, and found a 140-million-ton Hydrogen Bomb.
• Du Zexin blocked a mortar shell and shot down incoming missiles while Li Aoz used the bomb to deter the Heavenly Ring forces.
• Li Aoz and Du Zexin escaped by road in the Mobile Armor, fighting off pursuing vehicles and avoiding the barrier that would destroy them if they flew.
• Li Aoz told Du Zexin that everyone should go to space and described the wonders of the universe.

Li Aoz and Du Zexin encountered Yuhelai, a former enemy resurrected in a new body who revealed himself as the White Knight. Yuhelai’s Ether power immobilized Li Aoz and let him cut Du Zexin’s mech in half, leaving Li Aoz helpless as the fight continued.

• Li Aoz explained to Du Zexin how Society assimilated people and threatened civilizations as they approached a checkpoint where the cars and their occupants were motionless.
• Li Aoz and Du Zexin attacked a cloaked man, but his blade shark deflected their strikes and he revealed himself as Zhu Baiya, whom Li Aoz had killed before.
• Zhu Baiya explained that the Third Generation Esha Armed had let him take over a new body, and taunted Li Aoz with Zonia’s head, which he carried as a cane.
• Zhu Baiya named himself Yuhelai Knight, the White Knight, and summoned shark armor that released an Ether roar, immobilizing Li Aoz.
• Yuhelai sharpened his sword and struck Du Zexin’s mech, splitting it in two while Li Aoz remained unable to move.

Yuhelai repeatedly killed and tortured Li Aoz while Blood of Ether caused Li Aoz’s body to undergo Secrecy Transformation and his immortality brought him back. As Yuhelai prepared to continue, the damaged Mobile Armor sent Li Aoz a warning in Morse code about Rio’s son in Huoxia District.

• Blood of Ether overwhelmed Li Aoz despite his failed Secrecy Awakening check, but Blood of Immortality restored his body and let him fight Yuhelai.
• Li Aoz wounded Yuhelai with the Battleship Breaker, but Ether corrosion disabled him again, and Yuhelai healed himself with Ether Concoction.
• Yuhelai repeatedly stabbed, dismembered, and crushed Li Aoz as Ether kept corroding him and Blood of Immortality restored him.
• The Mobile Armor used Morse code to tell Li Aoz to watch it, and Yuhelai dragged him toward a car while threatening to torture him.
• The Mobile Armor signaled “Rio’s son, Huoxia District” as Yuhelai stabbed Li Aoz’s thigh and charged its Magnum rifle.