Chapter Summaries

Mo Fan and Demon Man killed a Corpse Minister while Lin Lan's Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle defeated another, and the group returned to the city wall after completing their mission. Lin Lan saw the overwhelming undead forces facing humanity, but a Super Rank Mage struck down a Majestic Bone Minister with Demon Judgment Sword as the battle against the Ghost Tyrant continued.

• Mo Fan used Sky Flame Funeral, Ice Coffin, and Level Four Thunderbolt with Demon Man to kill a Corpse Minister, and Mo Fan took its Remnant Soul.
• Lin Lan ordered the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle to kill another Corpse Minister and retrieve its Undead Crystal, then fed Dragon Girl Ji two Soul Seeds.
• The group returned to the city wall after the Light Element magic formation activated and their mission ended.
• Lin Lan observed the powerful undead gathering across the battlefield and saw a Majestic Bone Minister turn two High Mages into bloody mist.
• A Super Rank Mage used Demon Judgment Sword to slay the Majestic Bone Minister, leaving the Ghost Tyrant as the next target.

As Ancient Capital remained under relentless undead attacks, Lin Lan volunteered to rescue Wang Mang’s trapped squad despite the others’ exhaustion. He reached the battlefield on the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle and used his Chaos Element to turn the skeletons’ attacks against one another, while Wang Mang hailed him as the real protagonist.

• Lin Lan offered to rescue Wang Mang’s squad after an officer reported that skeletons had surrounded them and no one else could spare the energy.
• Lin Lan flew toward the squad on the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle as the Ghost Tyrant was killed, and Zhu Meng stopped to praise him and promise a reward.
• Wang Mang’s squad struggled to hold off skeletons that could rebuild themselves from scattered bones, and Wang Mang discovered Xiao Ding’s headless body among the undead.
• Lin Lan cast Chaos—Curved Surface, redirecting the skeletons’ bone spikes into one another, and Wang Mang shouted that the real protagonist had arrived.

Lin Lan rescued Wang Mang’s squad with overwhelming Chaos magic, but the undead kept attacking after dawn and the Nether Lord of Bone Shards awakened. The Nether Lord destroyed part of Ancient Capital’s northern wall, triggering a purple alert.

• Lin Lan used his One Thought Star Chart to crush and slaughter the skeletons, then collected their souls and retreated with Wang Mang’s squad on the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle.
• Wang Mang and his companions learned that Lin Lan claimed to be an ordinary High Mage, while dawn revealed that the undead were still attacking.
• Lin Lan returned to Ancient Capital with Wang Mang’s squad, where Zhu Meng and the other mages faced the undead siege beneath the daylight.
• The Nether Lord of Bone Shards appeared over the northern city, and Lin Lan recognized it as a Super Undead.
• The Nether Lord fired a black shockwave that erased a section of the northern wall, and the city entered purple alert.

As the Purple Alert engulfed the Ancient Capital, Lin Lan restrained the Short Man from rushing toward the destroyed hospital where his wife had been in labor. With the Mountain Corpse and its undead army bearing down on the city, Lin Lan explained that Mo Fan's Blood Seed could give him the power to stand against the Supreme Monarch, though Mo Fan would use it only as a last resort.

• Mo Fan and Lin Lan stopped the Short Man from charging toward the ruined hospital, and Lin Lan bound him with a Chaos Vortex.
• The Purple Alert spread across the northern district as the undead gathered beyond the breached city wall.
• The Mountain Corpse appeared beyond the undead horde, while Zhu Meng ordered Du Xiao and the others to withdraw into the inner city barrier.
• Lin Lan told Mo Fan that the Demon Element could let him fight the Mountain Corpse for a time, and Mo Fan refused to use it unless the situation became desperate.

Lin Lan recognized the undead invasion as a Black Vatican scheme and tried to rescue Mu Bai and the others before the city was overrun. After the Mountain Corpse launched Fleshy Mound Corpse Ministers into the streets, Lin Lan rescued his companions and set out for Bocheng Street on foot.

• Lin Lan and Mo Fan warned Zhu Meng that the undead disaster was connected to the Black Vatican and that the rain resembled the attack on Bocheng.
• Lin Lan flew toward Mu Bai and the others on the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle while the undead tide advanced on the inner city.
• The Mountain Corpse hurled several Fleshy Mound Corpse Ministers at the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle, and Lin Lan used Instantaneous Movement to evade them.
• The Fleshy Mound Corpse Ministers crashed into the streets and released the undead they had swallowed, sending the crowds into chaos.
• Lin Lan found Mu Bai, Zhou Min, and the short man, then said they had to reach Bocheng Street on foot because the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle could no longer fly.

Lin Lan led the group and seven hundred survivors through Death Street, where they discovered a Fleshy Mound Corpse Minister turning victims into skeletons. As the Guard Mages prepared to attack it, Lin Lan appeared above the monster, and Mo Fan helped conceal his Space Element by attributing his abilities to his Contract Beast.

• Lin Lan guided the group through the streets, killing undead with Golden Radiance Lightning and gathering survivors until seven hundred people crossed Death Street.
• Zuo Feng discovered that the Fleshy Mound Corpse Minister swallowed the dead and living, then produced skeletons, and he arranged for a Guard Mage to report the danger.
• Zuo Feng told Mo Fan that the group planned to kill the Fleshy Mound Corpse Minister and asked where their Lightning Mage was.
• The group saw Lin Lan standing in midair above the Fleshy Mound Corpse Minister, surrounded by Golden Radiance Lightning.
• Mo Fan explained that Lin Lan's Contract Beast granted him Spatial Abilities, and the others recognized the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle as Lin Lan's Summoned Beast.

Lin Lan and Mo Fan fought the Fleshy Mound Corpse Minister while the group escorted seven hundred people across Death Street. Lin Lan weakened and trapped the monster with his enhanced lightning and Chaos Vortex, and Mo Fan finished it with his Level Five Fiery Fist: Flame Dragon.

• Mo Fan led the mages escorting seven hundred people across Death Street as they fought through Rotten Corpses and skeletons.
• Lin Lan’s lightning devastated the Fleshy Mound Corpse Minister and killed its underlings, while Zuo Feng and another Guard Mage joined the attack.
• The Fleshy Mound Corpse Minister redirected its assault toward the crowd, but Lin Lan trapped it in a Chaos Vortex and amplified his lightning against it.
• Mo Fan used Little Flame Fairy’s possession and unleashed nine Flame Dragons with his Level Five Fiery Fist, burning the weakened Fleshy Mound Corpse Minister to ashes.

Mo Fan killed a Fleshy Mound Corpse Minister and gained its Commander-Level Soul Essence while Lin Lan went to fight more undead. At the Ancient Capital, the undead overwhelmed the outer defenses, and Han Ji feared that the Ancient King, ruler of the Undead Kingdom, had awakened.

• Mo Fan defeated the wounded Fleshy Mound Corpse Minister, and Little Mudfish absorbed its Commander-Level Soul Essence.
• Lin Lan left Mo Fan to protect the people and went to hunt other Fleshy Mound Corpse Ministers.
• Zuo Feng and the Guard Mages fought the remaining skeletons after the Corpse Ministers stopped interfering.
• The undead flooded into the Ancient Capital and destroyed its outer walls and buildings.
• Zhu Meng asked whether the Undead Kingdom's ruler had awakened, and Han Ji warned that it might be the Ancient King.

A mysterious man revealed that Salang had used Bocheng as a rehearsal for the Ancient Capital Cataclysm and explained that Nine Nether Dew in the rain empowered the undead. He identified Fang Gu as the keeper of well water that could neutralize the substance, then secretly monitored the leaders to prevent Salang from learning their plans.

• Ling Xi and Han Ji discussed the undead assault and assigned the Mountain Corpse and Demon Horn Ghost Lord to powerful defenders.
• An alchemist reported that Nine Nether Dew in the rain was giving the undead vitality, and Zhu Meng connected the plot to Bocheng.
• A masked man revealed that Salang had made Bocheng a rehearsal for the Ancient Capital Cataclysm and described the Ancient King's intended Undead Kingdom.
• The masked man explained that Nine Nether Dew came from Weiju Village well water and said Fang Gu possessed another well whose water could counteract it.
• The masked man arranged to find Fang Gu, then disclosed that he had placed a disguised subordinate at the Clock Tower and monitored everyone for possible Black Vatican accomplices.

As the undead overwhelmed the Ancient Capital, Han Ji’s group uncovered Mu He as Great Executor Huzhin and prepared to use Mu Bai to draw him out. Mu Bai set out to discover the truth about his father while Huzhin worried that the Earth Sacred Spring could disrupt the Black Vatican’s plan.

• The gray-white man revealed that Salang was likely among the officials, and Han Ji ordered the officials placed under house arrest while the city was brought under control.
• Lin Lan retreated to the inner city wall as the undead swallowed more than half the Ancient Capital and surrounded its golden barrier.
• Han Ji learned that Fang Gu had fused the Kun Well Water into skeletons, while Mo Fan’s Earth Sacred Spring could not be extracted and the group needed to find the Ancient King’s mausoleum.
• Han Ji discovered a Forget Worm embedded in Zhang Xiaohou’s arm, and Mu Bai’s suspicion that Mu He was Great Executor Huzhin was confirmed.
• The group planned to send Mu Bai to draw out Mu He, while Mu Bai struggled with the possibility that his father was a Black Vatican executor.
• Huzhin learned that Mu Bai, Mo Fan, and the others had gone to the museum and feared the Earth Sacred Spring could make the rain ineffective long enough for many people to escape.

The Black Vatican revealed that it planned to use the approaching Fiend Abyss and the awakening of Ying Zheng to make Salang’s ceremony a mass sacrifice. As the Fiend Abyss neared the inner city and hope collapsed, Lin Lan waited for his allies, believing he could still seize Salang.

• Great Executor Huzhin decided the Black Vatican had to verify whether Mo Fan truly possessed the Earth Sacred Spring and rescue Salang.
• Mu He demanded that Han Ji cancel the decapitation plan, offering the location of Ying Zheng’s Imperial Tomb in exchange for the release of the captured officials.
• Mu He met Lin Lan and Zhang Xiaohou, revealed that the Forget Worm had damaged Zhang Xiaohou’s memories, and offered an antidote alongside information about the tomb.
• Mu He revealed that the Fiend Abyss was moving toward the inner city and warned that its next shift could kill everyone there.
• Great Deacon Huzhen proclaimed that the Black Vatican intended to use the Fiend Abyss’s arrival to crown Salang, while Han Ji begged her to spare the city.
• Lin Lan stayed silent and waited for his people to arrive, believing he would then be able to seize Salang.

As Bocheng’s defenders prepared to send volunteers out as a diversion, Lin Lan assured Han Ji that powerful reinforcements were coming. The Totem Mysterious Snake and two equally powerful creatures appeared, giving the defenders a chance to reach the Fiend Abyss without sacrificing ordinary people.

• The mysterious gray-white man revealed that Fang Gu and the people of Weiju Village could enter the Fiend Abyss, while Zhu Meng, Du Xiao, Shi Zheng, and Li Yujian pledged to clear a path for them.
• Han Ji agreed to protect Lin Lan, Mo Fan, Zhang Xiaohou, and Fang Gu as they headed toward Anyuan Gate, and Lin Lan disclosed his high cultivation.
• Lin Lan told Han Ji that they had powerful reinforcements and urged him not to sacrifice ordinary people.
• The gray-white man explained that volunteers would leave through a small gate to draw the undead away, prompting Su Xiaoluo to condemn the plan.
• Han Ji ordered Yaoting to send the volunteers back, and the Totem Mysterious Snake and two other immensely powerful creatures appeared before the undead army.

The Three Great Totems arrived at the Ancient Capital and joined Lin Lan and humanity’s mages against the undead, bringing hope to the city’s million residents. With the Mountain Corpse defeated, Han Ji ordered the operation to escort several people into the Fiend Abyss to continue preventing the Ancient King’s awakening.

• The Totem Mysterious Snake, Thunder Lion, and Kui Ox arrived together and drove back the undead, lifting the despair among the Ancient Capital’s residents.
• The three Totems struck the Mountain Corpse with lightning and knocked it to the ground before it could stop them.
• Tang Yue, Lei Hanhai, and Lei Hao joined Lin Lan at the inner city, and Lin Lan introduced them to Han Ji and the others.
• Mo Fan recognized the Totems and began considering a search for Totems of his own.
• Han Ji thanked the Totem Guardians, called off the ordinary people’s planned sacrifice, and ordered the operation into the Fiend Abyss to proceed.
• The Three Great Totems charged out under Lin Lan’s command to attack the Mountain Corpse and the hardest-to-kill Corpse Ministers.

Han Ji kept Lin Lan out of the Fiend Abyss and sent him to support the assault with the Three Great Totems. As Mo Fan’s group advanced toward the Fiend Abyss, Lin Lan and the totems reached the Mountain Corpse and prepared to fight it.

• Han Ji told Lin Lan to lead the Three Great Totems and the Super Rank Mages against the undead instead of entering the Fiend Abyss, and Lin Lan agreed.
• The Three Great Totems and the mages tore through the undead while Han Ji’s forces cleared a route for Mo Fan, Zhang Xiaohou, Fang Gu, and Su Xiaoluo.
• Lin Lan asked Tang Yue to leave the Kui Ox behind to protect the advancing group and help him fight the Mountain Corpse.
• The Thunder Lion struck down a mass of skeletons and a bone minister as Han Ji’s formation pressed forward.
• Lin Lan spotted the Mountain Corpse and told Han Ji to keep advancing while the Thunder Lion and Totem Mysterious Snake engaged it.

Han Ji and Yaoting led nine Super Rank Mages and the totems in an assault on the Mountain Corpse inside the Fiend Abyss. The Thunder Lion and Totem Mysterious Snake pinned it beneath Heavenly Monument Seals while the mages unleashed their spells, leaving the Mountain Corpse wounded and kneeling under their attack.

• Han Ji ordered the High Mages to clear the lesser undead and the Super Rank Mages to attack the Mountain Corpse alongside the totems.
• The Mountain Corpse struck at the Thunder Lion with spatial cracks, but the Thunder Lion redirected them and the Mountain Corpse shattered them with fiendish light.
• The Totem Mysterious Snake slammed the Mountain Corpse with its tail, and it and the Thunder Lion trapped the creature beneath their combined totem marks.
• The Thunder Lion and Totem Mysterious Snake summoned Heavenly Monument Seals that crushed the Mountain Corpse to its knees and formed a vast abyss beneath it.
• The Super Rank Mages completed their spells, and Zhu Meng, Lei Hanhai, and Lei Hao hurled lightning halberds around the kneeling Mountain Corpse as the Death Axis cut its back.

Lin Lan and the Super Rank Mages nearly brought down the Mountain Corpse before the Mist Ghost Commander and the other Undead Lords entered the battle. As the Ancient Capital’s defenders prepared to hold the inner city, the chapter left Mo Fan and his companions inside the Fiend Abyss, with the danger of awakening the Ancient King still looming.

• The twenty-seven Lightning Halberds and the Sky Vault Stele battered the Mountain Corpse, while the Demon Judgment Sword and Cataclysmic Water Roar pressed their attack.
• The Mist Ghost Commander appeared with Mist Ghost Lieutenants and used its ghost mist to neutralize attacks and help the Mountain Corpse escape its restraints.
• The Crimson Skull Demon Lord, Agate Corpse Lord, White Corpse King, and other Undead Lords emerged and advanced toward the inner city with their armies.
• The Mist Ghost Commander helped the wounded Mountain Corpse break free, and the Mountain Corpse shattered the Firmament Stele and forced a path through the lightning.
• Han Ji urged the defenders to hold the inner city while Lin Lan assigned the Super Rank Mages to attack the Mountain Corpse and the three Great Totems to face the other Undead Lords.

The Totems and Super Rank Mages fought the Mountain Corpse and its undead forces while a mysterious silver vortex swallowed thousands of undead. At the Clock Tower, Xie Village explained that Mo Fan and the others were trapped in the Death Gate Chamber, where the danger scaled to the strength of whoever entered.

• Han Ji directed nine Super Rank Mages against the Mountain Corpse while the Totem Mysterious Snake, Thunder Lion, and Kui Ox battled other undead monarchs.
• Two Super Rank Fire Mages used Hellfire Gate to engulf the Mountain Corpse in molten fire, but it blasted them away with corpse aura.
• The Mysterious Snake struck the Mist Ghost Commander with poison mist and its tail, but the commander bound the snake's neck with ghost aura.
• The White Corpse King sacrificed its black heart, reassembling Corpse Minister remains into a Thousand-meter Corpse Demon despite the Kui Ox's lightning attacks.
• A silver vortex appeared between the North Star and the Fiend Abyss and swallowed one or two thousand undead, prompting the mysterious ash-white man to ask after Mo Fan and the others.
• Xie Village told the ash-white man that the Death Gate Chamber adjusted its trials to each entrant, making its undead far more numerous and powerful for stronger people.

Mo Fan and his companions faced a second Silver Vortex that unleashed nearly ten thousand skeletons into the Death Gate Chamber. With their escape cut off, Mo Fan crushed the Blood Seed and awakened the Demon Element to protect Zhang Xiaohou, He Yu, and Su Xiaoluo.

• Mo Fan summoned Swift Star Wolf and Little Flame Fairy, then killed more than a thousand undead as he and Zhang Xiaohou fought through the first wave.
• A stronger Silver Vortex appeared, and Mo Fan realized he still had the Blood Seed as a trump card.
• The vortex poured a tribe of nearly ten thousand skeletons into the Death Gate Chamber, while the mysterious gray-white man ordered the chairman and the Totem to retreat toward the inner city.
• Mo Fan held the Blood Seed while Zhang Xiaohou, He Yu, and Su Xiaoluo ran, and Little Flame Fairy cried in fear and regret.
• Mo Fan crushed the Blood Seed, and a bloody mist enveloped him as Demon Mo Fan was born.

Demon Mo Fan escaped the Death Gate Chamber as the Mountain Corpse broke free of the Silver Vortex and attacked the Super Rank Mages. He joined the Totem Mysterious Snake and helped kill the Mist Ghost Commander, while the Mountain Corpse remained a threat.

• The Mountain Corpse stepped into the Silver Vortex, then smashed through the Death Gate Chamber and freed itself as Han Ji ordered the Super Rank Mages to scatter.
• Demon Mo Fan emerged from the Silver Vortex amid the spatial destruction, and the Mountain Corpse attacked him with death rays that struck only an afterimage.
• Hunter King Du Xiao recognized that Mo Fan had crushed the Blood Seed and transformed into a demon while retaining his rationality.
• Demon Mo Fan teleported to the wounded Mist Ghost Commander and struck its injured body with a lightning-charged punch.
• The Totem Mysterious Snake followed with poisonous mist and venomous fangs, and the Mist Ghost Commander collapsed into black ashes and was annihilated.

Zhang Xiaohou, Su Xiaoluo, and He Yu reached the Blood Throne and found the Ancient King’s armor robe after Fang Gu was killed by it. Zhan Kong took Zhang Xiaohou’s place and fought the robe’s attempt to consume him, leaving its power weakened but the struggle unresolved.

• The undead lords retreated toward the outer city after the Mist Ghost Commander died, while Lin Lan wondered why the commander had left no equipment.
• Zhang Xiaohou, Su Xiaoluo, and He Yu reached the altar and saw Fang Gu on the Blood Throne, but the Ancient King’s armor robe drained Fang Gu and returned to the throne.
• As the Fiend Abyss shook and threatened the inner city, Zhang Xiaohou charged toward the armor robe, but Zhan Kong appeared and threw him aside.
• The armor robe began consuming Zhan Kong, who tore at it and threatened to destroy it along with himself.
• Zhan Kong ripped off pieces of the armor robe, forcing its assault to slow and leaving him locked in a dangerous struggle with it.