Chapter Summaries

Lu Su evacuated the Four Districts Joint Examination finals after Chris attacked Shanghai City to avenge Antipa, then entered a newly descended secret realm to keep their battle away from the city. With Chris confronting him inside, Lu Su summoned Yamamoto to fight a Treant and prepared to face the Master Card Master himself.

• Lu Su attended the Four Districts Joint Examination finals and discovered that Xingu had reached Bronze Grade.
• A secret realm appeared in Shanghai City as Chris attacked Lu Su, so Lu Su moved the spectators into False Karakura Town and entered the realm to draw Chris away.
• Lu Su fled through the woods, where Little Spider destroyed several Treants and Yamamoto defeated their Diamond Grade leader.
• Chris revealed that Jin Ping had helped arrange the secret realm as a fitting place for Lu Su to die in revenge for Antipa.
• Lu Su rejected Chris's demand to surrender and unleashed blazing flames as Chris summoned his card.

Bai Yueming split his forces between Shanghai City and Lu Su as Jin Ping and his allies attacked, while Lu Su fought Chris inside the newly summoned secret realm. Chris transformed Lucifer and Samael into a Great Red Dragon, leaving Lu Su facing his enemy’s final trump card.

• Bai Yueming chose to protect both Shanghai City and Lu Su, splitting off half his cards as Jin Ping, Skin Peeler, and Marcus attacked him and Yan Wenlai.
• Lu Su evaded Chris’s attacks with Little Spider’s spatial abilities and launched a counterattack after Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto defeated a Diamond Grade Demon.
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto used Zanka no Tachi while Lu Su’s other cards attacked Chris, who admitted that summoning the secret realm had weakened him.
• Bai Yueming’s cards arrived to support Lu Su, and Chris ordered Samael to fight them while Lucifer battled Lu Su’s cards.
• Chris reunited with Samael, and the two fallen angels transformed into a seven-headed Great Red Dragon before Lu Su.

Lu Su and his cards endured Chris’s transformed Great Red Dragon while defending False Karakura Town, then created an opening for Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto to strike Chris’s true body. Chris was gravely wounded and his attack stopped, but Lu Su collapsed, Little Spider was nearly dead, and the ordinary people appeared as False Karakura Town vanished.

• Chris unleashed the Great Red Dragon’s negative effects and attacks, but Little Spider teleported Lu Su away and several of his cards resisted the effects.
• Bai Yueming’s King Chujiang and Yamamoto’s summoned souls joined the fight, but the Great Red Dragon quickly overwhelmed them.
• Chris transformed the Great Red Dragon into its Second Phase and used Judgment of Doom to drain Lu Su’s power while Lu Su kept False Karakura Town active.
• Altria failed to stop the dragon’s Final Breath, and Lu Su endured the attack while Kurosaki Ichigo used Mugetsu to hold the dragon back.
• Yamamoto struck Chris from behind with Tenchi Kaijin, severing half his body and stopping the dragon’s breath.
• Lu Su fell as Little Spider lay near death, and deactivating False Karakura Town revealed the terrified civilians and low-level Card Masters amid the ruined battlefield.

Lu Su killed Chris after the battle destroyed False Karakura Town, then arranged for the survivors to remain in the Secret Realm while he investigated Xingu’s connection to Guran. He emerged into Shanghai City’s ruins to reunite with Bai Yueming, Ji Weirui, and Ye Zhou, who learned Chris was dead and recognized Lu Su as a fighter on the level of a Master Card Master.

• False Karakura Town shattered, revealing a scorched wasteland, and Xingu realized Lu Su had survived his battle with Chris.
• Lu Su burned Chris’s remaining body to ashes, promised to deal with the people who had come with him, and accepted the Diamond Grade Adamantine Golem material from Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto.
• Lu Su told Principal Xie to keep the survivors in the Secret Realm and questioned Xingu after recognizing the name Guran on his card.
• Lu Su revealed that he knew Xingu was not from this world and promised to talk with him after the crisis; then he and Spider-girl left the Secret Realm.
• Lu Su returned to Shanghai City’s ruins and reunited with Bai Yueming, Ji Weirui, and Ye Zhou.
• Lu Su told the three Master Card Masters that Chris was dead, and they accepted that Lu Su had become equivalent to a Master Card Master.

After the battle devastated Shanghai City, Lu Su learned that Jin Ping had used several Secret Realms to offset the cost of his power, and later questioned Xingu about his origins. Their conversation suggested that Lu Su’s own world might also have been destroyed, leaving him uncertain whether he was truly a transmigrator.

• Lu Su asked Bai Yueming whether Jin Ping and the others had weakened during the battle, then discovered that the Secret Realms Jin Ping had targeted had disappeared.
• Lu Su left the ruins of Shanghai City for Sucheng City and summoned Xingu to ask whether he was the original owner of his body.
• Xingu admitted that he had died fighting the Demon King's army and said that his world had not seemed to contain Secret Realms.
• Lu Su realized Xingu had unusually high Spiritual Power like him and suspected that his own world might have been destroyed as well.
• Lu Su gave Xingu Bronze Grade materials and told him to keep their conversation secret.
• After Xingu left, Lu Su took out the Diamond Grade Adamantine Golem (Red) material.

Lu Su made Diamond-grade Hashirama Senju and Emerald-grade Tobirama Senju and Minato Namikaze cards, then learned that the Fallen Cult believed Chris was dead. The chapter ended with Jin Ping offering the cult members a choice between signing his contracts and dying.

• Lu Su used his materials to create a powerful Diamond-grade Hashirama Senju card, though he lacked what he needed to make Madara Uchiha.
• Lu Su made Emerald-grade Tobirama Senju and Minato Namikaze cards, activating the Brainless and Grumpy bond between Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju and adding to the Will of Fire bond.
• At a Fallen Cult meeting in Australia's City within a City, a member reported that Chris had not returned to Europa and could not be contacted.
• The Skin Peeler concluded that Chris was probably dead, and she and Jin Ping discussed how Lu Su might have survived the encounter.
• Jin Ping dismissed Chris's death and told the Fallen Cult members to choose between signing his contracts and dying.

After the Shanghai City disaster, Lu Su learned that Great Ming was preparing to join the Tsardom of Russia against the Demon Army, whose threat had grown alongside Jin Ping’s faction. At the Hami Guard meeting, Catherine III and her disciple Petrovna discovered that Great Ming treated Diamond Grade Lu Su as a pillar comparable to a weaker Master Card Master.

• Bai Yueming told Lu Su that Jin Ping had absorbed most of the Fallen Cult and assigned Lu Su to provide support wherever Great Ming needed him.
• Bai Yueming explained that the Tsardom of Russia wanted to reclaim territory from the Demon Army after Catherine III advanced to Hall of Fame Grade, though her lack of suitable cards limited her combat strength.
• Catherine III delayed the Hami Guard meeting until the next day and told Petrovna to prepare, while privately lamenting the difficulty of creating Hall of Fame Grade cards.
• At the meeting, Fang Wenlong recounted Catherine III’s rise from an ordinary person to a Master Card Master and introduced her to Lu Su and Ji Weirui.
• Catherine III introduced Petrovna as her disciple and clarified that she was only observing the meeting.
• Fang Wenlong described Lu Su as a pillar of Great Ming and a somewhat weaker Master Card Master, surprising Catherine III’s delegation and drawing Petrovna’s curious attention.

Catherine and Fang Wenlong negotiated terms for a joint campaign against the Demon Army, while Catherine remained wary of the Great Ming’s strength and Ye Zhou’s influence. In Thousand Peaks City, the Demon Army’s leaders learned Jin Ping would assist them and that their secret experiment had succeeded, then began preparing for war.

• Catherine and Fang Wenlong negotiated the spoils and materials for their joint operation, agreeing that the Tsardom would get first choice of materials and that Hall of Fame Grade material trades would be discussed with Ye Diantang.
• Petrovna questioned whether the Great Ming would contribute as much as the Tsardom, and Catherine said Ye Zhou’s view mattered more than Fang Wenlong’s exact claim.
• Fang Wenlong told Lu Su to protect himself in battle, while Ji Weirui reminded him that Lu Su had solo-killed Chris.
• In Thousand Peaks City, the Demon Army’s Army Lords discussed the planned attack and learned Jin Ping would send subordinates to stir up trouble because he, Skin Peeler, and Marcus could not act.
• The White-Robed Demon revealed Jin Ping believed Ye Zhou had lost most of his strength, and another Army Lord announced that a secret experimental project had succeeded.
• The White-Armored Female Demon ordered the Army Lords to prepare for war.

Lu Su took Petrovna to support Jizhou Town, where Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto’s summoned dead overwhelmed the Demon Army and made Lu Su appear to have Master Grade strength. The battle left Lu Su investigating a powerful earth-yellow attacker who seemed to be a Demonized Card Master.

• Petrovna asked Lu Su how to earn her elders’ respect, then insisted on accompanying him when he learned the Demon Army had attacked several locations.
• Lu Su and Petrovna traveled to Jizhou Town, where Zhang Jingxing reported that the city was under assault and reinforcements were delayed.
• Lu Su introduced Petrovna to Zhang Jingxing, then Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto unleashed Zanka no Tachi: South: Ten Trillion Deaths Great Burial Array against the Demon Army.
• The summoned dead, including Chris, terrified the Demons, and Petrovna concluded that Lu Su could be treated as Master Grade.
• Lu Su sent his cards to attack the Demons and sensed that the earth-yellow figure striking the city wall might be a Demonized Card Master.

Lu Su captured a powerful Demonized Card Master at Jizhou Town, then rushed to Shanhai Pass and other besieged strongholds to rout the Demon Army. The Demon Army’s Army Lords mistook Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto for a newly revealed Master Grade combatant and ordered their forces to pause attacks while they prepared Jin Ping’s backup plan.

• Lu Su identified the enemy beneath Jizhou Town as a product of Demonization experiments and had Luffy seize him, then defeated him in moments with his cards.
• Lu Su left Zhang Jingxing to handle Jizhou Town’s cleanup and departed without Petrovna to support other fronts.
• At Shanhai Pass, Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto and Chris’s undead routed the Demon Army, while Lu Su continued to aid besieged strongholds across the region.
• The Demon Army’s Army Lords watched footage of Yamamoto and Lu Su’s battle with the Nation-Destroying Fox Spirit, then mistook Yamamoto for the newly appeared Master Grade combatant.
• The White-Armored Female Demon named Yamamoto’s card Corpse, ordered the Demon Army to halt attacks for two days, and told the others to notify Jin Ping that his backup plan could be used.

Lu Su and the allied forces launched a premature raid on Thousand Peaks City after the Fallen Cult attacked the Tsardom of Russia, while Petrovna returned to the Empire to help steady it. The Demon Army separated Ji Weirui from the others and trapped Lu Su with five Army Lords, but his cards unleashed a forest and Yamamoto’s burial array across the city.

• Catherine told Petrovna to grow closer to Lu Su, then learned that the Fallen Cult had attacked the Tsardom of Russia and decided to raid Thousand Peaks City without sending Nikolai away.
• Petrovna accepted Catherine’s order to return to the Empire, promising that it would remain safe.
• Fang Wenlong, Lu Su, Catherine, and Nikolai entered Thousand Peaks City, where the Demon Army’s Binding Barrier: Stripping Array removed Ji Weirui and her cards from the battlefield.
• The Demon Army’s five Army Lords discovered Lu Su was only Diamond Grade and sent the White-Armored Female Demon to attack him as other Demons joined the battle.
• Lu Su summoned Hashirama Senju, who used Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence, while Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto activated Zanka no Tachi: South: Ten Trillion Deaths Great Burial Array.
• The White-Armored Female Demon reached Lu Su in Holy Blade Armor and dismissed his pollen attack as a petty trick.

Lu Su and his cards fought Tempest, a peak Master Grade Demon Army Lord, while the other Card Masters battled the remaining demons. Hashirama Senju’s Buddha Manifestation wounded Tempest, but she prepared a devastating counterattack as the battle continued.

• Tempest attacked Lu Su in the forest, where Little Spider clashed with her before Lu Su’s other cards intervened and he retreated; Little Spider identified Tempest and her possible drop material as Finale: Storm Sovereign.
• Tempest’s storm destroyed Chris’s undead soul, but Hashirama Senju summoned True Several Thousand Hands and struck Tempest with Buddha Manifestation.
• Tempest emerged scarred but still standing, wrapped in a gale and wielding the Storm Sword.
• Hashirama Senju summoned Myojinmon as Kurosaki Ichigo and Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto attacked Tempest with Getsuga Tensho and Tenchi Kaijin.
• Tempest swung the Storm Sword, revealing the full force of a Master Grade being fighting seriously.

Lu Su survived Tempest’s Storm Sword and reached the edge of the Binding Barrier, where he and Little Spider faced arriving Diamond Grade Demons. After recognizing Sean as the source of the King of the Living Dead material he needed, Lu Su ordered Little Spider to kill him, and she destroyed Sean’s head with Death Evil Eye.

• Tempest unleashed Storm Sword, shredding Lu Su’s armor and injuring him, but Damage Transfer shifted the wounds to Little Spider and he survived.
• Hashirama Senju, Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, and Kurosaki Ichigo held Tempest back while Lu Su reached the Binding Barrier’s edge.
• Diamond Grade Demons arrived and attacked Lu Su, but Little Spider moved him out of the way with Space Magic.
• Lu Su recognized Sean’s King of the Living Dead potential drop material and ordered Little Spider to target him.
• Little Spider activated Death Evil Eye, bursting one of her own eyes and exploding Sean’s head.

Lu Su escaped the Demon Army and created Reanimation Jutsu: Madara Uchiha, whose bond with Hashirama could refresh card cooldowns. As Tempest prepared to finish off Hashirama and Yamamoto, Madara’s voice suddenly rang across the battlefield.

• Spider-girl defeated Sean with soul attacks and escaped with the injured Lu Su using Space Magic.
• Tempest and the Demon Army continued fighting as Catherine and Fang Wenlong prepared to risk everything against the Army Lords.
• Lu Su hid in a mountain cave and created the red-quality Diamond Grade card Reanimation Jutsu: Madara Uchiha.
• Lu Su discovered Madara’s bond with Hashirama could refresh the cooldowns of his Diamond Grade and lower cards, at the cost of placing Madara on cooldown for thirty days.
• Tempest prepared to finish off the wounded Hashirama Senju and Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto when Madara called out to Hashirama.

Lu Su’s Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju combined their abilities to hold Tempest off, but she unleashed her strongest attack and seemingly erased their Armored Wooden Giant. Tempest’s strength fell to less than a tenth of its peak, and her final glimpse of Madara’s face left her wondering whether he had mocked her.

• Madara Uchiha appeared and used Susanoo to shield Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto and Hashirama Senju from Tempest’s attack.
• Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju combined Susanoo with Wood Golem Technique, forming the Armored Wooden Giant and forcing Tempest onto the defensive.
• Tempest gathered the surrounding storms to prepare a powerful attack, while Madara Uchiha used Planetary Devastation to try to delay her.
• Tempest shattered the stone sphere and struck the Armored Wooden Giant with the Spear of the End, seemingly erasing it and leaving Lu Su unable to fight.
• Tempest’s combat strength dropped to less than a tenth of its peak, and she wondered whether Madara Uchiha had been mocking her.

Lu Su’s newly created Madara Uchiha restored his defeated cards, allowing them to overwhelm Tempest despite her desperate final attack. Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto killed Tempest, leaving the battlefield stunned by Lu Su’s victory over a Master Grade opponent.

• Madara Uchiha appeared and restored the cards Tempest had previously defeated, shocking the demons and Card Masters.
• Tempest realized Lu Su had cornered her, fought off his cards, and prepared a final attack while Lu Su stayed hidden.
• Lu Su’s cards wounded Tempest as the watching Diamond Grade demons suspected Sean’s materials had helped create Madara Uchiha.
• Tempest launched the Spear of the End, but Kurosaki Ichigo’s Mugetsu split it apart and dissipated.
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto struck Tempest with Heavenly Ash Extermination, killing her and leaving everyone stunned.

Russell helped turn the battle against the Demon Army by killing Tempest and sending Luffy and Little Spider after the ambushing Diamond Grade Demons. After Fang Wenlong and the others executed all five Army Lords, Ji Weirui returned gravely wounded, and Russell learned she had destroyed Kunlun Hills to defeat a Demonized Master Grade Card Master.

• Russell collected Tempest’s dropped Master Grade Material as the four remaining Army Lords considered fleeing.
• Tempest rose again as a weak Master Grade wreckage, and Russell joined the fight while keeping Luffy nearby.
• Russell sent Little Spider and Luffy to attack the ambushing Diamond Grade Demons, killing most of them and driving a few to escape.
• Catherine rejected the Army Lords’ pleas and trick to sow discord, and the four fled before Fang Wenlong and the others pursued them.
• Ji Weirui returned badly wounded and told Russell she had detonated Kunlun Hills to take down a Demonized Master Grade Card Master.
• Fang Wenlong confirmed that all five Army Lords had been executed and that the Demon Army no longer existed.

After learning that Lu Su had helped destroy the Demon Army, Jin Ping and the other leaders of the City within a City planned to lie low and recover. In Great Ming, Lu Su accepted the title Myriad Manifestations, and the nation announced him as a new Master Grade Card Master to raise morale.

• Jin Ping learned that all five Demon Army Army Lords had died and called Marcus and the Skin Peeler to discuss the news.
• Jin Ping and the Skin Peeler concluded that Lu Su had killed Tempest using a card that reset cooldowns, and they decided to heal their injuries and act cautiously.
• Fang Wenlong, Bai Yueming, Ji Weirui, and Ye Zhou discussed a title for Lu Su, and Ye Zhou proposed Myriad Manifestations.
• Lu Su accepted the title and agreed to be publicly announced as a Master Grade Card Master, although he was technically still Diamond Grade.
• The next day, Great Ming announced that it had gained another Master Grade Card Master.

Jiang Nanxi and people across Great Ming learned that Lu Su had been publicly recognized as a Master Grade-level fighter, while Lu Su accepted a Master Grade Material from the Tsardom of Russia. After resting in Nandu and completing more materials for Aizen, he prepared to return to Shanghai City to address the threats still facing Great Ming.

• Jiang Nanxi watched the news announce Lu Su’s advancement to Master Grade and discussed the news with Jiang Wang.
• People across Great Ming reacted to Lu Su’s record, including his killing of an Army Lord during the war against the Demon Army.
• Petrovna offered Lu Su a Master Grade Material on behalf of Catherine, and Lu Su verified the offer with Ye Zhou before choosing Fated Savior.
• Lu Su rested in Nandu with Kurumi and Amina, then said he would head to Shanghai City within a few days to deal with the remaining threats.
• Lu Su completed two of Aizen’s Diamond Grade materials but still lacked the final Field Material, so he asked Kurumi for two more days of rest.

Lu Su created the Perfect Hogyoku and advanced Sosuke Aizen to Diamond Grade, then tested Aizen’s five fusion phases and discovered a startling new form. After the disturbance subsided, Jin Yubin arrived in Sucheng and prostrated himself before Lu Su, calling him his benefactor.

• Lu Su crafted the Perfect Hogyoku, then used it with other materials to advance Sosuke Aizen to Diamond Grade.
• Lu Su summoned Aizen and Kurosaki Ichigo, who helped Aizen progress to his fifth Hogyoku fusion phase outside the city.
• Lu Su found that Aizen might be able to evolve further with Las Noches, but Kurosaki Ichigo’s attack was not dangerous enough to trigger it.
• A powerful disturbance frightened the Shuběi Army in the city, and Lu Su explained that he had caused it while testing his new card.
• Jin Yubin arrived in Sucheng, was escorted to Lu Su, and prostrated himself before him, calling him his benefactor.