Chapter Summaries

While Fang Yi remained trapped in the source of the Dark Attribute, Lin Yiyi rejected outside captains and set out to claim the Gold Attribute Throne to protect Tai City. Fang Yi reached the end of the Dark Tide and saw a gigantic shadow imprisoned by Dark Patterns.

• Lin Yiyi thanked her friends for helping defend Tai City while Cousin was away.
• The Spirit Association asked Lin Yiyi, as Acting Captain, whether Tai City should accept a captain from Hai City, but she refused.
• Lin Yiyi rejected Su Qingying's suggestion to ask the Military Region for help and walked toward the Golden Mountain to seek the Throne's recognition.
• Fang Yi pushed through the Dark Tide using the Yang Attribute and sensed the presence that had drawn him into it.
• Fang Yi saw Dark Patterns imprisoning a massive black shadow deep within the Black Mist.

Fang Yi discovered ancient armor at the heart of the Dark Tide and fought to subdue it despite its overwhelming power. He ultimately merged the armor into himself, and it acknowledged him as its master as the Dark Tide collapsed.

• Fang Yi found a mysterious black suit of armor inside the Dark Tide and realized its aura was the source of the surrounding Black Mist.
• Fang Yi tried to approach the armor while protected by the Yang Attribute, but its destructive power repelled him and nearly struck him down.
• Fang Yi used the Dark Attribute to approach the armor, but it invaded his body and began tearing him apart.
• Fang Yi used the Divine Sun Devouring Technique and combined the Yang Attribute, Lightning Affinity, and Dark Attribute to fight the armor and absorb its power.
• Fang Yi subdued the armor, unleashed its power, and caused the Dark Tide to collapse as the Ancient God-Demon Armor acknowledged him as its master.

Fang Yi mastered the Ancient God-Demon Armor and gained the Dark Torrent Art, allowing him to move through the Dark Tide with ease. In Tai City, Su Qingying and the others realized that the injured Lin Yiyi was trying to claim the Metal Attribute Throne.

• Fang Yi mastered the Ancient God-Demon Armor and obtained its Dark Attribute secret art, the Dark Torrent Art.
• Fang Yi tested the armor’s power, found that it could erase the Dark Tide, and prepared to leave the Mystic Domain.
• Su Qingying and the others worried that Lin Yiyi was injured and left without support while Tai City faced turmoil and Undertaker remained out of contact.
• Su Qingying sensed Lin Yiyi’s aura at the Throne on the Back Mountain and realized that she was trying to take control of it.
• The group feared Lin Yiyi would die attempting to claim the Metal Attribute Throne despite having no Attribute of her own.

Zhang Tian searched the Tomb Cluster for Fang Yi, burdened by guilt over triggering the Dark Tide and believing Fang Yi had died. Fang Yi emerged alive from the tide, and Zhang Tian confirmed he was real, though the state of Xia Kingdom remained dire.

• Zhang Tian returned to the Tomb Cluster and spent three days killing its creatures while searching for Fang Yi.
• As Zhang Tian neared the Dark Tide, a figure resembling Fang Yi emerged from it with the tide carrying him like its lord.
• Zhang Tian attacked the figure with giant transparent hands, suspecting it might be an Undead controlled by the Dark Attribute.
• Fang Yi used Heavenly Fire to tear apart Zhang Tian's attack and revealed himself with his Tang Saber.
• Zhang Tian recognized Fang Yi as alive, touched his arm to confirm it, and explained that Xia Kingdom was in turmoil.

The Spirit Association and the Military Region feared that the Undertaker’s disappearance would plunge Xia Kingdom into chaos, but they learned that Fang Yi had survived the Dark Tide. With their stabilizing force returned, they planned to deal harshly with the Pioneers gathering to challenge for the Throne in Tai City, while Zhang Tian sensed how much Fang Yi had grown.

• The Spirit Association and Military Region argued over the Undertaker’s disappearance as cities neared unrest and Pioneers gathered to compete for the Throne in Tai City.
• An emergency call informed the leaders that the Undertaker Captain was alive, and the news relieved them and restored their confidence in controlling the situation.
• The Military Region’s leader and the Spirit Association President agreed that the rebellious Pioneers gathering for the Throne would need to be suppressed with a show of force.
• Zhang Tian examined Fang Yi and sensed a powerful new aura that made him feel threatened.

With Undertaker absent, outlaws flooded Tai City and fought the Spirit Association while Lin Yiyi attempted to contact the Gold Attribute Throne. Fang Yi returned to find the city in chaos and learned that Lin Yiyi was inside the Throne.

• A wave of Pioneers charged the Gold Attribute Throne, but its Golden Aura tore three men apart as they approached.
• The outlaws grew furious after learning an Attribute-less Pioneer was contacting the Throne, and they began looting Tai City while the Spirit Association fought to protect civilians.
• Song Yiming and Wang Ping battled the attacking Pioneers as an unidentified man entered Tai City and silently helped the Spirit Association fighters outside the Villa District.
• Su Qingying waited anxiously near the Throne while Lin Yiyi remained inside, guarding the Gold Attribute Throne.
• Fang Yi returned to Tai City, rescued several fighters with a flick of his finger, and asked Su Qingying about Lin Yiyi.
• Su Qingying told Fang Yi that Lin Yiyi had entered the Throne to protect it, and killing intent filled the air as he listened.

The Pioneers invaded Tai City while the Spirit Association offered no resistance, and Fang Yi returned to find Lin Yiyi inside the Throne with her life in danger. He left the Back Mountain vowing to kill the invaders.

• Invading Pioneers overwhelmed Tai City's defenders, mocked the absent captain, and broke into the apparently empty Spirit Association.
• A researcher revealed that the Crystal Cores were in Research Lab 3, and the invaders rushed to seize them.
• The researcher revealed that he knew Fang Yi had returned and watched the invaders go with cold satisfaction.
• Su Qingying told Fang Yi that Lin Yiyi had entered the Throne to protect Tai City after the Pioneers invaded.
• Fang Yi vowed to bury every invader and left the Back Mountain with his blade unsheathed.

Li Mingxuan led a group of Pioneers into the Spirit Association, planning to claim the Gold Attribute Throne, but the Undertaker intercepted and killed him. The invaders realized too late that the Spirit Association had lured them into a trap, and they froze as Li Mingxuan’s aura vanished.

• Li Mingxuan gathered the Pioneers inside the Spirit Association and told them he would go to the Gold Attribute Throne while they kept watch.
• Li Mingxuan reached the Back Mountain and sensed a terrifying presence ahead of him.
• The Undertaker appeared with a drawn Tang Saber, and Li Mingxuan recognized the Spirit Association’s apparent surrender as a trap.
• The Undertaker unleashed flaming Fire Leopards that tore Li Mingxuan apart and burned him to ashes.
• The invaders fell silent and looked toward the Back Mountain as they felt Li Mingxuan’s Metal Attribute aura snap.

Fang Yi arrived at the Spirit Association after killing Li Mingxuan, revealed himself as the missing Tai City Captain and Undertaker, and destroyed the association, killing every invader. He stood amid the burning ruins as rain evaporated around him, with Tai City’s night still shadowed by violence.

• The Pioneers at the Spirit Association sensed Li Mingxuan’s death and watched a black-robed figure approach from the Back Mountain.
• Luo Yong tried to recruit the figure, who identified himself as the captain of Tai City; the invaders realized he was Fang Yi, the Undertaker.
• The invaders panicked when they recognized Fang Yi and understood that he had killed Li Mingxuan with overwhelming strength.
• Fang Yi declared that those who trespassed into Tai City would die, then unleashed his Crimson Fire Blade Technique.
• Fang Yi’s attack destroyed the Spirit Association and killed every invader, leaving him standing among the burning ruins.

The Undertaker returned to Tai City in a storm of flames, terrifying the invading Pioneers and leaving them trapped by the Spirit Association. After learning they had forced his younger sister onto the Gold Attribute Throne, the invaders faced his arrival in person.

• Song Yiming recognized the flames over Tai City as a sign that his idol, the Undertaker, had returned, and the invaders began to panic.
• The invaders abandoned their fight and tried to flee, but Spirit Association agents had surrounded the city and refused to let them pass.
• The Spirit Association told the invaders that Tai City's Acting Captain had wielded the Gold Attribute Throne and was the Undertaker's younger sister.
• A vast torrent of flame surged across the city, and the Undertaker stepped out of it with a blade at his waist.

The Undertaker returned to Tai City and annihilated the invading Pioneers with Flame Seal Burial, ending the crisis over the Gold Attribute Throne. His return reassured the Spirit Association and Pioneers across Xia Kingdom, while his decisive slaughter reinforced his authority.

• The Undertaker arrived as the Pioneers threatened Tai City and drew his Tang Saber.
• The Undertaker used Flame Seal Burial to kill the invading Pioneers in a single attack.
• The Spirit Association agents and allied Captains witnessed the massacre and recognized the vast gap between their strength and the Undertaker’s.
• Pioneers discussed how the Undertaker’s absence had contributed to unrest across Xia Kingdom and how his return restored order through force.
• The Spirit Association announced the Undertaker’s return, and Pioneers on the forum celebrated the end of the Tai City crisis.

Fang Yi entered the Metal Attribute Throne’s violent storm to reach Lin Yiyi, who was struggling to control it. He touched the Throne, acquired the Sharp Edge template, and forcefully implanted it into Lin Yiyi, whose body then erupted with golden light and a powerful aura.

• Fang Yi remembered Lin Yiyi’s childhood and resolved to protect her as she faced the Metal Attribute Throne.
• Fang Yi stepped into the golden storm, endured the Throne’s rejection, and pressed forward despite his injuries.
• Fang Yi touched the Throne and acquired the Divine Aperture Cultivation Method and the Sharp Edge template.
• Fang Yi ordered the system to implant the Sharp Edge template into Lin Yiyi.
• Golden energy entered Lin Yiyi, a sword mark appeared and faded on her forehead, and a terrifying aura burst from her body.

Fang Yi helped Lin Yiyi endure the Metal Attribute Throne, then left as the Spirit Association gathered below, burdened by guilt over her danger. The association offered its precious Metal Spirit Crystals to the Throne and prayed that Lin Yiyi would survive.

• Fang Yi gave Lin Yiyi the Metal Attribute template, then left the Throne’s storm so it would not harm her chances of gaining recognition.
• Su Qingying rebuked an agent for accusing Lin Yiyi of seeking the Throne for herself and challenged the group to consider her sacrifice.
• Fang Yi walked past the Spirit Association without stopping, and the agents mistook his departure for anger and blamed themselves for Lin Yiyi’s predicament.
• Su Qingying threw the association’s Metal Spirit Crystals into the golden storm, where the Throne absorbed them as the group prayed for Lin Yiyi to return alive.

Fang Yi returned to the villa, hid the truth about Lin Yiyi’s absence from Fang Yulan, and tested the Ancient God-Demon Armor he had brought back from the Dark Tide. Three days later, Zhang Tian and the other elders arrived with Metal Spirit Crystals, and Fang Yi asked them to help test his Dark Tide relic.

• Fang Yi returned home, reassured Fang Yulan, and told her that Lin Yiyi was away on a business trip.
• Fang Yi summoned the Ancient God-Demon Armor and found that a lightning-and-metal-enhanced punch could not damage it.
• Three days later, Zhang Tian and the other elders visited Fang Yi and gave him six Metal Spirit Crystals as compensation.
• Fang Yi accepted the crystals and asked the elders to help test something he had brought back from the Dark Tide.
• The group went to a mountain, while Zhang Tian worried about the fury Fang Yi might unleash if his cousin had fallen.

Fang Yi tested the Ancient God-Demon Armor by letting Old Liu strike him with full force, and the armor left him unharmed. Just as the gathered experts praised his strength, Zhang Tian received news that Thunder Lord had succeeded, and a terrifying display of thunder erupted over Chuan City.

• Fang Yi invited the elderly experts to test his defense, and Zhang Tian asked Old Liu to attack him.
• Old Liu unleashed a full-strength Fire Attribute punch, but Fang Yi remained unharmed beneath the Ancient God-Demon Armor.
• Fang Yi realized that no one below the Adamantine Body Realm could likely pierce the armor and considered its ability to nullify the Dark Attribute.
• Zhang Tian received a call from the Spirit Association and told Fang Yi that Thunder Lord had succeeded.
• Thunder Power erupted over Chuan City, where lightning tore through the clouds and a Gourd Vine rose into the sky.

Fang Yi joined Zhang Tian and the others in Chuan City, where the newly awakened Thunder Lord’s uncontrolled power devastated the surrounding area and threatened human settlements. After the Military Region leaders gathered to consider how to stop it, Fang Yi sensed that the Thunder Lord was confused and did not understand its own power.

• The Spirit Association called Zhang Tian, Old Wu, and the others to Chuan City after the Thunder Lord awakened ahead of schedule and its Anomaly Value could no longer be suppressed.
• Fang Yi agreed to go, entrusted the Messenger to Lin Yiyi, and arranged guards to protect it before leaving with the group.
• In Nanming District, the Thunder Lord’s uncontrolled lightning destroyed a mountain and severed a highway as Military Region experts warned that its power could threaten nearby cities.
• Zhang Tian and the others arrived by helicopter, met the Military Region leaders, and introduced Fang Yi, whom Shen Wuji praised as an extraordinary young talent.
• Fang Yi sensed that the Thunder Lord had become powerful without understanding how to use its new abilities, like an ignorant child holding destructive power.

Fang Yi communicated with the Thunder Lord through their shared Lightning Affinity and taught it to control its power. As the Thunder Lord drew its stray lightning back toward the Throne, the threat to Chuan City began to recede.

• The Thunder Lord's stray lightning overwhelmed Zhang Tian and the other experts, leaving them injured as it advanced toward Chuan City.
• Shen Wuji and the others despaired as Nanming District's residents were evacuated and they realized they could not stop the Thunder Lord by force.
• Fang Yi sensed the Thunder Lord and formed a communication link with it through their Lightning Affinity, temporarily halting the lightning's advance.
• Fang Yi recognized that the Thunder Lord wanted to control its power and patiently taught it to draw in its leaking spirit qi.
• The Thunder Lord followed Fang Yi's instructions and gathered the lightning back toward its Throne, astonishing the Military Region's experts.

Fang Yi communicated with the newly awakened Thunder Lord and guided it to withdraw the lightning threatening Chuan City. When a Divine Pavilion member proposed making the Thunder Lord serve the Xia Kingdom, the Lord struck him dead.

• Fang Yi used his connection with the Thunder Lord to teach it to control its power and recall the lightning threatening Chuan City.
• Zhang Tian and the others watched the danger pass and realized Fang Yi had saved Nanming District from disaster.
• A Divine Pavilion member offered Fang Yi promotion and wealth if he made the Thunder Lord serve the Xia Kingdom.
• The Thunder Lord killed the Divine Pavilion member with a blood-red bolt of lightning after he voiced his plan.

The Thunder Lord thanked Fang Yi, left Chuan City without harming anyone else, and claimed the mountain forest as its territory. As people on the Pioneer Forum discussed the Lords’ overwhelming power and the known Thrones, they anticipated an era ruled by Lords.

• The Thunder Lord showed gratitude to Fang Yi, then departed through a storm that left the forest and mountain largely undamaged.
• The Military Region secured the mountain, closed the highway, and barred others from approaching the Thunder Lord’s territory.
• Fang Yi left Chuan City after the incident, while the Pioneer Forum erupted with discussion of the Thunder Lord’s strength.
• Pioneers recalled the Spirit Association’s restrictions on Thrones and debated who held the Wood Attribute and Gold Attribute Thrones.
• The Forum remembered the Tai City Captain’s purge during the Gold Attribute Throne conflict and wondered who would become the Lord of Metal.

Su Qingying told Fang Yi that Sakura Country had brought a Lord under government control, worsening tensions with Xia Kingdom. Fang Yi saw no safe way to help, while Spirit Flower and Cousin's attempts to claim Thrones remained unresolved.

• Fang Yulan bought Fang Yi a pile of shirts to maintain his young-leader image.
• Su Qingying visited Fang Yi and asked whether he had followed news from Sakura Country.
• Su Qingying explained that the Sakura God Society President's younger brother had become a Lord under Sakura Country's control, making the country more hostile toward Xia Kingdom.
• Fang Yi considered the Thunder Lord, Spirit Flower, and Cousin, but could not rely on any of them to resolve Xia Kingdom's predicament.
• Fang Yi hoped Spirit Flower and Cousin would survive their attempts to receive the Wood and Gold Thrones' power.