Chapter Summaries

After resolving Qingbei University's seal, Fang Yi and the captains led a cultivation event for novice cultivators and reflected on their devotion to the Xia Kingdom. As the crowd pledged to protect their country, Fang Yi declared that the future was promising and everyone could become a dragon.

• Qingbei's principal thanked Fang Yi, and the captains prepared to return to their posts.
• Chu Qingli watched Fang Yi from afar, bitterly aware of how distant they had become, before Lu Xing called her back to the group.
• Fang Yi and the captains oversaw novice cultivators training near the field where Blazing Sun had been sealed.
• Song Yiming worried that Spirit Qi Recovery might divide the Xia Kingdom, and Fang Yi said the new cultivators deserved respect as long as they remained devoted to their country.
• Fang Yi said the Spirit Association would deal with anyone who harmed the Xia Kingdom, while even protecting one person was worthwhile.
• The cultivators and nearby ordinary people shouted their devotion to the Xia Kingdom, and Fang Yi concluded that the future was promising and everyone could become a dragon.

Fang Yi attended a Spirit Association banquet with Xia Kingdom’s captains, whose awe of him kept them silent and tense. After he left, the captains immediately resumed bickering, leaving the Spirit Association official to handle the chaos alone.

• Song Yiming said Xia Kingdom would become strong enough that it would no longer depend on Fang Yi alone to deter other nations.
• A Spirit Association official invited Fang Yi and the captains to a banquet, and Fang Yi agreed to attend.
• At the banquet, the captains hesitated to touch their chopsticks until Fang Yi toasted them and told them to eat.
• Fang Yi left early, explaining that his presence kept everyone too tense to enjoy the meal.
• The captains relaxed and erupted into insults and near-fighting, while the Spirit Association official tried to stop them.

Fang Yi cultivated in a mountain forest and broke through to Five Stars in the Adamantine Body Realm. In America, Michael killed a hacker Lord to obtain information about Fang Yi, then decided he needed an opportunity to kill him.

• Fang Yi absorbed spirit qi in a secluded forest and broke through to Five Stars in the Adamantine Body Realm.
• Cultivators rushed toward the golden aura but found that Fang Yi had already left.
• Michael confronted a hacker Lord in America and used holy light to make him submit before killing him.
• Michael took the miniature Throne and searched the hacker's records for information about Fang Yi.
• Michael learned Fang Yi's identity, realm, and connections, then resolved to find an opportunity to kill him.

Su Qingying and other cultivators eliminated Anomalies in Tai City, while Fang Yi sensed a large-scale Anomaly wave gathering after returning home. The Spirit Association learned that Fang Yi would not intervene, leaving the city’s cultivators to face the crisis themselves.

• Su Qingying rescued a high school girl and helped other cultivators eliminate three Anomalies at Baizhuting Residential Area.
• Fang Yi arrived in Tai City, sensed a major Anomaly wave forming, and chose not to draw his blade.
• Li Zhongyue told the Tai City Spirit Association that Captain Fang would not interfere in the coming crisis.
• Li Zhongyue argued that cultivators needed to face real danger and declared it was time for them to see the real world.

Spirit Association President Li Zhongyue sent newly trained cultivators to prove themselves in a city-wide crisis, and Su Qingying led Lu Xing, Chu Qingli, and others on a mission to eliminate the Beast Eater’s controlled villagers in Lumu Village. The battle began with the recruits overcoming their fear, while the dangerous Anomaly remained undiscovered.

• Li Zhongyue reprimanded the visiting cultivators for their arrogance and fear, then assigned them to missions with Spirit Association agents as a trial.
• Su Qingying reviewed the Beast Eater’s report with Lu Xing, Chu Qingli, and her team while they traveled to Lumu Village.
• The team arrived to find a mass of bloodied, strangely twisted villagers waiting outside the village.
• Spirit Association captains led the attack, and one agent killed a villager who sprayed corrosive black liquid at a frightened cultivator.
• The recruits regained their focus and joined the fight, helping the agents rapidly reduce the number of controlled villagers.

Chen Bing and a Pioneer squad entered Lumù Village to confront a B+ Class Aberrant, but the village’s walking corpses overwhelmed them. Chen Bing escaped alone after the Pioneer officer sacrificed himself, realizing how helpless they were against the Aberrants.

• Chen Bing and the Pioneer squad found villagers eating corpses, and their attacks failed to stop the walking dead.
• A villager transformed into a Divine Axe Eight Stars Aberrant, forcing the squad to call for help and retreat.
• The Aberrants surrounded the cultivators, killed one of them, and drove the squad into a desperate flight.
• The Pioneer officer self-destructed to hold back the Aberrants, but the respite lasted only moments and his comrades were killed.
• Chen Bing escaped with a water shield as his former comrades rose as Aberrants and chased him.
• After collapsing safely outside their reach, Chen Bing recalled the Undertaker defeating a Tier A King Offering Hell and grieved the squad’s losses.

Chen Bing and the arriving pioneer squads fought together against the Divine Axe Eight Stars anomaly and its horde, completing the Tier B mission at great cost. As they celebrated, their wristbands warned that the anomaly value at Lumù Village Center was surging, and a terrifying presence began to emerge.

• Reinforcements arrived after Chen Bing's squad was nearly wiped out and gathered the nearby teams to face the Divine Axe Eight Stars anomaly.
• The pioneers held the line against the horde, and several fighters sacrificed themselves rather than let their bodies endanger their comrades.
• Moved by the pioneers' resolve, Chen Bing rose from despair and joined the battle.
• The squads coordinated their attacks, killed the remaining anomalies, and completed the Tier B mission.
• As the exhausted fighters celebrated, their wristbands warned that the anomaly value at Lumù Village Center was surging, while a dreadful aura spread from the village center.

A Skeleton King revealed itself after controlling Chief Liu and breaking the cultivators’ morale with its power. Just as an apparent blood-rain illusion was dispelled, the rescuers saw something beyond it that terrified them.

• The Skeleton King emerged from the sky, and Chief Liu’s spear shattered against it.
• The King killed Chief Liu and controlled his corpse, forcing him to attack the cultivators below.
• The cultivators realized the King had been hiding among the villagers and rallied to fight rather than surrender.
• The King sent a flood of blood toward them, but an unseen arrival tore through the illusion.
• The cultivators celebrated their rescue, then froze in terror at what they saw beyond the shattered illusion.

Fang Yi arrived in the illusion as the exhausted survivors lost hope, and the Skeleton King immediately sent its zombie puppets to kill him. Fang Yi shattered their assault with a blazing slash and hurled his Tang Saber toward the King.

• The repeated illusions and the Skeleton King's mocking presence drove the survivors into despair, while the Pioneers struggled to keep them calm.
• Fang Yi entered the blood rain unharmed, and the survivors wondered whether his arrival was another illusion.
• The Skeleton King empowered zombie puppets made from their dead teammates and Lumù Village villagers, directing them to attack Fang Yi all at once.
• Fang Yi destroyed the puppets' attacks with a blazing slash and hurled his Tang Saber toward the Skeleton King.

Fang Yi shattered the Skeleton King's illusion and killed it with one slash, then gave its spirit crystal to Xiaobai, awakening the dog's illusion power. As Xiaobai's upgrade briefly affected the rescued Pioneers, Fang Yi received word from Little Flower that the Throne was nearly mastered.

• Fang Yi split the Skeleton King's illusion and killed the King with a single blade strike.
• Fang Yi caught the King's spirit crystal and decided to give it to Xiaobai.
• Xiaobai absorbed the spirit crystal and awakened illusion power that briefly trapped the rescued Pioneers.
• A Pioneer realized Xiaobai's illusion power came from the King's crystal and feared he could not defeat the dog.
• Fang Yi received a message from Little Flower that the Throne was about to be successfully mastered.

Fang Yi headed to check on Little Flower, whose mastery of the Wood Attribute Throne was reaching its final stage. The Lord of Quicksand and the Lord of Shadows prepared to seize her for America, wary that Fang Yi might intervene, just as Little Flower’s ascension began.

• Fang Yi left with Lin Yiyi to check on Little Flower, while the Pioneers watched him depart without having thanked him.
• Little Flower absorbed the Wood Attribute Throne’s power as her mastery neared completion.
• The Lord of Quicksand and the Lord of Shadows secretly approached and planned to take Little Flower to America once she succeeded.
• The two Lords agreed to act immediately and keep watch for Fang Yi, whom they feared as the Plague God of Huaxia.
• Little Flower unleashed a surge of Wood Attribute energy, and the forest stirred as her mastery reached its final moment.

Spirit Flower controlled the Wood Attribute Throne, but Lord of Quicksand and Lord of Shadows attacked her to seize it. Fang Yi arrived in time to save her, and the two attackers realized he was her master and that they had badly underestimated their opponents.

• Spirit Flower emerged after controlling the Wood Attribute Throne, whose vitality drew the attention of Lord of Quicksand and Lord of Shadows.
• Lord of Quicksand and Lord of Shadows attacked Spirit Flower, but her Barren Attribute drained Lord of Quicksand's life force and countered his quicksand.
• Lord of Shadows tried to strike Spirit Flower from behind, but Fang Yi appeared and shattered his Shadow Blade with his fingers.
• Fang Yi drew his blade, and Lord of Quicksand and Lord of Shadows recognized him as Xia Kingdom's Undertaker.
• Spirit Flower respectfully called Fang Yi her master, leaving the two Lords alarmed by the danger they faced.

Fang Yi and Lin Yiyi defeated two American Lords who had entered Xia Kingdom and threatened to devastate nearby cities. Fang Yi took the Quicksand Throne, while Lin Yiyi accepted the Shadow Throne to strengthen her Metal Throne abilities.

• Fang Yi confronted the Lord of Quicksand and the Lord of Shadows after they threatened Xia Kingdom's cities, and rejected their promise to leave.
• Fang Yi trapped the Lord of Quicksand in golden flames and killed him with a slash, then collected his Throne.
• Lin Yiyi used her Golden Giant and Metal Throne power to destroy the Lord of Shadows' fleeing shadows and severely injure him.
• Lin Yiyi pierced the Lord of Shadows with a metal spear and killed him.
• Fang Yi gave Lin Yiyi the Shadow Throne, which she accepted to increase her strength.

Fang Yi absorbed the Lord of Quicksand’s Throne and broke through to the sixth stage of the Adamantine Body, while an American powerhouse identified Xia Kingdom as the source of the two Lords’ deaths. The chapter left Fang Yi at home with Spirit Flower and the Messenger as the age of Lords continued to unfold.

• An American powerhouse learned that the Lords of Quicksand and Shadows had died and suspected Fang Yi was responsible.
• Fang Yi and Lin Yiyi returned home, where they discussed the growing number of Thrones and the coming struggle among Lords.
• Lin Yiyi began refining the Lord of Shadows’ Throne, while Fang Yi prepared to absorb the Lord of Quicksand’s Throne.
• Fang Yi’s Yang God Throne devoured the Quicksand Throne, advancing him to the sixth stage of the Adamantine Body.
• Fang Yi placed Spirit Flower in a flowerpot to improve the villa’s vitality, and the Messenger showed that it had mastered the King of Illusions’ power.

Lin Yiyi mastered the Shadow Throne alongside the Metal Throne and broke through to Adamantine Stage Two. As Lords abroad began slaughtering civilians and destabilizing the world, Fang Yi told Su Qingying to focus on defending Xia Kingdom and learned that two new Lords had joined the Spirit Association.

• Lin Yiyi overcame the Shadow Throne’s phantoms, took control of it, and became the center of its shadow-filled world.
• Fang Yi dispersed the Shadow Lord’s power leaking from Lin Yiyi, who had reached Adamantine Stage Two and then began secluded cultivation.
• A Lord from America slaughtered an entire city after killing another Lord, signaling that Lord-level power was spiraling out of control.
• Su Qingying reported the worsening situation abroad to Fang Yi, who told her to secure Xia Kingdom and promised to deal with any Lords who entered it.
• Su Qingying told Fang Yi that the Spirit Association had gained the Lord of Divine Balance from Guang City and the Lord of Fire from Li City, and Fang Yi invited her to stay for a meal.

As Lords outside Xia Kingdom descended into violent chaos, the Spirit Association struggled to decide whether to keep Xia Kingdom’s Lords home or risk sending them into battle. Lin Yiyi told the gathered officials that other powers faced the same dilemma and hinted that America would soon reveal a solution.

• Elite Pioneers discussed how Lords’ unchecked power had fueled massacres abroad and worried that one Lord had acquired five Thrones.
• The Spirit Association reported that seventeen Lords had publicly fallen, three cities had been massacred, and a small country had nearly been destroyed.
• The Spirit Association debated whether Xia Kingdom’s Lords should stay home to protect the country or go abroad and risk falling behind or losing control.
• Lin Yiyi arrived with Su Qingying and questioned why the officials thought Xia Kingdom alone faced the dilemma.
• Lin Yiyi said that America would probably act within the next few days, and some officials realized what solution she meant.

After several Lords attacked America, America proposed that the Four Great Nations establish a New Order and a God Punisher Squad to stop large-scale slaughter. Fang Yi left Xia Kingdom for America to represent it at talks, leaving Lin Yiyi to defend the country.

• Lin Yiyi reassured the meeting that Xia Kingdom was not alone in facing powerful Lords.
• Three days later, several Lords infiltrated America, killed two of its Lords, and slaughtered civilians, prompting America to propose a New Order and a God Punisher Squad.
• The Spirit Association determined that Fang Yi, as a First Sequence Lord, was the only person qualified to attend the talks in America.
• Fang Yi left Lin Yiyi in charge of Xia Kingdom and took Doggy with him, while Lin Yiyi kept Spirit Flower to help defend the country.
• Fang Yi flew to America aboard a plane bearing Xia Kingdom's insignia, where onlookers recognized him as the Undertaker.

Fang Yi encountered America's Light Poison at the airport, absorbed its Light Attribute, and gained the Great Radiance Divine Avatar technique. The anomaly collapsed, leaving him and the Xia Kingdom cultivators safe as they prepared to continue their return.

• Fang Yi arrived at the cleared airport, where American cultivators welcomed him and said the other Lords had landed elsewhere.
• Light Poison surrounded the airport and dissolved the American cultivators, while Fang Yi realized the anomaly might be an attempt to test him and delay his return.
• Fang Yi's Golden Sun suppressed the Light Poison, and he touched it to trigger his system and obtain the Great Radiance Divine Avatar technique.
• Fang Yi absorbed the Light Attribute, causing the pale world to collapse and leaving the Xia Kingdom cultivators unharmed.

Fang Yi, Rogers, Kihail, and Harry met in Angel Hall for a Supreme Council on forming a Four Great Nations alliance and a Lord-level Punisher Squad. After a day of negotiations over the plan and its territories, Fang Yi considered gathering Xia Kingdom’s Lords when he returned.

• Rogers reflected on Fang Yi’s quick escape from the airport test and judged him the most troublesome of the three First Sequence Throne holders in America.
• Fang Yi entered Angel Hall and sat opposite Rogers as their auras clashed and forced the guards outside to retreat.
• Kihail arrived and greeted Fang Yi, who destroyed the long table; Harry then joined them, completing the council of four First Sequence Lords.
• Rogers proposed a New World Order and a Four Great Nations Punisher Squad to punish Lords who caused chaos around the world.
• The four Lords negotiated for a day over benefits, territories, and how to handle Lords crossing regional boundaries.
• Fang Yi fought for Xia Kingdom’s interests and considered gathering all of its Lords when he returned, even by force.

While the Yang God Lord was away from Xia Kingdom, three foreign Lords trespassed into the country and were confronted by Lin Yiyi, the new master of the Shadow Throne. Lin Yiyi attacked the intruders, and the chapter ended as her shadow blades clashed with the Lord of Wind’s gale.

• Three Lords entered Xia Kingdom, hoping to explore the land while the Yang God Lord was away.
• The Lord of Wind sensed someone following them and discovered that the Shadow Throne’s power had been obtained by a new master.
• Lin Yiyi appeared and warned the trespassers that anyone who entered Xia Kingdom would die.
• The Lord of Wind recognized that Lin Yiyi was not the Shadow Throne’s previous master and cautioned his companions to be careful.
• Lin Yiyi unleashed Shadow Kill, and the Lord of Wind answered with wind blades that collided with her shadow blades.