Recaps

Hao Ren visited the Erem Elves and asked Hilda for armed escorts to protect a group of migrants from an enemy force estimated at eight million. Hilda was shocked by the scale of the threat.

• Hao Ren saw the statue honoring him and learned that Lily also had a statue at the western district gate.
• Hao Ren introduced Joseph and Elu to Wim as envoys from another world, and Wim mistook Joseph for a woman.
• Hao Ren and Wim showed Joseph and Elu the Erem Elves’ modest Royal District and explained how the elves assigned work according to ability.
• Hilda welcomed Hao Ren, shared news of the Erem Elves’ recovery, and offered to help when he explained that he needed armed escorts.
• Hao Ren estimated the enemy force at eight million, and Hilda reacted with alarm.

Hao Ren asked Hilda for an army to escort Izax’s people and protect the Demon King’s City. Hilda agreed to send one million Erem Elves and several thousand ships, while Wimm revealed that a new religion had been established on New Erem Star.

• Hao Ren explained Izax’s history and asked Hilda to provide an armed escort for eight hundred thousand people.
• Hilda ordered Wimm to halt several construction and exploration projects so their workers and ships could be reassigned.
• Hilda offered one million Erem Elves and several thousand ships, explaining that even ordinary civilians could operate weapons and vessels.
• Hao Ren introduced Joseph and Elu as representatives who could explain the situation in the Demon King’s City.
• Wimm told Hao Ren that Hilda was learning about the Demon King’s City and would help choose a location for it.
• Hao Ren saw a spiritual guide addressing workers and learned from Wimm that his mother had established a religion devoted to the planet’s Creator God.

Hao Ren learned that the Erem Elves planned to worship Raven 12345 and asked him to help establish their religion, leading to the goddess’s unlikely slogan: “Even if it’s free, believe a little.” Two days later, Hilda’s armed forces were ready to depart for Izax’s homeworld, and Hao Ren planned their route through a temporary World Gate and the spatial bubble.

• Vim explained that the Erem Elves were promoting faith in Raven 12345 to strengthen morale and social unity during reconstruction.
• Vim asked Hao Ren, as the pope, to help create a model scripture and daily prayer, and Hao Ren suggested, “Even if it’s free, believe a little.”
• Hao Ren contacted Raven 12345, who confirmed the phrase as her secret slogan and advised the elves to use it when they reached the interstellar age.
• Two days later, Hilda’s three million armed security personnel had assembled, and Hao Ren reported that they were ready to depart.
• Hao Ren and Raven 12345 planned to send the elven fleet through a temporary World Gate above Doudou Planet, across the spatial bubble, and onward to Izax’s homeworld.

Hao Ren led Vym and the Erem fleet through the World Gate into the universe outside the spatial bubble zone, then teleported back to Demon King's City. He told Vivian to prepare the enormous wreckage for a major overhaul so they could get it floating within a day.

• Hao Ren and Lily watched Hilda entrust Vym and the Erem fleet to their care as the World Gate opened.
• Hao Ren led the fleet through the gate, where they found the distorted stellar projection marking the entrance to the spatial bubble zone.
• Hao Ren told Vym that the Data Terminal would guide the fleet through portals while he and his companions went ahead to meet Izax and inspect the wreckage.
• Hao Ren, Lily, Joseph, and Elu teleported to Demon King's City, where Vivian and Nangong May were watching the enormous wreckage.
• Hao Ren told Vivian to notify Izax and prepare for a major overhaul, aiming to get the wreckage floating within a day.

Hao Ren prepared to launch the shipwreck by gathering Demon King's City engineers to install gravity regulators across its hull. As the Erem Elf fleet crossed the foam zone toward the rendezvous, garrisons across the world watched the unfamiliar ships thunder overhead.

• Hao Ren told Izax that forces were on their way and that they would rendezvous with the Erem Elves before heading out.
• Izax gathered Demon King's City engineers and craftsmen at the shipwreck to prepare it for travel.
• Hao Ren had Autonomous Mechanical Units deliver gravity regulators salvaged from the Erem floating islands and explained how to install them.
• Elizabeth examined the regulators and harassed a mechanical squid before Izax lifted her away from it.
• Demon King's City technicians began fixing regulators across the wreck, while Erem Elf ships crossed the foam zone and startled garrisons throughout the world.

The Erem elves' fleet raced through the portals while Hao Ren and his allies finished preparing Demon King's City and its wreckage for departure. The city appeared on the Shattered Plains before the demon army and Holy See Allied Forces, bringing the opposing forces face to face as battle loomed.

• The Erem elves' fleet broke through portal defenses across multiple planes, leaving local garrisons confused and unable to pursue.
• Hao Ren tested the wreck's gravity regulators, while he, Vivian, Izax, and Lily discussed its rough construction.
• Hao Ren awaited the Erem elves' fleet, whose engineering tugs would tow the wreck because Demon King's City could not install its own engines.
• The Data Terminal told Hao Ren that the fleet was nearly there, and he ordered Izax to prepare his people to leave.
• Izax transformed, sent Elizabeth to Lanina, and commanded Demon King's City to set out for the Second Demon Plane.
• Demon King's City appeared on the Shattered Plains before the waiting demon army and Holy See Allied Forces, and the great battle approached.

Gregory and Seradon’s armies attacked the reappearing Demon King’s City, while Hao Ren and Izax defended it as they waited for the Erem Elf fleet to arrive. The city held its spatial gate open, and the battle began with both sides exchanging barrages.

• Gregory received a report of strange silver metal monsters and then watched the Demon King’s City reappear above the rocky mountain.
• Gregory ordered the Holy See Allied Forces to prepare their holy knights and magic cannons, while Seradon ordered his demons to ready their weapons and attack.
• Hao Ren told Izax that the final teleportation gate would be reached in five minutes and instructed him to keep it open for the Erem Elf fleet.
• Izax activated the Demon King’s City’s defenses as the Holy See Allied Forces and Seradon’s army fired on the city.
• The city’s defensive towers intercepted most of the incoming fire, and Izax ordered the city-defense cannons to respond as dread demons advanced.

The Erem Elf fleet emerged through a portal and attacked the Holy See Allied Forces and demon army, revealing an enormous ancient Space Fortress. As both armies targeted the vulnerable fortress, Izax led a counterattack while the fleet tried to pull the wreckage back through the portal.

• Izax's strange Earth-derived battle cry confused Gregory, Seradon, and the defenders of Demon King's City.
• The Erem Elf fleet arrived from the west and bombarded both armies, prompting Gregory to order the allied forces to form defenses and fight back.
• A portal opened behind Demon King's City, and the hundreds-of-kilometers-long Space Fortress emerged as the Erem ships attacked the magical cannon positions.
• Gregory and the demon commanders ordered their artillery to target the fortress, which began shaking under the barrage.
• Vym ordered the Erem ships to suppress anti-aircraft fire as tugboats accelerated the fortress toward the portal, while Giant Turtle Rock Platform hurried ahead to widen the gate.
• Izax led demons and Obsidian Golems against Seradon's and Banuklak's legions as the Erem fleet fought the allied forces in the sky.

Izax and the Demon Lord's Army fought Seradon's forces while the Erem fleet attacked from above. Izax killed Seradon and reunited with Ramondino, while Hao Ren prepared to send Banuklak into outer space.

• Izax led his veteran army against Seradon's demons and pushed toward the fel-energy cannons.
• Izax and Seradon fought a devastating duel that killed weaker demons with its aftershocks.
• Izax defeated Seradon, saying he still fought to bring his daughter home.
• Ramondino arrived, called it the final battle, and declined Izax's invitation to leave with him.
• Hao Ren faced Banuklak atop beastified Lily and used an approaching blue light to send the giant insect demon into outer space.

Hao Ren and his allies killed Banuklak, broke through the battlefield, and escaped with the Space Fortress wreckage. After racing through the Space Gates, Izax promised to rebuild his army and return as the fleet left the final inhabited plane.

• Banuklak was dragged into stellar fire and killed, and Hao Ren ordered the retreat.
• Izax's forces destroyed the remaining cannons while Hao Ren's group regrouped and withdrew from the battlefield.
• Hao Ren and the others returned to the Demon King's City, and the Erem fleet began towing the Space Fortress wreckage westward.
• Giant Turtle Rock Platform expanded the Space Gates as the fleet sped through them, passing bewildered guards and failed interception orders.
• At the final inhabited plane, Izax vowed to rebuild his army and return before the fleet vanished through the teleportation gate.

Hao Ren, Izax, and the Erem fleet crossed the desolate outer planes of the spatial bubble region while towing a massive wreckage toward the final Space Gate. Izax reached the gate and saw the real universe’s stars, reflecting on the old man who had once told him the world outside was enormous.

• The fleet traveled through hostile, uninhabitable planes, with Giant Turtle Rock Platform scouting beyond each teleportation gate and the Erem ships towing the wreckage home.
• Hao Ren and Vivian discussed Izax’s plan to unite the world’s races by leaving them a common threat, and Izax said he was satisfied that he had advanced his goals.
• The fleet passed through increasingly empty planes, signaling that the spatial bubble region was nearing its end.
• Izax sat on Giant Turtle Rock Platform’s armor belt as the fleet approached the final Space Gate, whose reflective sphere led to the real universe.
• The fleet crossed the gate and saw the sea of stars, and Izax remembered the old man who had said the world outside was enormous.

Hao Ren arranged for the enormous Firstborn-infested Space Fortress wreckage to be secured near New Erem Star and sent mechanical units to extract its tissue. The Demon King's City descended toward the coast to settle on the continental shelf, where Hilda welcomed Izax and the city's residents to their new home.

• Hao Ren assigned the Space Fortress wreckage to New Erem Star and told Vim to keep it anchored at the newly built port.
• Hao Ren sent Autonomous Mechanical Units into the wreckage to collect Firstborn tissue and continue excavating its remains.
• Lily helped Izax announce the move, and the Demon King's City residents accepted that they had reached another world and marveled at the stars.
• The Demon King's City entered the atmosphere and followed cruisers toward a coastal landing site prepared by the Erem Elves.
• Hao Ren and the Demon King's City representatives met Hilda at the coast as the city descended, and Hilda welcomed Izax and Elizabeth.

After the Demon King's City settled on the sea, Izax and Hilda discussed how their peoples would coexist, and Izax considered introducing the Goddess's faith to his subjects. Izax then announced that he would step down and leave the empire in Lanina and Gadamor's care until Elizabeth was old enough to become queen.

• The Erem Elves helped anchor the Demon King's City while its workers inspected the structure for damage.
• Lanina met Hilda, and Vivian urged the leaders to establish clear rules for territory, resources, cultural conflicts, and trade.
• Hao Ren reminded Izax and Hilda to prepare for the Goddess's attention, and Izax proposed introducing the Goddess's religion to his people.
• Lanina objected that the Demon Lord's Army had long ridiculed religious belief, but Izax said they would introduce the Goddess gradually; Weim explained that believers were recruited by saying, “It's free, so believe a little if you can.”
• Izax placed Gadamor in charge of the city and asked Lanina to help manage affairs and liaise with New Erem Star and Earth until Elizabeth's coronation.
• Izax told Lanina he was retiring, then reminded Elizabeth that his reign would end and she would become queen.

After abdicating, Izax arranged for Elizabeth to become the Demon King's successor, but she resisted his demanding education plan and asked to live with him on Earth. Hao Ren and his friends secured a teleporter for the Erem Elves and departed New Erem Star with Izax and Elizabeth, while Lanina stayed behind to help manage the transition.

• Izax appointed Gadamor to oversee the Demon King's City until Elizabeth came of age, with Lanina assisting him.
• Izax outlined an intensive curriculum for Elizabeth, who protested and asked to live on Earth with him instead.
• Vivian encouraged Izax to let Elizabeth broaden her horizons on Earth, and Hao Ren persuaded him to agree.
• Hao Ren toured the developing Erem Elf settlements with his friends and left Hilda a teleporter connecting them to Kuiper Station.
• The group boarded the Giant Turtle Rock Platform and left for Earth, while Lanina remained in the Demon King's City and Elizabeth eagerly looked forward to her new life.

Hao Ren returned home with Elizabeth and found that three of the four ascetic masters had left to travel the world. He worried they would cause trouble, but Big Beard insisted they had studied local customs and prepared for the journey.

• Hao Ren brought the group home through the basement portal and warned Elizabeth not to dismantle his equipment.
• Becky welcomed them, and Elizabeth proudly polished her demon horns before asking about a place to sleep.
• Izax confiscated Elizabeth’s screwdriver, and Becky explained that three of the four masters had gone traveling.
• Big Beard returned and told Hao Ren the ascetics had set out to experience the world under the Raven Goddess’s watch.
• Big Beard reassured Hao Ren that the travelers had studied how people lived and taken endangered-species protection catalogs.

Hao Ren settled into a quiet spring at home while Elizabeth adjusted to life there by dismantling household gadgets. The chapter ended as Hao Ren noticed a staggering figure across the street.

• Big Beard assured Hao Ren that he could keep track of the other Vajras while they traveled, and Roll greeted Elizabeth before dozing beside the sofa.
• Elizabeth became fascinated with Earth appliances, shorted out a power outlet, and then happily dismantled old electronics Hao Ren gave her.
• Hao Ren enjoyed a few peaceful days after reporting to Raven 12345 and watched spring arrive while Lily fished for Doudou.
• Becky took Elizabeth out in disguise, and Izax explained that Elizabeth could not transform because of her mixed bloodline.
• Hao Ren noticed a figure staggering across the street.

Nangong Sanba arrived at Hao Ren’s home gravely ill after confronting a Wrath Spirit in Siberia, but the medical pod saved him. He told May and the others that the spirit might be the one that took their parents and that it had remained in the material world for centuries.

• Hao Ren and Nangong May rushed the feverish, radiation-poisoned Nangong Sanba into the house and had the Data Terminal treat him in the medical pod.
• Nangong Sanba recovered enough to explain that he had encountered a Wrath Spirit while investigating a Russian tycoon’s family haunting.
• Nangong Sanba told May that the spirit’s aura resembled the one he had sensed when their parents were taken.
• Nangong Sanba said the Wrath Spirit’s lair was in Siberia and that he had escaped after losing to it by using a forbidden teleportation technique.

After Nangong Sanba told Hao Ren and the others about his battle with a powerful Wrath Spirit, they gathered a group to help investigate it. The group teleported to Siberia, where they set out to find the creature.

• Nangong Sanba explained that he had fought the Wrath Spirit the previous night and escaped after preparing his secret art to reach Nangong May.
• Nangong May decided to go after the Wrath Spirit, and Hao Ren agreed to accompany her as part of his work.
• Vivian, Lily, and Becky joined the expedition, while Izax stayed home with Elizabeth.
• Hao Ren used the Data Terminal to teleport the group to Siberia, where they began searching for the Wrath Spirit.

Hao Ren and his companions traveled across Siberia’s frozen wilderness to investigate the wrathful spirit haunting Igor’s reclusive family. Nangong Sanba explained that the family had summoned the dead three centuries earlier, and the group reached their castle.

• Hao Ren brought Dodo along and conjured a spacious vehicle to carry the group across Siberia.
• Nangong Sanba told the others that Igor’s wealthy family had endured generations of supernatural deaths, illnesses, and disappearances.
• Nangong Sanba explained that the family had migrated to Siberia after summoning the dead three hundred years earlier.
• Hao Ren and his companions drove through the snowfields until Igor’s castle appeared ahead.

Hao Ren and Nangong Sanba arrived with their companions at the remote Andre family castle to continue investigating its evil spirit. They learned that Igor was away until the next day, while the ancestors’ portraits watched them with identical dark brown eyes.

• An old servant opened the castle gate for Nangong Sanba and was astonished when the tiny Bei Dou Xing arrived without leaving tracks in the snow.
• Hao Ren and the others entered the abandoned-looking courtyard and learned that Igor had left to visit a hermit friend and would return the next day.
• The butler told Nangong Sanba that the evil spirit had not appeared since the basement explosion and that the underground gate had been sealed again.
• Nangong Sanba told the butler that his companions were stronger fighters and that the evil spirit was near defeat.
• Hao Ren noticed that the Andre family portraits seemed to follow the visitors and that every ancestor had identical dark brown eyes.

While investigating the Andre family’s castle, Hao Ren discovered a portrait labeled “Witch” and encountered a strange young woman who linked the family’s curse to its last male heir. The woman warned that the prison beneath the castle was collapsing, leaving the source of the curse and the danger to the family unresolved.

• Nangong Sanba explained that generations of servants had worked for the Andre family, though some had died or fled the castle.
• Vivian sensed an angry spirit beneath the castle and said the building felt familiar, while Lily and Becky reacted to the cold.
• Hao Ren explored the corridor and found a full-body portrait of a veiled woman labeled “Witch” ahead of the Andre ancestors’ portraits.
• Hao Ren heard a violent commotion upstairs that ended with the sound of a heavy iron door closing.
• A pale young woman told Hao Ren the disturbance involved her younger brother, the Andre family’s last male heir, and claimed the Witch would not spare the family or its visitors.
• The young woman muttered that the family’s money was cursed and warned that the prison was collapsing before she walked away.

Hao Ren learned more about the Andre family's hereditary madness and the wrathful spirit sealed beneath their castle. Vivian warned that the spirit's nature made it difficult to fight, leaving Hao Ren to consider the threat.

• Hao Ren encountered Anna in the corridor and later told Nangong Sanba about her.
• Nangong Sanba explained that the Andre descendants suffered madness until age eighteen and suspected the wrathful spirit possessed them while seeking escape.
• Nangong Sanba told Hao Ren that Anna remembered the castle's hidden history and that the mysterious Witch had appeared at the start of the Andre family's rise.
• Vivian returned from inspecting the castle and said its design sealed a powerful entity amid distorted space beneath it.
• Vivian explained that wrathful spirits were powerful energy forms with wills, feared no physical attacks, and had never been truly killed.

Igor returned to his castle and hosted Hao Ren’s group, while Nangong Sanba described their plan to confront the evil spirit. Anna warned Hao Ren that the Tanan were immortal and that their power could cause a catastrophe if the rift kept growing.

• Lily howled at Igor’s sled dogs, causing them to line up and howl back at the castle.
• Igor welcomed Nangong Sanba and his companions, then asked about the evil spirit and the curse haunting his family.
• Nangong Sanba claimed that he had weakened the evil spirit and brought powerful helpers from the East.
• Anna joined the meal and asked whether Akim could come downstairs to eat.
• Anna told Hao Ren that Tanagrus’s power had made every Tanan immortal and that enlarging the rift would lead to disaster.

Hao Ren and his companions learned how the Andre family summoned the evil spirit and followed Igor into the Underground Palace. Igor left them at the iron door where the spirit was gathering cold mist.

• Anna warned Hao Ren that Tanagrus and the Tanans had crossed a rift and could not be killed unless the treasures stolen three hundred years earlier were repaid.
• Igor said the Andre family's ancestor had received the Witch's Stone and an ancient spell from a witch, then used the spell to summon the evil spirit.
• A deep rumbling sounded beneath the castle, and Igor led Hao Ren and the others through a chapel entrance into the Underground Palace.
• As the group descended, Igor explained that the summoning ritual opened a rift to the abyss and that the Andre family had been cursed to remain in the castle.
• Igor left Hao Ren and the others at an iron door, where cold white mist began to gather.

Hao Ren and his companions entered the Underground Palace beneath Andre family castle and crossed into the angry spirit’s distorted territory. They fought off an apparition, but Vivian said it was only a phenomenon and the spirit’s true body remained unseen.

• Hao Ren pushed open the iron door, and Nangong Sanba warned the group that it marked the boundary between the human world and the angry spirit’s realm.
• Hao Ren and Becky shook off illusions in the corridor, while Lily struggled to see through them using her heightened senses.
• The corridor opened into a snow-covered expanse where Nangong Sanba confirmed that the group had crossed into the angry spirit’s territory.
• Nangong Sanba attacked a white apparition with a crossbow bolt and Holy Salt, but it charged at Hao Ren, who dispersed part of it with his service weapon.
• Vivian trapped the apparition in an electrical net of bats, then explained that it was only a phenomenon and that the angry spirit’s true body had not appeared.