Chapter Summaries

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.

Hao Ren and his group explored the wrathful spirit’s twisted space beneath Andre Ancient Castle, where mysterious inscriptions turned out to be ordinary advertisements and transit signs. After they encountered a strange reflection of Lily and Hao Ren destroyed a forming spirit, unseen forces attacked them from every direction.

• Lily found writing on stone pillars, and the Data Terminal deciphered it as liquor advertisements and bus stop signs.
• Vivian explained that wrathful spirits left strange structures and writing behind, while Lily noticed the pillars were made of suspiciously soft material.
• The group ventured deeper into the snowy plain and found fragments of Andre Ancient Castle fused into the twisted space.
• Hao Ren opened a door resembling the entrance to his guest room and saw a vacant, insubstantial copy of Lily inside.
• The Data Terminal detected a forming mass of light, and Hao Ren destroyed it with his service pistol.
• Fog and mental screams swept in from all directions as a powerful energy field formed around the group.

Hao Ren and his companions fought the Wraith, whose storm and phantoms were manifestations of its distorted space. They weakened it with graviton bombs, but Vivian sensed that a nearby device reclaimed it, and a Demon Hunter named Bai Huo appeared.

• The Wraith surrounded Hao Ren and his companions with a blizzard, lightning, phantoms, and a growing tornado.
• Nangong Sanba and Vivian explained that Wraiths could only be weakened until they could be banished.
• Hao Ren gave the group graviton bombs, and they threw them into the storm, tearing apart the Wraith’s manifestations.
• The storm vanished, and Vivian realized something had reclaimed the weakened Wraith through a nearby prison and protective device.
• A white flame appeared, and Bai Huo stepped out, identifying herself as a Demon Hunter.

Hao Ren’s group encountered Bai Huo, a young Demon Hunter who proposed joining forces against the wraith beneath Andre Ancient Castle. Bai Huo led them to her shelter to explain what she knew about the sealed wraith.

• Bai Huo said the wraith was her prey and urged the group to cooperate because they were all trapped in the distorted space.
• Bai Huo noticed Nangong Sanba was a Demon Hunter traveling with Otherworldly creatures, and Hao Ren agreed to work with her.
• Vivian recognized Bai Huo as a gifted young Demon Hunter who had awakened an ancient bloodline, but Bai Huo had not considered that others might target her for it.
• Bai Huo led the group toward her shelter and explained that the wraith was considered harmless because it was sealed within the castle.
• Bai Huo said she had come to Andre Ancient Castle to train, since the wraith was not on the Demon Hunters’ official purification list.

Bai Huo led Hao Ren and the others to a hall preserved inside the wraith’s alternate space and shared what she knew about the Andre family’s past. When they uncovered a hidden portrait of the witch, Vivian recognized herself as the girl in it and remembered that she had lived there.

• Bai Huo explained that she had come to hunt the wraith, not to help the Andre family, and showed the group a hall she had been using as a camp.
• Bai Huo said an Andre ancestor had stolen a treasure called “wealth” from a witch, and Nangong May agreed that the family’s version of the story was likely false.
• Vivian said the ruined hall felt familiar, but she could not remember why.
• Lily found portraits of Andre ancestors, and Hao Ren realized the witch’s portrait that should have hung in the hall was missing.
• Becky found the witch’s portrait beneath Soul Sandstone, revealing a painting of Vivian.
• Vivian remembered that she had lived there.

Vivian remembered that she had once partnered with Andre and another merchant, then sealed the spirit of wrath in the underground space and gave her followers two stones she found there. She left the group with her memories restored and confidence that she understood the spirit of wrath.

• Vivian recognized herself in the Andre family portrait and recalled living there centuries earlier.
• Vivian remembered that Andre and another merchant had become her followers after she helped them fight werewolves, and that their wool business had ended in ruin and exile to Siberia.
• Vivian recalled finding and sealing the spirit of wrath in an underground cavern, then giving two stones from its nest to her followers.
• Vivian explained that she had fallen asleep after the sealing and forgotten her followers, while Bai Huo realized Vivian was the legendary Countess.
• Vivian said the stones likely explained the Andre family's later wealth, and Nangong Sanba suggested asking Igor about them before the snowstorm returned.
• Vivian declared that she now understood the spirit of wrath and its origins.