Chapter Summaries

Zhao Zixiao watched Fang Yuan’s forces rescue the Zixiao Alliance and drive back the undead, while Fang Yuan received reports of threats across his territory and began upgrading his main city to Level Nine. The upgrade started with a completion time of nine months.

• Fang Yuan’s reinforcements routed the undead at the Zixiao Alliance, and Zhao Zixiao ordered his lords to assess casualties, repair the headquarters, and recall those who had left.
• Lilith reported that Christian had cut off the undead’s retreat near the Rainbow Cloud Alliance, and Fang Yuan planned to capture the area and build a branch city.
• Lilith briefed Fang Yuan on attacks near Blackwater City, Voodoo Castle, and Golden Flower Pioneer Castle, and Fang Yuan planned defenses while prioritizing a Level Nine Main City.
• Fang Yuan used forty Orange Source Crystals to meet the city upgrade requirement and began upgrading his main city to Level Nine, which was scheduled to take nine months.

Fang Yuan upgraded his main city to Level Nine, gaining new functions but facing steep maintenance costs and expensive Orange Source Crystals for further upgrades. As he planned which buildings to improve first, Xu Fei sent him six Orange Magic Runes that could each raise a building by one level.

• Fang Yuan used Mobilization Orders to upgrade his main city to Level Nine, unlocking Hardened Roads and increasing its durability, prosperity, population, building slots, and influence.
• Fang Yuan reviewed the new daily maintenance costs and decided that Hardened Roads were worth building because they cleared fog, sped up travel, and could replace costly Great Bonfires.
• Fang Yuan calculated that upgrading his Orange buildings would require at least a thousand Orange Source Crystals, which would cost 45 billion gold coins, and decided to prioritize a few important barracks.
• Xu Fei offered to take Fang Yuan's War Tree Seeds and said he had found Orange upgrade magic runes after breaking through an Elf Temple in the Silver Moon Forest.
• Xu Fei sent Fang Yuan six one-time Orange building magic runes, and Fang Yuan realized each one could directly increase a building's level by one.

Fang Yuan traded mobilization orders for upgrade magic runes, upgraded several military territories and castles, and reinforced the Southern Border after learning its forces had suffered heavy losses. He then tried to recruit a rare hero at the newly upgraded altar, where an armored figure asked whether Lilith had joined his forces.

• Fang Yuan traded his Purple and Orange Tier 8 Mobilization Orders to Xu Fei for six Orange Upgrade Magic Runes and advice about class advancement.
• Fang Yuan used the runes to upgrade Voodoo Castle and Blackwater City to Level 9, then bought Orange Source Crystals to upgrade Lamo City and Griffon Castle.
• Fang Yuan discovered that Yasis's Griffon Knights and Golden Wind Thunder Sword Guards had been nearly wiped out while helping the Holy Light Legion destroy a Golden Bone Dragon Legion.
• Fang Yuan produced 2,500 Level-Nine Griffon Knights, sent them and 30,000 Auxiliary Corps troops to the Southern Border, and upgraded Valley Garrison to Level 9.
• Fang Yuan upgraded the Hero Altar to Level 9 and used the Golden Curio: Furnace Heart to recruit a hero.
• An armored hero emerged and asked Fang Yuan whether Lilith had joined his forces.

Fang Yuan awakened Teacher Brute, a powerful Heroic Spirit connected to Lilith, and brought her to reunite with him. Before fading back into the River of Time, Teacher Brute warned them about Annihilation and helped awaken Valkyrie Aria, whose recruitment Fang Yuan was then offered.

• Fang Yuan learned that Teacher Brute could not be recruited with his current power, but promised to reveal a suitable Heroic Spirit if Fang Yuan brought Lilith to him.
• Fang Yuan teleported to the Lord's Hall, brought Lilith to the Hall of Heroes, and Lilith recognized the armored Heroic Spirit as her teacher, Teacher Brute.
• Teacher Brute told Lilith how the Black Tide had destroyed his mage legion and eventually killed him in another plane, and explained that the Black Tide and the Mist might be manifestations of the same threat.
• Lilith explained the destruction of the Old Continent and the Blue Star Civilization, and Teacher Brute concluded that a powerful existence had prevented their civilization from being devoured.
• As his awakening faded, Teacher Brute warned Lilith that Annihilation threatened all planes and that civilizations needed to strengthen their Civilization Fire enough to produce a God King.
• Teacher Brute pulled a golden Heroic Spirit from the River of Time before vanishing, and Fang Yuan received a notification that Valkyrie Aria had agreed to recruitment.

Fang Yuan recruited Valkyrie Aria, a powerful Golden Hero tied to the Golden Flower Family, and assigned her to defend Golden Flower Pioneer Castle against the orcs. After learning that Christian and Vivian had destroyed a fleeing undead army, he prepared to attack the undead at the Rainbow Cloud Alliance stronghold and investigate enemy forces across the Lamo River.

• Fang Yuan recruited Valkyrie Aria and discovered her maxed attributes, high loyalty, and devastating combat skills.
• Fang Yuan ordered Aria to take 300 Demon-Breaking Warriors to Golden Flower Pioneer Castle, where she would command the local legions and hold off the orcs.
• Aria agreed to defend the castle and wait until Fang Yuan defeated the Mist Legion before engaging the orcs.
• A Griffon Knight reported that Christian and Vivian had annihilated the fleeing undead army and were preparing to attack the undead at the Rainbow Cloud Alliance stronghold.
• Fang Yuan sent a messenger to Lamo City to learn about the undead army gathering on the east bank of the Lamo River.

The Undead Archmage launched a major assault across the Lamo River to force Fang Yuan to divert troops, while Breni’s defenders fought through three defensive lines. Fang Yuan reinforced Lamo City, then used his Blessing talent and obtained an Orange Rare Astrology Stone Plate.

• The Undead Archmage ordered low-level undead, Gargoyles, and Ghouls to cross the Lamo River while stronger forces held back.
• Breni’s defenders lost the first two defensive lines, then fought the undead at a prepared third battlefield as the Undead Archmage committed Abominations and Undead Knights.
• Fang Yuan sent Demon Knights, Holy Light troops, Flame Magi, and Dragon Hunters to reinforce Lamo City and Voodoo Castle.
• Fang Yuan used his Blessing talent and received the Orange Rare item Astrology Stone Plate.

Fang Yuan used the Astrology Stone Plate and learned that the undead were buying time to use a rule item, then suspected it could awaken the neutral cities of Gondor. As the threat mounted and the Rainbow Cloud Alliance base remained difficult to capture, he opened a Golden Treasure Chest and obtained a Divine Artifact Fragment that might help suppress the undead.

• Fang Yuan divined that the undead were buying time to use a rule item, but the Astrology Stone Plate could not answer his follow-up questions.
• Fang Yuan learned that a neutral Military City had attacked and wiped out the Demon Quelling Alliance's archer unit, and he feared the rule item might turn neutral forces against the Blue Star Lords.
• Lilith explained the danger posed by Gondor's neutral armies and Magic Crystal Gun Legions, then outlined possible ways to counter them.
• Fang Yuan decided to speed up Christian's capture of the Rainbow Cloud Alliance base before the rule item could take effect, despite its undead arrow towers slowing the advance.
• Fang Yuan opened the Golden Treasure Chest and obtained a Divine Artifact Fragment: Book of Holy Light (Purification).

Fang Yuan sent Christian a Book of Holy Light fragment to help destroy the undead at Rainbow Cloud Alliance’s valley. As the Zixiao Alliance prepared to pledge allegiance to Fang Yuan, Lin Ying warned that Gondor faced a coming war between Demigods, but Christian received 150,000 reinforcements and promised good news within two hours.

• Fang Yuan sent Christian the Purification Fragment of the Book of Holy Light and ordered her to eliminate the undead quickly.
• Zhao Zixiao appointed Zhao Sheng as the Zixiao Alliance’s new leader, ordered him to pledge allegiance to Fang Yuan, and prepared to return to Blue Star.
• Lin Ying told Zhao Zixiao that Blue Star was abandoning Gondor because a Demigod Peak dragon had awakened underground and Demigod orcs were also emerging, but Zhao Zixiao refused to leave.
• Lin Ying failed to persuade the other alliance leaders and led the Vermilion Bird Nirvana Alliance out of Gondor.
• Christian received Fang Yuan’s fragment and learned that Zhao Sheng was bringing 150,000 elite troops to reinforce the valley.
• Christian planned to use Purification against the undead and told Fang Yuan to expect good news in two hours.

Christian led the allied armies to destroy the Great Necropolis and defeat the undead in the southern region in two hours. After learning of the victory, Fang Yuan realized the captured Rainbow Cloud Alliance garrison could serve as the site for his first branch city.

• Christian divided the armies into four forces and led the attack into the Undead Valley, where holy light weakened the undead and stopped their resurrection.
• At the Lamo River, the Undead Archmage suspected Fang Yuan knew the undead’s objective and sent more low-level undead to attack instead of risking his elite forces.
• Christian and Vivian destroyed the Great Necropolis’s outer walls, and Christian’s detection skill weakened the high-level undead as the Holy Light Legion cleared the stronghold.
• Christian’s forces destroyed the Great Necropolis’s Source Crystal Core, while Yasis and the Zixiao Alliance troops reported that they had captured the flanks and collected the spoils.
• Fang Yuan received Lin Ying’s warning that a Demigod Level demonic dragon had awakened but dismissed her evacuation invitation and considered capturing the dragon.
• A messenger reported Christian’s victory to Fang Yuan, who realized the former Rainbow Cloud Alliance garrison could become his first branch city.

Fang Yuan agreed to let Zhao Zixiao move his cities into the Baron Territory and received a trove of powerful treasures from him. As Christian returned from battle, reports arrived that neutral armies were mobilizing around the Northern Territory Defense Line and the Military City.

• Zhao Zixiao asked Fang Yuan to protect him by moving his Main City and Branch City into the Baron Territory, and Fang Yuan agreed to their placement.
• Zhao Zixiao warned Fang Yuan that a demigod-level dragon had awakened in the Northern Territory's Underground City, and Fang Yuan said he could handle it.
• Zhao Zixiao gave Fang Yuan ten treasures, including 500 Golden Source Crystals, a Flamingo Feather, five arrow-tower Building Cards, and the Heart of Mad Wolf.
• Fang Yuan recognized the Heart of Mad Wolf as one of the items needed to create the Golden Unit Savage Berserker and stored Zhao Zixiao's treasures.
• Christian returned with the expeditionary army, and the spoils of war were sent to the warehouse.
• Reports said neutral armies had left the Northern Territory Defense Line and that armies from the Military City had occupied the surrounding territory.

Fang Yuan traded his Undead Items for a Golden Branch City Construction Blueprint and Holy Water, then arranged to cleanse southern Resource Points and distribute spoils to the Zixiao Alliance. At Golden Flower Pioneer Territory, Christian and Aria began a coordinated attack on the Beastmen Legion to reclaim the fortress.

• Fang Yuan traded all his specified Undead Items for a Golden Branch City Construction Blueprint and ten bottles of Holy Water, then learned the blueprint might produce a Golden Magic Rune and that branch cities could not be relocated.
• Fang Yuan gave the Holy Water to a Griffon Knight to deliver to Yasis and ordered him to cleanse all high-level Resource Points in the southern region.
• Fang Yuan allocated the Zixiao Alliance thirty percent of the resources and gold coins, gave Zhao Zixiao the spoils, and began upgrading the main city's buildings.
• Christian and Aria agreed to attack the Beastmen Legion, with Christian leading the infantry in a frontal assault and Aria taking the Guardian Knights through an underground passage to flank them.
• Christian assembled the rank-nine-and-above soldiers while Aria led the Guardian Knights toward the defensive wall, beginning the battle to reclaim Golden Flower Pioneer Castle.

Aria led the Guardian Knights to the battlefield and prepared a surprise cavalry attack while Christian’s outnumbered army fought the Beastmen Legion. After Christian’s forces were surrounded, Aria’s charge broke the beastmen’s formation, and Christian killed their commander, deciding the battle.

• Aria led the Guardian Knights through the ruined Golden Flower territory and scouted the Beastmen Legion’s formations.
• Aria ordered the Guardian Knights to form an Iron Hammer and wait for her signal while Christian’s forces began fighting the beastmen.
• The beastmen wiped out Christian’s cannon fodder and pressed her smaller main force, but the Demon-Breaking Warriors turned the Foxman Mages’ spells against them.
• The beastmen surrounded Christian and her 300 Demon-Breaking Warriors after their commander sent in the central army.
• Aria led tens of thousands of Guardian Knights in a cavalry charge that shattered the beastmen’s formation.
• Christian rode to the beastmen commander and killed him with her transformed Light Elf, deciding the battle.

Fang Yuan upgraded the Glimmering Magic Tower into a level-nine Golden Flame Demon Curse Tower, then considered upgrading his Orange barracks but lacked enough Orange Source Crystals. After Christian and Aria defeated a Beastmen Legion, Fang Yuan sold its spoils through the Trade Market and received an immediate message from Liu Zhenhan.

• Fang Yuan upgraded his non-Orange buildings to level nine and decided the Glimmering Magic Tower could be repurposed.
• Fang Yuan used the Golden Magic Rune, Flame Demon's Lethal Curse, to turn the Glimmering Magic Tower into a level-nine Flame Demon Curse Tower that inherited some of its original skills.
• Fang Yuan regretted not using an Orange or stronger defense tower as the upgrade material, but was pleased to discover the Golden tower's powerful fire amplification, mana recovery, and Flame Magic Orb skills.
• Fang Yuan counted the Orange Source Crystals needed to upgrade eight Orange barracks and found he was 370 short.
• A Griffin messenger reported that Christian and Aria had annihilated the Beastmen Legion near Golden Flower Pioneer Castle; Fang Yuan recovered fifteen Orange Source Crystals and other spoils from their haul.
• Fang Yuan listed Beastmen Faction items for sale and contacted Liu Zhenhan, who immediately replied, calling him Boss.

Fang Yuan advised Liu Zhenhan to retreat into the Norton Mountain Range and traded him Orange Source Crystals, then used his resources to upgrade his territory and the Demon-Breaking Warrior Camp. The chapter ended with news that Aria had captured an orc forward encampment and was being pursued by the Golden Legion's Wyvern Riders.

• Liu Zhenhan told Fang Yuan that Beastmen and the Hydra Alliance had overwhelmed his forces, and Fang Yuan ordered him to retreat into the Norton Mountain Range.
• Liu Zhenhan traded Fang Yuan 500 Orange Source Crystals and promised to withdraw his alliance.
• Fang Yuan upgraded his territory's buildings and units, then raised the Demon-Breaking Warrior Camp to level nine after it gained the Magic Suppression Domain skill.
• Fang Yuan upgraded the Golden Rune of All-System Amplification to level two and prepared to use harvested items to strengthen his heroes.
• Fang Yuan checked the battle report and learned that Aria had captured an orc forward encampment and that the Golden Legion had sent Wyvern Riders after her.

Fang Yuan built and upgraded Bloodline Castle on the Windy Grassland after Christian warned him of an advancing Beastmen Legion. He selected five bloodline units and accepted Zhao Zixiao’s 500 Orange Source Crystals in exchange for a strategic blueprint; as the castle reached Level Nine, the Wyvern Riders returned to find their home gone.

• Christian urged Fang Yuan to build and reinforce a forward stronghold, warning that a Beastmen Legion was approaching Golden Flower Pioneer Castle and that an unusual power was emerging on the grassland.
• Fang Yuan built Bloodline Castle and selected Original Blood Forest Giants, Azure Wind Knights, Rage Water Storm Riders, Tiger Tribe Barbarian Warriors, and Elf Archers as its five unit types.
• Fang Yuan handed Zhao Zixiao the First Generation Magic Crystal Gun blueprint to take to Blue Star for an exchange, and Zhao explained its strategic value as a source of foundational Old Continent technology.
• Zhao Zixiao gave Fang Yuan his remaining 500 Orange Source Crystals before leaving to return to Blue Star and help restore Gondor’s Two Realms Teleportation Array.
• Fang Yuan used the crystals to upgrade Bloodline Castle to Level Nine, while the returning Wyvern Riders discovered that their home had disappeared.

Fang Yuan strengthened Bloodline Castle’s defenses as Christian and Lilith assessed the Beastmen threat, then Aria returned with news that their main force was gathering to attack the Northern Territory Defense Line. Aria awakened the powerful War God Domain faction skill, but the chapter ended with intelligence that a huge cavalry force had surged out of Gondor Kingdom’s Royal City.

• Christian prepared Bloodline Castle for defense, and Fang Yuan arrived with Lilith and five arrow-tower Building Cards.
• Lilith warned that the Beastmen were gathering beyond the Northern Territory Defense Line and that more armies could threaten Bloodline Castle.
• Aria returned and reported that she had discovered more than three hundred thousand elite Beastmen, including Behemoths, gathering to attack the Northern Territory Defense Line.
• Fang Yuan assigned Aria to capture Marigold Pioneer Fortress and used an experience item and ten Elemental Source Crystals to raise her to level 10 and unlock War God Domain.
• A messenger delivered Lord Breni’s intelligence that a huge number of cavalry had surged out of Gondor Kingdom’s Royal City.

Fang Yuan faced attacks from awakened Gondor forces while the Mist Lords withdrew to pursue their hidden goal of obtaining a godhead. As Breni reported that the King of Gandor was leading an army north, Fang Yuan sent her to reinforce the fighting and advanced her to gold rank.

• Fas told the Mist Lords that Gondor's royal capital had awakened and outlined a plan to use the ensuing battles to draw out a godhead; the Mist Lords gathered their elites at his lair.
• Fang Yuan learned that neutral Gondor legions were attacking the Demon Suppression Alliance and that Breni had been defeated near Lamo City, so he conscripted troops and sent Lilith to reinforce the alliance.
• Fang Yuan received reports that the Mist Lord legions had withdrawn from Blackwater City and Voodoo Castle, and suspected they had another objective.
• Breni arrived and told Fang Yuan that the King's Imperial Guard had defeated her and that the King of Gandor was leading an elite army north toward the Northern Territory Defense Line.
• After Lamo City requested reinforcements, Fang Yuan ordered Breni to take command of troops and support the city, then gave her a golden Source of Divine Power Magic Rune.
• Breni absorbed the rune and advanced from Orange Hero to gold rank.

Fang Yuan ordered Lilith and Breni to seize a Military City after the Flame Magi gained flamingo mounts, while the two commanders launched their assault. Meanwhile, a Beastmen Elephant Legion appeared outside Bloodline Castle, and Christian called for reinforcements.

• Breni's evolved Demon Judgment required a contracted demon, and Fang Yuan hoped to find one despite the Abyssal Plane's disappearance.
• Fang Yuan used the Flamingo Feather to give the Flame Magi the Summon Flamingo Mount skill, then ordered Lilith and Breni to take the Military City.
• Lilith and Breni took command of the Demon Suppression Alliance's defense, and Breni led the Demon Knights to destroy the Gandor infantry outside the city.
• After Breni signaled that the first stage was complete, Lilith ordered the army to march on the Military City.
• A Beastmen Elephant Legion appeared outside Bloodline Castle, and Christian ordered the defenders to the walls and sent for Aria and reinforcements.

Aria left the workshop district to reinforce Christian at Bloodline Castle after Elephant Warriors appeared on the grassland. Christian and Aria destroyed the golden vanguard before its larger Beastmen Legion could arrive, and Fang Yuan received the Golden Token, Blade of the Elephant.

• Aria finished clearing the workshop district and learned that Elephant Warriors had appeared near Bloodline Castle.
• Christian discovered that roughly a thousand Elephant Warriors were bait for a Beastmen Legion of at least three hundred thousand approaching the castle.
• Aria arrived with more than ten thousand Guardian Knights, and she and Christian planned a coordinated attack on the Elephant Warriors.
• Christian shattered the Elephant Warriors' shield formation with a mounted dive, then cut down their soldiers with the Blade of Judgment.
• Aria led the Guardian Knights into the flank and wiped out the Elephant Warrior Legion in less than ten minutes.
• Fang Yuan received the Golden Token, Blade of the Elephant, for defeating the orc vanguard.

Fang Yuan decided to give the conquered Orange Military Territory and its spoils to the Demon Suppression Alliance in exchange for merit, while Breni prepared to assess Lamo City and warned that nearby armies could threaten the territory. The alliance hurried to gather its merit, and Lilith agreed to remain stationed there.

• Fang Yuan rejected occupying Baron Military Territory for himself and ordered the Orange territory and its ordinary Orange Hero Soul Fragments offered to the Demon Suppression Alliance through merit exchange.
• Demon Suppression Alliance members recounted how Fang Yuan’s Mage Legion conquered the Orange Military Territory in under ten minutes using Meteor Fire Rain, flaming walls, and Flame Giants to carry cavalry over the walls.
• A messenger told Zhao Huaizhen that Fang Yuan was giving the alliance the Military Territory and its spoils, prompting Zhao Huaizhen to order everyone to gather their merit.
• Breni told Lilith she would check whether Lamo City was safe and might need support against the Gondor Royal Family’s elite army and demigod-level power.
• Lilith agreed to stay at the Military Territory, report to the lord, and pass on Breni’s suggestion that he capture the two nearby Military Territories if he had enough troops.