Chapter Summaries

Christian’s forces held the Eastern Front against the Mist Lords, but the Yin Aspect Holy Son revealed that Iron Shield City had fallen to a surprise attack by the Blue Star Lord. The Mist Lords began retreating toward the capital, while Gudrian raced to intercept them.

• Hogg’s Original Blood Forest Giants retreated from the regenerating Troll Legion, and Flame Magi burned the trolls and trapped them behind walls of fire.
• The Troll Lord refused to reinforce his doomed legion as the battle consumed hundreds of thousands of troops, while Breni reported that fewer than three thousand Demon Knights remained.
• Christian ordered the Demon-Breaking Warriors to crush the Troll Witches’ magic and sent Kubo’s Magic Rune Knights and the remaining guns into battle.
• Christian’s army repelled Mad Bear Knights and a Black Blood ambush, though the attackers killed the recovering Curse Warlock Legion.
• The Yin Aspect Holy Son announced that Iron Shield City had fallen and ordered the Mist Lords to abandon supplies and retreat toward the capital.
• Gudrian led an army at full speed along the retreat route, determined to reach the Mist Lords before they escaped.

After Iron Shield City fell, the Mist Lord's army retreated, and Christian's forces pursued it while arranging an ambush along its escape route. The Yin Aspect Holy Son halted the Griffon Knights with a forbidden spell, but Gudrian's army blocked the road ahead, and Christian's Meteor Fire Rain began to answer his Thundercloud Storm.

• Yasis spotted the Mist Legion retreating and told Christian, who revealed that Iron Shield City had fallen and Gudrian was setting up blockades behind the enemy.
• Christian sent Yasis and the Griffon Knights to intercept the retreat, then led Lilith, Aria, and Helen to support Gudrian against the demigod-level demon dragon.
• The Yin Aspect Holy Son stayed behind to attack the Griffon Knights, killing many before they revived, but Yasis split his forces to go around the dragon.
• Christian and Lilith caught up with Yasis, while the Yin Aspect Holy Son rejoined his army and found Gudrian blocking its route with at least five hundred thousand troops.
• The Yin Aspect Holy Son cast the forbidden spell Thundercloud Storm at Gudrian, and Christian answered with the forbidden spell Meteor Fire Rain.

Fang Yuan’s forces annihilated the Mist Legion’s main army, and Christian proposed attacking the Royal City and Underground City at once. News that an unknown Blue Star lord had attacked the Royal City and that the northwestern fortress had exploded prompted Fang Yuan to order an assault, but he paused to show Lilith an image and ask whether it was an artifact.

• Kubo recounted how Lilith’s Forbidden Spell forced the demigod magic dragon to abandon its own, while Gudrian said he would have gladly died to defeat the Mist forces.
• Christian reported that Fang Yuan’s army had destroyed the Mist Legion at great cost, though the Mist Lord and other important leaders escaped to the Underground City.
• Christian proposed capturing the former Royal City and attacking the Underground City in parallel, and Fang Yuan considered her plan.
• A report from Vanas revealed that the northwestern ground fortress had exploded, and Yasis reported that an unidentified force, likely belonging to a Blue Star lord, was using a Forbidden Spell to breach the Royal City tribe.
• Fang Yuan ordered Christian to mobilize troops north and wipe out the intruders, then stopped him to show Lilith an image and ask whether it was an artifact.

Ryan, William, and Ren Yuan learned that Fang Yuan had won the Eastern Front battle and agreed to halt their covert land grab and offer him the Divine Artifact Fragment in exchange for his forgiveness. At Wasteland Territory, Lilith identified the artifact as the Plane Boundary Instrument and questioned why Blue Star possessed it.

• Ryan and William explained that their forces had secretly attacked the Windy Grassland to seize territory before negotiating with Fang Yuan, while Ren Yuan reminded them that they had contracted to give Fang Yuan the Divine Artifact.
• New reports revealed that Fang Yuan had defeated the Beastmen Legion, prompting Ryan and William to agree to stop advancing and let Ren Yuan deliver the artifact and negotiate with him.
• Ren Yuan said he had informed Fang Yuan of their offer and sent Zhao Zixiao to Gondor to convey it in person.
• Lilith examined the artifact at Wasteland Territory, identified it as the Plane Boundary Instrument, and asked why Blue Star possessed the Archmage Tower’s most important divine artifact.

Lilith explained that the Plane Boundary Instrument was a super divine artifact once used with the Archmage Tower to locate and invade other planes, and Fang Yuan recognized its potential for striking the Mist Main God's world in the future. After deciding to negotiate for it, Fang Yuan prepared to meet Zhao Zixiao, who arrived with a trade proposal.

• Lilith explained how the Plane Boundary Instrument enabled Archmage Towers to search for, locate, and invade other planes, and why the gods had never obtained one.
• Fang Yuan learned that Blue Star had used the Plane Boundary Instrument to close Spatial Rifts, while Lilith described its future value for expanding into other planes and possibly locating the Mist Main God's world.
• Fang Yuan imagined using the artifact to raid the Mist Main God's home plane and decided Ren Yuan's offer of the royal capital's surrounding grasslands was too favorable to refuse.
• Fang Yuan planned to negotiate cautiously for the Plane Boundary Instrument and summoned Zhao Zixiao to discuss the trade.
• Zhao Zixiao arrived, announcing that he had a plan for the divine artifact trade.

Fang Yuan agreed to trade the royal capital territory of Windy Grassland for a Super Divine Artifact after Zhao Zixiao explained that Blue Star was splitting over the Evil God Faction. He proposed a settlement for Blue Star’s opposing factions and a joint assault on the Magic Dragon Underground City, while the defeated Yin Aspect Holy Son decided the city was no longer safe.

• Zhao Zixiao asked whether Fang Yuan truly intended to trade Windy Grassland, and Fang Yuan confirmed he wanted the Super Divine Artifact.
• Zhao Zixiao explained that Evil Gods were drawing Blue Star lords and nations into their faction, prompting countries to seek territory where opponents could relocate and gain strength.
• Fang Yuan agreed to the exchange, rejected Zhao Zixiao’s proposal to divide the territory in a way that would foment factional conflict, and claimed the northeastern area for his alliance.
• Fang Yuan offered the northwestern grassland and the Underground City to Blue Star, proposing that the factions build a fortress and split the city after capturing it.
• Zhao Zixiao praised Fang Yuan’s benevolence and left to relay the proposal, while Fang Yuan blushed at the praise.
• In the Magic Dragon Underground City, the defeated Yin Aspect Holy Son declared that the place was no longer safe to remain in.

Yin Aspect Holy Son ordered a retreat from Gandor to the Duchy of Port after Fang Yuan’s forces drove his armies to the brink of defeat. He left the Mind Flayer Great Elder in command to slow the Blue Star Lords while he planned to rebuild and seek revenge.

• Yin Aspect Holy Son described the collapse of his forces in Windy Grassland and ordered the retreat from Gandor.
• He assigned the Underground City and other territories to resist Fang Yuan, explaining how their forces would harass the Blue Star armies and preserve the route to awaken the Sea God.
• Yin Aspect Holy Son chose the Duchy of Port as the retreat’s destination because it had few Blue Star forces and offered a path toward the Storm Empire and the Central Continent.
• He appointed the Mind Flayer Great Elder to command the remaining forces around Gandor and hold back Fang Yuan’s invasion.
• Yin Aspect Holy Son vowed to rebuild his army in Port, conquer Middle-earth, and return to defeat Fang Yuan.
• He ordered the Black Blood Sword Saint, Harpies, trolls, and evil eyes to transfer their territories and legions to the Mind Flayer before teleporting with him to Port.

Zhao Zixiao negotiated Fang Yuan’s terms for opening the northwest and Underground City to Blue Star’s three factions, securing two Orange Castle Building Cards and a divine artifact in exchange. After signing the contract, Fang Yuan began reading Ren Yuan’s Notes about the artifact and found their contents strange.

• At the Union Building, Ryan and William demanded that Fang Yuan help conquer the offered territories, but Ren Yuan rejected their demand and Zhao Zixiao laid out Fang Yuan’s conditions.
• After initially opposing the return of territory near the Norton Mountain Range, Ryan, William, and Ren Yuan agreed to the terms and provided two Orange Castle Building Cards and a signed contract for the divine artifact.
• Ren Yuan warned that the Evil Gods’ revival was accelerating, and the three representatives discussed screening and relocating lords as factional conflict grew.
• Fang Yuan assigned Zhao Zixiao to take over northwest fortresses and form an alliance among the incoming lords in the Windy Grassland.
• Fang Yuan checked the contract, signed it, and received the divine artifact and Ren Yuan’s Notes; after reading the notes, he called for Lilith.

Fang Yuan and Lilith deduced that a hidden archmage may have opened the channel between Blue Star and the Old Continent to fuse the worlds and claim the Creation Magic Rune. They left the identity and location of the archmage unresolved, while Fang Yuan resolved to strengthen Wasteland Territory and pursue True God status.

• Fang Yuan and Lilith compared the dates of the Plane Boundary Instrument and Blue Star’s history, concluding that the timelines suggested the channel had opened earlier than recorded.
• Lilith proposed that a lost Archmage Tower from another world had opened the channel, and she suspected its archmage was manipulating Blue Star’s Lord’s Marks to drive humanity into the Old Continent.
• Lilith reasoned that the archmage aimed to fuse Blue Star and the Old Continent, create a new world, and claim its Creation Magic Rune to become a creation archmage.
• Fang Yuan and Lilith discussed the danger posed by the hidden archmage, but the Plane Boundary Instrument’s panel revealed no useful information about its purpose or the archmage’s location.
• Lilith urged Fang Yuan to focus on growing stronger, explaining that Blue Star Lords might have a special chance to obtain the Godhead of the Creation God.
• Fang Yuan ordered all heroes back to the Lord’s Hall and resolved to reach level thirty and become a True God Lord.

Fang Yuan discussed how to obtain a Greater Divine Power Godhead and chose to focus on the Norton Mountain Range while sending Lilith to investigate the ruined Mage Tower. After buying Whispering Poem Chapter Two, he unlocked a new Orange Secret Realm quest and received a Secret Realm Magic Crystal.

• Christian explained that Greater Divine Power Godheads belonged to powerful gods from the Sub-deity Era and the Ringed Divine Seat, but Fang Yuan was not strong enough to hunt them yet.
• Fang Yuan selected the Green Dragon King's godhead in the Norton Mountain Range as his main target and ordered Lilith, Vivian, and Breni to explore the ruined Mage Tower on the Bloody Wasteland.
• Fang Yuan decided to pursue unfinished high-level quests while waiting for the Mage Tower expedition.
• Fang Yuan searched for a Secret Realm Magic Crystal to continue the Gondor XII quest but found none on the market.
• Fang Yuan bought Whispering Poem Chapter Two for three million gold coins, updating Whispers of the Black Mist Stone Forest and unlocking The Truth Behind the Black Mist Stone Forest, along with an Orange Secret Realm Magic Crystal.

Fang Yuan decided to investigate the dangerous Black Mist Stone Forest and arranged to strengthen his territory’s defenses before entering the Secret Realm. He built a Diat Crossbow Castle near Gandor and used the Dragon Rider's Broken Poison Spear at the Hero Altar to try to awaken an archer hero, leaving the result unknown.

• Fang Yuan accepted Christian’s argument that the Black Mist Stone Forest threatened the Northern Territory and decided to investigate it, first arranging for Christian to choose which heroes would stay behind.
• Fang Yuan chose to place the Diat Crossbow Castle at the former Royal Capital of Gandor and the Armored Corps Castle near the passage to the West Coast Plains.
• Fang Yuan constructed the Diat Crossbow Castle and discovered that it could produce Diat Longbowmen, Diat Arbalesters, and Diat Ballista Operators.
• Fang Yuan searched his curios for an archer hero and selected the Dragon Rider's Broken Poison Spear, which could awaken a hero skilled with bows and spears.
• Fang Yuan went to the Hero Altar and approached the Sage Stone Slab with the curio, ready to attempt the summoning.

Fang Yuan recruited the Gold Unit Black Soul Envoy, Aye Loyes, and discovered its powerful soul-based abilities. Christian identified the hero as a member of the Black Soul Race, invaders from the Black Soul Realm.

• Fang Yuan summoned and recruited Aye Loyes, the Black Soul Envoy, as a Golden Legendary hero.
• Fang Yuan examined Aye Loyes's skills, learning that it could collect souls to boost its attributes, split into bodies, attack many targets, and burn enemy souls.
• Fang Yuan judged Aye Loyes to be a powerful but fragile ranged hero and planned to equip it and station it at the outer castle.
• Christian saw Aye Loyes, pulled Fang Yuan behind her, and warned that it belonged to the Black Soul Race, an invader civilization from the Black Soul Realm.

Fang Yuan questioned the newly recruited Black Soul Envoy’s origins, and Helen explained that he was an elf transformed by the Black Soul and studied in Archmage City. When Fang Yuan gave him the painting of the Terrifying Library to absorb, it turned into a monstrous mouth and swallowed him.

• Christian warned Fang Yuan that the Black Soul Envoy might be a dangerous outsider, but the envoy claimed that the Black Soul Race came from Old Continent Civilization.
• Fang Yuan summoned Helen, who explained that the Black Soul Envoys were elves assimilated by the Black Soul and that mages had studied and imprisoned them.
• Helen revealed that a surviving Black Soul Envoy could resonate with items from the Calamity World, prompting Fang Yuan to take out the Terrifying Library painting.
• The Black Soul Envoy’s power surged at the sight of the painting, and he asked Fang Yuan to let him absorb it.
• Fang Yuan handed over the painting, raising the envoy’s loyalty by twenty points, but the painting became a toothed mouth and swallowed him.

Fang Yuan organized the heroes and legions for the Black Mist Stone Forest secret realm while the Black Soul Envoy absorbed power and evolved. The envoy emerged as a level-ten Golden Special Grade Terror Shooter, ready to join the expedition.

• Helen suspected the Black Soul Envoy was absorbing power from the Terror World, and Fang Yuan agreed it might be evolving rather than dying.
• Fang Yuan and Christian planned the realm expedition and assigned heroes to guard the territory, with Christian, Harold, Fiona, Babas, Qing Feng, and Vanas accompanying Fang Yuan.
• Christian proposed sending scouts and patrol fleets to map the western plains, eastern undead territory, and coastlines, and Fang Yuan approved.
• Fang Yuan reviewed Iron Shield City's units and lamented that its Dragon Riders and Shaman Mages had been lost when their production sites were bombed.
• The Black Soul Envoy absorbed power from the Terrifying Library and mutated into a level-ten Golden Special Grade Terror Shooter, awakening Terror Domain.

Loyes transformed into a Level 10 Golden Legendary Terror Shooter whose skills could restrain creatures from the Terror World, the Calamity, and the Black Soul Realm. She also revealed how Fang Yuan could summon the Nightmare Legion, but he set that quest aside and entered the Black Mist Stone Forest mystic realm.

• Loyes regained her elf appearance and memories after absorbing power, and Fang Yuan learned her new Terror Domain could strengthen and revive Terror Puppets while countering hostile worlds.
• Fang Yuan decided to bring Loyes to the truth quest in the Black Mist Stone Forest, and Christian reported that the legion was assembled.
• Loyes recognized Phila the Unicorn and explained that the Unicorn's Horn and Pegasus Wings could summon the Nightmare Legion from the Galloping Horse Grassland.
• The Lord's Mark revealed a hidden quest to summon the Nightmare Legion, which Fang Yuan postponed while he focused on the mystic realm.
• Fang Yuan activated the Secret Realm Source Crystal, opened the gate to the mystic realm, and prepared to enter with Christian and the heroes.

The Mind Flayer Great Elder planned to delay Fang Yuan by exploiting divisions among Blue Star’s people and drawing Evil God factions into conflict with him. Meanwhile, Fang Yuan entered a secret realm and received its main quest and an optional branch unlocked by his Gondor Kingdom Reputation.

• The Mind Flayer Great Elder gathered his remaining forces in hidden strongholds and chose to avoid a direct fight with Fang Yuan.
• An Adventist Lord explained how the Evil Gods had gained millions of believers on Blue Star and how their factions were deepening divisions there.
• The Mind Flayer Great Elder ordered a campaign of misinformation to stir resentment over Fang Yuan’s control of Gondor and pressure the Windy Grassland Lords.
• The Mind Flayer Great Elder also directed the Adventist Lord to draw Sea God believers toward the West Coast Plains and provoke them into fighting Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan entered a secret realm and received a thirty-day quest to investigate the Black Mist Stone Forest, along with an offer to spend reputation on a quest to defeat the Ogre Monarch.

Fang Yuan’s forces discovered they had traveled to Gondor’s early history and set out to eliminate the Ogre Monarch while scouts searched for clues about the Black Mist Stone Forest. After rescuing mercenaries at an outpost, Fang Yuan received a new escort quest and unlocked a third War Lord talent skill.

• Fang Yuan and his heroes studied a map and concluded they were in the Northern Territory shortly after Gondor’s establishment, during the First Racial War.
• Fang Yuan sent Vanas and Qing Feng to scout for information while he, Christian, Fiona, and Loyes headed toward the Ogre Forest.
• Fang Yuan’s group found the Ogre Monarch’s organized, well-equipped forces and decided to work with Sir Bode’s mercenary forces rather than expose their Magic Crystal Cannons.
• Fiona led five hundred Sword and Shield Guards in an attack that defeated the ogres surrounding an outpost and rescued the Wolf of the Storm Mercenary Group.
• The rescued mercenaries asked to be escorted to Sir Bode’s territory, activating a side quest, while Fang Yuan’s War Lord talent reached Level Three and unlocked its third skill.

Fang Yuan gained the War Lord skill Earth Splitter Slash and chose to escort the watchtower mercenaries to Bode Territory rather than interrogate them. Meanwhile, Qing Feng and Vanas found a fight that exposed a clue about the Black Mist Stone Forest, and Qing Feng struck down the Harvest Church warriors before they could kill the informant.

• Fang Yuan unlocked Earth Splitter Slash, a skill that could stun and slow targets and could be used by any troop type.
• After Christian advised against torturing the mercenaries, Fang Yuan ordered them escorted to Bode Territory to qualify for membership and seek information.
• Qing Feng and Vanas finished scouting Bode Territory and traveled toward Harvest Town with the Windwalker Hunters.
• Vanas's Wilderness Companion found Bode Klein confronting Harvest Church warriors, who accused him of investigating their secrets and obstructing their plan with the Ogre Monarch.
• A voice called for Qing Feng to save the clue, and she appeared behind the Harvest Church warriors and killed more than a dozen of them.

Aman investigated Klein’s disappearance and the ogres’ unusual attacks on the frontier watchtowers while political conflict within the Bode Family intensified. Helsin dispatched a thousand cavalrymen to ambush the returning patrol, but Fang Yuan’s forces discovered them and quietly prepared to surround them.

• Aman asked James and Helsin about Klein, who had left for Harvest Town three days earlier and had not returned, while James and Helsin argued over rumors of treachery.
• James reported that ogres had launched a strange counterattack against the watchtowers, and Aman ordered cavalry to inspect the checkpoints for reliable intelligence.
• Helsin learned that the patrol had defeated the ogres and was returning toward Glimmering City, then ordered a thousand of his father’s Guard Cavalry to ambush and eliminate them.
• Fang Yuan traveled with Christian and the patrol mercenaries toward Glimmering City, accompanied by thousands of elite troops while Loyes and Fiona guarded them separately.
• Fiona spotted masked cavalry lying in ambush ahead, and Fang Yuan agreed with Christian’s advice to surround them quietly before deciding whether to attack.

Fang Yuan’s army defeated the Bode Family’s elite Guard Knights, then entered Bode Territory under the guise of mercenaries. Christian later reported that Qing Feng and Vanas had found the youngest Bode son, who warned them that a disaster planned by the Harvest Evil God’s followers was about to engulf the North.

• The Guard Knights’ commander ignored warnings and led more than a thousand cavalrymen in a charge against Fang Yuan’s Heavy Infantry, and the entire force was slaughtered.
• Fang Yuan questioned the captured household official, then had Christian kill him when the Lord’s Mark showed he was not the person Fang Yuan sought.
• Fang Yuan’s army reached Trade City, where Aman Bode welcomed them as a mercenary group and granted Fang Yuan the title of Knight Bachelor.
• Fang Yuan refused Aman’s invitation to enter Glimmering City and stationed his army outside while he waited for orders.
• Christian reported that Qing Feng and Vanas had found a clue to the main quest and brought back the youngest son of the Bode Family, who warned of a coming disaster tied to the Harvest Evil God’s followers.