Chapter Summaries

The Mind Flayer Great Elder and Undead Archmage argued over how to resist Fang Yuan’s advances, then followed the Yin Aspect Holy Son’s orders to defend their territories and withdraw if necessary. When Fang Yuan’s Grey Dwarf Legion surrounded the Drow Elf Underground City, the Great Elder mobilized elite troops to protect it and its sealed avatar of Spider Queen Lolth.

• The Undead Archmage demanded troops to defend his attacked Great Necropolis, but the Mind Flayer Great Elder refused to move Magic Dragon Underground City’s forces and offered him fifty thousand Trolls instead.
• The Yin Aspect Holy Son ordered the Great Elder to evacuate Magic Dragon Underground City’s forces, defend underground, and retreat to the Duchy of Nott if they could no longer hold out; he told the Great Elder to let the Undead Archmage die.
• Fang Yuan’s Grey Dwarf Legion breached the Drow Elf Underground City’s outer defenses, destroyed its Spider Cavalry, and surrounded it with four hundred thousand heavy infantry.
• The Mind Flayer Great Elder ordered the vampires’ Shadow Cavalry and the Mind Flayer Mage Legion to reinforce the drow city because it contained a sealed, indestructible avatar of Spider Queen Lolth that could carry the city underground.

Fang Yuan prepared a Level Ten Paladin Castle and negotiated with Xu Fei for a Golden Source Crystal while seeking one more to upgrade his All-System Amplification Magic Rune. When the Undead Lord offered the final crystal in exchange for help clearing Rotten Castle, he also revealed a Power Gem that Fang Yuan recognized as the third gem for his Abomination Crystal Gloves.

• The Undead Archmage returned to the Great Necropolis, learned that Christian’s Holy Light Legion had taken a hill near Boneyard City, and ordered his remaining legions to defend it.
• Fang Yuan built and upgraded a Golden Paladin Castle at Christian’s position, then produced five thousand Golden Paladins to reinforce her forces.
• Fang Yuan declined Xu Fei’s offer to trade a rare dual-attribute Golden Source Crystal for ten crystals, but Xu Fei gave him the crystal and Fang Yuan repaid him with equipment and gold while promising him land on the eastern bank of the Lamo River.
• Lin Ying told Fang Yuan that the Four Sacred Alliances could not supply the restricted-attribute Golden Source Crystal he needed, so he contacted the Undead Lord, who offered one if Fang Yuan entered a Gold-grade secret realm and helped clear Rotten Castle.
• The Guardian Spirit of Marigold Castle explained Rotten Castle’s history and the possible rewards, prompting Fang Yuan to reconsider the expedition.
• The Undead Lord offered Fang Yuan a Power Gem as an additional incentive, and Fang Yuan recognized it as the third gem for his Abomination Crystal Gloves.

Fang Yuan fused a Power Gem into his Abomination Crystal Gloves, upgraded his Golden All-System Amplification Magic Rune, and built a Puppet Cage for capturing and controlling monsters. As Albert brought a Drow Monster Lord prisoner back for Fang Yuan, he received word of enemy reinforcements and prepared the Earth Dragon Legion for battle.

• Fang Yuan fused the Power Gem into his Abomination Crystal Gloves and gained Weightless Domain, which made nearby non-lords float and weakened physical and energy attacks.
• Fang Yuan used Golden Source Crystals and other resources to upgrade his Golden All-System Amplification Magic Rune to Level 3, increasing its amplification effect to threefold.
• Fang Yuan built the Puppet Cage and ordered Christian and Albert to capture Monster Lord prisoners for testing its Puppet Worms.
• Albert's Earth Dragon Legion defeated the Drow Spider Knights and captured their Monster Lord for Fang Yuan.
• Albert learned that Vampire Knights and Mind Flayer Mages were approaching the Drow Elf City, then ordered his forces to prepare for a decisive battle.

Fang Yuan used a Puppet Worm to parasitize a captured Drow Elf Monster Lord, discovering that she could control the mobile Drow Elf Underground City. He sent Qing Feng, Helen, and Servey to support Albert, whose forces were being overwhelmed by the Mind Flayer reinforcements.

• Fang Yuan ordered Vanas to investigate the battle at Blackwater City and locked the captured Drow Elf Monster Lord inside the Puppet Cage.
• A Puppet Worm parasitized the captive and transformed her into the Orange Rare unit Drow Elf Divine Official Servi, who retained her memories and skills.
• Servi revealed that the Drow Elf Underground City could be controlled through its temple and that its defenders might destroy it rather than let Fang Yuan claim it.
• Fang Yuan sent Qing Feng, Helen, and Servi to help Albert capture the city intact.
• Outside the Drow Elf City, the Mind Flayer Great Elder's forces gained the upper hand, isolating Albert's Earth Dragon Legion and controlling more of its knights.
• The Mind Flayer Great Elder ordered the city forces to attack the Grey Dwarf Infantry and support the decisive battlefield.

Albert transformed into a Black Dragon and summoned the Black Young Dragon Legion, turning the battle against the Mind Flayers and Drow around. As the enemy forces retreated, Helen, Qing Feng, and Servey led ten thousand Grey Dwarf knights to a secret passage into the Drow Elf City.

• Drow Spider Knights routed the Grey Dwarf Heavy Infantry, while the Mind Flayer Mage Legion forced Albert's Ground Dragon Legion to retreat.
• Seriya split her Drow forces to attack the Grey Dwarf Lizard Knights and capture Albert, hoping to exchange him for her sister Servey.
• With Drow Spider Knights closing in, Albert summoned the dragon soul and transformed into a Black Dragon, turning his Ground Dragon Legion into Black Young Dragons.
• The Black Young Dragons overwhelmed the Drow with poisonous acid and drove the Mind Flayers into retreat as Albert charged their ranks.
• Helen, Qing Feng, and Servey arrived with ten thousand Grey Dwarf knights and found a secret passage leading to the Drow Elf City temple.

Qing Feng and Helen tried to keep the retreating Drow and Mind Flayer forces from entering the city while Seriya took control of it. After receiving news of the victory, Fang Yuan considered seeking Beastmen Heroes in the Thunder Empire and planned a future journey there.

• Qing Feng and Helen led five thousand Grey Dwarf knights each to block the city gate while Seriya entered the Secret Passage to seize control of the city.
• Qing Feng attacked the retreating Drow Elf cavalry and Mind Flayers alone, while Helen strengthened her with powerful buffs.
• Fang Yuan considered using Puppet Worms on Beastmen Heroes and identified the Thunder Empire as a possible destination.
• Fang Yuan planned to travel through the Western Wasteland and Migration Canyon toward the Nossa Empire and then the Thunder Empire.
• Fang Yuan received notice that his legion had defeated the Drow Elf Underground City's defenders, Seriya had begun occupying it, and he had obtained Spider Queen Lolth's Mobile Underground City, sealed.

Fang Yuan learned that Lolth’s sealed Underground City could be controlled with Eilistraea’s godhead or temporarily unsealed with a Godhead Fragment, and he considered targeting awakened deities to obtain one. The chapter ended with a messenger reporting news about Lilith and the discovery of Warlock Jian.

• Fang Yuan reviewed the sealed Underground City’s panel and ordered Albert to continue pursuing the remaining underground forces, with Qing Feng and Seriya assisting.
• Fang Yuan sent messengers to check on Christian’s assault on the Great Necropolis and Lilith’s progress in the Bloody Wasteland.
• Helen explained Lolth and Eilistraea’s history and said the alchemist Clara might be able to create a new subordinate godhead from Lolth’s godhead.
• Fang Yuan asked Helen to identify nearby, vulnerable territories belonging to the ten awakened deities so he could seek a Godhead Fragment, while agreeing not to start a war yet.
• A messenger returned with news about Lady Lilith and reported that Warlock Jian had been found.

Fang Yuan learned that Lilith had found the living Warlock Jian inside a dangerous altar and ordered her to return. Meanwhile, Christian led a decisive assault that broke Boneyard City’s defenses, leaving the undead retreating toward the Great Necropolis.

• Fang Yuan ordered Lilith to stop exploring the altar and return to explain what she had found.
• Fang Yuan told Christian to press the attack on Boneyard City, promising to replace any losses.
• Christian refused reinforcements and led the Holy Light Legion, Griffon Knights, and airships in a final assault on the city.
• Christian reached Boneyard Wall, killed many necromancers, and struck the Undead Archmage, who escaped after his skull was crushed.
• With their leader gone, the undead fell into chaos and the bone dragons fled, while Christian ordered the assault to continue.
• Christian saw the remaining undead retreat toward the Great Necropolis and declared that its fall was only a matter of time.

Helen reported on the ten Sub-deities’ territories and the Non-believer lords’ infiltration efforts, prompting Fang Yuan to plan a paid alliance to disrupt the Evil God factions. Lilith then returned with news about the Green Dragon King’s altar, revealing that although it held no divine core, it contained a powerful Magic Rune Array.

• Helen told Fang Yuan that the Magic Goddess had the highest Awakening Degree, while the Sea God had the most Holy Sons, and outlined the other Sub-deities’ territories.
• Fang Yuan ordered Zhao Zixiao to monitor and eliminate the Magic Goddess’s True and Fanatical Believers on the West Coast Plains, then proposed an alliance to raid Evil God believers and disrupt their factions.
• Fang Yuan gave Helen resources, equipment, Orange Items, golden curios, and Golden Source Crystals to fund the alliance.
• Lilith returned from the Green Dragon King’s altar and told Fang Yuan that it contained no divine core.
• Lilith revealed that the altar held a Magic Rune Array that could upgrade a low-level divine core to Greater Divine Power and create a Creation Magic Rune Fragment.

Lilith explained how Warlock Jian created the God of Hunting’s divinity and proposed repairing the altar’s magic array so Fang Yuan could use it to upgrade his territory. As Lilith and Vanas headed to the altar, news arrived that Christian’s forces had taken Boneyard City and were advancing into the Great Necropolis to capture the Undead Archmage.

• Lilith told Fang Yuan that Warlock Jian had used the Green Dragon King’s shattered divinity and the blood of an Otherworld Deity to create the God of Hunting, while a flawed fusion produced the Earthbound Spirit in the altar.
• Lilith proposed finding and repairing Jian’s magic array, which she believed would let Fang Yuan obtain a Greater Divine Power divinity for upgrading his territory.
• Fang Yuan agreed to the plan and ordered Vanas to join Lilith’s expedition to the Green Dragon King’s altar.
• Lilith and Vanas left to explore the altar and confront the Earthbound Spirit, with Lilith considering whether Jian could be subdued.
• A messenger reported that Christian had captured Boneyard City and that the Holy Light Legion had breached the Great Necropolis’s outer perimeter to capture the Undead Archmage alive.

Fang Yuan prepared to capture the Undead Archmage and travel to Rotten Castle, while Destiny's Ark fractured over whether to keep fighting the New World Alliance. Xiao Jing urged the remaining Lords to retreat and wondered whether Fang Yuan could lead them to victory.

• Fang Yuan learned that the Undead Archmage was in the Central Continent, ordered preparations to capture him, and set out for Paladin Castle with plans to visit Rotten Castle.
• Destiny's Ark's Deputy Alliance Leader proposed scattering the alliance so its leader could pursue the Godhead of Destiny, but a War Faction representative argued that they should continue resisting.
• Xiao Jing favored keeping the Lords united, but Destiny's Ark's leader left with his followers and the New World Alliance appeared before the third defensive line.
• The War Faction representative asked Xiao Jing who could lead them to victory, and she privately wondered whether Fang Yuan could be that person before telling everyone to migrate and preserve their strength.

Ren Yuan and Vice Alliance Leader Jing discussed Destiny's Ark's collapse, the New World Alliance, and Jing's plan to seek the eighth Death Godhead fragment with Fang Yuan. At the Great Necropolis, Fang Yuan's army reached the sixth floor and learned that an Undead Knight legion was approaching.

• Jing told Ren Yuan that Destiny's Ark had disbanded after its leader abruptly left with some core members, and she described the alliance's worsening divisions.
• Ren Yuan offered Jing a place in the Four Sacred Alliances, but she chose to lead the former Free Lords who had stayed with her.
• Jing reported that she had found Fang Yuan and would head to the Rotten Castle secret realm to seek the eighth Death Godhead fragment; Ren Yuan promised supplies and five forbidden spells.
• Christian told Fang Yuan that the army had fought to the sixth floor of the Great Necropolis and planned to reach the lowest level within an hour.
• A scout reported to Fang Yuan that an Undead Knight legion was moving toward them.

Fang Yuan's Holy Light legion breached the Great Necropolis's eighth and ninth levels, forcing the Undead Archmage to seek escape. Christian's Paladins captured the Archmage with a Judgment Cage and prepared to take him away.

• Fang Yuan replenished his Paladins and explained to Vice Alliance Leader Jing why he could attack the ninth level quickly despite the losses.
• Vice Alliance Leader Jing told Fang Yuan that lords in the Central Continent resented his success and described the chaos there.
• The Undead Archmage learned that the eighth level had fallen and ordered an evacuation, but the Mind Flayer Great Elder and the Yin Aspect Holy Son did not answer his calls for help.
• Christian's forces defeated the Undead Archmage's defenders and breached the tenth level, where Christian ordered the Paladins to arrest him.
• More than a hundred Paladins bound the Undead Archmage in a Judgment Cage and prepared to take him away.

Fang Yuan agreed to support Vice Alliance Leader Jing’s united front against the New World Alliance in exchange for help meeting three Level 11 advancement conditions. The chapter ended with Christian returning from the Great Necropolis after capturing the Mist Lord, Undead Archmage, and Fang Yuan preparing to open the secret realm.

• Vice Alliance Leader Jing told Fang Yuan that Destiny’s Ark had disbanded and the New World Alliance had taken control of the Central Continent.
• Jing warned Fang Yuan that former Destiny Cube lords in the New World Alliance might target Gondor, given their past conflicts and recent clashes with Fang Yuan.
• Jing proposed a united front against the New World Alliance, and he and Fang Yuan negotiated resource support in exchange for help with three Level 11 advancement conditions.
• A messenger reported that Christian had breached the tenth floor of the Great Necropolis and captured the Mist Lord, Undead Archmage, alive.
• Christian returned with his Holy Knights and the bound Undead Archmage, and Fang Yuan said he would replenish his losses and leave the secret realm’s opening to Jing.

Hunter realized that he had entered the secret realm depicting his past and chose to seize Queen Philip and seek protection from the Rotten Duke. As Fang Yuan and Vice Alliance Leader Jing waited in the Philip capital, they learned that their target had moved.

• Hunter recognized his secret realm’s history and decided to ally with the Rotten Duke rather than flee or fight Fang Yuan’s forces.
• Hunter knocked Queen Sophie unconscious, killed the Black Rose Guards who tried to stop him, and took her hostage.
• Hunter killed the Holy Light Church knights escorting him and drove away from Philip Manor with Queen Philip.
• At Lover's Kiss Tavern, Vice Alliance Leader Jing described the Philip Kingdom and its rabbit-eared waitresses to Fang Yuan.
• A familiar figure reported to Fang Yuan that the target had moved.

Christian took control of the Holy Light Church and prepared to pursue Hunter, while Vice Alliance Leader Jing explained that they needed Philip Kingdom’s authorization to enter Rotten Castle. Hunter fled with Queen Sophie into the Mist Forest, where a bloodline awakened the attention of the Rotten Duke and revealed the castle’s entrance.

• Christian used Mage Meg’s Cardinal Bishop status to take charge of the local Holy Light Church and promised the King’s envoy that the church would hunt Hunter.
• Vice Alliance Leader Jing explained that Rotten Castle controlled Philip Kingdom and that they needed royal authorization to enter its territory.
• Fang Yuan assigned Christian and the Holy Light Units to handle the church while Vice Alliance Leader Jing prepared to turn the kingdom’s people into undead.
• Hunter took Queen Sophie through the Mist Forest toward the Rotten Swamp, knocking her unconscious when she mistook their flight for an elopement.
• Rotten carrion crows attacked Yasis’s Griffon Knights after a voice announced an unsealed bloodline, and Yasis escaped with a few survivors to report that Rotten Castle’s entrance was in the Mist Forest.

Fang Yuan and Vice Alliance Leader Jing prepared to attack Rotten Castle after the Rotten Duke's avatar was defeated, while Hunter uncovered the duke's plan to use the Queen's unborn child to escape his curse. Jing's undead army met the Rotten Raven Legion, overcame its death illusion with Mage Meg's Purification spell, and advanced into Mist Forest.

• A Ghost Dragon Knight emerged in Philip Duchy’s capital, but Vice Alliance Leader Jing stopped Christian from attacking it and explained it was her valuable flying unit.
• Yasis returned and reported that Rotten forces had attacked him in Mist Forest, so Fang Yuan and Jing set out toward Rotten Castle with their armies.
• Hunter realized the Rotten Duke planned to take the place of the Queen’s unborn child and use its purifying bloodline to escape the curse, then warned the duke that Fang Yuan and Jing were approaching.
• After learning his avatar had vanished, the Rotten Duke imprisoned Hunter and the Queen and sent the Rotten Raven Legion to investigate Philip Kingdom.
• The Rotten Ravens’ Death Illusion made the undead bone dragons attack one another until Mage Meg dispelled it with Purification; Jing then ordered her undead legion into Mist Forest.

Vice Alliance Leader Jing explained Rotten Castle’s defenses and led Fang Yuan through the Mist Forest and Rotten Swamp. After Fang Yuan saved her from the Rotten Legion’s attack, she unleashed an Earth-element forbidden spell against the monsters.

• Vice Alliance Leader Jing explained Rotten Castle’s undead, Rotten Legion, and reviving Rotten Knights, and told Fang Yuan that the Golden Magic Rune was tied to an ancient dark curse.
• Vice Alliance Leader Jing used the Sword of Holy Light to destroy the Mist Forest and its Fallen Treant, while Christian explained the spell’s deadly cost and its ties to the Holy Light Church’s Inquisition.
• Fang Yuan and Vice Alliance Leader Jing entered the Rotten Swamp, where Rotten Banshees summoned mud creatures that split apart when attacked and dragged undead into the swamp.
• Christian pulled Fang Yuan to safety, and Fang Yuan used Weightless Domain to turn the mud monsters into sludge and rescue Vice Alliance Leader Jing.
• Vice Alliance Leader Jing angrily cast the Earth-element forbidden spell Volcanic Eruption against the Rotten Legion.

Fang Yuan and Vice Alliance Leader Jing cleared the Rotten Swamp and advanced toward the Rotten Castle, where Hunter took command of part of the Duke’s army to prepare an ambush. Fang Yuan’s forces entered the castle’s black-mist territory in a formation where the Holy Light Legion dispelled the mist and sheltered the undead.

• Vice Alliance Leader Jing used High-level Water Scrolls to extinguish lava and open a route through the Rotten Swamp.
• The Rotten Duke learned from Hunter that the attackers were lords from Blue Star and gave Hunter command of fifty thousand Skeleton Warriors and ten thousand Curse Mages.
• Hunter studied a map and chose an ambush site before leading undead troops toward it.
• Vice Alliance Leader Jing explained that the castle’s corrosive black mist forced his army to advance on the ground and asked Fang Yuan for Holy Light support.
• Christian proposed using War Priests as the vanguard, with Holy Light Priests and Holy Paladins dispelling the mist around the undead.
• Fang Yuan ordered Yasis to guard the entrance, then led the formation into the forest under Christian’s protection.

Hunter and the Rotten Duke lured Fang Yuan’s forces into a fierce battle, then retreated toward Rotten Castle to spring a second ambush. Fang Yuan anticipated the trap and held back his Forbidden Spell until the Rotten Knights appeared, then unleashed the Wood Element Forbidden Spell, Withered Domain.

• Hunter persuaded the Rotten Duke to ambush Fang Yuan’s legion, feign defeat, and draw the pursuers toward Rotten Castle.
• Curse Mages and Golden Skeleton Warriors wiped out the vanguard and scattered the Black Knights, while Mage Meg rallied the Holy Light Legion and Vice Alliance Leader Jing sent reinforcements.
• Fang Yuan stopped Vice Alliance Leader Jing from using a Forbidden Spell and sent Christian with the Holy Light Grand Knights to ambush the enemy at Rotten Castle.
• Mage Meg’s Holy Light Priests and War Priests drove the Golden Skeletons and Curse Mages back, and Hunter ordered his forces to retreat toward Rotten Castle.
• The Rotten Duke led the Rotten Knights in a charge against the pursuing forces, but Fang Yuan cast the Wood Element Forbidden Spell, Withered Domain.