Chapter Summaries

The Lord of No Flame fled to the Touch of the Abyss after Angel killed his true spirit, while Monchi's returning wizards mourned Angel's apparent death. Sanders sensed that Angel was still alive, leaving the group with a reason to hope.

• The Lord of No Flame escaped to the Touch of the Abyss to hide from rival Demon Gods and blamed Angel for his fallen true spirit.
• Monchi led the surviving wizards back toward Sky Island, furious that their mission had failed and many wizards had died.
• Tong the Witch and Liwita discussed Angel's influence on the events in Lasudelan while traveling aboard Tong's steam house with Kant and Sanders.
• Tong the Witch, Liwita, and Kant assumed Angel had likely died after being dragged into the void.
• Sanders said he could sense that Angel was not dead.

Angel dispersed the true spirit power across the dying continent, restoring its vitality and drawing the Abyss's will. He discovered that the continent's pan-consciousness had formed a bond with him, protecting him from the will's pressure as he went to Toby.

• The Luminous Green Tree released its remaining energy across the continent, and Angel stood unharmed as its trunk vanished.
• Powerful beings from across the Abyss rushed toward the continent to seize the true spirit power, but found that someone had arrived ahead of them.
• Grewu realized Angel had distributed the true spirit power to the continent, then saw the Abyss's will descend in a storm of black clouds and lightning.
• Angel understood that the Abyss's will would protect the continent while it recovered, and rain began to fall over the land.
• Angel sensed a kinship with the continent and discovered that its pan-consciousness shielded him from the Abyss's pressure, unlike Grewu and Bobota.
• Angel stepped toward Toby.

Angel found Toby unharmed and used the newly acquired Domain Field Green Pattern to protect him from curses. After collecting the Demon God avatar, Angel approached Orucia’s body, leaving Grewu anxious about what he would do with Orucia’s soul.

• Angel found Toby alive, placed the Domain Field Green Pattern around him, and tucked him into his breast pocket.
• Angel noticed Grewu watching Orucia’s soul and the headless Demon God avatar, then decided to collect the avatar first.
• Angel examined the avatar, sealed it in an ice coffin with purified Floating Imp Water, and stored it in his bracelet.
• Angel considered the avatar’s blood, flesh, bones, and stored flames as valuable materials, though he could not use them yet.
• Grewu worried that Angel would claim Orucia’s soul, but Angel went to Orucia’s body instead.

Angel preserved Orucia’s soul in the sealed Eye of Light and agreed to let Grewu take it, while refusing to return Orucia’s ruined body. After Orucia called Angel his savior, Angel turned to deal with the barely living Bobota.

• Angel placed Orucia’s burned, lifeless shell in an ice coffin and told Grewu he would give him Orucia’s soul but would not let him remove the Origin Fire seal.
• Orucia spoke through the Eye of Light, urged Grewu to accept Angel’s terms, and explained that his old body had been a restraint.
• Orucia thanked Angel for playing the role of his savior, and Angel replied that they were characters within a script before walking away.
• Angel found Bobota alive in a pit, his body reduced to a skeletal figure with only a thin layer of flesh.
• Bobota felt the Abyssal Will pin him down as the rain scoured his body and his Demon Source cracked and emptied.

Bobota revealed that restoring the Origin-Worshiping Ancestral Altar would require him to sacrifice himself, but Angel refused to let him die and withheld the Origin Fire. Angel urged Bobota to stay alive and visit his sister, Sparrow Sparrow, himself.

• Bobota grieved over his failed plans and admitted that the Lord of Profundity had used him, while Angel told him to accept the consequences of his choices.
• Angel offered Bobota a wisp of Origin Fire and urged him to survive, restore the Source-Worshippers, and find his sister.
• Bobota explained that the ancestral altar existed beyond the real world and required a ritual and immense energy to ignite, which would consume his life.
• Angel refused to give Bobota the Origin Fire after learning that his sacrifice would let the Lord of Profundity learn what had happened.
• Angel reminded Bobota that he was not the last Origin-Worshiper and told him to stay alive and go see Sparrow Sparrow himself.

Angel told Bobota that Dodolo was another living Source-Worshipper who would eventually receive the Origin Fire, and stopped Grewu from attacking Bobota. With the Abyssal Will no longer restraining them, the group prepared to leave the unknown place, but Bobota did not know where they were and Grewu offered to ask Orucia.

• Angel told Bobota that Dodolo was confirmed as a Source-Worshipper and would one day receive the Origin Fire and light the ancestral altar.
• Bobota laughed and cried with relief at learning he was not alone, then thanked Angel and accepted that he might live long enough to see his sister.
• After the Abyssal Will's oppression ended, Grewu charged at Bobota, but Angel blocked its attack with his bare hand and blasted it away.
• Angel ordered Grewu not to settle its grudge with Bobota yet and urged everyone to leave before powerful figures arrived.
• Angel gave the naked Bobota a cloak, then asked him where they were; Bobota admitted he did not know and said he had followed coordinates from the Lord of Profundity.
• Grewu said it would ask Orucia for information about their location.

Angel and his companions searched for a way out of the unfamiliar, collapsing continent and followed a favorable divination southeast. Their journey brought them to a giant volcano, where an eruption killed an adult Mandigu Worm that had attacked the Gondola.

• Angel decided the group should leave their starting area in the Gondola because they could not determine their location or find an exit.
• Angel sensed a familiar call from the southeast, and Bobota used Good Luck Divination to judge that traveling in that direction would be favorable for him.
• Angel chose to head southeast, and the Gondola flew for more than half an hour through rain over desolate, volcanic terrain.
• Grewu pointed out a giant volcano, and a roar came from its crater as an adult Mandigu Worm charged at the Gondola.
• Angel tried to steer the Gondola away, but the volcano erupted and pierced the Mandigu Worm with lava, killing it.

Angel and the Gondola crew crossed a lava sea while unexplained forces repeatedly turned danger into safety, and Orucia confirmed that Green Pattern had suppressed most of Toby’s Calamity Curse. As Angel questioned Bobota about Dodolo and a silver bowl, Grewu spotted what looked like an artificial structure among the mountains.

• A volcano erupted briefly and killed a Mandigu Worm, then the crew reached a lava sea filled with hurricanes and towering fire serpents.
• Angel steered the Gondola through the fire serpents as sudden hurricanes repeatedly blew them out of danger, leading him to suspect an unknown force was clearing his path.
• Angel asked Orucia to examine Toby’s Calamity Curse, and Orucia said Green Pattern had suppressed most of it but still let a faint aura of calamity leak through.
• Angel put Toby away and continued southeast; the crew encountered few disasters while Bobota asked about Dodolo and Angel questioned him about Source-Worshippers and their bones.
• Angel showed Bobota an illusion of Dodolo’s silver bowl, whose emblem Bobota identified as the Immortal Serpent Crest, and Grewu then spotted a possible artificial structure among distant mountain shadows.

Angel and his companions explored abandoned settlements across the Abyss’s Barren Face, finding evidence that the region had once been inhabited by Abyssal natives and that humans had also reached it. As Angel sensed the mysterious calling growing stronger, Grewu discovered two fresh human corpses.

• Angel, Bobota, and Grewu explored Manotan and found ancient skeletons in varied states, confirming it had been an Abyssal native settlement.
• Angel reasoned that the settlements and human remains placed them on the Abyss’s surface layers, and the group found several more abandoned towns, including Xiuyitan.
• Grewu found a wizard skeleton in Jisitan bearing a golden Witch Flower emblem, which Bobota thought might belong to an organization outside the Southern Region’s Wizarding World.
• Grewu explained that the group was probably still on the Barren Face because Phase Gates were guarded by demon lords.
• Angel sensed the calling growing closer near another settlement, and Grewu shouted that he had found two fresh human corpses, prompting Angel and Bobota to rush over.

Angel and Bobota examined two recently deceased people and recognized one as Guxia, an apprentice who had vanished in the Cold Antiquity Ruins. Grewu suggested the wilderness they had reached was the sealed continent known as the true Cold Antiquity Ruins.

• Kurangduo spoke with the aged Wodell about Angel’s miraculous power and the possibility that he could open the Miracle Casket, then flew away.
• Grewu showed Angel and Bobota two corpses with severe internal injuries, and Bobota found a Gravity Forest identity token on the knight in golden armor.
• Angel identified the young man in purple robes as Guxia, an apprentice from Night Whisper Forest who had disappeared during the group’s passage through the Cold Antiquity Ruins.
• Grewu recounted the history of the Cold Antiquity Era and proposed that their current location was the sealed continent known as the true Cold Antiquity Ruins.

Angel and his companions discovered that the Cold Antiquity Ruins were a sealed continent and investigated Guxia’s death for clues to an exit. As they followed the call drawing Angel across the wasteland, a black feather appeared on a withered tree, and an unseen voice identified it as Kurangduo’s gift to the savior of Yuantan Continent.

• Bobota examined Guxia’s corpse, found a fatal peck-like wound on his skull, and estimated that Guxia had died about two months earlier.
• Angel recalled that people who vanished in the Cold Antiquity Ruins had experienced hallucinations of a black-crow-cloaked figure, and Grewu identified that figure as Kurangduo, a god of death.
• Angel led Grewu and Bobota onward through the wasteland toward the place calling to him after they found no further clues in the town.
• Bobota approached a lone withered tree, and Angel later found a black feather on one of its branches that Bobota said had not been there moments earlier.
• An unseen voice told Angel that the feather was Kurangduo’s gift to him as the savior of Yuantan Continent.

Angel followed Wodell through a spatial rift into the Dark Land, where Wodell led him and his companions across a bleak wasteland. Wodell explained his ties to the continent and Kurangduo, then brought them to the Dark Land’s destination.

• Wodell revealed that he had called Angel to the Dark Land because the passage out of Yuantan Continent lay there, and Angel decided to follow him through a spatial rift.
• Wodell warned Angel not to reveal his true name in the Abyss, then stopped a blood-red-gowned undead woman’s attack with a tap of his bone staff.
• Wodell said the undead was Naya, his wife, who had become undead after making a vow with the Lust Demon God.
• Grewu recognized Naya’s story from records associated with the Cruel Scholar, prompting Wodell to explain that he survived as a consciousness bound to Yuantan Continent.
• Wodell said Kurangduo was born from the continent and had left Angel a raven feather as a sign of gratitude for saving it.
• Wodell led Angel, Bobota, and Grewu to the place he identified as the Dark Land.

Angel and his companions discovered the Phase Gate Bones in the Land of Darkness and learned its history from Wodell. Angel decided not to travel to another Phase Face and asked how to return to Molière Land, but Wodell said they had to wait for the gatekeeper Jarm to awaken.

• Wodell illuminated the darkness, revealing a city of undead beneath a colossal skeletal gate.
• Grewu recognized the gate as a Phase Gate, and Wodell identified it as Bones, an ancient gate once owned by the Cold Antiquity Emperor Kansamovich.
• Wodell explained that Bones was re-anchoring its spatial coordinates after Yuantan Continent recovered from its overturning.
• Angel declined to travel to another Phase Face and asked whether he could return to the outer Cold Antiquity Ruins.
• Wodell said the route to Molière Land was blocked by Jarm, a wounded hellhound serving the Queen of the Deep Prison, and that they had to wait for it to awaken.
• Wodell explained that outsiders who fell into Yuantan Continent had usually been struck by the death intent Jarm released during its brief awakenings.

Wodell explained how Jarm’s deathly aura marked its victims and revealed that Puxiao had escaped by trading for passage to another Phase Face. Angel and his companions questioned Wodell’s motives in Cold Antiquity Guard City, and the chapter ended with Wodell approaching Angel to discuss something privately.

• Wodell explained that Jarm’s deathly aura drove its victims toward Moliere Land, where Jarm would eventually devour them, and said that Puxiao had escaped a century earlier by trading for passage to another Phase Face.
• Angel asked whether they could leave when Jarm awakened, and Wodell said they could, adding that Kurangduo’s gift would protect them from the deathly aura.
• Bobota questioned Wodell’s motives while the group rested in the Prayer Church, and he and Grewu argued over whether Wodell’s offer was truly harmless.
• Angel left the chamber and admired Cold Antiquity Guard City while considering the Phase Gate and the possibility of trading for passage to another Phase Face.
• Wodell appeared beside Angel and said he had some matters he wanted to discuss with him.

Wodell took Angel to the bone pile outside Cold Antiquity Guard City and explained his past as its king, including his decision to bind himself to the continent. After Angel returned to Prayer Church, Grewu relayed Orucia’s warning to avoid entanglement with the Queen of Deep Prison and her associates.

• Wodell led Angel beyond Cold Antiquity Guard City to the bones of his ancestors, family, lover, and friends, who had died defending the city.
• Wodell told Angel he had once been the king of Cold Antiquity Guard City and had bound himself to the continent to survive, sacrificing his chance to advance.
• Wodell explained that he had lost hope of moving forward until he met Angel, then began revealing why he had summoned him.
• Angel returned to the stone chamber, where Grewu told him that Orucia had briefly awakened and warned him to avoid Kurangduo, Jarm, and anything connected to the Queen of Deep Prison.
• Angel accepted the warning, spoke with Grewu, and returned to his room.

Angel investigated his fused right eye and activated it, unleashing a terrifying aura that affected Bobota, Grewu, the undead, and Wodell. Bobota reported seeing the phantom of the being who had destroyed a Demon God’s true spirit, leaving Angel uncertain what his eye had summoned.

• Angel examined his right eye and decided to activate it to discover its true effects.
• Bobota remembered his sister and left his room, then glimpsed a mask merging into Angel’s right eye.
• Angel’s eye blazed and released an invisible wave that forced Bobota to his knees, frightened Grewu, disturbed the undead, and drew Wodell’s attention.
• Bobota told Angel that a blurry phantom had appeared behind him and that its eyes had shone when Angel opened his own.
• Angel explained that magical power had produced a mask-like transformation, while Nightmare Illusion power had drained all his stored Nightmare Realm aura and brought forth the phantom.

Angel agreed to help Wodell bring natives to Yuantan Continent and negotiated permission to establish a human outpost city there. Wodell also granted Angel unrestricted use of the Phase Gate and gave him an item he had traded for with Puxiao.

• Angel told Bobota that Wodell wanted him to help relocate natives to Yuantan Continent, and they discussed the difficulty of making the barren land habitable.
• After considering Bobota's suggestions, Angel returned to Wodell and asked about the relocation's requirements and the continent's lack of survival resources.
• Angel agreed to help if humans could also come to Yuantan Continent and build an outpost city, and Wodell approved the plan while refusing to open the Land of Darkness to humans.
• Wodell gave Angel permission to use the Phase Gate whenever he wished and said Angel could decide which humans to bring and when to establish the outpost city.
• Wodell presented Angel with an item he had traded for with Puxiao, and Angel fell silent when he sensed it.

Angel found a hide paper marked “Starfrost” that might conceal a cipher, then postponed testing his right eye and began training his physical strength. Wodell told him Jarm seemed to be awakening, and the group went to Prayer Church’s main hall, where Wodell spoke of the forgotten ancient king Kansamovich.

• Angel discovered that Puxiao’s Chaos Drum Beast Hide Paper bore intricate patterns that might be a cipher hiding information about the Starfrost Meditation Method.
• Angel delayed testing his right eye because his Nightmare Illusion power was depleted and its earlier oppressive force had affected much of the satellite city.
• Angel noticed he had left deep footprints in the floor and began practicing control over his physical strength.
• Wodell announced that Jarm seemed to be showing signs of awakening, and Angel agreed to follow him beneath Prayer Church.
• Wodell showed the group Kansamovich’s statue and explained that the ancient king had once been the natives’ spiritual pillar.
• Bobota said natives he had met on Undying Street had not mentioned Kansamovich, and Wodell lamented that time made people forget.

Angel and his companions reached the basement beneath Prayer Church, where Wodell revealed the sleeping hellhound Jarm and a passage to Molière Land. Jarm’s miniature counterpart agreed to let them travel, while Wodell concealed their connection to Yuantan Continent and noted that Molière Land had grown lively.

• Wodell opened a hidden passage beneath the statue in Prayer Church and led Angel, Grewu, and Bobota into the basement.
• Wodell revealed the enormous sleeping hellhound Jarm and explained that a spatial pattern beneath it led to Molière Land.
• Wodell awakened Jarm briefly, and a miniature hellhound appeared and recognized Kurangduo’s feather in Angel’s hand.
• The miniature hellhound sent black fire into Angel’s feather and said he could travel to Molière Land or return with the feather.
• Wodell concealed the group’s Yuantan Continent aura, then remarked that Molière Land was currently lively.

On Sky Island, Sanders waited for Borus to investigate Angel’s fate while rumors spread about Monchi and the failed hunt. Borus found signs that Angel was alive and growing stronger, and Sanders sensed Angel’s location at the outermost layer of the Abyss before rushing there.

• Sinafa ordered her agents to find who had started rumors about Monchi and had the gossiping apprentices locked in the punishment chamber.
• Sinafa collected more than a thousand demon corpses from Sanders and told him that the Wheel of Time could not determine whether Angel was alive because prophecy seemed blocked.
• Borus used Angel’s blood and the World's String to confirm that Angel was likely alive and surrounded by a much stronger blood aura than before.
• Sanders realized Angel’s essence blood had moved and sensed that Angel was at the outermost layer of the Abyss.
• Sanders transformed into a black shadow and vanished from Sky Island to pursue Angel’s location.