Chapter Summaries

Tianjian Squad’s mechs attacked Virtues in the fog, using their abilities to distract and weaken the Silver Giant. Bai Qixue arrived in Xuannv and engaged Virtues with the River of Stars Sword, leaving the battle raging inside a deadly Forbidden Zone.

• Vermilion Bird’s axe missed Virtues after its force field deflected the blow, and Yu Yue blocked Virtues’ counterattack while Vermilion Bird and Yu Yue withdrew into the fog.
• Han Fei attacked Virtues with starlight, but Belle scattered the fog and revealed the mech before charging into Yu Yue and Han Fei.
• Xuannv stopped the siblings’ mechs from being knocked back and Bai Qixue ordered them to hold the perimeter.
• Bai Qixue activated the incomplete Edge Opening Stance and struck at Virtues with Xuannv’s River of Stars Sword.
• Virtues dodged the sword and charged Xuannv with silver flames as the two mechs clashed across the battlefield.

Luo Yan arrived at Longtai Base in Zhurong and destroyed the Virtues' force fields, allowing the endangered bombers to regain control. He joined Bai Qixue and the Tianjian Squad to attack the Virtues, and the chapter left their battle underway.

• The Virtues tried to make the bomber group crash by pulling the planes downward with force fields.
• Luo Yan flew Zhurong from Blagoveshchensk toward Longtai Base and announced that he would handle the crisis.
• Zhurong swept past the bombers and burned away the Virtues' force fields, allowing the pilots to regain control and fly on.
• Luo Yan joined the Tianjian Squad, and Bai Qixue teamed up with him to take down the Virtues.
• Lu Li pierced the Virtues with swords, then Fire Yang True Lord attacked her with Crimson Essence Fire.

Luo Yan and Bai Qixue battled Virtues, whose Longinus lance could harm divine nature and temporarily paralyze anything it touched. After Virtues used the Book of Fate to recover from Xuannü’s strike, she summoned power through her coerced believers, and the Silver Giant began manifesting silver-white armor.

• Virtues drew Longinus and used it to injure Fire Yang True Lord and temporarily numb Zhurong, prompting Luo Yan to warn Bai Qixue about the lance’s effects.
• Virtues restrained Xuannü with fields of force and hurled Longinus at her, but Luo Yan brought Zhurong to her defense and shattered the lance with Samadhi True Fire.
• Xuannü broke free, severed the Silver Giant’s arm with the Star River Sword, and forced Virtues to use the Book of Fate to restore it at the cost of energy.
• Virtues ordered Morton to gather her believers, and Morton had guards force the people in Freedom City’s square to call out her divine name.
• Virtues drew power through the believers’ voices, and a beam of light descended onto the Silver Giant as silver-white armor appeared across its body.

Kate Jenny faced a coordinated assault on Blagoveshchensk as bombers, enemy forces across the river, and Cherno Fortress threatened Freedom Wings’ eastern battlefield. Meanwhile, Bai? and her squad set out to join Cherno Fortress and break through the blockade.

• Kate Jenny learned that the Strategic Affairs Department had deployed the Tian Xiong Squad and Beidou Squad for a full-scale offensive.
• An air raid alert revealed bombers approaching Blagoveshchensk, while the White Elephant Group and its allies counterattacked on another battlefield.
• Kate Jenny ordered the air defenses to intercept the bombers and the blockade line to hold against Cherno Fortress, then piloted the Chastity Apostle toward the fighting.
• Bai? briefed her squad on their mission to rendezvous with Cherno Fortress and break through Freedom Wings’ blockade toward Blagoveshchensk.
• Yang Kui welcomed the fight, while Zhang Tianyi warned the squad that the Black Knight Unit might be at the blockade line.

Captain Bai’s Heavenly Fire Squad headed for its rendezvous while Cherno Fortress struggled to break the Freedom Wings blockade, held by Black Knights whose Holy Projections gave their mechas overwhelming power. When the fortress contacted the arriving squad for help, Anatoly discovered that Luo Yan was not with them.

• Captain Bai refused to rely on Edge Opening Stance and urged her squad to forge a new path as they traveled toward the rendezvous point.
• Cherno Fortress launched a full-scale assault on the blockade, but Black Knights containing their Holy Projections repelled its attack.
• Anatoly and the officers identified Marshall’s Goddess of Love ability as a major cause of their defeat and considered using an all-women team to counter her.
• A communications soldier reported that the Heavenly Fire Squad had arrived near the blockade, and Anatoly contacted them for support.
• Captain Bai appeared on the screen instead of Luo Yan, and Anatoly asked where the colonel was.

Captain Bai and the Cherno forces launched a coordinated assault to break through Freedom Wings’ blockade, with Captain Bai targeting Marshall, the Black Knight who could control others. After the Headless General destroyed a damaged mech, Marshall recognized it and prepared to face the Heavenly Fire Squad.

• Captain Bai agreed to help the Cherno officers counter Marshall and assigned Yuqing to accompany her while Yang Kui and the others supported Anatoly.
• Anatoly rallied his squad to fight proudly despite Cherno’s losses, and the forces moved toward the blockade.
• Cherno Fortress began a second general assault with a bombardment as Captain Bai and Li Yuqing headed for Marshall’s position.
• Captain Bai took cover and sent the Headless General ahead, where it destroyed a damaged Freedom Wings mech.
• Marshall appeared in her purple mech, recognized the Headless General, and watched for support from the Five Elements mech.

Marshall used the Great Knight mecha and the Goddess of Love’s power to attack the Dragon Fighting General and Li Yuqing’s Five Elements, while the battle’s shifting threats drew in both Bai? and Li Yuqing. The chapter ended with Marshall turning Li Yuqing’s Golden Crow Mystic Art against the Dragon Fighting General.

• Marshall attacked the Dragon Fighting General and Li Yuqing’s Five Elements with missiles that filled the battlefield with Nether Particles, forcing Li Yuqing to retreat behind a Bronze Wall Iron Wall.
• The Dragon Fighting General formed a Blazing Flame Dragon from wreckage and charged Marshall, who merged the Goddess of Love’s Holy Projection with her Great Knight mecha.
• Marshall’s empowered puppet of love attacked the Dragon Fighting General, while arms formed from nearby debris seized and restrained him.
• Bai? sensed the Dragon Fighting General’s plight from the Safe Zone and set out to help him.
• Li Yuqing sent her Golden Crow Aspect to blast the flesh puppet, but Marshall used the Goddess of Love’s harp to redirect the Golden Crows toward the Dragon Fighting General.

Li Yuqing ended her Golden Crow Mystic Art when the flock turned traitor, but the White Bone Gate opened and unleashed a skeleton army that overwhelmed Marshall’s Great Knight mecha. Marshall’s attendants died, and she screamed as the White Bone Soldiers closed in on her.

• Li Yuqing ended the power sustaining her Golden Crow flock, and the Blazing Flame Dragon pinned and roasted the freed flesh puppet.
• Marshall tried to retreat, but a White Bone Gate appeared on the Battlefield and opened to reveal a vast skeleton army.
• White Bone Soldiers and larger skeletal warriors attacked the Great Knight mecha, rapidly rusting its armor and disabling its systems.
• Marshall severed her connection to the mecha and tried to escape as skeletons tore into the cockpit and killed her two male attendants.
• Marshall opened the cockpit door into a swarm of White Bone Soldiers, while Li Yuqing watched from the Five Elements and recognized the terrifying Full Liberation of Vice Captain Bai’s White Bone Weirdness.

Bai Qixue killed Marshall with Nine Nether, allowing Cherno Fortress to break through Freedom Wings' blockade. As Virtues strengthened herself and used the Book of Fate to interfere with Luo Yan's fate, the battle against Zhu Rong and Xuannü entered its decisive stage.

• Bai Qixue recalled Nine Nether after its White Bone Flood Tide killed Marshall and destroyed the Great Knight mecha.
• Cherno Fortress used Marshall's death to break Freedom Wings' blockade, and the front collapsed under the Heavenly Fire Squad's assault.
• Zhao Ruifeng and Bai Shaotang watched Virtues transform and placed their hopes in Bai Qixue and Luo Yan.
• Virtues used the Book of Fate to cause malfunctions in Luo Yan's Zhu Rong, temporarily preventing him from using immortal techniques.
• Virtues charged Zhu Rong with a bloodstained spear, but Bai Qixue's Sword Soul—Release cut apart her fields of force.

Bai Qixue and Luo Yan activated Holy Descent in Xuannü and Zhu Rong, turning the battle against the Virtues in their favor. Zhu Rong engulfed the Virtues in Samadhi True Fire, which began burning not only its Energy Body but also its will and authority.

• True Lord Hidden Sword held the Virtues back with a rain of sword lights while Bai Qixue activated Xuannü's Holy Descent and severed the giant's spear arm.
• Xuannü destroyed the Virtues with a star-forged sword attack, but the Virtues rewrote its fate and restored itself.
• Luo Yan activated Zhu Rong's Fictional Divine Soul system and chose Holy Descent.
• Fire Stream engulfed Zhu Rong, leaving it radiant with a Crimson Sun gathered behind it.
• Zhu Rong swept the Virtues through the air with Fire Stream and swallowed it in the Crimson Sun, whose Samadhi True Fire began igniting the Virtues' will and authority.

Virtues escaped Zhurong's fireball but sacrificed believers to sustain his power as he continued fighting Zhurong and Xuannü. Xuannü destroyed his black hole and Book of Fate, leaving Virtues' arm shattered into stardust.

• Virtues carved his way out of Zhurong's immortal art, Crimson Sun, and restored his scorched body with silver flames.
• Dozens of Freedom Wings believers burned to death as Virtues drew on their power, and Morton rejected a joint appeal to stop supplying him with believers.
• Virtues attacked Zhurong with cutting lines of light and trapped Xuannü with a black hole, but Xuannü destroyed it with Sword Soul—True Understanding of the Sword Dao.
• Belle summoned the Book of Fate to interfere with Xuannü's fate, but Xuannü used Sword Soul—Folded Shadow to shatter the book and Virtues' left arm into stardust.

Xuannü disrupted the Virtues' Fate authority, and Luo Yan used the opening to wound the Silver Giant before it healed. As the Virtues took on a stronger form with the Holy Spear, believers burned to fuel his power, while Gibron and McCleary discussed how to sever their connection to him.

• Xuannü's swordsmanship disrupted the Virtues' Fate authority, temporarily preventing him from using Fate Grafting and Fate Interference.
• Luo Yan piloted Zhurong and drove the Pine Pattern Heavy Sword into the Silver Giant, setting its wound ablaze with Crimson True Fire, but the Virtues pushed him and Xuannü away and healed himself.
• The Virtues stabbed the Holy Spear into his chest, sending golden ripples across the battlefield as silver flames consumed believers in Freedom City.
• Gibron condemned the massacre to Wayne Doyle, who promised to speak with General Morton, while McCleary asked how the believers' connection to the Virtues could be severed.
• Gibron explained that the Holy Spear could expel the Virtues from his vessel or another saint could compete for the believers' faith, but McCleary noted they had neither option available.
• The Virtues transformed into a rust-red giant with an illusory Golden Cross and threatened Zhurong and Xuannü with Heaven's Wrath.

Luo Yan and Bai Qixue’s Divine Engines blocked the Virtues’ attack on Longtai Base, but the giant pierced both mechs and left them crashing toward the ground. Luo Yan regained consciousness after encountering Heavenly God Wu Hui in a vision, just as the Virtues began warping the battlefield with a crushing force field.

• The Virtues summoned a storm of bloodstained Light Spears, which Xuannü and Zhurong neutralized with starlight and Crimson True Fire.
• The Virtues hurled a mountain-sized Golden Spear at Longtai Base, and Luo Yan and Bai Qixue broke it apart before it could strike.
• The Virtues attacked the mechs from behind with two spears; Fire Yang True Lord and True Lord Hidden Sword tried to stop them, but the spears pierced the Primordial Spirits and struck Zhurong and Xuannü.
• The Virtues’ assault injured Luo Yan and Bai Qixue and sent both mechs crashing toward the ground; Luo Yan lost consciousness, and Zhao Ruifeng ordered his pilot suit’s Emergency First Aid System activated.
• Luo Yan saw the weakened Heavenly God Wu Hui in a dim space, then awoke in his cockpit and answered Bai Qixue.
• The Virtues raised one hand and disrupted the area’s force field, sending trees, rocks, and other heavy objects crashing down.

With Xuannü's last strike breaking the Virtues' gravity field, Luo Yan drove Zhurong through the opening and attacked the giant at full power. Zhurong's burning sword cut into its shoulder and pressed toward Belle inside its heart.

• Zhao Ruifeng and Bai Shaotang learned that Luo Yan had regained consciousness, then saw Bai Qixue's Holy Descent stance end.
• The Virtues raised gravity across a vast field, crushing the earth and pinning Zhurong and Xuannü beneath its force.
• Luo Yan refused to give up, and Bai Qixue promised to clear a path with one final strike.
• Bai Qixue fused with True Lord Hidden Sword, and Xuannü's sword strike split the force field and wounded the Virtues' hand.
• Luo Yan sent Zhurong through the opening and unleashed its full power, burning away the Virtues' spears.
• Zhurong dodged the Virtues' spear and drove its flaming heavy sword into the giant's shoulder, aiming its Samadhi True Fire at Belle inside the heart.

Luo Yan destroyed Virtues with Zhurong and the Crimson True Fire, while the remaining believers in Freedom City were freed from their connection to Eurasia. Zhurong then ran out of power and crashed, and Morton witnessed a mysterious six-winged figure mourning in a heavenly vision.

• Virtues tried to repel Luo Yan’s attack, but his Golden Cross shattered as the believers’ sacrifices could no longer sustain him.
• Eurasia tried to leave Belle’s body, but a blind girl clung to his leg while Luo Yan vowed to protect Huaxia and struck Virtues with Zhurong’s heavy sword.
• Luo Yan’s attack incinerated Virtues, Eurasia, and Belle, whose final expression was peaceful.
• Zhurong lost power and fell from the sky, but Yu Yue and Han Fei caught it, and Ning Chen helped Luo Yan out of the cockpit.
• Wayne Doyle urged Morton to release the believers, but Morton refused until the believers’ connection to Eurasia broke and they fled the square.
• Morton saw a heavenly vision of a six-winged figure mourning at the top of a stairway reaching into the clouds.

After Virtues died, Loki encountered the God of Weirdness, while Kate Jenny learned that Raphael was mourning Virtues. With Kate pinned down by Li Meng, Strategic Affairs Department bombers attacked Blagoveshchensk, leaving the city in ruins as the Heavenly Fire Squad and Cherno Fortress troops arrived.

• Loki left the Superhuman Research Laboratory, briefly saw the God of Weirdness in a vision, and wondered whether Virtues had died.
• Agents around the world sensed Virtues' death, with Freedom Wings and its allies panicking while Strategic Affairs Department allies celebrated their godslaying power.
• Kate Jenny and Major General Marvin saw Raphael mourning Virtues and considered retreating.
• The Strategic Affairs Department's bomber group reached Blagoveshchensk while Li Meng kept Kate occupied, and the city's rudimentary defenses failed to stop the aircraft.
• The bombers devastated Blagoveshchensk, and the Heavenly Fire Squad and troops from Cherno Fortress arrived to find the city burning.

After Freedom Wings’ invasion of Asia ended in defeat, Luo Yan visited the damaged Zhu Rong and reflected on his and Bai Qixue’s injuries and the recovery of the Spear of Longinus. He then reviewed messages that revealed a chance to deepen his cooperation with Freedom Wings and the likely arrival of a Da Si Ming envoy in Giant Deer City.

• Freedom Wings’ remaining forces withdrew from Blagoveshchensk and the White Elephant Group’s territory, ending the invasion with victory for the Strategic Affairs Department.
• Luo Yan visited the repair team working on Zhu Rong and wished the damaged mecha a quick recovery.
• Luo Yan assessed his damaged divinity and estimated that restoring it would take at least two months, while Bai Qixue would need even longer.
• Luo Yan recalled that the Tianjian Squad had recovered the Spear of Longinus, which the Strategic Affairs Department would study alongside the Golden Apple.
• Luo Yan read Feiyu’s messages about Hu Ziqiang’s cooperation and told Feiyu he would visit Langya City soon.
• Luo Yan read Wan Qing’s messages about Jinna’s death and the expected Da Si Ming envoy, then suspected the envoy’s arrival was connected to cultivating another Shao Si Ming.

Luo Yan reunited with his team in Jinge City after the conflict with Freedom Wings and later drove alone to a Great Wall Base near Langya City. There, he unexpectedly saw Ye Wusheng being taken away by base authorities.

• Luo Yan messaged Wan Qing to watch Zhou Yucheng and replied to Yu Qiushui, who asked him to keep an eye on the Xuanming Department.
• Li Yuqing, Murong Xuan, Bai?, Zhang Tianyi, and Yang Kui returned to Jinge City after the Tianying Squad relieved them near Cherno, and they discussed Freedom Wings’ losses and a possible transoceanic operation.
• Luo Yan took Bai? to visit Sunshine Convenience Store, where Zhou Lijuan and Xu Xiuying had resumed business.
• Several days later, Luo Yan drove alone toward Langya City because the underground trains had not resumed service after the war.
• At a Great Wall Base, Luo Yan recognized Ye Wusheng in a vehicle leaving a crowded bar under escort from base authorities.

Luo Yan returned to Langya City and learned that Zhou Yucheng wanted the Gou Mang Department to send reinforcements south to support Zhu Jiuyin, so he delayed deciding until he could negotiate the terms. He met Hu Ziqiang at the Bale Hotel, where Hu revealed that his boss wanted to meet because of the war.

• Luo Yan learned that Ye Wusheng had killed several men in a bar and been taken to the Great Wall Base, then continued his journey to Langya City.
• Feiyu told Luo Yan that Zhou Yucheng wanted the Gou Mang Department to help Zhu Jiuyin's branch fight the Yellow Springs Organization and the Suo Po Association.
• Luo Yan weighed the costs and command issues of sending reinforcements, and told Feiyu to contact Hu Ziqiang without mentioning the mission.
• Luo Yan told Yang Hao to prepare to leave Black Mountain Mine and learned that Yang Tao had reached the fifth layer of the Advanced realm.
• Luo Yan delayed Hu Ziqiang's invitation for several days before arriving at the Bale Hotel to meet Hu's boss.
• Hu Ziqiang said his boss was eager to meet Luo Yan because of the war.

Luo Yan met Carter, a Freedom Wings officer, under his Mister Red Ghost identity and heard his offer of a deeper partnership. He left the Bale Hotel with a file of people Carter wanted him to eliminate.

• Hu Ziqiang told Luo Yan that Freedom Wings planned to return after settling problems within its ranks and invited him to meet Carter.
• Hu Ziqiang introduced Luo Yan to Carter and his partners, including Ying Zhengye, who tried to persuade Carter to make Luo Yan remove his mask.
• Carter dismissed Ying Zhengye’s attempt to sow distrust and welcomed Luo Yan without asking him to reveal his identity.
• Carter spoke privately with Luo Yan and offered to pay him to use his strength to eliminate selected people.
• Luo Yan left the Bale Hotel carrying a file of Strategic Affairs Department and Undercity officials Carter wanted killed.