Chapter Summaries

Luo Yan and the Heavenly Fire Squad joined the Strategic Affairs Department’s assault on Saint John Port. After Yao Yuan destroyed a Freedom Wings warship, Luo Yan directed his squad to target the enemy’s Great Knight Mecha.

• The Strategic Affairs Department began its assault on Saint John Port while allied forces launched diversions elsewhere.
• Lieutenant General Byron piloted the Loyalty Apostle into battle, and Xuannü and the Tianjian Squad attacked it.
• Luo Yan ordered the Heavenly Fire Squad to disassemble their flight devices and enter the nearshore battle.
• Yao Yuan endured a warship’s cannon fire and split the vessel in two with a sword strike.
• Luo Yan told his teammates to prioritize the Freedom Wings’ Great Knight Mecha and to report any Black Knight sightings.
• The Heavenly Fire Squad’s close-combat members advanced while Bai?, Li Yuqing, and Murong Xuan stayed behind to provide support.

Luo Yan and the others fought Great Knight Mechas along the nearshore defensive line, using their Spirit Suits and combat skills to turn back the enemy. Zhang Tianyi ended the chapter by launching a powerful sword strike at his opponent.

• Bai? concealed Xiniang with Black Nothingness, then trapped a Great Knight Mecha in a Bone Cage while Yao Yuan attacked.
• The Great Knight Mecha broke free, but Luo Yan slowed it with the Dragon Tear Stone and Yao Yuan cut off its head with Ten Steps, One Kill.
• Li Yuqing’s Extreme Armor Garments strengthened Rock and the Great Swordsman, and Yang Kui used Rock to batter a heavy Great Knight Mecha with Vajra Chain-Collapse Fists.
• Zhang Tianyi used Divine Speed Draw: Buzhou Wind to destroy the spider-like Great Knight Mecha’s barrage and charged through the flames.
• Zhang Tianyi drew his greatsword and unleashed Xingyi Sword: Water Intent, Break the Tide at the Great Knight Mecha.

The Strategic Affairs Department devastated Saint John Port and gained the upper hand at sea and along the coastal defense line. As Luo Yan fought in Yao Yuan, the Black Knight Rune attacked him, and Luo Yan prepared to cleave Rune’s mecha apart.

• Strategic Affairs Department bombers destroyed Saint John Port’s command network, leaving Freedom Wings’ garrison unable to contact Kate Jenny or request reinforcements.
• The Strategic Affairs Department’s fleet sank Freedom Wings’ ships and rescued survivors who surrendered, following Zhao Ruifeng’s strategy.
• Luo Yan tore the Energy Core from a Knight-class mecha and spared its pilot after the pilot was disarmed.
• Rune’s beastlike Black Knight mecha attacked Yao Yuan, and Luo Yan blocked its bite with his longsword.
• Rune wrapped his mecha’s arms around Yao Yuan, and Luo Yan unleashed his Aura and drove his sword forward to strike Rune down.

Luo Yan fought Rune’s Great Knight mecha as the Feathered Serpent Phantom took control of its pilot and granted it the Power of Death. After the mecha survived Luo Yan’s attacks and began transforming into a saint, he summoned the Blood Executioner secret technique over a sea of blood.

• Rune’s Great Knight mecha attacked Yao Yuan, then retreated into the sea as the Feathered Serpent Phantom burrowed farther into its armor.
• Luo Yan struck the charging mecha with Li Meng’s Que Tian Sword, but the Power of Death extinguished its flames and shattered the blade.
• Yao Yuan cut off the mecha’s head, but the Feathered Serpent emerged from its neck and helped reattach it.
• The Feathered Serpent invaded Rune’s body, leaving him unconscious as the mecha transformed toward becoming a saint.
• Luo Yan turned the coastal waters into a sea of blood and summoned the Blood Executioner pagoda.

Luo Yan used the perfected Bloody Battle of Ten Thousand Miles to destroy the Feathered Serpent Phantom and its transformed Great Knight mecha, ending Rune’s life. The Strategic Affairs Department captured Saint John Port, but Freedom Wings was expected to counterattack.

• The Feathered Serpent Phantom transformed Rune and the Great Knight mecha into a flesh-and-metal monster as Yao Yuan’s killing Qi intensified.
• Yao Yuan unleashed Bloody Battle of Ten Thousand Miles, repeatedly striking the monster mecha and tearing it apart, killing Rune and driving the Feathered Serpent Phantom from the Mortal World.
• Luo Yan recognized that he had fully mastered Fang Yao’s Blood River Saber and its Ultimate Skill.
• The Heavenly Fire Squad broke through Freedom Wings’ defenses, and Lieutenant General Byron ordered a retreat as the Strategic Affairs Department’s fleet widened the breach.
• Freedom Wings lost Saint John Port, and the Strategic Affairs Department occupied the damaged base while preparing for a possible counterattack.

Luo Yan rested at Saint John Port while the Strategic Affairs Department prepared to defend it, and Hu Xuanyi returned after the successful assault. In Freedom City, Bane was urgently recalled and Jane Foster brought him to a meeting as Freedom Wings prepared to respond to the port’s fall.

• Luo Yan waited for Zhu Rong to be repaired while the defense line was established facing Freedom City.
• Hu Xuanyi returned to Saint John Port, where he and Zhao Chu discussed the victory and the need to prepare for Freedom Wings’ counterattack.
• Zhao Chu said the commanders would meet after Captain Bai arrived to plan how to consolidate their gains and proceed with the Fortress Plan.
• Freedom Wings headquarters reacted tensely to the fall of Saint John Port and the defeat of its two Apostle Mechas.
• Bane returned to headquarters under an urgent recall order, and Jane Foster took him directly to the conference room instead of letting him report first.

Bayne attended a tense Freedom Wings meeting after the Strategic Affairs Department captured Saint John Port, where he learned that Luo Yan had killed Colonel Caesar and other senior officers. General Morton rallied the officers and threatened to expel the neutral Holy Crusaders from the Iron Gull Strategic Chain, while insisting that mecha strength would decide the war.

• Bayne entered the meeting hall with Jane Foster and heard officers fear that Saint John Port’s fall would let the Strategic Affairs Department transport troops and supplies across the ocean.
• Jane Foster told Bayne that Luo Yan had killed Colonel Caesar, several other officers, a Black Knight, and Virtues, making Luo the top target on Freedom Wings’ must-kill list.
• General Morton addressed the officers, called the loss of Saint John Port temporary, and vowed that the invaders would pay for their actions.
• The Iron Gull Strategic Chain’s allies appeared on the meeting hall screens, but the Holy Crusaders’ screen remained empty as they stayed neutral.
• General Morton threatened to remove the Holy Crusaders from the alliance and cut off assistance if they refused to join the war.
• General Morton declared that mechas, especially superior top-tier mechas, would determine victory.

General Morton outlined Freedom Wings' allies and assessed the enemy's top-tier mecha, then introduced Doctor David and his virus designed to disable the Strategic Affairs Department's Divine Mecha. The chapter ended as David's weapon was presented as a way to neutralize the enemy's strongest machines.

• General Morton said Freedom Wings had underestimated the Strategic Affairs Department's cross-sea offensive and described the mecha forces backing both sides.
• Morton announced that the German Iron Cavalry and the Ninth Organ would send top-tier mecha, while other allies would provide mecha and supplies.
• Byron and Morton assessed the Divine Mecha and other top-tier mecha the Strategic Affairs Department and its East Asian allies could deploy.
• Morton introduced Doctor David, who had developed an electronic virus capable of paralyzing a Divine Mecha's operating system.

General Morton explained how the Worm Device and Divine Machine Virus could exploit old operating-system code, then announced that the attack on Saint John Port would begin in three days. At Saint John Port, Luo Yan continued cultivating and discussed the expected assault with Xiao Xiao.

• David explained that a Worm Device could use a backdoor based on first-generation mecha code to implant a virus into the Divine Machine, with a projected success rate of around seventy percent.
• General Morton said the devices would be tested during the effort to retake Saint John Port and ordered defenses strengthened at Saint Mary Base, Saint George Base, and Saint Martin Base.
• General Morton announced that the operation to retake Saint John Port would begin in three days.
• Luo Yan reflected that his qi was recovering faster as he cultivated, even though he had not opened the first Heavenly Gate.
• Luo Yan and Xiao Xiao ate breakfast together, and Luo Yan predicted that Freedom Wings would attack within three days.
• A messenger told Luo Yan that Commander Zhao had requested his presence.

Luo Yan received a mission to find and seize Saint Mary Base, Freedom Wings’ secret Granary, before its supplies could support the enemy’s coming offensive. He and Qiao Jianguo departed with the Heavenly Fire Squad to meet a former base worker who had reconstructed the route, while Zhao Chu prepared Saint John Port’s defenses.

• Zhao Chu briefed Luo Yan on Saint Mary Base, which stored nearly sixty percent of Freedom Wings’ daily necessities, and said he wanted to capture it and transfer its supplies rather than destroy it.
• Qiao Jianguo explained that he had found a retired worker who could trace the Granary by scent and had recently reconstructed its route, though he had not yet provided the coordinates.
• Zhao Chu assigned Luo Yan and the Heavenly Fire Squad to accompany Qiao Jianguo, obtain the coordinates, and seize Saint Mary Base while Allied Forces prepared for Freedom Wings’ counterattack.
• Luo Yan agreed to leave for the mission, and two military jeeps departed Saint John Port with Yang Kui, Commander Bai, Luo Yan, and Qiao Jianguo aboard.
• Qiao Jianguo took silicone masks from his pack so Luo Yan and the others could disguise their Eastern faces.

Luo Yan and the Heavenly Fire Squad traveled in disguise to a Western camp to meet Qiao Mai Xun’s informant, who had information about Saint Mary Base. Luo Yan discovered the informant had been killed and booby-trapped, and the group prepared to use the ambush to draw out Freedom Wings’ Snake-Catching Eagles.

• Luo Yan and the Heavenly Fire Squad disguised themselves and drove through the wilderness in jeeps bearing the Freedom Wings emblem.
• The group reached a guarded camp, where Qiao Mai Xun bribed the guards with Anti-inflammatory Tablets and led them to a church.
• Luo Yan used his perception to see that Freedom Wings operatives had interrogated and killed Qiao Mai Xun’s informant, then strapped a bomb to his body.
• Luo Yan told Qiao Mai Xun that the informant’s murder could help them draw out the people involved with Saint Mary Base.
• Qiao Mai Xun identified the attackers as Freedom Wings’ Snake-Catching Eagles, and Luo Yan ordered the squad to capture any who took the bait if possible.

Kona and the Snake-Catching Eagles tried to capture the people investigating the granary by using the dead Shi Gaiwen as bait, but the trap revealed that their targets included a supernatural being. The chapter left the Snake-Catching Eagles engaging the group outside the church.

• Kona explained that Shi Gaiwen had betrayed the granary after his family disappeared and planned to sell its location to a buyer.
• Kona planted a bomb on Shi Gaiwen's corpse and waited with his team for the buyer to arrive at the church.
• Seven people arrived in two jeeps, and their leader touched Shi Gaiwen's corpse, triggering the bomb and destroying the church's cameras.
• Kona ordered the Snake-Catching Eagles to move and surround the church as gunfire met the two people left outside.
• A dark-skinned bald man advanced under the gunfire as a golden, armored phantom appeared behind him, prompting a Snake-Catching Eagles member to warn that he was supernatural.

Yang Kui and Li Yuqing fought the Snake-Catching Eagles outside the church while Luo Yan and Zhang Tianyi confronted another group inside. The battle continued with the attackers restrained or injured, but Zhang Tianyi remained locked in a dangerous close-quarters fight with a female member.

• Yang Kui charged through the Snake-Catching Eagles’ gunfire as Li Yuqing attacked and restrained several members with Mystic Arts.
• A Transcendent’s enhanced bullet pierced Yang Kui’s Combat Suit but failed to penetrate his skin, and Yang Kui knocked the shooter through a house.
• Li Yuqing reminded Yang Kui to leave the attackers alive and bound another member with vines.
• Luo Yan revealed that he had detonated the planted bomb to lure the Snake-Catching Eagles to the church, where Kona’s team entered and deployed anesthetic Smoke Grenades.
• Zhang Tianyi used Divine Speed Draw: Echo to wound and throw two Predator Eagle members aside, while Kona charged Luo Yan.
• A female member with a Holy Projection attacked Zhang Tianyi with a poisoned dagger, and the two became entangled in a close-quarters fight that tested his ability to read her unexpected attacks.

Luo Yan and Zhang Tianyi defeated the Snake-Catching Eagles members at the church, but one woman escaped and was caught in a spreading darkness near the base’s edge. After capturing Kona, Qiao Mai Xun began torturing him for the location of Saint Mary Base, while Luo Yan discovered Kona’s daughter’s name and used it to unsettle him.

• Kona summoned a Holy Projection and attacked Luo Yan with a fire dragon tornado, but Luo Yan broke through it, knocked Kona unconscious, and carried him away.
• Zhang Tianyi wounded Kona’s female teammate, but she used her Holy Projection to escape the church and teleport a hundred meters away.
• The woman fled toward the edge of the base, entered a bungalow, and became trapped in darkness that blocked her sight and hearing.
• Kona awoke bound and unable to use his transcendent ability, then refused to reveal the Granary’s location despite Qiao Mai Xun’s threats.
• Qiao Mai Xun tore off Kona’s fingernail during the interrogation as Luo Yan searched Kona’s belongings and found a photograph of a young girl.
• Luo Yan learned through Kona’s thoughts that the girl was named Amy, and Qiao Mai Xun pointed out that she was Kona’s daughter.

After obtaining the location of Freedom Wings’ Saint Mary Base, Luo Yan’s team waited for a massive enemy convoy to pass before setting out to attack the base. At Saint John Port, Zhao Chu prepared the defenders for Freedom Wings’ assault and anticipated a chance to test the Divine Machines against the enemy’s top-tier mechs.

• Luo Yan promised Kona that the Strategic Affairs Department would retrieve his family, and Kona agreed that the Snake-Catching Eagles would work for the department after revealing Saint Mary Base’s location.
• Luo Yan’s team hid as Freedom Wings’ fighter jets and ground forces passed through the abandoned town, then waited until the convoy had gone before preparing to move.
• At Saint John Port, soldiers and Mech Masters entered level-one combat readiness as Freedom Wings’ forces and allied reinforcements advanced.
• Zhao Chu reviewed the enemy’s allied mech forces and declared that the coming battle would finally give the Divine Machines and Apostle Mecha a chance to prove which was superior.

Lieutenant General Byron assessed the forces gathering for the battle over Saint John Port and welcomed German Iron Cavalry generals Conrad and Carmen to Saint Bourne Fortress. As the commanders discussed how to retake the port, an alarm reported unusual activity there.

• Byron reviewed intelligence and concluded that Freedom Wings might be outnumbered by the Strategic Affairs Department and its allies at Saint John Port.
• Byron arrived at Saint Bourne Fortress and welcomed Conrad and Carmen, pilots of the Titan mecha Hercules and Sun God.
• Carmen advocated flattening Saint John Port, but Conrad and Byron objected because Freedom Wings personnel remained inside the harbor.
• Byron said he expected Doctor David's Divine Machine Virus to disable the enemy mecha.
• A communications soldier reported unusual activity at Saint John Port.

Byron watched Cherno Fortress’s convoy approach Saint Bourne Fortress and agreed to let General Carmen confront its Patriot mecha, the Sarmat. Zhao Chu explained that Anatoly’s force was meant to distract the Freedom Wings while the Strategic Affairs Department tried to stop the Ninth Organ’s Round Table Knights from joining the war.

• Byron recognized the Sarmat in the convoy approaching Saint Bourne Fortress and described Zhao Chu as a cautious but daring commander.
• Kate offered to investigate the Strategic Affairs Department’s plans, but Conrad insisted that the German Iron Cavalry would handle the battle.
• Carmen volunteered to test his strength against the Sarmat, and Byron approved his deployment.
• Zhao Chu told Anatoly that Byron would likely treat his force as a probe and ordered him to keep the enemy occupied.
• Zhao Chu said the Strategic Affairs Department would intercept the Round Table Knights and keep the Ninth Organ out of the war.

Bai Qixue and Luo Yan’s team traveled toward Saint Mary Base after learning that Xuannü had been disabled and suspecting Freedom Wings’ mysterious Department M was involved. They reached the guarded village above the underground base and planned to infiltrate an arriving supply convoy while avoiding a fight that could destroy the stored supplies.

• Bai Qixue read a battle report describing recent fighting between Freedom Wings and their forces, including Xuannü’s system failure during maintenance.
• Qiao Mai Xun said Freedom Wings had a secret Department M that researched ways to counter Eastern cultivators and divine engines.
• Luo Yan and the team hid their jeeps in an abandoned town and approached the village guarding Saint Mary Base on foot.
• Luo Yan observed the village’s heavy defenses and identified it as the checkpoint above the underground base.
• Qiao Mai Xun explained the base’s elevator and vehicle-tunnel entrances, and Bai Qixue noted Kona’s identity token might already be invalid.
• Luo Yan proposed infiltrating a supply convoy to take control of the base without damaging its supplies, while Qiao Mai Xun warned that the stationed Apostle Mecha’s pilot alone knew the self-destruct password.

Sweet Ollier ordered a strict inspection of a supply convoy after Major Kona's squad went missing, threatening the Heavenly Fire Squad's covert entry into Saint Mary Base. As the guards searched the trucks, Luo Yan waited for Qiao Mai Xun to intervene while a searchlight swept toward his hiding place.

• Sweet Ollier learned that Major Kona's Snake-Catching Eagles squad had lost contact after reporting that it found Shi Gaiwen, and he revoked Kona's access privileges.
• Sweet Ollier ordered the village guards to inspect the incoming supply convoy strictly and summoned the Grey Wolf Squad.
• Luo Yan's Heavenly Fire Squad hid in the supply convoy as it approached the village gate, where guards demanded that everyone get out and searched the people and vehicles.
• Yang Kui warned Luo Yan that the guards were inspecting the truck undercarriages, but Luo Yan said Mr. Qiao would handle it.
• A guard crouched to inspect the truck beneath which Luo Yan was hiding as a searchlight swept toward it.

The Heavenly Fire Squad infiltrated Saint Mary Base by using Kona's identity token to trigger an alarm that diverted the guards. They split up to sabotage the power plant, seize the Command Hall, and destroy the Mecha Docking Bay, but Yang Kui was spotted by a soldier while entering the power plant.

• Qiao Mai Xun used Kona's identity token to trigger the elevator alarm, allowing the Heavenly Fire Squad to enter the underground base with the convoy.
• Luo Yan divided the squad's mission, sending Li Yuqing and Yang Kui to the power plant, Bai? and the others to the Command Hall, and himself to the Mecha Docking Bay.
• Luo Yan reached the docking bay and identified the standby mecha Justice Apostle, but waited for the power plant operation to begin.
• Li Yuqing used her Wood force to grow vines to an open fourth-floor window, and Yang Kui climbed into an empty office.
• A soldier entered the office and caught sight of Yang Kui as he reached for his pistol.