Chapter Summaries

After the battle with Li Long, Jing Yu credited Zhang Tianyi for his major role, while Luo Yan and Bai? discussed bringing Ning Xi into their team. Elsewhere, a patrol team encountered the Nightmare Giant Beast Zhujian, which attacked before they could escape.

• Jing Yu credited Zhang Tianyi and the others for defeating Li Long, while the team found Zhang Tianyi had already left.
• Bai? reported that You Wu had found no other Giant Beasts, and she and Luo Yan discussed transferring Ning Xi to their team.
• Luo Yan and Bai? agreed not to transfer Xia Yan, and Luo Yan went to speak with the Dragon Riders about piloting a divine mech.
• A six-person base mech team patrolled the dangerous zone and discussed their work after the Desperate Battlefield disappeared.
• The team's radar identified a nearby Nightmare Giant Beast as Zhujian, and the captain ordered a retreat and tried to notify the base.
• Zhujian fired a beam from the mountain forest and pierced Du Jun's mech, causing his portrait to go dark.

Zhujian wiped out a mech squad and headed toward a base, prompting Luo Yan to rush out in Zhurong to stop it. Luo Yan reached the battlefield and saw the squad's wreckage as an explosion rose in the distance.

• Zhujian killed Du Jun with a beam, then destroyed two more mechs with a rain of Light Arrows.
• The captain ordered the surviving pilots to flee while he held Zhujian back, but Zhujian's arrows caught and destroyed the escaping mechs.
• Zhao Chu told Luo Yan that Zhujian had attacked a base squad and was heading toward Tianhong Base, so Luo Yan set out in Zhurong.
• Luo Yan ordered Bai? to return everyone to Iron Horse Base and avoid fighting Nightmare Giant Beasts, and Jing Yu led the others back.
• Luo Yan arrived over the devastated battlefield, saw the scattered mech wreckage, and noticed a distant explosion rising into the sky.

Zhujian attacked Hongguang Base, and the big-bearded captain and his Mecha Squad fought to hold him back. Just as the captain prepared to sacrifice himself, Colonel Luo Yan arrived in the Zhurong mecha and countered Zhujian’s arrow barrage.

• Zhujian advanced on Hongguang Base through its artillery fire, and the big-bearded captain rallied his Mecha Squad to defend the base.
• Zhujian fired a Light River at the Command Building, but the captain and his squad combined their attacks to shatter it.
• Zhujian drew a second Light Arrow and fired it toward the distant heavens, where it broke into hundreds of streams of light and exploded.
• Zhujian turned his Great Bow on an approaching scarlet mecha, but the mecha answered with crimson flames that swallowed his rain of arrows.
• The big-bearded captain recognized the arriving mecha as Zhurong and announced that Colonel Luo Yan had come to save them.

This chapter compilation follows several unrelated conflicts and decisions, including attacks on London, a dangerous encounter with a sand Exotic Beast, and political and military developments in China. It leaves these storylines at different turning points, with characters forming alliances, retreating, and confronting new threats.

• Shan Jun arrived as attacks from multiple directions battered the area around Buckingham Palace.
• Xiao Qiang and Delong shook hands and established a semi-employer relationship.
• Xu Shu, Zhao Feng, and Wei Yan agreed with Sima Wuji to remain in Wu Commandery and marry there.
• Ma Chao retreated after weighing the risks of losing the borrowed troops he had brought from Zhang Lu.
• Aaron was sent flying by a rotating tortoiseshell as a tornado delayed the sand Exotic Beast's reformation.

At Crimson Rock Fortress, Lieutenant Colonel Li Bingyan discovered an unidentified Nightmare Giant Beast advancing through the minefield toward the base. She ordered a Level One alert and prepared the Starbreaker Cannon to fire as soon as the creature entered its firing trajectory.

• Li Bingyan watched lax Mecha Squad members on the Command Hall monitors while her adjutant predicted the Desperate Battlefield would soon be cleared.
• An explosion in the minefield prompted Li Bingyan to order the footage displayed and the Mecha Squads to stand by.
• The footage revealed a river of black worms that advanced through the mines without damage.
• Sky Eye identified the swarm as an unrecorded Nightmare Giant Beast, and Li Bingyan told her staff to notify Captain Zhao Chu about the possible connection to the creature beneath Black Cloud Mountain.
• Li Bingyan ordered a Level One alert, sent noncombat personnel to shelters, and readied all weapons, including the Starbreaker Cannon.
• After learning the Giant Beast could reach the cannon's firing trajectory within ten minutes and the cannon could fire in five, Li Bingyan ordered it to shoot as soon as the creature was in range.

Zhao Chu and Xiang Gucheng rushed to Crimson Rock Fortress after the Nightmare Giant Beast appeared there, while Li Bingyan prepared the Star Crusher to defend the fortress. The Black Giant used a spell resembling Zhujian’s to counter the cannon’s shot, and the chapter ended with smoke and flames obscuring the battlefield.

• Zhao Chu learned that the Nightmare Giant Beast had been spotted near Crimson Rock Fortress and set out with Xiang Gucheng and the Tianwei Squad to stop it.
• The Heaven's Sin Squad also flew toward Crimson Rock Fortress as Li Bingyan prepared the defense and ordered the Fortress Cannon to charge.
• The Nightmare Giant Beast transformed into a Black Giant and raced toward the fortress, prompting Li Bingyan to hurry the Star Crusher's charging process.
• The Black Giant formed a starry longbow resembling Zhujian's spell and aimed an arrow at Crimson Rock Fortress.
• Li Bingyan ordered the Star Crusher to fire, and the Black Giant's starry arrow collided with the Essence Energy Shell in a huge explosion that filled the screens with smoke and flames.

Li Bingyan rallied Crimson Rock Fortress’s mecha pilots to defend the final line against the Black Giant, which wielded sorcery taken from Zhujian and Shan Jun. The Black Giant broke through the defenders and targeted the fortress, but a sudden barrier of azure light stopped its arrows just before they struck.

• Li Bingyan reminded the Mecha Squad of their oath to defend the fortress, and the squads deployed to hold the Black Giant back until the Tianwei Squad arrived.
• The Black Giant emerged from the smoke and used Zhujian’s starlight arrows to destroy five mechas before the survivors reached it.
• The Black Giant used Shan Jun’s Sea of Weapons to repel the mecha squad leaders, then fired at Crimson Rock Fortress; one pilot intercepted the attack, but the remaining starlight blasted a breach through three walls.
• The Black Giant kicked a squad leader’s mecha aside and fired three starlight arrows toward the fortress, but a sheet of azure light rose from the ground and blocked them.

The Tianwei Squad arrived at Crimson Rock Fortress and took over the fight against the Black Giant. Zhao Chu used Growth Heaven’s Boundless Bright Light to strengthen his teammates, and a red mecha broke through the Black Giant’s storm to strike it.

• Li Bingyan saw Zhao Chu’s green light curtain stop the three clusters of starlight, then withdrew the base mecha pilots as he told her the Tianwei Squad would handle the battle.
• The Black Giant tried to attack the retreating pilots, but Growth Heaven cut off its bow-wielding arm and destroyed the black worms that crawled toward the mecha.
• The Black Giant regenerated its arm as the Tianwei Squad arrived and surrounded it.
• Zhao Chu activated Boundless Bright Light, boosting the squad’s combat power, then positioned Growth Heaven between the Black Giant and Crimson Rock Fortress.
• Two Tianwei Squad mecha supported their teammates with defensive techniques while the others advanced through the Black Giant’s weapon-filled storm.
• A red mecha burst through the storm and cleaved its Zhanmadao-like blade into the Black Giant.

Yang Jing and the Tianwei Squad fought the Black Giant, which split itself to evade attacks and used copied Mystic Arts against the mechs. Yang Jing’s spinning Zhanmadao damaged and shrank the giant, but it escaped, and a crimson fire attack struck the regenerating threadworms as they targeted two mechs.

• The Black Giant split apart to evade Yang Jing’s Zhanmadao, then formed black hounds and attacked the mechs with Light Arrows and Golden Tornadoes.
• Two Tianwei Squad mechs destroyed the hounds while their teammates countered the giant’s spells, and Yang Jing charged through the Light Arrows toward it.
• Yang Jing thrust her Zhanmadao into the Black Giant, then spun it to pull in and grind the giant’s threadworms.
• A dark-red giant insect used tough feelers to stop the Zhanmadao, allowing the Black Giant to escape in a smaller form.
• The dead hound insects regenerated and swam toward two Tianwei Squad mechs, but two masses of crimson fire fell onto them.

Luo Yan and the Heaven's Sin Squad arrived to help fight the Black Giant, which Luo Yan identified as a body created by the Viper Dragon's larvae. The squad struck the creature and hit the Viper Dragon inside it with a lightning blade, leaving the parasite writhing in pain.

• Luo Yan arrived in Zhurong as the Heaven's Sin Squad joined the battle around the Black Giant.
• Luo Yan identified the Viper Dragon inside the Black Giant and explained its parasitism, puppeteering, theft, and fusion abilities.
• Yang Jing and Xiang Gucheng confirmed that a dark-red insect was the Viper Dragon's true body, and the squad prepared to destroy the Black Giant and kill it.
• A Heaven's Sin Squad sniper blasted open the Black Giant's chest, but Luo Yan saw that the Viper Dragon had moved to its lower abdomen.
• Zhou Xiong struck the Black Giant's abdomen with a lightning blade, piercing the Viper Dragon and scorching its larvae.

A recovery squad found Shan Jun’s corpse strangely stripped of its organs and brain, while the Viper Dragon used Shan Jun’s essence to transform into a powerful black river and tried to flee the battlefield. Luo Yan and the Heaven’s Sin Squad stopped its advance, but the Viper Dragon secretly sent Black Threads underground.

• A recovery squad examined Shan Jun’s burned corpse and found that its chest cavity and skull were empty, so the captain ordered the squad to leave.
• The Viper Dragon transformed into a black river and surged toward Zhurong, hoping to break through and escape into the Desperate Battlefield.
• Luo Yan drew Chang Li and swept a wall of scarlet fire across the Viper Dragon’s path, halting its charge.
• A Heaven’s Sin Squad mecha fired into the black river, and Zhou Xiong followed with a sword attack that forced the Viper Dragon onto the defensive.
• Luo Yan spotted Black Threads slipping underground beneath the black river, apparently trying to cross the Chencang in secret.

Luo Yan killed Zhujian and learned that an unregistered giant beast was attacking Crimson Rock Fortress, so he rushed there to help. Meanwhile, Qin Feng and the Tianji Squad killed Shan Jun, but a worm crawled out of its corpse after they left.

• Luo Yan recovered Zhujian's Soul Jade after Samadhi True Fire burned the giant beast and its remains to ashes.
• Bai ? told Luo Yan that the Tianji Squad was fighting Shan Jun and an unregistered giant beast had attacked Crimson Rock Fortress; Luo Yan sent Bai ? to protect Iron Horse Base and flew toward the fortress.
• Qin Feng and the Tianji Squad wounded Shan Jun with Xiyuan and Wangxiao, then destroyed its body with electric plasma and claimed victory.
• Qin Feng learned that Luo Yan had killed Zhujian, ordered his team to recover Shan Jun's Soul Jade, and left the area.
• A threadlike worm crawled out of Shan Jun's eye socket after the Tianji Squad departed.

Heaven’s Sin Squad slew Viper Dragon, lifting the alarm and showing that humanity could now defeat Nightmare Giant Beasts without deploying a divine mecha. As the Nether Particles began to disperse and bases prepared to evacuate the Desperate Battlefield, Luo Yan received word that Heavenly Fire Squad could return to Jinge City.

• Heaven’s Sin Squad’s sniper mecha killed Viper Dragon with a golden energy attack, and its Soul Jade fell to the ground.
• Zhao Chu announced that the alarm was lifted, and personnel at Crimson Rock Fortress celebrated the victory.
• Luo Yan returned to Iron Horse Base, where Bai? embraced him and the Dragon Riders asked him about the battle.
• Three days later, Luo Yan and Bai? saw the sky clear as Nether Particles diminished and the first evacuees from Hongguang Base approached.
• Luo Yan received a message that Heavenly Fire Squad could return to Jinge City.

Luo Yan said goodbye to Qin Feng as he prepared to leave, while Qin Feng promised he was catching up to him. After the Desperate Battlefield was cleared, Jinge City celebrated humanity’s victory, and He Hao revealed that Su Jiu had agreed to marry him.

• Qin Feng visited Luo Yan before his departure and said he would soon stand shoulder to shoulder with him.
• Luo Yan and Qin Feng discussed the cleared battlefield, the Viper Dragon, and their teams’ achievements.
• Jinge City celebrated the successful operation with fireworks, which marked humanity’s counterattack against the giant beasts.
• Bai? told Luo Yan that He Hao had returned to Jinge City with Su Jiu, so Luo Yan joined them at a rooftop bar.
• He Hao drank with Luo Yan and announced that Su Jiu had agreed to marry him.

After He Hao proposed to Su Jiu, he revealed that he and the others would soon return to Cherno Fortress. The next day, Luo Yan survived a dangerous backlash while cultivating Nine Kowtows to the Heavenly Gate, then went to the laboratory, where Bai Shaotang prepared to test a Heavenly Ghost Soul Crystal.

• He Hao proposed to Su Jiu and said their wedding would wait until after he returned from Cherno Fortress.
• He Hao and Dong Huang explained that they would soon help allies clear Desperate Battlefields, where Nightmare Giant Beasts had become less formidable.
• Luo Yan nearly lost his will when Nine Kowtows to the Heavenly Gate backfired, but the Pure Yang True Fire and Xuanqiu's blood energy helped him regain control.
• Luo Yan decided to cultivate the secret technique more carefully and planned to ask Bai Shaotang to transfer Ning Xi to the Heavenly Fire Squad.
• Luo Yan found Bai Shaotang at the laboratory, where Bai Shaotang announced the first experiment on a Heavenly Ghost Soul Crystal.

Luo Yan joined Bai Shaotang at a laboratory experiment to test whether Heavenly Ghost Soul Crystals could enhance Divine General mechas. After Luo Yan refined Zhekui’s remnant soul, the researchers safely resumed the experiment and confirmed that the crystal’s energy could be used.

• Bai Shaotang explained that Xie Yingying believed Heavenly Ghost Soul Crystals could raise Divine General mechas’ performance to the level of ordinary divine mecha.
• Luo Yan used his Divine Treasure to identify the crystal as the dwelling place of a Heavenly Ghost’s remnant soul.
• The crystal released Zhekui’s weak Red Beast remnant soul, and Luo Yan entered the laboratory to confront it.
• Luo Yan summoned the Fire Yang True Lord, who burned away the remnant soul with Crimson Gold Flame.
• The researchers restarted the experiment and confirmed that the Heavenly Ghost Soul Crystal’s energy could be utilized.

Luo Yan learned that the Heavenly Ghost soul crystals had been cleared of dangerous remnants, then watched Wang Meng unveil and pilot the newly converted divine machine Xing Tian. On the moon, a machine examined a colossal Bronze Gate carved with the image of a chained woman pierced by a sword.

• Fire Yang True Lord refined the remaining Heavenly Ghost soul remnants, making the soul crystals safe to use.
• Xie Dingzhong announced that divine machine experiments would begin the following week, and Bai Shaotang said Bai Qixue had volunteered to pilot Xuannü.
• Luo Yan returned to Dragon Rider Base and learned that the Ruins' Divine Remnant had been converted into the divine machine Xing Tian.
• Wang Meng emerged from Xing Tian's cockpit to greet the gathered Dragon Riders, then piloted the machine toward the training grounds.
• On the moon, a white spider-legged machine illuminated and recorded a towering Bronze Gate carved with a shackled woman pierced by a sword.

Luo Yan piloted Zhurong to stand by as Bai Qixue tested the Heavenly Ghost Soul Crystal in Xuannü, which revealed the Divine Mecha’s Dao Field, the Tai Xuan Sword Pool. The field vanished quickly and drained nearly all of Bai Qixue’s Mystic Qi, leaving its usefulness in combat uncertain.

• A figure on Earth viewed an image of the Bronze Gate and its portrait, then declared, “Found it!”
• Luo Yan finished cultivating and reflected that opening the Tai Xiao Gate had sped up his Yellow Court Canon cultivation.
• Bai Shaotang ordered Luo Yan to pilot Zhurong to the training ground while Bai Qixue tested the Heavenly Ghost Soul Crystal in Xuannü.
• Xuannü unleashed the Tai Xuan Sword Pool, and Luo Yan’s Divine Treasure identified it as the mecha’s degraded Dao Field.
• The Tai Xuan Sword Pool disappeared in under a minute, leaving Bai Qixue with almost no Mystic Qi.

Bai Shaotang and the others successfully tested a new divine mecha system, named it the Dao Field System, and recognized the Heavenly Ghost Soul Crystal as a vital strategic resource. After seeing off squads deploying to Cherno Fortress, Luo Yan welcomed Ning Xi to the Heavenly Fire Squad.

• Bai Qixue's experiment with the Heavenly Ghost Soul Crystal and the unnamed system succeeded, though it consumed her Mystic Qi rapidly.
• Bai Shaotang and Xie Dingzhong agreed to refine the prototype for combat and named it the Dao Field System.
• Luo Yan and Bai Qixue joined others in seeing off He Hao, Hanna, Yang Ziqi, Xia Yan, and other squads heading to Cherno Fortress.
• Yang Ziqi asked Luo Yan and Bai Qixue if they had seen Fu Yan and complained that he was ignoring her calls.
• Ning Xi reported for duty at the Heavenly Fire Squad, and Murong Xuan took him to see the dormitory.

Luo Yan trained Jing Yu and Ning Xi in front of the Dragon Riders, defeating their coordinated attacks with ease. He then explained the exchange and shared his combat experience with them.

• Young Dragon Riders gathered at the Training Hall to watch Luo Yan instruct Jing Yu and Ning Xi.
• Luo Yan told Jing Yu and Ning Xi to steady their minds before beginning their training spar.
• Jing Yu attacked first, but Luo Yan deflected his sword and avoided Ning Xi's follow-up thrust.
• Jing Yu and Ning Xi attacked Luo Yan together, but he disarmed their efforts, struck Ning Xi away, and stopped his sword above Jing Yu's head.
• Luo Yan helped Jing Yu up, called Ning Xi over, and explained the fight while sharing his experience.