Chapter Summaries

Luo Yan led the Heavenly Fire Squad to welcome Freedom Wings’ convoy and learned that it was bringing the Holy Grail to Jinge City. A Jambudvipa Rift opened near the convoy, and a Screaming Snake emerged, leaving Ning Xi to confront it in Silver Flower.

• Luo Yan and the Heavenly Fire Squad boarded their mecha and departed Dragon Rider Base for Jinge City.
• The squad discussed why Freedom Wings had sent the Holy Grail and why Bai Shaotang had assigned them to greet the guests.
• Luo Yan spotted Freedom Wings’ convoy approaching and ordered the squad to prepare to receive it.
• A Jambudvipa Rift opened near the convoy, and a Screaming Snake emerged into the Mortal World.
• Luo Yan sent Ning Xi to handle the Screaming Snake, which attacked Silver Flower with a spreading sea of crimson flame.

The Heavenly Fire Squad escorted the Freedom Wings convoy to the Strategic Affairs Department, where Puller delivered the Holy Grail and demonstrated its healing power. Puller also reported that Michael had appeared in the Ruins and was assembling an angelic army.

• Ning Xi used her Ultimate Skill, Shuying, to freeze the Giant Snake, and Luo Yan's squad escorted the convoy into the city.
• Luo Yan met Puller, who had been promoted to general, at the Strategic Affairs Department.
• Puller demonstrated that water poured into the Holy Grail became blood wine that healed injuries among his own race.
• Bai Shaotang accepted responsibility for guarding the Holy Grail, while Puller said his people would help protect it.
• Puller reported that Michael had killed several search teams in the Ruins and that three angelic tombs had been destroyed, with their remains missing.

The Strategic Affairs Department decided to send Luo Yan’s Heavenly Fire Squad to track Michael in the Ruins of Return, with Pulle and another squad assisting. As the team prepared to leave in a few days, Ning Xi asked to join, and Luo Yan told her to consider the risks before answering.

• Pulle urged Bai Shaotang to strike first against Michael, and Bai asked him to wait three days for a decision.
• Bai Shaotang revealed that the department had already planned to track Michael and assigned the operation to Luo Yan’s Heavenly Fire Squad, with Pulle and another squad joining them.
• Luo Yan asked that Ning Xi stay behind, but Ning Xi insisted on going; Luo Yan warned her that the mission could end in death and told her to decide within three days.
• At the Sunshine Welfare Institute, Luo Yan and Xiao Bai prepared dinner, and Luo Yan told Zhou Lijuan that the team would be away on a mission for a while.

Luo Yan tested Ning Xi’s resolve to enter the Ruins, then agreed to take him along after Ning Xi stood firm. The Heavenly Fire Squad and Tian Xiong Squad set out for the North Sea Base, where Dong Huang asked Luo Yan to transfer him away from Li Meng’s squad.

• Luo Yan used his overwhelming presence to challenge Ning Xi’s readiness for the Ruins, but Ning Xi insisted that he would go as long as he remained in the Heavenly Fire Squad.
• Luo Yan ended the test and told Ning Xi to pack, while Bai Shaotang, Jing Yu, Li Yuqing, and Murong Xuan revealed they had been eavesdropping outside.
• Bai Shaotang accepted Pulle’s proposal on behalf of the Strategic Affairs Department, and the Heavenly Fire Squad and Tian Xiong Squad boarded a plane for the North Sea Base to search for Michael with Freedom Wings.
• Luo Yan met Li Meng and Mei Ying aboard the plane and learned that the Tian Xiong Squad had repeatedly replaced its members after heavy casualties and Li Meng’s reckless leadership.
• Dong Huang told Luo Yan and Bai Shaotang that he had recently been transferred to the Tian Xiong Squad and asked Luo Yan to move him to the Heavenly Fire Squad.

Li Meng relentlessly beat Zhang Tianyi in the Training Hall, then challenged Captain Luo for command authority over the operation and a chance to fight Michael. Mei Ying dragged Li Meng away before Captain Luo could respond, but Captain Luo decided the matter was not over.

• Li Meng repeatedly struck Zhang Tianyi, who refused to surrender until he could no longer hold his wooden sword.
• Jing Yu tried to intervene, but Zhang Tianyi pushed him aside and insisted on continuing the fight.
• Captain Luo arrived, stopped Li Meng’s attack, shattered his wooden sword, and confirmed Zhang Tianyi had suffered no serious injuries.
• Li Meng challenged Captain Luo to a sparring match with command authority over the operation as the wager.
• Mei Ying apologized for Li Meng and dragged him out, while Xiao Xiao remarked that Mei Ying was his weakness.
• Captain Luo decided not to let Li Meng’s actions go unanswered.

Luo Yan used the Golden Eyes of Enlightenment at the Angel Grave Pit to confirm that Michael, still using Morton's body, had resurrected several angels and sent them flying deeper into Guixu. Luo Yan and his companions followed their trail toward an unknown region at the edge of Area 51.

• Luo Yan examined the Angel Grave Pit and used the Golden Eyes of Enlightenment to reveal its past.
• Luo Yan saw Michael use silver light to revive the angel corpses and send them flying into Guixu.
• Luo Yan identified Michael as still using Morton's body and pointed out the direction the angels had gone.
• Pulle suggested Michael might be replacing angels he had lost, while Li Meng urged them to find him.
• Luo Yan ordered the convoy to pursue Michael's trail, and Pulle warned that it led into an unknown region near the edge of Area 51.

Luo Yan and Freedom Wings fought the Forked Tongue Tribe, whose members could travel through the Ruins at night, and captured several for later study. As the convoy continued tracking Michael, two scouting vehicles vanished from contact in a gloomy mountain range, and Luo Yan prepared to investigate.

• A silver-haired old man realized humans were tracking him, then led kneeling giants toward a towering mountain beyond a sea of clouds.
• The Forked Tongue Tribe attacked Freedom Wings’ convoy at night, and Luo Yan learned that the aliens could see in darkness and avoid the Ruins’ random teleportation.
• Luo Yan asked Puler to capture members of the tribe, and Freedom Wings captured several after its transcendent beings drove the attackers back.
• Luo Yan and Bai? inspected the captured aliens but left them imprisoned when they could not communicate with them.
• The convoy resumed tracking Michael, but two escort vehicles stopped reporting after entering a gloomy mountain range, so Luo Yan ordered the convoy to halt and decided to investigate.

Luo Yan used his Divine Soul, Fire Yang True Lord, to intimidate the Forked Tongue Tribe prisoners and discovered they revered him as a Heavenly God. He opened their cage to see whether they would lead the way, but the group scattered and was quickly captured again, while one member approached him submissively.

• Bai Qixue suggested that Luo Yan use Fire Yang True Lord to make the Forked Tongue Tribe lead them, and Luo Yan agreed to try it.
• Luo Yan manifested Fire Yang True Lord before the caged Forked Tongue Tribe, who eventually knelt and kowtowed to him.
• Luo Yan used his Divine Treasure to read one prisoner's thoughts and learned that the Forked Tongue Tribe believed Fire Yang True Lord was a living Heavenly God who could protect them.
• Luo Yan ordered the cage opened, and one Forked Tongue Tribe member approached him while the others scattered in different directions.
• Li Meng and the Heavenly Fire Squad recaptured the fleeing Forked Tongue Tribe members, and Luo Yan told the submissive one to come with him.

Luo Yan’s group fought off the Yan Huo Tribe and Huo Dou pups, whose ability to devour light had plunged the mechs into darkness. He pursued the fleeing aliens with the Forked Tongue Tribe member, which led the group to a place where a stream of flame vanished into another space.

• The Huo Dou pups inhaled the mechs’ lamplight, plunging the battlefield into darkness as the Yan Huo Tribe and black hounds charged.
• Luo Yan ordered the mechs to prepare for battle, and the Great Swordsman, Wuxing, Ink Dot, and Dong Huang tore through the attacking aliens with their abilities.
• The surviving Yan Huo Tribe members and Huo Dou pups fled toward a forest, and Luo Yan ordered Zhurong to pursue them.
• Jing Yu reported that the Forked Tongue Tribe member had grown agitated, so Luo Yan told him to let it out, suspecting it feared a random teleportation event in the dark.
• The Forked Tongue Tribe member led the group to an apparently ordinary spot, where Luo Yan’s test flame vanished as if it had entered another space.

Luo Yan led his team through the forest to an abandoned Yan Huo Tribe settlement, where they found evidence of the tribe’s customs and worship. A mural showed the tribe venerating Huo Dou, while a snake appeared near the volcano, its meaning unclear.

• Luo Yan had a Forked Tongue Tribe member guide the team through the wilderness and into the forest without encountering another Teleportation Anchor.
• Luo Yan and the team discovered the forest’s trees had fossilized and the cracked ground resembled cooled lava.
• Luo Yan found an abandoned settlement surrounded by stakes bearing the dried corpses of Exotic Beasts and foreign races.
• The Forked Tongue Tribe member mourned its dead and threw stones at the abandoned houses.
• Jing Yu showed Luo Yan a mural depicting the Yan Huo Tribe worshipping Huo Dou inside a volcano, with a snake painted nearby.

Luo Yan and the others witnessed Huo Dou, a Mystical Beast known as the Fire-eating Beast, emerge from the stone gate and attack the Yan Huo Tribe’s camp. Huo Dou unleashed its Calamity Flame and charged Dong Huang’s mecha, leaving its arm armor cracked by a powerful bite.

• The Yan Huo Tribe piled carbon stones outside the stone gate, set them ablaze, and gathered around them as a deep roar sounded from within.
• Huo Dou emerged from the gate, devoured much of the burning carbon mountain, and ignited fires throughout the camp with its roars.
• Huo Dou breathed Calamity Flame at Dong Huang’s mecha, swallowing its counterattack and destroying the Extreme Armor Suit attached to it.
• Huo Dou smashed through the camp walls and pounced on Dong Huang’s mecha, biting its arm hard enough to crack the Divine General Mecha’s armor.

After Huo Dou restored daylight and fled, Luo Yan explored its volcano and discovered a vast relief of an ancient tree. An expert scholar identified the tree as Jianmu, leaving the expedition with a new mystery to investigate.

• Huo Dou swallowed the light to erase Dong Huang’s shadow attack, then released the light and fled, restoring normal day and night and ending the area’s anomalous spaces.
• Luo Yan sent Dong Huang back to guide Li Meng and the others to the camp, then piloted Zhu Rong into the volcano.
• Luo Yan explored a vast magma lake and found no trace of the Giant Snake depicted in the mural.
• After deactivating his Divine Treasure ability, Luo Yan noticed an enormous relief of an ancient tree bearing Mystical Beasts, a divine dragon, and a city.
• On the afternoon of the second day, the expert scholar examined the relief and identified it as Jianmu.

Luo Yan and the research team investigated the Yan Huo Tribe’s camp, where Doctor Liu identified a mountain relief as Jianmu and judged that the legendary tree likely existed in the Ruins. Elsewhere, a silver-haired old man flew toward a mountain above a sea of clouds, where Fierce Beasts—including a dragon-headed, bull-shaped creature—guarded the way.

• The researchers photographed the Yan Huo Tribe’s camp and examined its architecture while collecting belongings and samples.
• Doctor Liu told Luo Yan and Li Meng that a mountain relief depicted Jianmu and said it strongly suggested Jianmu existed in the Ruins.
• Luo Yan and the others rested at the camp until morning before continuing to track Michael.
• A silver-haired old man sent four remaining winged giants across the sea of clouds toward a towering mountain, hoping to reach the legendary Kunlun Palace.
• A dragon-headed, bull-shaped Fierce Beast emerged from the clouds and attacked with lightning, but the old man ordered the giants to scatter and escape.
• The old man avoided the region occupied by the powerful Azure Dragon Divine Beast as the giants continued toward the mountain.

The silver-haired old man approached the mountain where he believed Kunlun Palace and the Creator’s Holy Body lay, but powerful Dragon Beasts and a concealed storm blocked his way. He escaped the dangers with only two giants left, then flew toward the mountain wall, where he expected further trouble.

• The silver-haired old man recalled the ancient Eastern Gods and their Dragon Beast companions as he approached the mountain, hoping to find Kunlun Palace, the Creator’s Holy Body, and the Holy Grail.
• A Crimson Dragon appeared and attacked the four giants with flames while a green dragon bound another giant in branches and turned it into wood.
• The old man’s remaining giants escaped the dragons, but one was engulfed by fire and burned to ashes.
• A hidden storm battered the last two giants, so the old man used his authority to enhance their power and help them escape.
• The old man saw the sacred mountain and flew the two damaged giants toward its wall, expecting more trouble as they climbed.

The silver-haired old man and two giants flew up the mountainside, where deadly thunder killed one giant and left the other badly injured. Michael survived a golden thunder pillar, but Formlessness Heavenly Fire destroyed his Energy Body, and the old man fell into the darkness of night.

• The old man protected himself and the two giants as thunder pillars began striking them on the mountainside.
• The two giants took turns fighting the thunder, but one was killed by a massive lightning strike and the other was severely wounded.
• The old man withdrew power from the surviving giant and summoned Michael's Energy Body to face a golden thunder pillar.
• Michael blocked the golden thunder with his Sacred Shield, which shattered as the dark clouds dispersed.
• Formlessness Heavenly Fire engulfed Michael and burned his Energy Body away, leaving the silver-haired old man falling alone.
• Darkness swept over the old man, and night fell.

Michael was randomly teleported to a valley near a Dark Zone and fled from a gigantic armored snake while weakened by the Formlessness Heavenly Fire. Meanwhile, Luo Yan’s convoy prepared to leave the Yan Huo Tribe camp and continued along the route where Michael had gone.

• Michael escaped the Dragon Beasts when the sea of clouds vanished and found himself on a grassy slope near the Nether Valley.
• Michael realized he had been teleported close to the Dark Zone and feared that the humans would find him while he was too weak to fight.
• A gigantic armored snake appeared, and Michael ran toward the canyon to escape it.
• At the Yan Huo Tribe camp, Luo Yan and Xiao Bai discussed Michael, Kunlun Palace, and Li Meng’s offer to handle future trouble.
• Luo Yan sent Xiao Bai to notify Doctor Liu and the others, and the convoy left the camp heading in the direction Michael had taken.

Colonel Luo’s Exploration team crossed a barren wasteland marked by weathered Snake Pillars and reached a vast ruined town. They prepared to leave the next morning to continue tracking Michael, while Tian Xiong Squad took watch amid an unsettling atmosphere.

• After leaving the region where Huo Dou hid, Colonel Luo used his Divine Treasure to spot the route toward a distant canyon and led the team across the wasteland.
• The team photographed and restored images of ancient Snake Pillars, and Colonel Luo warned that the serpent depicted on them might be a Mystical Beast.
• The Exploration team reached a ruined town beside a dried-up river, and Doctor Liu urged Colonel Luo to let him study its ruins.
• Colonel Luo said they would leave in the morning, so Doctor Liu sent his students and assistants to document the town before dark.
• Li Meng said the town felt unsettling and assigned Tian Xiong Squad to stand watch that night.
• Colonel Luo rode into the town with Jing Yu and Bai as the convoy passed the ruined entrance and entered the ancient settlement.

Luo Yan and Doctor Liu’s team identified the stone tree as Jianmu and learned that Kunlun Palace might be reached through a guarded Teleportation Anchor in its branches. As night fell, Luo Yan heard a crowd whispering in the depths of the ancient town.

• Luo Yan and P Le joined Doctor Liu, who showed them an image identifying the ancient city’s main hall as Kunlun Palace.
• Doctor Liu identified the enormous stone carving as Jianmu and ordered his students to document it and build a model.
• Luo Yan agreed to stay overnight near the stone carving to protect the researchers as they continued working under searchlights.
• Doctor Liu’s team found a stone gate on a Jianmu branch, guarded by a human-faced serpent they recognized as the Candle Dragon, and identified the gate as a Teleportation Anchor.
• Luo Yan heard faint whispers and sensed several people discussing something in the depths of the ancient town.

Luo Yan discovered that the figures appearing in the ancient town were Wandering Souls created from victims devoured by the Feng Snake, not part of the Wandering Valley phenomenon. As countless Wandering Souls converged on the town, Luo Yan fought one off, and Dong Huang arrived in his Divine General Mecha.

• Strange lights and bloodied animal-hide lanterns filled the ancient town as enormous, deformed figures emerged, and Doctor Liu wondered if they were the Wandering Valley phenomenon.
• Luo Yan used his Divine Treasure to identify the figures as Wandering Souls formed from beings devoured by the Feng Snake, then shared what he learned with Li Meng and the others.
• A four-armed Wandering Soul with eyes covering its arms spotted Luo Yan and howled, drawing the other spirits toward him as Li Meng saw countless more streaming toward the town.
• The Wandering Soul reached for Luo Yan and wailed, but Pure Yang True Fire protected him, and he slashed its arm with Blazing Prairie.
• Dark blades and a black crescent struck the Wandering Soul, dispersing it into green smoke, and Dong Huang's Divine General Mecha emerged from the haze.

Li Meng held the ancient town’s pass with Gou Chen as countless Wandering Souls surged toward it, while the others fought their way out. Colonel Luo and Bai? countered a giant head that attacked them with mysterious eyes, but the chapter ended as the street plunged into darkness.

• Colonel Luo left the Tian Xiong Squad fighting in the ancient town and joined the convoy in Zhurong.
• Li Meng stayed behind in Gou Chen and summoned thunderclouds as a vast tide of Wandering Souls approached.
• Pulle was afflicted by a giant, many-eyed Wandering Soul, and his Sacrifice Apostle stopped moving.
• Colonel Luo burned the eyes that appeared in his cockpit with Fire Yang True Lord and identified the giant head as their source.
• Bai? attacked the giant head with the Headless General, scattering it into hundreds of smaller heads.
• The ancient town’s street suddenly fell into darkness.