Chapter Summaries

Guan City Base was running out of supplies, so Han Xu planned a breakout in three days and chose to stay behind as a decoy. Huang Yuanlong recognized Han Xu’s strategy and continued the siege, while Yang Tao urged Han Xu to hold on until her teacher could help.

• Yang Tao attended Han Xu’s meeting, where he explained that Guan City Base was nearly out of supplies and could not defeat Huangquan’s powerful fighters.
• Han Xu assigned Yang Tao to escort the wounded and gave Yang Hao and Zhuo Hu their breakout missions, while deciding to stay behind and draw Huangquan’s attention.
• Yang Tao urged Han Xu to keep hoping that her teacher, Mister Red Ghost, would find a way to help.
• Liu Rui demanded that Huang Yuanlong stop waiting, but Huang Yuanlong said Han Xu’s brief trip outside showed the base was near its limit and that he was looking for an escape route.
• Huang Yuanlong recalled how Han Xu had disrupted Huangquan’s siege and nearly killed Yang Jing, leaving several of Huangquan’s ministers reluctant to fight at full strength.

Huang Yuanlong prepared to attack Guan City Base within three days, while Zhu Dai hesitated to delete Han Xu’s offer to defect. Luo Yan reached Five Rams Underground City, learned how badly The Unreturning had struck his allies, and met with Li Chenyu, Yu Qiushui, and Zhang Yugu to plan their next move.

• Huang Yuanlong said Han Xu and his forces would be exhausted within three days and promised to fight Han Xu himself.
• Zhu Dai reconsidered Han Xu’s message offering her a place with Mister Red Ghost, but decided to keep it until after Guan City Base fell.
• Luo Yan arrived in Five Rams Underground City and met Zheng Liangcai, who reported that The Unreturning had attacked its rival groups and destroyed Luo Yan’s support network.
• Zheng Liangcai told Luo Yan that Guan Qi and Pu Er were imprisoned in the city, but Luo Yan chose to deal with Guan City Base first.
• Luo Yan disguised himself and met Li Chenyu, Yu Qiushui, and Zhang Yugu at Liu Ji’s Sweetwater Shop.

Luo Yan planned to meet Huang Yuanlong at the Yellow Springs camp while Han Xu prepared an attack to draw out its mechas. Huang Yuanlong discovered that the recent mecha malfunction had been caused by a hack just as Guan City Base launched its forces.

• Luo Yan told Han Xu he would make his move during the day after tomorrow and asked him to attack the Yellow Springs camp after Luo Yan left.
• Luo Yan stayed secretly in Han Xu’s room, and Yang Tao slept soundly with her teacher nearby.
• Huang Yuanlong reviewed footage of a malfunctioning mecha and ordered Engineer Liu to investigate it within an hour.
• Han Xu deployed Guan City Base’s mechas, prompting Huang Yuanlong to order his forces to attack.
• Engineer Liu reported that someone had hacked into and controlled the malfunctioning mecha on the night before last.

Huang Yuanlong suspected that Mister Red Ghost had returned and summoned Liu Rui and the Night Roaming Gods to protect him. As the mecha battle drew Yellow Springs’ forces away, Luo Yan and Yang Tao approached the Command Tent, where Luo Yan prepared to face Huang Yuanlong and Liu Rui himself.

• Engineer Liu insisted that hackers could not control a mecha through the Empathy System, leaving Huang Yuanlong unable to explain the signal record.
• Huang Yuanlong suspected Mister Red Ghost had returned, summoned Liu Rui and the Night Roaming Gods, and ordered the camp to remain alert.
• Liu Rui arrived at the Command Center and questioned Huang Yuanlong, who told him to stay close in case Mister Red Ghost attacked.
• Zhu Dai and Yang Jing led Yellow Springs’ mecha into battle against the advancing forces from Guan City Base.
• Luo Yan and Yang Tao disguised themselves as Yellow Springs soldiers and headed toward the Command Tent while Han Xu warned that Liu Rui had stayed behind.
• Luo Yan decided he would have to face both Huang Yuanlong and Liu Rui himself because Yang Tao could not hold Liu Rui back.

Luo Yan fought Huang Yuanlong, who used Mirror Space to redirect attacks, and discovered that the mirrors had a limit and could be shattered. After breaking them and sending his clones after Huang Yuanlong, Luo Yan concealed himself among the clones to test the limits of Huang Yuanlong’s borrowed abilities.

• Luo Yan attacked Huang Yuanlong, but Mirror Space redirected parts of Ming Ye toward Luo Yan, and Huang Yuanlong struck him with his iron palms.
• Luo Yan survived the blow and used Divine Treasure Vision to identify Huang Yuanlong’s mirrors and their capacity limits.
• Luo Yan summoned more than two hundred clones, which attacked the mirrors in groups and shattered them.
• Luo Yan sent the clones after Huang Yuanlong, who redirected their Stunning Radiance attacks through a temporary mirror and destroyed many of them.
• Luo Yan spread out the remaining clones and moved among them with matching attack strength to conceal himself while observing Huang Yuanlong’s abilities.

Luo Yan used his observations of Huang Yuanlong’s Chaos abilities to counter the mist and press the attack. The chapter ended with Huang Yuanlong’s hands severed and a silent Que Tian Sword piercing his Heaven Aperture.

• Huang Yuanlong used Chaos’s confusion ability to make the avatars slaughter one another, then erased the remaining avatars with a black vortex.
• Luo Yan concluded that Huang Yuanlong could not travel through Mirror Space and recognized the fog he summoned as Chaos’s illusion-producing mist.
• Huang Yuanlong attacked Luo Yan in the fog, but Luo Yan burned one of his eyes with Scorching Delusion and stabbed his right chest with Ming Ye.
• Huang Yuanlong used the forgetting ability in an attempt to stop Luo Yan, then retreated when he could not tell whether Luo Yan was truly affected.
• Huang Yuanlong tried to open Mirror Space to divert the descending Que Tian Sword, but Luo Yan severed both his hands before the sword pierced his Heaven Aperture.

Luo Yan killed Huang Yuanlong, reunited with Yang Tao, and questioned a Yellow Springs captive while their forces battled on. After Luo Yan announced Huang Yuanlong’s death and Liu Rui’s capture over the camp broadcast, Yellow Springs’s troops realized the battle had turned against them.

• Luo Yan’s Que Tian Sword destroyed Huang Yuanlong’s organs, killing him before he lost consciousness.
• Luo Yan found Yang Tao after she killed the last Night Roaming God, then brought her to question an unconscious captive.
• Luo Yan told the captive that Huang Yuanlong was dead and demanded answers in exchange for his life.
• Zhu Dai and Yang Jing continued fighting Han Xu’s Purple Frost mecha without gaining an advantage, while Huang Yuanlong and Liu Rui remained absent.
• An explosion struck Yellow Springs’s communications room, and Luo Yan broadcast that Huang Yuanlong was dead and Liu Rui had been captured.
• Guan City Base’s troops cheered as Yellow Springs’s forces heard Luo Yan’s surrender demand.

After defeating 'Yellow Springs', Luo Yan claimed its mechas and supplies and agreed to meet Zhu Dai, who offered clues about 'Great Mister'. Zhu Dai was separated from her retreating comrades, and the chapter ended when Luo Yan arrived to meet her at night.

• Luo Yan chose not to pursue 'Yellow Springs' and divided its captured mechas and supplies among his forces.
• Han Xu told Luo Yan that Zhu Dai wanted to meet, and Luo Yan agreed after hearing she had clues about 'Great Mister'.
• Zhu Dai avoided Yang Jing's probing questions while 'Yellow Springs' argued over command and came under attack from 'Black Witch'.
• Yu Qiushui's forces intercepted 'Yellow Springs', and Yang Jing ordered the group to leave Zhu Dai behind when she became separated.
• Luo Yan arrived in the Phantom and met Zhu Dai among the ruins at night.

Zhu Dai told Luo Yan that she knew Great Mister’s location, but Yang Jing’s surveillance interrupted their meeting. Luo Yan forced Yang Jing to swallow a harmless substance and sent him away, then pressed Zhu Dai to reveal where Great Mister was.

• Zhu Dai met Luo Yan and said she knew where Great Mister was.
• Luo Yan spotted a follower, and Zhu Dai attacked him with her Divine General mecha.
• Luo Yan captured the follower and identified him as Yang Jing, who had secretly returned to watch Zhu Dai.
• Yang Jing threatened to expose Zhu Dai, so Luo Yan made him swallow something and told him to return in three months.
• Yang Jing left believing he had been poisoned, and Luo Yan asked Zhu Dai where Great Mister was.

Luo Yan rescued Pu Er and Guan Qi from their prison in Five Rams Underground City, then met Priest Chang Yu to arrange action against the Suo Po Association. Chang Yu agreed to keep the association from interfering with Luo Yan’s operation, though its biological weapons remained a danger.

• Pu Er remained chained and weakened in Yellow Springs captivity, fearing that Guan City Base had fallen and that Mister Red Ghost would not return in time.
• Luo Yan arrived, freed Pu Er from her chains and suppression device, and had her and Guan Qi taken away to recover.
• Luo Yan went to the Western Cult’s office in Five Rams Underground City to meet Priest Chang Yu.
• Luo Yan told Chang Yu that Huang Yuanlong was dead and Yellow Springs had been defeated, and warned that the Suo Po Association might help Yellow Springs next.
• Chang Yu promised that the Western Cult would prevent the Suo Po Association from interfering, and Luo Yan warned him about its biological weapons.

Luo Yan arranged the Western Cult’s cooperation against the Suo Po Association and sent his allies to track down Yellow Springs’ leader and surviving members. After learning that Old Ma was alive but trapped in a town, Luo Yan prepared to act.

• Luo Yan told Chang Yu to contact Yu Qiushui if he could not be reached, and Chang Yu admitted that the Western Cult had deliberately delayed rescuing Guan City Base.
• Chang Yu and the other priests planned the Western Cult’s operation against the Suo Po Association.
• Luo Yan asked Guan Qi and Pu Er to return to work; he sent Guan Qi to locate Yellow Springs’ leader, Great Mister, and asked Pu Er to contact Old Ma.
• Yang Tao told Luo Yan that Han Xu and Minister Yu had Yellow Springs’ people surrounded, and Luo Yan ordered Han Xu not to tighten the encirclement because he wanted to use them as bait.
• Pu Er reported that Old Ma was alive but trapped in a town where Yellow Springs’ people were searching for him, and Luo Yan decided not to leave the rescue to Yang Tao alone.

Old Ma tried to protect the three children who remained from Red Star Orphanage when Lin Bei and Yellow Springs trapped them. Just as Old Ma prepared to sacrifice himself, a masked stranger killed Lin Bei and rescued Little Hao.

• Old Ma hid with Little Flower, Little Hao, and Little Geng in an abandoned town, grieving the five children who had died while fleeing Yellow Springs.
• Lin Bei surrounded Old Ma and threatened to kill the children unless Old Ma came out and surrendered.
• Old Ma led the children toward an exit, but a grenade exploded and Little Hao ran into Lin Bei.
• Lin Bei demanded that Old Ma shoot himself and threatened Little Hao, so Old Ma picked up the gun and told Little Geng to care for the younger children.
• A masked man pierced Lin Bei through the mouth and killed him, then caught Little Hao before he hit the ground.

Luo Yan offered Liu Rui mechanical arms and questioned him about Great Mister. Liu Rui described the mysterious leader and his hooded companion, then reflected on how losing his arms had changed him.

• Luo Yan told Liu Rui that prosthetic arms could restore much of his function and explained that he saved him because he felt indebted for Liu Rui’s earlier withdrawal.
• Liu Rui learned that Huang Yuanlong was dead and that Zhu Dai, Yang Jing, and the other Huangquan members were surrounded by Luo Yan’s forces.
• Luo Yan asked Liu Rui what he knew about Great Mister, and Liu Rui said he had rarely seen the mysterious figure and knew little about his abilities or origins.
• Liu Rui recounted that a Branch Chief who tried to assassinate Great Mister disappeared, and that a veiled man in a black cloak was often at Great Mister’s side.
• Liu Rui admitted that losing both arms had made him weak and caused him to use the kinds of tricks he once disdained.

Luo Yan learned that Great Mister was seeking help from the Suo Po Association and placed a bounty on Huangquan's Branch Chiefs through Huang Bin. In Yong City, Great Mister finally met Suo Po Association chairman Zheng Ronghao.

• Liu Rui warned Luo Yan that Huangquan's power did not depend on its branches, leading Luo Yan to suspect ties between Huangquan and Black Witch.
• Guan Qi reported that Great Mister was in Yong City, followed by a mysterious bodyguard and visiting a Suo Po Association property.
• Huang Bin met Luo Yan, who offered five hundred million work points for each Huangquan Branch Chief's head except Liu Rui, Zhu Dai, and Yang Jing.
• Luo Yan told Han Xu to inform Zhu Dai about the bounty, then set out for Yong City with Old Ma and Yang Tao.
• Great Mister waited at the Suo Po Association's Guangye Building until chairman Zheng Ronghao arrived to greet him.

Great Mister and Zheng Ronghao agreed to join forces against Red Ghost, while Luo Yan learned that they were both in Yong City and met Chang Yu to discuss striking at them. The chapter ended as Luo Yan entered a quiet room at Fubo Temple and saw Chang Yu with two powerful members of the Guardian Squad.

• Great Mister told Zheng Ronghao that Red Ghost had dealt heavy blows to his side, and they agreed to send three Wangchuan Ghost Kings and two Divine Descendants to kill him.
• After Great Mister left, Zheng Ronghao watched a woman in a cultivation tank and said that the Divine Child would be born in a few months.
• Luo Yan learned from Chang Yu that Zheng Ronghao was in Yong City and told him that Great Mister was there too, proposing a joint operation against them.
• Chang Yu arranged to meet Luo Yan at Fubo Temple the next day, where Luo Yan received intelligence from Guan Qi on the way to the meeting.
• Luo Yan entered the quiet room and saw Chang Yu with two formidable men whom he suspected were members of the Guardian Squad's Four Heavenly Kings.

Luo Yan gauged the Guardian Squad’s strength and learned that Zheng Ronghao would meet Great Mister at a banquet the next night. He arranged an operation with Chang Yu, then planned to infiltrate the restaurant with Old Ma while Yang Tao coordinated with the Guardian Squad.

• Luo Yan told Chang Yu that Zheng Ronghao and Great Mister had already met, and warned that the Suo Po Association’s Divine Descendants were formidable.
• Growth Heavenly King challenged Luo Yan, who overwhelmed him with Solar Sword Intent and judged him strong enough to fight the Divine Descendants.
• Luo Yan revealed that the Suo Po Association would hold a banquet at Five Sages Palace Restaurant the next night, where Zheng Ronghao was expected to meet Great Mister, and discussed an operation with Chang Yu.
• Luo Yan told Old Ma they would apply for waiter jobs to approach the two targets, while Yang Tao stayed behind to contact Chang Yu.
• Luo Yan and Old Ma changed into ordinary-looking clothes and prepared to infiltrate the restaurant.

Luo Yan and Old Ma joined the Five Sages Palace Restaurant and secured access to its banquet hall so they could pursue their plan there. Elsewhere, the Black Shaman repelled the Yellow Springs’ breakout, while Zhu Dai and Yang Jing secretly held back, leaving the trapped army unable to escape.

• Luo Yan and Old Ma joined the Five Sages Palace Restaurant as servers, but learned new recruits were usually assigned to the main hall.
• Old Ma paid a supervisor to get them banquet hall server badges, giving them access to the upstairs halls.
• The Yellow Springs launched a breakout after supplies ran low, but Han Xu and the Black Shaman forces intercepted their assault.
• Li Chenyu and Zhang Yugu drove back another Yellow Springs force trying to escape from the rear.
• Zhu Dai and Yang Jing pretended to fight seriously while avoiding helping their allies, and Yang Jing held back because he feared Luo Yan’s supposed poison.

Xiao Wei fled Han Xu’s attack but was killed after a grenade left him vulnerable and a sniper shot him. His corpse was thrown before the other branch chiefs with a note from Huang Bin warning them that their heads were valuable.

• Xiao Wei abandoned the fight with Purple Frost and escaped in Qing He after the Ice-Rending Sword crippled the mecha and seriously injured him.
• Xiao Wei hid at a school, but after others took Qing He away, a grenade exploded and Abyssal Vein Powder left him unable to control his Mystic Qi.
• A golden-haired swordsman approached and severed Xiao Wei’s arm with a White Rainbow, then a sniper in the school’s great hall shot him dead.
• Zhu Dai, Yang Jing, and the other branch chiefs saw Xiao Wei’s headless corpse with a note signed by The Unreturning—Huang Bin, warning them to take care of their heads.

The Unreturning and the Black Witch attacked Huangquan's Branch Chiefs, leaving them trapped and fearing they would not receive reinforcements. In Yong City, Luo Yan and Old Ma prepared to act during the Suo Po Association's banquet for Huangquan's Great Mister.

• A sniper from The Unreturning announced that bounties had been placed on Huangquan's Branch Chiefs and warned that more hunters were arriving.
• Zhu Dai and the other Branch Chiefs remained on guard as they worried about surviving the coming days without reinforcements.
• The Black Witch bombarded Huangquan's camp while The Unreturning attacked; Zhu Dai burned the balding Branch Chief's head wound shut after a shot grazed him.
• Luo Yan and Old Ma worked at the Five Sages Palace Restaurant, where the Suo Po Association had booked the banquet hall for Huangquan's Great Mister.
• Luo Yan told Old Ma to wait until he had lured everyone away before making his move, and Old Ma agreed.

Luo Yan and Old Ma worked as servers at a banquet where the president of the Suo Po Association, Zheng Ronghao, welcomed Great Mister of Huangquan and his entourage. With seven experts guarding the important guests, Luo Yan sent the Western Cult his signal to begin the planned operation.

• Luo Yan and Old Ma were assigned to serve drinks in the banquet hall and watched the Suo Po Association's guests arrive.
• Zheng Ronghao entered, and Luo Yan identified him as an ordinary person before asking Yang Tao to capture him if he tried to escape.
• Great Mister of Huangquan arrived with a mysterious cloaked figure and three apparent Profound Comprehension Realm aides.
• Zheng Ronghao and Great Mister took their seats while seven bodyguards and experts spread around the room to watch anyone approaching them.
• When the banquet began, Luo Yan sent the Western Cult the message, “The auspicious hour has arrived!”