Chapter Summaries

Luo Yan and Bai Qixue followed clues left by the Sky Demon in green, Qing Lian, and discovered her request for humanity’s cooperation and a way to learn about Yanfu. After Bai Qixue agreed to pursue her while leaving the final decision to the Strategic Affairs Council, Luo Yan awakened Qing Ling, who began pointing the way forward.

• Luo Yan spotted the Sky Demon in green through his Insightful Silver Eyes and followed her image to the Land Deity shrine.
• Luo Yan found a green Dan Blade and a note instructing him to crush it beside Qing Ling to awaken her.
• Following the Sky Demon in green to a rain pavilion, Luo Yan uncovered a wooden case containing a dormant green snake and a note from Qing Lian.
• Qing Lian said Hong Zhuang was hunting her and offered to cooperate with humanity and share information about Yanfu.
• Bai Qixue decided they would awaken Qing Ling and pursue Qing Lian, while the Strategic Affairs Council would decide whether to cooperate.
• Luo Yan crushed the green pill beside Qing Ling, and the awakened snake pointed toward their next destination.

Hong Zhuang destroyed a horde of Ghoul Beasts and their mutant leader in an abandoned city. The next morning, she appeared at a Surface Base beside a girl in green and poisoned several workers who saw her.

• Hong Zhuang walked through an abandoned city and killed the Ghoul Beast that ambushed her.
• More than a hundred Ghoul Beasts charged Hong Zhuang, but her wind reduced them and the surrounding street to ash and fragments.
• The Ghoul Beast mutant attacked Hong Zhuang with a Flesh Great Halberd, but her poison corroded its weapon and body until it became sludge.
• The next morning, workers at a Surface Base discussed the new Great Wall military bases before a girl dressed in green appeared on the road.
• Hong Zhuang appeared behind the Green Skirt girl and bewitched the workers with her smile.
• The workers' skin broke out in blisters and rotted, and Brother Kun collapsed with his skull exposed.

Hong Zhuang confronted Qing Lian at a human base, where Qing Lian rejected her and revealed years of resentment over being treated as a tool. Qing Lian escaped Hong Zhuang’s attack, and Hong Zhuang destroyed the base as she left, intent on killing her.

• Hong Zhuang crushed a truck and killed bystanders after the driver honked at her and Qing Lian.
• Hong Zhuang confronted Qing Lian and tried to persuade her to return, but Qing Lian accused her of using her as a tool and declared she wanted her dead.
• Qing Lian mocked Hong Zhuang’s ambitions and called them both pitiful insects in Yanfu, prompting Hong Zhuang to shatter the area around her.
• Qing Lian vanished like green smoke before Hong Zhuang’s attack could hit her.
• Base guards rushed Hong Zhuang, who unleashed an invisible giant snake that leveled the base and killed everyone inside.

Fang Yao and a group of retired Dragon Riders traveled to protect the Tianjian Squad as it searched for the Heavenly Ghosts. After learning that two Heavenly Ghosts had destroyed a Surface Base, Fang Yao asked the veterans to follow his orders and work together.

• Fang Yao redirected the vehicle to the Tianjian Squad's location, while Zheng Chunqiu and Lin Bingjiang discussed why the veterans were assigned to protect the squad rather than take over its mission.
• Fang Yao reflected on the veterans' powerful transformed Divine Treasures and other exceptional abilities.
• Fang Yao received news that two Heavenly Ghosts had clashed and razed a Surface Base, leaving the death toll unknown.
• Gu Wanying, Lin Xuan, and Zheng Chunqiu discussed the danger the Heavenly Ghosts posed and their desire to eliminate or fight them.
• Fang Yao asked the veterans to follow his orders and not give up during the operation, and they voiced their support.
• Tu Maochun told Fang Yao he was glad to return to the Battlefield with him, and Fang Yao clasped his hand.

Luo Yan and Bai Qixue tracked the heavenly ghosts to an abandoned city, where Qing Lian and Hong Zhuang fought. Hong Zhuang revealed that her Hundred Faces Disguise let her use her full strength beneath the Primordial Tent, then attacked Qing Lian with a serpent of red clouds.

• Luo Yan used his Divine Treasure Vision to track Qing Lian and Hong Zhuang after they destroyed a base, and he told Bai Qixue they had fought over an internal conflict.
• Bai Qixue took Luo Yan toward the heavenly ghosts while Chu Hao and the others followed with a mecha, and they passed another ruined camp.
• As a battle appeared on the horizon, Bai Qixue dropped Luo Yan off and drove toward the abandoned city alone.
• Qing Lian appeared badly injured in a city park, and Hong Zhuang revealed her Hundred Faces Disguise countermeasure against the Primordial Tent.
• Hong Zhuang sent a rain of red clouds at Qing Lian, who opened a gap with cyan smoke, before Hong Zhuang turned the clouds into a serpent and sent it lunging toward her.

Qing Lian and Hong Zhuang fought fiercely, with Hong Zhuang overpowering her using techniques Qing Lian had never seen. Qing Lian awakened her Heavenly Ghost Power and unleashed her poisoned Green Plum Blossom Blade Sea, but Hong Zhuang countered with Heavenly Immortal Fall.

• Qing Lian multiplied her green snakes to overwhelm Hong Zhuang’s Crimson Cloud Python, but Hong Zhuang made the python explode and blasted Qing Lian away.
• Hong Zhuang pulled Qing Lian back with crimson mist and attacked with her whip, while Qing Lian formed dual blades to defend herself.
• Hong Zhuang used unfamiliar whip techniques to wound Qing Lian and break down her defense.
• Qing Lian awakened her Heavenly Ghost Power and sent poison along her blades toward Hong Zhuang, but Hong Zhuang transformed her whip into a Scarlet Python that swallowed the green light.
• Qing Lian broke through the red mist and unleashed her Green Plum Blossom Blade Sea, filling it with the poison of Three Lives Mistake.
• Hong Zhuang spread red mist through the flower sea and invoked Heavenly Immortal Fall.

Hong Zhuang nearly killed Qing Lian with the Heavenly Immortal Fall, but Bai Qixue arrived and cut through Hong Zhuang’s attacks. Luo Yan watched Bai Qixue’s sword light from afar, then noticed dust rising in the western wilderness.

• Qing Lian withdrew her Heavenly Ghost Power after Solar Gang Fire burned her, while Hong Zhuang emerged from the poison mist with her own Heavenly Ghost Power active.
• Hong Zhuang sent three poisonous mist serpents to kill Qing Lian, who prepared to risk using the Heavenly Ghost Stance to fight back.
• Bai Qixue arrived from the east and destroyed the mist serpents and several strands of Hong Zhuang’s snake hair with her sword.
• Bai Qixue introduced herself as the Heavenly Sword Star, and Hong Zhuang faced her warily.
• Luo Yan watched Bai Qixue’s sword light from a distance and judged that he still needed time to match her sword skill.
• Luo Yan dropped flat against a boulder and spotted a cloud of dust rising in the western wilderness.

Luo Yan discovered a convoy of Heavenly Ghost Believers from Yi Town and tried to stop it to learn its purpose. After they attempted to run him over, he split their heavy truck with Dragon Elephant, and the wounded Zheng Jie swallowed a Divine Summoning Pill as the convoy fell into chaos.

• Luo Yan used Divine Treasure to identify a driver in the approaching civilian convoy as a Heavenly Ghost Believer and pursued the vehicles.
• Zheng Jie told the convoy that Niang Niang had sent them to prepare supplies while her sister, Miss Qing Lian, had become an evil spirit, and instructed them to use Divine Summoning Pills if danger arose.
• When the convoy spotted Luo Yan following them, its members fired a warning shot, but Luo Yan sped past and blocked the heavy truck's path.
• Zheng Jie ordered Li Xiangming to run Luo Yan over, so Luo Yan drew Dragon Elephant and cut the truck apart, causing it to explode and throwing the convoy into disorder.
• Zheng Jie crawled away from the wreckage with severe injuries and swallowed a Divine Summoning Pill before losing consciousness.

Luo Yan confronted Zheng Jie and the people of Yi Town after they took Hong Zhuang’s Divine Summoning Pills and transformed into monstrous Ghoul Beasts. Meanwhile, Fang Yao and Tu Maochun prepared for a Heavenly Ghost encounter, judging that Bai Qixue could handle Hong Zhuang if she remained in human or beast form.

• Luo Yan emerged unharmed from the flames and demanded to know who the people of Yi Town served and why they were there.
• Zheng Jie ordered the townspeople to swallow their Divine Summoning Pills despite Luo Yan’s warning, and they transformed into plague-spreading Ghoul Beasts.
• Luo Yan identified the pills’ effects and revealed that the people served Hong Zhuang, a Heavenly Ghost from Yanfu.
• Zheng Jie discovered his own monstrous transformation, and Luo Yan told him he had been deceived before asking what Hong Zhuang had sent them to do.
• Fang Yao received reports that the Embers had reached their positions and assessed Bai Qixue’s strength while discussing the threat with Tu Maochun.
• Fang Yao concluded that the area lacked the Nether Particles needed for Hong Zhuang’s Ghost Person Stance and that Bai Qixue could likely escape danger if Hong Zhuang remained in beast form.

Bai Qixue accepted Qing Lian’s cooperation and fought Hong Zhuang long enough to escape with her. Meanwhile, Luo Yan rescued the people Hong Zhuang planned to sacrifice and discovered that the dead monsters had once been humans from Yi Town.

• Bai Qixue agreed to protect Qing Lian through the Strategic Affairs Department, prompting Hong Zhuang to attack them with her Heavenly Immortal Fall poison.
• Bai Qixue froze Hong Zhuang’s poison, struck her with Heavenly Thunder, and fled with Qing Lian while Fang Yao and Tu Maochun watched from a building.
• Hong Zhuang recovered and pursued Bai Qixue and Qing Lian, then realized Zheng Jie and the others had likely been killed before they could prepare the Nameless Void.
• Luo Yan freed dozens of captives from a truck and learned that Zheng Jie had revealed Hong Zhuang intended to use them as sacrifices.
• The rescued people found nearby monsters dressed in human clothing, and Luo Yan explained that they were victims who had been transformed.

Luo Yan sent the rescued residents of Yi Town east to a Surface Base while he waited outside the city for Bai Qixue’s battle to end. Bai Qixue’s Primordial Spirit, Lu Li, destroyed Hong Zhuang’s Hidden Serpent, and Hong Zhuang then offered to let Bai Qixue take Qing Lian while warning her not to trust Qing Lian.

• Luo Yan told the rescued residents to drive east to a Surface Base and identify themselves as sent by the Strategic Affairs Department.
• Luo Yan watched the storm over the city and waited as Bai Qixue continued fighting the Heavenly Ghost.
• Qing Lian warned Bai Qixue that Hong Zhuang’s invisible Hidden Serpent was difficult to defeat and wondered whether she could escape.
• Bai Qixue summoned her Primordial Spirit, Lu Li, who unleashed a torrent of sword light and shattered the Hidden Serpent.
• Hong Zhuang praised Bai Qixue’s awakened Innate Divinity, said she would stop fighting, and warned Bai Qixue that Qing Lian came from Yanfu and might not be trustworthy.

Bai Qixue and Qing Lian escaped Hong Zhuang’s attack, while Hong Zhuang decided to leave Yi Town after realizing she had been exposed. At Xiqiang Base, Luo Yan used his Insightful Silver Eyes on Qing Lian and uncovered the name of her inheritance.

• Hong Zhuang retreated from Bai Qixue and Qing Lian, then watched them leave under mecha escort and decided to give the Human Race a parting gift before leaving Yi Town.
• The Xiqiang Base commander learned that the Tianjian Squad was interrogating a green-clad woman and put the base on alert over the possibility that she was a wanted Heavenly Ghost.
• Chu Hao questioned Qing Lian, who refused to answer further unless she met the owner of the Insightful Silver Eyes.
• Qing Lian sensed Luo Yan outside the interrogation room, and Chu Hao invited him inside.
• Luo Yan activated his Insightful Silver Eyes and read Qing Lian’s inheritance as Poison Dao: Three Lives Mistake, confirming Hong Zhuang’s claims and alarming Qing Lian.

Qing Lian explained why she wanted Hong Zhuang dead and described how heavenly ghosts descended into reality and recovered their strength. She began explaining Hong Zhuang’s Dao Lineage, leaving the interrogation unfinished.

• Qing Lian told Chu Hao that Hong Zhuang had controlled and tortured her, and that she had warned the humans in hopes they would kill Hong Zhuang.
• Qing Lian said Hong Zhuang had taken her to the border, where she won human believers by promising to protect them and used them to restore her strength.
• After asking for and receiving water, Qing Lian explained that heavenly ghosts had to abandon most of their strength to pass through the Primordial Tent and enter reality.
• Bai Qixue asked who had established the Primordial Tent, but Qing Lian said she did not know.
• At Chu Hao’s request, Qing Lian began describing heavenly ghosts’ Dao Lineages and compared them to the Human Race’s Divine Treasures.

Qing Lian explained Hong Zhuang’s poisons, abilities, and demon realm to Chu Hao and the others, then insisted on equal treatment as their cooperation began. The group agreed to share food and lodging, leaving Luo Yan to live with Qing Lian despite his objections.

• Qing Lian explained that Hong Zhuang’s Heavenly Immortal Fall could corrode bodies, energy, minds, and abilities, and said sealing mech vents would only delay its spread.
• Qing Lian warned that Hong Zhuang could use the Hidden Serpent, the Hundred Faces Disguise, and several Hate Curse Techniques, and could transform into a Primal Beast Form.
• Qing Lian described Hong Zhuang’s Other Shore Crimson Palace demon realm, where everything—including the energy people cultivated—would produce potent poison.
• Qing Lian refused to explain the Primordial Tent, Mother, the Throne, or the Desolate God until she had rested, and asserted that she was Chu Hao’s equal rather than a prisoner.
• Qing Lian warned Luo Yan that Hong Zhuang might reveal his Divine Eye and make him a target for other Heavenly Ghosts.
• Bai Qixue decided that she, Luo Yan, and Qing Lian would eat and live together, and Qing Lian immediately asked Bai Qixue for blue clothes and food.

Chu Hao learned that Hong Zhuang, the Heavenly Ghost, might be a threat and tried to recall Xiqiang Base’s investigation team from Yi Town, but communications were disrupted. Meanwhile, Zhang Peng’s team reached Yi Town and entered the Empress Temple, where they planned to search it around midnight.

• Chu Hao warned the Base Commander that Yi Town was dangerous and urged him to recall the investigation team, but the base could not contact them.
• Residents of Yi Town told Zhang Peng’s arriving team that Empress Hong Shang protected the town and directed them to her temple.
• Zhang Peng told his team to stay cautious after noticing strange trenches and severe interference with their communications.
• A young woman at the Empress Temple allowed Zhang Peng’s team to stay in the side rooms and warned them not to move around at night.
• Zhang Peng’s team avoided eating the temple’s food, and he ordered them to search the temple around midnight.

Zhang Peng infiltrated the Empress Temple and discovered that the woman called Empress Hong Shang might be a substitute, while the diary hinted at a mysterious Niang Niang. Hong Zhuang killed Zhang Peng, destroyed the temple and its investigators, and declared that everyone would die.

• Zhang Peng and his team split up to investigate the Empress Temple, and he entered the largest courtyard after identifying it as the likely residence of Empress Hong Shang.
• Zhang Peng gassed the sleeping woman, searched her room, and found a diary suggesting Empress Hong Shang had been made up and that Niang Niang might be someone else.
• Zhang Peng noticed a second head on his shadow and tried to escape, but an unseen attacker blew him apart without waking Hong Shang.
• Hong Zhuang appeared outside the window, said the people in the temple all had to die, and rose into the air.
• Hong Zhuang's gesture caused the temple buildings to collapse, knocking out the investigators as blood seeped through the rubble.

Hong Zhuang destroyed Yi Town and used the town’s blood qi to summon the Nether Capital Stone from the Jambu Realm Space. As the Nameless Void expanded over the ruins, Nether Particles killed and mutated everything nearby, leaving the story with contaminated corpses rising as monsters.

• Cai Hongqi and his wife were crushed when the Hidden Serpent flattened their home, and Hong Zhuang razed all of Yi Town.
• Hong Zhuang gathered the town’s blood qi and sent it into the Coiled Serpent Diagram at the Heaven Worship Platform.
• A giant blood serpent tore the Nether Capital Stone from the Jambu Realm Space and merged into it.
• The Jambu Realm Space expanded into a vast Black Funnel, spreading its shadow over Yi Town and the nearby construction site.
• Nether Particles killed workers, animals, insects, and plants, then mutated the corpses into clawed, white-eyed creatures that rose and wandered away.

The Nameless Void connected to the Nether Capital Stone and began releasing beasts, while a gap opened between Yanfu and reality. In a ruined city inside Yanfu, Qi Que and Hong Moluo discussed the passage and watched Lu Gong approach.

• Hong Zhuang's mark appeared on the Nether Capital Stone as the Nameless Void expanded and enormous beasts emerged.
• The gap revealed Yanfu, where strange shadows moved through a gloomy landscape and a ruined city lay filled with giant and humanoid corpses.
• Qi Que and Hong Moluo stood on the city's corpse-covered platform and discussed the widening gap and the Human Sovereign's Primordial Tent.
• Hong Moluo explained that Hong Zhuang's mark forced those leaving Yanfu to pay part of their power as a toll.
• Hong Moluo recognized Li Hu's subordinate Lu Gong approaching the platform.

Lu Gong descended into the mortal world and headed toward Heavenly Capital Kunlun, hoping to find Mother, while Hong Zhuang watched his arrival from the Hidden Serpent. At Xiqiang Base, Luo Yan woke and told Bai Qixue he had to keep guarding the Heavenly Ghost with Captain Bai.

• In Yanfu, Qi Que and Hong Moluo discussed Li Hu’s failed King’s War and his decision to send Lu Gong into the mortal world to search for Mother.
• Hong Zhuang sensed that a Throne General had paid her toll to enter the mortal world and expected trouble for the Human Race.
• Lu Gong emerged from the Nameless Void near Yi Town, burned the giant beasts around him, and set off toward Heavenly Capital Kunlun in the Ruins of Return.
• Hong Zhuang was surprised that Lu Gong left without enlarging the void, then mocked him as a rat fleeing for his life.
• At Xiqiang Base, Luo Yan woke early, exchanged messages with Bai Qixue, and told her he had to guard the Heavenly Ghost with Captain Bai.

At Xiqiang Base, Luo Yan sparred with Bai Qixue and suddenly produced a sword technique that astonished her and frightened Qing Lian. The chapter left the fight’s outcome unresolved as Qing Lian instinctively entered a battle-ready state.

• At Great Wall-01 Base, Wang Meng and Li Yuqing reassured Bai Qixue after she worried that Luo Yan might attract Captain Bai’s interest or lose to her in a spar.
• At Xiqiang Base, Qing Lian rejected the raw field mice offered to her and asked for human food instead.
• Ning Yue explained that Commander Bai was delaying an attack on Hong Zhuang until they found a way to counter her poison, leaving the captain free to spar with Luo Yan.
• Luo Yan and Bai Qixue fought with training swords, and Bai Qixue steadily forced him back with her superior technique.
• As Bai Qixue swept her sword toward Luo Yan’s neck, he recalled the sword that had slain all the beasts and unleashed a wondrous strike with Dragon Elephant.
• Bai Qixue reacted with delight to Luo Yan’s sword, while Qing Lian sprang onto the wall and instinctively released Heavenly Ghost Power.