Chapter Summaries

Ding Xiangyun defeated an Upper-tier Giant Beast with her Thunder Sparrow, but destroyed its valuable core in the process. Over dinner, she explained how Blade Awakening transformed her primordial spirit, and Shi Beiluo revealed that cultivators who had awakened their divinity might eventually turn their Divine Treasures into divine paths.

• Ding Xiangyun used the Azure Thunder Divine General to kill the Upper-tier Giant Beast, destroying its core along with it.
• Xiaomi told Ding Xiangyun that the destroyed core had been worth a fortune.
• While eating Xiaomi's meal, Luo Yan asked Ding Xiangyun why her primordial spirit transformed when she used an incomplete 'Edge Opening Stance.'
• Ding Xiangyun explained that Blade Awakening burned her potential and divinity, temporarily transforming the Azure Thunder Divine General into the Divine Might Thunderbolt True Lord.
• Shi Beiluo explained that Bai Qixue, Ding Xiangyun, and Luo Yan had a greater chance of turning their Divine Treasures into divine paths because they had awakened their divinity.

After finding the devastation left by Hong Zhuang, Shi Beiluo’s group followed her trail into the Forbidden Land, where Qing Lian detected the aftermath of a battle between Dao traditions. Luo Yan saw traces of two other Sky Demons fighting, and the group learned that one was Lu Gong, a battle general serving Throne Eighth Li Hu.

• Qing Lian led Shi Beiluo’s group to a base where Hong Zhuang had killed its inhabitants and consumed a man’s soul.
• Qing Lian explained that Sky Demons fed on souls, and Shi Beiluo warned her against consuming humans.
• The group entered the unusually silent Forbidden Land and found a vast stretch of forest flattened by a battle.
• Qing Lian determined that the battle involved two Sky Demons whose Dao traditions were not Hong Zhuang’s.
• Luo Yan saw the fighters’ lingering images and described a fire-covered man and a two-headed man to the others.
• Qing Lian identified the fire-covered man as Lu Gong, Li Hu’s capable battle general, and said the other fighter must also be a general.

Wang Shi and Lin Jiang witnessed Lu Gong and Xing Ba crash into their camp while pursuing their fight, and Captain Zhao Xiangjing arrived with the militia to confront them. The two Throne Generals ignored the locals and resumed battling, leaving the camp residents burned to death by Lu Gong’s flames.

• Wang Shi and Lin Jiang shoveled snow and discussed Wang Shi’s son finding work at the nearby Great Wall Base.
• Lu Gong and Xing Ba fell from the sky into neighboring courtyards, alarming Wang Shi and Lin Jiang.
• Lu Gong and Xing Ba taunted each other as they continued probing for their opponent’s hidden abilities.
• Zhao Xiangjing arrived with the militia and ordered Lu Gong and Xing Ba to come with him.
• Xing Ba charged through a low wall toward Lu Gong, who unleashed flames that killed Wang Shi, Lin Jiang, Zhao Xiangjing, and the militiamen.

Xing Ba and Lu Gong fought a devastating battle, repeatedly unleashing their full strength despite the Primordial Tent. Hong Zhuang was exposed when Xing Ba destroyed the Hidden Serpent, and the two generals continued their fight with her caught between them.

• Lu Gong’s fire attacks leveled the camp, and Xing Ba chased him away from the ruins as they exchanged powerful blows.
• Yu Yi spread its body over Xing Ba to block the Primordial Tent, allowing Xing Ba to unleash a black dragon’s power and strike Lu Gong.
• Hong Zhuang watched from the Hidden Serpent and hoped the generals would grievously wound each other so she could devour their inheritances.
• Lu Gong and Xing Ba fought across the ground and sky, with Yu Yi carrying Xing Ba after Lu Gong as their battle continued.
• Hong Zhuang tried to flee when Lu Gong approached, but Xing Ba’s baleful energy shattered the Hidden Serpent and revealed her.
• Lu Gong and Xing Ba resumed their clash, leaving Hong Zhuang caught between Xing Ba’s fist and Lu Gong’s flaming saber.

Hong Zhuang was caught between Lu Gong and Xing Ba as the two Throne Generals fought, and their attacks badly injured all three Heavenly Devils. The battle left Hong Zhuang, Xing Ba, and Lu Gong weakened, with Hong Zhuang recovering from severe burns.

• Hong Zhuang tried to escape Lu Gong and Xing Ba, using her poisonous legacy to defend herself as their attacks collided around her.
• Lu Gong and Xing Ba exchanged attacks, and Hong Zhuang was caught in the crossfire when their Qi Flows tangled.
• Yu Yi roared and disrupted Hong Zhuang's and Lu Gong's legacies, giving Xing Ba an opening to strike Lu Gong and send him crashing toward Hong Zhuang.
• Hong Zhuang used red smoke to redirect Lu Gong, but he transferred part of Xing Ba's power to her before unleashing a devastating sea of fire.
• The flames burned Hong Zhuang severely and scorched Xing Ba, while Lu Gong also spent much of his strength; all three Heavenly Devils were left injured and weakened.

Luo Yan, Qing Lian, and Shi Beiluo tracked two Throne Generals and found them fighting Hong Zhuang in a chaotic melee. The three watched as the battle ravaged the forest and all combatants suffered severe injuries, while Hong Zhuang’s hidden strength and intentions remained a concern.

• Shi Beiluo changed the plan so he, Luo Yan, and Qing Lian would follow the Heavenly Ghosts while Zhou Yuhao and the others stayed with the mechs.
• Qing Lian explained that Hong Zhuang intended to exploit a fight between the Throne Generals and devour their inheritances.
• Luo Yan stopped the SUV when he spotted fighting in the distance, and the three approached the battlefield without intervening.
• Luo Yan saw that the two Throne Generals had drawn Hong Zhuang into a chaotic three-way battle, and Qing Lian explained why powerful beings could not easily leave Yanfu.
• Lu Gong and the two-headed general attacked Hong Zhuang, who focused on defense and regeneration as the three combatants’ injuries and power losses mounted.

Xing Ba and Yu Yi used the Floating Life Gate to forcibly send Hong Zhuang and Lu Gong back to Yanfu. Luo Yan explained that the Throne Cang Lei had created the gate, and Qing Lian welcomed the removal of the threats.

• Hong Zhuang demanded to be released, but Yu Yi and Lu Gong accused her of following them to exploit their fight.
• Hong Zhuang began using Ghost Person Stance, while Lu Gong unleashed his flames and Xing Ba prepared a final trump card.
• Yu Yi produced a mass of flesh and blood that Xing Ba transformed into the Floating Life Gate, whose Throne aura immobilized Hong Zhuang and Lu Gong.
• Three illusory arms seized Hong Zhuang, Lu Gong, and Xing Ba and dragged them through the gate into Yanfu before it vanished.
• Luo Yan explained that the Floating Life Gate was a Curse Artifact created by the Throne Cang Lei to forcibly return living beings to Yanfu.
• Qing Lian celebrated that both Throne Generals and Hong Zhuang had been taken away.

Qing Lian agreed to meet Commander Bai Shaotang after Shi Beiluo warned that the Strategic Affairs Department could not let her go unchecked, while Luo Yan returned to the Great Wall-01 Base. Back in Yanfu, Hong Zhuang was restored by the black rain before a colossal black dragon and a phantom emperor appeared, leaving her staring at the throne.

• Shi Beiluo told Qing Lian she must meet Bai Shaotang, and Qing Lian agreed rather than become humanity’s enemy.
• Qing Lian left with Bai Qixue and the Tianjian Squad, while Luo Yan returned to the Great Wall-01 Base.
• Hong Zhuang, Lu Gong, and Xing Ba landed in Yanfu, where black rain restored Hong Zhuang’s injured body.
• Lu Gong questioned Xing Ba about the Floating Life Gate, and Xing Ba explained that His Majesty Cang Lei had granted it to him.
• A colossal black dragon appeared over Yanfu with a palace on its back, and a phantom emperor seated on a throne emerged inside it.

Hong Zhuang faced the Dragon Palace’s ruler, who questioned her about changes in the mortal world after sparing Lu Gong. Three months later, Luo Yan had advanced to the third layer of Profound Comprehension, and his team’s mission at Great Wall-01 Base was nearing its end.

• The Dragon Palace’s ruler spared Lu Gong, restored his cultivation, and invited him to join if he could no longer serve Li Hu.
• Hong Zhuang told the ruler she had stayed in the mortal world, and he asked what had changed there recently.
• Over three calm months, Luo Yan advanced to the third layer of Profound Comprehension and helped two new recruits adapt to the Earthly Hero Squad.
• At the base cafeteria, Wang Meng told Luo Yan that another team would soon take over and said he expected to enter the Heavenly Department after the mission.
• Wang Meng explained that Qing Lian was serving as a special adviser alongside the Tianjian Squad, then lamented that Luo Yan had burned a hegemone’s beast soul and lost the chance to upgrade his mecha’s Mystic Pattern.

Luo Yan accepted a mission with Wang Meng and the Earthly Fierce Squad to eliminate the Blazing Rock Dragon before it could create a Forbidden Land. A Ruins Information Conference then revealed new cultivation realms and the theory that the figures in world mythologies came from beyond the planet.

• Wang Meng told Luo Yan that the Strategic Affairs Department had located the Blazing Rock Dragon and offered to join the hunt.
• Luo Yan called Bai Shaotang and accepted the mission to cooperate with the Earthly Fierce Squad in eliminating the Blazing Rock Dragon.
• Bai Shaotang told Luo Yan that Qixue wanted to help him practice swordsmanship after he returned to Jinge City.
• Wang Meng went to inform Murong Xuan and the others as the restaurant screen showed Dr. Jia Miao announcing a Ruins Information Conference.
• Dr. Jia Miao revealed that researchers had discovered the Mystic Womb Realm and Heavenly Palace Realm, with one Mystic Womb cultivation method partly translated.
• Dr. Jia Miao said researchers believed the figures in major mythologies were outsiders from beyond the world, and that Westerners had developed the different path of Enlightenment.

Luo Yan learned that other countries followed a different Enlightenment System and that ancient records described beings arriving from the stars. Dr. Jia Miao also revealed a way to strengthen the Primordial Tent, and the Earthly Hero Squad and Earthly Fierce Squad departed to hunt the escaped Blazing Rock Dragon.

• Wang Meng explained that cultivators in other countries awakened talents through saints, unlike cultivators who used the Visualization Technique to cultivate the Divine Treasure.
• Jia Miao presented ancient stone-slab paintings and translated a record saying that beings came from the stars, with some fighting beside humans and others joining the beasts.
• Jia Miao announced that the Ancient People had left a method to strengthen the Primordial Tent, which might reduce Yanfu appearances and prevent another Giant Beast Calamity.
• People across the bases and Undercities celebrated the discoveries from the Ruins exploration.
• The Earthly Hero Squad and the Earthly Fierce Squad left Great Wall-01 Base on a mission to deal with the escaped Blazing Rock Dragon.
• Dong Yuan expressed excitement about future higher-realm techniques, while Li Musen questioned whether he could reach or afford them.

Luo Yan and his allies began their mission to eliminate the wounded Blazing Rock Dragon, with Wang Meng leading the battle plan. As the beast tried to escape from underground, Luo Yan’s Ultimate Skill, Earth Killing Momentum, forced it to the surface.

• Luo Yan assigned Xia Yan, Dong Yuan, and Li Musen to intercept the Blazing Rock Dragon’s possible helpers while he, Wang Meng, and Deputy Captain Bai confronted the beast.
• Wang Meng outlined how they would draw the Blazing Rock Dragon’s attention, target its injured legs, and use Deputy Captain Bai’s abilities to weaken and control it.
• Luo Yan located the Blazing Rock Dragon underground and confirmed that it was still injured and missing a leg.
• The Blazing Rock Dragon manifested its beast soul and began using its Exotic Arts to create a Stone Flow and escape.
• Luo Yan unleashed Earth Killing Momentum, which shook the ground and thrust the Blazing Rock Dragon out from underground.

Wang Meng and Luo Yan attacked the Blazing Rock Dragon, while Xiao Bai’s Magician stole and transformed the beast’s Exotic Art to injure it. When two more beasts arrived, Murong Xuan, Li Musen, Dong Yuan, and Xia Yan moved to hold them off.

• Luo Yan’s Ultimate Skill forced the Blazing Rock Dragon out of hiding and confused its senses, letting Wang Meng blind one of its eyes and attack alongside Luo Yan.
• The Blazing Rock Dragon summoned fireballs, but Xiao Bai’s Magician stole the Exotic Art, combined it into an unstable fireball, and hurled it back at the beast.
• The Blazing Rock Dragon called for help, and a Dog-headed, Tiger-bodied Beast and a three-headed Bald Eagle charged out of the forest.
• Murong Xuan shot the Bald Eagle’s wing, Li Musen’s plants blocked the other beast’s mane-spikes, and Dong Yuan drove the beast away from the Blazing Rock Dragon.
• Xia Yan’s Blood Curse Spirits attacked the white-furred beast, causing wounds that rapidly withered its flesh and fur.

The two squads fought the Blazing Rock Dragon’s reinforcements, with the Earthly Fierce Squad battling a three-headed Bald Eagle and the Earthly Hero Squad taking on a Dog-headed, Tiger-bodied Beast. Dong Yuan and his teammates brought down their opponent, while the fight against the Bald Eagle continued.

• The two teams separated the Blazing Rock Dragon’s reinforcements, and Li Yuqing strengthened her teammates’ weapons and protected them with Spring Branch Robes as they fought the three-headed Bald Eagle.
• Murong Xuan used a great fish to extinguish the Bald Eagle’s poisonous smoke and flames, then shot it with three arrows while the rifle-bearing mechs attacked.
• Li Musen blocked the Dog-headed, Tiger-bodied Beast’s Blood Arrows, and Dong Yuan and Xia Yan wounded it with Blue Flames and curses.
• The Giant Beast knocked Dong Yuan into the trees, but vines restrained it and Li Musen impaled it with wooden spears.
• Red Sleeve attacked the Giant Beast’s heart through its blood, but the beast retaliated with a storm of Blood Arrows that the three mechs defended against.
• Dong Yuan charged through the Blood Arrows and split the Giant Beast’s canine head with a lightning-wrapped Blue Flame axe as Red Sleeve clenched her bloodied hand and triggered explosions inside it.

Luo Yan, Wang Meng, and their allies battered the Blazing Rock Dragon and trapped it inside a bone castle. With the Overlord Giant Beast pinned down but still alive, Luo Yan and Wang Meng prepared to finish it together.

• Xia Yan told Dong Yuan that she had crushed a beast's heart, and Li Musen mocked Dong Yuan for flattering her.
• Luo Yan struck the Blazing Rock Dragon with the Blood River Saber, splitting its body and grievously damaging its beast soul.
• Wang Meng activated Flying General's Mystic Pattern and unleashed Black Sun Overarching Heaven, worsening the Blazing Rock Dragon's wounds.
• White Bone Weirdness formed a bone castle that suppressed the Blazing Rock Dragon's strength and escape abilities, then attacked it with a barrage of arrows.
• Luo Yan told Wang Meng he could still fight, and the two launched their mechs' secret techniques and Ultimate Skills against the trapped beast.

Ji Ying welcomed the Earthly Dark Squad to take over Great Wall-01 Base after Luo Yan and his team returned with the Blazing Rock Dragon’s beast soul. After completing the handover, Luo Yan announced that the team would return to Jinge City the next day.

• Ji Ying learned that the Earthly Dark Squad, led by Sun Sheng, had arrived to assume the base’s defenses, but told them the Earthly Hero Squad had not yet returned from its mission.
• Gao Jin announced Luo Yan’s return, and the Earthly Dark Squad recognized the Soul Casket carrying the Blazing Rock Dragon’s beast soul.
• Wang Meng credited Bai? with weakening and suppressing the Blazing Rock Dragon, which let him and Luo Yan defeat it and claim its beast soul.
• Luo Yan handed Sun Sheng the Base Diary and completed the defense handover.
• Luo Yan told Bai?, Xia Yan, and the others to pack so they could return to Jinge City the next day.

Qiao Mai Xun waited for a convoy led by Mr. McCleary and met two Tier Four majors from Freedom Wings, Jack and Belle. After Qiao compared their borrowed powers unfavorably with cultivators’ abilities, Jack challenged him and boasted that he could defeat Fang Yao.

• Qiao Mai Xun waited in the desolate land until a convoy of armored vehicles, troop carriers, RVs, and mech transports arrived.
• Mr. McCleary greeted Qiao Mai Xun and introduced Jack and Belle, two Tier Four Transcendents and majors in Freedom Wings.
• Qiao explained that Tier Four Transcendents borrowed power from Divine Wills and were still at a disadvantage compared with cultivators in the Profound Comprehension Realm.
• Jack took offense at Qiao’s comparison and accused him of forgetting his heritage.
• Qiao mentioned Fang Yao’s victory over an agent, and Jack claimed Fang Yao had never faced him.

Qiao Mai Xun gave McCleary intelligence about the Strategic Affairs Department’s encounters with Sky Ghosts and urged genuine cooperation, while McCleary revealed that Freedom Wings planned to restart the Water Drop Plan. The chapter ended with McCleary warning Jack to treat the Water Drops with respect as Freedom Wings prepared to counter the Strategic Affairs Department’s growing advantage.

• Jack insulted Qiao Mai Xun for being only a Third Order, but McCleary defended Qiao and ordered Jack into the car.
• McCleary explained the Water Drop Plan’s history and praised Qiao for his work as an executor.
• Qiao handed McCleary a file containing intelligence on the Nameless Void, the Nether Capital Stone, and the Sky Ghosts, and recommended cooperating with the Strategic Affairs Department.
• Qiao told McCleary that the land where he grew up felt more like home than his father’s homeland, then left.
• McCleary told Jack that the Strategic Affairs Department’s discoveries could make the land a refuge against Sky Ghosts and that Freedom Wings needed to restart the Water Drop Plan.
• McCleary warned Jack to show the Water Drops sufficient respect.

Luo Yan and Bai? returned from a mission and spent time with their families before discussing the Heavenly Essence Matrix and their upcoming leave. Luo Yan then set out for Blizzard Base to visit the children he had once trained, while Bai? stayed behind to focus on training.

• Xu Xiuying and Zhou Lijuan talked about Xu Xiuying’s feelings for Zhao Guoan and Zhou Lijuan’s worries about her son Luo Yan’s dangerous work.
• Luo Yan and Bai? visited Zhou Lijuan at the convenience store and gave her Dragonrider nutritional supplements.
• Bai? told Luo Yan that Yang had invited them to Hundred Battles Academy’s thirtieth-anniversary celebration, and they planned to attend during their two months of leave.
• Luo Yan explained that the Heavenly Essence Matrix would collect Primal Energy and strengthen the 'Primordial Tent,' but reminded Bai? that Dragonriders would still need to fight threats in dangerous zones.
• Several days later, Luo Yan drove away with supplies for the children at Blizzard Base, while Bai? resolved to train harder.

Seven years after the Giant Beast Calamity, Luo Yan traveled through a recovering wilderness and stopped at Back Creek Village, where he encountered a salesman offering cultivation methods. The chapter ended when a battered woman was shoved into the bar, drawing Luo Yan’s attention.

• Luo Yan drove through the wilderness and saw civilian convoys traveling more frequently as Great Wall Bases improved security.
• Luo Yan reached Back Creek Village at dusk, concealed supplies bound for Blizzard Base, and entered a bar for food.
• Luo Yan paid the bartender with bullets and ate artificial meat and bread while an old man watched hungrily.
• Chen Chujiu offered Luo Yan a selection of cultivation methods and explained that Profound Comprehension Realm methods could be bought through accumulated contribution points.
• A woman with injuries and disheveled clothes was shoved into the bar, and Luo Yan noticed the smell of fish on her.