Chapter Summaries

Luo Yan agreed to face Bain, a fourth-tier Transcendent and God's Emissary, after Bain challenged him to demonstrate the strength of the Profound Comprehension Realm. They left the Training Hall to fight outside the city, followed by the students eager to witness the clash.

• Bain called out Luo Yan, but Xie Gongming tried to stop him from causing trouble at South Phoenix Academy.
• Luo Yan used his Golden Eyes of Enlightenment to learn that Bain wielded time-based abilities through Kuller, the Angel of Time.
• Luo Yan introduced himself and asked Bain what he wanted, while Yang Lixie, Bai? and Li Zi discussed the prospect of watching a fight.
• Xie Gongming clarified that Bain was an instructor from Mecha Academy, affiliated with Freedom Wings, and that his challenge was personal.
• Bain asked Luo Yan for a match to compare the Transcendent and cultivation systems, and Luo Yan agreed to fight outside the city.
• Luo Yan and Bain left the Training Hall, and the students from both academies hurried after them to watch.

Xie Gongming defended South Phoenix Academy’s exchange with Freedom Wings while agreeing to heed warnings about foreign influence. At the Mecha Legion’s training field, Byrne summoned a Holy Projection to begin his match against Luo Yanfu, whose anticipation unsettled Byrne.

• Xie Gongming explained that Freedom Wings had supplied South Phoenix Academy with equipment and materials, while claiming the exchange students and their instructor would not access valuable Academy knowledge.
• Pan Renfeng and the other principals warned Xie Gongming that foreign gifts could conceal a trap, and Xie promised to be careful.
• Pan Renfeng praised Luo Yanfu’s experience against God's Emissaries as the principals headed to watch his match against Byrne.
• Xiao Shi called for unity against the Giant Beasts before Byrne invoked Kulle and summoned a radiant Holy Projection accompanied by a giant clock.
• Yang Lixie and Xiao Bai questioned Byrne’s strength, and Xiao Bai urged Luo Yanfu to finish the match.
• Luo Yanfu studied Byrne’s enhanced attributes and prepared to test them in combat, making Byrne feel that the world was trembling in anticipation.

Luo Yan unleashed the power of his Heavenly Fire Record before facing Bain in a controlled spar. After they exchanged probing attacks, both remained unharmed and the audience marveled at their strength.

• Luo Yan's Heavenly Fire Record filled the training ground with heat, while Bai?'s Weirdness shielded the spectators.
• Li Zi explained to Bai? that Qian Lu was a Weirdness Controller whose powers came from her imagination.
• Luo Yan restrained his strength, partially transformed with dragon scales, and invited Bain to attack first.
• Bain accelerated with the ancient clock's power and struck Luo Yan's shoulder, but the attack left Luo Yan unmoved.
• Luo Yan counterattacked with a fire-infused sword, but Bain dodged and reappeared at a distance.
• The exchange ended with both fighters pausing as the audience praised their speed and power.

Luo Yan fought Bain, a Western Ocean exchange student wielding divine time powers, and overcame his attacks to win the demonstration. Bain admitted defeat and suspected Luo Yan had not used his full strength.

• Bain concealed his approach with a Holy Wave Slash, but Luo Yan countered the attack with a wave of flames.
• Bain reversed the clock hands behind him, slowing Luo Yan and unleashing Sacred Radiance Sword Dance, which drove him back through the sea of fire.
• Luo Yan used Human Killing Momentum to disorient Bain, then struck him from behind with Ten Steps, One Kill and sent him crashing into the stone wall.
• Xiao Shi ended the demonstration, and Bain emerged from the rubble unharmed.
• Bain acknowledged Luo Yan's victory and said his Time Stagnation skill probably would not have given him a good chance to win.

Luo Yan assessed Bayen’s power as God’s Emissary, then reunited with He Hao, who revealed that he was joining the Beidou Squad’s dangerous mission to the Desperate Battlefield. After He Hao went to comfort Su Jiu, Luo Yan promised Captain Bai that he would do everything he could to survive.

• Luo Yan withdrew his aura after observing Bayen and concluded that God’s Emissary was powerful but not as overwhelming as Holy Descent.
• Luo Yan returned to Captain Bai and the others, and Yang Lixie suggested they welcome He Hao when he returned that evening.
• He Hao came back from the battlefield and invited Luo Yan to support the Desperate Battlefield on the Russians’ side with the Beidou Squad.
• Su Jiu pleaded with He Hao not to take the dangerous assignment, but he insisted that the Beidou Squad had a responsibility to go.
• After Luo Yan told He Hao that upsetting someone who cared about him was no mark of a great man, Li Zi advised him, and he went after Su Jiu.
• On the drive home, Luo Yan promised Captain Bai that he would do everything he could to stay alive on the battlefield.

Luo Yan discussed his fight with Bain and the differences between God's Emissaries with Pan Renfeng and Xiao Shi, then encouraged an admiring student. During the tournament registration, a Jambudvipa Cult member named Zhu Jianian detonated a grenade outside the auditorium and proclaimed that humanity should accept Yanfu rather than resist it.

• Luo Yan told Pan Renfeng and Xiao Shi that Bain had not pressured him as much as Bai Qixue and that he believed he could have killed Bain, while cautioning against judging all Transcendents by one God's Emissary.
• Luo Yan signed Sun Xiao Hu's clothes, and Sun Xiao Hu vowed to work hard and win the tournament.
• Students, including the South Phoenix Academy exchange students, registered for the Quest for the Dao tournament, while Bain urged his classmates not to compete just to restore his honor.
• Bai Qixue used the Magician technique to catch a grenade thrown toward the auditorium crowd and send it outside, where it exploded.
• Zhu Jianian revealed grenades strapped to his body, identified himself as a member of the Jambudvipa Cult, and urged people to stop resisting Yanfu.

Zhu Jianian tried to detonate grenades at Hundred Battles Academy while preaching that humanity should submit to the giant beasts, but Xiao Xiao and Luo Yan stopped him. As coordinated attacks set fires across the Academy, masked intruders broke into the archives and were confronted by Bain.

• Zhu Jianian threatened the anniversary gathering with grenades and declared that humanity should become food for the giant beasts.
• Xiao Xiao stole a grenade from Zhu Jianian, and Luo Yan knocked him unconscious and removed his explosives.
• Explosions struck the Academy, and Luo Yan rushed to the Mecha Docking Bay while Bain also responded.
• Luo Yan used Yan Bo and the Purple Flood Dragon to extinguish a fire in Xie Guangyao's office, where they found a charred cultist's corpse.
• Xiao Xiao told Luo Yan that the library had been bombed and that Academy security guards had helped cultists bring in explosives and fuel.
• Masked intruders entered the Academy archives to steal materials, but Bain confronted them.

Bayne stopped a group of infiltrators attempting to steal Hundred Battles Academy’s archives, killing them before Luo Yan arrived. Later, Luo Yan and his companions questioned Bayne’s motives, but Luo Yan said he had no evidence to accuse him.

• A brown-eyed infiltrator offered Bayne ten million merit points to leave the archive room, but Bayne accepted the card and stayed, identifying the group’s plan to steal the Academy’s files.
• The infiltrators attacked Bayne with firearms, and he killed the shooters with nearly invisible ripples after deflecting their bullets with an Energy Barrier.
• The brown-eyed leader broke through a wall and charged Luo Yan, but Luo Yan stopped him; Bayne then killed the wounded man and greeted Luo Yan.
• Luo Yan found no survivors or useful clues in the archive room and reported the incident to Xiao Shi; the Security Department later took away the cult members and the infiltrators’ bodies.
• At a club that night, Yang Lixie, Zeng Shan, and Li Zi questioned why Bayne had killed the infiltrators, and Luo Yan said he had suspected Bayne but lacked evidence to accuse him.

Luo Yan returned to Qingmu City on a secret mission and learned that the Kunlun Alliance had attacked Gou Mang Department’s caravan, leaving Zhuo Hu badly injured. He ordered an investigation into the alliance as suspicion grew that the attack was meant to intimidate other groups.

• Liu Ruohan told the group that He Hao had reconciled with Su Jiu and gone to meet her parents.
• After the school anniversary ended, Luo Yan received a message from the Black Witches and arranged to travel to Qingmu City alone while Bai? returned to Jinge City.
• Feiyu told Luo Yan that the Kunlun Alliance had imposed transport taxes across the region and that Zhuo Hu had been attacked while escorting a Giant Beast Core.
• Luo Yan ordered Feiyu to investigate the Kunlun Alliance’s leaders and visited Zhuo Hu in the hospital, where he arranged for him to receive the best medicine.
• Hong Gu and Feiyu said the masked attacker had overwhelmed Zhuo Hu and was likely a Profound Comprehension Realm expert working for the Kunlun Alliance.

Luo Yan studied the Kunlun United Merchant Alliance’s control of the surface transportation network and met Qingmu Security Minister Liu Wansheng to discuss a trade route. He proposed a route from Qingmu to Langxie, leaving Liu to consider the plan.

• Feiyu gave Luo Yan information about the Kun Alliance’s expansion and tolls across the surface roads.
• Luo Yan asked to meet Liu Wansheng, while Liu and his brother-in-law Ji Xing discussed the Kun Alliance’s power and threat to local businesses.
• Luo Yan met Liu at Rongxin Grand Restaurant and presented him with a gift from Chunshen Technology.
• Luo Yan told Liu he planned to develop a surface trade route and traced a proposed path from Qingmu to Langxie.

Luo Yan recruited Liu Wansheng to protect Chunshen Technology while he moved against the Kun Alliance, offering him a share of the merchant route’s profits. He then persuaded Yu Qiushui to join the risky plan, and she agreed on condition that Li Chenyu was brought in.

• Luo Yan explained the Kun Alliance’s strength to Liu Wansheng and asked him to prevent attacks on Chunshen Technology during the campaign in exchange for ten percent of the merchant route’s profits.
• Liu Wansheng agreed, reasoning that the arrangement carried little risk and could bring him a large reward if Luo Yan succeeded.
• After Luo Yan left, Ji Xing questioned the small share, and Liu Wansheng explained why he had accepted it.
• Luo Yan called Yu Qiushui and described his plan to seize the Kun Alliance’s transportation territory.
• Yu Qiushui agreed to join if Luo Yan brought Li Chenyu along.

Luo Yan recruited Li Chenyu to join his plan to seize a trade route from the Kunlun United Merchant Alliance, while preparing forces for an operation in about a week. He then met Gu Liangcai, head of the White Deer Cult, whose thoughts revealed that he hoped to use the operation to retaliate against the Zhengqi Dao in Langxie City.

• Luo Yan called Li Chenyu about developing a trade route from Qingmu City to Langxie City, and she agreed to join after three days to a week for a twenty-percent share of the profits.
• Luo Yan told Yu Qiushui that he planned to gather forces from Qingmu City, the Black Dragon Group, Spring Feather Base, the Divine Medicine, and possibly the Iron Horse mercenaries before launching the operation in about a week.
• Li Yu told Luo Yan that Gu Liangcai, head of the White Deer Cult, had come to see him with a letter of recommendation from Liu Wansheng.
• Luo Yan read Gu Liangcai's thoughts and learned that he wanted to use the trade-route operation to punish the Zhengqi Dao in Langxie City.
• Gu Liangcai greeted Luo Yan and explained that Liu Wansheng had praised him and that he had come to meet him after hearing he had returned.

Luo Yan negotiated an alliance with the White Deer Cult, agreeing to support it in exchange for medical resources to help Chunshen Technology open the trade route. At Water Tiger Camp, Hong Gu told the camp leaders that Red Ghost planned to seize the highway, but their preparations were interrupted by an enemy force arriving with mechs.

• Gu Liangcai offered the White Deer Cult's funding, medical personnel, soldiers, and cultivators in exchange for Luo Yan's support in making the cult the only religion on the trade route.
• Luo Yan delayed his decision, then required the White Deer Cult to transfer some medical resources to Chunshen Technology while keeping its soldiers and cultivators out of the fighting; Gu Liangcai agreed.
• Hong Gu told Old Hei and the other camp leaders that Red Ghost planned to take the highway from Qingmu City to Langxie City from the Kun Alliance within days.
• A camp guard reported that more than five hundred enemies with mechs were approaching Water Tiger Camp to wipe them out.

Hong Gu and Old Hei prepared Water Tiger Camp to face a heavily armed Kunlun Group convoy seeking to absorb the camp while Zhuo Hu was injured. After Lou Zhen attempted to persuade them to join, a dark-red mecha fired, beginning the confrontation.

• Hong Gu ordered Water Tiger Camp to sound the alarm, prepare for battle, and ready its mecha.
• Hong Gu and Old Hei piloted Intermediate Mecha and spotted a large convoy approaching the camp.
• Lou Zhen and Bu Wen discussed using Zhuo Hu's injuries to take over Water Tiger Camp and threatened to destroy it if the camp refused.
• Lou Zhen announced that the Kunlun Group had come to invite Water Tiger Camp to join, but Old Hei rejected his offer and accused the group of trying to seize the camp.
• A dark-red mecha on Water Tiger Camp's side fired at the convoy as a woman declared that they should fight.

Luo Yan broke through to the third level of the Sha Blood Soul Devouring Art before learning that Water Tiger Camp had been attacked. He arrived with Li Yu and Feiyu and watched the battle, where Feiyu identified two opposing mechs as belonging to the Kunlun Group.

• Luo Yan cultivated the Sha Blood Soul Devouring Art and advanced to its third level, forming the five Divine Sha.
• Chen Yu reported that Water Tiger Camp was under attack, and Luo Yan set out with Li Yu to investigate.
• Luo Yan declined Liu Wansheng’s offer to intervene, explaining that they could handle the attack themselves and that relying on Liu would incur a favor and undermine his confidence in their project.
• Luo Yan, Li Yu, and Feiyu crossed the river by yacht and reached Water Tiger Camp, where the camp’s warriors and four mechs were fighting outside.
• Feiyu examined the mechs and identified two as registered to a ground base belonging to the Kunlun Group.

Hong Gu and Old Hei defeated the Kunlun Group’s mechs at Water Tiger Camp, capturing their pilots and soldiers. The chapter ended with Ji Xing telling Liu Wansheng that Kunlun Group had suffered a major loss.

• Hong Gu used a flash and concussion grenade to knock Lou Zhen unconscious inside Ink City.
• Hong Gu and Old Hei attacked Bu Wen’s Flying Fish, while the hijacked Ink City turned against it and helped bring it down.
• Lou Zhen woke to find Old Hei demanding his surrender, and the Kunlun Group pilots and soldiers became prisoners.
• Ji Xing told Liu Wansheng that Water Tiger Camp had captured two Kunlun Group mechs, their pilots, and many soldiers.

Luo Yan used his Innate Resonator ability to take control of Ink City and turn the battle in Water Tiger Camp’s favor, then waited for the pilot Lou Zhen to approach him. Lou Zhen killed Bu Wen in a burst of rage and offered Mister Red Ghost a plan to protect the camp from Kunlun Group.

• Liu Wansheng watched footage of Water Tiger Camp defeating Kunlun Group’s mecha and wondered whether the pilot of Ink City had been bought off or had another motive.
• Bu Wen accused Lou Zhen of betraying Kunlun Group, and Lou Zhen strangled him to death after Bu Wen threatened to report him.
• Luo Yan revealed that he had seized control of Ink City after its pilot passed out, hoping to make Lou Zhen defect and provide intelligence on the Kun Alliance.
• Old Hei brought Lou Zhen to meet Mister Red Ghost, and Lou Zhen offered to share a plan that would keep Water Tiger Camp safe from Kunlun Group.

Luo Yan forced Lou Zhen to reveal what he knew about the Kunlun Group and declared his intention to take control of the Yunlang Highway. The next day, Kunlun Group representatives arrived at Water Tiger Camp to negotiate for their captured people and mechas.

• Lou Zhen tried to use his importance to bargain, but Old Hei slapped him and Luo Yan demanded intelligence about the Kunlun Group.
• Luo Yan said he intended to drive Kunlun and the United Commercial Alliance away from the Yunlang Highway, and Lou Zhen disclosed what he knew about Kunlun's leadership and alliances.
• After confirming Lou Zhen had no more useful information, Luo Yan had him remove his brainwave authority over Ink City and gave his mecha to Li Yu.
• The next day, Kunlun Group public relations manager Wei Bo traveled with a convoy toward Water Tiger Camp to ransom the captives and recover two mechas.
• Wei Bo arrived at Water Tiger Camp and asked over a loudspeaker to speak with the person in charge.

Wei Bo negotiated with Hong Gu to ransom Kunlun Group’s captured team and mech units after Water Tiger Camp forced his delegation to surrender their weapons and submit to inspection. Hong Gu demanded nearly one billion Work Points, and Lin Fan advised Wei Bo to ransom one mech master first.

• Water Tiger Camp’s guards made Wei Bo’s delegation surrender their weapons and undergo an inspection before entering the camp.
• Wei Bo met Hong Gu and explained that Kunlun Group’s attack had been a mistake, offering ten million and then twenty million Work Points for the captives.
• Hong Gu rejected the offers and demanded forty million for each of two Advanced-level mech masters and nine hundred million for the two mech units.
• Lin Fan told Wei Bo to ransom one mech master first, and Hong Gu agreed to that proposal.

Water Tiger Camp tricked Kunlun Group into paying forty million work points for Bu Wen’s corpse, while Lin Fan suspected that a powerful expert backed the camp. Days later, Chunshen Technology Group publicly demanded ten billion in compensation or control of Yunlang Highway, escalating its conflict with Kunlun Group.

• Hong Gu returned Bu Wen’s corpse to Wei Bo and claimed Lou Zhen had escaped after strangling him.
• Lin Fan told Wei Bo to leave Water Tiger Camp, then explained that he suspected an expert there made the camp unafraid of Kunlun Group.
• Luo Yan told Water Tiger Camp’s members to prepare for war and left Li Yu to learn Ink City’s functions.
• Luo Yan told Feiyu he would not return weapons to Kunlun Group and that anything beyond the forty million work points would have to be taken in war.
• Chunshen Technology Group issued a statement demanding ten billion in compensation from Kunlun Group or management rights over Yunlang Highway, while warning other groups not to support Kunlun.