Chapter Summaries

Luo Yan learned that the Strategic Affairs Department planned to counter the Jinyang Group by backing rival bases after Leo was silenced. Back at the barracks, he heard about Xia Yan's breakthrough and frightening Grass Descent curse before Qing Lian arrived and demanded a room.

• Bai Shaotang told Luo Yan that overseas forces were targeting the natives and explained the department's plan to weaken the Jinyang Group by supporting factions such as Blizzard Base.
• Luo Yan returned to the barracks and found Dong Yuan and Li Musen frightened of Xia Yan, who had become more respectful toward the Vice Captain.
• The Vice Captain told Luo Yan that Xia Yan had reached the Profound Comprehension Realm and used Grass Descent to terrify Dong Yuan and Li Musen.
• The Vice Captain explained that she had defeated Xia Yan in a spar and could counter her curses with the Trickster.
• Qing Lian entered the barracks, called Luo Yan Eye-Seeing Kid, and demanded a room.

Qing Lian moved into the Earthly Hero Squad’s dormitory, then persuaded Luo Yan to take her along on an investigation of a suspicious camp. At White Deer Base, the team learned that refugees and investigators had disappeared at Blue Fire Camp, and Qing Lian reacted sharply when she heard the camp worshipped the Diaoke God.

• Qing Lian refused to leave the Earthly Hero Squad’s dormitory and settled in with Luo Yan’s team.
• Luo Yan briefed the team on disappearances at a camp that Commander Bai suspected of sheltering hostile overseas forces.
• Qing Lian asked to join the investigation, and Bai Shaotang approved her departure from Jinge City.
• Luo Yan and his team traveled to White Deer Base and met its person in charge, Huang Ling.
• Huang Ling explained that refugees and investigators had vanished after entering Blue Fire Camp and revealed that its residents worshipped the Diaoke God.
• Qing Lian abruptly demanded that Huang Ling repeat the name of the god.

Luo Yan and Qing Lian suspected that Blue Fire Camp housed the Diaoke Ill, a disaster-bringing evil force, and planned to infiltrate it. They disguised themselves as wilderness refugees, and Blue Fire Camp’s driver arrived to recruit them for work.

• Luo Yan explained the Three Ills and recalled how he had helped destroy the Sangmen Ill, while Qing Lian said powerful beings could send the other Ills into the mortal world.
• Qing Lian said the Thrones’ year-long silence was suspicious and warned that the Diaoke Ill could cause disasters and eventually threaten humanity.
• Luo Yan decided to infiltrate Blue Fire Camp as a refugee, while Bai? was to alert the Strategic Affairs Department and arrange for a mecha to be brought over.
• The next day, Luo Yan and Qing Lian waited in disguise in a White Deer Base alley, planning to enter the camp or sneak in after dark.
• A driver from Blue Fire Camp offered food and lodging in exchange for work, and the refugees began preparing to board his truck.

Luo Yan discovered that the Diaoke Sha was cocooned in the camp’s underground waterways and was feeding on kidnapped refugees. He and Qing Lian moved to attack it and rescue the captives, but the driver’s gunshot alerted the camp.

• Luo Yan entered the camp with Qing Lian and the other refugees, then used his Divine Treasure to search for the Diaoke Sha.
• Luo Yan found the Diaoke Sha near breaking out of its cocoon and saw it draining refugees’ life energy and devouring their flesh.
• Luo Yan decided to destroy the Diaoke Sha before it emerged and rescue the captives, while Qing Lian agreed to go after the cocoon.
• Qing Lian climbed out of the shack and entered the underground waterways, while Luo Yan knocked the refugees unconscious so he could move them safely.
• When the driver returned, Luo Yan subdued him and ordered him to bring the truck, but the driver fired a pistol and alerted the camp.

Luo Yan subdued the camp residents who tried to kill him, rescued the refugees, and returned underground to save Diaoke God’s offerings. The sewer collapsed before he could reach them, and their biological gray lights disappeared beneath the rubble.

• Luo Yan revealed his identity as a Strategic Affairs Department captain and ordered the camp residents to evacuate, but they refused and attacked him to protect Diaoke God.
• The driver, Li Mao, fired at Luo Yan, and a camp resident shot Li Mao dead when he offered himself as Diaoke God’s next sacrifice.
• Luo Yan used his Aura to knock the attacking residents unconscious, loaded the refugees onto a truck, and took them to safety.
• Luo Yan returned to the sewers, where he encountered Qing Lian fleeing after Diaoke Sha emerged from its cocoon, and continued toward the offerings to save them.
• The underground sewers collapsed, killing the offerings beneath the rubble, and Luo Yan grabbed Qing Lian’s hand and told her to go.

Diaoke Sha emerged from underground beneath Blue Fire Camp, destroying the camp and unleashing mutated Disaster Imps. Luo Yan and Qing Lian killed every Imp, but Diaoke Sha activated a Cradle of Calamity that began rapidly advancing its growth.

• Diaoke Sha absorbed the nerve-like flesh from its cocoon, grew enormous, and burst through the ground beneath Blue Fire Camp.
• Luo Yan and Qing Lian escaped as the camp collapsed, while many residents were swept away by the sinking earth.
• Luo Yan used Divine Treasure to identify Diaoke Sha as an early-stage Calamity Infant and discovered the mutated followers known as Disaster Imps.
• Luo Yan and Qing Lian fought together and killed all the Disaster Imps before any could escape.
• A multicolored Cradle of Calamity barrier appeared around the camp ruins, and Luo Yan realized Diaoke Sha was using it to accelerate its growth.

Captain Luo Yan and the Strategic Affairs Department investigated the dangerous spaces inside the Cradle of Calamity and prepared to confront Diaoke Sha. He, Shi Beiluo, and Qing Lian entered the Cradle, while Xiao Bai stayed behind to take charge of the camp.

• A reconnaissance drone entered the Cradle of Calamity, encountered a tsunami, and lost its signal, following earlier drone explorations that had faced fire and storms.
• Qing Lian explained that Diaoke Sha governed natural disasters and that its true body might lie beyond the disaster spaces protecting it.
• Shi Beiluo arrived with the Kui Dou Squad, and he and Captain Luo Yan agreed that they would investigate the Cradle together with Qing Lian.
• Qing Lian agreed to accompany Captain Luo Yan, while Xiao Bai volunteered to join but was told to remain outside with Xia Yan and take charge.
• Captain Luo Yan, Shi Beiluo, and Qing Lian set out to enter the Cradle and search for Diaoke Sha.

Luo Yan and the Kui Dou Squad entered the Cradle of Calamity, where the six mecha were separated into different Calamity Spaces. Yao Yuan landed on the floor of an underwater city, and Luo Yan found a spatial distortion he believed was the exit.

• Luo Yan completed Yao Yuan’s deployment checks and joined Shi Beiluo and the Kui Dou Squad outside the camp.
• The six mecha charged into the Cradle of Calamity and were transported to separate spaces.
• Huang Ling and Bai? saw the squad members’ camera feeds split between a sea of fire, a storm, and Luo Yan’s vast ocean, then sent the Earthly Hero Squad to stand by.
• Luo Yan sealed Yao Yuan against the seawater and sank to the seafloor, where he spotted the outlines of a submerged city.
• Luo Yan used the Divine Treasure to locate an unnatural spatial distortion in the underwater city and piloted Yao Yuan toward it.

Luo Yan and Qing Lian entered an underwater city in the Calamity Space and discovered its stagnant water could make things sink and stop moving. When rising pressure trapped Yao Yuan in the plaza, Luo Yan used heavenly fire to blast the mecha back into the air.

• Yao Yuan carried Luo Yan and Qing Lian into the submerged city, where they found that the water inside had stopped flowing.
• Luo Yan sensed the ground swallow Yao Yuan's foot, and Qing Lian guessed the stagnant water caused intruders to sink into the city.
• Luo Yan flew Yao Yuan above the ground, but the mecha stopped moving over a plaza as the water pressure began to rise.
• The pressure forced Yao Yuan down until its feet sank into the plaza, where stagnation prevented it from pulling free.
• Luo Yan unleashed the Heavenly Fire Record, sending Yao Yuan soaring back into the sky.

Luo Yan discovered that an Evil Sha Sub-body was causing the underwater Calamity Space’s disasters and fought it with Yao Yuan. After he destroyed it, the warped space began to shrink, apparently closing the exit.

• Luo Yan traced the abnormal water pressure to a jellyfish-shaped Evil Sha Sub-body hidden in a building and identified it as the source of the Calamity Space’s disasters.
• Luo Yan used A Strip of Rainbow to force the Evil Sha Sub-body into view and temporarily ended its control over the water pressure.
• The Evil Sha Sub-body vanished and sent violent currents surging toward Yao Yuan, but Luo Yan’s mecha cut through them.
• Luo Yan summoned the Skeleton General and struck with the Dragon Elephant, unleashing a blood-red river that overwhelmed and destroyed the Evil Sha Sub-body.
• The black lines linking the Evil Sha Sub-body to the warped space withdrew, and the warped space began to shrink.

Luo Yan and Qing Lian escaped the closing seabed space in Yao Yuan and emerged inside the Cradle of Calamity, where they found Diaoke Sha’s Calamity Infant form. Luo Yan charged toward the fiend to help the Kui Dou Squad, and the awakened Diaoke Sha unleashed an army of giant black children, leaving Yao Yuan surrounded by a sea of blood.

• Qing Lian used a Hate Curse Technique to hold the shrinking spatial exit open while Luo Yan accelerated Yao Yuan through it.
• Luo Yan and Qing Lian returned to the Cradle of Calamity as the seabed passage closed behind them.
• Luo Yan saw Diaoke Sha curled in a depression and chose to attack without waiting for Shi Beiluo.
• Yao Yuan’s rising Aura awakened Diaoke Sha, which released a piercing Infant Cry and sent terrifying pressure across the Cradle.
• Diaoke Sha shed giant black children that rushed toward Yao Yuan, and Luo Yan cast Blood Executioner to flood the ground with blood.

After Luo Yan's fourth-layer Mystic Mastery empowered Yao Yuan to devastate Diaoke Sha, the evil fiend shed its ruined body and revealed its true form. Shi Beiluo and the Kui Dou Squad took over the fight while Luo Yan recovered, leaving Qing Lian to watch rather than help.

• Luo Yan used Yao Yuan's Bloody Wind and Rain to sweep away Diaoke Sha's black little figures and severely damage the evil fiend.
• Shi Beiluo, Zhou Yuhao, Ding Xiangyun, Xiaomi, and the other Kui Dou Squad members emerged from the Calamity Space, and Shi Beiluo warned them that Diaoke Sha was still alive.
• Diaoke Sha shed its ruined body and revealed a stronger true form, which Luo Yan began analyzing with his golden-eyed vision.
• Diaoke Sha hurled its black little figures at Yao Yuan, but Ding Xiangyun's Azure Thunder Divine General destroyed them with a rain of lightning.
• Shi Beiluo led the Kui Dou Squad's mechas into battle and told Luo Yan to rest, while Qing Lian refused to help without more than three roasted chickens a day.

The Kui Dou Squad battled Diaoke Sha, with Yingzhao and the Azure Thunder Divine General badly damaging the Evil Fiend. As Diaoke Sha tried to flee, it threw Zhou Yuhao and Azure Cloud into Calamity Space.

• Yingzhao shattered Diaoke Sha’s flaming attack, but the Evil Fiend overpowered Ding Xiangyun’s Azure Thunder Divine General until Lü Bin used the Mind Mirror to halt it.
• Shi Beiluo’s Yingzhao struck Diaoke Sha with Gua Wind—Azure Gale, blasting away one of its arms and many tentacles.
• Qing Lian told Luo Yan that the Three Great Evils were hard to kill and should be sealed, then hurried out of Yao Yuan to help when Diaoke Sha withdrew the Cradle of Calamity.
• Zhou Yuhao raised Duan Kong City to keep Diaoke Sha from escaping, but the Evil Fiend flung Azure Cloud into Calamity Space.

The Diaoke Sha unleashed a vast earthquake and firestorm that devastated the battlefield and White Deer Base. After its power waned and it tried to escape, Yao Yuan ambushed it and struck a devastating blow, leaving the fiend badly wounded.

• With the Great Ming King and Lü Bin disrupting the Diaoke Sha’s thoughts, Yingzhao and the Azure Thunder Divine General attacked it.
• The Diaoke Sha unleashed an immense earthquake that swallowed machine bodies, scattered the Kui Dou Squad, and caused widespread destruction at White Deer Base.
• Flames erupted through the fractured earth, driving the death toll sharply higher while the Diaoke Sha’s aura weakened.
• The Diaoke Sha emerged from the smoke and prepared to flee, but a scarlet light screen struck its back and severed many tentacles.
• Yao Yuan appeared from the smoke and slashed the Diaoke Sha with the Dragon Elephant, opening a huge wound that caused half its body to explode.

Yao Yuan and Yingzhao destroyed Diaoke Sha, but black smoke from its corpse triggered the Primordial Tent before vanishing. While Qing Lian secretly searched the Tiankeng for a hidden treasure, Luo Yan discovered Dragon Tiger Qi that might help Yan Bo transform.

• Yao Yuan wounded Diaoke Sha at its weak point, and Yingzhao killed it with his Immortal Art, Gua Wind, Azure Dragon's Chant.
• Luo Yan saw black smoke rise from Diaoke Sha's corpse and enter the Primordial Tent, then told Shi Beiluo he did not know what had happened.
• Qing Lian searched the Tiankeng for an auspicious treasure but found nothing before Luo Yan arrived.
• Yan Bo reacted to something beneath the rubble, and Luo Yan used his Golden Eyes of Enlightenment to uncover dense Primal Energy.
• Yan Bo summoned two flood dragons to clear the rubble, revealing Dragon Tiger Qi that might lead to his transformation.

Luo Yan witnessed the Golden Lotus transform into light and enter Yan Bo, putting his primordial spirit into slumber so it could undergo sublimation. In Yanfu, Xing Ba revealed that Cang Lei had sent Diaoke Sha into the mortal world with a Hate Curse Technique that would harm the Primordial Tent if Diaoke Sha were killed, leaving the Human Race with a dangerous choice.

• Luo Yan watched the Golden Lotus release its light into Yan Bo, whose primordial spirit vanished into slumber.
• Luo Yan wondered whether Qing Lian had known about the Dragon Tiger Qi and Golden Lotus, then left the underground Tiankeng.
• In Yanfu, Hong Shang watched the wilderness from a palace on a flying black dragon as Xing Ba confronted her about wanting to replace him and return to the mortal world.
• Xing Ba told Hong Zhuang that Cang Lei had sent Diaoke Sha into the mortal world and ordered her not to act rashly before the time was right.
• Xing Ba and his parasitic elder brother explained that Diaoke Sha's death would trigger a Hate Curse Technique that eroded the Primordial Tent, while allowing it to mature would bring mass extinction.

Hong Zhuang learned that Yanfu’s forces planned to open a passage to the mortal world in three to five years and use allied alien races to distract humanity. On New Year’s Eve, Luo Yan and Xiao Bai prepared a family dinner together while human forces faced threats elsewhere, and they welcomed the new year beneath Jinge City’s fireworks.

• Xing Ba told Hong Zhuang that opening a stable passage would take three to five years, and explained that Yanfu’s emperor planned to send allied alien races into the mortal world to hinder humanity.
• Maintenance staff installed a Dragon Tear Stone Spirit Suit in Yao Yuan, while Xiao Bai and Luo Yan discussed their mechas’ upgrades.
• Luo Yan and Xiao Bai left the docking bay to spend New Year’s Eve with Luo Yan’s mother, worrying about teammates still deployed and the worsening situation abroad.
• At Sunshine Convenience Store, Luo Yan made dumplings as Zhou Lijuan reassured Xiao Bai that she would support her.
• Luo Yan, Xiao Bai, and Zhou Lijuan shared New Year’s dinner and greeted the new year as fireworks lit Jinge City.

Luo Yan entered a state of unity with heaven and earth, mastered the principles behind the sword strike from Ancient Sword Shadow, and named his own technique Beginning Sword. He then traveled to Langya City to meet Zhang Yuzhong and arrived at Kunlun Group, where Lin Fan and Liu Weiguo were waiting to meet him.

• Luo Yan reflected on his past and connected with heaven and earth while standing in the snow outside Jinge City.
• Luo Yan relived the sword strike from Ancient Sword Shadow as if he were the swordsman, grasped its principles, and named the technique Beginning Sword.
• Luo Yan sensed that Yan Bo's divine fire was growing stronger while Yan Bo slept, and that Nether Fish had entered dormancy in the sea.
• Luo Yan decided to travel to Langya City to meet Zhang Yuzhong, then left Jinge City under the pretext of a mission for Bai Shaotang.
• Feiyu welcomed Luo Yan at Kunlun Group and told him that his replacement Divine General mecha, Phantom, had arrived at Lengguang Base.
• Luo Yan learned that Lin Fan and Liu Weiguo were waiting in his office, where Liu Weiguo questioned whether Red Ghost had taken over Kunlun Group through underhanded means.

Luo Yan returned to the Kunlun Group and faced Liu Weiguo’s doubts by challenging him to a fight, winning without throwing a punch and securing Liu’s loyalty. Later, Feiyu announced that Gu Liangcai of the White Deer Cult had arrived.

• Lin Fan warned Liu Weiguo against criticizing Luo Yan, but Liu said he wanted to judge Luo Yan for himself.
• Luo Yan offered to spar with Liu Weiguo, wagering his life and the Kunlun Group against Liu’s loyalty.
• Luo Yan used the pressure of his gaze and killing intent to overwhelm Liu Weiguo, who collapsed before making a move.
• Liu Weiguo accepted defeat and pledged his life to Luo Yan; he obeyed Luo’s order to punch Lin Fan, stopping when Luo told him to.
• Feiyu told Luo Yan that Gu Liangcai from the White Deer Cult had arrived.

Luo Yan met Gu Liangcai and agreed to meet Hu Ziqiang, then tested the Phantom mecha at Lengguang Base. When an Upper-tier Giant Beast appeared, Luo Yan intercepted it as it tried to flee.

• Gu Liangcai told Luo Yan that Hu Ziqiang, a wealthy overseas businessman and former backer of Gao Jin, wanted an introduction, and Luo Yan agreed to meet him.
• Luo Yan examined Phantom and learned that its Shadow state made it untouchable but unable to attack, relying on precise timing to use effectively.
• Luo Yan piloted Phantom outside Lengguang Base and demonstrated its speed and agility during tactical maneuvers.
• Jambu Realm Space opened, and an Upper-tier Giant Beast called the Spider Ghoul fell into the wilderness.
• The Spider Ghoul tried to escape from Phantom, but Luo Yan accelerated and appeared in its path.