Chapter Summaries

Cai Andao gave Wan Qing a storage card before staying behind to awaken a frozen beast, hoping to capture the Nether Fish and find the “Mei Ba.” At the base, Luo Yan battled Yan Lang and Duke Ding, then escaped the command center to pursue Cai Andao, only for Yan Lang to reveal a Qiongqi beast soul and unleash a Sovereign’s Exotic Arts.

• Cai Andao handed Wan Qing a storage card, and she swallowed it before leaving for Julu without him.
• Cai Andao watched the Nether Fish attack the base and activated a gigantic beast frozen underground.
• Duke Ding arrived with Liu Chunshui’s severed head and joined Yan Lang against Luo Yan.
• Luo Yan blasted Duke Ding back with Crimson Sword Light, then used the Nether Fish to cut a passage out of the command center.
• Yan Lang revealed a Qiongqi beast soul and attacked Luo Yan with a Sovereign’s Exotic Arts.

Luo Yan confronted Yan Lang and Duke Ding, who revealed that they had awakened incomplete beast souls and could use Exotic Arts. After the Dragon Will consumed Duke Ding’s Nightmare Gu, Luo Yan wounded him, but Duke Ding’s Heartbreak Melody began tearing at Luo Yan’s insides as Yan Lang attacked.

• Yan Lang used half-moon sickles to force Luo Yan back into the main control room, where Duke Ding explained that they had devoured Fierce Beast consciousness and awakened incomplete beast souls.
• Luo Yan unleashed the Wrathful Eye, stirring up anger in Yan Lang and Duke Ding, while Duke Ding used the Qin Worm’s Zither Music to summon Luo Yan’s memory of Chen Jun.
• The Dragon Will pulled the Nightmare Gu out of Luo Yan and devoured it, freeing him from the nightmare.
• Luo Yan struck Duke Ding from behind with Ten Steps, One Kill, breaking his insect shell and opening a deep wound.
• Duke Ding used Heartbreak Melody to cause severe pain in Luo Yan’s organs as Yan Lang charged at him.

Luo Yan fought Yan Lang and Duke Ding in the control room, using his skills to break their attacks and severely injure them. As Yan Lang charged again, Luo Yan sent a Nightmare Gu into him, plunging him into darkness.

• Yan Lang attacked Luo Yan with a Wind Scythe, but Luo Yan’s Demon Dragon Mist opened a gap in the azure net and his Startling Swan struck both Yan Lang and Duke Ding.
• Luo Yan interrupted Duke Ding’s Heartbreak Melody and snapped his Heartstring, leaving him gravely injured.
• Luo Yan tricked Yan Lang into defending against a false attack, then struck him with Crimson Blood Killing Claw, severing his left hand and wing.
• Luo Yan used Nightmare Gu on Duke Ding, causing him to forget something, while the woman on his back played music that healed both men.
• Yan Lang charged Luo Yan again, but a Nightmare Gu burrowed into him and left him unable to see Luo Yan.

Cai Andao unveiled the Uncrowned King, a Fusion Giant Beast he controlled through a neural helmet, and ordered it to capture Nether Fish. Their fight began at the flooded An Lan Base, where Nether Fish resisted the King’s attacks but was sprayed with paralyzing venom.

• Nether Fish stayed near the fissure, guarding the base from incoming water while it watched giant beasts battle mechs outside and longed to eat.
• A huge passage opened on the western side of the base, and the blue-furred Uncrowned King climbed out.
• Cai Andao connected his consciousness to the Uncrowned King and ordered it to make Nether Fish submit.
• The Uncrowned King punched Nether Fish, but Nether Fish’s scales and Heavenly Ghost Transformation left it largely unharmed.
• Nether Fish struck the Uncrowned King and sent it crashing into a building, sharing the impact’s pain with Cai Andao.
• Cai Andao sent the Uncrowned King’s tentacles to spray poisonous Water Arrows over Nether Fish in an attempt to paralyze and capture it.

Luo Yan used Nightmare Gu to trap Yan Lang in a vision of his abusive father, then killed him. Duke Ding tried to flee, but Luo Yan revealed his phantom form and unleashed Blood River Saber, carving through the underground base.

• Yan Lang heard his dead father's voice and relived his childhood abuse in a hallucination, losing access to his powers.
• Luo Yan drove a blood-aura claw through Yan Lang's back and heart, killing him as Yan Lang saw the main control room again.
• Duke Ding tried to escape, but Luo Yan's towering phantom appeared and filled him with fear.
• Luo Yan used Blood River Saber to strike Duke Ding and blast a long passage through the base.

Luo Yan defeated the Fusion Giant Beast and killed Cai Andao, settling their old score. After Nether Fish fed on the Ming Snake, Luo Yan sent it into the deep sea to find a Forbidden Land and lie low.

• Luo Yan realized Yan Lang and Cai Andao were secret Black Witch aces, then used Nether Fish to confront the Fusion Giant Beast Cai Andao had activated.
• Luo Yan cut the Fusion Giant Beast in two with the Crimson Blood Killing Sword, and Cai Andao suffered the attack through their sensory connection.
• Luo Yan removed Cai Andao's sensory helmet and killed him, telling him, “We're even now.”
• Luo Yan sent Nether Fish to devour the Ming Snake after the battle outside An Lan Base ended.
• The next day, Luo Yan told Nether Fish to find an underwater Forbidden Land, and it swam toward the open ocean.

Wan Qing returned to Giant Deer City after the disaster at An Lan Base, where Zhou Yucheng received Cai Andao’s data and discussed the failed operation with Zhao Weihuang and Li Tinglan. A rock painting discovered in Guixu led them to suspect that Meihuo was imprisoned on the moon, providing the basis for the Black Witch’s Moon Landing Project.

• Wan Qing arrived at Tongtian Pavilion and gave Zhou Yucheng Cai Andao’s storage card, while the driver who had brought her died under mysterious circumstances.
• Zhou Yucheng ordered Li Suisui to arrange the driver’s cremation and compensate his family, then met with Zhao Weihuang and Li Tinglan.
• Zhou Yucheng reported that Yan Lang and Duke Ding had died at An Lan Base, while Wan Qing survived and Cai Andao’s project data had been recovered.
• Zhao Weihuang accepted the data for the Uncrowned King project, and Li Tinglan said the Moon Landing Project was progressing but questioned its basis.
• Zhou Yucheng showed a Guixu rock painting whose mountains matched lunar features by eighty-nine percent and concluded that Meihuo might be imprisoned on the moon.

Luo Yan reported Black Witch’s biotechnology and search for Mei Ba to Bai Shaotang, who told him to build the organization’s trust rather than interfere with its plans. Back at the Dragon Rider dormitory, Luo Yan found his teammates training and heard that Mystic Mastery cultivators were becoming far more common.

• Luo Yan told Bai Shaotang about Black Witch’s Fusion Giant Beasts and Mutated Lifeforms but kept the Nether Fish secret.
• Bai Shaotang warned that Black Witch finding Mei Ba could cause a disaster and instructed Luo Yan to gain the organization’s trust by sharing selected secrets.
• Luo Yan went to the research institute to see Lin Wei but learned she and Doctor Jia would be away for several days.
• Luo Yan messaged Bai Qixue, then returned to the squad dormitory and found Li Yuqing drinking while Zhang Tianyi, Yang Kui, and Murong were elsewhere.
• Li Yuqing told Luo Yan that she and Murong were nearing the fifth layer of the Advanced level, and Luo Yan reflected that cultivators in the Profound Comprehension Realm had become much more common.

After absorbing the blood essences of three Overlord Giant Beasts, Luo Yan tested the powerful new defenses and Iron Fire Cannon of his Dragon Transformation state. Commander Bai summoned him to watch the fourth Raven Project experiment, where Bai Shaotang unveiled Kuafu, a robot built to explore Yanfu.

• Luo Yan completed the Dragon Will's digestion of the Blazing Rock Dragon, Qiongqi, and Qin Worm blood essences and transformed into a form with silver hair, black scales, and dark green wings.
• Luo Yan formed a cannon from his scales and fired a blazing projectile that could pierce through mecha and giant beast hides, though it required time to charge and was difficult to aim at moving targets.
• Commander Bai called Luo Yan back to the base to watch the fourth experiment of the Yanfu exploration project.
• Luo Yan joined Commander Bai at the venue as Bai Shaotang introduced the first-generation Yanfu exploration robot, Kuafu, which could travel on tracks and fly for limited periods.

Bai Shaotang’s team opened a larger passage into Yanfu and sent the robot Kuafu through, where a lightning-breathing wolf cub attacked and destroyed it. The team ended the exploration, while the wolf cub sensed something approaching in the clouds.

• Bai Shaotang announced the fourth exploration as engineers opened a passage into Yanfu and sent Kuafu through it.
• Kuafu’s camera showed a gloomy, ruined city and a wide avenue that suggested Yanfu was a world of giants.
• A wolf cub with humanlike arms and eyes on the sides of its body attacked Kuafu, ignored its electrical discharge, and forced the engineers to fire its weapons.
• The wolf cub spat a blue-white lightning bolt at Kuafu, cutting its signal, and Bai Shaotang ordered the Yanfu Realm Space closed.
• Bai Shaotang said the Nether Membrane generator could now protect an adult and suggested sending cultivators on a future exploration.
• The wolf cub dismantled Kuafu in the ruins, then looked toward the clouds as if sensing an arrival.

Hong Zhuang arrived at Starfall Abyss, the Black Wing Tribe’s stronghold, while Cang Lei summoned his people. Cang Lei forced the celestial star into the abyss, transforming it into an enormous eye, and the Black Wing Tribe’s leader challenged him.

• An immense consciousness passed over Yanfu, and a wolf pup saw a colossal dragon carrying a palace through the storm.
• Hong Zhuang confronted You Li, who discussed the losses the ghosts had suffered in the Ancient War.
• You Li told Hong Zhuang that Starfall Abyss had arrived and that Cang Lei was summoning them.
• Hong Zhuang saw a brilliant star above the abyss and felt its power stir arrogance within her.
• Cang Lei pressed the floating rocks and mountains into the abyss, then forced the star down to form a gigantic eye.
• An unseen voice asked Cang Lei why he had done this, saying its people had never been his enemies.

Cang Lei offered Morning Star the Li You Gate, which could let him and his people leave the realm for the Mortal World at the cost of weakening their power. In the Mortal World, Qiao Mai Xun sought Lin Yue’s help to escape his pursuers and travel to Ziyang City, and Lin Yue arranged a place for him in a convoy.

• Cang Lei asked Morning Star whether he wanted to leave the realm, then offered him the Li You Gate without asking for payment.
• Cang Lei explained that using the gate would consume some of Morning Star’s power and that the Primordial Tent would weaken him further in the Mortal World.
• Qiao Mai Xun drove to a fortified camp, where he asked Lin Yue to help him reach Ziyang City because someone was following him.
• Lin Yue arranged for Qiao Mai Xun to leave with a convoy in half an hour and told a subordinate to take him to Vehicle Three.

The Strategic Affairs Department captured Qiao Mai Xun, also known as Waterdrop, and learned that Leo had exposed the Waterdrops’ identities. Bai Shaotang questioned him about the plot’s mastermind, revealing that the department was preparing to strike back.

• Qiao Mai Xun escaped his convoy during a Dragonriders ambush, but Li Yuqing, Murong Xuan, and their companions brought him down and took him to Jinge City.
• At the bar, Lin Yue denounced Qiao Mai Xun for involving him in trouble with the Strategic Affairs Department, while Luo Yan left without speaking to Qiao Mai Xun.
• Back at the Dragonriders’ barracks, Li Yuqing and Murong Xuan discussed Qiao Mai Xun’s capture, and Luo Yan ordered them to train with him.
• Bai Shaotang questioned Qiao Mai Xun and revealed that Leo had supplied a list identifying all the Waterdrops.
• Qiao Mai Xun recognized Leo’s disclosure as revenge for being silenced and inferred that Bai Shaotang had already decided to act against the people behind the plan.

Luo Yan tested Li Yuqing and Murong Xuan in the Training Hall, offering to cover their missing contribution points for Profound Comprehension cultivation techniques if they could withstand him for five minutes. They unleashed their Divine Treasures against him, but Luo Yan reached them and appeared to defeat them before their painted generals could catch up.

• Luo Yan challenged Li Yuqing and Murong Xuan to spar and promised to cover their contribution-point shortfall if they lasted five minutes against his Advanced-level strength.
• Li Yuqing stitched Earth Rock Armor onto herself and Murong Xuan while Murong Xuan brought a Silver Armor general and a Great Axe-wielding general to life from his paintings.
• The two generals attacked Luo Yan, who countered their weapons with sword light and the Ultimate Skill A Strip of Rainbow.
• Li Yuqing sent waves of earth and stone toward Luo Yan as he used Stars Shift to approach her and Murong Xuan.
• Luo Yan shattered the earth waves with Overlord Fist, Shattered Mountains and Rivers, then reached the pair and placed a hand against Murong Xuan's chest and a sword at Li Yuqing's neck as the generals broke his remaining figures.

Luo Yan trained Li Yuqing and Murong Xuan to overcome their weaknesses, then met Fu Yan and Qin Feng as they prepared to travel to Guixu. A week later, Bai Shaotang summoned Luo Yan and Bai? about the Water Drop Plan and Freedom Wings.

• Luo Yan defeated Li Yuqing and Murong Xuan in training, then ordered them to stop drinking until Li Yuqing reached Mystic Mastery and to practice combat skills for two hours daily.
• Luo Yan reunited with Fu Yan and Qin Feng, learned they were heading to Guixu, and agreed to buy them drinks after hearing about their recent challenges.
• Luo Yan spent the following week training Li Yuqing and Murong Xuan, helping them improve their combat skills and develop ways to survive close-range attacks.
• Bai Shaotang summoned Luo Yan and Bai? to headquarters and said the meeting concerned the Water Drop and Freedom Wings.
• Luo Yan asked whether Freedom Wings had orchestrated the Water Drop Plan.

Bai Shaotang told Luo Yan and Xiao Bai that Freedom Wings was searching for the Golden Apple, a divine artifact capable of creating superhumans and God's Emissaries. Commander Zhao ordered them to form a team and seize it in a southern city, and they were set to depart the next day.

• Bai Shaotang explained that the Strategic Affairs Department planned to retaliate against Freedom Wings for its repeated violations of the alliance treaty.
• Bai Shaotang revealed that Freedom Wings was searching for the Golden Apple, one of the Gods' Legacy artifacts prophesied by Gibron.
• Bai Shaotang explained that the Golden Apple could produce superhumans and God's Emissaries, potentially increasing Freedom Wings' power.
• Luo Yan learned that an important figure connected to the Golden Apple had appeared in a southern city and that Commander Zhao wanted him and Xiao Bai to seize it.
• Bai Shaotang gave Luo Yan a folder of intelligence and told him to select team members for a mission departing the next day.
• Bai Shaotang assured Luo Yan that they did not need to conceal their identities and that the Strategic Affairs Department would bear the consequences.

McCleary gathered Jack, Belle, and the Norse Actings Loki, Thor, and Tyr to pursue the Golden Apple near the southern border. He warned them that the Strategic Affairs Department might interfere and assigned their roles for the mission.

• Jack and Belle watched a convoy carrying Norse Actings arrive at the camp.
• McCleary introduced Major Loki, Major Thor, and Major Tyr to Jack and Belle as Actings for Norse deities.
• McCleary revealed that someone who knew the Golden Apple's whereabouts had appeared south of the camp and warned that the Strategic Affairs Department might also be seeking it.
• Thor mocked Jack's faction for its approach to gaining divine favor, and Jack argued back before McCleary ordered them to stop.
• McCleary assigned Thor, Tyr, and Jack to direct combat, told Belle to handle infiltration and reconnaissance, and began explaining Loki's important mission.

Luo Yan and his team departed Jinge City for a mission in the south, and Lin Wei delivered his newly forged Spirit Suit longsword, Blazing Plains, before they left. After examining its fire-enhancing abilities, Luo Yan looked forward to testing it on the journey.

• Luo Yan and Bai? assembled a five-person squad of Profound Comprehension Experts for their trip south.
• Lin Wei arrived with the Spirit Suit longsword Luo Yan had commissioned and handed it to him before the team boarded the transport plane.
• On the flight, Luo Yan opened the case and showed Blazing Plains to Bai? and Zhang Tianyi.
• Luo Yan read that Blazing Plains enhanced fire abilities, inflicted increasing fire damage, and could unleash a burst of true fire.
• Luo Yan took Blazing Plains from its case and anticipated testing it alongside the Sky Strike Ring against the agents.

Luo Yan led his team south toward Flower City to compete with Freedom Wings for the Golden Apple, after receiving a warning about the influential Suo Po Association. Two days later, he reached the ruined city where he had once lived, promising Captain Bai? he would show her his old home after the mission.

• Luo Yan declined the southern base supervisor’s offer to rest and learned that the Suo Po Association had a strong following among surface survivors.
• Luo Yan outfitted the team in disguises, then set out with them in modified vehicles and reviewed their mission to find Ma Fang, who held clues about the Golden Apple.
• Luo Yan said the team would settle its accumulated grievances with Freedom Wings, including the Water Drop Plan and the theft of the Divine Remnant.
• Captain Bai? asked Luo Yan to show her where he had lived in Flower City, and he agreed to take her after the mission.
• Two days later, Luo Yan and the team arrived in the ruined Flower City, where he had once lived.

Luo Yan and his companions entered Flower City's camp to find information broker Chen Mo, who could lead them to Ma Fang. After they reached the shopping district, Yang Kui stopped to look at a motorcycle, and its shop owner angrily blocked him when he tried to leave after hearing the price.

• Luo Yan learned that cultivator Shen Feng managed Flower City's camp and that Chen Mo knew Ma Fang.
• Luo Yan and his companions paid the entrance fee and headed to the shopping plaza to look for Chen Mo.
• Luo Yan stabbed a pickpocket's hand when the man tried to steal from his cloak.
• Luo Yan and the others passed the camp's crowded stalls and entertainment venues, surprising Bai and the other Undercity residents.
• Yang Kui asked the price of a modified motorcycle, and the shop owner demanded that he stop when he turned to leave.