Chapter Summaries

Luo Yan’s group arrived in Flower City to negotiate with Chen Mo, but Yang Kui first confronted a vehicle-shop owner who tried to exploit them. At Lan Gui Fang, a trap turned the meeting into a fight, and Luo Yan stopped Chen Mo from leaving as he insisted on making a deal.

• Yang Kui stayed behind to handle the vehicle-shop owner, who threatened him with the Po Suo Association after Yang Kui killed a guard and injured him.
• Luo Yan and his companions found Lan Gui Fang and offered a backpack of medicine to arrange a meeting with Chen Mo.
• Luo Yan anticipated a robbery and told Zhang Tianyi to capture Chen Mo if violence broke out.
• The Lan Gui Fang staff tried to seize the group’s belongings, so Zhang Tianyi wounded several men and chased after the fleeing middle-aged man.
• Luo Yan blocked Chen Mo at the entrance and told her he wanted to make a deal.

Luo Yan and his companions tracked Ma Fang to a bookstore and discovered that a fourth-tier transcendent using Loki’s power had disguised herself as Ma Fang. Luo Yan left Xiao Bai and Yang Kui to deal with the impostor and rushed after the real Ma Fang, who might be in danger.

• Luo Yan threatened Chen Mo until she gave him Ma Fang’s location, then left the bar with Xiao Bai and Zhang Tianyi.
• Chen Mo warned her people not to alert Shen Feng and closed the bar while they cleaned up the damage.
• Luo Yan’s group reached the Xinhua Bookstore, where Hei Wu found Ma Fang in a trap-filled underground warehouse.
• Yang Kui triggered the mechanisms while Luo Yan spotted a figure fleeing the management room and blocked her path.
• Luo Yan identified the woman as a fourth-tier transcendent wielding Loki’s power, told Xiao Bai and Yang Kui to handle her, and pursued the real Ma Fang.
• The impostor was stunned that Luo Yan had seen through her Shapeshifting Technique.

White? and Zhang Tianyi confronted Loki, a Tier 4 Transcendent aligned with Freedom Wings, in the warehouse management office. After Loki evaded their attacks with illusions and transformations, she unleashed a growing swarm of white rabbits to escape.

• Loki revealed her identity as a Tier 4 Transcendent wielding the power of the Norse god Loki and tried to provoke White? and Zhang Tianyi.
• White? restrained Loki with Bone Cage and ordered Zhang Tianyi to capture her, but Loki repeatedly turned into soap bubbles and reappeared elsewhere.
• Loki aimed a silver revolver at Zhang Tianyi, but White? struck her with a fireball from Lan Xiao.
• Loki shed a false outer layer to reveal she was unharmed, then tried to leave, but Zhang Tianyi attacked with Divine Speed Draw, Sixfold.
• Loki's body exploded into white rabbits that flooded the office and scattered toward the exits.

Bai? and Zhang Tianyi defeated Loki’s rabbit distractions, but Loki escaped and reported to McCleary that the Strategic Affairs Department had arrived. Luo Yan, Yang Kui, and Xia Yan pursued Ma Fang’s trail to Galaxy Stadium, where Freedom Wings’ hired forces ambushed them.

• Bai? used White Bone Weirdness to restrain the rabbits, and Zhang Tianyi cut them down, but they discovered Loki was gone.
• Loki revealed she had escaped with a Shapeshifting Technique and a Doppelganger Puppet, then told McCleary that the Dragonriders had arrived.
• McCleary ordered Loki to join Jack and the others, who had located Ma Fang’s approximate hiding place.
• Luo Yan followed Ma Fang’s residual image toward Galaxy Stadium, with Yang Kui and Xia Yan trailing behind him.
• A rocket was fired at Luo Yan, who destroyed it midair before warning Freedom Wings’ hired forces to stay clear or be killed.
• At Galaxy Stadium, a blond man watched Luo Yan’s approach and remarked on the Dragonriders’ imposing presence.

Luo Yan fought through Freedom Wings’ mercenaries and reached Galaxy Stadium to rescue Ma Fang. As Jack activated Archangel’s Blessing, Luo Yan’s distant sword strike began cutting through the protective ability.

• Luo Yan used Southern Bright Leaving Fire to kill the mercenaries who ignored his warning, then defeated a Profound Comprehension cultivator with Blazing Plains and Ten Steps, One Kill.
• At Galaxy Stadium, Luo Yan told Yang Kui and Xia Yan to handle Tyr and Yang Kui before leaping over the outer buildings toward the stands.
• Luo Yan found Jack dragging Ma Fang across the track field and ordered him to let her go or die.
• Jack released Ma Fang and invoked Gabriel, manifesting Archangel’s Blessing and its protective armor.
• Luo Yan swung Blazing Plains at Jack from afar, and the vermilion strike began cleaving through Archangel’s Blessing.

Outside the stadium, Yang Kui and Tyr fought a destructive, evenly matched brawl while Xia Yan used her Blood Curse Spirits to attack Thor. Xia Yan obtained several strands of Thor’s hair and wrapped them around her scarecrow, leaving Thor vulnerable to her curse.

• Tyr challenged Yang Kui while Thor faced Xia Yan outside the stadium.
• Yang Kui and Tyr traded powerful blows, smashing barriers, wrecked cars, and the grounds around them.
• Thor flirted with Xia Yan, who rejected him and cut her palm to summon Blood Curse Spirits.
• Thor destroyed Xia Yan’s Blood Curse Spirits with lightning and a conjured war hammer, but a small spirit stole several strands of his hair.
• Xia Yan wrapped Thor’s stolen hair around the scarecrow in her hand.

Xia Yan used her scarecrow artifact to threaten Thor, but he broke free by summoning lightning. Meanwhile, Luo Yan wounded Jack, who refused to retreat and invoked Doomsday Judgment against him.

• Xia Yan controlled Thor with a scarecrow made from his hair, but Thor summoned lightning that destroyed the cursed spirit shielding her and burned the hair on the scarecrow.
• Jack unleashed the power of Archangel Gabriel's six wings, shattering his illusory armor and Luo Yan's vermilion ray while a shockwave devastated the stadium.
• Luo Yan protected Ma Fang from a flying boulder, then returned to the track and found Jack injured but still standing.
• McCleary urged Jack to withdraw, but Jack refused and declared that he still had a trump card.
• Jack activated Doomsday Judgment and pronounced Luo Yan guilty, calling for him to descend into hell.

Luo Yan unleashed an enhanced Blood River Saber that devastated the area around Galaxy Stadium and saved Ma Fang from Jack. After Thor and Tyr withdrew, Luo Yan’s group returned to the survivor camp, where he asked Ma Fang whether she had the Golden Apple.

• Jack summoned Judgment Angels and opened a hellish abyss beneath Luo Yan, but Luo Yan formed a flame-armored Skeleton General and slashed with an empowered Blood River Saber.
• A woman pulled Jack into moonlight as the vermilion flames swept through Galaxy Stadium and destroyed the surrounding buildings.
• McCleary ordered Thor and Tyr to retreat, and Xia Yan tried to stab Thor before Tyr called him away from the fight with Yang Kui.
• Luo Yan emerged from the stadium with Ma Fang, the mission’s target, and told Yang Kui not to pursue Thor and Tyr.
• Luo Yan’s group found Lan Gui Fang closed and went to a shopping mall restaurant, where they ate barbecued pork rice.
• Luo Yan asked Ma Fang whether she had the Golden Apple.

Luo Yan questioned Ma Fang about the Golden Apple and learned that her family had guarded it for centuries while being hunted by Freedom Wings. Ma Fang said her father knew where it was, and Luo Yan planned to take her to him the next day while keeping her under watch.

• Luo Yan confirmed Ma Fang did not know where the Golden Apple was or what it could do, then explained that Freedom Wings had chased her and that the relic could increase the number of Transcendents and help produce Tier Four Transcendents.
• Ma Fang recounted how her Greek family acquired the Golden Apple in the seventeenth century, fled to this land after Persians attacked them, and was later targeted by Freedom Wings.
• Ma Fang told Luo Yan that her father had escaped Freedom Wings during the Giant Beast Calamity and was now at a camp about sixty kilometers from Flower City.
• Luo Yan agreed to take Ma Fang to her father the next day and asked her to cooperate and hand over the Golden Apple for safekeeping.
• Luo Yan told Bai? about Ma Fang's family history and asked her to have Hei Wu watch Ma Fang in addition to Xia Yan.

McCleary ordered Belle to sacrifice part of her body for Sariel’s Divine Grace so she could kill Dragon Rider Nova, Luo Yan. Belle began the ritual in a subway station, and moonlight answered her prayer.

• McCleary reprimanded Jack for disobeying orders and explained that Luo Yan was a dangerous Dragon Rider who had killed a Dominator alone.
• McCleary told Jack and the others to perform a sacrifice ritual to obtain Divine Grace for their next operation.
• McCleary asked Belle to sacrifice part of her body so she could gain enough Divine Grace to kill Luo Yan.
• Belle agreed to offer her left hand and prepared a ritual to summon Sariel.
• Belle prayed to Sariel, and moonlight appeared in the darkness.

McCleary and the others learned the Divine Graces they had received before Dragon Rider Nova attacked them with Crimson Gold Flame in the subway station. Belle used Sariel's Moon Gate to evacuate the group to a camp, and McCleary identified Nova as their attacker.

• Loki received Multiple Illusions, Thor received Thunder Roar, Tyr received Infinite Power, Jack received Hymn of Heaven, and Belle received Soul Control.
• McCleary said Belle would handle killing powerful enemies, and Jack objected that he should have sacrificed part of his body to receive Holy Spear of Heaven.
• Dragon Rider Nova's Crimson Gold Flame surged through the subway station, and Jack and Thor combined their powers to hold it back.
• Belle summoned Sariel's Holy Projection and opened a Moon Gate, leading McCleary, Loki, Tyr, Jack, and Thor to safety at a camp.
• McCleary said the flames were Nova's specialty and recalled that Nova had once burned a Dominator to death.

Luo Yan and his team confirmed that five Freedom Wings proxies were operating in the area, including one who could teleport, while McCleary prepared to take Ma Fang. The next morning, Luo Yan’s group traveled to a small town and gained lodging at its camp by offering medicine.

• Luo Yan and Zhang Tianyi found the subway station where the Freedom Wings proxies had hidden, but the teleporting fifth member helped them escape.
• Luo Yan briefed the others on the proxies’ abilities and warned that the Freedom Wings might return.
• Shen Feng sent word that Luo Yan’s group had left, and McCleary set out with Jack, Belle, and the Vikings to pursue them and take Ma Fang.
• McCleary told his companions to follow his plan, which began with separating Dragon Rider Nova from the others.
• Luo Yan and his team reached a fortified camp in a small town, where Yang Kui offered medicine in exchange for lodging.

Luo Yan’s group learned that Ma Fang’s father, Ma Tao, was presumed dead, but Ma Fang discovered a secret signal on his gravestone proving he was alive. As the group waited for him to make contact, Freedom Wings attacked their shelter, and Luo Yan faced Thor, Tyr, and Jack.

• Zhang Tianyi and Yang Kui reported that Ma Tao had supposedly died of cholera, and Ma Fang rushed to find his grave.
• Ma Fang recognized a missing dot in Ma Tao’s name on the gravestone as their secret signal that he was alive and in hiding.
• Luo Yan’s group returned to their shelter and waited for Ma Tao to learn that Ma Fang was in the camp.
• A giant boulder struck the building, and Luo Yan escaped its collapse while destroying a lightning bolt with 'Blazing Plains'.
• Thor and Tyr attacked Luo Yan, then Jack emerged through a moonlight gate and joined their assault.
• Luo Yan told Bai? to take Ma Fang away and warned the others to watch for more Freedom Wings members.

Bai? and the others pursued Loki after a staged explosion caused chaos in the camp, but every Loki they caught was a decoy. Meanwhile, McCleary’s attempt to distract the Dragon Rider Captain with Jack, Thor, and Tyr failed, so he sent Belle to buy Loki more time.

• McCleary explained his plan to separate the Dragon Rider Captain from Ma Fang, and Loki began the operation.
• Bai? led the group through the panicking camp after an explosion, then discovered Ma Fang had disappeared.
• Bai? spotted Loki pulling Ma Fang away and sent the group in pursuit, but Loki split into copies that all turned into soap bubbles.
• McCleary watched Jack, Thor, and Tyr retreat from the burning courtyard after failing to suppress the Dragon Rider Captain.
• McCleary told Belle to delay the captain, and Belle summoned Sariel.

Luo Yan defeated Sariel's projection after a beast within his soul bit off her arm, forcing McCleary and the three Transcendents to retreat. After learning that Ma Fang had been taken during the camp's chaos, Luo Yan and the others made camp for the night, where a hooded stranger approached them.

• Luo Yan's flames pressured Jack, Thor, and Tyr until Sariel appeared and reached into his body to search for his soul.
• A Fierce Beast inside Luo Yan's soul bit Sariel's arm, injuring Belle through their connection and disrupting the possession attempt.
• Luo Yan summoned Fire Yang True Lord, who burned Sariel's projection with Crimson Essence Fire and drove her from the material world.
• McCleary ordered Jack, Thor, and Tyr to withdraw, while Belle collapsed with her eyes burned away.
• Bai? told Luo Yan that Ma Fang had disappeared and suspected Loki's shapeshifting power had been used to deceive them.
• Yang Kui spotted a hooded middle-aged man approaching Luo Yan and the others at their nighttime camp.

Belle woke blind after the Dragon Rider Captain injured Sariel, and she discovered that she had lost contact with the god. McCleary’s team abandoned their car and headed for a safe house with Belle and Ma Fang, while Luo Yan and Bai picked up their trail.

• Belle told McCleary’s team that the Dragon Rider Captain’s primordial spirit burned Sariel, causing Belle to lose her sight.
• Tyr warned McCleary that the team could not defeat the captain without Divine Grace, and McCleary ordered them to leave the forest.
• Belle could not reach Sariel, and McCleary concluded that she had lost her status as an agent and fallen back to the Transcendent Third Order.
• McCleary sent Jack carrying Belle and Tyr carrying Ma Fang toward the nearest safe house, leaving the car behind.
• Luo Yan and Bai found the abandoned car, and Luo Yan used his Divine Treasure to track the team’s route.

Luo Yan found Freedom Wings hiding in a camp and sent Black Wu to locate Ma Fang while arranging for Sangyu Base to deliver supplies as a diversion. After Black Wu found the injured Ma Fang, the Dragon Riders prepared to move, and Freedom Wings realized they had arrived.

• Luo Yan identified the camp as Freedom Wings' likely hiding place and explained that they were using the civilians as cover.
• Luo Yan sent Black Wu to search for Ma Fang and asked Zhang Tianyi to arrange a free supply delivery from Sangyu Base.
• Black Wu found Ma Fang injured in a basement, where McCleary and the others were interrogating her.
• Luo Yan learned that Ma Fang had been found and waited for the supplies to arrive before making a move.
• Thor and Tyr heard that Sangyu Base was distributing supplies, and McCleary warned Loki to use his ability after the group realized the Dragon Riders were there.

Luo Yan and his companions confronted McCleary’s fleeing group at the camp, where Loki’s dragon illusion failed to stop them. McCleary’s team escaped the basement but lost Ma Fang in the chaos, and the chapter ended as Jack and Tyr used their Divine Graces to face Luo Yan and the Headless General.

• Loki created an illusory Western Dragon to delay Luo Yan, Xia Yan, Zhang Tianyi, and Yang Kui, but Luo Yan exposed and burned away the illusion.
• Loki was injured by Luo Yan’s crimson flames, though her distraction gave McCleary and his companions time to escape the basement.
• A headless entity and a skeletal arm attacked McCleary’s group as they reached their vehicles, and Ma Fang disappeared during the confusion.
• Jack took flight to search for Ma Fang, but Luo Yan attacked him and forced him back to the ground.
• Jack activated Hymn of Heaven, and Tyr followed with Infinite Power before striking the Headless General and blasting it backward.

Captain Luo Yan protected the camp residents from Thor’s lightning while Freedom Wings escaped, then rescued Ma Fang and reunited her with Ma Tao. Ma Tao gave Luo Yan a counterfeit Golden Apple that was actually a map to the real one.

• Tyr hurled a truck at Captain Luo Yan, who split it with a sword beam, while McCleary ordered Thor to attack the civilians with lightning.
• Captain Luo Yan summoned Fire Yang True Lord, whose flaming swords blocked Thor’s lightning, but Freedom Wings escaped during the defense.
• Captain Luo Yan found Bai? treating Ma Fang, who confirmed she had not revealed that her father, Ma Tao, was alive.
• Captain Luo Yan and his group took Ma Fang to Sangyu Base and boarded a helicopter bound for Jinge City, where Ma Tao reunited with his daughter.
• Ma Tao gave Captain Luo Yan a counterfeit Golden Apple and revealed that it held a clue to the location of the real Golden Apple.

McCleary’s team considered pressuring the Strategic Affairs Department or going to war to reclaim the Golden Apple, while Luo Yan returned to Jinge City with a counterfeit that could lead to the real one. Bai Shaotang assigned a decryption team to investigate it, and Murong Xuan announced that he had advanced to the Profound Comprehension Realm.

• McCleary confirmed that the Dragon Riders had returned to Jinge City and warned his team that a direct assault on the city would be too dangerous.
• McCleary said the team would pressure the Strategic Affairs Department through an alliance treaty to recover the Golden Apple, even if the dispute escalated into war.
• McCleary told Tyr he would arrange for him to join the army after the current operation, while Loki stopped Thor from asking Belle to heal his facial wound.
• Luo Yan returned to the Strategic Affairs Department’s base with the Ma family father and daughter and gave Bai Shaotang the counterfeit Golden Apple, which Ma Tao said was a map to the real one.
• Bai Shaotang assigned specialists and the Central Supercomputer to decipher the counterfeit and asked Luo Yan to retrieve the real Golden Apple if they found its location.
• Bai? eagerly anticipated visiting Greece, and Murong Xuan announced that he had advanced to the Profound Comprehension Realm.