Chapter Summaries

Richard, Bobobo Wei Qi, and Heluo returned to the Demonized Black Snakes’ burial site and found hundreds of Demonized Creatures feeding on the bodies. Pink flowers released a red mist that drove the animals into frenzied mating, and the chapter ended as their behavior intensified into an even more horrifying scene.

• Bobobo Wei Qi followed Richard into the forest, and Heluo relayed their situation before following them.
• Richard, Bobobo Wei Qi, and Heluo found hundreds of Demonized Creatures eating the unearthed Demonized Black Snake corpses.
• After the food ran out, the hungry creatures prepared to fight one another.
• Pink Small Flowers erupted from the ground and released a red mist that some creatures inhaled while others fled.
• The mist drove the creatures into frenzied pairings, and Heluo noticed the flowers had withered as the scene grew more horrifying.

Richard, Heluo, and Bobobo Wei Qi faced strange creatures born from fused Demonized Creatures, while Bobobo Wei Qi tested his potion and discovered it had burned off all his hair. As Richard and Heluo fought the attackers, a creature charged Bobobo Wei Qi, who struck back in fury.

• Fused Demonized Creatures gave birth to bizarre, hairless hybrids that devoured their parents’ corpses and grew stronger.
• Bobobo Wei Qi touched a bleeding tree, alerting the hybrids to him, Richard, and Heluo.
• Richard and Heluo charged the hybrids, while Bobobo Wei Qi drank his pink potion to test its effects.
• The potion’s energy erupted from Bobobo Wei Qi’s head as a fireball, burning away all his hair, eyebrows, and beard.
• A hybrid bypassed Richard and Heluo and charged Bobobo Wei Qi, who roared and threw a punch at it.

Richard, Heluo, and Bobobo Wei Qi fought off the strange newborn Demonized Creatures and concluded that a powerful, intelligent Singular Species was controlling them. Bobobo Wei Qi admitted he had forgotten what Singular Species were, and asked Richard and Heluo to remind him.

• Bobobo Wei Qi, Heluo, and Richard attacked the Demonized Creatures, with Heluo using her crimson hair and Richard burning dozens of them with fireballs.
• The remaining Demonized Creatures switched to ambushes and guerrilla attacks, but the trio continued killing them until the survivors fled into the forest.
• Richard and Heluo concluded that a more advanced lifeform had controlled the Demonized Creatures and identified it as likely a Singular Species.
• Bobobo Wei Qi asked what a Singular Species was, then said he had forgotten and asked Richard and Heluo to explain it.

Heluo explained the categories and dangers of Singular Species to Bobobo Wei Qi, while Richard questioned whether environmental changes truly explained their decline. He suspected the Truth Society was secretly exterminating them for a purpose tied to the truth of the world.

• Heluo explained that Singular Species were unusual and powerful Demonized Creatures, then described Short-Lived Singular Species and their subcategories.
• Heluo recounted how Skull Ants once formed a disaster-level tide that devastated an ancient kingdom, shocking Bobobo Wei Qi and reminding Richard of a beast tide he had encountered.
• Heluo described Longevity Singular Species, including the powerful Xenomorphic Species Lena and the dwindling Giant Dragon Species.
• Richard recalled Sherlock's account of Singular Species declining and his own encounter with Truth Society Wizards hunting dragons.
• Richard suspected the Truth Society was secretly clearing out Singular Species and believed its hidden purpose was connected to the truth of the current world.

Heluo explained the categories of Singular Species and identified the forest’s hidden Ancient Tree Species as a threat that could turn the entire forest into its territory. Richard proposed destroying the forest’s advantage with fire, and the spreading blaze lit the sky before dawn.

• Heluo described Immortal Singular Species and Mysterious Singular Species to Bobobo Wei Qi and Richard.
• Heluo said the creature in the forest was likely an Ancient Tree Species that could control the forest and create Demonized Creatures.
• Heluo admitted they did not know how to find the Ancient Tree Species’ true body before its forces matured.
• Richard proposed burning the forest so the Ancient Tree Species would lose its home-ground advantage.
• Richard’s group set fires throughout the forest, and the flames joined into a vast wall of fire that lit the sky.

Richard, Heluo, and Bobobo Wei Qi found the ancient Tree of Wisdom behind the spreading wildfire and confronted it. The tree promised to restore Bobobo Wei Qi’s hair, then suddenly attacked all three with black vines.

• A magical Strong Wind intensified the wildfire, which killed thousands of beasts and reached the mist-covered lowland.
• Richard, Heluo, and Bobobo Wei Qi blew away the mist and discovered the ancient giant tree surrounded by Demonized Creatures.
• The Tree of Wisdom revealed its humanlike face and claimed the outsiders had invaded its territory, but Bobobo Wei Qi blamed it for killing people and attacking them.
• The tree offered to make Bobobo Wei Qi’s hair grow back if he came closer.
• The ground split open, and black vines shot toward Bobobo Wei Qi, Richard, and Heluo.

Bobobo Wei Qi, Richard, and Heluo defeated Giant Tree Xi Mu’s vines, Demonized Creatures, and beasts, then confronted the tree. Heluo acknowledged that the humans were invaders but declared that Xi Mu had to die because its power threatened her kind.

• Bobobo Wei Qi, Richard, and Heluo destroyed the vines that ambushed them, and Bobobo Wei Qi demanded to know whether Xi Mu’s hair-restoration method had been real.
• Xi Mu sent Demonized Creatures and thousands of beasts to attack the group, but Bobobo Wei Qi and Heluo fought them off while Richard supported them with Langdon Nick's Spear.
• After the attackers were killed, Bobobo Wei Qi threatened to tear Xi Mu apart and burn it for firewood.
• Xi Mu argued that its attacks had been choices made to survive in its home and blamed the intruders for invading and destroying it.
• Heluo agreed that Xi Mu had a right to survive but said its existence and power threatened her kind, so they would kill it.

Richard, Bobobo Wei Qi, and Heluo tested their attacks against Giant Tree Xi Mu’s purple-black Energy Storm, but it barely weakened the tree’s defenses. As Xi Mu attacked, Bobobo Wei Qi charged the giant fist in a rage after being called bald.

• Giant Tree Xi Mu unleashed a massive Energy Storm and challenged Richard, Bobobo Wei Qi, and Heluo to attack it.
• Bobobo Wei Qi launched a powerful Energy Ball that briefly disrupted the storm but failed to damage it significantly.
• Heluo’s flying blades were mostly deflected or crushed, and she concluded that spells below the third ring could not harm the storm.
• Richard tested the storm with six Langdon Nick's Spears, studied its reactions, and calculated a figure of 1.21.
• Giant Tree Xi Mu formed a huge Energy Arm and swung its fist at the group.
• After Xi Mu called him bald, Bobobo Wei Qi insisted he was not bald and charged alone toward the giant fist.

Bobobo Wei Qi drank his new potion and broke through Giant Tree Xi Mu’s Energy Arm, but the giant tree threw him out of its Energy Storm before he could strike its main body. Heluo saved him from the giant tree’s follow-up attack and charged into the storm to target its core.

• Bobobo Wei Qi twice tried to stop Giant Tree Xi Mu’s fist, then drank his golden potion after the giant tree called him bald.
• Bobobo Wei Qi’s steam-powered attack shattered the giant tree’s Energy Arm, and he forced his way into the Energy Storm to reach its main body.
• Giant Tree Xi Mu struck Bobobo Wei Qi with a stronger Energy Arm, leaving him badly injured and unable to stand.
• Giant Tree Xi Mu sent Energy Missiles at Bobobo Wei Qi, but Heluo blocked and shattered them with crimson energy.
• Heluo charged into the Energy Storm to attack Giant Tree Xi Mu’s main body.

Heluo and Bobobo Wei Qi failed to defeat Giant Tree Xi Mu, but Richard used the Gloves of Extinction to destroy it. The resulting Energy Storm swept through the forest, and Bobobo Wei Qi and Heluo survived; Richard's fate remained unknown.

• Heluo pierced the Energy Storm and struck Giant Tree Xi Mu with a crimson Energy Spear, but the tree repelled her and knocked her away.
• Giant Tree Xi Mu announced that it would kill Richard, Heluo, and Bobobo Wei Qi, then unleashed a destructive Energy Storm.
• Richard charged through the Energy Arms and tentacles, tore a hollow in the Energy Storm with the Gloves of Extinction, and sent the glove fragments onto Giant Tree Xi Mu.
• The fragments erupted in golden light, and the Energy Storm went out of control, blasting Bobobo Wei Qi and Heluo hundreds of meters away.
• Bobobo Wei Qi and Heluo saw that Giant Tree Xi Mu and the surrounding forest had vanished, then Bobobo Wei Qi wondered where Richard was.

Richard, Bobobo Wei Qi, and Heluo left after destroying Giant Tree Xi Mu, while Heluo explained the organization’s uncompromising policy of eliminating Singular Species. The chapter ended with a concealed Longevity Singular Species awakening in a dark, enclosed space and waiting for another chance.

• Richard returned to Bobobo Wei Qi and Heluo after escaping the Energy Storm, and said the mission was complete.
• Richard and Bobobo Wei Qi discussed whether they could have negotiated with Giant Tree Xi Mu, but Heluo insisted that all Singular Species had to be destroyed.
• Heluo said anyone who protected or raised a Singular Species would become the organization’s enemy, and judged that Xi Mu’s tree heart had been destroyed.
• Heluo and Richard headed out of the forest, while Bobobo Wei Qi recovered his Bearskin Hat, taunted the dead Xi Mu, and hurried after them.
• A cracked, mineral-like object in a dark, enclosed space briefly awakened, extended rootlets, then went dormant again as a Longevity Singular Species waited.

Tris and his companions brought three Sealed Items to a vast containment facility beyond the Giant Door, where a bespectacled attendant directed them to deposit the creatures in separate tombstone-like structures. As the group left, Tris suffered soul damage after looking toward a nearby danger zone, and the attendant revealed that his glasses could read minds.

• Tris gave the bespectacled attendant the passphrase and identified the three Sealed Items as the Nuosi Soul-Sucking Crocodile, the Luke Three-Eyed Evil Leopard, and the Yam Shadow Rat.
• The attendant led Tris and his companions through the Giant Door into a vast dark facility and directed them to contain the Nuosi Soul-Sucking Crocodile and Luke Three-Eyed Evil Leopard in a tombstone-like structure.
• Tris and his companions carried the coffin containing the Yam Shadow Rat to a distant tombstone, which swallowed it and completed the containment mission.
• After the attendant warned the group not to look toward a nearby danger zone, Tris glimpsed colossal shadows and suffered soul damage.
• The attendant told Tris that his glasses could read minds, revealing that he had heard Tris's private thoughts throughout their exchange.

Richard considered the limits of the Gloves of Extinction and decided he needed to accelerate his nuclear weapons research, for which he hoped to use the Giant Tree Xi Mu's heartwood as an energy source. At the laboratory, he examined a modified skeleton built by Lich Old Man A Fu and recognized it as proof that Magic Puppets could be upgraded.

• Richard studied the Giant Tree Xi Mu's heartwood and recalled that the Gloves of Extinction had failed to completely kill certain special beings.
• Richard concluded that he needed stronger attacks or improved Gloves of Extinction and that nuclear weapons were now more important than ever.
• Richard decided to try reviving the Giant Tree Xi Mu and extracting energy from its heartwood.
• Lich Old Man A Fu showed Richard a huge skeleton while it dug a planting pit for the heartwood.
• Richard used the Gaze of the Eye to analyze the skeleton's metal reinforcements, movable joints, and two energy cores, then concluded that Magic Puppets could be upgraded.

Richard chose to revive the Longevity Singular Species tree heart through soilless cultivation so he could monitor and restrain its growth. He set it in a specially prepared glass tank, where fine roots began to emerge.

• Richard praised Lich Old Man A Fu's mechanical design, and Pandora delivered calculations for the skeleton's balance in exchange for borrowing A Fu's Golden Retriever.
• Richard refused to use A Fu's dirt pit, explaining that planting the tree heart underground would make it harder to monitor.
• Richard carried the tree heart into a prepared room and placed it in a shallow glass tank filled with flowing liquid.
• Richard secured the tree heart in a floating board supported by glass pillars, and fine white roots began to grow from it.

Richard revived Giant Tree Xi Mu to obtain its ability to gather energy and proposed cooperation. Xi Mu agreed to provide energy in exchange for freedom after ten years, once it had transformed and evolved further.

• Richard's rootlets absorbed nutrient solution until Xi Mu revived as a sapling with a face woven from branches.
• Xi Mu recognized Richard and deduced that he had taken its tree core and revived it for a purpose.
• Richard asked Xi Mu to cooperate so he could use the energy it gathered from the void.
• Xi Mu said it would rather die than submit to Richard without hope of freedom.
• Xi Mu offered to supply Richard with one-tenth of its energy for ten years if Richard let it grow for a week and promised to free it afterward.

Richard negotiated a one-year energy-sharing agreement with Tinwood, though he suspected it was concealing how much energy it could provide. Afterward, Lich Old Man A Fu questioned whether Richard had also manipulated the circumstances of his own revival, and Richard left the possibility unresolved.

• Richard proposed that Tinwood provide him with nine-tenths of its energy for one year while using the rest to transform, and Tinwood agreed.
• Richard told Lich Old Man A Fu that Tinwood had likely understated the energy it could provide and that he planned to watch for evidence of its hidden intentions.
• Richard explained that catching Tinwood in a lie could let him renegotiate the agreement for a longer term, leaving Lich Old Man unsettled by his strategy.
• Lich Old Man asked whether Richard had arranged for him to find Richard's corpse and revive him, and Richard said he had considered the possibility and prepared for it.

Richard tested Tinwood’s ability to absorb energy from the void and feed it into Eden Garden’s power system. Tinwood reached a sustainable maximum, and Richard left it maintaining that level while he went to Laboratory No. 2.

• The Lich Old Man warned Richard that Tinwood might cause trouble while Richard was away, and Richard told him to strengthen himself and develop stronger Magic Puppets.
• A week later, Richard installed more than a dozen wires into Tinwood’s trunk in Laboratory No. 3.
• Richard had Tinwood gradually increase its energy output while he monitored and adjusted the control machine.
• Tinwood refused to increase its output further, saying it was near its limit and could maintain that level for a year if nothing unexpected happened.
• Richard told Tinwood to hold its output and report any problems, then walked into Laboratory No. 2.

Richard tested a laser-based method for separating Uranium-235 from Uranium-238 while Lich Old Man A Fu prepared to defend against the Ancient Tree Species Tinwood in Laboratory No. 3. The tree remained quiet, and A Fu began modifying a skeleton to hold it off if it escaped.

• Richard operated a Laser Generator in Laboratory No. 2 to separate uranium isotopes, then left to adjust more equipment.
• The Ancient Tree Species Tinwood continued absorbing and supplying energy inside the soundproofed Laboratory No. 3, briefly showing a smug expression before its face disappeared into its trunk.
• Lich Old Man A Fu watched Laboratory No. 3 and worried that the tree might attack while he was alone.
• A Fu summoned a bulky skeleton and planned to improve its combat ability by adding another pair of arms.
• A Fu struggled to get the skeleton into position, then removed its left arm and gave it to the skeleton to hold while he studied its shoulder.

The Lich Old Man struggled to design extra arms for the skeleton until the skeleton drew a six-armed, angel-like design that inspired him to create a Bone Angel. Unable to decide how to attach the wings, he considered seeking help from the little girl.

• The Lich Old Man sketched several awkward designs for adding arms to the skeleton and rejected them as impractical.
• The skeleton took the Goose Feather Quill and drew three pairs of arms on its back, impressing the Lich Old Man with its skill.
• The Lich Old Man recognized the design as resembling an angel and imagined upgrading the skeleton into a Bone Angel.
• The Lich Old Man asked whether the wings should share a connection point or attach separately, but the skeleton did not understand.
• After failing to calculate which design would work better, the Lich Old Man wondered whether he needed to find the little girl.

Pandora finished a difficult calculation in just over a day and prepared to begin new research, pleased that her thinking had grown faster. The Lich Old Man visited to ask for help with calculations, but their argument over Pandora’s glasses left him struggling to make his request.

• Pandora completed her calculations faster than Richard had expected and privately resolved to keep her increased intelligence a secret until she could surprise him.
• Pandora tidied her work and began preparing for another research project before the Lich Old Man knocked and entered her study.
• The Lich Old Man noticed Pandora’s glasses and questioned why she wore them despite having no lenses or vision problems.
• Pandora said the glasses helped her concentrate and looked good, while the Lich Old Man called the idea illogical and claimed his greater age made him wiser.
• Pandora challenged the Lich Old Man to explain why he had come, and he admitted he wanted her help calculating several problems.