Chapter Summaries

Luo Jun’s group fought waves of Ravagers under the Slow Curse, then faced a Leader Monster that summoned reinforcements and directed them with surprising tactics. While his teammates struggled against the leader, Luo Jun secretly used Life Burning Frenzy on it, leaving the monster transformed and the battle unresolved.

• Luo Jun’s group fought the Ravagers, with Eileen testing Luo Jun by letting one charge close before she shot it.
• A final wave brought more than a hundred Ravagers and a massive Leader Monster whose roar strengthened its followers.
• The group formed up to fight, while Luo Jun observed Taimu’s speed and conserved his own actions.
• The Leader Monster summoned another wave and organized the Ravagers defensively, forcing the group to attack while Luo Jun waited apart.
• Luo Jun drew the Life Burning Frenzy Skill Card and secretly used it on the Leader Monster, which grew stronger and erupted with killing intent.

The challengers defeated the first cycle’s empowered Leader Monster, but Hansen and Ivanka chose to leave through the Glory Passage. Luo Jun secretly received the extra Six-pointed Star and stayed with the remaining group, which survived the second cycle’s rounds until the final battle began against armored ogres.

• The Leader Monster entered its Second Stage, badly injuring Hansen and forcing the group to attack from a distance until they trapped and killed it.
• The challengers found the Glory Passage, and Luo Jun concealed that the Leader Monster’s life-burning death had awarded him the extra Six-pointed Star.
• Hansen and Ivanka withdrew from the mission, while Luo Jun and four others chose to continue despite the growing danger.
• The remaining group endured the second cycle’s rounds under curses, and Luo Jun secretly looked for chances to hinder them.
• In the twelfth round, the group faced towering, armored ogres while a curse reduced their attack power by 52%.

Luo Jun manipulated the ogre battle while Gonzales betrayed the challengers, and Taimu revealed his time-distorting ability. After Eileen and Taimu withdrew under a devastating curse, Luo Jun removed his Golden Hoop and began fighting the third cycle’s cockroach monsters with his full strength.

• Luo Jun secretly summoned and strengthened ogres, making the challengers struggle against the horde and the early-arriving Ogre Leader.
• Gonzales used a Position Swap Treasure Tool to put Luo Jun in the Ogre Leader’s path, then killed Diana and escaped the challenge through the Death Process.
• Luo Jun’s Killing Intent made the Ogre Leader back down, and Taimu revealed his time-distorting ability while attacking the boss.
• Luo Jun resurrected the defeated Ogre Leader as a zombie and used it to delay Taimu, leaving hundreds of ogres alive when the round ended.
• Eileen and Taimu withdrew after the next curse promised 372% damage deepening, leaving Luo Jun alone in the arena.
• Luo Jun removed his Golden Hoop and shattered the arena floor to destroy the first wave of giant cockroaches, then prepared to face the next wave.

After returning from a three-day mission, Eileen dreamed that Luo Jun slaughtered Leonardo and her friends, then woke with a sharp pain in her Sea of Consciousness. At Havier Academy, Leonardo taught about manipulating emotions and discovered that Eileen had broken a spell he had secretly placed on her before coordinating with an accomplice about a major plan.

• Eileen returned from the mission, learned her teammates had gone back to the Federation, and slept after arranging her journey home.
• Eileen dreamed that Leonardo pursued her while her friends and relatives restrained her, and Luo Jun killed them before turning his blade on her.
• Eileen woke from the nightmare with pain in her Sea of Consciousness and worried that Luo Jun might not survive the mission.
• Leonardo taught his students that hatred could be used to draw someone’s attention and later turn into love.
• Leonardo realized Eileen had broken the spell he had planted in her heart and wondered who had helped her.
• Leonardo answered an accomplice’s call and confirmed that he was ready to proceed with their plan.

Luo Jun faced the final cycle of the Chaos Mission, using the Hunters and their Depletion Curse to test his strength control before unleashing overwhelming force that destroyed the arena and its monsters. The mission ended early after he exhausted its monster supply, and he received a Perfect evaluation with 624 Six-pointed Stars.

• Luo Jun prepared for the final cycle, whose Depletion Curse drained no Vital Energy because he had cleared the previous monsters.
• Hundreds of Hunter Type II Mechanical Assassins appeared, and Luo Jun tested his controlled output at 1%, then increased it to 2%, 5%, and 10%.
• Luo Jun raised his output to 50%, devastating the arena as the Hunters were crushed and the space began to collapse.
• The arena’s defenses strengthened and repaired themselves, then the Hunters stopped appearing and a message announced that Luo Jun had reached the monster-kill limit and killed the Leader Monster.
• Luo Jun entered the Glory Passage and received his mission settlement, earning 624 Six-point Stars and an overall Perfect evaluation.

Luo Jun spent his perfect mission reward on three Legendary Treasure Tools: the Rampage mech, a Vital Energy-generating belt, and an Other-Dimensional Fishing Rod. When the vault failed to release him after the usual time, he unleashed his full power until the room began to collapse and the scene changed.

• Luo Jun opened the 360-star chest and acquired the Legendary Rampage mech and its equipment rack.
• Luo Jun used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to choose a Legendary chest and obtained the Source Stream Belt, which generated Vital Energy over time.
• Luo Jun spent his remaining stars on the Other-Dimensional Fishing Rod, which could lure and reel in non-sapient monsters from random worlds.
• Luo Jun discovered he could not leave the treasure vault, and it did not send him out even after thirty minutes.
• Luo Jun unleashed his full power, shattered the vault's chests, and warped the reinforced room until the scene suddenly changed.

Luo Jun met Chang Kong, the Chaos Mission system’s maintainer, who explained why Saintly Power could threaten the system’s rules and warned him to stop causing trouble. Chang Kong sent Luo Jun away, and Midnight wondered whether he might succeed in the attempt they were making.

• Luo Jun found himself in a white reception room and met Chang Kong, who identified himself as the Chaos Mission system’s maintainer.
• Chang Kong explained that Luo Jun’s Saintly Power was fundamentally different from ordinary cultivation powers and could be difficult to restrict.
• Chang Kong warned Luo Jun that his power made him a target and told him to stop causing havoc in Chaos Missions.
• Luo Jun asked Chang Kong about deities, the Chaos Mission system, and the Main World, but Chang Kong declined to answer most of his questions.
• Chang Kong gave Luo Jun permission to call him Chang Kong and sent him away after Luo Jun asked him to thank a woman.
• Midnight appeared and told Chang Kong that they had to give Luo Jun a chance to succeed.

Luo Jun returned from his mission, joined his allies on Heavenly Origin Island, and entered the Heavenly Origin Tournament as it began. He drew lot number nine and learned that his first opponent would be a shapeshifting cultivator called King Kong.

• Luo Jun returned to the Main World, confirmed that two days remained before the tournament, and arranged for Gabriel, Lilith, and Sima Cheng to watch over the academy while he was away.
• Luo Jun teleported to Heavenly Origin Island and met Ailongtan, Aishiliya, A Fei, Ling Xin, and Xue Lan among the tournament finalists.
• Eileen joined Luo Jun, Ling Xin, and Xue Lan at dinner and brought up their shared Chaos Mission, surprising Ling Xin and Xue Lan with what she said about Luo Jun's seal and his actions during the mission.
• The Heavenly Origin Tournament opened with the introduction of its sixty-four contestants, including Ling Yao and Luo Jun, before Gordo Manni declared the competition underway.
• Luo Jun used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to draw lot number nine, then watched the first morning matches before learning he would face King Kong that afternoon.

Luo Jun defeated James in the tournament’s fifth first-round match by using the Rampage Mech’s Vulcan Cannon, then discussed the bracket with Ling Xin. Ling Xin felt more at ease about her upcoming potential match against Nikolai.

• James prepared a ten-ton wolf tooth club, a Meteor Anchor, and a belt before transforming into a giant white-furred monster and entering the arena.
• Luo Jun emerged in the Rampage Mech, surprising the hosts, spectators, and contestants with his enormous Treasure Tool.
• Saint Andariel blessed both fighters with the Immortality Blessing, and James opened the match by hooking the mech with his anchor chain and charging with his club.
• Luo Jun deployed the mech’s six-barreled Vulcan Cannon, blasted James into the arena wall, and won after James’s blessing resurrected him.
• Luo Jun and Ling Xin reviewed their tournament prospects, and Luo Jun reassured her about her possible future match against Nikolai.

Luo Jun watched the tournament’s voting frenzy and several first-round matches, including Guan Tianshuang’s defeat and Taimu’s stunning victory over Han Guofei. Taimu’s extraordinary speed caught the attention of the Gold Emperor, the Pope, and Wan Guiyuan, who began disputing which faction might recruit him.

• The Yuan Cultivation Society’s voting thread ranked Ling Yao first, while Luo Jun drew attention as a risky four-point pick with a favorable bracket.
• Luo Jun watched Wu Feng toy with Guan Tianshuang until Guan exhausted his Vital Energy and conceded.
• Han Guofei, possessing Tu Lun’s body, faced Taimu, and Luo Jun warned her to defeat him carefully without exposing her identity.
• Taimu vanished at the start of the match and beheaded Han Guofei before she could react, then won after the Immortality Blessing revived her.
• Luo Jun explained that Taimu’s overwhelming speed could not be countered, while the Gold Emperor, the Pope, and Wan Guiyuan argued over recruiting him.

Taimu’s stunning victory over a Peak Expert drew attention from powerful factions and audiences worldwide, while the tournament’s final first-round match began between Ling Yao and Bull Bill. Ling Yao dodged Bull Bill’s devastating, lightning-fast axe attacks and appeared eager to prolong the fight.

• Apacha let the powerful guests compete for Taimu’s attention, having entered him in the tournament to reveal his talent to the world without giving any single faction an easy advantage.
• Taimu’s defeat of the Peak Expert Tu Lun set livestreams and forums ablaze as viewers discussed his strength and his past victory at the International Exchange Competition.
• The tournament announced Ling Yao’s match against Bull Bill, a Hailuo Group executive whom Xue Lan, Wan Zisheng, and Eileen praised as exceptionally strong among Peak Experts.
• Ling Yao and Bull Bill recalled their past connection through Ling Shen, who had died during a mission the previous year, before the match began.
• Bull Bill rushed Ling Yao and carved a huge gash through the arena with his axe, but Ling Yao dodged the blow and became interested in the fight.
• Bull Bill repeatedly attacked at tremendous speed while Ling Yao evaded him, and Ling Xin predicted that her brother would draw out the battle for fun.

Ling Yao and Bull Bill fought fiercely in the tournament, and Bull Bill revealed Gang Qi that neutralized and reflected physical attacks. Ling Yao found a way through the defense and struck Bull Bill down, though the chapter left the details of how he overcame the technique unexplained.

• Ling Yao precisely dodged Bull Bill’s relentless axe attacks before countering with a palm strike that sent him into the Defense Barrier.
• Bull Bill rose unharmed and explained that his flowing Gang Qi redirected Ling Yao’s force, then resumed attacking with sudden changes of direction and reflected force.
• Ling Yao recognized that Bull Bill could neutralize and reflect physical attacks, while Bull Bill challenged him to use his other abilities.
• Wan Guiyuan told the Gold Emperor that Ling Yao would win despite Bull Bill’s technique, though the fight might take several more minutes.
• Ling Yao struck Bull Bill in the side, causing him to spit blood and collapse.

Ling Yao defeated Bull Bill by synchronizing with the pattern of his Gang Qi, then helped Luo Jun investigate the aura that had drawn a monster to Ling Xin. The tournament announced a fresh lottery after every round, and Luo Jun drew number eighteen, matching him against Gonzales.

• Ling Yao knocked Bull Bill unconscious by slipping through the gaps in his Gang Qi, and the experts praised his insight and control.
• Luo Jun privately asked Ling Yao about Ling Xin's connection to [Paranormal], and Ling Yao recalled that their father had taken her to seek treatment when she was a sick infant.
• Ling Yao agreed to ask the Ling Family elders about Ling Xin's illness and urged Luo Jun to reconsider proposing to her.
• Pope Saint Nicholas announced that contestants would be redrawn after every round, disrupting the bracket-based expectations of viewers and bettors.
• Luo Jun drew ticket number eighteen, and the students identified his opponent as Gonzales, a teacher from Holy See Central Academy.

The tournament’s second round began with Luo Jun analyzing Wu Feng’s unusual defense as he fought Ling Xin. Ling Xin unveiled a rotating Demon-Breaking Golden Edge drill and drove it into Wu Feng’s Gang Qi, leaving the result of the attack unresolved.

• Lu Fei and the teacher on duty explained that Professor Gonzales combined earth and fire spells to control lava and had once pressured Su Linna in a duel.
• Before voting closed, Luo Jun’s support fell to 0.9% as voters favored the better-known Gonzales over him.
• Li Na and A Wei opened the second round with a Hailuo Group advertisement, then introduced Wu Feng and Ling Xin as the first match began.
• Ling Yao asked Luo Jun to judge the fight, and Luo Jun concluded that Wu Feng’s fluid, layered Gang Qi could deflect Ling Xin’s attacks and made him a serious championship threat.
• Ling Xin used colliding golden edges to distract Wu Feng, then formed her Demon-Breaking Golden Edge into a drill and struck his defense.

Ling Xin lost to Wu Feng, whose unusual Gang Qi resembled Old Yuan’s Gathering Origin Protective Qi, while Xue Lan advanced. Luo Jun then fought Gonzales, who used Position Swap to pull him from the Rampage Mech, but the mines failed to explode and the mech crashed into the arena barrier, leaving the match’s outcome unclear.

• Wu Feng defeated Ling Xin by blocking her Demon-Breaking Golden Edge with his powerful, layered Gang Qi.
• Ling Xin explained Wu Feng’s defense to Ling Yao and Luo Jun, and they speculated that he might have learned Gathering Origin Protective Qi from one of Old Yuan’s disciples.
• Xue Lan froze her Illusion Faction opponent and advanced to the next round.
• Luo Jun and Gonzales exchanged a handshake before their match, with Gonzales apologizing for his actions during their mission.
• Luo Jun attacked Gonzales with the Rampage Mech, but Gonzales used Position Swap to remove Luo Jun from its cockpit as the mech launched mines.
• The mines failed to explode, and the Rampage Mech flew erratically into the Protective Barrier and crashed while Luo Jun stood unharmed with a fishing rod.

Luo Jun waited while Gonzales remained trapped inside the mech, then the organizers opened its cockpit and discovered Gonzales had been digested by a Fear Slime. Gonzales was revived after his father destroyed the remains, and Luo Jun left the arena victorious, reflecting that the outcome differed from what he expected.

• Luo Jun sat waiting as Gonzales remained motionless inside the mech, and the commentators and audience struggled to understand the stalemate.
• Luo Jun caught a Mist Shrimp with his fishing rod and grilled it while the judges announced they would inspect the cockpit if the match remained unchanged for another half hour.
• After the time limit passed, staff opened the mech and found Gonzales's remains in foul-smelling slime; Qiao Fei identified it as a Fear Slime.
• Cardinal Gonzales rushed onto the field, but Saint Nicholas stopped him from attacking Luo Jun, and the cardinal revived his son by destroying the remains.
• Little Gonzales reappeared alive but traumatized, and Old Gonzales took him away after threatening Luo Jun.
• Luo Jun accepted the victory and left the arena, muttering that events had differed from what he expected.

Luo Jun defeated Little Gonzales by trapping him in the Fear Slime, then tried to provoke Old Gonzales but remained uncertain whether the Cardinal Bishop had been corrupted by a Chaos Creature. The second round continued, ending with Ailongtan revealing a towering, multi-elemental three-headed figure against Nikolai’s giant beast form.

• Luo Jun used the Fear Slime to trap Little Gonzales inside the Rampage Mech’s sealed cockpit and won their match, then watched Old Gonzales’s furious reaction for signs of Chaos corruption.
• After showering and returning to the contestants’ seats, Luo Jun spoke with Eileen and Xue Lan about the tournament and the remaining direct-entry contestants.
• Taimu and Ling Yao won their matches, and Eileen advanced after taking winged form and using her aerial advantage.
• Nikolai transformed into increasingly powerful monster forms and overwhelmed Ailongtan with a massive breath attack.
• Ailongtan unleashed a brilliant elemental construct with three heads and six arms, halting Nikolai’s attack and towering over the arena.

Ailongtan defeated Nikolai in the final match of the second round, and Luo Jun drew Jin Fei as his opponent for the third round. After returning to the Main World, Luo Jun asked Aishiliya to investigate the strange smell she had sensed on Cardinal Gonzales.

• Ailongtan exhausted Nikolai with a prolonged battle of elemental magic and adaptive transformations, then defeated him with a fire-and-lightning meteor to claim the last advancement slot.
• Luo Jun surveyed the sixteen contestants who advanced and drew number thirteen, matching him against Jin Fei; both men believed the other was a favorable opponent.
• The host announced that contestants could return to the Main World to rest before the third round, scheduled for the day after tomorrow.
• Luo Jun returned to his hotel, called the cat Aishiliya onto his lap, and asked about the strange odor she had noticed on Cardinal Gonzales.
• Aishiliya agreed to smell Gonzales again and transformed into a small bird before flying out through the window.

Aishiliya infiltrated the room where the Grand Nun was treating Little Gonzales and discovered that Nun Saint Andariel was a Chaos Creature. After Andariel stripped Aishiliya’s soul and attacked her, Luo Jun summoned her back, and she woke in her room as he asked what she had seen.

• Aishiliya overheard the Grand Nun and Old Gonzales discussing Little Gonzales’s severe mental damage and reported their conversation to Luo Jun.
• Luo Jun told Aishiliya to enter the room, and she slipped through the Soundproof Barrier in centipede form.
• Aishiliya discovered that Nun Saint Andariel had transformed into a Chaos Creature and was probing Little Gonzales’s brain with tendrils.
• Andariel stripped Aishiliya’s soul from her body, while Old Gonzales and Andariel tried to read her memories and identify her connections.
• Aishiliya struggled against Andariel’s attacks, but Luo Jun summoned her back before she could report what she had seen.
• Aishiliya awoke in her room, and Luo Jun asked her what she had seen inside the barrier.

After Aishiliya witnessed Saint Andariel and Old Gonzales reveal themselves as Chaos Creatures, Luo Jun told Old Yuan, who reported the danger to Wan Guiyuan. Meanwhile, the Gold Emperor learned that [Natural Disaster] faced a threat requiring an Ascension-level being, and Old Yuan prepared to travel to the Great Rainforest, where the gate to [Hell] was located.

• Saint Andariel concluded that Aishiliya was a Summoned Creature and warned Old Gonzales to keep a low profile while she investigated the Ascension-level beings nearby.
• Luo Jun called Old Yuan, who arrived at his hotel and learned that Aishiliya had seen Saint Andariel and Old Gonzales as Chaos Creatures.
• Old Yuan moved Luo Jun to a Yuan Cultivation Society hotel, then informed Wan Guiyuan, who said he knew and would handle the matter discreetly.
• Bull Bill told the Gold Emperor that [Natural Disaster] faced an unprecedented threat, and the Gold Emperor sent him back to manage the situation while arranging for Scarlett to act.
• Old Yuan returned from meeting Wan Guiyuan and told Luo Jun he was heading to the Great Rainforest, where the gate to [Hell] was located.