Chapter Summaries

Xuan Ye’s team reached the vine-covered pyramid after clashing over whether to venture deeper, while Xuan Ye kept his warning about the Sea Race to himself. The three factions opened the temple barrier, leaving the group facing the pyramid’s entrance and its oppressive divine aura.

• Xuan Ye suggested that the students avoid the Sea Race team and explore the surface layer, but the muscular instructor and Thomson mocked him for being afraid to go deeper.
• Pusang rebuked Xuan Ye and sided with the muscular instructor, while Xuan Ye chose not to escalate the argument for the students’ sake.
• Thomson, the muscular instructor, and Dalt continued to taunt Xuan Ye as Gong Feinao stayed silent and Sileta watched them with contempt before disappearing into concealment.
• The Dream Island team reached the ancient pyramid, whose divine barrier caused many students to feel ill and restricted powers above the professional rank.
• The Sea Race Royalty, Gong Feinao, and Laf. Silver used their factions’ tokens to open the sealed barrier, revealing the vine-covered pyramid gate.

Xuan Ye warned Dream Island’s team that the temple’s divine aura was strange, but Gong Feinao decided they would enter and investigate. Inside the enormous, spatially distorted Pyramid, Xuan Ye deduced why they could no longer hear the teams ahead, and the Audi Merchant Guild’s group asked Gong Feinao to join forces.

• Xuan Ye sensed a chaotic divine aura at the temple, but Gong Feinao and Sileta supported proceeding with caution rather than turning back.
• Pusang and three students criticized Xuan Ye, but Gong Feinao asked him what dangers to watch for and Sileta confirmed the aura was unfamiliar.
• Dream Island’s team entered the Pyramid behind the Swordfish Consortium and the Audi Merchant Guild, finding a gloomy passage far larger inside than outside.
• When the Audi Family’s leader wondered why the teams ahead could not be heard, Xuan Ye explained that spatial warping could have sent them through another entrance.
• An Audi Merchant Guild member asked Gong Feinao to let the two groups join forces and follow her command.

Gong Feinao led the expanded team through the fallen god’s Temple, where shifting spatial passages made retracing their steps uncertain. As they entered a corridor lined with strange guardian statues, Xuan Ye realized the Temple was an entirely self-contained space and suspected Sileta could no longer contact the gods or use Divine Art.

• Gong Feinao agreed to join forces with the others and led the team through the passage while Pusang and the mages instructed the students.
• At a three-way junction, Xuan Ye warned that the Temple’s spatial magic would prevent them from returning by the same route, so the team left mental and physical markers before proceeding straight ahead.
• The team entered a corridor lined with armored statues whose tentacled faces appeared to be petrified guardians.
• A High-Rank Mage identified the corridor as a likely reception area but could not explain the Temple’s vast, unfamiliar layout, while Pusang concealed an unnatural reaction.
• Xuan Ye realized the Temple was a self-contained space and suspected Sileta had lost her connection to the gods and access to Divine Art.

Xuan Ye and the others encountered a Silver Scale Sea Race transformed by a fallen, ominous Divine Power, and their magical attacks made it grow stronger. The chapter ended as Xuan Ye’s carefully prepared Fireball struck the two-headed monster and began spreading across its body, causing it to hiss in pain.

• Xuan Ye realized the strange space could prevent the gods’ curses from being replenished, but he could not safely break his curse there.
• A Perception-focused Ranger detected one approaching creature, and Xuan Ye recognized it as a badly mutilated Silver Scale Sea Race.
• The Sea Tribe charged through arrows and Fireballs, then attacked a burly Merchant Guild Alliance fighter by forcing tentacles into his face.
• Xuan Ye warned that the creature carried a fallen Divine Power and was immune to magic, but the others’ spells fused the victim with it and strengthened the monster.
• Xuan Ye’s Fireball struck the two-headed monster and spread across its body, making it hiss in pain.

Xuan Ye identified the monster’s weakness and used Divine Power-infused Fireballs to force it into the party’s attacks. The group destroyed one of its cores, but a Merchant Guild Alliance fighter was killed in the assault.

• Xuan Ye explained that physical attacks could expose the monster’s moving Energy Core and that ordinary elemental attacks were ineffective.
• Thomson challenged Xuan Ye, but fell silent after learning that Pusang had disappeared; Sileta revealed she had lost contact with her master.
• Xuan Ye encouraged the party by promising access to the Temple’s unexplored rooms and launched a barrage of Fireballs that trapped and injured the monster.
• The Merchant Guild Alliance fighters and Gong Feinao attacked the monster, but it pierced one fighter through the chest with a transformed tentacle.
• Gong Feinao shattered a core after the others cut the monster apart, causing its flesh to lose vitality and collapse into blood.

Xuan Ye saved a badly wounded Guardian with a powerful potion, prompting Thomson to demand that Xuan Ye distribute his remaining potions among the group. Xuan Ye rejected the demand and silenced the Audi Merchant Guild leader, leaving Thomson trapped in an awkward position.

• Xuan Ye gave the poisoned Guardian a superior-quality Life Potion, and the Guardian recovered from his grave wound.
• The group recognized the potion’s power, while Thomson regretted mocking Xuan Ye and proposed sharing the potions among everyone.
• The Audi Merchant Guild leader endorsed Thomson’s proposal, and the two praised Dream Island’s supposed spirit of teamwork.
• Thomson demanded that Xuan Ye fulfill his obligation to distribute potions, but Xuan Ye asked why Thomson was telling him and turned back to examining the remains.
• When the Audi Merchant Guild leader tried to intervene, Xuan Ye warned him to use his own potions if he spoke again, and the leader fell silent.

After defeating the guardian, Xuan Ye warned the team about the statues and brought Aitiya out as they continued through the Temple. The group reached rooms filled with possible rewards, then the Dream Island team and the merchant guild alliance separated to search different passages.

• Thomson distributed potions to the team, while Xuan Ye stored the shattered core and warned everyone to keep away from the statues.
• Xuan Ye summoned Aitiya, whose appearance and Professional Rank drew attention from the Dream Island students and merchant guild teams.
• The team found a shattered guardian sculpture, confirming Xuan Ye’s explanation of how the statues could possess victims.
• The group reached corridors lined with sealed rooms, and both teams grew excited at the prospect of finding valuable items.
• The Audi Merchant Guild expert proposed that the teams split up to avoid competing over rewards, and Gong Feinao agreed.
• The Dream Island team and merchant guild alliance chose separate directions, and the recovered Guardian thanked Xuan Ye before departing.

Xuan Ye helped Dream Island’s students break into the sealed rooms of a Temple, identifying how the barriers worked and collecting valuable items. After the students split into teams, he set out with Gong Feinao, Aitiya, and Sileta to find rooms better suited to their strengths.

• Xuan Ye determined that groups of attackers could break through the doors more efficiently than a single powerful fighter, and the students followed his guidance.
• Dream Island’s students spent about fifteen minutes breaking into a room, then searched it and gathered valuable furnishings and artifacts.
• Xuan Ye secretly took a damaged gemstone containing Faith Points and a bottle that elementalized water.
• The students formed five teams to open multiple rooms, leaving Xuan Ye, Aitiya, Gong Feinao, and Sileta without a group.
• Xuan Ye told Gong Feinao they should find a room suited to their abilities, and Gong Feinao agreed to follow his lead.

Xuan Ye and his companions discovered a Wine Cellar and divided its enchanted wine among themselves. Meanwhile, Luo Tian’s isolated group of students faced a larger faction that surrounded them and demanded their loot.

• Xuan Ye identified a room as a possible Storage Room, and he, Gong Feinao, Aitiya, and Sileta broke in together.
• They found six enormous barrels of extraordinary wine, and Xuan Ye used Sealing Scrolls so the barrels could be stored in their Spatial Bags.
• Luo Tian led students into an ordinary guest room, but a mixed force from the Northern Domain Marquisate and three Ronald factions arrived and noticed the students’ loot.
• Luo Tian realized his group was isolated and outnumbered by more than seven Professional Experts.
• The newcomers surrounded the ten students and demanded that they open their Storage Bags so the goods could be divided equally according to strength.

Luo Tian and the students fought off a group of Northern Domain Marquisate professionals, but a red-haired Professional Rank expert arrived and suppressed them. Just as he threatened to teach them a lesson, Xuan Ye appeared and wounded him with an arrow.

• Luo Tian used magical items to hold the doorway against three coordinated Six-Star Peak attackers while the students reinforced him with their own items.
• The attackers used a Dispel Scroll to strip Luo Tian’s enhancements, then offered to take half the contents of the students’ Spatial Bags.
• Luo Tian refused to surrender their belongings, hoping to stall until Dream Island’s teachers arrived.
• A red-haired Professional Rank expert arrived, accused the students of wrongdoing, and used his pressure to suppress Luo Tian.
• Xuan Ye shot the red-haired expert across the cheek and stepped from the dark passage, asking what he had been about to say.

Xuan Ye confronted Red Bird and forced him to compensate Luo Tian before withdrawing with his subordinates. The students were safe, and Xuan Ye left Luo Tian with the compensation scroll as the group prepared to continue.

• Red Bird mistook Xuan Ye's arrow for Gong Feinao's work, then realized Xuan Ye had approached him and could restrain him without warning.
• Xuan Ye demanded compensation for the students, and Red Bird gave Luo Tian a Second-Tier Magic Scroll.
• Xuan Ye proposed that the two groups separate, and Red Bird led his subordinates away.
• Luo Tian offered the scroll to Xuan Ye, but Xuan Ye told him to keep it and praised him for protecting the students.

Xuan Ye’s group left the rooms they had been looting and followed Aitiya’s guidance deeper into the Temple, where Xuan Ye sensed a powerful Sacred Relic resonating with her bloodline. They found the Sea Tribe praying around an Ornate Longsword that appeared to be the source of the resonance, while the Merchant Guild Alliances cowered nearby.

• Gong Feinao decided to note the Northern Domain Marquisate’s secret attack but avoid escalating tensions, and the group left the rooms before the other force could return.
• At a fork in the Temple, Aitiya pointed out a route, and Xuan Ye trusted her and let her lead the group.
• As they followed Aitiya’s bloodline resonance through passages that increasingly resembled caves, Xuan Ye suspected it was guiding them toward her family’s Sacred Relic.
• The group reached a Rock Hall where they found the injured Merchant Guild Alliances and five Sea Tribe members praying around a glowing sphere.
• Xuan Ye recognized that the resonance came from an Ornate Longsword embedded in a crack in the floor, apparently anchoring the Temple’s central hub.

The Sea Tribe Royalty confronted the Dream Island group over Aitiya’s family, while Aitiya and Xuan Ye refused to back down. Pusang revealed his monstrous nature and that he had planted seeds inside Thomson and Dalt, leaving Shuna horrified as tentacles emerged from the two men.

• The Sea Tribe Royalty accused one of the Dream Island members of being a remnant of a family and threatened them, while Gong Feinao displayed Kip’s magical pocket watch as a warning.
• The Sea Tribe Royalty ordered the Dream Island group to stay out of the way as the Sea Tribe tried to pull the longsword from the crack, but Aitiya drew her sword and Xuan Ye stood beside her.
• Thomson and Dalt tried to run to Pusang when he appeared, but Xuan Ye blocked them and Shuna used Specter Claws to drag them away from their teacher.
• Shuna accused Pusang of targeting his own disciples, and Pusang revealed two tentacles beneath his robe and said he had planted seeds inside Thomson and Dalt.
• Thomson and Dalt clutched their abdomens as writhing tentacles spilled from their mouths, and Shuna paled in horror.

Pusang unleashed Soul Devourer across the Rock Hall, trapping Xuan Ye and the other factions while the Sea Tribe continued its ritual. Gong Feinao attacked Pusang, but a Northern Domain Marquisate Thief interrupted Sileta’s ambush, and Laf Silver arrived to question Dream Island as the standoff grew more complicated.

• Shuna and Pusang released vengeful souls with Soul Devourer, and Pusang’s vastly larger horde overwhelmed the Rock Hall.
• Xuan Ye used Domain of Purification to shield the Dream Island students and Shuna, while Aitiya warned that Ronald would be destroyed if the Sea Tribe’s ritual continued.
• Gong Feinao told Xuan Ye to hold back and then used Third-Rank Magic to break apart the vengeful souls, but Pusang blocked the attack and countered Gong Feinao’s close-range strikes.
• Sileta tried to stab Pusang with a Divine Gift dagger, but a hidden Northern Domain Marquisate Thief interrupted her ambush.
• Laf Silver arrived with the Northern Domain Marquisate and its affiliated factions, surveyed the ritual and the halted fight, and asked what Dream Island was doing.

Xuan Ye revealed that the Temple was an ancient seal imprisoning the Primordial Evil God and used his linked Barriers to channel the seal’s power against the Sea Tribe, Pusang, and the Northern Domain Marquisate. The Sea Emperor Race member countered by producing Saint Rank Sacred Blood, setting up a clash between the power Xuan Ye had borrowed and a Saint Rank King’s strength.

• Xuan Ye learned that the Northern Domain Marquisate had brought a Professional Rank Barrier Master to find and destroy his hidden Barrier nodes.
• Xuan Ye activated his linked Barriers and drew on the sealed Primordial Evil God’s power, manifesting enormous tentacles throughout the Rock Hall.
• Xuan Ye explained that the site was an ancient seal reinforced by Aitiya’s Ancestor and suspected the Sea Tribe, Shadow of Feralas, and Northern Domain Marquisate wanted to exploit its power.
• Laf and Silver accused Gong Feinao’s school of dealing with an Evil God, while the Sea Emperor Race member blamed the cursed eyes and threatened Xuan Ye.
• The Sea Emperor Race member declared that the foundation of a Saint Rank King surpassed Xuan Ye’s borrowed power and took out a bottle of Saint Rank Sacred Blood.

A Saint Rank Sea Race King used the Sea Tribe’s Holy Blood to destroy Xuan Ye’s tentacle battlefield, leaving the factions in a tense standoff. Laf and Silver tried to turn the others against Xuan Ye, but Luo Tian and the Dream Island students defended him.

• The Sea Race King emerged through the Holy Blood’s power, crushed the tentacle that had seized the Sea Tribe, and destroyed all of Xuan Ye’s remaining tentacles.
• Xuan Ye landed among the others as the Sea Tribe, the Northern Domain Marquisate, and Pusang recovered from the attack, while the Sea Emperor Race member realized his Holy Blood was completely spent.
• Laf and Silver accused Dream Island of working with the Primordial Evil God as their companion recorded the tentacle remains and Pusang’s transformation.
• Luo Tian declared that he believed Xuan Ye had sacrificed himself to protect them, and the Dream Island students joined him in condemning the opposing factions.
• Xuan Ye smiled, dismissed his plan to return Aitiya to Contract Space, and put away his Random Teleportation Scroll.

Xuan Ye rejected Gong Feinao’s plan to sacrifice himself and unleash his full power against the gathered enemies. He killed Pusang and several attackers, leaving the rest stunned and unwilling to approach.

• Gong Feinao gave the Island Lord’s sealing scroll to Xuan Ye and proposed staying behind so the others could escape with the students.
• Xuan Ye refused to abandon Gong Feinao, revealed the blood-red runes in his eyes, and noticed Pusang’s killing intent waver.
• Xuan Ye used his enhanced abilities to cut apart Pusang, pierce his core, and kill him as Pusang cried out to the Saint Emissary.
• Laf Silver and the Sea Emperor Race member recognized Xuan Ye’s Eyes of Lawbreaking and Godslayer combination and rallied their forces against him.
• Xuan Ye killed the Professional Rank Thief, blasted apart a Silver Scale Sea Race member, and decapitated two Guardians, frightening the remaining attackers into retreat.

Xuan Ye faced Laf. Silver and a Golden Scale Sea Emperor Race fighter while Gong Feinao’s side fought the remaining opponents. Though Xuan Ye’s weapons overwhelmed Laf. Silver, the Sea Emperor’s superior power put him at a disadvantage as Aitiya gained the upper hand elsewhere.

• Red Bird and the other surviving Professional Rank experts hesitated after seeing Xuan Ye kill four opponents, while Gong Feinao warned them that defeating his side would come at a heavy cost.
• Laf. Silver ordered three allies to attack Dream Island’s Class-Rank fighters while he and the Sea Emperor Race fighter focused on Xuan Ye.
• Xuan Ye’s six weapons struck Laf. Silver and broke through his magical defense, but Laf. Silver used his momentum and scrolls to escape their encirclement.
• The Sea Emperor Race fighter attacked Xuan Ye with water blades, forcing him to recognize that he could not defeat the stronger opponent without his wings.
• Aitiya badly injured the Red-haired Man, while a Silver Scale Sea Race member prevented her from finishing him.
• The Golden Scale Sea Emperor Race fighter destroyed suspicious points on the battlefield to prevent Xuan Ye from setting up a barrier, then charged at him.

Xuan Ye awakened Causality Reversal, an attack that struck the Sea Emperor Race member through his past, and killed him after crippling his body and soul. As the battle turned in his allies’ favor, Laf. Silver revealed a coffin containing a powerful Master-Rank being.

• The Sea Emperor Race member overwhelmed Xuan Ye with water attacks, but Xuan Ye used a Soul Impact to create an opening and narrowly avoided defeat.
• Xuan Ye’s Blood Pupils reversed, and his Database analyzed a new ability that let his sword slash wound the Sea Emperor Race member in the past.
• Xuan Ye’s attack crippled the Sea Emperor Race member, and Xuan Ye finished him with an arrow before taking his corpse.
• Gong Feinao and Aitiya’s side gained the advantage against the remaining Silver Scale Sea Race fighters, while Xuan Ye’s Autonomous Node moved to encircle Laf. Silver.
• Laf. Silver unleashed a force that damaged Xuan Ye’s Feather Nodes, then opened a coffin and revealed a being whose aura marked it as a Master-Rank powerhouse.

Laf Silver awakened his Granduncle, a dying Master Rank expert, and ordered him to capture Xuan Ye and kill the others. Xuan Ye escaped the old man's first attack and wounded him, then appeared beside Gong Feinao in golden flames as Divine Might clashed with the Master's power.

• Laf Silver revealed that the Northern Domain Marquisate had bypassed the restrictions by awakening his sealed Granduncle, a dying Master Rank expert.
• Laf Silver told Granduncle to kill the Dream Island group and capture Xuan Ye alive, and the old man agreed to interrogate Xuan Ye and turn him into a Family Guardian.
• Granduncle attacked Xuan Ye, but Xuan Ye evaded his grasp with Bloodline Power and Shadow Divine Art, then slashed the old man and left blood marks on his body.
• Xuan Ye began burning his core, prompting Gong Feinao to prepare to burn his own core and use his remaining Third-Rank Magic.
• Xuan Ye appeared beside Gong Feinao and stopped him, while golden flames and Divine Might surged around Xuan Ye and clashed with the Master's power.