Chapter Summaries

Lin Lei and the Reincarnators fought their way across the Star Mist Sea to Blood Peak Continent, where they reunited with Xu Yue at a Demon Fortress. Xu Yue revealed that he had become an eleven-element Grand Perfection, while the group prepared to continue their mission.

• Lin Lei killed a Seven-star Demon during another exhausting battle, and the Reincarnators rested after driving off their enemies.
• The Reincarnators chose to bypass Milo Island and continued toward Blood Peak Continent.
• The group reached a Demon Fortress and encountered Xu Yue, who said he had been waiting for them.
• Barton recognized that Xu Yue had become a Higher God, and Xu Yue explained that his relationship with the Lord of Youlan Mansion had helped him.
• Xu Yue revealed that he had fused all his Profound Mysteries into an eleven-element Grand Perfection and had failed to absorb a Lesser Main God's Godhead.

Xu Yue gave Barton, Lin Lei, and the Reincarnators intelligence on the Four Divine Beasts Family and warned them about the Eight Great Families. The Eight Great Families ambushed them as they left, while the Four Divine Beasts Family prepared to investigate the battle, unsure whether it was a trap.

• Xu Yue handed the Reincarnators updated context on the Four Divine Beasts Family and explained that the Eight Great Families were stronger overall and had been intercepting them.
• Barton and the others left the Demon Castle and found a force of over ten thousand Higher Gods blocking their way.
• The Eight Great Families declared the Reincarnators enemies for supporting the Four Divine Beasts Family and launched a combined attack.
• At the Four Divine Beasts Family headquarters, the Elders debated whether the battle was a trap and decided to bring Main God Power and investigate.

The Four Divine Beasts Family reinforcements arrived to aid the Reincarnators, but the Reincarnators mistook them for enemies and attacked. After Lin Lei stopped the fighting and clarified the misunderstanding, the groups joined forces against the Eight Great Families and returned to the Heavenly Sacrifice Mountain Range together.

• The Four Divine Beasts Family reinforcements found the Eight Great Families pursuing Barton and the Reincarnators, and moved to rescue them.
• Barton and the Reincarnators mistook the arriving reinforcements for enemies, and Barton destroyed one of their metal lifeforms.
• The Four Divine Beasts Family reinforcements retaliated, and the Eight Great Families joined the resulting three-way battle.
• Lin Lei transformed and stopped the fighting, allowing the Reincarnators and the Four Divine Beasts Family to drive back the Eight Great Families together.
• Gaisley questioned who the Reincarnators were, but the Four Divine Beasts Family accepted Lin Lei and his allies after confirming his Azure Dragon bloodline, then returned with them to the Heavenly Sacrifice Mountain Range.

The Four Divine Beasts Family welcomed Lin Lei and the Reincarnators as powerful allies, then arranged an early clan baptism that helped Lin Lei break through to Higher God. With the balance of power shifting in their favor, Barton believed the Reincarnators could finally complete their mission.

• The Four Divine Beasts Family witnessed Lin Lei’s strength and accepted the Reincarnators as allies, gifting them ten drops of Main God Power.
• The Reincarnators urged the family to attack the Eight Great Families, but the ancestors chose to wait until Lin Lei completed his clan baptism and grew stronger.
• The Four Divine Beasts Family held an early baptism for Lin Lei, who absorbed half a Dragon Crystal, condensed a Water Element God Clone, and completed his earth-element comprehension to become a Higher God.
• Barton learned of Lin Lei’s breakthrough and declared that the Reincarnators could now defeat their opponents and complete their mission.

The Eight Great Families agreed to hire the Augusta Family after the Reincarnators and the Four Divine Beasts Family left them facing defeat. The Augusta reinforcements arrived led by Hanjin, whose Main God artifacts and connection to the Light Sovereign made him nearly impossible to kill.

• Bolin proposed that the Eight Great Families pay the Augusta Family to help them fight the Reincarnators and the Four Divine Beasts Family.
• The Eight Great Families’ leaders agreed that they needed outside help and approved Bolin’s proposal.
• Bolin used a planar teleportation array to contact the Augusta Family and demonstrate the Eight Great Families’ willingness to pay.
• The Augusta Family sent Hanjin, and the Eight Great Families’ patriarchs were stunned by his three Main God artifacts and powerful backing.

Han Jin arrived with overwhelming reinforcements for the Eight Great Families, while Xu Yue brought Beirut’s shadow divine clone to support the Four Divine Beasts Family and the Reincarnators. The united forces began marching toward an Eight Great Families stronghold, unaware of the full strength of the enemy reinforcements.

• Han Jin arrived with Chegwen, Montero, a cloaked peak Asura, and other Augusta Family forces, then declared that the Blood Peak Main God would not stop their operation.
• The Four Divine Beasts Family and the Reincarnators asked Xu Yue to invite the Lord of Youlan Mansion, and Xu Yue summoned Beirut’s shadow divine clone.
• The Reincarnators realized that the Lord of Youlan Mansion was Beirut and recalled that they had avoided antagonizing him on Yulan Continent.
• Beirut supported their planned offensive and warned them that the Eight Great Families had also begun inviting reinforcements.
• Hundreds of thousands of Higher Gods from the Four Divine Beasts Family advanced in metal life vessels toward the nearest Eight Great Families stronghold.

The Reincarnators attacked the Augusta Family’s forces, and Barton used a Guardian-level Military Formation to overwhelm Han Jin. Magrus, a Grand Perfection expert sent by the Fate Sovereign, then killed Barton with a soul attack, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• The Eight Great Families and the Augusta Family confronted the Four Divine Beasts Family, and Han Jin demanded most of its resources in exchange for staying neutral.
• The Reincarnators mocked Han Jin and activated their Guardian-level Military Formation with Barton wielding a Main God artifact and Main God Power.
• Barton struck Han Jin, smashed him into the ground, and sent Chegwen flying when he tried to intervene.
• Magrus revealed himself as a Grand Perfection Higher God and launched a soul attack at Barton.
• Magrus’s attack disintegrated Barton and destroyed the formation, stopping him as he was smashing Han Jin.

Magnus killed Barton and the members of the Guardian Military Formation in one strike, revealing the gulf between a true Grand Perfection and Barton’s enhanced strength. Beirut’s Dark God divine clone then faced Magnus, who asked him to hand over the surviving Reincarnators in exchange for protecting the Four Divine Beasts Family; the Reincarnators began preparing to fight back.

• Barton battered Han Jin while the Reincarnators celebrated their military formation’s strength.
• Magnus appeared and killed Barton and every member of the Guardian Military Formation attached to him with one strike.
• Geslesen recognized Magnus as a Grand Perfection of the Laws of Fate, and Magnus explained that his will-enhanced attacks were fatal without a corresponding Main God artifact-level defense.
• Beirut’s Dark God divine clone confronted Magnus, who realized Beirut’s clone was likely stronger than he was.
• Magnus asked Beirut to hand over the surviving Reincarnators and promised that the Augusta Family and Eight Great Families would stop targeting the Four Divine Beasts Family.
• The Four Divine Beasts Family’s clan chiefs waited for Beirut’s answer as the Reincarnators considered deploying the Humanoid Military Formation.

Beirut, the Blood Peak Main God, and the Destruction Overlord confronted Light Sovereign Augusta over the Reincarnators, while Fate Sovereign Ao Fu joined the negotiations. The Reincarnators secured a promise that no Main God would interfere in their battle, then prepared to unleash their ultimate technique before returning home.

• Beirut refused Magnus's suggestion and challenged Augusta's attempt to take the Reincarnators from the Infernal Realm.
• The Blood Peak Main God and Destruction Overlord Utred appeared, and Utred agreed to protect the Four Divine Beasts Family while demanding half the Reincarnators for research and a future fight with Ao Fu.
• Fate Sovereign Ao Fu joined the negotiations and agreed with Utred that no Main God would interfere in the coming battle.
• Hadi asked for a fair battle without Main God interference, and Utred and Ao Fu agreed.
• The Reincarnators secretly planned to leave after the battle and prepared to use their ultimate technique to loot one final wave of benefits.

Magnus faced Hadi and the Reincarnators, but their Ranked Descent Military Formation summoned the Feathered Serpent God and overwhelmed his strongest attack. After the Feathered Serpent God spoke with Xu Yue about making the world a cultivation ground, it struck at Lin Lei, and Xu Yue met its devastating claw head-on.

• Magnus agreed to face the Reincarnators in a fair fight, while Hadi prepared the Federation's Ranked Descent Military Formation.
• The formation's Desolate Battle Hymn unsettled the Main God projections, and the Feathered Serpent God rose atop the Totem Pillar.
• Magnus launched his strongest attack, but the Totem Pillar's domain erased it before it could reach its target.
• The Feathered Serpent God descended in person, spoke with Xu Yue about turning the world into a cultivation ground, and glanced at him.
• The Feathered Serpent God struck at Lin Lei, tearing through the Hell Plane's barrier, and Xu Yue intercepted its claw with his own hand.

Xu Yue intercepted the Feathered Serpent God’s strike, then learned it wanted his help merging with Hongmeng. After the Feathered Serpent God fulfilled the Reincarnators’ wishes and killed Magnus, the Federation’s Reincarnators turned to Xu Yue, while the Serpent revealed its ambition to join with the being outside the world.

• Xu Yue blocked the Feathered Serpent God’s strike, restoring the collapsing Hell Plane and earning a small amount of merit.
• The Fate Sovereign recognized Xu Yue as the Fate Supreme God, and the Feathered Serpent God asked the Reincarnators to state their wishes.
• Hadi asked about Xu Yue and requested that the Feathered Serpent God defeat Magnus; it explained Xu Yue’s identities and killed Magnus.
• William Boeing, Tesla, and Hadi abandoned their opposition and expressed their willingness to follow Xu Yue.
• The Feathered Serpent God said it wanted to merge with Hongmeng, and Xu Yue asked what it wanted him to do.

Xu Yue helped the Feathered Serpent God tear open the Coiling Dragon World so it could speak with Hongmeng, then suppressed the escaping Hongmeng Qi. After arranging for Ao Fu to strike Lin Lei with Magnus’s move, Xu Yue observed Lin Lei’s four-soul mutation and gained a better understanding of how to form a Hongmeng Body, though he still considered the process too risky to attempt.

• Xu Yue agreed to help the Feathered Serpent God reach Hongmeng and warned it that he could not withstand Hongmeng Qi for long.
• Xu Yue blasted away the surrounding beings, opened a crack in the Coiling Dragon World, and watched the Feathered Serpent God enter before suppressing the Hongmeng Qi that escaped.
• Xu Yue spoke with Ao Fu and instructed him to use Magnus’s move to strike Lin Lei after Xu Yue sealed Ao Fu’s Sovereign godhead.
• Xu Yue observed Lin Lei’s soul mutation and concluded that the fusion could allow him to absorb Hongmeng Qi and form a Hongmeng Body.
• Xu Yue assessed his chances of performing a four-soul mutation at less than twenty percent and decided to wait until he was about to ascend before trying.

After Lin Lei completed his four-soul mutation, Xu Yue strengthened his power, rescued his mother, and arranged for him to settle into a peaceful life. Xu Yue returned to the Federation, where the gains from the high-energy world made the Federation celebrate the arrival of its own peerless powerhouse.

• Lin Lei woke from his coma with extraordinary willpower, and Xu Yue explained his destiny and offered him four Main God godheads.
• Xu Yue rescued Lin Lei's mother from her twelve-winged angel state, and Lin Lei agreed to let the old feud with the Light Sovereign rest.
• Lin Lei settled into a quiet life with his loved ones, while Xu Yue concluded his negotiations with the Feathered Serpent God and returned.
• Hua Yingxiong and Ghost Servant gained powerful rewards, while the Federation's armies and financial groups concealed their enormous profits from the high-energy world.
• President Hoover announced that the Federation had gained a peerless powerhouse, and Xu Yue became an Elite Titan.

Xu Yue’s promotion and schemes helped the US Federal gain overwhelming power, prompting President Hoover to consider intervening in Europe. The Supreme Divine Court’s Caesar regretted losing influence, while Kariel left to get her hair done.

• Xu Yue assessed the benefits of becoming an Elite Intruder and considered how his planted Moles and new trick could help him seize control of Federation legions.
• President Herbert Clark Hoover gained support for intervening in Europe from major financial groups and ordered John Edgar Hoover to monitor them through the FBI.
• Caesar learned that the US Federal had gained five top-tier powerhouses and lamented the Supreme Divine Court’s loss of prestige and influence.
• Kariel told Caesar to keep monitoring public sentiment and intelligence while she went out to get her hair done.

Xu Yue guided President Hoover toward an alliance with Japan, and the Fujiwara Family Head secured a Mutual Defense Pact and Free Trade Treaty. The Federation then waited for Europe’s rival sides to offer greater benefits, while Xu Yue prepared for his next Punishment mission.

• Xu Yue learned from Kariel that the Supreme Divine Court was struggling amid strained relations in Europe and repeated setbacks in the Federation.
• The Fujiwara Family Head reported that President Hoover had recognized him and invited him to talks, and Xu Yue told him to accept with blank letters of credence.
• The Fujiwara Family Head explained that the next Punishment mission would likely span several worlds because so many people were being punished, and Xu Yue said he would treat it as a chance to relax.
• The Fujiwara Family Head presented his credentials to Hoover, who promised to support Japan’s plans in the Far East after the Federation settled the European conflict.
• The Federation announced a Mutual Defense Pact and Free Trade Treaty with Japan, prompting both sides in Europe to send delegations to lobby the Federation.
• The Federation placed the rival delegations next door to each other and waited to support whichever side offered more.

As President Hoover consolidated support for the Federation’s intervention in the coming war, Master Luo accepted that he had lost the political struggle and urged Franklin to prove himself through elite advancement. A new Punishment mission began, and Xu Yue recognized its setting as Gantz after arriving at a crowded subway station.

• President Hoover gained support from political allies, conglomerates, and five Top-tier Elite Titans, weakening opposition to his plans for intervention.
• Franklin warned Theodore that the timing of the intervention seemed wrong, and Theodore said he would join the war if needed while urging Franklin to turn the tide.
• Franklin said he would undergo an elite advancement during the mission.
• A new mission cycle began with an unusually high proportion of Punishment missions, and Hua Yingxiong and Ghost Servant entered alongside several recruits.
• Xu Yue entered the Punishment mission, read its rules about replica bodies, resurrection rights, and life and soul, and identified the subway setting as Gantz.

Xu Yue assessed the GANTZ world’s cloning, combat systems, and dangers, then decided to join the Tokyo Team. At the subway station where Kurono and Kato were about to die, Xu Yue fell onto the tracks to ensure he was transported to the GANTZ room.

• Xu Yue considered whether cloned bodies with copied memories and personalities counted as the original person and saw the mission as a chance to explore questions about life and souls.
• Xu Yue assessed his physical abilities and the limits of National Martial Arts, Gantz Suits, and the aliens’ strength.
• Xu Yue worried that the Reincarnation Space might have altered the world and that the Nura Clan’s ability to adapt and revive could make it a lethal threat.
• Xu Yue chose to stay with the Tokyo Team rather than the Osaka Team and recognized that the subway station was likely where Kurono and Kato would die.
• Xu Yue spotted Kurono and a swaying drunk, then staged a fall onto the tracks to enter the GANTZ room.

Xu Yue collapsed onto the subway tracks, and Kato and Kurono struggled to rescue him as the train approached. Xu Yue woke just as Kurono tried to flee and grabbed him.

• Xu Yue fell onto the tracks, and the crowd called for help while no one dared jump down.
• Kato leaped onto the rails to rescue Xu Yue, but found him too heavy to lift alone.
• Reincarnators in the crowd observed the scene and discussed whether to intervene, but chose to wait.
• Kato recognized Kurono and called him down, prompting Kurono to jump onto the tracks and help.
• Kato and Kurono could not move Xu Yue as the subway approached, and Xu Yue woke and grabbed Kurono when he tried to escape.

After dying on the tracks, Xu Yue, Kato, and Kurono arrived in a sealed apartment with other people who had died. They learned more about their situation as the black ball brought in Kishimoto Megumi, leaving her bewildered.

• Xu Yue pretended to hurt his ankle, preventing Kato and Kurono from reaching safety before an express train struck all three.
• Xu Yue, Kato, and Kurono found themselves in an apartment with several other dead people and realized their consciousness had continued after death.
• Yamada Masashi explained that everyone present had died, and Kurono accepted the truth after failing to interact with the room.
• The group introduced themselves and recounted how they had died, while Xu Yue adjusted his body and discussed how they had arrived.
• The black ball reconstructed Kishimoto Megumi, and Xu Yue covered her with his coat and deduced that she had died by suicide.
• Kishimoto Megumi stood dazed among the others and murmured that she was in the Infernal Realm.

Xu Yue stopped Hatanaka Hiroshi from taking Kishimoto Megumi, then the Black Ball announced a mission to hunt two Onion Aliens and supplied the group with weapons and suits. As the others struggled to understand what was happening, Xu Yue suited up and took Kishimoto Megumi aside to change clothes.

• Kurono Kei watched Xu Yue hold Kishimoto Megumi and grew jealous, while Hatanaka Hiroshi tried to take her away.
• Xu Yue caught Hatanaka Hiroshi by the wrist and dislocated it, prompting Yoshioka Kiyoshi to draw a Black Star Pistol.
• The Black Ball interrupted the confrontation, announced that the group’s lives had ended, and displayed a mission to eliminate an adult and a juvenile Onion Alien.
• The Black Ball produced named Reinforcement Suits and various weapons, but most of the group did not understand how to use them.
• Xu Yue put on his Reinforcement Suit, handed Kishimoto Megumi the suit marked with her name, and led her into another room to change.