Chapter Summaries

Pu Yunchuan faced a tumor-covered orc and his enormous wyvern, then caught the beast’s charge and hurled it into a crater. As the orc attacked again with a hidden weapon, Pu Yunchuan’s fight continued.

• The tumor-covered orc rode his wyvern toward Pu Yunchuan, who held his ground while Bain and the others watched in alarm.
• The wyvern slammed into Pu Yunchuan, but he seized it by the neck and threw it away, leaving it badly injured in a crater.
• Bain emerged from the cellar and learned from the children that Pu Yunchuan had thrown the monster.
• The tumor-covered orc charged Pu Yunchuan with a spear, and Pu Yunchuan caught it bare-handed.
• The orc’s tumors burst and launched fleshy spikes toward Pu Yunchuan’s vital points.

Pu Yunchuan defeated a Dragon Roar Clan general whose body spikes could not pierce him, then learned that Walssen had used mutated parasites and his blood to empower the Beast Taming Division. After killing the captive and his wyvern, Pu Yunchuan warned the group they might have been spotted and urged them to leave.

• Pu Yunchuan blocked the orc general’s poisoned flesh spikes with his muscles, shattered them, and introduced himself as Yunchuan Hellscream, chieftain of the Warsong Clan.
• Wesker questioned the captured general, who revealed he was one of Walssen’s Twelve Heavenly Generals and that Walssen had seized power after the rebellion in which Lug. Earth Hammer died.
• The captive explained that Walssen had used mutated parasites to evolve himself and control the beasts of Evil Dragon Forest, and that his followers gained power by receiving Walssen’s blood.
• Pu Yunchuan killed the captive with a spear before Wesker could ask more questions, then killed the wyvern and warned the group that they might have been spotted.

After Pu Yunchuan reported on the Dragon Roar Clan’s dangerous beasts and the threat of being watched through parasites, Isabelle planned to secure the Black Stone Path and expand the settlement. The chapter ended with Ran Xiaojuan confident that the Civilization Repository would help them strengthen their soldiers before the Dragon Roar Clan united the Black Stone Plain.

• Pu Yunchuan explained that he had killed a suspected spy because he feared a monster faction could control and observe others through parasites, and Ran Xiaojuan confirmed that such methods were possible.
• Pu Yunchuan warned Isabelle that the Dragon Roar Clan’s wyverns were formidable, then explained that he had brought back displaced orc families whose homes had been destroyed.
• Isabelle reassured Su Yunchang that food was available and proposed clearing the Black Stone Forest for farmland and extending defenses to the Black Stone Path.
• Isabelle approved taking in more displaced orcs while prioritizing those who could contribute, and her plans left Wesker’s generals concerned about accommodating them.
• Isabelle urged Ran Xiaojuan to accelerate soldier strengthening before the Dragon Roar Clan united the Black Stone Plain, and Ran Xiaojuan expressed confidence in the Civilization Repository.

Walssen, wearing the body of the Giant Tribe warrior Yeger, learned that the mysterious Warsong Clan had gone to the Black Stone Path and wanted to capture them, but his younger brother warned that their enemies were preparing to attack. Meanwhile, Pu Yunchuan took out a loan to buy a Training Base and became its chief training officer.

• Walssen revealed to his followers that he had seized Yeger's body and learned from two Gnolls that the Warsong Clan had gone to the Black Stone Path.
• Walssen ordered his troops to prepare so he could capture the Warsong Clan, but his younger brother reminded him that the Giant Tribe's alliance might attack in spring.
• Walssen agreed to stay and deal with the alliance first, then dismissed the council while his younger brother doubted his assurances.
• Isabelle proposed that Pu Yunchuan borrow two million points to purchase a Training Base, and the group approved the plan.
• Pu Yunchuan borrowed the points from the Main Base, bought the Training Base, and became its chief training officer.

Pu Yunchuan’s base celebrated the success of its first gene-sequence surgeries, and he established his authority by training the transformed soldiers. As Isabelle delegated more responsibility and Su Yunchang focused on his flower-spirit work, she went to handle the beastmen Pu Yunchuan had taken in.

• The first surgeries transformed more than a thousand volunteers with exceptionally high success rates, prompting registrations for the experiment to surge to ten thousand.
• Pu Yunchuan used a physique-analysis training base to tailor exercises to the soldiers’ varied bodies and won their trust as an instructor.
• Su Yunchang realized Pu Yunchuan was gaining prestige among the soldiers and worried that his own influence would be limited to logistics and the judiciary.
• Isabelle delegated the development of the Black Stone Forest and responsibility for formulating laws and organizing Judicial Officers to Pu Yunchuan.
• Su Yunchang focused on nourishing the base’s experimental soil, using his flower-spirit abilities to strengthen his position and improve his Mental Strength.
• Isabelle hurried toward the Quarantine Zone to deal with the beastmen Pu Yunchuan had taken in.

Isabelle viewed Pu Yunchuan’s beastfolk refugees as vital to Gondolin’s future and a chance to begin integrating humans and beastfolk. She reassured Bain and the others that they had been treated as guests, then asked whether they would stay and join Gondolin.

• Isabelle gathered Gondolin’s soldiers and officers and went to the beastfolk quarantine area.
• Bain and Trism armed themselves and rallied the beastfolk, fearing that the humans had come to attack them.
• Isabelle praised Bain’s grandfather and explained that Pu Yunchuan had brought them to his main base, not betrayed them.
• Isabelle pointed out that Gondolin had provided the beastfolk with food, blankets, and shelter, and Bain thanked her for their hospitality.
• Isabelle asked the beastfolk whether they were willing to stay and become part of Gondolin.

Isabelle offered the defeated orcs and their children full membership in Gondolin rather than slavery, urging humans and orcs to overcome racial prejudice and unite to survive the catastrophe. Wesker and Bain began formally introducing themselves to each other as soldiers from both sides stepped forward.

• Bain offered to let the adult orcs become slaves if their children were fed and kept with them, but Isabelle refused the terms.
• Isabelle invited the orcs to join Gondolin as equal residents and soldiers, with food, homes, and opportunities for promotion.
• Isabelle argued that the mutated humans and orcs needed to set aside past hatred and unite to survive the catastrophe and protect their descendants.
• Wesker sheathed his sword, approached the orcs, and introduced himself as Gondolin's Legion Commander stationed abroad and a former imperial lieutenant general.
• Bain introduced himself as the chieftain of the Wild Bull Clan, and more soldiers from both sides stepped forward.

Isabelle observed how the beastfolk were settling into Gondolin and found that they were gradually bonding with the human soldiers. After overhearing Trism ask about Black Bear’s shapeshifter surgery, Isabelle stepped forward to explain it.

• Isabelle arranged housing for the beastfolk alongside military families and distributed them among human soldiers in the barracks.
• The beastfolk and human soldiers gradually grew more comfortable with one another, sharing stories and challenges.
• Isabelle inspected the barracks and overheard Jack, Black Bear, Trism, and another soldier discussing beastfolk witch doctors and Black Bear’s surgery.
• Trism learned that the mage in Gondolin could restore disabled people and became interested in Black Bear’s shapeshifter surgery.
• Isabelle approached the group and offered to explain the surgery, startling the four soldiers.

Isabelle explained the benefits and risks of the base’s experimental surgeries to Jack and the soldiers gathered around the fire. Jack and the others were left weighing the safer, slower option against the riskier surgery with greater potential.

• Isabelle eased the soldiers’ nerves and joined them around the campfire.
• Jack asked whether successful experiments could help ordinary soldiers reach General Rank strength.
• Isabelle said Black Bear’s physical attributes had reached Silver Knight level and that his transformation brought him close to Golden Knight strength.
• Isabelle explained that Adolf’s surgery offered greater growth potential but carried a roughly fifty percent success chance, while the other surgery was safer but slower.
• Jack and the others fell silent as they struggled to decide which surgery to choose.

After returning, Xi Ye reviewed the stationing point’s progress and learned that the Dragon Roar Clan could control mutated creatures, raising his suspicion that an unseen force was behind them. He summoned Pu Yunchuan, Isabelle, and Alice to discuss the situation.

• Barracks gossip about the surgery’s risks spread, leaving people uncertain whether to choose the safer operation or the more dangerous one.
• Pu Yunchuan struggled to devise training programs for the base’s diverse mutations before learning that Xi Ye had returned.
• Xi Ye asked the intelligent system about the stationing point and heard that Isabelle and Little Cabbage had helped stabilize the city.
• The intelligent system reported that the Black Stone Forest was suitable for low-level exploration and that the Black Stone Plain remained untouched by the mutation.
• Xi Ye learned that the Dragon Roar Clan could control mutated creatures and suspected the undead lord might be testing his influence through a hidden force.
• Xi Ye summoned Pu Yunchuan, Isabelle, and Alice to discuss the situation.

Alice reunited with Isabelle as Xi Ye praised the factions’ progress and warned them that the Undead Lord might be behind the Dragon Roar Clan’s probing. He urged them to build forces capable of resisting the Lord’s return, while the chapter ended with Little Cabbage asking about Gou Dan and Xi Ye recalling trouble in the Kunlun Secret Realm.

• Alice greeted Isabelle at the Main Base, and Pu Yunchuan respectfully called her his Old Ancestor.
• Alice questioned Isabelle about delaying her Gene Body choice, and Isabelle recognized that her elder had grown much stronger.
• Xi Ye praised Pu Yunchuan’s and Little Cabbage’s factions and told them the Dragon Roar Clan might be investigating him for the Undead Lord.
• Alice and Isabelle asked about the Undead Lord’s return, and Xi Ye warned that it could eventually command the Mutated Creatures covered by the Black Goat Diagram.
• Xi Ye told the group to develop forces able to resist the Undead Lord, and Little Cabbage asked whether Gou Dan and the others had returned.
• Xi Ye hesitated to answer, thinking about the danger in the Kunlun Secret Realm.

As the Kunlun Martial Arts Competition ended, the sects prepared to enter the secret realm, and Wei Lin sought advice while arranging alliances for the Luofu Sect. Elder Wang left them with a startling theory: the Kunlun Secret Realm was the ruins of an Ancient Immortal Palace.

• The competition results revealed Kunlun's dominance, Wudang's poor showing, and unexpected victories by Yun Mountain and the Luofu Sect.
• Wei Lin, the Wudang elder, and the Yun Sect Leader discussed cooperating before entering the secret realm.
• Wei Lin asked the others to explain what the Kunlun Secret Realm was like.
• The Yun Sect Leader deferred to Elder Wang, who said the major sects had studied the secret realm without understanding it.
• Elder Wang declared that they suspected the Kunlun Secret Realm was the ruins of an Ancient Immortal Palace.

Wei Lin warned Li Gou Dan and the others that the Kunlun Secret Realm might contain powerful hidden lifeforms and urged them to explore carefully. The next day, the disciples reached the barren Progenitor Dragon Peak, where Chen Yutong spotted something that shocked them.

• Li Gou Dan, Dog Bro, and Chen Yutong discussed the rumored Immortal Palace ruins while Wei Lin considered D-Ball's unusual history and Gaia Consciousness.
• Wei Lin warned the three players to prioritize safety, explaining that resurrection would return them as Level One Lifeforms and force them to train from scratch.
• The selected disciples traveled with Kunlun's elders to the hidden Progenitor Dragon Peak, a vast, bare mountain concealed from satellite maps.
• Chen Yutong pointed toward something ahead, and Li Gou Dan and Dog Bro froze as Dog Bro said the legend was true.

Li Gou Dan and the other sect disciples gathered beneath Kunlun’s enormous, hidden Dragon Ancestor Tree for a solemn ceremony before entering the secret realm. After the ceremony, they learned that reaching the realm meant climbing the tree.

• Li Gou Dan, Liu Shiyu, and Chen Yutong marveled at the giant tree and questioned how it had remained hidden from ordinary people.
• Kunlun disciples introduced Senior Huang Xinyang, who led everyone in worshipping the Three Pure Ones beneath the tree.
• Lu Chenshuang explained that Kunlun’s ceremony asserted its status among Daoist sects, while Yun Sect Leader rebuked her for discussing Yunshan’s pretenses.
• The sect elders advised their disciples to stay close to Luofu’s people and seek their help inside the realm.
• Li Gou Dan asked how they would reach the secret realm, and Mu Yunji answered that they had to climb the tree.

Gou Dan and the others climbed an immense tree toward the mysterious realm and learned that they had to wait for clouds to carry them onward. When a white cloud arrived, Kunlun claimed it, and Ma Danian began explaining why the clouds were contested.

• Gou Dan complained about the endless climb, and Ma Danian explained that the tree’s moving Cloud Beds usually appeared within a day but had not arrived this time.
• Ma Danian described how white clouds, rainbow clouds, and thunderclouds led to different destinations, with no one returning from a thundercloud.
• A small white cloud arrived, and Su Ruoyun ordered Ji Nian and Ji Yue to board it.
• Ma Danian explained that a cloud could carry only two people, prompting Gou Dan to understand why sects fought over them.
• Chen Yutong questioned why everyone could not wait for better clouds, and Ma Danian began explaining the rules of the mysterious realm.

Ma Dayun explained the secret realm’s climbing rules and the sects’ competition for clouds as the group prepared for the next day. Mu Yunji recounted how other sects had forced her and Lu Xingfeng to take a white cloud, and Ma Danian assessed the rival factions while apparently underestimating their group.

• Ma Dayun explained that clouds appeared only as disciples climbed, while increasing difficulty made it risky to search for better clouds instead of taking available ones.
• Gou Dan realized that sects had to balance claiming clouds against keeping enough disciples outside to compete for later ones.
• Mu Yunji told Gou Dan that other sects had forced her and Lu Xingfeng onto a white cloud, preventing them from reaching higher areas despite their tournament victory.
• Ma Danian predicted that rainbow clouds would begin appearing the next day and outlined the strength and likely moves of Kunlun, the Tianshi Sect and Maoshan, and other alliances.
• Chen Yutong objected when Ma Danian described Wang Qing as unexpectedly eliminated, while the group noticed he had placed them among the weaker factions.

Ma Danian assessed his alliance’s chances and worried that it could not match Kunlun or the Tianshi Sect and Maoshan. As groups competed for three white clouds, Hong Tianlu appeared to grant Yue Qing one, then abruptly ordered her to ride it herself.

• Ma Danian judged the strengths of the factions and concluded that his group was weaker than Kunlun and the Tianshi Sect and Maoshan alliance.
• Three white clouds appeared, and Lu Chenshuang considered taking one while Mu Yunji urged her not to rush.
• The Tianshi Sect claimed two clouds, disrupting Hong Tianlu’s plan to take all three for Emei and Quanzhen.
• Yue Qing humbly asked the factions to let Huashan have the remaining cloud, and Hong Tianlu agreed.
• Hong Tianlu told Yue Qing to ride the cloud herself, leaving her stunned and asking what he meant.

Hong Tianlu tried to force Yue Qing to leave, but Mu Yunji stepped in to condemn his actions and challenge him. The chapter ended as Hong Tianlu unleashed his aura and prepared to test Mu Yunji's strength.

• Hong Tianlu demanded that Yue Qing leave, threatening to prevent Huashan from obtaining any clouds if she refused.
• Yue Qing reluctantly agreed to leave after Hong Tianlu promised not to target Huashan's remaining forces.
• Mu Yunji interrupted and challenged Hong Tianlu, saying she opposed anyone who acted out of greed, though she clarified she was not defending Huashan.
• Hong Tianlu asked whether Luofu supported Mu Yunji, but she insisted that her words reflected only her personal opinion.
• Hong Tianlu released his powerful aura and challenged Mu Yunji to prove her worth.

Mu Yunji accepted Hong Tianlu’s challenge and defeated him with a single sword strike that pierced his formidable defense. The onlookers were stunned by her strength, while Situ Xue wondered how Mu Yunji had risen so far above her.

• Hong Tianlu unleashed his aura and invited Mu Yunji to attack, expecting to teach the Yunshan junior a lesson.
• Mu Yunji abruptly released an overwhelming aura and struck Hong Tianlu with fluid, astonishing swordsmanship.
• Mu Yunji cut deeply into Hong Tianlu’s chest, breaking through his hard-body defense and leaving him bewildered.
• Hong Tianlu acknowledged Mu Yunji’s mercy and conceded defeat after she said she had no life-or-death grudge against him.
• Situ Xue stared at Mu Yunji in confusion, wondering when the gap between them had become so vast.

After Mu Yunji defeated Hong Tianlu, the factions peacefully claimed White Clouds, while Yue Qing hoped to secure a Colored Cloud for Huashan. Her plans were upended when an unexpected situation arose at the end of the chapter.

• Yue Qing claimed a White Cloud for Huashan after no one else showed interest in it.
• Mu Yunji returned to Luofu exhausted from using the base's primitive Breathing Technique to defeat Hong Tianlu.
• Su Nuoyun and Jiang Shisi praised Mu Yunji's swordsmanship and suspected she had gained it through Luofu's secret realm.
• Over the next day, the factions peacefully sent disciples away on White Clouds, and Ma Danian grew anxious while waiting for a chance to gather herbs.
• Yue Qing celebrated Huashan's success and planned to seek a Colored Cloud, but an unexpected situation soon appeared.