Chapter Summaries

Seahorse and Sophia battled the apostle and the demonic-tree Taishui near Haiwang Port, sending a devastating tsunami across Sin Prison Island. Caesar learned that Taishui had defeated Seal and challenged Sea Snake, then sent Xiahou Zunchi to retrieve Leodar while choosing to let Taishui live if he could not be killed easily.

• Seahorse clashed with the apostle as his Skyfall Fist and Sophia's Serpent of the Mortal World drove the sea and clouds against Taishui.
• The battle's shock waves raised a tsunami that swept across Sin Prison Island, forcing residents to seek shelter and Dragon-rank fighters to protect their territories.
• Yamaguchi Yoshio chose to face the advancing flood himself, hoping the ordeal would help him break through to the Young Elephant rank.
• Caesar learned that Taishui had defeated Seal and pushed Sea Snake to unleash her Serpent of the Mortal World, and he declared that only he deserved to kill Taishui.
• After noticing Leodar was missing, Caesar sent Xiahou Zunchi to retrieve him and permitted him to kill Taishui only if the chance arose.

Xiahou Zunchi rescued Leodar as the demon tree fled to Seal Village, where it empowered thousands of people and absorbed their strength. Sophia shattered the tree, but Solomon recovered its remains and used Gaoxin’s mother’s lullaby to restore him to human form before escaping with him.

• Xiahou Zunchi broke the demon tree’s hold on Leodar and rescued him, but his counterattack accidentally struck Sophia as the tree escaped.
• The demon tree rooted itself in Seal Village, healed injured villagers, and helped tens of thousands become Radiation Users, drawing strength from them in return.
• Sophia, Xiahou Zunchi, and Bear King fought Solomon while Sophia unleashed a full-power attack that shattered the demon tree.
• Solomon saved a living clump of roots, then played a lullaby that transformed the remains back into Gaoxin.
• Solomon restrained Gaoxin and fled into the night, and Seahorse pursued him while Xiahou Zunchi and Bear King stayed behind.

After the tsunami, Solomon delivered the unconscious Gaoxin and his Dragon King Card to Aran and Luo Yan. Seahorse let the group go and recognized Gaoxin as the leader of an independent faction, but at Silver Tower, its system identified Gaoxin as a non-player, raising fears that the body was fake.

• Aran, Luo Yan, Gaoshu, and Weimiao hid in a cave after the tsunami, and Solomon arrived with the unconscious Gaoxin, his weapons, and the Dragon King Card.
• Luo Yan explained Gaoxin’s demonic transformation to Seahorse, who stopped the group but then agreed to let them go and welcomed Gaoxin as an equal faction leader.
• Seahorse warned the group to reach Silver Tower before other Dragon Levels found them, and the group discovered none of them could access a safe house for Gaoxin.
• Luo Yan used No. 99 to verify Gaoxin at Silver Tower, but the system reported that Gaoxin was not a player, prompting Luo Yan to suspect the body was fake.

Luo Yan deduced that Taishui had separated his true body from the Dragon King Cards, leaving his real body hidden in the Sea King Territory while the Apostle escaped with a decoy. After Sophia found a fruit from the demonic tree and grew it in a blood pool, it produced a Taishui clone, which Xiwena persuaded Sophia to let her visit in the underwater prison.

• Luo Yan explained that Taishui had trusted him with the real cards while hiding his true body, which was likely still in the Sea King Territory.
• Sophia and the others searched the battlefield, and Sophia claimed credit for defeating the demonic tree while taking its remaining throne to Haiwang Port.
• Sophia discovered a strange fruit from the demonic tree and secretly planted it in a blood pool, where it grew into a human-shaped Taishui clone.
• Sophia identified the clone as a living, unconscious offspring of Taishui and considered destroying it for research.
• Xiwena saw the clone and pleaded to keep it; Sophia refused to release it but allowed her to visit it in the underwater prison.

Luo Yan and his allies fought off Yamaguchi Yoshio and Tiger Whale O'Brian while protecting Gaoxin’s unconscious body and Dragon King Card. They escaped into the Silver Tower with Aran’s remains, leaving the rise of their thirteenth major faction inevitable.

• Yamaguchi Yoshio attacked Luo Yan, but Gaoshu knocked him aside, and Luo Yan wounded him with Rou Si’s dagger and the Quantum Ghost module.
• Tiger Whale O'Brian arrived and used Cluster Annihilation against the group, blasting Aran apart as he tried to hold the line.
• Luo Yan summoned Dominion Angel with the Dragon King Card, and its force field saved the group and drove O'Brian back.
• O'Brian activated ten-stage Overclocking, but Power Angel appeared after midnight and protected the group while they gathered Aran’s remains.
• Luo Yan and the others escaped through the elevator as the angels withdrew, while Tiger Whale failed to stop them and Yamaguchi Yoshio’s followers recovered his wounded body.
• The factions learned that Taishui had escaped and would recover in the Silver Tower, making the rise of a thirteenth major faction seem inevitable.

After being killed by Taishui, Fujiwara Tomotaka revealed his ambition to take Yamaguchi Yoshio’s body and become an SSR. With Fúshé’s help, he transplanted his consciousness into Yoshio’s body and claimed Yoshio’s identity as the new Yakuza chairman.

• Fujiwara Tomotaka emerged from the Yamaguchi Family’s secret vault in a makeshift cyborg body and learned that Taishui and Luo Yan had defeated the Yakuza at Silver Tower.
• Yamaguchi Yoshio recovered in the medical pod, and Fujiwara told him how he had died and uploaded his consciousness into a Cyber Brain.
• Fujiwara berated Yoshio for wasting his potential and demanded his body, while Yoshio refused and attacked him.
• Fúshé betrayed Yoshio by striking him from behind, allowing Fujiwara to knock Yoshio out and remove his head.
• Fujiwara used his cyber-surgery equipment to transplant his brain and Yoshio’s brainstem into Yoshio’s body, becoming an SSR.
• Fujiwara announced that he would take the name Yamaguchi Yoshio and become the Second Generation Yakuza Chairman.

Human Gaoxin awoke in Haiwang Port’s deep-sea prison, where he met the bored prisoner Chu Shanhe and learned that the chains and anesthetic were keeping him captive. Chu Shanhe explained how Seal had tricked him into deleting his player account and imprisoning him, while Human Gaoxin remained unable to escape.

• Chu Shanhe and Diga discussed the unconscious Taishui, whom they believed was Xiwena’s new male pet.
• Human Gaoxin awoke in the prison and introduced himself as Taishui, though he could not remember how he had arrived there.
• Human Gaoxin recalled defeating the Rational Demon and using Solomon’s plan to suppress the Emotional Demon and restore his human body.
• Human Gaoxin discovered that S-grade chains had fused around him and could restrain even his Quantum Ghost, while Chu Shanhe identified the prison as Haiwang Port’s deepest level.
• Human Gaoxin revealed that he had been a Glass Person four months earlier, astonishing Chu Shanhe with how quickly he had reached Quasi Elephant King strength.
• Chu Shanhe explained that Seal had persuaded him to delete his player account after their duel, then captured and imprisoned him; Human Gaoxin called him naive, and Chu Shanhe defended his honor.

Gao Xin used Atomic Breath and his Flying Star technique to melt the Poverty Alloy chains binding him, though chains still hung from his limbs. He moved to free Chu Shanhe, who eagerly urged him to break his chains too.

• Gao Xin learned that Xiwena had taken advantage of him while he was unconscious, and Chu Shanhe explained that Dragon Elephant Anesthetic had weakened them both.
• Chu Shanhe told Gao Xin that their chains were made of Poverty Alloy and could only be melted with prolonged extreme heat and pressure.
• Gao Xin fired Atomic Breath at the chains, recycled the energy in the sealed cell, and pushed his technique to True Dragon-level power.
• Gao Xin used Flying Star to slam a concentrated sphere of energy into the chains, melting their wall attachments and freeing himself from the restraints.
• Chu Shanhe celebrated Gao Xin's strength and asked him to break the chains still binding Chu Shanhe.

Gaoxin questioned Chu Shanhe and Diga about the prison, learning that Diga was an ancient powerhouse who had been captured by the Seven Virtues Across the Sea and imprisoned for decades. After hearing Diga’s story and agreeing to help him, Gaoxin smashed open their cell gate, leaving their escape underway.

• Chu Shanhe offered his body to replenish Gaoxin’s energy, but Gaoxin refused and asked what they knew about the prison and its guards.
• Diga revealed that he had been imprisoned for at least ten years, had fought the Sea King and the other Seven Virtues Across the Sea, and had lost his brain to them.
• Diga explained that Life Mist was his exclusive module, which Haiwang Port had copied as Vaporization after eating his brain; he also learned that Kritters was Annie’s son.
• Gaoxin and Chu Shanhe discovered that Diga had once been a powerful Giant of Light, had advanced to True Dragon in prison, and knew Humpback Whale guarded the facility.
• Diga asked Gaoxin to rescue him and promised to repay him if he destroyed Haiwang Port; Gaoxin agreed to help and smashed the cell gate open with the chains.

Gaoxin broke out of the Deep-Sea Prison, freed Chu Shanhe and Diga, and discovered that he had been captured after Sophia mistook him for a soulless clone. When Humpback Whale arrived to stop the escape, he recognized Gaoxin and fled after revealing that Gaoxin’s demonic nature had killed Seal with one slash.

• Gaoxin blasted open the prison gate, defeated Hammerhead Shark, and forced the guards to release the prisoners’ Poverty Alloy chains.
• Gaoxin restored Diga enough for him to use Life Mist to digest food, then considered helping him develop his mental force.
• Gaoxin and Chu Shanhe found Drunkard Luo Yi relaxing in a luxurious prisoner-of-war cell and dragged him out of an anesthetic-filled sauna.
• Gaoxin learned Sophia had imprisoned him after mistaking his true body for a soulless clone, and he questioned the guards about events in the Death Hills.
• Humpback Whale confronted the escapees, recognized Gaoxin, and fled after saying Gaoxin had killed Seal with one slash.

Gaoxin led the prisoners out of Haiwang Port’s undersea prison and discovered the facility’s experiments on Gene Editing and Force Element. After injecting the stolen reagents, he rapidly increased his Gene Force and prepared to face the powerful figures outside.

• Chu Shanhe and Luo Yi learned that Taishui had defeated Seal, while Gaoxin led the group into the fourth-floor prison and Diga reunited with his former subordinate Karl.
• Gaoxin opened the prison cells, and Karl and twelve other Elephant-level prisoners joined the escape while most prisoners stayed behind.
• Gaoxin released the Wolf-level prisoners, seized supplies on the first floor, and learned that Haiwang Port had experimented on captives to develop modules and refine Force Element.
• Luo Yi explained that Force Element increased a Gene Editing user's Gene Force, and that Han Ziming supplied Tangren City with an extraordinary amount of it.
• Gaoxin injected the stolen Force Element, greatly increased his Gene Force, and judged that he could sever the genes of most of Haiwang Port's powerful figures.

Gaoxin discovered that his demonic nature had awakened an apparent Life Leap ability, which could use his essence to turn Glass People into Radiation Users and might even help SR-Class users break through. The revelation threatened to spark a war, and Gaoxin prepared to leave with Chu Shanhe and the others as Luo Yi offered to hold off a Quasi Dragon King.

• Wolf Levels from Seal Village told Gaoxin that his Demonic Tree had killed Leodar before Sea Snake Sophia defeated it, and that it had transformed them into Radiation Users.
• Gaoxin realized his demonic nature had developed his Life Leap trait into an ability that produced resin from his flesh and blood.
• Gaoxin injected the resin into Chu Shanhe and Luo Yi, but neither showed any immediate sign of a breakthrough.
• Diga warned Gaoxin that Life Leap could upset the island's balance and make an unprecedented war unavoidable.
• Luo Yi offered to hold off a Quasi Dragon King so Gaoxin and the others could escape.

Gaoxin and the escapees from Haiwang Port’s underwater prison fought their way through the city’s defenses as Haiwang Port’s Dragon Level experts confronted them. The battle spread across the city, with Sophia judging Gaoxin to possess about eighty percent of the real Taishui’s strength.

• Haiwang Port activated its emergency defenses, and its Black Hand Gang battalion slaughtered more than a thousand Wolf Level creatures attempting to escape through the lake.
• Gaoxin emerged with Diga, Luo Yi, Chu Shanhe, Karl, Hammerhead Shark, and twelve young elephants, then faced Humpback Whale and the arriving Dragon Level experts Seal, Sophia, Krites, O'Brian, and Xiwena.
• Sophia recognized Gaoxin as a Taishui imitation, while Xiwena learned that the real Taishui had returned to the Death Hills and Seahorse was away at the Imperial Conference.
• Luo Yi challenged Krites and Chu Shanhe challenged Seal as Diga led Karl and the other elephants against the Black Hand Gang’s encirclement.
• Diga killed a True Elephant with a sudden size-changing attack, then Gaoxin blocked Humpback Whale’s ax-hammer while the other duels began.
• Sophia and O'Brian held back, and Sophia concluded that Gaoxin had inherited about eighty percent of the real Taishui’s strength.

Gaoxin battled Humpback Whale, Sophia, and Tiger Whale O'Brian while Diga and Kid Brother helped him fight through Water City. After reaching the Flesh and Blood Throne and drawing on its power, Gaoxin summoned the Various Dragon Elephants to face Sophia.

• Gaoxin used his Poverty Alloy chains and Combat Awareness to batter Humpback Whale’s true body, then overwhelmed him with a five-hundred-meter golden Yanhan Starlight Bio-field.
• Sophia and the White Serpent attacked Gaoxin, but Diga dragged Humpback Whale down and fought him while Gaoxin headed for the Flesh and Blood Throne.
• Tiger Whale O'Brian blocked Gaoxin, and Kid Brother’s substitute body struck him down before Sophia caught up and nearly tore Gaoxin apart.
• Gaoxin landed on the Throne, drew in its energy, and fought Sophia alongside Kid Brother until they were evenly matched.
• Gaoxin summoned Kid Brother, Ark, Silver Hand Zhao Tengkong, Mandala, Black Pearl, Teng Luohan, and Santos beneath the Throne.

Gaoxin used powerful, endlessly resurrecting human substitutes to wear down Sophia and set up a delayed Flying Star strike. Sophia was blasted apart after pushing the Tiger Whale clear and calling for Blue Whale Krites.

• Gaoxin’s substitutes unleashed coordinated signature techniques, but Sophia dodged their attacks and countered Ark’s sword strike.
• Silver Hand repeatedly intercepted Sophia to protect the Tiger Whale, giving the other substitutes time to target him.
• Sophia killed Silver Hand thirteen times, then fought the Tiger Whale and seven substitutes in a head-on clash that wounded her and destroyed the substitutes.
• Gaoxin’s substitutes revived, forcing Sophia to retreat toward the sea with the Tiger Whale.
• Gaoxin revealed that his Flying Star had been accumulating energy throughout the battle and had grown to Quasi Dragon King power.
• Sophia pushed the Tiger Whale away and called for Blue Whale Krites, then collided with the Flying Star and exploded into a rain of blood.

Gaoxin’s side overwhelmed Haiwang Port’s forces, but the battle escalated when O’Brian unleashed Atomic Breath and an old man struck at Gaoxin. Gaoxin escaped underwater with Kritters’ remains, realizing the attacker was Sea King, while Sea King’s pursuit threatened from behind.

• Luo Yi’s anesthetic stopped Kritters from intercepting Flying Star, which struck Sophia and shattered her; Kritters then cleaved Luo Yi apart, but Luo Yi’s remains began regenerating after he underwent Dragon Transformation.
• Gaoxin attacked Kritters while the anesthetic immobilized him, and Mandala used Glorious Flash to detonate himself as O’Brian’s Atomic Breath devastated Water City.
• Gaoxin survived the blast by sheltering in the crater, then began forging Kritters’ remains into the throne before a powerful old man attacked him.
• Gaoxin used Quantum Ghost to overlap his body with the old man’s, damaging his brain, then seized Kritters, Chu Shanhe, and Diga’s remains and fled into the sea.
• The old man unleashed a thousand-meter Bio-field and a golden palm, but Gaoxin escaped its range and tunneled through the continental shelf with Quantum Ghost active.

Gaoxin recovered Luo Yi, Chu Shanhe, and Diga after escaping Sea King Port, and learned that Luo Yi and Chu Shanhe had both reached Dragon Level. With Blue Whale trapped in his throne and war looming, Gaoxin proposed secret cooperation with New World and Tangren City to help their Elephant-level fighters break through before the major factions learned about Life Leap.

• Gaoxin hid in a Death Hills underground city and used the throne to refine discarded nanomaterials into life nutrients for his recovery.
• Gaoxin repaired Luo Yi, Diga, and Chu Shanhe, and discovered that Luo Yi and Chu Shanhe had each broken through to Dragon Level.
• Gaoxin revealed that he had captured Blue Whale and fought Sea King, then declared his intention to form a new faction and conquer Sea King Port.
• Gaoxin offered to help New World and Tangren City fighters achieve Life Leap in exchange for delaying the coming war, and he disclosed that he was the Gao Clan Orphan.
• Chu Shanhe backed cooperation on New World's behalf, while Luo Yi said he could not promise Tangren City's support; Gaoxin claimed he could isolate Sea King Port from outside aid.

After Taishui’s attack devastated Haiwang Port, the Seahorse learned that Sophia had secretly imprisoned another Taishui, who killed many people and abducted Kritters. Sophia survived through [Twin Symbiosis] with the White Snake and demanded that the Seahorse choose his family over peace with Taishui, so he flew toward the Death Hills to kill him and retrieve Kritters.

• Sea King Mala learned that more than twelve hundred Blackhands had died and over six thousand people had been injured, while O'Brian accused Taishui of killing Sophia and abducting Kritters.
• The Seahorse returned and discovered that the attacker was not Taishui but another Taishui, whom Sophia had secretly raised from the Taishui Demonic Tree’s fruit and imprisoned in the undersea prison.
• Xiwena mistakenly saved cells from the White Snake, but Sophia emerged alive after using [Twin Symbiosis] with it.
• Sophia urged Sea King to regain control of Haiwang Port and insisted that Taishui’s growing power threatened them, while Sea King remained unwilling to fight.
• Sophia demanded that the Seahorse kill Taishui and bring Kritters back, and the Seahorse promised to do so before flying toward the Death Hills.

After leaving the scrap yard, Gaoxin fought his way through Bull King's territory and was recognized by Zero Kill, while Chu Shanhe's reunion with Kai Qi turned into a misunderstanding. Gaoxin continued toward Aran Territory with Zero Kill, Chu Shanhe, and their pursuers following.

• Gaoxin told Bull King's subordinates that he was Taishui Gaoxin, but they accused him of lying and tried to stop him from leaving.
• Gaoxin defeated twelve of Bull King's Elephant Level fighters, then punched Zero Kill into a crater before she recognized and embraced him.
• Gaoxin disarmed Kai Qi, while Chu Shanhe revealed himself to his former subordinate; Kai Qi attacked him after mistaking him for an impostor.
• Chu Shanhe reminded Kai Qi of their secret incident with Milan, but Scorpio joined the pursuit and questioned Chu Shanhe's identity.
• Gaoxin left for Aran Territory with Zero Kill on his throne, while Chu Shanhe followed under attack from Kai Qi and Scorpio.

With Gaoxin absent and Taishui’s false body exposed, Eagle King attacked the defenders and tried to seize the Dragon King Card. Gaoxin returned from Haiwang Port with the Spirit of the Throne, wounded Eagle King, and summoned Solomon to face him.

• Wan Kai and the others guarded Taishui’s cave as Philip and Kutuo challenged them, while Blue Beard asked to speak with Taishui.
• Eagle King arrived and clashed with Bull King, while Kutuo, Philip, and Hassan attacked Wan Kai and Luo Yan used the Dragon King Card to summon the Dominion Angel.
• Eagle King destroyed the Dominion Angel and exposed the unconscious false Taishui, prompting Luo Yan and Aran to defend themselves as Eagle King pursued the card.
• Gaoxin arrived with the Spirit of the Throne and his fellow escapees, claiming he had broken out of Haiwang Port after defeating Sophia and Blue Whale.
• Gaoxin used the Spirit of the Throne’s Life Mist to repel Eagle King’s attack and wound him, then reclaimed the Dragon King Card and summoned Solomon.