Chapter Summaries

Cheng Han impressed the Black Armor Army by innovating with the Azure Yuan Imprint, then demonstrated a technique to reveal hidden paths and Void Insects. As the cleanup mission began, he invited the other Warriors to follow his lead in clearing Spirit Leaf's Handle.

• Tie Feng discovered the grass and vines Cheng Han had created at Azure Yuan Stele Valley and spread news of his progress.
• Mu Qiushan recognized that Cheng Han's changing Flower Carpet combined the Azure Yuan Imprint with mental suggestion, then ordered others to stop disturbing him.
• Cheng Han emerged the next morning having condensed the Azure Yuan Imprint, and he joined Tie Feng and the other Warriors for the Void Insect cleanup mission.
• After the Warriors entered Spirit Leaf's Handle, Cheng Han proposed working together to clear it quickly instead of competing among battle groups.
• Cheng Han scattered a seed that made passageways stand out and allowed Warriors to see Void Insects in a conspicuous color, then asked whether they would follow him.

Cheng Han led the five battle groups through the Void Insect cleanup mission, using his knowledge and Azure Yuan Imprint techniques to protect the Warriors and make hunting more efficient. After the groups killed far more insects than the usual pace, Cheng Han warned them that a swarm had gathered ahead and Warrior-level Void Insects were approaching.

• The five battle groups agreed to work with Cheng Han, who gave everyone Seeds that formed Vine Silk Armor capable of countering attacks.
• The Warriors began searching Spirit Leaf's Handle, and Cheng Han used Mind Follows Color to help them spot and kill Void Insects before disposing of the corpses.
• Cheng Han demonstrated that the Azure Yuan Imprint could imitate the Insect Devouring Hook and make Nightglow Plant particles disrupt the insects' vision.
• Du Shancheng urged Old Niu to develop new Azure Yuan Imprint abilities, but Old Niu pointed out how much knowledge and research Cheng Han's techniques required.
• After two hours, the five battle groups had killed fifty-eight Void Insects, nearly half the previous single-day record's pace.
• Another hour later, Cheng Han sensed the swarm gathering and warned the Warriors that Warrior-level Void Insects would appear ahead.

Cheng Han used his control over the Spirit Leaf's Handle to trap and kill most of a Void Insect swarm, while Du Shancheng and Hu Liang's battle groups became trapped in a cave under attack. Cheng Han sent his forces to rescue them as their defenses neared collapse.

• Du Shancheng and Hu Liang withdrew their battle groups from Cheng Han's plan, while Gao Jiuqing and Qin Tingshu agreed to follow him.
• Cheng Han demonstrated a way to track the swarm through a model of the Spirit Leaf's Handle and organized the remaining Warriors to attack.
• Du Shancheng and Hu Liang's battle groups defended a cave against more than thirteen hundred Void Insects, but the Divine Banyan did not secrete resin and the insects began chewing through the walls.
• Cheng Han led ninety Warriors through guerrilla attacks, changed the terrain to trap more than fourteen hundred insects, and used oil and Seeds to kill over eight hundred of them.
• Cheng Han ordered his Warriors to rescue the First and Fourth Battle Groups as the Void Insects neared breaking through their cave.

While Cheng Han’s forces rescued the trapped Warriors and wiped out the Void Insects, the five Battle Groups made him their leader. During the ensuing rest, a mysterious force put everyone to sleep, and Cheng Han entered a dream of the Ancient Continent’s War of Ending, where he was singled out as a sacrifice.

• Cheng Han’s fluorescent vine men and allied Warriors attacked the Void Insects from three directions and destroyed the swarm.
• The Warriors counted 867 insect corpses at the Labyrinth battlefield, and Tie Feng called for a public vote to punish Du Shancheng and Hu Liang for their misjudgment.
• Du Shancheng and Hu Liang accepted responsibility, and the Warriors chose Cheng Han to lead the five Battle Groups.
• Cheng Han sent vine men to patrol and let the exhausted Warriors rest, but a mysterious force soon put them all to sleep.
• Cheng Han dreamed he was Sa La Te, a warrior of the Niu Te Yue tribe during the War of Ending, and the Great Elder ordered him to be sacrificed.

Cheng Han survived the Heretical God's Dream, recognizing it as a plot to seed hatred in the Sartre bloodline, then warned his soldiers that the dream could cause them to turn against the Myriad Radiance People. When Mu Qiang attacked a comrade and fled, Cheng Han had him captured and proposed turning him into a Puppet Battle Corpse, demanding the soldiers publicly prove their loyalty.

• Cheng Han escaped the Niu Te Yue tribe, then spent days in the dream witnessing the Myriad Radiance People's invasion and the Heretical God's efforts to nurture hatred among the Sartre descendants.
• After waking inside Spirit Leaf's Handle, Cheng Han forbade discussion of the dream and warned his officers that it could mentally contaminate soldiers, ordering them to watch for sympathy toward the Sartre People or attacks on comrades.
• Cheng Han reorganized the soldiers into new squads to monitor one another and urged them to finish the mission quickly, but Mu Qiang soon attacked Zhou Qing and fled.
• The vine men captured Mu Qiang, and Cheng Han demanded that the soldiers curse the Three Heretical Gods, swear lifelong enmity toward the Sartre People, and pledge loyalty to the Wan Hao Clan.
• Cheng Han declared that he would use the Azure Yuan Imprint to turn Mu Qiang into a Puppet Battle Corpse if half the soldiers approved, and began a public vote.

Cheng Han used oaths and a newly created Puppet Battle Corpse to identify and restrain Warriors suspected of mental contamination, while a citywide Heretical God's Dream left most of Qinglin City asleep. Qian Qingqing killed a mutated Kou Bear in the Zhang Family's home, and the chapter ended with Cheng Han confronting Tie Feng as he tried to help three suspected Sartre allies escape.

• Cheng Han exposed Yue Lin's inconsistent loyalties, confiscated his weapon, and made him remain under surveillance.
• Cheng Han transformed Mu Qiang's corpse into a Puppet Battle Corpse and ordered the Warriors to swear loyalty before it; he also identified Xiang Sheng as suspicious and took his weapon.
• A Heretical God's Dream put most of Qinglin City to sleep, but Qian Qingqing stayed awake and went to investigate a scream at the Zhang Family's home.
• Qian Qingqing killed the mutated Kou Bear with a spear thrust to its eye, surprising herself with her fighting instincts.
• Cheng Han identified eight Warriors, including Yue Lin, as suspected of mental contamination and ordered them kept under supervision while the squad searched for Void Insects.
• Tie Feng led three Warriors to a secluded corner and began helping them escape, but Cheng Han confronted him.

Cheng Han exposed Tie Feng as a victim of the Alien God's false memories and used Illusion Magic to reveal his betrayal to the brainwashed warriors. After Tie Feng was killed, Cheng Han led the team onward, while his Puppet Battle Corpses demonstrated overwhelming speed and power against Void Insects.

• Cheng Han confronted Tie Feng about his belief in the Path of the Ancestors and revealed that the Myriad Radiance Deities had shattered the Ancient Continent thirty thousand years earlier.
• Tie Feng transformed into a Sartre People God Warrior and attacked, but Cheng Han's Illusion Magic made him mistake other warriors for Cheng Han and kill them within the illusion.
• Cheng Han showed the warriors that Tie Feng's supposed ancestral power had made him a tool of the Alien God, and Tie Feng's attempt to beg forgiveness was exposed as a ploy to survive.
• Vines restrained Tie Feng, forced a Seed into him, and killed him; Cheng Han ordered the team to rest briefly before continuing to clear Void Insects.
• Cheng Han's Puppet Battle Corpses swiftly hunted and killed Void Insects, astonishing the warriors with their speed, strength, and ability to split apart and recombine.

As a Heretical God’s awakening triggered rapid seasonal changes, Cheng Han recognized the pattern and created a water source for the Warriors in Spirit Leaf's Handle. In Qinglin City, Qian Qingqing fought Grass Hounds and a Grass Pig with movements guided by her Valkyrie Imprint, while a giant Spiral Pillar Anomaly appeared and swallowed a squad.

• Cheng Han suspected A Mei Li Ya would awaken under the identity of the Lord of Life and kept his theory to himself.
• Spirit Leaf's Handle heated rapidly, so Cheng Han used vines to create a water vat and cups for the Warriors.
• The temperature shifted to autumn, and Qinglin City experienced abrupt seasonal changes that caused flooding and heatstroke among civilians.
• At the Ninth Outpost, Qian Qingqing fought Grass Hounds and killed a powerful Grass Pig with a single spear thrust.
• A giant Spiral Pillar Anomaly appeared in Spirit Leaf's Handle and swallowed an entire squad.

Cheng Han led thirty Warriors in a risky coordinated mental attack that stopped the Giant Worm and allowed Mystic Adepts to rescue its swallowed captives. After the reinforcements praised the squad and arranged for them to recover, Cheng Han insisted on returning to the mission after only half a day.

• As the Giant Worm approached, Cheng Han rejected calls to retreat and gathered thirty Warriors skilled in the Returning Soul Stance, sending everyone else back one kilometer.
• Cheng Han used vine rings to connect the Warriors’ mental power, and the group repeatedly struck the Giant Worm with a fused Returning Soul Pill until it could no longer control its body.
• The repeated attacks left most of the Warriors unconscious or badly injured, while Cheng Han remained conscious and confirmed that they had defeated the Giant Worm.
• Two Mystic Adepts arrived, cut open the Giant Worm, and rescued five living Warriors from its belly, though one captive had died.
• The Mystic Adepts praised Cheng Han and his squad, then ordered them to recover; Cheng Han said he would rest for half a day before continuing the mission.

Qian Qingqing warned her family about Sartre People seeking revenge, while the Black Cat uncovered a possible Dream Arising Society plot among Qingli Ward’s commoners. In Spirit Leaf's Handle, Cheng Han helped the Warriors clear Void Insects at record speed, but a vision showed a tornado forming around the Spirit Handle's Joint and sweeping them up.

• Qian Qingqing warned Madam Qian about Sartre People murdering Myriad Radiance People and urged her to dismiss Old Niu, whom she suspected of being dangerous.
• After Old Niu left the Qian Family, Qian Qingqing threatened him with a display of spear strength, and the Black Cat ordered its cats to follow him.
• Old Niu returned to Qingli Ward, where commoners spoke of Sartre unity, then consulted a Dream Sculpture linked to the Dream Arising Society; the Black Cat reported its suspicions to its master.
• Cheng Han gave the Warriors masks to block Night Light Spores and Fluorescent Seeds to kill Void Insects as they cleared Spirit Leaf's Handle.
• The Warriors reached the Spirit Handle's Joint in record time, but Cheng Han saw a vision of a tornado forming around the central pillar and sweeping most of them away.

Cheng Han led the Black Armor Army through Spirit Leaf's Handle, using an illusion to predict a deadly tornado and keeping his forces safe. After reaching Spirit Leaf's Gate, he reported that the Tai'an Minor Spirit Realm cleansing mission was complete and presented its token to the astonished Red Armor Army.

• Cheng Han saw an illusion revealing that an Alien God's awakening and the celebrating Terra Titans would unleash a tornado filled with Wind Blades, so he ordered the Black Armor Army to stay out of Spirit Handle's Joint.
• When the predicted tornado struck, Cheng Han's warning spared the warriors from its Wind Blades, and he briefly analyzed the wind before deciding to carve a route around the cavity.
• Cheng Han used his modified Azure Yuan Imprint to reshape the wooden wall into a passage, leading the army around the tornado and onward through Spirit Leaf's Handle.
• The next morning, Cheng Han's forces annihilated a swarm of more than three hundred Void Insects without casualties and reached Spirit Leaf's Gate.
• Cheng Han passed through the gates to the Spirit Branch, where he presented the Black Token to the Red Armor Army and said the cleansing mission was complete.

After the Red Armor Army verified the Taian Black Armor Army’s accomplishments, Cheng Han and his soldiers received a warm welcome at the garrison. As the Heretical God’s awakening plunged the Sky Connecting Path into night, Cheng Han killed a Ghost Night Owl attacking an airship, leaving the Red Armor Soldier who had underestimated him stunned.

• The Red Armor Army Senior Team Leader inspected the Mystic Array’s records and saw Cheng Han’s unit defeat Void Insects, rescue soldiers, and kill a Giant Worm.
• Xiao He reported that the Taian Black Armor Army had killed 9,650 Void Insects, and the Senior Team Leader praised the unit and arranged a meal at the Red Armor Army garrison.
• Cheng Han and the soldiers traveled through a Sky Connecting Path, where they saw a cargo airship convoy and learned that the Heretical God’s awakening was accelerating.
• Day and night reversed, and the Red Armor Soldier leading the group explained that the Profound Palace had warned of the Heretical God’s imminent awakening.
• When a Ghost Night Owl attacked an airship, Cheng Han used an illusion and a short spear to kill it from a kilometer away, shocking the Red Armor Soldier.

The black cat uncovered the Dream Arising Society’s plans to mobilize civilians and helped sabotage its assassinations, then chose Cai Feng as a potential betrayer for its master’s script. After more failures made Cai Feng fear the Grand Dream Master, he considered turning himself in to the Patrol Department, leaving the black cat eager to advance its plot.

• At a Dream Arising Society gathering, the Dream Master used a Dream Sculpture to stir civilians into resisting the Myriad Radiance People, and the black cat ordered its Meow Clan Army to watch the Society’s Dream Masters.
• The black cat’s cats monitored a meeting in Chengming Ward, where Dream Master Cai Feng encouraged civilians to sacrifice themselves for the Sartre People and declared that Qinglin City would come under the Society’s control.
• The black cat suggested to its master that Cai Feng become the script’s betrayer, and its master approved the idea.
• The Grand Dream Master reprimanded Cai Feng after Patrol Officers arrested the martyr assigned to his assassination, then ordered another Dream Master to assist him in targeting an official.
• The black cat revealed that it had leaked the Society’s assassination plan to the Patrol Department and had caused a car to strike and kill Cai Feng’s new colleague.
• Fearing the Grand Dream Master would suspect and eliminate him, Cai Feng considered turning himself in to the Patrol Department, while the black cat urged him on.

Black Cat redirected Cai Feng from reporting the Dream Arising Society and helped steer him toward his assigned betrayal. On the return journey, Cheng Han provoked a young Terra Titan into attacking the Divine Banyan, whose defense gave him valuable knowledge and raised his Spirit Value.

• Black Cat stopped Cai Feng from approaching the Patrol Officer, and Cai Feng later told the Grand Dream Master he might have been targeted.
• The Grand Dream Master assigned Cai Feng to deal with Target Number Six alone, making Cai Feng recognize the mission as another test.
• The Red Armor Army captain tried to recruit Cheng Han, but the Tai An Profound Pavilion protested the transfer order.
• Cheng Han recognized the approaching Terra Titans and led the soldiers into a crack in the Spirit Leaf's Handle for shelter.
• Cheng Han taunted a young Terra Titan with thrown spears, provoking it to attack the Divine Banyan.
• The Divine Banyan's protective mechanism injured the Terra Titan and gave Cheng Han knowledge that increased his Spirit Control Profound Imprint's completeness and his Spirit Value.

After earning a commendation, a huge reward, and promotion to Vice Commandant, Cheng Han was appointed director of Anhua City's Patrol Department. He arrived in the city and began a forceful purge of the department, exposing Deputy Director Deng Xi as a likely Mole before Deng transformed into a Sartre God Warrior.

• Cheng Han's team cleared Spirit Leaf's Handle in one day, earning Black Mountain Camp a commendation and Cheng Han's Second Battle Group an extra fifty thousand War Merit Points.
• Gong ZhengHuan promoted Cheng Han to Vice Commandant, and the Profound Pavilion appointed him director of Anhua City's Patrol Department.
• Cheng Han told Patrol Department staff he would reshuffle personnel and immediately root out Moles, ordering Deputy Directors Duan Zhuohui and Deng Xi to swear loyalty oaths.
• Cheng Han exposed Deng Xi's hostility by drawing him into a vision of Myriad Radiance warriors massacring Sartre civilians, then removed him and ordered Liu Hong to detain him.
• Deng Xi transformed partially into a Sartre God Warrior as the Black Armor Army moved to seize him.

Cheng Han secured control of the Anhua City Patrol Department by killing the transformed Deng Xi, screening officers for traitors, and summoning Patrol Station leaders to the Winter Garden. As he began imposing order and recruiting capable subordinates, news arrived of trouble in West City.

• Black Armor Army soldiers wounded Deng Xi with short spears, allowing Cheng Han to plant seeds in his wounds and bind him with man-eating vines.
• Cheng Han questioned Deng Xi about the Sartre Clan and the Alien God, then killed him and continued the officers' oaths, dismissing and detaining four suspicious officers.
• Cheng Han chose the Winter Garden as his temporary office, where Fang Qinghuai hosted him and Patrol Station Squad Leaders came to meet him.
• Cheng Han offered Wu Lin the vacant Deputy Director position as a reward for strong performance and urged him to root out Sartre People Moles and restore order.
• Cheng Han had Squad Leader Li Shicheng dragged out as a prisoner, and Duan Zhuohui arrived to report an incident in West City.

Cheng Han quelled an organized uprising in Ningping Neighborhood, arrested its masterminds, and promoted Fang Tingyuan to the Patrol Department. After returning to Winter Garden, he persuaded the Fang Family to fund aid for the neighborhood, leaving them aligned with his efforts.

• Cheng Han learned that Avengers had exploited a protest in Ningping Neighborhood to attack Patrol Officers, then rushed there with Duan Zhuohui and a squad of Warriors.
• Cheng Han killed several inciters, threatened arrests, and used the Warriors’ Soul Shocking Style to disperse the crowd without a mass confrontation.
• Cheng Han ordered the Patrol Officers to arrest the masterminds, identified suspects who had escaped detection, and praised the officers for their loyalty to the Myriad Heavens Race.
• Cheng Han approved the killing of a Sartre father and son who resisted arrest and urged hatred of the Myriad Heavens Race.
• Cheng Han returned to Winter Garden, offered Fang Tingyuan a Patrol Officer position, and persuaded Fang Qinghuai to donate five hundred Gold Coins to help Ningping Neighborhood’s residents.

Cheng Han used Fang Tingyuan’s promotion and Winter Garden to pressure Anhua City’s wealthy residents into donating to a charity for the lower classes. In Qinglin City, Cai Feng used a mysterious Spirit Vine to help assassinate a corrupt official and began plotting to replace the Grand Dream Master.

• Cheng Han told Fang Qinghuai to publicize Fang Tingyuan’s promotion and his plan to establish a Charity Committee for Anhua City’s lower-class civilians.
• Cheng Han warned that he would remember everyone who failed to visit Winter Garden, and Fang Qinghuai agreed to spread the message.
• Cai Feng discovered that a withered vine from a believer’s vine hat could revive when exposed to water and mental power, and he named it Spirit Vine.
• Cai Feng used the Spirit Vine to help three Avengers kill Target Number Six, a corrupt official in the Hall of Councillors.
• The Grand Dream Master praised Cai Feng, known as Dream Eighteen, and gave him another task.
• Cai Feng decided he could use official forces to kill the Grand Dream Master and take his place.

Cheng Han presided over Patrol Captain Shen Dingzhong’s funeral and let Shen’s family say goodbye to him in a dream. When the Arbitration Department refused Shen Wanhui’s request to avenge his father, Cheng Han went to Director Gao Yiyang’s residence and forced his way inside to confront him.

• Cheng Han held a funeral for Shen Dingzhong and used his dream-entering technique to reunite Shen’s wife and children with him for a final farewell.
• Shen Wanhui asked to avenge his father, and Cheng Han ordered Deputy Director Bai Xinshan to negotiate with the Arbitration Department so Wanhui could carry out the execution.
• Bai Xinshan returned after the Arbitration Department refused, so Cheng Han asked where Director Gao Yiyang lived and rode there with him.
• Cheng Han announced his visit loudly, broke the lock, and entered Gao Yiyang’s residence with Gua Gua.
• Gao Guangming received Cheng Han, while Gua Gua evaded the servants and embarrassed one of them by breaking his belt.
• Cheng Han planned to block Gao Yiyang’s residence until the director came out to meet him.

Cheng Han forced Arbitration Department Director Gao Yiyang to let Shen Wanhui join the department as an apprentice executioner and secured Gao Guangming’s transfer to the Patrol Department. The chapter ended with Shen Wanhui executing his enemy and honoring his dead father.

• Cheng Han tore down the Gao Family’s metal gates and replaced them with wooden gates he fashioned from a cedar, giving Gao Yiyang a way to explain his cooperation with the Patrol Department.
• Gao Yiyang agreed to appoint Shen Wanhui as an Apprentice Executioner in exchange for Gao Guangming joining the Patrol Department, and Cheng Han inferred that the Profound Pavilion might replace Anhua City’s Grand Governor.
• Gao Yiyang issued the order, and Cheng Han left for Winter Garden with Gao Guangming following him as his new subordinate.
• At Winter Garden, Cheng Han learned that Shen Wanhui had joined the Arbitration Department and executed his enemy, then cut off the man’s ear to take home in honor of his father.