Chapter Summaries

Cheng Han traced a criminal gang tailing Qian Qingqing and her father, then discovered a new Ice Strike skill while walking through the snow. He confronted Lu Erren for bullying his meal-delivery servant and challenged him to withstand the move, leaving Lu Erren facing a public choice.

• Cheng Han used Black Cat’s observations to identify a skilled tail following Qian Qingqing and her father, then ordered Black Cat to search the Patrol General Department’s archives for major robbery cases.
• Cheng Han learned that Lu Erren had arranged trouble for Wang Xiang to stir conflict within the Second Battle Group, so he set out to confront him.
• As Cheng Han practiced controlling the snow with his Black Umbrella, he understood the Ice Fiend’s attack and formed a new skill called Ice Strike.
• Cheng Han tested Ice Strike on a cedar, freezing it solid before the tree collapsed.
• Cheng Han apologized to Chen XueAn for his move to new quarters and told Lu Erren he had come to stand up for Wang Xiang.
• Cheng Han challenged Lu Erren to take his newly comprehended move, and Lu Erren hesitated under the gaze of the onlookers.

Cheng Han forced Lu Erren to apologize for bullying a servant, then decisively defeated Guo Qing in a duel by trapping him with his Ice Element Profound Method Trait. After thanking Madam Mu, Cheng Han headed to Clear Imprint Tower, saying he had caught a bit of inspiration.

• Cheng Han refused to let the Deerskin Hat Team Leader change the subject and pressured Lu Erren into agreeing to apologize for bullying a servant.
• Cheng Han accepted the Team Leader's challenge and trapped him in an Ice Prison, then restored the shattered cage and restrained him with Ice Spikes.
• The Team Leader, identified as Guo Qing by onlookers, conceded after Cheng Han asked whether he still wanted to fight.
• Cheng Han met Colonel Mu Qiushan and Madam Mu, thanked her for the meal she had sent him, and said he was going to Clear Imprint Tower after catching a bit of inspiration.
• Madam Mu suspected Cheng Han was about to comprehend a new Spirit Refining Imprint and offered to cook another meal for him.

Cheng Han leisurely studied the Ice Jade Talisman while setting a scheme in motion through Qian Qingqing and the Black Cat. After he comprehended the imprint and drew the Second Battle Group to the stele valley, Tie Feng arrived with an important message, bringing the planned operation to its start.

• Cheng Han received the Black Cat’s signal in the stele valley and ordered it to begin the operation, then returned with nuts and later cooked soup while studying the Ice Jade Stele.
• Qian Qingqing sent Qian Changyun to deliver a secret letter to Cao Ruifeng at the Ninth Outpost, where the Black Cat followed him.
• Cao Ruifeng read the letter, traveled to Headquarters, and informed Yu Xianglong, who used the Communication Mystic Array to contact the Black Armor Army.
• Cheng Han comprehended the Ice Jade Talisman while sitting beside his soup, stopping the snow in the stele valley and breaking the record with a time of thirty-two hours.
• Tie Feng arrived with members of the Second Battle Group, congratulated Cheng Han, and said he had come about something extremely important.

Qian Qingqing hosted an Appreciation Fair where she exposed and wounded disguised members of a Plunder Gang, while Cheng Han and the Black Armor Army ambushed the gang outside. Cheng Han killed Bald Gutt with a series of refined spear techniques, and the operation earned the Second Battle Group major credit.

• Qian Qingqing trained before dawn, dressed as a female warrior, and meticulously prepared to host the Appreciation Fair.
• Qian Qingqing sensed several suspicious guests, then used her Short Spears and plates to wound five Plunder Gang members as they tried to cause trouble.
• Qian Qingqing calmed the guests by announcing that the Black Armor Army had anticipated the gang’s attack and was ready to crush it.
• Cheng Han and the Black Armor Army ambushed the gang’s arriving vehicles, and Cheng Han killed Bald Gutt with successive transformations of Eagle Strike Nine Transformations.
• Tie Feng praised Cheng Han for the successful operation and confirmed that the Second Battle Group had caught a gang responsible for major crimes.

Cheng Han helped the Black Armor Army defeat the Crimson Corpse after weakening the First Heretical God’s attempt to intervene, then persuaded Tie Feng to promote the Qian Family’s Appreciation Fair. The chapter left Qian Qingqing’s event drawing attention as Tie Feng publicly praised its food.

• Tie Feng’s Black Armor Army cleared the Plunder Gang’s corpses, but Tie Feng sensed danger in the Snowy Forest and ordered an evacuation when the aura of the First Heretical God emerged.
• Cheng Han secretly released a trace of the Trash Boss’s aura, causing the First Heretical God to abandon its plan to retaliate, while the corpse transformed into a Crimson Corpse.
• Cheng Han joined the fight and used his Ice Element Profound Method Trait to trap the Crimson Corpse, allowing Tie Feng and the Warriors to destroy it with Rainbow Piercing Spears.
• Cheng Han improved his Body Forging Imprint through Deduction, and Tie Feng praised him for helping win the battle.
• Cheng Han asked Tie Feng to support Qian Qingqing’s business, and Tie Feng publicly sampled and praised the Qian Family’s food at the Appreciation Fair.

Cheng Han gained the freedom to work with any squad in the Second Battle Group as the Commandant recognized his extraordinary contributions. While preparing for the Destroyer Emissary’s likely revenge, Cheng Han devised a new script called “Vengeance Prologue,” and Gua Gua demonstrated startling cleverness at the Blacksmith Shop.

• Four team leaders competed to recruit Cheng Han, but Mu Qiushan granted him authority to choose missions and cooperate with any Second Battle Group squad.
• Cheng Han worried that the Destroyer Emissary would retaliate for its losses and ordered Qu XiaoYing to watch the organization for unusual activity.
• Cheng Han used Snow Control to help servants clear snow around Blue Lake as he rode Gua Gua through camp.
• At the Blacksmith Shop, Gua Gua cooperated with the Artificer, shattered its newly fitted identification ring, and then reinstalled it itself.
• Cheng Han outlined a story of vengeance and righteous punishment and named his new script “Vengeance Prologue.”

Cheng Han chose Cao Hongyi’s regional patrol mission near Qinglin City, which fit his plan to lure the Destroyer Emissary’s people into attacking him. He set out with Cao Hongyi’s team and Gua Gua, whose map-reading, supply-carrying, and cooking skills impressed everyone.

• Ao Feng, Ling Handong, and two other Team Leaders waited at Cheng Han’s residence, each hoping to recruit him and two arriving with gifts.
• Cheng Han declined Ao Feng’s and Ling Handong’s missions, then accepted Cao Hongyi’s regional patrol mission forty kilometers from Qinglin City.
• Cheng Han joined Cao Hongyi’s team and brought Gua Gua along, intending to use himself as bait for the Destroyer Emissary’s covert operatives.
• Gua Gua followed Cao Hongyi’s mapped route without error and fetched water for the team while they traveled.
• Gua Gua gathered firewood, arranged a stove, and prepared lunch with Cheng Han’s help, impressing the team with its practical skills.

Cheng Han’s Netherworld incarnations set a revenge plot in motion while his Black Armor Army squad built a fortress ahead of a blizzard. As the storm arrived, Cheng Han sensed that a Weather Walker had strengthened it and prepared for a fierce attack.

• One Netherworld incarnation used a Black Cat to kill pigeons, expecting the vengeance scheme to draw out a Garrison Profound Warrior and weaken the Mystic Array.
• Another Netherworld watched a servant send a message from a supply station, then criticized the Underground Intelligence Network for its slow response.
• Cheng Han’s squad reached its patrol zone and built a two-level ice-and-wood War Fortress, which Cheng Han said would be needed for a blizzard expected that night.
• At Mao Tai Winery, Netherworld recruited a boy whose father had been killed by the winery owner, Wei Qian, to carry out revenge with a knife he had sharpened for three years.
• As a blizzard swept over the Snowy Plains, Cheng Han sensed unusual fluctuations in the wind and snow and deduced that a Weather Walker had interfered.

Cheng Han’s plan used Liu Mingshan’s betrayal and a staged distress signal to draw the Destroyer Emissary into an ambush. After escaping an Executor’s devastating attack through a hidden tunnel, Cheng Han learned that Qinglin City’s Garrison Profound Warriors had arrived.

• During a blizzard, Liu Mingshan stabbed and decapitated Cao Hongshan, but Cao’s death proved to be an illusion created with the Black Stone Idol, and Liu fled after sending a distress signal.
• Cheng Han explained that Liu would lead reinforcements into an ambush, while Cao realized Cheng had anticipated the Heretical God Believers’ plan.
• At the Black Mountain Camp, Mu Qiushan and Tie Feng identified Cao Hongshan’s beacon and worried that an Executor might threaten Cheng and his team.
• Cheng Han sensed an attack approaching and led the group through a secret tunnel, leaving an armored Snowman on guard to deceive the enemy.
• An Ice Beast more than sixty meters tall destroyed the war fortress, but the group survived underground, and Cheng Han deduced that Qinglin City’s Garrison Profound Warriors had been drawn into the operation.

Cheng Han led the Black Armor Army squad through the blizzard, tracked Liu Mingshan with a method he had comprehended, and helped Cao Hongshan turn Liu’s allies against him. After Liu died, the squad surrounded the remaining Heretical God Believers, who realized they were trapped.

• Cheng Han timed the squad’s escape from a snow dragon attack, then led them over a ridge and into a Snowy Forest.
• Cheng Han used the blizzard and Liu Mingshan’s short spear to trace the betrayer’s direction, and the squad pursued him.
• Cheng Han sensed that Liu and fifteen other Heretical God Believers were nearby, while Cao Hongshan called out that Liu had secretly helped the Black Armor Army.
• Liu Mingshan’s companions distrusted him, and he charged the squad alone before being struck by two short spears and dying in prayer.
• Cao Hongshan asked Cheng Han to help kill the remaining believers, and Cheng Han claimed his stronger illusion magic would doom them.
• The Heretical God Believers decided to scatter, but footsteps from at least fifty people surrounded them.

Cheng Han and the warriors destroyed the Heretical God Believers’ attempt to create an Evil Curse Corpse, then turned toward Qinglin City, where Netherworld used a boy’s revenge to frighten a powerful Flesh Lump into removing its anchor. Netherworld identified the aura of a Divine Object and anticipated an even greater harvest.

• Cheng Han detonated the Evil Curse Stone with Raven Extinction Blood, helping the warriors kill all sixteen Heretical God Believers and prevent an Evil Curse Corpse from forming.
• Cheng Han explained how he had prepared for the believers’ flesh magic and considered the powerful Supernatural Item hidden in Qinglin City.
• Netherworld gave a boy information and instructions, then led him into Mao Tai Winery to kill Wei Qian, the man who had murdered his father.
• The boy killed Wei Qian, raised his head in the courtyard, and publicly accused him while asking the Garrison Profound Warrior to execute him.
• Netherworld fought the Flesh Lump in the underground wine cellar as the Mystic Array’s threat frightened it into using Flash Teleport and removing its anchor.
• Netherworld concluded that his plan had succeeded and sensed the aura of a Divine Object.

Cheng Han helped the six Netherworlds defeat the Flesh Mass Monster and discovered that its loot, the Fragment of Divine Essence, belonged to the Lord of Myriad Netherworlds. An analysis of the fragment revealed a vision of the Myriad Radiance Divine Banyan’s origins and raised his Fragmented Imprint of True Flame to 63.72%, granting him the Divine Skill Ten Directions Flame God Prison.

• Cheng Han deduced the Flesh Mass Monster’s hidden cave, shared its location with the six Netherworlds, and watched them defeat it with coordinated attacks.
• A Netherworld recovered the Fragment of Divine Essence, which Cheng Han identified as a piece of the Nether Soil Heretical God and linked to the Lord of Myriad Netherworlds.
• Cheng Han brought together the Fragment of Divine Essence, Heretical God Blood, and Stone of Divine Soul to analyze them simultaneously.
• The analysis showed the Three Heretical Gods attacking the Myriad Radiance Divine Banyan, and the Divine Lord sacrificing himself to protect its seed from the black Chains.
• Cheng Han analyzed the Chains and their Black Flame, raising his Fragmented Imprint of True Flame to 63.72% and gaining the Divine Skill Ten Directions Flame God Prison.

Cheng Han killed a Fire-Roasting Ice Wraith with his new Divine Skill, then realized the First Heretical God had entered the Snowy Plains and was targeting the Black Armor Army squad. Unable to risk summoning Trash Boss, he opened a gateway for Eternal Hunger and baited it with the promise of eating a Heretical God.

• Cheng Han tracked down a Fire-Roasting Ice Wraith, lured it from its burrow, and destroyed it with Ten Directions Flame God Prison as three Profound Pavilion Mystic Adepts watched in awe.
• Cheng Han reunited with Gua Gua and headed toward a cave, but a signal summoned the Black Armor Army Second Battle Group Eighteenth Squad.
• Cheng Han deduced that the First Heretical God had sent power into the area and was likely preparing to attack Cao Hongshan and the others.
• Cheng Han rejected the idea of summoning Trash Boss and instead opened a gateway to Eternal Hunger, promising it a Heretical God to eat.
• Eternal Hunger's gateway opened as the Heretical God watched Cheng Han from afar, and Cheng Han escaped its reach with Netherlight Leap.

Cheng Han watched Eternal Hunger drive off the First Heretical God's avatar, then received a valuable Titan's Horn as a reward. After returning to his squad and earning a record haul of War Merit Points, he tried to evade captains waiting outside his home to recruit him.

• Cheng Han used Deduction to observe Eternal Hunger chase the First Heretical God's avatar, which fled after Eternal Hunger and Cheng Han insulted it as the Fart God.
• Eternal Hunger vanished after defeating the threat, then spat out a tooth that Cheng Han identified as a fragment of a Terra Titan's Horn.
• Cheng Han returned to Cao Hongshan and the others, told them the mission was complete, and led them back to Black Mountain Camp at dawn.
• The Second Battle Group received five thousand War Merit Points for the mission, and Mu Qiushan praised Cheng Han and told him to rest.
• Cheng Han rode Gua Gua toward home, spotted captains waiting outside, and fled when they called out to invite him to dinner.

Cheng Han left Black Mountain Camp for Anhua City and tested an illusory clone based on Hunger Lord's incarnation while traveling with a merchant convoy. After he destroyed an Ice Fiend, the convoy realized the boy and everything connected to him had been an illusion, while Cheng Han continued on to Anhua City.

• Cheng Han persuaded Mu Qiushan to approve his trip to Anhua City and left Black Mountain Camp with Gua Gua.
• Cheng Han gathered game and fish, then pretended to be a runaway child so a merchant convoy would let him travel alongside it.
• During a lunch stop, Cheng Han shared roasted rabbit with the convoy leader's daughter and let the guards believe he was an ordinary child.
• When an Ice Fiend charged the convoy, Cheng Han attacked it and destroyed it instantly before he and Gua Gua vanished.
• The convoy discovered that Cheng Han and the traces of his visit had been illusions, while Cheng Han rode into Anhua City and reflected on his illusory clone technique.

Cheng Han and Gua Gua encountered corrupt Anhua City Patrol Officers who tried to extort them over a rare Forest Badger. After Cheng Han revealed his Black Armor Army identity, he used the incident to challenge the Patrol Station and invited the city's victims to seek justice.

• Cheng Han toured Anhua City with Gua Gua and noticed the city’s distinctive layout and architecture.
• A Patrol Captain and his officers stopped Cheng Han, claimed they needed to inspect his prey, and ordered him to accompany them while others controlled Gua Gua.
• Cheng Han unleashed his mental pressure, forcing the Patrol Officers to their knees and terrifying them until reinforcements arrived.
• Cheng Han identified himself as a Second Battle Group warrior and declared that the corrupt officers had been requisitioned to investigate a man-eating aquatic Supernatural Creature.
• Cheng Han refused the Squad Leader’s attempt to take him to the Patrol Station and publicly invited anyone who had suffered grievances to come forward and seek justice.

Cheng Han pressed the Patrol Department to investigate corruption at the Eighth Outpost and arranged for serious offenders to help with the Aquatic Extraordinary Being Cannibalism Incident. Meanwhile, Sheriff searched the waterways using a Shadow Clone, while Cheng Han accepted the club’s lavish hospitality and ate lunch.

• Cheng Han rejected attempts to limit the outpost investigation, and Ao Feng backed his demand for a comprehensive probe.
• Director Huang promised results by the next afternoon and agreed to transfer serious offenders to the Black Armor Army for the cannibalism investigation.
• Ao Feng told Cheng Han that a search of the Inner City Riverway had found no useful clues.
• Sheriff used Shadow Clone to send a mental duplicate underwater with a school of fish.
• Cheng Han ordered lunch at the Luxury Club, where the staff served him a meal surrounded by beautiful attendants.

Cheng Han accepted a Patrol Department assistant’s invitation to visit Anhua City’s Winter Garden, where his skill impressed her and the Fang family gave him a private tour. Meanwhile, Black Cat discovered more human remains beneath the riverway and heard an old woman describe her son’s disappearance, deepening suspicions about the river.

• The Sheriff Assistant drove Cheng Han toward Winter Garden while praising the Patrol Department, but a robbery interrupted her boasts and Cheng Han stopped the fleeing robber with his self-created Imprisonment Circle.
• Black Cat found another human skeleton beneath Anhua City’s Inner City Riverway and sent the discovery to Cheng Han.
• Black Cat heard an old woman searching for her son Dazhu, who had disappeared while fishing near the city more than five years earlier, and suspected the case was connected to the riverway deaths.
• The Sheriff Assistant took Cheng Han to Winter Garden, where Fang Qinghuai and Fang Tingyuan welcomed him with the garden closed for his private visit.

Cheng Han exposed the truth behind Anhua City's disappearances and the supposed aquatic Supernatural Creature attacks. The investigation identified Patrol Department director Huang Xiansheng as the culprit, whose Longevity Ritual had led to the deaths of 227 people.

• Cheng Han challenged the female assistant's claims about the Patrol Department and used Supernatural Power to make a Mist Crane Flower grow, bloom, and wither before Fang Qinghuai, Fang Tingyuan, and the assistant.
• The Black Cat discovered an underground lake containing more than thirty Bone Spirit Shrines made from the bones of at least a hundred Corpses.
• Cheng Han and Ao Feng directed a widening river search that recovered more than sixty sets of bones and eventually uncovered the hidden waterway.
• The Garrison Profound Warrior confirmed that the shrines were part of an evil Longevity Ritual and traced it to Patrol Department director Huang Xiansheng.
• Huang Xiansheng confessed that he had sacrificed people for six years, suppressed missing-person cases, and killed and devoured passersby after losing control; his sacrifices had caused 227 wrongful deaths.

Cheng Han learned that the Black Armor Army would clear Void Insects from the Tai'an Minor Spirit Realm’s Spirit Leaf Handle, and his wood-element Profound Method Trait made him a strong candidate for the mission. After deducing the insects’ nature and the hidden history of humanity’s arrival, he left to study the Azure Yuan Imprint before the cleanup began.

• Mu Qiushan summoned Cheng Han and asked about his plant-controlling ability, learning that he had comprehended a wood-element Profound Method Trait.
• Cheng Han deduced that Void Insects were infesting the Spirit Leaf Handle and that the Black Armor Army would clear them from within.
• Mu Qiushan explained that Qing Han Profound Palace had ordered a cleanup across forty-eight Minor Spirit Realms and that Tai'an’s Pavilion Master would select an elite force of 150 people.
• The Colonel's Wife described the Void Insects, and Mu Qiushan warned Cheng Han not to believe or spread what they said; Cheng Han guessed that humans had invaded the world.
• Cheng Han announced he would study the Azure Yuan Imprint before the mission, then left as Mu Qiushan and his wife joked about his genius.