Chapter Summaries

Xuan Sheng left the decision about Morning Wind and Sacred Leaf’s requests to Shan, who rejected Sacred Leaf’s proposal unless its Goddess of Seasons came to the City of Qi for treatment. After approving the Xuan Tribe’s plans and receiving Nan’s Experience Notes, Xuan Sheng let the tribe proceed with its expansion.

• Xuan Sheng told Shan to judge whether the Xuan Tribe should accept Morning Wind and Sacred Leaf as vassals based on the tribe’s needs.
• Shan challenged Sacred Leaf’s envoy for failing to bring the Goddess of Seasons, and Yetis remained silent when the envoy explained that the goddess was ill and wounded.
• Shan proposed that Sacred Leaf send the Goddess of Seasons to the City of Qi for treatment, and Kais agreed to the arrangement.
• Shan sent away the envoys from Sacred Leaf and Morning Wind, then placed Nan’s Experience Notes on the offering platform.
• Nan presented the Xuan Tribe’s plans for basic facilities and elven population growth, and Xuan Sheng approved them without hearing the details.

Xuan Sheng used Divine Grace on Black Lizard Blood and created a vast pool of Refined Ancient Blood, which could strengthen living beings. After Frostmoon tested the pool, Xuan Sheng and his companions prepared to resume hunting giant lizards at night.

• Xuan Sheng put Black Lizard Blood into Divine Grace, which transformed it into Refined Ancient Blood and formed a replenishing pool in the temple.
• Xuan Sheng told Shan that the blood could strengthen the body and be used by the Xuan Tribe, but it must not be sold or sent away.
• Xuan Sheng lifted Frostmoon into the pool despite her protests, and she discovered the blood warmed and strengthened her body.
• Xuan Sheng instructed Shan to let the Xuan Tribe bathe in the blood and use it to cultivate Spirit Medicine and Spirit Herbs.
• Xuan Sheng, Qingyi, and Little Puppy set out to keep leveling by fighting the giant lizards that had respawned at night.

As night fell in the valley, the giant lizards fled and three Lv.38 Shadow Bats appeared, triggering the hidden quest Deep Valley Under the Dark Night. Xuan Sheng began the first round by fighting the bats one at a time and quickly defeated the first, then pursued the second as it tried to escape.

• The giant lizards fled when darkness covered the valley, leaving Xuan Sheng and Little Puppy puzzled by the sudden change.
• Little Puppy explained that night briefly offered players a chance to escape, and Xuan Sheng spotted three Shadow Bats near the mountain stream.
• The party triggered the hidden quest Deep Valley Under the Dark Night, which required them to endure three rounds to obtain the ultimate treasure beneath the valley.
• Xuan Sheng told Yi Qing and Little Puppy to conserve their strength, then killed the first Shadow Bat with three powerful strikes.
• The second Shadow Bat tried to flee, and Xuan Sheng sprouted crimson wings and chased after it.

Xuan Sheng defeated the final wave’s King of Shadow Bats, a pregnant Commander-class boss who wanted a worthy human to guide her child. He sent Yi Qing to fight her with his mask, and the chapter ended as Yi Qing struck the King with devastating damage.

• Xuan Sheng reached Lv.34 after killing the three Shadow Bats, while Little Puppy watched in astonishment.
• The Lv.40 King of Shadow Bats emerged and explained that she sought a qualified human to guide her unborn cub.
• Xuan Sheng learned that the King’s strength had diminished because of her pregnancy and gave his mask to Yi Qing for the one-on-one fight.
• Yi Qing put on the mask, which transformed to fit her face and greatly increased her power.
• Yi Qing vanished into the shadows and landed a powerful backstab on the King of Shadow Bats.

Yi Qing defeated the Lord of Shadow Bats after its Eternal Night domain put her in grave danger, and Xuan Sheng stepped in with a devastating strike. The team completed the hidden-scene quest, and Xuan Sheng prepared to divide the rewards, including the boss’s drops.

• Yi Qing used her speed and combat skills to wound the Lord of Shadow Bats until the boss unleashed its Eternal Night domain.
• The Lord of Shadow Bats struck Yi Qing and removed a third of her Life, prompting Little Puppy to rush to help.
• Xuan Sheng emerged from the darkness and dealt the Lord of Shadow Bats a fatal blow, reaching Level 35 as the team completed the quest.
• Yi Qing accepted the newly hatched female creature as a pet after Xuan Sheng explained its potential, and Sobbing began evolving after absorbing enough blood.
• Xuan Sheng gathered the Wrath of the Undead badge, the Eternal Night skill scroll, and the Bat Wing accessory to divide among the team.

Xuan Sheng and his companions divided the rewards from their expedition, then prepared for the tournament beginning the next day. Xuan Sheng met with Ling Feng, who warned him that rival cities were targeting Lone Star City and gave him intelligence on their strongest fighters.

• Xuan Sheng took the Wrath of the Undead badge, while Yi Qing accepted the Eternal Night skill book and Bat Wing accessories from Little Puppy.
• As the group returned to the city, Xuan Sheng felt an unexplained unease about the upcoming tournament and suggested that he and Yi Qing register at the academy in person.
• Xuan Sheng visited Ling Feng, who assured him that Yi Qing could enter the academy as Hain's disciple.
• Ling Feng told Xuan Sheng that spies from other main cities had arrived in Lone Star City and might be gathering information or recruiting talent.
• Ling Feng gave Xuan Sheng a report on rival cities' strongest fighters, and Xuan Sheng worried that they could target his abilities if they learned about them.

Ling Feng arranged special training from the legends for Lone Star City’s competitors, while Xuan Sheng and Yi Qing prepared to join them. Elsewhere, Nan began carrying out the Xuan God’s plans in the Vassal World, and Yetis sought a way to return to the person she missed.

• Ling Feng warned Xuan Sheng that false rumors might undermine the competitors and decided to summon the outsiders for special training from the legends.
• Hain agreed to let Yi Qing attend the academy, and Yi Qing hurried to tell Xuan Sheng before they prepared to leave.
• Nan celebrated the Xuan God’s permission to pursue her plans, and she and Shan prepared to seek help from Saintleaf and Morningwind, starting with changing the land’s spiritual energy.
• Yetis realized she could not escape the Vassal World alone and planned to use the Goddess of Seasons to return to the person she missed.
• Xuan Sheng watched as Ling Feng’s ten selected competitors underwent separate training in illusions, while he remained hidden as a trump card.

Ling Feng brought Yi Qing and Xuan Sheng to a gathering of legends for special training and testing. Yi Qing met her grandmaster and senior uncle, while Xuan Sheng resisted a powerful mental illusion until the magic overwhelmed him; the legends then prepared trials to reveal his weaknesses, though his abilities made him wonder whether to conceal his full strength.

• Ling Feng explained that the students were undergoing secret illusion-based training and brought Yi Qing and Xuan Sheng to join the tests.
• Ling Feng told Yi Qing that Hain's former assassin instructor was her grandmaster and introduced her grandmaster and senior uncle.
• A mage cast an illusion over Yi Qing and Xuan Sheng, but Xuan Sheng's Lilith's Recognition initially made him immune to mental influence.
• The mage increased his magical power until Xuan Sheng's resistance failed, and the legends praised his strength and discussed his earlier near-destruction of a trial scenario.
• Ling Feng prepared combat trials using opponents modeled on the legends' former strength, while Xuan Sheng considered whether to hide his weaknesses despite his Omniscience and Omnipotence.

Ling Feng arranged for his younger self to spar with Xuan Sheng, hoping to impress the talented young man into accepting a mentor. The battle began with Ling Feng's Phantom unleashing a powerful wind attack, leaving Xuan Sheng to face the storm.

• Ling Feng and the other Legends discussed who would face Xuan Sheng first, while Ling Feng hoped the fight would change the young man's view of mentorship.
• Ling Feng created a phantom of his younger self and explained that the spar would test Xuan Sheng's combat ability against a powerful mage.
• Xuan Sheng entered the illusion, examined its rules, and confirmed he was ready to fight Ling Feng's Phantom.
• Ling Feng's Phantom quickly raised a shield and summoned two enormous tornadoes that swept across the arena toward Xuan Sheng.
• Ling Feng proudly watched the attack while the other Legends told him to stop showing off.

Xuan Sheng defeated Ling Feng’s phantom by enduring his hurricane, breaking through its shields, and using Fear to immobilize it for a finishing strike. The legends debated the mask’s power, and a burly man volunteered to face Xuan Sheng next.

• Xuan Sheng activated In My Kingdom and charged through Ling Feng’s hurricane, then struck with his blade and shattered one of Ling Feng’s shields.
• Ling Feng revealed that he had given Xuan Sheng the Transcendent Ring, while the legends wondered how Xuan Sheng’s damage could be so high.
• Xuan Sheng followed a spatial leap with Ice Cone, breaking Ling Feng’s remaining shield and leaving the phantom near defeat.
• Xuan Sheng used Fear to immobilize Ling Feng and finished the battle with a final strike.
• Ling Feng and Huan Yi suspected the mask caused the fear effect, and a burly man stepped forward to challenge Xuan Sheng next.

Xuan Sheng fought the phantom of young Nie Ban and defeated him while demonstrating mastery of many weapons. Qing He then entered the arena as the next opponent, but Xuan Sheng believed there was nothing left for him to learn.

• You Li left Xuan Sheng's illusion to check on Yi Qing, while Huan Yi summoned the phantom of young Nie Ban.
• Nie Ban challenged Xuan Sheng to a training spar and explained that he wanted to survive the war against the demons.
• Xuan Sheng used a succession of weapons and overwhelmed Nie Ban, astonishing the observers.
• Nie Ban tried to volunteer to fight Xuan Sheng himself, but Ling Feng reminded him to follow the rules.
• Qing He had Huan Yi create her phantom and planned to fight Xuan Sheng with her eyes covered.
• Xuan Sheng concluded that he had practiced everything he needed and could learn nothing more from the legendary figures.

Xuan Sheng defeated Qing He’s phantom after surviving her arrows, binding strike, and brief period of physical immunity. You Mi then volunteered to control her own phantom and test him personally, while the legends kept the strength restriction unchanged.

• Xuan Sheng dodged Qing He’s phantom’s arrows until she used Binding Strike, but Unshakeable Star nullified the chains.
• Qing He’s phantom activated Wind Guard and wounded Xuan Sheng at close range, but he grabbed her and shattered her Life flame after the protection expired.
• Xuan Sheng reflected that the former legends had powerful tricks, though none had forced him to use his ability to avoid death.
• You Mi offered to fight Xuan Sheng by personally controlling her phantom, saying his combat experience had outgrown what their past selves could teach him.

You Mi took the field against Xuan Sheng, whose decision to feign weakness left him nearly defeated. When You Mi mocked him, he seized her dagger and confronted her, showing that he had been able to react all along.

• You Mi appeared in her youthful form and Xuan Sheng learned that her aged appearance had been a disguise maintained with You Li’s help.
• Xuan Sheng chose to hold back against You Mi and let her repeatedly strike him during their battle.
• Qing He and Ling Feng suspected that Xuan Sheng was fighting awkwardly, while You Mi’s attacks drove his Life nearly to zero.
• After You Mi taunted him, Xuan Sheng caught her dagger and asked whether she was mocking him.
• You Mi pointed out that Xuan Sheng had clearly managed to react.

Xuan Sheng defeated You Mi in the trial, prompting Nie Ban and Ling Feng to challenge him themselves. Meanwhile, Frostmoon woke after resting in dragon blood, and Yetis confronted the diminished Goddess of Seasons, demanding to be banished again.

• Xuan Sheng saw through You Mi’s attacks and pinned her down, forcing her to admit defeat and say that having an opponent felt good.
• Nie Ban and Ling Feng decided to enter the arena and continue the trial against Xuan Sheng.
• Frostmoon woke after nearly three days in the blood pool and told Shan Xiao that it felt changed.
• Frostmoon explained dragon blood’s uses to Nan, who recorded the information for the Xuan Tribe’s research.
• Shan Xiao told Nan that Saint Leaf and Morningwind were sending free supplies and teams, and that Yetis had volunteered to escort the Goddess of Seasons.
• Yetis confronted the Goddess of Seasons in her hall and demanded that she banish her again.

The Goddess of Seasons explained that she had lost her Divine Spark and most of her power after her siblings seized it, then told Yetis that the Land of Divine Favor might hold gods strong enough to help her leave. She offered instead to return to the Xuan Tribe and accept the Xuan God's conditions so she could regain enough power to send Yetis away, and Yetis agreed while feeling a strange sense of jealousy.

• The Goddess of Seasons admitted that she could no longer exile Yetis because sending her away before had exhausted her power and her brothers had taken her Divine Spark.
• Yetis refused to ask the Xuan God for help because she did not want to owe Him another favor, and the Goddess began recounting how gods were created by Father Gods and Mother Gods.
• The Goddess explained that the gods inherited their creators' power, fought over Divine Sparks and authorities, and that she lost and fled to this world.
• The Goddess told Yetis to seek help in the Land of Divine Favor, where surviving gods might be powerful enough to break through the world's barrier.
• The Goddess offered to accept the Xuan God's conditions in exchange for recovering some of her abilities and sending Yetis away, and Yetis agreed but felt an unexplained jealousy.

Nan welcomed Kais and the workers sent by Sacred Leaf and Morning Wind, then began arranging their care and labor for the Xuan Tribe’s construction projects. Kais left uncertain why the tribe wanted workers of all ages and genders, and wrongly suspected secret potion experiments.

• Nan greeted Kais outside the city as he arrived with several thousand workers from Sacred Leaf and Morning Wind.
• Kais explained that the workers included men, women, adults, youths, and children, as Shan had requested.
• Nan approved the workers’ arrival and prepared to assign them jobs, but noticed that some had been injured during the journey.
• Nan sent a message to Shan asking for medical personnel and considered the workers’ housing, treatment, and work hours.
• Kais asked why the Xuan Tribe needed women and children, and Nan evaded the question.
• Kais privately guessed that the Xuan Tribe planned secret potion experiments, unaware that Shan viewed the workers as ordinary companions who had not yet completed their mental transformation.

Nan and Shan organized newly arrived slaves from Sacred Leaf and Morning Wind, balancing Xuan Tribe rules with care for their welfare. Nan offered them rest, education for the children, and a filling meal, but the deity’s words moved the adults to begin working before she could call them back.

• Nan asked Shan whether the newcomers were slaves, and Shan explained that they would be treated as friends but could not join the Xuan Tribe unless they accepted its beliefs.
• Shan ordered the guards to reward those who followed the rules and expel those who broke them.
• Nan excused the children from work and sent a homing pigeon to summon Kael and Big White to help care for them.
• Nan asked the newcomers to prepare meat porridge for breakfast and told them they would work eight hours a day.
• The deity’s words urged the slaves to repay their perceived debt through hard work, and they began laboring despite Nan telling them to eat first.

After finishing the legends’ instruction, Xuan Sheng accompanied Yi Qing to Blood Rose so You Mi could visit Hain. He caught Lilith before she could approach You Mi, while Lilith struggled with the feelings Hain’s influence stirred in her.

• Xuan Sheng left the meeting room with Yi Qing after the legends’ punishing instruction session.
• Yi Qing told Xuan Sheng that her martial uncle wanted them to visit Master, and they went with You Mi to Blood Rose.
• You Mi arrived at Blood Rose in disguise and asked to see Hain, while Sui Qin and Mo Rui greeted her.
• Xuan Sheng realized Lilith was in the courtyard and hurried to stop her from encountering You Mi.
• Xuan Sheng restrained Lilith as she reacted to Hain’s feelings within her, then Lilith stopped resisting their influence.

Xuan Sheng questioned Lilith about how the sealed Demon Lords could be released and learned that each seal required a different method. After checking on Hain, he heard his followers had prepared a gift for him.

• Xuan Sheng subdued Lilith and demanded information about the Demon Lords and the Sealed Pages.
• Lilith said she did not know where the other Demon Lords were sealed, but explained that her seal required sacrificing someone with mental power comparable to hers; Xuan Sheng had torn it open by force, letting her enter a backup body.
• Lilith refused to spend her source power to help Xuan Sheng form an advanced ability, and little Lilith briefly took control before retreating into her consciousness.
• Xuan Sheng used Piercing Delusion to see Hain crying in You Mi's arms, then stopped watching after confirming Hain was all right.
• Xuan Sheng heard his followers pray that they had prepared a gift for him and directed his consciousness toward them.

Xuan Sheng’s familiars brought the Goddess of Seasons to the temple as a gift, misunderstanding his attempts to object as approval. He used his divine power to examine her memories, but his healing power left her overwhelmed and blushing.

• Xuan Sheng’s familiars presented the dressed-up Goddess of Seasons, and his altered divine revelation made them believe he approved.
• Shan apologized for harming the Xuan Tribe’s image, then reported that the elves’ Empress had conceived and would soon give birth.
• Xuan Sheng told Shan to keep an eye on the child, and the familiars left the temple with the Yetis.
• Xuan Sheng apologized to the Goddess of Seasons and asked her to open her mind so he could learn about the other gods.
• Xuan Sheng sent gentle divine power into the goddess’s mind, healing her wounds and making her legs tremble.