Chapter Summaries

Xuan Sheng watched the Dragon Egg hatch into a tiny Pink Little Lizard and considered how to care for it and supply the demons. In the City of Qi, Misty Rain’s undercover agent Number Two tried to join the Xuan Tribe to investigate the temple, only to learn she would have to pass its classes and tests.

• Xuan Sheng left Malice to defeat the Abyss’s remaining enemies while he returned to spend time with the Demon Lords and learn about the demons.
• The Dragon Egg hatched, and Xuan Sheng found a tiny Pink Little Lizard inside that had absorbed the Undead Dragon’s soul.
• The Young Dragon ate its eggshell, curled up in Xuan Sheng’s palm, and received his promise to find it food.
• Number Two asked to join the Xuan Tribe’s temple workforce, and a Xuan Tribe member told her she had to take classes and pass tests first.
• Number Two agreed to the requirements while privately reaffirming her loyalty to Misty Rain.

A Wuyu subordinate rejected her superior’s plan to invoke Wuyu’s name to make the Xuan Tribe cooperate, while Ti questioned Hecate about the Xuan God’s physical form. Ti feared the Xuan God might have suffered a terrible injury, and Hecate tried to reassure her.

• The man from Wuyu asked his subordinate whether she had found a clue about the persecuted royal family member, but she had not.
• The man proposed asking the Xuan Tribe to cooperate by invoking Wuyu’s name, and Number Two refused because the tribe had no reason to believe her.
• Ti reviewed the Xuan God’s requested offerings with Hecate and asked whether divine beings all had physical forms.
• Hecate said ordinary divine beings had true forms and asked whether Ti had ever met the Xuan God.
• Ti grew pale at the possibility that the Xuan God lacked a divine body, while Hecate reassured her that the Xuan God was fine and praised the Xuan Tribe’s believers.

Nan and Ti worried about the absent Xuan God, but Hecate suggested He might be busy protecting other tribes, and they set out to help Him. Kais then visited Shan with a request from Morning Breeze concerning Sola and Qien, while Morning Breeze’s leaders feared their vulnerable position beside the Xuan Tribe and Sacred Leaf.

• Hecate reassured Nan and Ti that the Xuan God might simply be tending to other tribes rather than suffering an injury.
• Nan left to build a purification device for the Xuan God, while Ti prepared supplies and planned to travel to the Land of Divine Favor.
• Kais visited Shan and said Morning Breeze wanted Sola and Qien to return as administrators alongside the other families.
• Shan considered Morning Breeze’s destruction and its leaders’ fear that the Xuan Tribe and Sacred Leaf might turn against them.

Shan explained that the Xuan Tribe would not interfere in the Sacred Leaf and Chenfeng’s rivalry, while Kais asked to inspect the outsiders working in the tribe. Kael showed Kais the workers’ comfortable conditions, leaving him shocked by how wide the gap had grown between the Xuan Tribe and his own people.

• Shan understood that Chenfeng and the Sacred Leaf were competing for favor with the Xuan Tribe, but she let them negotiate among themselves.
• Kais told Shan that people were fighting to come work in the Xuan Tribe and asked to inspect the workers before selecting more.
• Kael met Kais beside the divine hall with his daughter perched on his neck, and the three went to see where the outsiders lived.
• Kael showed Kais the clean cafeteria and explained that workers ate meat from low-grade Spirit Fowl and rice mixed with low-grade Spirit Herb.
• Kais realized that the Xuan Tribe’s treatment of the workers revealed a chasm between his people and the tribe.

Kais visited Kael and saw how prosperous life was among the Xuan Tribe, then left to choose people for the tribe after Kael refused to recruit him. Meanwhile, Xuan Sheng received a roomful of supplies in the Abyss, leaving Malice stunned by their quantity and value.

• Kais toured the Xuan Tribe with Kael, decided not to join, and hurried off to choose suitable people for the tribe.
• Kael told Shan about Kais's visit, and Shan said the Xuan Tribe needed to reach the Continent of Divine Favor to find Lord Xuan God.
• Malice returned from hunting an Abyssal Demon Butterfly and found Xuan Sheng surrounded by bottles, jars, and strange equipment.
• Xuan Sheng explained that the supplies had arrived through the Vassals and said the day's delivery was enough for now.
• Xuan Sheng fed Ancient Dragon Blood to the Dragon Cub on his shoulder while Malice recognized the supplies as rare treasures.

Xuan Sheng gave Malice healing medicine and supplies meant for the Demon Spiders, including Dragon Blood, which she drank and which began to strengthen her. After caring for the Young Dragon, he reassured Malice that he would support the village because of her loyalty, while remaining willing to focus only on her if the others refused to change.

• Malice struggled to suppress her greed when she saw the supplies, but Xuan Sheng gave her medicine that healed her injuries.
• Xuan Sheng told Malice the supplies were for her and the Demon Spiders, then pressed a bottle of Dragon Blood into her hands because she had rendered meritorious service.
• Malice drank the Dragon Blood and felt her stagnant strength begin to rise.
• Xuan Sheng stopped the Young Dragon from drinking more Dragon Blood and soothed it until it grew drowsy.
• Malice asked why Xuan Sheng was giving them so much, and he said he was willing to support the village because she was loyal.
• Malice worried that other demons would seize the supplies, but Xuan Sheng said he would take care of her even if the others refused to change.

Bo Ye invaded Malice’s village to exploit her injuries and seize its supplies, but Xuan Sheng’s unexpected power turned the fight against her. The chapter ended with Bo Ye recognizing Lucifer’s familiar golden radiance and panicking.

• Bo Ye broke into Malice’s home with her Fallen Angels and demanded to know where the spiritual supplies came from.
• Bo Ye attacked the wounded Malice and tried to seize the Demon Butterfly, prompting Malice to fight back.
• Xuan Sheng calmly ate among the supplies, confident that Malice’s injuries had already been healed.
• Malice transformed into a ferocious spider form, alarming Bo Ye and making her consider retreating.
• When the Demon Butterfly tried to escape, Xuan Sheng beheaded it with his Myriad-Forged blade despite Bo Ye’s blinding light.
• Lucifer’s Approval protected Xuan Sheng from the light, and Bo Ye panicked when she saw the familiar golden radiance.

Xuan Sheng confronted Bo Ye after Malice wounded her, then let the fallen angel believe her pleading had won his favor. He gave the fallen angels half the supplies but entrusted the two bottles of dragon blood to Malice, leaving her reassured of his trust.

• Malice knocked Bo Ye down and pierced her chest with a venomous spider leg, prompting Bo Ye to mistake Xuan Sheng for Lucifer.
• Xuan Sheng denied being Lucifer, and Bo Ye realized he was human before apologizing and begging for his help.
• Xuan Sheng ordered Malice to heal Bo Ye, then agreed to give the fallen angels half the supplies.
• Bo Ye tried to claim the two bottles of dragon blood, but Xuan Sheng handed them to Malice instead.
• Xuan Sheng privately reassured Malice that she was trusted despite the traitor in her tribe, and Malice accepted his decision happily.

Xuan Sheng learned that Bo Ye had handed Leviathan’s Sealed Page to another Fallen Angel, Sasum, in exchange for supplies, and ordered Malice to help recover it. He then headed for the giant tree to place the purification device, but Bo Ye and Malice stopped him from flying into the dangerous sky and raced to escort him upward.

• Bo Ye asked Xuan Sheng for a bottle of dragon blood, but he told her to ask Malice, who refused and pocketed both bottles.
• Xuan Sheng ended the conflict between the Fallen Angels and Demon Spiders and asked Bo Ye about Leviathan’s Sealed Page.
• Bo Ye revealed that she had given Leviathan’s Sealed Page to Sasum in exchange for supplies, angering Malice.
• Xuan Sheng told Malice to contact Sasum and try to recover the Sealed Page, then left to place Nan’s purification device somewhere suitable.
• Bo Ye grabbed Xuan Sheng when he tried to fly toward the top of the giant tree, warning that the sky above the Abyss was dangerous.
• Malice took Xuan Sheng from Bo Ye and began climbing the giant tree with him as Bo Ye followed.

Xuan Sheng installed a powerful spirit stone in a purification device atop the giant tree, where it began clearing the Abyss’s murky air and demonic energy. Malice and Bo Ye watched as the first step in freeing the demons from the Abyss’s corruption began.

• Malice carried Xuan Sheng up the giant tree while Bo Ye chased after them, and the village’s demons recognized the Demon God.
• At the crown, Xuan Sheng examined the poisonous fruit and set the purification device in place as Malice warned him about the tree’s hunting method.
• Xuan Sheng took out a colorful energy core, and Malice guarded him while Bo Ye suspected he was testing her loyalty.
• Xuan Sheng fitted the core into the purification device and switched it on.
• The device cleared the murky air and demonic energy, and Xuan Sheng saw its operation as the first step toward ending the demons’ suffering.

Xuan Sheng used the purification device to cleanse the Demon Spiders’ village, restoring clear skies and allowing life to sprout in the Abyss. Malice embraced him in gratitude, and he began planning the village’s recovery while watching the conflicted Bo Ye.

• Xuan Sheng’s purification device dissolved the polluted demonic energy across the village, leaving Malice astonished and Bo Ye frightened.
• The cleansed land produced new fungal growth and green shoots, and the demons wept and hailed Xuan Sheng as a divine miracle.
• Xuan Sheng told the demons they could begin changing their land, and Malice embraced him before bringing him down from the giant tree.
• In Malice’s room, now Xuan Sheng’s temporary office, he ordered her to identify the newly sprouted plants and said they would first organize their own race.
• Xuan Sheng glanced at the kneeling Bo Ye as Malice agreed to follow his instructions.

Malice left Xuan Sheng alone with Bo Ye while she investigated the infiltration of her village, and Bo Ye explained why she had given away Leviathan’s page. Xuan Sheng entered Satan’s seal to ask how to free her, only to find the once-furious demon unexpectedly calm.

• Malice insisted Bo Ye leave the room with her, but Xuan Sheng allowed Bo Ye to stay while Malice went to investigate her clan.
• Bo Ye told Xuan Sheng that another Fallen Angel commander had offered supplies for her clansmen in exchange for Leviathan’s page.
• Xuan Sheng asked Bo Ye to open Satan’s seal, and she used her blood to activate it.
• Xuan Sheng entered the sealed world and found its flames extinguished and its surroundings cold.
• Xuan Sheng met Satan, who sat calmly, and asked how to make her leave the seal.

Xuan Sheng realized he could free Demon Lords he trusted before gaining every Demon Lord’s recognition, and he discussed Satan’s seal with her. Satan said she needed to control her anger and estimated she might break free within a few months, leaving Xuan Sheng waiting for her release.

• Xuan Sheng concluded that freeing trusted Demon Lords was more urgent than winning recognition from all of them.
• Satan explained that after giving Xuan Sheng her heart, she felt calmer and believed controlling her anger was the condition for breaking her seal.
• Xuan Sheng told Satan he was in Malice’s Demon Spider village, and Satan restrained her anger when she realized how badly the demons had suffered.
• Xuan Sheng told Satan that Lilith had already broken free but remained injured in Heavenly Silence.
• Satan told Xuan Sheng she might need one or two months, or possibly less, before she could break free.

Satan taught Xuan Sheng how to control the Flames of Wrath while warning him to grow strong enough to survive in the Abyss. After learning to condense the flames, Xuan Sheng prepared to leave Malice’s village to cultivate and investigate where Leviathan’s stolen pages had gone.

• Satan warned Xuan Sheng that the demons might become unruly without the Demon Lords and urged him to focus on breaking through.
• Satan explained that Xuan Sheng could control the Flames of Wrath, narrowing their area to increase their damage at the cost of stamina.
• Xuan Sheng emerged from the seal with the ability to alter the flames’ area of effect, while Bo Ye worried about his growing power.
• Malice reported that the village had secured the purified boundary and distributed supplies, and Xuan Sheng fed the Dragon Cub before deciding to leave and train.
• Malice told Xuan Sheng that the Fallen Angels had sent Leviathan’s pages to Heavenly Silence, so he took her map and set out to investigate and cultivate.

Xuan Sheng set out to visit the Fallen Angel settlement and learn what had happened to Leviathan, but Malice secretly followed him to protect him. After learning why she had avoided the Poison Marsh Frogs, he took her to confront the creatures himself.

• Xuan Sheng noticed Malice had been driving monsters away and told her to stop following him so closely.
• Malice admitted she could not resist the Poison Marsh Frogs’ paralyzing venom and had left them near the village alone.
• Xuan Sheng told Malice to share problems with him and heard that she feared losing him as she had lost her family and friends.
• Xuan Sheng brought Malice to the poisonous marsh and drew Myriad Tempering to fight the level 53 Poison Marsh Frogs.

Xuan Sheng fought through a swarm of Poison Marsh Frogs in the Abyss and reached level forty. After healing from the poison, he and Malice continued toward Sasum's Fallen Angel settlement to find Leviathan's page and investigate the Fallen Angel who could contact humans.

• Xuan Sheng used his abilities to overcome the frogs' poison and killed the fifth-tier swarm despite his own level being below the fourth tier.
• Malice watched the battle and worried about Xuan Sheng's injuries, but he told her not to treat him as weak.
• Xuan Sheng healed his wounds in moments, reassured Malice, and changed into fresh clothes.
• Xuan Sheng realized he had reached level forty and set out with Malice toward Sasum's territory to investigate the Fallen Angel and retrieve Leviathan's page.

Xuan Sheng and Malice traveled to Sasum’s territory to bring the Fallen Angel leader under Xuan Sheng’s rule. Sasum welcomed Xuan Sheng at the city gate, revealing that he had used certain methods to invite him there.

• Malice warned Xuan Sheng that Sasum was a mysterious schemer and former strategist whose strength was unknown.
• Xuan Sheng ordered Malice to obey him and continue into Sasum’s territory, despite her fears for his safety.
• Xuan Sheng saw that Sasum’s town and its Fallen Angels were better provided for than Malice’s village, though the residents still looked despairing and confused.
• Sasum appeared at the city gate, greeted Xuan Sheng respectfully, and said he had resorted to a few methods to bring him there.

Xuan Sheng confronted Sasum, the Fallen Angel lord who had arranged to bring him to the Abyss and had spent years searching for him. Sasum revealed that the Abyss’s demons needed salvation and that he was running out of time.

• Sasum welcomed Xuan Sheng to his territory, and Xuan Sheng demanded to know why Sasum had brought him to the Abyss.
• Sasum admitted he was connected to Reapus and had arranged Fujii’s teleportation trap to bring Xuan Sheng back.
• Sasum showed Xuan Sheng reports detailing how Fallen Angels had tracked his use of Satan’s power and searched for his identity.
• Sasum declared that, as a Fallen Angel who induced desire and corruption, he had sought someone capable of taking the demons away from the Abyss.
• Sasum showed Xuan Sheng the wounds caused by the Abyss’s demonic energy and pleaded for salvation for his people, warning that his time was running out.

Sasum summoned Xuan Sheng to the Abyss and sent him to the Fallen Angels’ deadly coming-of-age trial, hoping to rapidly increase his strength so he could free Lucifer. Malice learned that Sasum had nearly destroyed himself to arrange it, while Xuan Sheng disappeared into the trial.

• Sasum told Xuan Sheng that his progress in Heavenly Silence had stalled and urged him to grow stronger so he could release Lucifer from the seal.
• When Xuan Sheng hesitated, Sasum attacked with gray light and sent him to the Fallen Angels’ training grounds; Xuan Sheng chose not to resist.
• Malice confronted Sasum, who collapsed and revealed that crossing the barrier between worlds to influence events in Heavenly Silence had left him gravely weakened.
• Sasum explained that he had sent Xuan Sheng to the Fallen Angels’ coming-of-age ceremony, a purgatorial trial with a seventy-percent elimination rate, because surviving it could greatly increase his power.

Malice and Sasum argued over the Demon God's ritual and his future strength. In Heavenly Silence, a Reapus envoy completed his mission and burned himself away, while an announcement called Ironblood's players to a new deathmatch.

• Malice distrusted Sasum's plan to send the Demon God through the ritual, and Sasum accused her of jealousy and obstructing the Demon God's growth.
• Fujii celebrated his competition victory with a Reapus Special Envoy, crediting the envoy's help for his revenge.
• The Special Envoy left Fujii's banquet, revealed himself as a wounded Fallen Angel sent by Sasum, and burned himself away after declaring that war was coming.
• A woman in Ironblood received confirmation that its three main-city competition rounds had to be completed quickly.
• An announcement declared that Ironblood's next main-city competition would be a deathmatch for all affiliated players currently inside the city.