Chapter Summaries

Xuan Sheng reviewed his new Conquest Mode and learned that his Demon God status let him recruit demons, though he still needed to secure supplies and guard his territory. As his commanders warned of nearby threats, Bo Ye revealed that people from Heavenly Silence were already in the Abyss.

• Xuan Sheng examined the Conquest Mode panel and learned that Sasum's, Bo Ye's, and Malice's legions trusted him, while his territories included Demon Spider Village and Giant Tree Domain.
• Malice and Sasum warned Xuan Sheng not to trust Ao Xue's promises, but he set aside their concerns and asked about the territory's condition.
• Sasum reported that the Giant Tree's purified territory could shelter the gathered demons, while Malice warned that rival factions might covet the land.
• Bo Ye identified the Mad Crocodile's city and the distant City of Chaos as threats, and Xuan Sheng asked about contacting Heavenly Silence and obtaining supplies.
• Sasum said his former contacts in Reapus were gone, but Bo Ye revealed that people from Heavenly Silence were in the Abyss.

Xuan Sheng learned that Ruipu's Outpost connected the Abyss with Heavenly Silence and realized his new Demon God's Bounty ability could let him secretly recruit nearby players. After inspecting his territory and subordinates, he focused on finding crops that could grow in the Abyss and considered using the outpost to help.

• Bo Ye told Xuan Sheng about Ruipu's Outpost, while Sasum warned him that approaching it could endanger the demon race.
• Xuan Sheng discovered that Demon God's Bounty let him contact nearby players and issue quests with rewards he had to provide, while concealing his identity from recipients.
• Xuan Sheng pointed out that he was human rather than a demon, meaning he could enter the outpost, though Sasum remained concerned about the danger.
• Xuan Sheng used the Eye of God to review his territory's needs and learned that a demon-beast siege would come in one day, while Sasum had already handled several administrative tasks.
• Xuan Sheng inspected Sasum, Malice, and Bo Ye's updated profiles, then considered using his quest ability to learn about crops from the outpost.

Xuan Sheng prepared to travel to the outpost and used his mission-granting ability to recruit a player there as a scout. The player accepted a hidden mission, giving Xuan Sheng details about his target and a way to investigate the outpost.

• Xuan Sheng reviewed his supply missions and decided to prepare for a trip to the outpost rather than pursue territorial expansion.
• Xuan Sheng dismissed the commanders and familiarized himself with his ability to distribute missions.
• Reapus guards complained about their remote outpost while adventurers left to grow stronger in the Abyss.
• A blond adventurer triggered and accepted the hidden mission The Resurrecting Deity.
• Xuan Sheng received the mission target's details and planned to use the player to learn about the outpost.

Xuan Sheng recruited Webber, a thief trapped in an exploitative player team in the Reapus Empire, by offering him a quest and legacy-tier equipment. Webber left to scout the outpost, while Xuan Sheng prepared more gear and planned to disrupt its supplies.

• Xuan Sheng offered Webber a legacy-tier Feather Badge and tasked him with reaching the outpost’s highest point to gather intelligence.
• Webber learned the quest was tied to the Sin God and accepted the promise of divine favor and powerful rewards.
• Xuan Sheng discovered that Webber’s team served its captain, who seized their rewards and kept them dependent on supplies.
• Webber slipped away from the team, determined to use the quest to escape the captain’s control.
• Xuan Sheng planned to use Webber’s intelligence and the demons’ help to disrupt the outpost’s supply lines, and asked Sasum for suitable thief equipment.

Xuan Sheng helped Webber infiltrate the outpost by guiding him through its lax security and prepared equipment to help him gather supplies. Before setting out himself with Bo Ye, Xuan Sheng visited Lucifer to ask when he could break his seal, but Lucifer angrily refused to cooperate.

• Webber grew terrified when Xuan Sheng’s apostle revealed that Sin God knew his real name, then continued toward Pinnacle Watchtower on his mission.
• Xuan Sheng had Sasum provide level-forty thief equipment for Webber and guided him through a shift change to reach the watchtower.
• Xuan Sheng learned the outpost’s pass requirements and decided to go there himself while a team was away leveling.
• Malice volunteered to accompany Xuan Sheng, but he explained that she would be detected; Bo Ye offered to go instead, and Xuan Sheng agreed after planning to visit Lucifer first.
• Xuan Sheng visited Lucifer to ask how much longer he needed to break his seal, and Lucifer angrily demanded to know why it mattered to him.

After Lucifer refused to leave her seal, Xuan Sheng visited Belphegor, who said she would emerge when she wanted and that something was still missing. He then set out with Bo Ye to investigate a human outpost and take a team's passes.

• Xuan Sheng told Lucifer he wanted to rebuild the demon race and asked her to break free, but she refused to respond.
• Xuan Sheng visited Belphegor and told her that Lilith had emerged, Satan would soon escape, and Lucifer still refused to leave her seal.
• Belphegor embraced Xuan Sheng, said he had become complete but that one final part was still missing, and declared she would leave her seal whenever she wanted.
• Xuan Sheng left Belphegor's domain and prepared to visit a human city with Bo Ye, who wore a maid outfit.
• Xuan Sheng planned to eliminate a team outside the outpost and take their passes.

Xuan Sheng learned why the Reapus outpost had remained unchallenged and set out with Bo Ye to take passes from a group of players. After the bearded leader mistook them for fellow players, he asked Xuan Sheng whether he would sell Bo Ye.

• Bo Ye explained that demons had avoided attacking the Reapus outpost because its soldiers were strong and shielded from demonic energy, while the demons were weakened by it.
• Xuan Sheng decided to keep a low profile and use the group ahead to obtain passes, planning to enter the outpost as a Reapusian.
• The bearded leader discovered that Webber had escaped and said he had hired the Evil Ghost Gang to retrieve him.
• Xuan Sheng and Bo Ye approached the bearded man's group, and the leader relaxed after deciding they were players or outpost NPCs.
• The bearded man stared at Bo Ye and asked Xuan Sheng if he was willing to sell his servant.

Xuan Sheng and Bo Ye infiltrated a Reapus outpost, killed its players, and took their passes so they could search for its supply stockpile. In Iron Blood, Yi Qing learned that Yetis had killed a man who pursued her, then bluntly asked whether Yetis and You Mi liked Xuan Sheng.

• Xuan Sheng refused the bearded Reapus player’s offer to trade servants and asked him for the team’s passes instead.
• Bo Ye unleashed a radiant attack that reduced the Reapus players to ash, preserving their passes for Xuan Sheng.
• Xuan Sheng told Bo Ye to restrain such thoughts at times, then planned to use two passes to investigate the outpost’s supplies and exploit conflicts within Reapus.
• At the Holy Temple in Iron Blood, You Mi recalled that Yetis had killed a relative of the Second Prince, whose father had punished him and brought him to apologize.
• Yi Qing asked what had happened to the man who pursued Yetis, then asked Yetis and You Mi whether they liked Xuan Sheng, leaving both visibly flustered.

Yi Qing reassured Yetis that she could keep living with Li Xunsheng, while You Mi realized Hain had influenced Yi Qing’s views on sharing a lover. In the Abyss, Xuan Sheng and Bo Ye prepared to raid Reapus’s warehouse and destroy its supplies.

• Yetis struggled to explain her attachment to Li Xunsheng, and Yi Qing said she was willing to keep living with her.
• You Mi concluded that Hain had taught Yi Qing to accept Li Xunsheng having multiple companions, and Yi Qing said she would ask Xuan Sheng’s opinion.
• Xuan Sheng and Bo Ye reached Reapus’s warehouse after using the Eye of God to gather information about the forward base.
• Xuan Sheng explained that Reapus was hoarding energy resources and that the warehouse contained its latest batch of seeds.
• Xuan Sheng ordered Bo Ye to silently eliminate the guards, and they began their raid before their planned scapegoat arrived.

Xuan Sheng and Bo Ye raided a Reapusian warehouse, killed its guards, and took its supplies for the demons. Xuan Sheng left Webber to conceal the massacre and frame Jia City, then considered how to enter Reapus.

• Xuan Sheng killed the guards outside the warehouse while Bo Ye slaughtered those inside.
• Xuan Sheng unlocked the warehouse, took its building materials and seeds, and sent Bo Ye back to the demons with the storage ring.
• Webber entered the warehouse and discovered the massacre, and Xuan Sheng ordered him to frame Jia City for it.
• Xuan Sheng offered Webber a complete set of Lv. 40 Azure Legacy-tier Thief equipment for carrying out the cover-up, and Webber accepted.
• Xuan Sheng left the warehouse and wondered how he could get through the outpost and into Reapus.

Webber searched for a way to leave evidence behind after the warehouse bloodshed, while Xuan Sheng met Ao Xue at the outpost and persuaded her to take him to Reapus. He planned to create a breach that would let demons return to Heavenly Silence, and declared that he would lead them back himself.

• Webber found something in his backpack that he could use to leave evidence behind after the warehouse incident.
• Xuan Sheng considered using the outpost’s teleportation array to return to Heavenly Silence, but Ao Xue appeared and asked him to fulfill his oath to help Ironblood.
• Xuan Sheng questioned Ao Xue about the Spokesperson in Reapus and learned that the Spokespersons could not directly interfere or wield godlike power.
• Ao Xue agreed to take Xuan Sheng to Reapus after he refused to help Ironblood unless she brought him there.
• Xuan Sheng revealed that he intended to open a passage for demons to return to Heavenly Silence and said he would lead them back himself.

Xuan Sheng secured Ao Xue’s one-use teleportation insignia to reach Reapus and set plans in motion for the demons to return to Heavenly Silence. Meanwhile, Qian departed from the elves to find a site for a teleportation array, as the Xuan Tribe prepared to help Xuan Sheng.

• Ao Xue gave Xuan Sheng an insignia that would teleport him once to Reapus’s royal city, and he promised to help preserve Ironblood’s status.
• Ao Xue warned Xuan Sheng that someone dangerous was in Reapus’s royal city, then asked about the Yetis; Xuan Sheng kept their relationship secret and left the chaotic outpost with Bo Ye.
• At City of Qi’s harbor, the Elf Queen saw Qian off as he sailed to confirm a safe location for a teleportation array.
• Shan told Yi that Xuan God needed a teleportation array, but Nan stopped Yi from working while exhausted and sent him to rest.
• Er Hao rushed to report to her superior after the visitors left, while the Goddess of Beauty returned to her temple and planned to seek out the Supreme Main God.

As Qien and Sola prepared to attend Morning Wind’s festival, they were ambushed by black-robed Mist-Rain Death Warriors who identified them as members of Mist-Rain’s royal bloodline. The warriors demanded that the siblings accompany them, and Qien prepared to resist.

• Sola dressed in a formal gown for the festival, and Qien admired her appearance while reflecting on how Morning Wind’s people no longer treated them with the warmth they had hoped to find.
• Qien hurried ahead after becoming flustered, and Sola caught up and took his hand.
• Qien sensed powerful, unfamiliar auras and pulled Sola behind him as several black-robed figures surrounded the siblings and their maid.
• The Death Warriors revealed that a Spirit Array fragment had reacted to the siblings and claimed they carried Mist-Rain’s royal bloodline.
• The leader ordered Qien and Sola to come with them, but Qien mocked the demand, prompting the Death Warriors to threaten force.

Qien defeated a group of black-robed Death Warriors who had come to seize him, and ordered their leader kept alive for questioning. In the City of Qi, Er Hao passed her test to join the Xuan Tribe and asked to meet Leader Shan about Wuyu's formation.

• The Death Warriors tried to take Qien, but he fought back and overwhelmed them while protecting Sola and the little maid.
• The Death Warriors killed themselves with poison, leaving only their unconscious leader alive; Qien handed him to the Morning Wind guards to restrain and question.
• Qien told the alliance experts to let the festival continue, then agreed with Sola that they would report the attack to Leader Shan of the Xuan Tribe.
• Er Hao passed her test in the temple of City of Qi and was accepted as a member of the Xuan Tribe.
• Er Hao asked to meet Leader Shan because she had something important to say about Wuyu's formation.

Er Hao, a Mist Rain intelligence agent, told Shan that she had joined the Xuan Tribe to seek help restarting Mist Rain’s weakened maze formation. As Er Hao reconsidered Mist Rain’s legends, Shan realized that the formation’s founders might have come from multiple families.

• Er Hao told Shan that she came from Mist Rain and had joined the Xuan Tribe to find someone with its Royal Blood.
• Er Hao explained that Mist Rain’s maze formation could be restored by a descendant of its royal family, protecting the continent from outsiders.
• Shan questioned why Mist Rain barred outsiders and whether its legendary supreme treasure truly existed, leading Er Hao to doubt what her officials had taught her.
• Er Hao said Mist Rain had been founded by a family from the Land of Divine Favor that brought the treasure and built the formation.
• Er Hao noted that several Xuan Tribe members could activate the formation, and Shan wondered if the founders had belonged to multiple families before turning to Patriarch Xin.

Shan and Xin learned that Wuyu’s family might possess the fragment sought by the Xuan God, but Xin warned that Wuyu’s treasure could be capable of changing the world. Meanwhile, Vina and Qian arrived in the Land of Divine Favor, where Vina noticed Qian’s strength had grown dramatically during their voyage.

• Xin arrived at the divine temple, where Shan introduced him to Er Hao as the former chieftain of Soul Village.
• After reading letters from Sola and Qien, Shan learned that Wuyu had attacked members of the Xuan Tribe, and Er Hao offered to remain a prisoner while they investigated.
• Shan and Xin decided to investigate Wuyu and keep Er Hao in the divine temple for her safety.
• Xin suggested Wuyu’s founding family might have inherited the fragment the Xuan God wanted, prompting Shan to prepare to send people there.
• Xin warned Shan that Wuyu’s treasure might be capable of changing the world.
• Vina and Qian arrived in the Land of Divine Favor, and Vina noticed that Qian had grown far stronger during the journey.

Qian arrived in the Goddess of Beauty’s holy city as an envoy of the Supreme Main God, and Vina brought him to the temple. When the Goddess of Beauty could not meet him until later, Qian chose to explore the city alone, where Vina quietly warned him about the Evil Gods and their followers.

• Qian admired the beautiful city beneath the Land of Divine Favor’s clear sky as Vina explained that the Goddess of Beauty’s temple stood there.
• Vina escorted Qian into the temple, where the priests treated him with great respect because of his status as an envoy of a Supreme Main God.
• Vina learned that the Goddess of Beauty was temporarily entangled with another deity and would return to the temple that night.
• Qian welcomed the delay and decided to explore the city and its market alone before meeting the Goddess of Beauty.
• Vina gave Qian a note warning him to beware of the Evil Gods and their followers, and he left the temple alone.

Qian visited Goddess of Beauty’s city and tried to sell Soul Cleansing Wine to buy rare Spirit Flowers, but the God of Wine recognized the Soul Cleansing Water in it and offered him five million Spirit Jade for the bottle. The chapter left Qian worried that Leader Shan had been right to warn him and that his wine was not diluted enough.

• Goddess of Beauty escaped her former friends and headed toward her divine temple while trying to keep the Supreme Main God’s news secret.
• Qian explored the city’s market, found its many unusual Spirit Flowers, and realized he had no local currency to buy them.
• Qian decided to offer a sample of Soul Cleansing Wine for sale, despite Leader Shan’s warnings to keep Soul Cleansing Water secret.
• The God of Wine rushed over, took Qian’s bottle, and identified the Soul Cleansing Water in it.
• The God of Wine offered Qian five million Spirit Jade for the bottle, leaving him embarrassed and worried that the wine was too strong.

Qian arrived in the Land of Divine Favor and was surrounded by goddesses eager to buy the Soul Cleansing Wine he carried. He escaped before they could detain him, while the goddesses realized the Goddess of Beauty might have found a Spring of Soul Cleansing.

• The God of Wine pressed Qian to sell her the Soul Cleansing Wine, but he did not know what Spirit Jade was and feared drawing suspicion.
• The Dragon God and Hunt Goddess questioned Qian about his origins, and he explained that he had come from overseas and knew nothing about the evil gods or local currency.
• The God of Wine offered Qian Spirit Jade and access to her territory, but he used her surprise at his remark about carrying the payment to escape.
• The Dragon God stopped the goddesses from chasing Qian when guards approached in the Goddess of Beauty's city.
• The Hunt Goddess suspected the Goddess of Beauty had been excited because of Qian, and the other goddesses concluded she might have found a Spring of Soul Cleansing.

Qian returned to the temple as the Golden Dragon God, the God of Wine, and the Hunt Goddess arrived, so the Goddess of Beauty told him to remain hidden. In the Abyss, Xuan Sheng prepared to travel alone to Reapus after Sasum assured him the village could withstand the Demonic Qi Tide, but Wenwen rushed to ask to accompany him as his pet.

• Qian returned to the temple with the Soul Cleansing Wine and learned that three goddesses had arrived to visit the Goddess of Beauty.
• The Goddess of Beauty asked Qian to remain in seclusion so her visitors would not discover information about the Xuan Tribe, and he agreed.
• Xuan Sheng reached level 62 and worried about the Xuan Tribe while preparing to leave the Abyss for Reapus.
• Sasum explained that the approaching attack was a Demonic Qi Tide and assured Xuan Sheng that the purifier would let the village withstand it.
• Xuan Sheng decided to travel alone to Reapus, but Wenwen hurried over and begged him to take her as his pet and bring her along.