Chapter Summaries

Li Wei and the human forces prepared for the decisive battle as Eternal Night and Master Beiku led the Abyssal assault through the passage. The monster tide surged toward the Ninth Ring Dragon Tooth Bunker, and Li Wei opened her system panel as the fighting began.

• Zhong Li joined Li Wei at the Eighth Ring bunker and told her that the 52nd Army and her friends were underground.
• Li Wei received orders to advance ahead of the main force and protect the newly raised Ninth Ring Dragon Tooth Bunkers.
• Eternal Night entered the passage with Master Beiku and sixteen Ninth-Stage entities following.
• Yun Heng assigned the defenders to delay the enemy leaders and ordered Zhang Luye to guard the passage entrance.
• The Wall of Gray Mist surged, releasing a vast monster army, and Yun Heng and Boris ordered their forces to advance and defend the Ninth Ring.
• Li Wei faced the approaching monster tide and opened her system panel.

Yun Heng and the Martial Immortals entered the abyssal passage while Yao Yanzhou and Wei Chen hesitated over whether to obey Liu Songming’s order concerning Jiang Xue. Li Wei advanced her Great Yin Jade Lotus Treasure Scroll to Sixth Order, unleashing an aura that stunned both the defenders and the abyssal forces.

• Yun Heng found no high-order abyssal beings at the passage entrance and led the Martial Immortals into the darkness.
• Yao Yanzhou and Wei Chen debated whether to let high-order monsters through for Jiang Xue, then decided to wait and protect their families if events turned against them.
• Wei Chen sensed that Jiang Xue had reached Fourth Order, and Yao Yanzhou realized she had reached Fifth Order.
• Li Wei used Abyss Essence to advance her Great Yin Jade Lotus Treasure Scroll through its stages, refining her Qi and blood and awakening the lotus within her sea of consciousness.
• Li Wei reached Sixth Order and released a powerful aura that crushed nearby low-order monsters and forced Yao Yanzhou and Wei Chen upward.
• The abyssal powerhouses sensed that Li Wei’s energy exceeded Seventh Order intensity and wondered what she was.

As more than two hundred high-level Abyssal beings gathered over the gray mist, Li Wei finished advancing her techniques and rushed toward them. She left Yao Yanzhou and Wei Chen to guard the camp and wait for her return.

• Nearly one hundred and ninety Seventh Orders and nearly twenty Eighth Orders emerged from the gray mist, greatly outnumbering the human forces.
• Li Wei began condensing the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top, which would take twenty-four hours to complete.
• Li Wei mastered the three Middle Three Swords techniques and summoned her Spring Sword.
• Li Wei told Yao Yanzhou and Wei Chen to guard the camp, then flew toward the gathered Abyssal high-level beings.
• Yao Yanzhou instructed Wei Chen to follow Senior Jiang's orders and wait for Li Wei to return.

Eternal Night confronted the human Martial Immortals in the passage, while Yun Heng coordinated the scattered battles against Master Beiku’s forces. The fighting remained unresolved as four abyssal powerhouses closed in on Yun Heng.

• Eternal Night struck Boris and Li Guitang, knocking them back and injuring them, while Yun Heng warned Alesheni and Valena not to interfere.
• Yun Heng led the humans away from the central clash and used Telepathic Messages to coordinate their attacks as Master Beiku waited for Yun Heng’s son.
• Xiao Yilan attacked Ghost Mountain, forcing Ghost Lord to turn back and help; Eternal Night then sent Mu to fight Xiao Yilan, allowing the two opponents to gain the upper hand.
• Zeng Jianguo trapped three abyssal enemies inside an Eight Trigrams Taiji diagram, while Alesheni and Valena held off three foes apiece.
• Youhai, Nightmare, Blood Ancestor, and Blood Curse formed a killing formation around Yun Heng instead of heading for the passage exit.

Li Wei overwhelmed the abyss forces at the passage, while Yun Heng, Master Beiku, and others watched in shock. After the battle’s dramatic turn, Liu Songming realized he had made a serious mistake.

• Master Beiku offered Yun Heng a chance to retreat, but Yun Heng refused and said he believed in human will.
• Li Wei wounded Boris, then used the Lotus Sword to freeze and destroy several abyss fighters with powerful attacks.
• Li Wei’s sweeping sword strikes battered the abyss Eighth Orders and killed many Seventh Orders, forcing the survivors to consider retreat.
• The abyss forces regrouped and launched a combined assault, but Li Wei emerged unharmed and aimed her sword at their peak Eighth-Order leader.
• Wei Chen and Yao Yanzhou discussed moving away after the battle, while Liu Songming realized he had gotten himself into serious trouble.

Yun Sheng arrived on the battlefield and challenged Master Beiku, briefly halting the battle. As Eternal Night ordered four Abyssal powerhouses to kill Yun Heng, Yun Heng revealed a wooden sword that made the charging Youhai freeze.

• After sensing Xiao Yilan slaughtering their juniors outside, the Abyssal powerhouses abandoned their tactics and fought desperately, wounding Xiao Yilan, Arsheni, and Valena.
• Eternal Night struck back against Li Guitang and Boris, badly injuring both, then ordered Master Beiku to attack Yun Heng.
• Yun Sheng appeared with his sword intent fixed on Master Beiku and Eternal Night, prompting Yun Heng to drop his frightened act and taunt the Abyssal powerhouses around him.
• Eternal Night ordered Master Beiku to hold Yun Sheng back and sent Youhai, Night Fiend, Blood Curse, and Blood Ancestor to kill Yun Heng.
• Yun Sheng engaged Master Beiku while Yun Heng drew a wooden sword from his sleeve, causing Youhai to freeze mid-charge.

Yun Heng used a hidden Azure Dragon attack to kill Blood Ancestor and Blood Curse, triggering a chain of devastating explosions that claimed Valena and a Ghost Domain powerhouse. After surviving the blast, Yun Heng ordered the blue fish to kill Nightmarish Fiend.

• Yun Heng's wooden sword shattered into a blue fish that slipped through the void, while Yongye severely wounded Boris and resisted Li Guitang's spear.
• The blue fish transformed into an Azure Dragon and swallowed Blood Ancestor and Blood Curse, who self-destructed and caused a massive explosion.
• Valena sacrificed herself by charging into the fleeing enemies and detonating, and Alesheni later killed the badly wounded Ghost Domain powerhouse before Zeng Jianguo rescued him.
• Boris grieved for Valena and charged Yongye again, while Li Guitang warned him that Yongye was Above Ninth Order.
• Yun Heng emerged from the blue fish alive and ordered it to kill the badly injured Nightmarish Fiend.

Yun Sheng’s deception drew Evernight and the other experts into a chaotic battle, while Green Fish struck Youhai and escaped using a battered ancient banner. The survivors discovered Youhai had been Master Beiku’s true body, while Beiku had taken Youhai’s form and the white-clad “Yun Sheng” had disappeared.

• Evernight went berserk after Green Fish vanished, and Li Guitang and Boris risked their lives to delay her.
• Yun Heng pursued Night Terror with the Heaven Sword Art as Youhai fled toward Master Beiku.
• Evernight shielded Night Terror from Yun Heng’s sword torrent, while Green Fish reappeared behind Youhai and coiled around him as an Azure Dragon.
• Youhai exploded and trapped Green Fish in sticky space, but Green Fish used a battered ancient banner to cut a path through the void and escape.
• The explosion devastated the passage, and the experts discovered that Youhai had been Master Beiku’s true body.
• Master Beiku transformed into a beast resembling Youhai, while the white-clad “Yun Sheng” disappeared.

Master Beiku and Eternal Night resumed the battle after Yun Sheng escaped the trap, then sent the Great Dream’s surviving core toward Li Wei. The bubble possessed her near Target Point 1, leaving her unconscious as she fell from the sky.

• Yun Sheng regrouped with Yun Heng, Li Guitang, and Boris after escaping Master Beiku’s trap, and the fighters recovered while Eternal Night questioned Master Beiku.
• Master Beiku explained that Yun Sheng had used a faint Pangu Banner aura to escape, then proposed a new battle plan that sent the Nightmares to replace Mu against Xiao Yilan.
• Eternal Night and Master Beiku attacked Yun Sheng while Mu and Youhai engaged the exhausted Li Guitang, Boris, and Yun Heng; Yun Heng went to help the others after Yun Sheng told him to.
• Zeng Jianguo returned to the battlefield and trapped three Abyss fighters in his Eight Trigrams formation.
• Master Beiku released the Great Dream’s purple-black core and sent it toward the passage; Yun Heng warned Zhang Luye to make Li Wei run, but the bubble passed through Yun Sheng’s Sword Qi and entered Li Wei’s head.

After Li Wei’s intervention turned the battle outside in humanity’s favor, Yun Sheng confronted Eternal Night and Master Beiku inside the passage. He summoned three avatars and trapped them in a counterfeit Slay Immortal Sword Array, while Master Beiku called out to Zhang Heming for their next move.

• Zhang Luye returned to the passage to suppress its rampaging energy as the human high-rankers resumed fighting the Abyss forces outside.
• Yun Sheng observed Li Wei unconscious and the wounded human fighters, then faced Master Beiku and Eternal Night as they questioned him about the white-robed Yun Sheng.
• Yun Sheng summoned three avatars, and the four of them surrounded Eternal Night and Master Beiku with a counterfeit Slay Immortal Sword Array.
• Eternal Night and Master Beiku recognized the array as incomplete but joined their defenses to endure its attacks until Yun Sheng weakened.
• Master Beiku called out to Zhang Heming, claiming the Abyss forces still had another move.

Zhang Heming appeared as an Abyssal creature and reunited with his son Zhang Luye, manipulating the grieving Martial Immortal into approaching him. While Yun Heng fought to contain the spatial tremors, Zhang Luye continued toward his father, unaware of the menace behind his affectionate words.

• Master Beiku named Zhang Heming, and Yun Heng, Li Guitang, and Xiao Yilan recognized the long-missing Martial Immortal as Zhang Luye’s father.
• Zhang Heming emerged from the Abyss, and Zhang Luye tearfully recognized him as alive after thirty years.
• Zhang Heming coaxed Zhang Luye with affectionate words and stirred up his buried grievances against his fellow Martial Immortals.
• Zhang Luye dropped his saber and walked toward Zhang Heming as Yun Heng struggled to stop him and Li Guitang ordered Yun Heng to suppress the passage.
• Yun Heng stabilized the spatial tremors at the cost of coughing blood, while Zhang Luye kept approaching and Zhang Heming’s gentle expression turned cruel.

Zhang Heming revealed his Abyss-fueled power and overwhelmed Yun Heng while the defenders struggled across the battlefields. When their plea for a senior to intervene went unanswered, Zhang Luye broke through to peak Fifth Stage and charged to face his father, insisting they would rely on themselves.

• Yun Sheng used the damaged Jade Ruyi Scepter to snap Zhang Luye out of his strange attachment to Zhang Heming.
• Master Beiku ordered Zhang Heming to destroy the Dragon Tooth Bunkers, and Zhang Heming revealed Sixth Stage strength by shattering Yun Heng’s sword attack.
• Zhang Heming urged Zhang Luye to join the Abyss, but Zhang Luye rejected the betrayal and continued suppressing the passage as Yun Heng fought him.
• The other defenders suffered mounting injuries, and Yun Heng called in vain for a senior to intervene.
• Zhang Luye surged to peak Fifth Stage in scarlet flames, knocked Zhang Heming out of the passage, and set out to fight him himself.

The Martial Ancestor spoke with Black in the depths of the abyss and collected a golden orb before leaving. Black then sensed a great calamity and fled deeper into the abyss.

• Black asked whether the Martial Ancestor planned to act, and the Martial Ancestor refused.
• Black mocked the Martial Ancestor and guessed at his identity, then said he thought he had figured out who Heaven was.
• Black identified part of Heaven as the old god, but the Martial Ancestor stayed silent.
• Black sensed changes in the Martial Ancestor and offered to void their wager if he killed Evernight and Master Beiku.
• The Martial Ancestor asked Black to hand over a golden orb, took it, and vanished after warning Black not to meddle.
• Black sensed a great calamity, then the darkness enveloped the golden radiance and fled deeper into the abyss.

Li Wei remained unconscious and impossible to move as soldiers and martial artists struggled to defend her position at Target Point 1. With the battle worsening across the front, Liu Songming refused Zhou Dingguo’s request for reinforcements and ordered him to hold the line.

• Three Mountain Demon—Modified mecha and the Dragon Tooth Bunkers defended Li Wei while soldiers tried to build temporary fortifications under relentless monster attacks.
• Zhong Li and the Sixth Order colonel failed to move Li Wei because she seemed incorporeal, so Qin Lan and Zheng Ye stayed beside her while the others returned to carry ammunition.
• Zhong Li joined the defenders, and soldiers filled the gaps left by fallen comrades to protect Li Wei with their lives.
• Yao Yanzhou and Wei Chen fought two wounded Eighth Order Abyssal creatures while Yao’s earlier attack drove off a Seventh Order enemy.
• A staff officer reported that Zhou Dingguo needed reinforcements at Target Point 1, but Liu Songming refused and ordered him to hold the line, threatening to shoot him if anything happened to Li Wei.

As Point 1 came close to falling, Zhou Dingguo joined the desperate defense while soldiers across the front fought and suffered heavy losses. When Hua Nation’s command tried to block reinforcements, Lebedev rallied his forces to rescue the fallen “little angel” at Point 1.

• Zhou Dingguo learned that no troops could be spared, then led his headquarters guard platoon from the bunker elevator into the battle.
• Zhou Dingguo and the Chief of Staff reloaded Zhong Li’s autocannon, and Zhong Li resumed firing despite his wounds and the deaths of his men.
• Zheng Ye shielded Qin Lan and an unconscious martial artist from a Sixth-Tier Abyssal Monster’s attack, but the blast engulfed their position.
• Liu Juncheng seized the 9th Army Group command post and threatened Hu Rucai, then learned that the 335th Regiment had disobeyed orders and headed for Point 1.
• Lebedev found a tiny white flower in the trench soil and ordered his soldiers, knights, and mechs to move out and rescue their angel at Point 1.

Zheng Ye and Qin Lan fought to hold the damaged defensive line against the Sea Urchins until silver-armored knights arrived and secured it. As medics treated the wounded, Zhang Luye emerged from the Abyss passage and launched a furious, seemingly suicidal assault on Zhang Heming high above Blue Star.

• Zheng Ye found the tri-box mechs wrecked and the defensive line failing as Sea Urchins broke through the barrage.
• Zheng Ye and Qin Lan fought the monsters, but Qin Lan was impaled by spikes and Zheng Ye was overwhelmed by the swarm.
• Silver-armored knights descended, blocked the attacks, and countercharged the monster tide.
• Zheng Ye awoke among the wounded and learned the defensive line was secure and Li Wei was unharmed.
• Zhang Luye burst from the Abyss passage and collided with Zhang Heming, unleashing a shockwave across Blue Star.
• Zhang Luye repeatedly clashed with Zhang Heming and drove him higher into the sky as their attacks devastated the surrounding area.

Zhang Luye fought Zhang Heming to protect Li Wei, but his strength and life were nearly spent. As he fell, Gu Litong and Jiang Xinyue both set out toward the northwest, and Jiang Xinyue broke through to a new realm.

• Zhang Heming overpowered Zhang Luye and tried to persuade him to submit to the abyss, but Zhang Luye continued fighting for what he believed was right.
• The battlefield’s shock waves forced both armies into underground fortifications, leaving Li Wei alone on the scorched earth, still suspended above the collapsed ground.
• Zhang Heming turned his killing intent toward Li Wei, and Zhang Luye used his final strength to shield her before Zhang Heming’s blow sent him crashing to the ground.
• Gu Litong told Gu Shiheng that the family would be in his hands, then transformed into golden flames and flew northwest.
• Jiang Xinyue watched Gu Litong’s light head west, then broke through an invisible barrier as an eight-petaled Red Lotus bloomed above her.

Gu Litong and Zhang Heming fought while Zhang Heming revealed his hatred of the Gu Family and admitted he had manipulated Zhang Luye through their bloodline connection. Jiang Xinyue used her heart’s blood to reinforce the Four Seasons Sword Array against Zhang Heming, and a mysterious sacred light appeared as he prepared to attack again.

• Gu Litong attacked Zhang Heming, failed to grasp Li Wei, and asked what had happened between their families thirty years earlier.
• Zhang Heming claimed Gu Xunzhang had caused his wounds and confessed that he had used dreams to turn Zhang Luye against the Gu Family.
• Zhang Heming defeated Gu Litong, and Zhang Luye used his last strength to catch Gu Litong as he fell.
• Jiang Xinyue arrived and used the Four Seasons Sword Array to shield Li Wei, Gu Litong, Zhang Luye, and the soldiers guarding the Resonance Device.
• Zhang Heming revealed that the person they were protecting might be a Human Puppet, then battered the sword array until Jiang Xinyue sacrificed her heart’s blood to restore it.
• As Zhang Heming prepared to destroy the array and Dragon Tooth Bunker, a deep hum and sacred light suddenly appeared.

Li Wei killed Great Dream Bodhisattva in the dreamscape, but the dream collapsed and left her trapped in darkness. She completed the Great Dream and Fulfillment authorities and used Fulfillment to try to awaken as a ninth-order being while her grandparents fought outside.

• Li Wei recognized Great Dream Bodhisattva, killed it, and gained incomplete Great Dream and Fulfillment authorities.
• The dreamscape shattered, and Li Wei lost her body and senses as darkness swallowed her.
• Li Wei spent Abyss Essence to complete both authorities, regaining the ability to think and hearing signs of a battle outside.
• Li Wei found that Great Dream's escape abilities required a ninth-order being, while Fulfillment could make something she had imagined or possessed real for a limited time.
• Hearing Grandpa Gu cry out for Sister Yue, Li Wei invoked Fulfillment and unleashed white light against the darkness.

A miraculous sea of white lotuses spread from Xifeng Pass, healing the wounded and reviving the dead as spring returned across the Western Territory. Li Wei awoke in a phoenix robe and crushed the fleeing Zhang Heming with a giant hand.

• Zheng Ye learned that Zhong Li and Qin Lan had been declared dead, and he tried to crawl back to them instead of evacuating.
• White lotus flowers bloomed through the Dragon Tooth Bunker tunnel, regrowing Zheng Ye’s arm and reviving Zhong Li, Qin Lan, and other casualties.
• The white light healed Jiang Xinyue, Gu Litong, Zhang Luye, Yao, and Wei, while purifying the land across Xifeng Pass and beyond.
• Li Wei rose into the air in a phoenix robe and summoned a colossal hand that froze Zhang Heming as he fled.
• Li Wei’s giant hand clenched around Zhang Heming, killing him and producing Abyss Essence +6.3e.