Chapter Summaries

Zhang Guangmu used a Jiang Bloodline Pill and radiation sources to summon Zhou Yu as his second Ancestor Spirit. Zhou Yu demonstrated his teleportation ability, leaving Zhang Guangmu considering its strategic uses and teasing him about his expected fire powers.

• Zhang Jiao gave Zhang Guangmu experimental files showing that Radiation Summon had succeeded once, despite shortening the test subject’s lifespan by ten years.
• Zhang Guangmu swallowed the Jiang Bloodline Pill and underwent the Radiation Summon ritual, causing the ritual materials and radiation sources to break apart as a powerful presence appeared.
• Zhou Yu introduced himself as Zhang Guangmu’s second Ancestor Spirit and revealed his divine ability, Horizons End, Proximity’s Start, which linked two people and let them teleport to each other under specific conditions.
• Zhang Guangmu ordered Zhang Jiao to test the ability, and Zhang Jiao returned to the villa by teleportation.
• Zhang Guangmu considered the ability’s logistical and infiltration uses, then complimented Zhou Yu and remarked that he had expected him to awaken a fire-controlling power.

Zhang Guangmu learned that Ancestor Spirit Zhou Yu’s obsession centered on the nonexistent Zhuge Liang, and Zhou Yu evolved after recognizing his summoner. Zhou Yu’s ability to connect people through sympathetic resonance lines lost its limit, leaving Zhang Guangmu determined to attack Long Xiaofan at once.

• Zhou Yu explained that his red lines came from Horizons' End, Proximity's Start rather than flame control, and Zhang Guangmu asked whether the ability had a limit.
• Zhou Yu asked whether history recorded Zhuge Liang, and Zhang Guangmu explained that Zhuge Liang did not exist in the underworld and that Zhou Yu’s obsession came from the saying, “Since Yu was born, why was Liang born as well?”
• Zhou Yu’s obsession was fulfilled, and his sincere recognition of Zhang Guangmu triggered his evolution; Zhang Guangmu recognized the intelligent actor playing Zhou Yu as White Moon.
• Zhou Yu said that after evolving, his sympathetic resonance lines could connect unlimited numbers of people, provided he had enough underworld energy.
• Zhang Guangmu decided to use Zhou Yu’s strengthened ability to strike Long Xiaofan before he could develop further.

Zhang Guangmu declared his intention to unify the Netherworld and ordered the Xuanxian Group to target Long Xiaofan. As his faction grew stronger and its propaganda weakened Long Xiaofan’s standing, the Sleeping Lion King finally prepared to act.

• Zhang Guangmu won Zhang Jiao and Zhou Yu’s support for his goal of unifying the Netherworld, then ordered the Xuanxian Group to eliminate Long Xiaofan.
• The Little White Balls praised Zhang Guangmu’s villainous ambition and anticipated a clash with Long Xiaofan.
• Luo Zhuan and Shaliya reported that the Xuanxian Group had absorbed Chonghuang District, doubled its strength, and recruited many unaffiliated summoners.
• Luo Zhuan explained that ancestor spirits needed fame to grow stronger and that summoners could not rely on hiding to stay safe.
• Xuanxian Group propaganda spread jokes that mocked Long Xiaofan’s rule over Dongye District, prompting him to abandon his passivity and launch a counterattack.

Long Xiaofan used Dongye District’s military strength to seize Ryukyu from the Xuanxian Group, prompting Zhang Guangmu’s faction to recognize him as their greatest enemy. As Shaliya proposed kidnapping Long Xiaofan’s family, Zhang Guangmu sensed someone hiding nearby and revealed Long Xiaofan himself.

• Long Xiaofan formed a special combat squad and led an assault that secured Ryukyu and killed three ancestral spirits allied with the Xuanxian Group.
• Shaliya reported that Lu Bu, Xiang Yu, and Bai Qi had overwhelmed her forces, and she vowed to retake Ryukyu.
• Zhang Guangmu corrected Shaliya, insisting that Okinawa was Ryukyu and that the Xuanxian Group should restore the land.
• Shaliya suggested kidnapping Long Xiaofan’s family and friends to blackmail him, but Zhang Guangmu rejected the plan.
• Zhang Guangmu ordered the person hiding in the room to come out, revealing Long Xiaofan.

Long Xiaofan confronted Zhang Guangmu and the Xuanxian Group, claiming that Yama’s Eyes let him see the future while hiding the true source of his power. The standoff ended with Zhang Guangmu hinting that he had spotted Long Xiaofan’s secret contact lenses.

• Luo Zhuan shielded Zhang Guangmu, while Shaliya summoned Hannibal Barca and prepared to attack Long Xiaofan until Zhang Guangmu told her to stop.
• Long Xiaofan declared that he had not come to assassinate Zhang Guangmu, and Zhou Yu, Zhang Jiao, and the Xuanxian Group’s ancestral spirits arrived through Zhou Yu’s spatial network.
• Long Xiaofan claimed his Yama’s Eyes revealed the future and summoned Bai Qi, Xiang Yu, and Lu Bu, while privately concealing that King Yama’s Contact Lenses were the real source of his ability.
• Long Xiaofan explained his reasons for targeting Zhang Guangmu, including rivalry over the Netherworld Throne and revenge for the Xuanxian Group’s ancestral spirits killed in Okinawa.
• Lu Bu nearly attacked Zhang Guangmu but held back after recognizing Zhang Jiao’s threat, while Zhang Guangmu calmly challenged Long Xiaofan’s claim about Yama’s Eyes.
• Zhang Guangmu pointed out the marks around Long Xiaofan’s pupils and asked whether he was wearing contact lenses.

Zhang Guangmu deduced that Long Xiaofan’s Yama’s Eyes were a cover for the power granted by his contact lenses, and pressured him into admitting the Nether Energy Resurgence had a different mastermind. Long Xiaofan revealed that his own story about causing the Netherworld’s descent was a lie and offered the truth to seek a temporary alliance with Zhang Guangmu.

• Zhang Guangmu questioned Long Xiaofan’s contact lenses and argued that the supposed Yama’s Eyes were a smokescreen for abilities beyond ordinary people.
• Long Xiaofan recoiled when Zhang Guangmu pretended to reach for his lenses, losing his confident bearing.
• Zhang Guangmu accused Long Xiaofan of relying on external objects and threatened to remove his eyes if his deduction was wrong.
• Zhang Guangmu asked whether Long Xiaofan had invented the Nether Energy Resurgence three years earlier.
• Long Xiaofan admitted he had fabricated the story to obtain research funding and revealed that someone else had caused the Nether Energy Resurgence and isolated Yingzhou from Earth and other countries.

Long Xiaofan studied Zhang Guangmu’s altered fate and proposed they join forces against the Mastermind behind Nether Energy Resurgence. Before Zhang Guangmu could answer, a mysterious black gate swallowed them both and vanished, leaving Luo Zhuan badly injured.

• Long Xiaofan saw that Zhang Guangmu’s fate had changed after the God Seat and Chonghuang Battle, strengthening his suspicion that a Mastermind controlled Nether Energy Resurgence.
• Long Xiaofan explained that he had used King Yama’s Contact Lenses and his research into Nether Energy to summon and control Lu Bu, Xiang Yu, and Bai Qi.
• Long Xiaofan proposed that he and Zhang Guangmu join forces against the Mastermind, saying neither could defeat it alone.
• Zhang Guangmu stood and faced Long Xiaofan as the room’s tension mounted.
• A strange black gate appeared and swallowed Zhang Guangmu and Long Xiaofan.
• Luo Zhuan tried to pull Zhang Guangmu free, but the gate vanished and severed both his hands.

Zhang Guangmu and Long Xiaofan emerged in Yinsi Gorge, where Kinoshita Hanbei revealed himself as the mastermind behind several tragedies. As Kinoshita prepared to face them, Zhang Guangmu watched with curiosity and stayed silent.

• Zhang Guangmu and Long Xiaofan arrived in Yinsi Gorge, a strange land where ash flowed through a river filled with human-faced fish.
• Kinoshita Hanbei introduced himself as the King of the Underworld and claimed that Zhang Guangmu and Yang Chi had been drawn to Yingzhou by design.
• Director Takada Mokasai voiced her belief that Kinoshita would defeat Zhang Guangmu and Long Xiaofan, while Zhang Guangmu privately doubted Kinoshita's abilities.
• Long Xiaofan accused Kinoshita of causing Yang Chi's disfigurement and the deaths of Zhang Guangmu's parents, and Kinoshita confirmed it.
• Kinoshita said he had revealed all his cards because he enjoyed the satisfaction of displaying overwhelming power, then asked Zhang Guangmu what he was doing.

Kinoshita Hanbei revealed his plan to use Heart of Yama and summoned a formidable host of ancestral spirits to confront Zhang Guangmu and Long Xiaofan. Zhang Guangmu identified the spirits as counterfeits, and Long Xiaofan confirmed that his connection to the Three Divine Generals remained intact.

• Zhang Guangmu mocked Kinoshita Hanbei by talking about his late-night meal, while Long Xiaofan enjoyed watching Hanbei lose his temper.
• Kinoshita Hanbei declared himself King Yama’s true successor and explained that he had engineered a cruel contest to drain the noble blood of Submerged Dragons and replace his own bloodline.
• Kinoshita Hanbei tried to turn Long Xiaofan against Zhang Guangmu, but Long Xiaofan chose to ally with Zhang Guangmu against him.
• Kinoshita Hanbei summoned more than a hundred powerful ancestral spirits, including Honda Tadakatsu, Iizasa Chōisai, Mōri Motonari, and Tsukahara Bokuden.
• Zhang Guangmu told Long Xiaofan that the summoned spirits were counterfeits, and Long Xiaofan confirmed that his connection to the Three Divine Generals remained unbroken.

Long Xiaofan and Zhang Guangmu joined forces against Kinoshita Hanbei, who attacked them with an army of mindless ancestral-spirit puppets. Zhou Yu summoned all ninety-three thousand members of the Xuanxian Group to the Yellow Springs, leaving Zhang Guangmu surrounded by reinforcements as the battle escalated.

• Long Xiaofan summoned Lu Bu, Bai Qi, and Xiang Yu, who assessed their counterfeit counterparts and boasted about defeating them.
• Zhang Guangmu warned the Three Divine Generals that Kinoshita Hanbei would use overwhelming numbers, then summoned Zhou Yu and Zhang Jiao.
• Zhou Yu recognized Kinoshita Hanbei's ancestral spirits as mindless puppets, and Kinoshita declared his ambition to rule the netherworld and ordered his forces to attack.
• More than a hundred ancestral spirits charged Zhang Guangmu and Long Xiaofan, forcing them and their allies to fight together.
• Zhou Yu linked Zhang Guangmu with crimson light and summoned all ninety-three thousand official members of the Xuanxian Group, including Jiang Ling and Luo Zhuan.

Zhang Guangmu rallied the Xuanxian Group against Kinoshita Hanbei’s ancestral-spirit army and gained new weapons from Zhou Yu. Long Xiaofan then gave Zhang Guangmu historical ritual items to summon his third ancestral spirit as the battle continued.

• Zhang Guangmu’s reappearance restored the Xuanxian Group’s confidence, and more than ninety thousand members attacked Kinoshita Hanbei’s forces.
• Zhang Guangmu told Long Xiaofan that Kinoshita Hanbei’s spirits were weakened because he treated them as tools and never helped them evolve.
• Bai Qi killed Great Ancestor Song · Zhao Kuangyin with a single strike as Kinoshita Hanbei continued summoning more ancestral spirits.
• Zhou Yu presented Zhang Guangmu with Crimson Refined Armor and two Ghost Face Guns, explaining that he had developed them from his research.
• Zhang Guangmu put on the armor and took one Ghost Face Gun, while Long Xiaofan tested the other and then gave him historical ritual items to summon his third ancestral spirit.

Zhang Guangmu summoned Zhuge Kongming while Luo Zhuan's resolve helped Luo Cheng evolve and turn the battle around. Zhuge Kongming immediately began forging discarded weapons and equipment into something new.

• Luo Zhuan stood in front of Zhang Guangmu to shield him, but Zhang Guangmu pulled him behind his armor and told him to support the fight.
• Luo Cheng evolved, gaining a flame-steed and pale flood-dragon powers that restrained enemy ancestral spirits and helped the Xuanxian Group hold its ground.
• Zhang Guangmu recognized that Luo Zhuan's loyalty had fulfilled Luo Cheng's obsession and earned his recognition.
• Zhang Guangmu took Jiang Ling's pill and summoned his third ancestral spirit, Zhuge Kongming, who greeted him as his lord.
• Zhuge Kongming surveyed the battlefield and began smelting discarded weapons and equipment into a new form.

Zhuge Liang used Invention and Creation to forge a Ghost Face Saber for Zhang Guangmu, who killed two enemy Ancestor Spirits with his saber and gun. After Zhuge Liang upgraded his armor’s gauntlets into Netherflame Gauntlets, Uesugi Kenshin charged into the allied rear and challenged Zhang Guangmu.

• Zhuge Liang explained his Invention and Creation ability and forged the Ghost Face Saber using Zhang Guangmu’s Ghost Face Gun as a model.
• An unnamed Japanese Ancestor Spirit charged toward Zhang Guangmu, who cut him down with one slash and then shot another Ancestor Spirit guarding Kinoshita Hanbei.
• Zhang Guangmu asked Zhuge Liang to turn his armor’s gauntlets into boxing gloves, and Zhuge Liang upgraded them into Netherflame Gauntlets.
• Uesugi Kenshin charged into the rear of the Xuanxian Group and the Winterleaf Alliance on horseback and declared that he would take Zhang Guangmu’s head.

Zhang Guangmu crushed Uesugi Kenshin and rode his warhorse through the enemy ranks while Zhou Yu recruited reinforcements from the mortal world. Zhang Guangmu reached Kinoshita Hanbei as the newly teleported fighters raised the group’s morale.

• Zhang Guangmu deflected Uesugi Kenshin’s attack, dragged him from his warhorse, and crushed his head into the ground.
• Zhang Guangmu ordered Zhou Yu to recruit reserve members and bring stored nether energy and supplies to the Yellow Springs.
• Zhang Guangmu killed Uesugi Kenshin, subdued his warhorse, and rode toward the enemy forces.
• Zhou Yu returned to the mortal world with Luo Zhuan and Tang Lanshan, then arranged for armed newcomers to be teleported in.
• Zhang Guangmu charged through the enemy ranks alone and reached Kinoshita Hanbei.

Zhang Guangmu fought through the battlefield and charged at Kinoshita Hanbei, overwhelming him with a punch despite his guards and the Mysterious Yellow Light. Kinoshita Hanbei healed but broke down crying under Zhang Guangmu’s taunts as the battle continued around them.

• Zhang Guangmu fought through enemy lines with Zhang Jiao protecting him, while his Ghost Face Saber and Ghost Face Gun began to overheat and wear out.
• Zhang Guangmu dismounted near the Naihe Bridge and sprinted toward Kinoshita Hanbei, crashing through his guards and knocking him into the air with a punch.
• Kinoshita Hanbei’s Mysterious Yellow Light healed his shattered face and consumed the Ghost Fire, while Zhang Guangmu continued fighting off the ancestral spirits guarding him.
• Zhang Guangmu mocked Kinoshita Hanbei’s weakness and missing teeth, and Kinoshita Hanbei tried to curse him but could only repeat “Bastard!”
• Kinoshita Hanbei began bawling as pain and Zhang Guangmu’s contempt overwhelmed him.

Zhang Guangmu and his allies fought Kinoshita Hanbei’s counterfeit ancestor spirits, while Zhuge Liang supplied a Nether-energy sniper rifle and Long Xiaofan unleashed the unstable Lord of Dongye. The genuine construct was overwhelmed by a matching counterfeit and its damage hurt Long Xiaofan, leaving Zhang Guangmu to prepare a new attack.

• Zhang Guangmu taunted Kinoshita Hanbei, who ordered his forces to kill everyone who had witnessed his humiliation.
• Zhuge Liang modified an XM109 sniper rifle with Nether Energy Bullets, and its sniper used it to destroy an ancestor spirit by preventing its regeneration.
• Kinoshita Hanbei’s seemingly endless ancestor spirits pushed Zhang Guangmu’s side toward defeat despite Zhou Yu, Zhuge Liang, and Zhang Jiao providing support.
• Long Xiaofan summoned Lord of Dongye and merged with the giant ancestor spirit, which began crushing enemies across the battlefield.
• Kinoshita Hanbei summoned a nearly identical counterfeit Lord of Dongye, and his ancestor spirits battered the genuine construct, injuring Long Xiaofan through their shared damage.
• Zhang Guangmu recognized that Lord of Dongye was failing and spread scarlet-red and icy-blue light from beneath his feet.

Zhang Guangmu unveiled the secret art Tian Guang Furnace, destroyed Kinoshita Hanbei and his ancestral spirit army, and was then cut down by a mysterious sword beam. His upper body fell into the Yellow Springs, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Kinoshita Hanbei ordered his ancestral spirits to attack Zhang Guangmu, but Zhang removed his armor and charged into their ranks with overwhelming strength.
• Zhang Guangmu revealed Tian Guang Furnace, a secret art that surpassed the limits imposed on humans by Nether energy, and annihilated the ancestral spirits with a dragon-shaped blast.
• Kinoshita Hanbei recognized Zhang Guangmu as the ancestral spirit Xuanxian and begged for mercy, but Zhang punched through his heart and killed him.
• The ancestral spirit army turned to ash after Kinoshita Hanbei died, and a gray sword beam struck Zhang Guangmu from behind.
• The sword beam cleaved Zhang Guangmu from collarbone to groin, sending his upper body into the Yellow Springs.

Long Xiaofan betrayed Zhang Guangmu in his Chimei Body, but Zhang Guangmu survived by rebuilding himself in the Yellow Springs with King Yama’s Heart. Zhang Guangmu crushed Long Xiaofan and faced the approaching ancestral spirits as Lu Bu hesitated.

• Long Xiaofan revealed that Lord of Dongye had been a decoy and transformed into the full-power Chimei Body after Zhang Guangmu killed Kinoshita Hanbei.
• Long Xiaofan struck Zhang Guangmu from behind, severing his upper body, but discovered that Kinoshita Hanbei’s King Yama’s Heart had vanished.
• Zhang Guangmu emerged from the Yellow Springs with a reconstructed body and King Yama’s Heart in his chest, explaining his half-human, half-spirit state.
• Zhang Guangmu seized Long Xiaofan with a giant hand of black smoke and crushed him to death.
• Bai Qi and Xiang Yu rushed toward Zhang Guangmu, while Lu Bu stopped and hesitated to approach.

Zhang Guangmu defeated and sealed Bai Qi, Xiang Yu, and Lu Bu, then returned from the Yellow Springs and sensed a new threat of death. Yang Chi threatened to destroy Yingzhou with ninety-nine nuclear bombs, but Zhang Guangmu laughed and thanked him.

• Lu Bu decided not to fight Zhang Guangmu, while Bai Qi and Xiang Yu charged in and were captured by enormous black hands.
• Zhang Guangmu sealed Bai Qi, Xiang Yu, and Lu Bu in nether jade, turned them into palm-sized figurines, and took them back to the Xuanxian Group's headquarters.
• Zhang Guangmu sensed an inescapable aura of death and realized the Director had not yet ended the movie.
• Yang Chi called Zhang Guangmu and threatened to kill Yingzhou's seventy million residents with ninety-nine nuclear bombs within a minute.
• Zhang Guangmu used King Yama's Heart to see the missiles and laughed as he thanked Yang Chi.

Zhang Guangmu refused to stop Ying Zheng’s nuclear strike on Netherworld Yingzhou, declaring that he would save only his loyal believers. As the ninety-nine bombs detonated and devastated the island, he claimed he could control radiation and prepared to face the blasts.

• Zhang Guangmu crushed King Yama's Contact Lenses and told Yang Chi that he had no intention of saving everyone in Yingzhou.
• Ancestor Spirit Ying Zheng revealed his reasons for launching the nuclear attack: to test the weapons and secure Great Qin’s monopoly over supernatural power and nether energy.
• The call ended as all ninety-nine nuclear bombs detonated, and Zhang Guangmu ordered the Xuanxian Group to abandon its air defenses.
• Zhang Jiao raised a barrier to protect Zhang Guangmu and those nearby, while Luo Zhuan reported that the group’s shelters would not withstand the blasts for long.
• Zhang Guangmu claimed he had become an immortal, indestructible life-form and reached through the barrier, declaring that no one understood radiation better than him.