Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yang killed a Five-Element Stone Demon, exchanged its valuable loot for 600,000 First-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills, and returned safely to his Royal City. He assigned Zhang Liang and Wu Ya to lead the realm’s development before turning his attention toward the Immortal Cultivation Village Building Order.

• Zhang Yang learned that the Five-Element Stone Demon Heart could be exchanged for 500,000 First-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills, then traded it and the other valuable loot for a total of 600,000 pills.
• A male and a female member of the Five-Element Monster Race failed to retrieve the stone demon’s soul and vowed to remember the grudge against the force behind its killer.
• Zhang Yang returned to his Level 6 Royal City, where the population and settlements had grown while the Devil Race fought the Monster Race in Zhongdu Commandery.
• Zhang Yang assigned Zhang Liang responsibility for internal affairs and Wu Ya responsibility for external affairs and military expansion, with Zhao Zhou assisting Zhang Liang.
• Zhang Yang declared that he would pass on the throne in ten years and told Zhang Liang and Wu Ya to cooperate as potential successors.

Zhang Yang used a huge stockpile of First-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills to rapidly advance his Soul and Heart Meridian Sword Cores, but hit bottlenecks and discovered the Gold Meridian Sword Core consumed his lifespan. He ended with white hair, only 145 years of life remaining, and no easy way to advance the other meridians.

• Zhang Yang consumed one hundred thousand First-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills and used the resulting Natal Spiritual Qi to raise his Soul Meridian Sword Core to the fourth layer, gaining eighty-one Formless Soul Swords before hitting a bottleneck.
• Zhang Yang spent five more months consuming pills and advanced his Heart Meridian Sword Core to the fourth layer, gaining eighty-one Formless Heart Swords.
• Zhang Yang tried to advance the Intent Meridian Sword Core and other meridians with Natal Spiritual Qi, but found that the qi produced no effect in them.
• Zhang Yang activated the first layer of the Gold Meridian Sword Core, which forged a golden sword by consuming three-fifths of his blood and qi and reducing his lifespan to 145 years.
• Zhang Yang realized the Gold Meridian Sword Core could not be safely improved without proper cultivation and sword intent, then wondered what to do with his remaining Foundation Establishment Pills.

After returning from a nine-year journey to cultivate the sword, Zhang Yang found that his kingdom had flourished and the world’s struggle for supremacy had been won. He chose Wu Ya as his heir and agreed to use his Civilization Guardian identity to help Earth Civilization, preparing to enter the Third Sequence alone.

• After emerging from seclusion, Zhang Yang activated the level-six royal city’s traits, including Dragon Vein City Protection, and raised the civilization’s durability to 420/1000.
• Zhang Yang spent nine years traveling the world and cultivating the sword without drawing his wooden sword, then returned ten years after making his agreement with Zhang Liang, Wu Ya, Zhao Zhou, and the others.
• Liu Kai told Zhang Yang that Wu Ya had defeated Devil Race forces, helped relocate one million people from Wuwei Commandery, and secured victory in the struggle for supremacy.
• Liu Kai and Earth’s representatives urged Zhang Yang to choose an heir and use his Civilization Guardian identity to repair Earth Civilization; they explained that Zhang Liang, Wu Ya, and Zhao Zhou each had supporters.
• Zhang Yang chose Wu Ya as heir and chose Earth Civilization, while Zhang Liang agreed to serve as chancellor and Wu Ya promised to protect Zhang Liang and his descendants.
• The Human Hidden Dragons accepted Zhang Yang’s decision and warned that he would enter the Third Sequence alone, unable to take any part of his established foundation with him.

Zhang Yang gave up the throne awaiting him, returned to Earth, and received a three-year qualification to activate an Immortal Cultivation Village Building Task. Before he could settle into ordinary life, Tang Kun recruited him for an Abyssal Village Building Quest, and Zhang Yang agreed to join as a mercenary.

• Zhang Yang chose to unbind his core Village Building Order and give up 150 years of rule, then selected a return to Earth.
• The cutscene showed Wu Ya founding the Wu Dynasty, unifying the universe, and later incorporating the civilization into the Earth Civilization system.
• Zhang Yang returned to Earth, rode a bus home, and hesitated to reunite with his family because he feared becoming detached from them.
• Tang Kun approached Zhang Yang, explained the Abyssal Village Building Quest, and offered him a mercenary position or an equal share as a core teammate.
• Zhang Yang chose the mercenary position, and Tang Kun gave him three days to handle his affairs before contacting him through the War Insignia.

Zhang Yang joined Tang Kun’s team for a dangerous Abyssal Village Building mission and traveled with him to a Second Sequence Ruined Zone to meet their teammates. There, Tang Kun explained the Ghost Race threat and warned Zhang Yang about the costs of failing an Immortal Cultivation Village Building Task.

• Zhang Yang checked on his parents’ improved fortunes, then met Tang Kun and agreed to temporarily bind to Tang Kun’s Abyssal Village Building Order as a hired teammate.
• Zhang Yang reviewed the mission to establish a base in a Devil-invaded world and hold out against demon corpses for at least a month.
• Tang Kun explained the Sky Dome Human Race’s strength and had Zhang Yang and himself leave behind their civilization’s belongings for inspection before traveling.
• Zhang Yang and Tang Kun arrived in a frozen Ruined Zone, where Tang Kun described how the Ghost Race had destroyed the Monster Race civilization.
• Tang Kun warned Zhang Yang that cultivation worlds’ resources belonged to powerful locals and said he had to attempt another Immortal Cultivation Village Building Task or risk having part of his civilization’s code deciphered.

Tang Kun’s team introduced their abilities and tested Zhang Yang’s Formless Heart Sword before activating the Abyssal Village Building mission. Instead of arriving directly in the Abyss, the five found themselves aboard a Sky Dome Human Race warship in the midst of a large-scale invasion fleet.

• Tang Kun, Old Wang, and Li Weisi described their cultivation paths and combat roles, while Zhang Yang explained his soul-protecting Soul Sword and Formless Heart Sword abilities.
• Li Weisi tested Zhang Yang with a Three-Element Illusion Array, and Zhang Yang destroyed three of its formation flags with eighty-one Formless Heart Swords.
• Qiong Kou revealed her spirit-cultivation abilities, including fortune-telling, soul healing, protection, and long-distance team communication.
• Tang Kun bound the five teammates together with their Abyssal Rings, and all five confirmed the Abyssal Village Building mission.
• The team appeared aboard a large white warship among other Sky Dome Human Race forces, as white and black ships gathered for the invasion of the Abyssal Demon Tribe.

Zhang Yang led the group through the devil qi surrounding a Devil Race-controlled world as they descended toward its surface. After Li Weisi was injured and lost his flying sword, Zhang Yang used his heart sword to clear the more dangerous devil clouds and carry the invasion forward.

• Qiong Kou protected the descending group with bubbles as Tang Kun explained that they were invading a world controlled by the Devil Race.
• Zhang Yang cut a wide safe passage through low-grade devil qi with his Formless Heart Swords while the others prepared levitation spells.
• Li Weisi sent Zhang Yang his flying sword to help him slow his fall, but the sword was consumed by denser devil clouds and Li Weisi was injured.
• Old Wang took control of the levitation spells while Li Weisi rested, leaving Zhang Yang to handle the dangerous descent.
• Zhang Yang gathered his eighty-one Formless Heart Swords and swept aside the ribbon-like devil clouds as the group continued toward the planet.

Zhang Yang and the others descended into the Demon Race’s polluted world and established a fortified base around a Demon Cloud Monitoring Tree. The tree drew the attack of a true demon, and Li Weisi’s barrier bought the team fifteen minutes to kill it.

• Tang Kun explained that the demonic cloud polluted the world and the team received an optional quest to hold a base long enough for the Demon Cloud Monitoring Seed to complete its monitoring cycle.
• Tang Kun and Li Weisi cleared nearby demons as the team landed, then Tang Kun placed the Abyssal Village Building Order to purify the ground and Li Weisi and Old Wang built the fortress.
• Tang Kun planted the Demon Cloud Monitoring Seed, which grew into a towering tree and provoked demons to attack.
• A true demon sent fire dragons against the tree, and Li Weisi used a blood-written spell to shield it with a barrier.
• Tang Kun urged the team to kill the true demon within a quarter of an hour, while Zhang Yang recognized its speech as a higher-level demonic language.

Tang Kun defeated a Power-Blaze True Demon, then assigned Zhang Yang, Old Wang, and Qiong Kou missions to protect and support the new base. Zhang Yang began deciphering Demonic Speech and reflected on the danger he had entered to awaken his Intent Meridian Sword Core.

• Tang Kun killed the True Demon with 108 golden-lit punches after it attacked the great tree.
• Tang Kun assigned Qiong Kou to infiltrate a survivor camp, Old Wang to clear Demonic Humanoid infected, and Zhang Yang to gather nutrients for the tree.
• Tang Kun explained True Demons, legendary-level assessments, and how human cultivators could decipher Demonic Speech.
• After the others left, Tang Kun told Li Weisi he planned to Establish Demonic Heart and hoped to draw out a Blood Demon, with Zhang Yang's Heart Sword helping suppress it.
• Zhang Yang tested the Demonic Speech for Blaze and managed to produce several sparks.
• Zhang Yang reflected that he had traveled for nine years to awaken his Intent Meridian Sword Core, but still needed to face the fear of life and death.

Zhang Yang killed a Legendary Level Two Shadow True Demon after it tried to possess him, then used its spoils and Golden Fragments of Hope to master Shadow Demon Language and restore his Touch of Shadow. He left with a new ability to transform into mist and teleport short distances.

• Zhang Yang collected demonized materials while Old Wang followed him, but a Shadow True Demon ambushed them and controlled Old Wang.
• Zhang Yang freed Old Wang with his Formless Heart Sword, and Old Wang fled while warning him that the enemy was a Shadow True Demon.
• Zhang Yang resisted the demon's attacks and killed it with the golden sword in his Gold Meridian Sword Core before Tang Kun arrived.
• Zhang Yang claimed the demon's spoils under his employment agreement and used Golden Fragments of Hope to decipher its language and fuse its demon soul.
• Zhang Yang spoke Shadow Demon Language, turned into gray mist, and reappeared five hundred meters away using Touch of Shadow.

Zhang Yang created Shadow Followers while continuing to hunt demons with Old Wang for Tang Kun’s operation. When Qiong Kou returned with an injured stranger who had saved her, Tang Kun demanded she submit him to scrutiny, and she left with the man instead.

• Old Wang warned Zhang Yang that Tang Kun had another purpose and told him he could activate the Immortal Cultivation Village Building Task if danger arose; he also said the cornered enemy could be negotiated with for the right price.
• Zhang Yang bound the fragmentary Immortal Cultivation Village Building Order and created twenty-one Shadow Followers, ordering them to hide and report what they saw and heard.
• Zhang Yang and Old Wang hunted demons for Tang Kun, and they later watched Old Wang defeat a Level 2 Legendary Ice Demon without gaining any of its spoils.
• After seven days, Qiong Kou returned from the native survivor base with a wounded stranger, saying he had saved her from a True Demon.
• Tang Kun tried to make Qiong Kou let Zhang Yang inspect the stranger through her Spirit Sea, but Qiong Kou refused, quit the team, and left with the unconscious man.

Zhang Yang recognized the badly injured Qin Ge and vouched for him, but Qin Ge warned that a powerful Nightmare Demon was approaching. Qin Ge then asked Zhang Yang to save Qin Mingyue and revealed his connection to the Golden Scales before vanishing.

• Zhang Yang defended Qiong Kou and identified the rescued stranger as Qin Ge, so Li Weisi took them to the Seven-Star Demon Trapping Array for isolation.
• Qiong Kou explained that Qin Ge had rescued him from a survivor camp and fought off a pursuing true devil, and Qin Ge woke when Zhang Yang tried to examine him.
• Qin Ge warned that an Epic Grade 2 Nightmare Demon was nearing their world, then prepared to leave with a glowing Martial Arts Village Building Order.
• Qin Ge asked Zhang Yang to bind a complete Apocalyptic Village Building Order and save Qin Mingyue, and Zhang Yang agreed to repay his old favor.
• Li Weisi and Tang Kun spoke privately with Qin Ge, then abandoned the base, while Qin Ge revealed he served the Golden Scales as a member of the Fourth Sequence and vanished.

Zhang Yang bound the Apocalyptic Village Building Order and traveled three hundred years into the past, where he had to find Qin Mingyue and survive the first Devil Race attack. After a black-smoke pattern caused people who looked at it to collapse, Zhang Yang learned Qin Mingyue was the guard uncle and set out to reach him.

• Old Wang and Qiong Kou explained the risks and rewards of the Apocalyptic Village Building Order, and Zhang Yang bound it to travel three hundred years into the past.
• Zhang Yang awoke in his high school classroom with his strength suppressed and received quests to find Qin Mingyue, survive the first attack, and establish a fortress base.
• Zhang Yang questioned his childhood friend Luo Ya about Qin Mingyue, but an unexpected explosion interrupted them.
• A pattern formed from black smoke caused people who looked at it to collapse, and Zhang Yang learned Qin Mingyue was the guard uncle.
• Zhang Yang warned Luo Ya to stay indoors and prepared to find Qin Mingyue as an emergency alert urged everyone to avoid looking at the sky.

Zhang Yang led the Fatty through the Devil Tongue’s lethal contamination to the school Guard Room, where they found Qin Mingyue and Old Zhang. With only minutes remaining before an unknown deadline, Zhang Yang prepared a weapon while Qin Mingyue began questioning what he knew.

• Zhang Yang blindfolded himself and the Fatty, blocked their ears, and guided them through the contaminated school grounds toward the Guard Room.
• Zhang Yang found Qin Mingyue inside and brought the Fatty in, though the Fatty nearly succumbed to the Devil Tongue’s effects.
• Zhang Yang revived the Fatty with cardiac resuscitation, and the Fatty recovered enough to move and speak.
• Zhang Yang carved a wooden spear from a mop handle and warned the guards to prepare for battle.
• Qin Mingyue noticed Zhang Yang repeatedly checking his watch and asked what he knew about the apparent time limit.

Zhang Yang and the others survived the apocalyptic attack, then discovered that everyone who had been unconscious had become a deformed Demonic Infected Body while acting like nothing was wrong. As ordinary people attacked the infected, Zhang Yang realized that he and his companions might soon be treated as the monsters and decided they needed to leave the city.

• Zhang Yang, Qin Mingyue, the Fatty, and the guards sheltered in the Guard Room until the first wave of apocalyptic attacks passed.
• Guard Old Li appeared normal after waking, but when he opened the curtain, Zhang Yang and Qin Mingyue saw his monstrous head and killed him with their wooden spears.
• Zhang Yang found that unconscious people across the city had become cauliflower-headed Demonic Infected Bodies, while those who had stayed conscious were attacking them.
• A local television broadcast portrayed the infected as victims of terrorist attacks, and Qin Mingyue saw frightened survivors stranded on a hotel balcony as infected onlookers watched.
• Zhang Yang urged the group to discard their spears, act normal, and escape the city before the conscious survivors were mistaken for monsters.

Zhang Yang led Qin Mingyue, the Fatty, and Old Zhang out of the Guard Room to escape the Cauliflower-Heads and find a defensible place. After Old Zhang exposed them in the cafeteria, they fled with a large group of Cauliflower-Heads in pursuit.

• Qin Mingyue agreed to leave, and Zhang Yang planned a breakout route through the greenbelt and Small Woods.
• Zhang Yang broke through the Guard Room’s back wall, and the group ran toward the Small Woods.
• Two Cauliflower-Heads spotted Zhang Yang in the woods, and Qin Mingyue killed them before they could attack.
• Zhang Yang led the group into the cafeteria, where they found dozens of Cauliflower-Heads eating and watching television.
• Old Zhang shouted that the group had killed people, prompting the Cauliflower-Heads to grab chairs and chase them.
• Zhang Yang, Qin Mingyue, and the Fatty ran from the cafeteria as more Cauliflower-Heads joined the pursuit.

Zhang Yang, Qin Mingyue, and the fat man fled the Cauliflower-Heads, escaped campus in a stolen sedan, and took refuge in an office building. After fighting through a fire caused by survivors who mistook them for zombies, Zhang Yang urged everyone to move to the top floor and gather supplies.

• Zhang Yang used his wooden spears to frighten off pursuing Cauliflower-Heads and smash the windshield of a sedan chasing them.
• Zhang Yang stole the sedan, rescued the fat man with Qin Mingyue, and drove them out of campus before crashing into a traffic jam.
• Zhang Yang grabbed food and water from a roadside shop and led Qin Mingyue and the fat man into an office building while armed Cauliflower-Head guards pursued them.
• Zhang Yang brought fire extinguishers upstairs and stopped survivors from burning the barricade after they mistook him and his companions for zombies.
• Zhang Yang met seventeen survivors and instructed Qin Mingyue and the fat man to help move everyone to the top floor and gather supplies.

Zhang Yang organized the survivors in the office building and tried to keep them safe as conflicting accounts of the disaster reached them. After a government broadcast persuaded some survivors to leave, Fatty’s father warned him about monsters, leaving Fatty energized and ready to fight.

• Zhang Yang assigned Qin Mingyue and five survivors to clear the fourth floor while Fatty led the others in gathering supplies.
• Zhang Yang killed the Cauliflower-Heads on the fourth floor and had Qin Mingyue negotiate with Manager Qu on the fifth floor, but Manager Qu refused to open the barricaded entrance.
• Wei Zhe warned Zhang Yang that Manager Qu might have a gun, and a woman learned by phone that her husband and daughter were outside the building.
• Li Tianhong broadcast that the outbreak was a harmless hallucination syndrome, prompting several survivors to leave in search of medical treatment.
• Fatty’s father told him by phone that monsters were real and urged him to stay safe, and Fatty recovered his spirits and volunteered to fight.

As surrender spread around the office tower, Zhang Yang activated the Apocalyptic Village Building Quest and chose Apocalyptic Fortress mode. He established the fortress across the second and third floors, reinforced and sealed it with energy, then bought a Building Modification Workshop to fix the problems his hurried construction created.

• After more survivors surrendered to the Cauliflower-Heads, Zhang Yang decided he could not hold out and activated the Apocalyptic Village Building Quest.
• Zhang Yang chose Apocalyptic Fortress mode and rushed with Qin Mingyue, Fatty, and three others to claim floors in the office tower.
• When the second floor proved unavailable, Zhang Yang secured the second and third floors and confirmed the fortress site.
• Zhang Yang spent energy to install reinforced steel supports, strengthen the floor and walls, and add a protective door, leaving the fortress dark and without ventilation ducts.
• Zhang Yang purchased the Building Modification Workshop and recruited the fifty construction workers included with the fortress.

Zhang Yang took control of Manager Qu’s supplies and expanded his forces while organizing the office building into an Apocalyptic Fortress. After sending squads to seize the underground garage, he learned they had captured survivors who refused to surrender.

• Zhang Yang recruited Technical Workers and led them with Construction Workers to break through the sealed stairwell and capture Manager Qu, who reached for his gun and was killed.
• Zhang Yang claimed Manager Qu’s stored food, water, and building materials, completing the two repeatable important side quests and gaining four quest progress points.
• Zhang Yang recruited Armed Mercenaries and Technical Engineers, then assigned squads to secure the building, reinforce its structure, and repair its utilities.
• Zhang Yang ordered an assault on the Basement Level Three parking garage, sending armed and construction squads down after the engineering elevator was repaired.
• A squad reported that the team controlled two of the garage’s six entrances and had captured survivors who refused to surrender.