Chapter Summaries

Isroya and Mu Yuan's party found and rescued thirteen witches who had been trapped in Strange City and afflicted by the Witch Disease. As they escaped through a spatial gate, a massive tide of monsters surged toward them, and the gate began closing far too slowly.

• Deathbone intimidated nearby players before returning to Isroya's group.
• Isroya and her companions found the black crow, White Wolf, elk, fox, and nine other witches trapped underground and surrounded by monsters.
• Dorai and Isroya burned away the monsters blocking the alley, and Isroya reunited with her companions from several hundred years earlier.
• Isroya gave the witches recovery items and led them out, while the black crow brought along a mysterious black coffin as a gift for the lord.
• Mu Yuan accepted the thirteen witches' allegiance, but a huge tide of monsters swept through Strange City as the group crossed a spatial gate that was slow to close.

A monster tide overwhelmed the Strange City, trapping players and threatening to spill into the surrounding region. Great Lord Mu personally unleashed the Nine-Headed Roaring Thunder Flame Dragon to destroy most of the tide, then waited for the Space Gate to close completely.

• Players fleeing the black tide blamed the Blaze Gun Mercenaries for triggering the disaster, while the Yellow Turban Hand mercenary group warned that the tide could threaten West Ridge City.
• The Undead Bone General, Deathbone, Duolai, and Isroya held back the monsters near the Space Gate as its closing slowed and the giant black shadow threatened them.
• Great Lord Mu arrived outside the Space Gate and controlled the Nine-Headed Roaring Thunder Flame Dragon, which burned through the black tide and struck the giant black shadow in a massive explosion.
• The blast destroyed most of the monsters, damaged the Strange City, and opened a hole in the clouds that let sunlight reach the city.
• Great Lord Mu called Deathbone and the others away, then watched until the Space Gate closed completely.

Mu Yuan discovered that the Sacrificial Black Coffin turned monster corpses into category-matched Troop Remnant Souls, giving Tian Yuan Territory a new source of Evolution Points. After feeding it a large batch of corpses, he received dozens of Remnant Souls, then destroyed a shadow that emerged from the coffin.

• Mu Yuan settled the rescued witches in an Advanced Dwelling and arranged for Lai Ni to examine them while he reviewed their ranks and talents.
• Mu Yuan identified the Sacrificial Black Coffin and used Rare Grade Identification Stones to learn that it traded monster corpses for Troop Remnant Souls of the same category.
• Mu Yuan and Duo Lai tested the coffin with monster corpses, and it produced a single Common One-Star Gray Wolf Remnant Soul.
• Mu Yuan tested more monster types and confirmed that the coffin could convert any monster corpse into matching Remnant Souls, though the yield was low-ranked.
• Mu Yuan had hunting teams bring back large quantities of monsters and fed their corpses into the coffin, which produced dozens of Remnant Souls.
• A human-sized shadow emerged from the coffin and roared, but Mu Yuan shattered it with a punch.

Mu Yuan used his Evolution Power to cure the witches’ Bloodline Disease and restore their human forms. The newly healed witches celebrated their recovery, while Mu Yuan hoped they would soon begin working in Tian Yuan Territory.

• Lai Ni told Mu Yuan that the witches’ Bloodline Disease was fused with their bodies and could not be cured by her healing and purification.
• Mu Yuan reassured the witches that Tai Xuan offered treatment options and said he had a method that might cure them without side effects.
• Black Crow Sophia volunteered, and Mu Yuan used Evolution Power to heal her, evolve her to Excellent One Star rank, and let her transform back into a human.
• Sophia confirmed that her Bloodline Disease was gone, and Mu Yuan began evolving White Wolf Lian Yue, Fox Daisy, Elk Irene, and the other witches.

After Mu Yuan cured the witches’ Bloodline Disease and improved their bloodlines, Isroya organized their assignments and learned she might evolve too if she worked hard. Mu Yuan considered the high cost of further evolution, while Cold Moon recommended him as a candidate for the Dragon Court Competition.

• Isroya gathered the witches to discuss their skills, and Sophia, Irene, Daisy, and the others volunteered for jobs in Tian Yuan Territory.
• Isroya assigned the witches to roles, and Mu Yuan approved the preliminary plan while requiring speed and stability.
• Mu Yuan confirmed that he had completed and advanced the witches’ bloodlines, then told Isroya she could evolve if she worked hard.
• Mu Yuan reviewed the steep Evolution Point costs and set a goal of evolving all the Tian Yuan Generals to Epic Grade.
• At a meeting in Taixuan Capital, Cold Moon recommended Tian Yuan for the Dragon Court Competition, surprising the other officials.

Tian Yuan Territory expanded its farming, hunting, and trade operations as Mu Yuan prepared to sell goods in Shiling Town. When the Winged Wings merchant caravan arrived, Sophia negotiated a sale on the territory’s terms, leaving its members speculating about Mu Yuan’s power and good fortune.

• Mu Yuan taught Xuan Country Language to Sophia, Daisy, and the territory’s troops, while Isroya reported that the Flower Fairies had produced an exceptionally large harvest.
• Mu Yuan chose Shiling Town as a practical market for Tian Yuan Territory’s goods, and Isroya proposed producing and selling Vitality Potions instead of raw spring water.
• The Winged Wings merchant caravan reached Tian Yuan Territory but was stopped by Lu Liu, who told them the territory was closed to visitors and directed them to wait.
• Sophia and Daisy offered the caravan goods, and Sophia used her powerful aura to reject its low offer for Jade Crystal Rice.
• The caravan bought Crystal Corn and supplies before departing, and its leader concluded that Mu Yuan must know how to enjoy himself after hearing about the territory’s strong female players and fox-tailed equipment.

Mu Yuan prepared the Guang Yuan caravan for its first journey to Shiling Town, testing Golden Slimes as cargo carriers and sending Sophia, Daisy, Lu Liu, and Duo Lai to lead the expedition. The caravan traveled through the mountains and forests toward its destination, stopping to camp after covering more than a hundred kilometers.

• Mu Yuan tested Sophia and Daisy's negotiation skills with the Flying Wings caravan and judged them ready for public dealings.
• Mu Yuan organized the Guang Yuan caravan, assigning Sophia, Daisy, Lu Liu, and Duo Lai to travel to Shiling Town and investigate its market.
• Duo Lai trained Golden Slimes to carry cargo inside their bodies, and Mu Yuan selected six of them to transport the caravan's goods.
• Mu Yuan equipped the caravan, briefed its leaders, and saw them depart from the Tian Yuan Territory.
• The caravan crossed the mountain forests at speed, rested after traveling over a hundred kilometers, and then continued toward Shiling Town.

General Lu led the Guang Yuan Merchant Group through dangerous wilderness and safely reached the heavily fortified Shiling Town. Sophia took command as the group approached the northern gate, ready to begin their work.

• General Lu killed an Elite Giant Rock Steel Snake while Duo Lai collected its remains and rewards.
• The merchant group escaped a Goblin camp after General Lu led several elites to rout its main force, prompting Mu Yuan to consider appointing a deputy commander for the guard unit.
• After several hours of travel, the group encountered fewer monsters and followed marked paths toward Shiling Town.
• Sophia and Daisy saw Shiling Town’s massive walls and cannons, while Mu Yuan explained its role as a Tai Xuan Alliance frontier fortress.
• The group transferred command to Sophia, who prepared to enter Shiling Town with Daisy.

Sophia and Daisy explored Shiling Town, rented a temporary base, sold their goods, and bought supplies under Mu Yuan’s remote direction. As the Guang Yuan Merchant Group prepared to leave, a group of Wanted Players plotted to rob them and abduct Sophia and Daisy.

• Sophia’s group entered Shiling Town, where a bespectacled player mistook her for a wealthy new lord and tried to approach her before Lu Liu blocked him.
• Sophia and Daisy visited the Player Association and rented a temporary base, while Mu Yuan guided them remotely.
• Sophia inspected the town through the night, and Daisy bought Remnant Souls and other supplies at the market.
• The Guang Yuan Merchant Group sold its Jade Crystal Rice and Snake Scale Fruit to Bei Qi Acquisition House and began preparing for the return trip.
• The bespectacled player reported Sophia’s group to his Wanted Player boss and urged the gang to rob their goods and kidnap Sophia and Daisy.

Lu Liu’s merchant group was ambushed in the forest, but the attack revealed a team of wanted criminals led by the Hundred-Faced Scholar and Giant Hand Scarface. Sophia and Daisy fought back, and Sophia pursued and killed the Scholar, leaving the group to face the remaining criminals.

• Lu Liu ordered the Royal Imperial Guards and archers to repel the goblins and other troops controlled by raiding players, then used the Storm War Falcon to expose more attackers in the forest.
• The Hundred-Faced Scholar revealed himself alongside Giant Hand Scarface, and the raiders recognized both men as criminals with huge Soul Sand bounties.
• The Hundred-Faced Scholar killed a raider who begged him for protection, then led the wanted players in an attack on Sophia’s group.
• Daisy struggled against the Scholar until Sophia helped her, while Lu Liu defeated another attacker and the Scholar realized the wealthy young lord was far stronger than he had expected.
• The Hundred-Faced Scholar fled after black flames consumed his arms, but Sophia tracked him through the forest and killed him with her crows.

Mu Yuan’s forces defeated the bandits, and Duo Lai killed Giant Hand Scarface after he revealed his corruptive power. The group relocated and examined their spoils, finding rare equipment and a fragmentary treasure map marked “Buried Ground.”

• Lu Liu overwhelmed the bandits while Duo Lai pursued and intercepted the fleeing Giant Hand Scarface.
• Scarface unleashed a corruptive giant hand, but Duo Lai devoured its power and struck him down with lightning-wrapped attacks.
• Mu Yuan’s forces finished the battle, cleared the battlefield, erased their traces, and relocated.
• Sophia, Daisy, and Mu Yuan assessed the bandits’ small reserves of Soul Sand and valuable equipment.
• Duo Lai found a durable, incomplete treasure map bearing the words “Buried Ground,” and Mu Yuan had it put away.

Mu Yuan collected a huge bounty, returned to Tian Yuan Territory, and began planning to buy Remnant Souls to strengthen Isroya. After learning that Divine Glory spies were targeting territories on Tai Xuan’s outskirts and reading about the Dragon Court Competition, he worried that Tian Yuan Territory could be discovered and wondered how to obtain a key to Challenge Land.

• Mu Yuan found the bounty notices for Giant Hand Scarface, Hundred-Faced Scholar, and four other wanted criminals, totaling 800,000 Soul Sand, and sent General Duo Lai to Boulder City to claim it.
• Lu Liu, Sophia, and the Guang Yuan Merchant Group returned to Tian Yuan Territory, and Duo Lai arrived later with several hundred Soul Crystals from the bounties.
• Mu Yuan considered buying militia Remnant Souls through a major business association to help Isroya reach the epic tier, then returned to Blue Star and checked the Bai Jiang Soaring Dragon Group chat.
• Vice President Chen Hemiao warned that Divine Glory spies were entering Tai Xuan to locate and attack rising-star lords ahead of the Dragon Court Competition, prompting Mu Yuan to plan stronger patrols.
• Mu Yuan read that Wuji and Kong Ming were expected to represent Tai Xuan this year, while he was considered too young, and he wondered how to obtain a key to Challenge Land.

Mu Yuan received a free key to Challenge Land from Liu Miu Miu, entered the top-level secret realm, and approached its Crimson Giant Tower. The veteran lords watching him expected the young newcomer to struggle, as he began his first challenge.

• Liu Miu Miu gave Mu Yuan a Challenge Land key that Liu Xi Yue had recommended him to receive.
• Mu Yuan discussed veteran lords' armies with Liu Miu Miu and recognized that Tian Yuan Territory lagged behind them in troop strength.
• Mu Yuan activated the key at his Lord Altar and entered Challenge Land, where he saw the Crimson Giant Tower and the distant Orange Giant Tower.
• Several veteran lords, including Demon Sword City Lord, Silver Light City Lord, and Ripple City Lord, debated how far Mu Yuan would advance.
• Mu Yuan entered the Crimson Giant Tower, and a faint streak of light appeared on its first level.

Mu Yuan deployed Tian Yuan Territory’s strongest conventional forces to the first stage of the Crimson Giant Tower, where they faced overwhelming numbers of elite Ironclad Giant Scorpions and Holy Light nuns. Isroya turned the battle toward victory, but her exhaustion showed the limits of relying on a single Expert, leaving Mu Yuan to assess the corps’ conventional strength.

• Outside the tower, veteran lords watched Tian Yuan’s attempt while Shen Linglong secretly observed on a mission for Cold Moon.
• Mu Yuan deployed nearly all of Tian Yuan Territory’s combat units and entered the first stage with a hundred-unit lineup.
• The troops were immediately surrounded by one hundred Ironclad Giant Scorpions and two hundred Holy Light nuns, who began destroying the formation.
• Treant Grandmother used Myriad Wood Tree World to slow the assault, while Seventeen killed enemies before the attackers wounded her and damaged the tree.
• Isroya ranged across the battlefield and killed more than one hundred enemies, but nearly exhausted her energy as Tian Yuan’s remaining forces fought on.
• Mu Yuan concluded that Tian Yuan’s conventional combat power had limits, though Deathbone and Duo Lai were not conventional forces.

Tian Yuan’s forces advanced to the Crimson Giant Tower’s second stage, where twice as many powerful enemies overwhelmed their defenses. General Duo Lai changed tactics and began killing the Ironclad Giant Scorpions and Nuns with electromagnetic attacks while the other troops learned to coordinate under pressure.

• Tian Yuan cleared the first stage and received the rare Blazing Giant Cannon, then entered the second stage with his troops focused on gaining battle experience.
• Six hundred Ironclad Giant Scorpions and Nuns attacked, tearing through Treant Grandmother’s rootwood domain and wounding several of Tian Yuan’s troops.
• General Duo Lai unleashed a Super Large Fireball, but the Nuns and giant scorpions healed most of the damage, prompting Duo Lai to change tactics.
• General Duo Lai dodged the enemies’ attacks and used electromagnetic steel balls to kill thirteen enemies, then continued bombarding them while conserving energy.
• The Skeleton Warlords, wraiths, and other elites coordinated more smoothly as the battle continued, even while the enemy assault kept them under heavy pressure.

Mu Yuan used the Crimson Giant Tower’s stages to temper his Undead Troops and bring them closer to forming an Army Soul, stopping after the fourth stage. Outside, Shen Linglong realized Tian Yuan’s record rivaled Lord Cold Moon’s, while keeping his identity as a true newcomer secret.

• Mu Yuan watched the Undead Troops fight powerful enemies, bringing them close to forming an Army Soul Prototype before the battle ended short of success.
• Mu Yuan’s forces cleared the Crimson Giant Tower’s third stage, with Deathbone’s Undead Bone Sacred Mountain dividing and containing the enemy army.
• Mu Yuan decided to stop at the fourth stage because the next challenges risked killing his troops and disrupting their training.
• The waiting crowd saw the tower’s fourth-floor light dim and marveled that a newcomer had reached the fourth stage.
• Shen Linglong recognized Tian Yuan as a genuine newcomer whose record rivaled Lord Cold Moon’s, but kept his status secret as he emerged from the tower.

Mu Yuan prepared a pure-undead force to challenge the fourth stage of the Challenge Land, while Shen Linglong visited Liu Xi Yue to report on Tian Yuan’s progress. Liu Xi Yue expected Tian Yuan to keep improving, and Shen Linglong began considering a direct fight to test his abilities.

• Mu Yuan paused his challenge so his troops could recover, then decided to form a pure-undead army to condense a military soul and use other challenge attempts to train his remaining forces.
• Mu Yuan evolved twenty Undead Bone Funeral Masters and twenty evil spirits to strengthen the Undead Troops before returning to the Challenge Land that afternoon.
• More lords gathered at the Challenge Land, and Mu Yuan entered to continue challenging the fourth stage as a flickering light appeared on the tower’s fourth level.
• Shen Linglong returned to the fortress and found Liu Xi Yue studying an ancient tome, then reported that Tian Yuan had broken through three stages and was challenging the fourth.
• Liu Xi Yue said Tian Yuan’s progress was expected and considered that he might compete for the Eternal Profound representative slot, while Shen Linglong thought about fighting him herself.

Deathbone awakened Willpower Light during the final battle at Undead Bone Sacred Mountain, allowing it to revive its army and defeat the Ironclad Giant Scorpions and Nuns. After the battle, Mu Yuan led his companions into the fourth level to train, where they were defeated, leaving him considering how to develop his own combat system.

• The Undead Troops were overwhelmed as Bone Four, Red Robe, and the other commanders fell, leaving Deathbone alone against the invading army.
• Deathbone broke through its limits and awakened Willpower Light, which let it keep fighting despite its depleted energy and severe injuries.
• Deathbone repeatedly revived fallen undead and led them in battle until they killed the giant scorpions and Nuns, defeating the final Nun as the challenge world shattered.
• Mu Yuan explained Willpower Light's effects and gave Deathbone time to recover before leading Dora, Isroya, Daisy, Sophia, and the others into the fourth level to train.
• Mu Yuan's group was defeated despite using his Deathbone template, and he began considering how to build a complete combat system around his territory, troops, commanders, and talents.

Mu Yuan studied ways to raise his combat power and upgraded Tian Yuan Territory to Level Three, unlocking new territory benefits and greater control over borrowed troop abilities. The chapter left him considering how to push one aspect of a troop template to its limit rather than borrowing a fixed proportion of its power.

• Mu Yuan assessed his concepts and compared his progress with Wuji, deciding he wanted to qualify for the Dragon Court Competition by facing strong opponents rather than relying on their weakness.
• Mu Yuan studied the Eternal World's legion-centered and individual-power combat systems, then considered building a practical long-range system using Lord's Power and troop abilities.
• Mu Yuan upgraded Tian Yuan Territory to Level Three, gaining territory buffs, a permanent Common City Walls blueprint, and a Guiding Signpost blueprint.
• Mu Yuan tested his expanded Lord's Power by combining Deathbone's undead shadow power with Lai Ni's holy-light purification, but found the opposing elements difficult to harmonize.
• Mu Yuan realized he could focus a troop template's power on a single aspect instead of limiting himself to borrowing a fixed percentage.

Mu Yuan practiced combining template powers and developed a new combat combination, then accepted Shen Linglong’s invitation to spar in exchange for training time. The chapter ended as Shen Linglong powered up in their arena and challenged him to show his strength.

• Mu Yuan practiced using Lord’s Power to combine Duo Lai’s foundation with Deathbone’s Undead Bone Sacred Mountain and Undead Domination, then added Rakshasa’s Evil Condensation and Evil Body to his spear techniques.
• Mu Yuan assessed his Evolution Points and the Undead Troops’ progress toward condensing an Army Soul, concluding that they needed more battles.
• Shen Linglong invited Mu Yuan to a balanced battle in a special arena, and he agreed in exchange for access to her training privilege.
• Shen Linglong transformed and activated her Valkyrie’s Radiance Strategic Talent, then raised her halberd and challenged Mu Yuan to show his strength.