Chapter Summaries

Jiang Wei unleashed her crimson flames to burn a vast swath of the twisted forest, forcing the Yin Specters’ hidden entrance to appear. Fang Qingyu and the Grandmasters entered the nest, where Fang Qingyu split from Yue Zhen, Shen Yi, and Shi Meng to search for Su Wanqing and the core by blasting through the walls.

• Jiang Wei’s crimson flames consumed the Strange Trees and vines, leaving a kilometer-wide scorched zone.
• A huge entrance opened in the burned earth, and Fang Qingyu ordered Yue Zhen to summon the other reinforcing Grandmasters.
• Shen Yi and Shi Meng arrived, and Fang Qingyu led them, Jiang Wei, and Yue Zhen into the nest before the entrance sealed behind them.
• The group descended through a dark passage without encountering Yin Specters, and Fang Qingyu decided they should split up and break through the walls to search faster.
• Fang Qingyu took Jiang Wei through the left wall in a burst of lightning, while Yue Zhen and Shen Yi began breaking through the right wall and Shi Meng urged them to keep moving.

Fang Qingyu confronted the Time-Erosion Witch, who wielded the time-and-space Divine Weapon The Entropy of Time, while Jiang Wei and the other grandmasters fought to stop the tree spirits from devouring the corpses. After breaking free of the book’s restraints and discovering he could not touch it, Fang Qingyu attacked the witch directly and began burning her with lightning and tribulation fire.

• Fang Qingyu charged the Time-Erosion Witch, but The Entropy of Time trapped him in Lagging Space as pale branches attacked.
• Jiang Wei burned the branches with her Crimson Light Domain, then opened the Eternal Night Domain to suppress the witch’s power and free Su Wanqing and Grandmaster Chen long enough to warn Fang Qingyu.
• Su Wanqing and Grandmaster Chen attacked the giant tree spirits, while Yue Zhen, Shen Yi, and Shi Meng joined the fight at Jiang Wei’s direction.
• Inside the Eternal Night Domain, Fang Qingyu seized the witch and repeatedly smashed her into the ground until she used The Entropy of Time to restrain him and Jiang Wei.
• Fang Qingyu shattered the restraint with his Dragon’s True Intent, grabbed the witch again, and discovered that his hand passed through The Entropy of Time.
• Fang Qingyu poured Bone-Gnawing Thunder and Crimson Bright Tribulation Fire into the witch, who screamed for him to let go.

Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei escaped the collapsing underground space as the three Eerie Forests merged into towering Second Order Tree Spirits. While Jiang Wei held off their attack, Fang Qingyu caught the fleeing Time-Erosion Witch and killed her, then turned back toward the battlefield.

• Pale branches tore the Time-Erosion Witch from Fang Qingyu's grasp during the underground collapse, and Fang Qingyu fled to the surface with Xiao Jiang.
• The three sections of Eerie Forest merged into three enormous Second Order Tree Spirits, and the injured Time-Erosion Witch stood atop the largest tree and ordered them to kill Fang Qingyu.
• The Time-Erosion Witch fled toward the force field with "The Entropy of Time," while Jiang Wei raised her Crimson Light Domain to block the tree spirits' attack.
• Fang Qingyu caught the Time-Erosion Witch by the throat before she could escape and cut her in half with the Dragon Sparrow Blade of Calamity Severance.
• The Time-Erosion Witch and "The Entropy of Time" vanished, and Fang Qingyu turned back toward the battlefield.

Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei helped the grandmasters destroy the three Second Order Tree Spirits at the core of the Life Spirit nest. After the battle, Jiang Wei explained the Time-Erosion Witch’s bloodline and revealed that the gods were also responsible for her repeated reincarnations.

• Fang Qingyu arrived as the Crimson Light Domain weakened and used his Abyssal Mountain Dragon Edict to fatally wound the central Tree Spirit.
• Su Wanqing, Grandmaster Chen, Shi Meng, Shen Yi, and Yue Zhen seized the opening and destroyed the three Tree Spirits, ending the nest’s command over its derivative monsters.
• Yue Zhen and the other grandmasters thanked Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei, then left to support the fighting elsewhere.
• After Su Wanqing and Grandmaster Chen departed, Fang Qingyu asked Jiang Wei about the Time-Erosion Witch, and Jiang Wei explained that the Witch’s time powers came from a First-tier Bloodline projection of The Entropy of Time.
• Jiang Wei confirmed that Life Spirits had hunted her through most of her reincarnations and said the gods were responsible for the rest.

After helping clear the Life Spirit disturbances in Qingjian and Anjiang, Fang Qingyu and his companions returned to Shangjing to rest and prepare for the Arctic Frontline. Back in the Blessed Land, Fang Qingyu checked his progress and found he had accumulated 73 skill points to strengthen himself before the next mission.

• Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei left the destroyed Tree Spirit nest after he reassured her that he would not fear the True Divine Body hunting her.
• Fang Qingyu reunited with Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, and Lu Jiuyuan, and learned that Liu Hanyan and the Shikong Squad had survived their battles with serious injuries.
• Fang Qingyu’s group spent several days clearing remaining Life Spirit threats and helping stabilize Qingjian City and Anjiang Province as reports of supernatural events spread online.
• Fang Qingyu and his team departed Qingjian for Shangjing after local operations reached a stable pause.
• Fang Qingyu ordered the team to rest for one day before returning to training, then checked his chart in the Blessed Land and found 73 skill points.

After strengthening his martial techniques, Fang Qingyu joined his teammates at Yan Shouzheng’s study, where they learned that the Arctic Frontline contained a Life Spirit army led by the nearly unkillable Drought Ba. The revelation left Fang Qingyu questioning Jiang Wei’s identity because she bore the title Nu Ba Reincarnation.

• Fang Qingyu spent seventy skill points to raise seven techniques to minor mastery, greatly improving his strength and control.
• Fang Qingyu left the meditation chamber and joined Jiang Wei, Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, and Lu Jiuyuan on their way to meet Yan Shouzheng.
• Yan Shouzheng showed the group a map of the Arctic Frontline and explained how a Martial Saint had driven a Life Spirit north after it devoured a city of millions.
• Yan Shouzheng revealed that the Life Spirit trapped beyond the Great Wall of the Arctic was Drought Ba, which humanity had failed to kill despite repeated attempts.
• Jiang Wei snapped her lollipop stick when she heard Drought Ba’s name, and Fang Qingyu connected it to her title, Nu Ba Reincarnation, and wondered who she really was.

Yan Shouzheng warned Fang Qingyu, Jiang Wei, Wei Banmeng, Lu Jiuyuan, and Chu Kuanglan that they would soon be sent to the Arctic Frontline, where survival depended on strength. As they prepared and investigated the mystery linking Jiang Wei to Nu Ba and Drought Ba, Fang Qingyu introduced the frontline’s independent strongholds and left the group poised to choose Glaze Light City.

• Yan Shouzheng told the five young people to use their remaining time to prepare for the deadly Arctic Frontline.
• Fang Qingyu assured the confused Jiang Wei that he believed her, then privately reasoned that her unusual reincarnation and fragmented memories might explain why she knew nothing about Drought Ba.
• Fang Qingyu trained at the Blessed Land’s public ground, testing his improved martial arts while Wei Banmeng, Lu Jiuyuan, and Chu Kuanglan discussed the possible connection between the mythical Nu Ba and the Arctic decree ghost.
• Fang Qingyu showed Wei Banmeng, Lu Jiuyuan, and Chu Kuanglan an app listing the Arctic Frontline’s independent human strongholds and explained that they would need to choose one to join.
• Fang Qingyu reviewed the city options and stopped on Glaze Light City.

Fang Qingyu persuaded Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, and Lu Jiuyuan to head to Glaze Light City, then spent a month hunting and training while they studied the Arctic Front’s complex factions. As their departure approached, Fang Qingyu reached major martial arts breakthroughs, and Hong Qitian abruptly fled after spotting him fishing by the river.

• Fang Qingyu explained Glaze Light City’s combat opportunities, scarce martial artists, valuable Glaze Beads, and the Jiang Clan’s reputation, and the group agreed to leave in one month.
• Fang Qingyu hunted Life Spirits with Jiang Wei, dissected their remains, and trained intensely while his companions researched the Arctic Front’s rival forces and local population.
• After a month of cultivation, Fang Qingyu raised Nine Hells Breakthrough and Abyssal Mountain Dragon Edict to the Grandmaster Realm, advanced his body techniques, and strengthened his World Patroller abilities.
• Fang Qingyu overwhelmed Chu Kuanglan during training, leaving Chu Kuanglan stunned by the gap between their strength.
• While Fang Qingyu fished by the river, Hong Qitian spotted him, abruptly turned away, and hurried back into the alley.

Fang Qingyu learned that Elder Hong had secretly protected him from hostile forces, so he brought Hong Qitian freshly caught fish as thanks. Three days later, Fang Qingyu and his four teammates boarded the Hope Ark, a heavily armored strategic ship bound for Glaze Light City in the Arctic, where their expedition officially began.

• Fang Qingyu left a bucket of live fish at Hong Qitian's gate and thanked him for his past care; Hong Qitian emerged after Fang Qingyu had left and took the fish inside.
• Chu Kuanglan told Fang Qingyu that Elder Hong had warned the Federation's forces not to target him, and Fang Qingyu realized Hong had quietly shielded him from trouble.
• Fang Qingyu led Chu Kuanglan, Wei Banmeng, Lu Jiuyuan, and Jiang Wei to Shangjing Deep Water Port to board the Hope Ark for their Arctic journey.
• Wei Banmeng and the others read the Hope Ark's technical documents and learned it was an SSS-class strategic transport ship built with Life Spirit materials and equipped as a mobile fortress.
• The team received top-level suites aboard the Hope Ark and saw that the ship carried many powerful experts bound for the Arctic battlefield.
• Fang Qingyu and his teammates headed to dinner aboard the Hope Ark as their expedition to Glaze Light City officially set sail.

Fang Qingyu and his team dined and trained aboard the ship, where he drew attention from powerful figures and faction representatives. On the top deck, Su Wanqing revealed that Glaze Light City's lord was Jiang Ying, known as the Federation's Number One Assassin.

• Fang Qingyu's team ate at the ship's observation restaurant while Wei Banmeng pointed out veteran Grandmaster Li Cang, intelligence broker Silver Fox, and officer Horton.
• The five watched a spectacular sunset over the ocean, and Jiang Wei showed a faint flicker of confusion as she gazed at it.
• At the training ground, Fang Qingyu damaged a superalloy testing pillar with one punch, then accepted a business card from Shen Zhou of Deep Blue Heavy Industries.
• Faction representatives crowded Fang Qingyu with offers, so he escaped with Jiang Wei and left Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, and Lu Jiuyuan to face the crowd.
• On the top deck, Su Wanqing explained why she had come aboard and told Fang Qingyu that Glaze Light City's lord was Jiang Ying, the Federation's Number One Assassin.

Fang Qingyu learned about City Lord Jiang’s strength and history as the Federation’s Number One Assassin before bringing his teammates to the Ghost Hunting Ground on the Hope Ark. There, he signed up to fight fifteen rare Early Second Order Life Ghosts at once, drawing the attention of the mysterious boss who planned to record his abilities for City Lord Jiang.

• Su Wanqing told Fang Qingyu that City Lord Jiang liked women, had reached the Martial Saint Realm at twenty-nine, and had assassinated powerful Life Spirits and human traitors.
• Fang Qingyu reunited with Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, and Lu Jiuyuan, then took them to the Ghost Hunting Ground and explained its role in Arctic Frontline culture and training.
• After spotting several unfamiliar Early Second Order Life Ghosts, Fang Qingyu registered to fight and selected fifteen rare targets to face simultaneously.
• Wang Hai agreed to arrange the match after consulting his boss, who ordered him to prepare the arena carefully and record Fang Qingyu’s fighting style, habits, and power characteristics for City Lord Jiang.

Fang Qingyu slaughtered fifteen Early Second Order Life Spirits in the Ghost Hunting Ground, then spent a quiet evening setting off fireworks with his companions. He Manhe appeared on the deck, and after letting her leave, Fang Qingyu pursued her through the darkness of his Eternal Night Domain.

• Fang Qingyu killed fifteen Early Second Order Life Spirits in fifty-seven seconds, astonishing the Ghost Hunting Ground spectators.
• Fang Qingyu toured Hope Ark with Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, Lu Jiuyuan, and Jiang Wei before they watched fireworks on the top deck.
• Jiang Wei asked Fang Qingyu to set off fireworks, and Wei Banmeng joined her while Chu Kuanglan and Lu Jiuyuan watched.
• He Manhe appeared beside Fang Qingyu, prompting him and his companions to surround her as he recognized her as a figure from the Assembly of Gods.
• He Manhe claimed she had not come to cause trouble and walked away; Fang Qingyu stopped Chu Kuanglan and Lu Jiuyuan from pursuing her immediately.
• Fang Qingyu told his companions to stay behind, entered his Eternal Night Domain, and went after He Manhe.

Fang Qingyu eavesdropped on He Manhe and learned that the Assembly of Gods was gathering Second Order fighters in Glaze Light City, so his squad chose to follow her plans rather than expose their knowledge. After reaching the Arctic outpost, the squad spotted four suspects leaving the dock and pursued their convoy, which was heading away from Glaze Light City.

• Fang Qingyu secretly entered He Manhe's suite and overheard her tell four Second Order subordinates to keep recruiting experts and meet her in Glaze Light City.
• Fang Qingyu reported what he had heard to Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, Lu Jiuyuan, and Jiang Wei, and they decided to follow the Assembly of Gods' plans and investigate in Glaze Light City.
• Wei Banmeng obtained identities and cabin numbers for four suspects, while the squad tracked them during the remainder of the voyage.
• Fang Qingyu and his squad reached Glaze Light City's outer harbor and waited at an outpost for the suspects to disembark.
• Fang Qingyu spotted the four suspects leaving the dock in a convoy, and the squad followed them under the cover of his Eternal Night Domain.
• Wei Banmeng noticed that the convoy was traveling away from Glaze Light City.

Fang Qingyu’s group followed Wu Gang’s party beyond the Arctic Great Wall and discovered that He Manhe was a Third Order Apostle leading them to the Martial Saint Ruins. After the group entered the glacier’s hidden altar chamber, an unfamiliar voice urged Fang Qingyu’s team to keep following, leaving them to face the danger ahead.

• Fang Qingyu’s group secretly followed Wu Gang and the recruited Second Order powerhouses as they entered the ice sea, then discovered they had emerged beyond the Arctic Great Wall.
• He Manhe revealed her Third Order Apostle strength, immobilized the group, and led them across the ice plains to a hidden fissure in a glacier.
• Wu Gang, Lin Wei, Gray Shadow, Savage Bear, and the others entered the fissure, followed covertly by Fang Qingyu’s team.
• Fang Qingyu’s team followed the party through a passage lined with frozen creatures and people into a vast ice cave containing a dark-gold altar.
• He Manhe promised the Second Order powerhouses their reward for helping her, while Fang Qingyu’s team hesitated over whether to approach the Apostle.
• An unfamiliar voice from the darkness told Fang Qingyu’s team to follow.

Fang Qingyu and his companions followed the Federation reinforcement Jiu into the ruins, where He Manhe’s group opened the altar with a blood sacrifice and awakened a Nine-Headed Xiangliu. Jiu vanished and reappeared before the creature, warning that gods were forbidden from entering this land.

• Jiu appeared inside Fang Qingyu’s Eternal Night Domain and showed her identification card, establishing that she was a high-authority member of the Divine Management Bureau’s Special Strategic Sequence.
• He Manhe ordered white-robed Heretical Cultists to sacrifice themselves, and their blood opened a passage beneath the altar.
• He Manhe led Wu Gang, Lin Wei, and the other fighters into the passage, while Fang Qingyu and his companions followed Jiu.
• The group reached an underground battlefield where Life Spirit guardians swarmed around a huge statue of the nine-headed Xiangliu.
• Jiu identified Xiangliu, and the statue began to awaken as He Manhe presented the gathered Martial Practitioners as sacrifices.
• Jiu appeared between He Manhe and the Xiangliu statue and declared that gods were forbidden from entering the land.

Jiu froze He Manhe and everyone else, then effortlessly suppressed Xiangliu’s awakened incarnation. Fang Qingyu struck He Manhe, but discovered her body was another wooden fake, while Jiu ended the battle by pinning Xiangliu beneath her feet and asked the onlookers if it was cool.

• Jiu arrived and immobilized He Manhe and the Life Wraiths, while the Nine-Headed Xiangliu statue awakened into a monstrous incarnation.
• Fang Qingyu and his companions appeared at the passageway, and He Manhe recognized Fang Qingyu and cursed him as he approached with his blade.
• Fang Qingyu unleashed Abyssal Mountain Dragon Edict against He Manhe, but his strike shattered only a wooden puppet, revealing that she had sent another fake.
• Xiangliu accused Jiu of forcing it into hiding and gathered power for a desperate attack, but Jiu crushed its incarnation back against the altar.
• Jiu stood atop Xiangliu’s pinned head, looked toward Fang Qingyu and the others, and asked, “How was that? Cool, huh?”

After Jiu subdued Xiangliu’s avatar, she left Fang Qingyu to transport the captured people to Glaze Light City, where he and his team were briefly detained before their identities were verified. They were given luxurious rooms, but Fang Qingyu grew suspicious that their comfortable accommodation would keep them away from the frontline.

• Jiu shrank Xiangliu’s avatar and entrusted Fang Qingyu with taking the captured people to Glaze Light City before disappearing.
• Fang Qingyu killed four attendants who had served He Manhe, then led his team in carrying the remaining captives across the icy passage and sea.
• Glaze Light City patrol soldiers arrested Fang Qingyu and the captives, but Director Chen Ming later verified Fang Qingyu’s identity and released the team.
• Director Chen Ming said the captured people would face at least twenty years of service at a frontline fortress and escorted the team to a luxurious suite in Glaze Light City.
• Fang Qingyu questioned where the team would be stationed and how they would reach the Great Wall, then told Wei Banmeng he suspected their rooms would isolate them from the frontline.

Fang Qingyu's squad accepted a secret mission to find Jiang Chengyue, a Jiang Clan traitor hiding in Glaze Light City, but suspected the assignment was meant to distract them. After staking out the City Lord's Mansion, they saw a seventh wave of unmarked vehicles leave through a concealed door and followed them.

• Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, and Fang Qingyu questioned why the squad had been isolated in the Star Observation Platform, then chose to cultivate and wait for developments.
• Fang Qingyu spent ten skill points to raise Lightning's True Intent to Lv.2, strengthening Bone-Gnawing Thunder and gaining the ability to sense and slightly control nearby electric charges.
• Chen Ming gave the squad a confidential mission to locate, capture, or eliminate Jiang Chengyue, a Peak Second Order Grandmaster accused of betraying humanity and leaking defense secrets.
• After Chen Ming explained that Glaze Light City's Third Order experts were occupied at the frontline, Fang Qingyu accepted the mission and led the squad to scout the city's suspected hiding areas.
• Fang Qingyu suspected the mission was designed to keep the squad busy, so he ordered everyone to wait and watch the City Lord's Mansion at night.
• Fang Qingyu's squad saw three unmarked vehicles leave the mansion through a concealed door and followed them under the cover of the Eternal Night Domain.

Fang Qingyu and his companions discovered that the Jiang Family had sent elite forces to capture Jiang Chengyue, whom the pursuers called a traitor. After Jiang Chengyue escaped their attack and questioned the family’s judgment, Fang Qingyu followed him to a hidden safehouse and asked to talk.

• Fang Qingyu’s group followed a convoy to Glaze Light City’s outskirts and found more than a dozen Second Order experts surrounding a building.
• Jiang Chengyue burst from the building with a blade strike, and the pursuers demanded that he surrender for defying the Jiang Family’s Old Ancestor and Elder Council.
• Jiang Chengyue accused the Jiang Family of rotting from the roots and fought the pursuers while deliberately avoiding killing them.
• Jiang Chengyue broke through the encirclement and escaped, while the young pursuer A Zhe questioned whether he was truly a traitor and the Burly Man ordered him to obey the ruling.
• Jiang Chengyue hid in a secret underground safehouse, where Fang Qingyu and his companions emerged from the shadows and Fang Qingyu asked to talk.

Fang Qingyu confronted Jiang Chengyue, who revealed that the Jiang family ancestor Jiang Taixuan had survived by feeding on other Martial Path Grandmasters through the Divine Weaponry Taotie's Stomach. After concealing Jiang Chengyue and misleading Director Chen Ming, Fang Qingyu's group infiltrated the City Lord's Mansion to verify the claim and waited outside the Mystic Ice Quiet Room.

• Fang Qingyu subdued Jiang Chengyue's blade, proved his identity with his certificate and Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity, and learned that the Jiang family had ordered the Special Squad to hunt him.
• Jiang Chengyue revealed that Jiang Taixuan had lived to 157 by using Taotie's Stomach to devour the vitality of living Martial Path Grandmasters.
• Fang Qingyu's group returned to the Star Observation Platform and told Director Chen Ming they had not found Jiang Chengyue, while Chen Ming privately dismissed them as slow-witted.
• Fang Qingyu secretly brought Jiang Chengyue into the City Lord's Mansion, and the group descended through the fire stairs under the cover of the Eternal Night Domain.
• The group hid in the corridor outside the Mystic Ice Quiet Room and waited as footsteps and rolling wheels approached.