Chapter Summaries

Fang Qingyu and his team followed the workers into Jiang Taixuan’s underground blood bank and discovered that he prolonged his life by draining martial artists and dumping their corpses in a mass grave. After learning that Jiang Taixuan was severely weakened but protected by followers willing to sacrifice themselves for him, Fang Qingyu still prepared to target the ancestor.

• Two workers discussed using young grandmasters as blood sources for Jiang Taixuan, confirming Jiang Chengyue’s accusation to Fang Qingyu and his team.
• Fang Qingyu led his team and Jiang Chengyue through the hidden facility, where they saw captives drained of blood and vitality to sustain Jiang Taixuan.
• The team followed the workers to a mass grave, where the workers dumped three bodies in black bags.
• Back in Fang Qingyu’s suite, Chu Kuanglan urged Fang Qingyu to kill Jiang Taixuan, and Fang Qingyu asked Jiang Chengyue about the ancestor’s condition.
• Jiang Chengyue said Jiang Taixuan could use less than thirty percent of his peak strength and that fighting would worsen his condition.
• Jiang Chengyue warned Fang Qingyu that Jiang Taixuan’s followers would sacrifice themselves to keep him alive, so defeating him meant confronting the Jiang family’s entire foundation.

Fang Qingyu devised a plan to lure Jiang Taixuan away from Glaze Light City with rumors of Martial Saint ruins and several dozen Martial Path Grandmasters. He challenged Jiang Chengyue to take responsibility for reaching her family, while Jiang Taixuan ordered an investigation into the rumors.

• Fang Qingyu rejected Jiang Chengyue’s certainty that the squad would die and asked his teammates to join the fight against Jiang Taixuan.
• Fang Qingyu asked Shen Zhou to gather several dozen unaffiliated Martial Path Grandmasters near Glaze Light City using a false rumor about Martial Saint ruins, then revealed Jiang Taixuan’s blood-feeding scheme and the plan to hunt him.
• Fang Qingyu told Jiang Chengyue to hold back the Jiang family and questioned why Jiang Ying had left her in the city and whether she had truly tried to persuade her former comrades.
• Fang Qingyu and his teammates left Jiang Chengyue alone to consider his words as rumors of the ruins spread through Glaze Light City and attracted Martial Path Grandmasters.
• A Ministry of Internal Affairs official reported the rumors to Jiang Taixuan, who ordered him to investigate and notify him if they proved true.

Shikong and Liu Hanyan’s squads arrived in Glaze Light City to join Fang Qingyu’s operation against Jiang Taixuan. Fang Qingyu revealed that the supposed Martial Saint Ruins were a trap designed to draw Jiang Taixuan out, and the squads prepared to decide how to kill him.

• Shikong and Liu Hanyan arrived in Glaze Light City in disguise after receiving Wei Banmeng’s information about the underground blood bank and the mountain of corpses.
• Fang Qingyu asked Chen Ming for leave to suspend the search for Jiang Chengyue, and Chen Ming reported the request to the Vice Minister, who ordered him to let the squad go toward the supposed Martial Saint Ruins.
• Fang Qingyu’s Squad met Shikong Squad and Liu Hanyan’s Squad at the Crimson Raven Hotel, where Wei Banmeng laughed at Liu Hanyan and Liu Qingyan’s disguises and they pounced on her.
• Fang Qingyu told the gathered squads that they would wait in the glacial sea northeast of Ice Prism Fortress and revealed that the reported ruins were fake and the supposed Grandmasters were bait arranged by Deep Blue Heavy Industries.
• Fang Qingyu said Jiang Taixuan would come because the trap was his only hope of survival, and assured the squads that he could recognize him before asking how they would kill him.

Fang Qingyu and his allies waited at the staged Martial Saint Ruins, then hid in his Eternal Night Domain as the crowd rushed inside. The Jiang family arrived with their hidden Martial Saint, and Fang Qingyu identified him as the target of their trap.

• Fang Qingyu and his companions reached Deep Blue Heavy Industries' convincing ruins camp and learned that the company had created a real underground site to support the deception.
• The staged ruins appeared to open, drawing more than a hundred martial artists toward the Glacial Crevasse while Fang Qingyu spotted seven Jiang family Cloud Blossom Emissaries in the crowd.
• Inside the ice cavern, Fang Qingyu's group avoided the altar and concealed themselves in his Eternal Night Domain, then admitted Shikong Squad and Liu Hanyan's Squad into the darkness.
• The Jiang family's seven Cloud Blossom Emissaries entered the cavern in formation, protecting a disguised figure at the rear.
• Fang Qingyu recognized the figure's title as Martial Saint and announced that the target had arrived.

Fang Qingyu and his allies launched a planned assault on Jiang Taixuan, but the weakened Martial Saint shattered Fang Qingyu’s Eternal Night Domain and trapped them inside a Flesh and Blood Furnace. Elsewhere in the false ruins, fleeing Deep Blue Heavy Industries members and the other Grandmasters were sealed inside the same living trap.

• Fang Qingyu and fourteen allies ambushed Jiang Taixuan and the seven Cloud Blossom Emissaries, but Jiang Taixuan blocked their combined attack with a single raised hand.
• Jiang Taixuan offered to let Fang Qingyu’s group withdraw, but Fang Qingyu mocked him and urged him to kill himself; Jiang Taixuan flew into a rage and blamed Old Man Hong for sending young Second Order fighters.
• After Jiang Chengyue reported that no reinforcements would come, Fang Qingyu donned his Eternal Night Blazing Armor and led the group into a second attack on Jiang Taixuan.
• Jiang Taixuan claimed his family had died protecting Glaze Light City, then threw a black pouch that broke Fang Qingyu’s connection to the Eternal Night Domain and transported the group into a Flesh and Blood Furnace.
• Deep Blue Heavy Industries’ operatives abandoned their fight over the altar and warned the other Grandmasters that the ruins were fake, but the exit and cavern walls were quickly sealed by living flesh.
• The trapped Grandmasters attacked the flesh wall but could not break it, and Jiang Taixuan’s voice told them that none of them would leave.

Fang Qingyu and his allies were trapped inside Taotie’s Stomach, where Jiang Taixuan revealed his plan to absorb their life force and began attacking Fang Qingyu with Martial Saint pressure. As the separated teams faced ambushes throughout the flesh maze, Jiang Wei awakened a tremendous power before the Taotie Blood Shadow.

• Fang Qingyu was torn from the Eternal Night Domain and realized he had been trapped inside Taotie’s Stomach, so he searched for his scattered allies.
• The passage closed around Fang Qingyu, and Jiang Taixuan emerged with renewed strength and revealed that Taotie’s Stomach had spent forty years accumulating the life force of past victims.
• Jiang Taixuan boasted that he would use the cleaners and the gathered Grandmasters to recover his peak, then unleashed his Martial Saint pressure against Fang Qingyu.
• Wei Banmeng found herself isolated on a platform surrounded by a blood river, where grotesque heads emerged and surrounded her.
• Chu Kuanglan heard Lu Jiuyuan’s warning, then watched Cloud Blossom Emissaries ambush Lu Jiuyuan as Shikong and Liu Hanyan’s teams fought elsewhere in the maze.
• Jiang Wei faced the Taotie Blood Shadow in a crimson flower field, awakened immense power, and asked whether it recognized her.

Jiang Wei blasted open a passage through Taotie's flesh and led dozens of Grandmasters away from the pursuing Taotie Blood Shadow, while Fang Qingyu was overwhelmed by Jiang Taixuan. A Lightning God Origin Authority Fragment awakened inside Fang Qingyu, and he accepted activation of a new Divine Profession as golden lightning engulfed him.

• Deep Blue Heavy Industries' technicians found a living flesh membrane blocking the Glacial Crevasse, then watched a giant flesh ball emerge and roll northeast as Old Li reported the threat and ordered a pursuit.
• Jiang Wei used Red Lotus: Sky Incineration to wound the Taotie Blood Shadow and blast open the flesh wall, revealing a passage where dozens of Second Order Grandmasters had gathered.
• Jiang Wei ordered the Grandmasters to follow her, and they fled through the passage as the Taotie Blood Shadow forced its way through the opening and chased them.
• Jiang Taixuan explained to the wounded Fang Qingyu that killing him would turn them into enemies of the Arctic Frontline and Federation, then lifted Fang Qingyu by the throat when he mocked him.
• A powerful heartbeat and golden lightning erupted from Fang Qingyu, and he accepted activation of a new Divine Profession after a system prompt warned that Lightning Body Tempering was dangerous.

Fang Qingyu activated the Thunder God Origin Authority and trapped Jiang Taixuan beneath the golden thunder, while Jiang Wei rescued separated fighters as the Taotie Blood Shadow pursued them. In Glaze Light City, Jiang Chengyue blocked Jiang Hongyuan’s emergency forces and exposed evidence of the old ancestor’s horrific actions, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Fang Qingyu unleashed the Thunder God Origin Authority through Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity, and the resulting heavenly pressure slammed Jiang Taixuan into the ground and pinned him in place.
• Jiang Wei tore open the passage walls to rescue Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, and Lu Jiuyuan as they fled the Taotie Blood Shadow; the pursuers then realized the monster had vanished.
• Jiang Hongyuan ordered an emergency deployment to retrieve the old ancestor, but Jiang Chengyue and dozens of former comrades blocked the City Lord’s Mansion road.
• Jiang Hongyuan accused Jiang Chengyue’s group of betraying the Jiang family and the Federation, while Jiang Chengyue’s allies questioned what the old ancestor had done in the quiet room.
• Jiang Chengyue scattered photographs showing people drained of blood and piles of corpses, then declared that no one would pass.

Jiang Chengyue recounted how he discovered Jiang Taixuan’s blood-draining scheme, joined others in exposing the Jiang Family, and declared war on its forces. Inside Taotie’s Stomach, Fang Qingyu endured Heaven’s Punishment Lightning as Jiang Taixuan tried to shield himself, and the chapter ended with Fang Qingyu emerging through the flesh wall before the surviving Grandmasters.

• Jiang Chengyue discovered that Jiang Taixuan and the Jiang elders were draining people for blood and vitality, then denounced them and was branded a traitor.
• After investigating further, Jiang Chengyue joined comrades who had uncovered the family’s crimes and declared war on the Jiang Family outside the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Jiang Taixuan wrapped himself in Taotie’s Stomach flesh to resist the lightning striking Fang Qingyu, while the lightning burned through his living shield.
• Fang Qingyu spent his last two skill points on Jade Bone and endured successive bolts of Heaven’s Punishment Lightning.
• The survivors inside Taotie’s Stomach felt the flesh passage rise, then saw golden lightning break through its wall as Fang Qingyu stepped out unharmed.

Fang Qingyu survived the ninth Golden Divine Lightning and awakened the Divine Firmament Emissary profession, while the lightning figure opened an escape route for the survivors trapped in Taotie’s Stomach. The survivors rushed toward the opening as Wei Banmeng carried the exhausted Jiang Wei out, and Fang Qingyu’s breakthrough left him with new power and a divine inheritance.

• A mysterious figure cloaked in golden lightning acknowledged Jiang Wei, then pierced the membrane dome and vanished, leaving an opening for the survivors to escape.
• The Grandmasters rushed toward the opening, while Wei Banmeng caught the unconscious Jiang Wei and prepared to carry her out for treatment.
• Wei Banmeng told Shikong, Liu Hanyan, and Chu Kuanglan that Jiang Wei’s collapse meant Fang Qingyu was likely alive, though his location remained unknown.
• As the ninth Golden Divine Lightning descended, Fang Qingyu activated Blood Burst Open, regenerated, and survived the strike while Jiang Taixuan watched in disbelief.
• Fang Qingyu gained control of the Dark Gold Divine Lightning, encountered a vast golden being in a Cosmic Void, and received an immense stream of lightning knowledge.
• The ancient diagram announced that Fang Qingyu had crossed the Life Divine Rank Threshold and unlocked the Divine Firmament Emissary profession.

Fang Qingyu escaped Taotie’s Stomach, discovered that he could fly with his new Divine Firmament Authority, and pursued the fleeing Jiang Taixuan across a frozen wasteland. He found Jiang Taixuan absorbing the frozen heart of an Icebound Colossus to increase his power, while the others faced a Life Spirit Army outside the Great Wall.

• Fang Qingyu flew through the flesh maze, broke out of Taotie’s Stomach, and found himself in an unfamiliar frozen wasteland.
• Fang Qingyu located Deep Blue Heavy Industries technicians, learned that Jiang Taixuan had fled northwest, and took off in pursuit.
• Wei Banmeng, Shikong, Liu Hanyan, and the other Grandmasters emerged from Taotie’s Stomach and learned they were outside the Great Wall, where a Life Spirit Army was approaching.
• Fang Qingyu examined his Divine Firmament Emissary panel as he tracked Jiang Taixuan through the snow and into an ice valley.
• Fang Qingyu found Jiang Taixuan forcing his arm into the frozen heart of an Icebound Colossus and devouring its remaining power to strengthen himself.

Fang Qingyu confronted Jiang Taixuan after the Martial Saint mutated into Taotie: Greed Incarnate, then pursued him as the Life Spirit Army attacked. Elsewhere, Qin Wu rescued Wei Banmeng and the survivors, but a scarlet-haired woman froze time and found Jiang Wei.

• Jiang Taixuan absorbed the frozen Life Spirit heart, transformed into Taotie: Greed Incarnate, and questioned Fang Qingyu, who suspected the approaching Life Spirit Army had come for him.
• Fang Qingyu unleashed Divine Firmament Lightning to destroy the Life Spirit vanguard, while Jiang Taixuan fled deeper into the glacier and Fang Qingyu pursued him.
• Wei Banmeng, Shikong, Liu Hanyan, and the other survivors faced a Life Spirit attack in a glacier fissure, where Qin Wu arrived and led them to victory.
• After the survivors’ battle, a scarlet-haired woman froze time and space, approached Wei Banmeng, and lifted Jiang Wei’s chin, saying she had finally found her.

Fang Qingyu pursued and nearly killed Jiang Taixuan, but the Third Order Life Spirit Han Jie Ming Tuo and the god Nu Ba intervened. After Jiu gave Fang Qingyu five seconds, he unleashed his Divine Firmament Dragon Transformation and charged at them, vowing to kill Jiang Taixuan.

• Fang Qingyu caught Jiang Taixuan with Eternal Night Warp and burned and battered him with Divine Firmament Lightning, but their impact awakened Han Jie Ming Tuo beneath the glacier.
• Han Jie Ming Tuo caught Jiang Taixuan and attacked Fang Qingyu, who fought through its palm strike and was about to reach Jiang Taixuan when Nu Ba froze time and seized his lightning.
• Jiu appeared and confronted Nu Ba, who teased Fang Qingyu, rescued Jiang Taixuan, and prepared to leave with Han Jie Ming Tuo.
• Fang Qingyu called out to stop them and silently met Jiu's gaze; Jiu told him he had five seconds and vanished along with Nu Ba.
• Fang Qingyu unleashed his Ultimate Skill: Divine Firmament - Dragon Transformation and charged at Han Jie Ming Tuo and Jiang Taixuan, declaring that Jiang Taixuan would die.

Fang Qingyu helped defeat Jiang Taixuan, while Nu Ba withdrew after Hong Zhenyue and Jiang Ying intervened. Fang returned Jiang Taixuan’s head to Glaze Light City, where Jiang Chengyue’s defenders saw proof that their fight had succeeded.

• Fang Qingyu’s Divine Firmament lightning shattered Han Jie Ming Tuo’s Mysterious Black Stele, wounded the beast, and severed the hand holding Jiang Taixuan.
• Hong Zhenyue and Jiang Ying appeared between Nu Ba and Fang Qingyu, and a strange shadow intervened before Nu Ba withdrew with Han Jie Ming Tuo.
• Nu Ba’s parting words revealed that she knew Fang Qingyu had looked after Jiang Wei, but Hong Zhenyue assured him that his people were safe.
• Jiang Ying explained that the Jiang family had waited to gather evidence against Jiang Taixuan, and Fang Qingyu retrieved the dead Jiang Taixuan’s head.
• Fang Qingyu brought Jiang Taixuan’s head to Glaze Light City and dropped it between Jiang Chengyue’s defenders and Jiang Hongyuan’s group.
• Jiang Hongyuan recognized the head and collapsed, while Jiang Chengyue wept with relief and looked up toward Fang Qingyu.

Jiang Ying exposed Jiang Taixuan and Jiang Hongyuan’s crimes, punished their accomplices, and announced reforms for Glaze Light City. Fang Qingyu reached Spine City and asked Hong Qitian about the shadow he had encountered, learning only that Hong called it “a simp.”

• Fang Qingyu left Jiang Ying to handle Glaze Light City and flew to the Great Wall.
• Jiang Ying publicly accused Jiang Taixuan of murder, cannibalism, embezzlement, and collusion with the Life Spirits, then executed Jiang Hongyuan for aiding him.
• Jiang Ying revealed the Cloud Blossom Emissaries who had protected Jiang Chengyue and his battered fighters, then sentenced the remaining conspirators and deserters.
• Jiang Ying announced ten years of higher pay, waived mission commissions, lower taxes, and increased soldier compensation, prompting cheers across Glaze Light City.
• Fang Qingyu arrived at Spine City and met Hong Qitian in his office.
• Fang Qingyu asked Hong Qitian who the shadow from the fate ghost had been, and Hong called it “a simp.”

Fang Qingyu learned more about Black Jue and was warned to keep his Martial Artist and Divine Follower powers hidden from Life Spirits. After Jiang Wei awoke, Drought Ba’s touch triggered a violent burst of power, and Fang Qingyu discovered that she appeared to be growing up.

• Hong Qitian revealed that Black Jue was a Calamity-Grade Life Spirit who had killed a Martial Venerable, then warned Fang Qingyu to keep his two power systems separate around Life Spirits.
• Fang Qingyu visited the injured Shikong and Liu Hanyan's Squad, then found Wei Banmeng watching over the unconscious Jiang Wei.
• Wei Banmeng told Fang Qingyu that Drought Ba had frozen everyone, touched Jiang Wei’s forehead, and left her unable to wake.
• Fang Qingyu comforted Wei Banmeng and stayed beside Jiang Wei, reviewing his new Divine Firmament Emissary profession and the 83 skill points he had gained.
• Jiang Wei woke with a vacant stare before crimson power erupted from her, and Fang Qingyu blocked the ward’s doorway as the others rushed to investigate.
• Fang Qingyu told the gathered group that Jiang Wei seemed to be growing up.

Jiang Wei suddenly matured into a sixteen-year-old girl and was revealed to be the good half of Nu Ba, while Drought Ba remained unable to devour her until she absorbed the reincarnation power within her. The chapter left Drought Ba alone in her Arctic stronghold, wondering whether they could survive what was coming.

• Jiang Wei's energy subsided, and Fang Qingyu and the others found her transformed into a sleeping sixteen-year-old who closely resembled Drought Ba.
• The doctors confirmed Jiang Wei was stable, and Fang Qingyu assured his squad he would explain her transformation to the higher-ups.
• Martial Venerable Shan Ming reported increased Life Spirit Army attacks and improved coordination, and Hong Qitian ordered reinforcements for the Seventh Legion and Frostbone Fjord.
• Hong Qitian told Fang Qingyu that Jiang Wei was the good half of Nu Ba, separated from the evil half that became Drought Ba, and that she was not in danger.
• Fang Qingyu returned to Jiang Wei's bedside and waited for her to wake, while Drought Ba told Black Duke that devouring Jiang Wei before her reincarnation power faded would risk catastrophic backlash.
• After Black Duke promised to help her when the time came, Drought Ba drove it away and wondered whether they could still survive.

Fang Qingyu’s squad recovered from the Glaze Light City crisis, settled into its Arctic Frontline base, and reported to Abyss Hunt, where the Department Head summoned them personally. The chapter ended as Fang Qingyu recognized the woman waiting for them as City Lord Jiang.

• Jiang Wei woke in a grown woman’s body, learned about the rescue and Jiang Taixuan’s death, and began adjusting to her transformation with Fang Qingyu and Wei Banmeng’s help.
• Fang Qingyu learned that news of his role in killing Jiang Taixuan and Jiang Ying’s new policies had spread across the Arctic Frontline.
• Fang Qingyu teased Lu Jiuyuan about Chu Kuanglan’s story of his romantic rescue, then explained that the squad would receive real Great Wall Garrison Army ranks after recovering.
• The squad recovered, moved into its assigned residence in Spine City, and officially began its frontline service by reporting to Abyss Hunt.
• An Abyss Hunt officer diverted Fang Qingyu’s squad from registration and led them to a private meeting with the Department Head.
• Fang Qingyu entered the Department Head’s office, saw a woman in a moon-white robe, and recognized her as City Lord Jiang.

Fang Qingyu and his team joined Abyss Hunter’s Arctic Frontline and learned that its mysterious minister was a hidden assassin who had killed two Fourth Order Life Spirits. While Fang Qingyu strengthened his skills in training, Jiang Wei revealed that this was the first time she had grown up in her reincarnations and said she could feel a divine being approaching.

• Jiang Ying welcomed Fang Qingyu’s team, assigned herself to oversee their frontline duties, and required them to memorize a detailed map of the Arctic battlefield before leaving.
• An Abyss Hunter officer explained that the minister had never appeared publicly and had confirmed kills of two Fourth Order Life Spirits.
• Fang Qingyu returned to the underground training ground and spent nearly all 83 skill points improving his contemplation method, blood qi method, Dragon’s True Intent, and Startling Thunder Evasion Steps.
• Fang Qingyu found Jiang Wei awake in the training ground and asked whether this was her first time growing from a child into an adult.
• Jiang Wei confirmed it was her first time growing up and said she could feel a divine being coming soon.

After Fang Qingyu reassured Jiang Wei about the mysterious force that had hunted her across lives, he resolved to grow strong enough to protect her. The squad received major awards and celebrated at Veteran's Tavern, where a mysterious old man warned Fang Qingyu that Jiang Wei's tribulation was approaching and offered guidance after Fang Qingyu reached the Third Order.

• Fang Qingyu learned that Jiang Wei remembered little about her recurring attackers, then privately considered two paths to reach power capable of facing them.
• Fang Qingyu's squad trained for several days before receiving notice of a medal ceremony at the Hall of Peace.
• Jiang Chengyue and other Glaze Light City veterans thanked Fang Qingyu's squad, and the ceremony promoted Fang Qingyu to colonel and appointed him captain of Yuan Hunt's Seventh Special Operations Team.
• Jiang Chengyue led Fang Qingyu's group to Veteran's Tavern, where they shared a meal of roasted Ice Field Howler meat and celebrated their awards.
• An old man marked by three scarlet question marks asked Fang Qingyu for liquor, then privately warned him that Jiang Wei's tribulation was near and said he could offer advice after Fang Qingyu reached the Third Order and found Old Hong.