Chapter Summaries

Fang Qingyu reassured himself that the Federation was safe for now, then led his squad on a raid against an organized Life Spirit army in Skull-Shattering Ice Valley. His team drew the army into a Federation ambush while he attacked the Blackstone Golem, and the chapter ended as the Garrison Army charged into battle.

• Fang Qingyu told Hong Qitian about the mysterious old man, and Hong Qitian said True Divine Bodies would not descend into Federation territory because his son was still alive.
• Five days after the merit-transfer ceremony, Fang Qingyu and his four teammates entered the ice fields to attack the Life Spirit army in Skull-Shattering Ice Valley.
• Fang Qingyu's squad discovered that the Life Spirits were unusually organized, but he kept the plan and ordered his teammates to draw the main force out while he targeted the Blackstone Golem.
• Fang Qingyu trapped the Blackstone Golem in his Eternal Night Domain and struck at its head with Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity.
• Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, Lu Jiuyuan, and Jiang Wei lured thousands of Life Spirits toward the designated pocket, where the Garrison Army launched a massive charge against them.

Wei Banmeng led Chu Kuanglan, Lu Jiuyuan, and Jiang Wei into the Garrison Army’s battle against the Life Spirit Army while Fang Qingyu killed the Blackstone Golem. Investigating a faint sob, Fang Qingyu discovered captives and Second Order collaborators hidden in an ice cavern, subdued the kidnappers, and told the survivors they were safe.

• Wei Banmeng ordered her squad to support the Garrison Army by targeting Second Order Life Spirits and disrupting their command nodes.
• Chu Kuanglan, Lu Jiuyuan, Wei Banmeng, and Jiang Wei fought through the battlefield as the Garrison Army gained ground.
• Fang Qingyu killed the Blackstone Golem with one slash and hurried toward the battle after hearing the Life Spirit Army falter.
• Fang Qingyu heard a woman sobbing and found dozens of shackled captives guarded by Second Order men who planned to ambush searchers and escape in their clothes.
• The kidnappers attacked Fang Qingyu, but his Divine Firmament Authority paralyzed them with golden lightning.
• Fang Qingyu covered the exposed captives with clothing and assured them they were safe.

Fang Qingyu rescued dozens of Second Order Transcendents who had been abducted and held as goods for the Life Spirits, then brought their captors to Spine City. As the victims described coordinated kidnappings by a powerful black-robed group, Fang Qingyu summoned Hong Qitian to help uncover who was behind the operation.

• Fang Qingyu freed the prisoners, immobilized their captors with divine lightning, and ordered Wei Banmeng and the others to escort the victims safely back to the Great Wall.
• The Garrison Army commander honored Fang Qingyu's order to keep troops away from the rift, while Chu Kuanglan joined the escort after learning the captives were Second Order Transcendents intended for the Life Spirits.
• Lin Yu told Wei Banmeng that she and the others had been seized during Federation missions by a black-robed group led by a powerful Third Order.
• Fang Qingyu sent the captured kidnappers to his training ground and asked Hong Qitian for someone he trusted to extract the truth.
• Hong Qitian arrived at Fang Qingyu's courtyard and offered to help with the trouble.

Fang Qingyu used the Old Man of the South Pole’s power to extract the truth from the kidnappers, then killed them and learned that a speed-focused Ji Family was behind the trafficking. The rescued victims chose to join his investigation, and Jiang Wei argued that helping them take revenge with their own hands could give them true salvation.

• The Old Man of the South Pole made the captured kidnappers answer truthfully for two hours, then vanished; Fang Qingyu later killed them after confirming their information.
• Fang Qingyu told Wei Banmeng and his teammates that the kidnappers’ contacts were Martial Artists from a discreet Ji Family with an exceptional speed inheritance, and ordered them to investigate possible connections to the Arctic Frontline.
• Fang Qingyu showed the rescued victims the kidnappers’ deaths and asked what they planned to do; all of them volunteered to help him seek revenge and prevent others from suffering the same fate.
• Lin Yu created a group chat named Dawn for Fang Qingyu and the rescued avengers, who agreed to rest and stay in contact while they recovered.
• On the walk back, Fang Qingyu worried that he might lead the survivors into another deadly conflict, but Jiang Wei told him that supporting their own revenge could give them true salvation.

Fang Qingyu’s team investigated Ji-surnamed personnel inside the Great Wall of the Arctic and identified the Ji Clan of Frost Castle as their leading suspect. They caught a suspected informant at the captured camp and took him into custody, while Chu Kuanglan was confronted by a Ji family member in Spine City.

• Fang Qingyu ordered Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, and Lu Jiuyuan to investigate fifteen Ji-surnamed officials, focusing on seven linked to the Ji Clan of Frost Castle, without suspending their missions.
• Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, and Lu Jiuyuan separately investigated personnel and records, identifying seven Frost Castle clan members in sensitive posts across the Great Wall.
• Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei hid in the Skull-Shattering Ice Valley cavern and followed a short officer who returned to report that the missing cargo was likely taken by Fang Qingyu’s squad.
• Chu Kuanglan learned that the Ji Clan of Tianshuang Fort worshiped the ancient deity Erfu, then was confronted in an alley by a man who knew he had been asking about the Ji family.
• Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei caught Officer Ji sending a message about the missing cargo, paralyzed him, and questioned him after he recognized Fang Qingyu’s golden lightning.
• Fang Qingyu showed Qin Bin his Yuan Hunting credentials and demanded Officer Ji’s records; Qin Bin agreed to retrieve and transmit them.

Chu Kuanglan discovered that the Ji Family of Frost Castle was tied to the trafficking of captured Grandmasters, while Fang Qingyu’s interrogation exposed a wider conspiracy involving infiltrators and an unknown Luo Family. After Ji Lang’s execution, Hong Qitian revealed that the Federation had only five months before a looming crisis and said he expected Fang Qingyu to lead the younger generation through it.

• Ji Wuying approached Chu Kuanglan in an alley, probed him about Fang Qingyu’s recruitment, and vanished after Chu pretended to be drunk and invited him back.
• Chu Kuanglan reported that the Ji Family was connected to worshiping Erfu and that Ji Wuying had seemed far stronger than an ordinary Second Order combatant.
• Fang Qingyu brought Ji Lang out of his shadow and interrogated him, learning that the Ji Family and a Luo Family had supplied captured Grandmasters to the Life Spirits for a mysterious royal strain.
• Ji Lang named numerous collaborators inside the Great Wall’s military and security organizations, including Ji Wuya, who commanded the Frostbone Fjord Theater, and Chu Kuanglan killed him after Fang Qingyu turned away.
• Hong Qitian told Jiang Ying that the Federation had only five months before the final contingency plan had to begin, and said Fang Qingyu possessed the recklessness needed to lead the younger generation.

The Ji family plotted to recover its missing cargo by targeting Fang Qingyu and his squad, but Fang Qingyu anticipated the ambush and surrounded Ji Wuying’s forces with the rescued Dawn members. As Fang Qingyu challenged the attackers to check whether their powerful protector was still above them, the confrontation began.

• Ji Wuying convinced the Ji family’s leaders that Fang Qingyu had taken the cargo and ordered Ji Wen to track Fang Qingyu’s squad so they could ambush them.
• Fang Qingyu’s squad accepted a mission to hunt Shadow-Eroding Icefang Beasts in Riftwind Ice Ridge, while Lu Jiuyuan explained how they could use the mission to draw out the Ji family.
• At the battlefield, Fang Qingyu sensed Ji Wuying and more than a dozen subordinates approaching, then activated a force field to confront them.
• Dozens of Dawn members emerged from hiding and surrounded Ji Wuying’s group, but the attackers mistakenly believed they had found the people the Ji family had sold as cargo.
• Fang Qingyu drew the Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity and challenged Ji Wuying’s group to determine whether their powerful protector was still present before welcoming them to hell.

Fang Qingyu trapped the Ji family attackers in his Eternal Night Domain while Dawn fought back, and he defeated the three Third Order leaders. He left the injured enemies to Lin Yu and the other members of Dawn to finish.

• Fang Qingyu unleashed his Eternal Night Domain, isolating Ji Wuying, Ji Wuhen, and Ji Wufeng from the other Black Robed figures.
• Fang Qingyu evaded the three Ji family Third Orders' attacks and countered their Shadow Kill Formation with Divine Firmament Lightning.
• Wei Banmeng led Dawn's members in ambushing and overwhelming the remaining Black Robed figures inside the darkness.
• Fang Qingyu overwhelmed Ji Wuying, Ji Wuhen, and Ji Wufeng with lightning, leaving them badly injured in separate craters.
• Dawn's thirty-seven members surrounded the defeated enemies, and Fang Qingyu told Lin Yu, "The rest is up to you."

Fang Qingyu’s squad pursued Shadow-Eroding Icefang Beasts before a Fourth Order masked man tried to bribe them into ending their population investigation. Fang Qingyu accepted the offer to fool him, but the masked man reported success to the Luo family’s Ancestor, who ordered the squad transferred to the City of Injustice and punished along the way.

• Three days after leaving the Eternal Night Domain, Fang Qingyu’s squad cornered the Shadow-Eroding Icefang Beasts, which sprouted wings and escaped into a storm.
• Fang Qingyu pursued and killed the fleeing Icefang Beasts, then returned to find a silent domain surrounding his squad and a Fourth Order masked man waiting.
• The masked man offered Fang Qingyu’s squad three boxes of valuable resources in exchange for ending their investigation into the population matter, and Fang Qingyu agreed while intending to deceive him.
• The masked man left after warning the squad, and Fang Qingyu’s team carried the resources away, believing the man had accepted their false agreement.
• The masked man, Ji Wujiu, reported to the Luo family’s Ancestor that Fang Qingyu had agreed to stop investigating, and the Ancestor ordered the squad sent to the City of Injustice and punished on the way.

After completing the Icefang mission, Fang Qingyu learned that the Luo family’s deal with a Life Spirit King Seed was meant to extend Luo Qingyi’s life, and that Elder Hong had allowed it because he had only one strike left to deter the Alien Races. Fang Qingyu accepted his squad’s transfer to the City of Injustice, where he was tasked with restoring order and killing the King Seed, and learned that its city lord possessed something he wanted.

• Fang Qingyu’s squad handed in the Icefang mission and exchanged their Merit Points for cultivation materials and other resources.
• Jiang Ying told Fang Qingyu that his squad had been transferred to the City of Injustice after a council vote influenced by the Luo family.
• Jiang Ying revealed that Elder Hong was the Federation’s true strongest expert but had only one strike remaining, and explained that Luo Qingyi had struck a life-extending deal with a Life Spirit King Seed.
• Jiang Ying told Fang Qingyu to suppress the City of Injustice’s riot and kill the King Seed, and explained that the city was a mobile Divine Weapon called the Mirage.
• Fang Qingyu accepted the mission and learned that the City of Injustice’s current city lord had something he wanted.

Fang Qingyu accepted a transfer to the City of Injustice and agreed to travel there with Lin Yu and her companions, while keeping his investigation into the Luo family in mind. Hong Qitian revealed that he had sent Fang Qingyu there because Luo Qingyi had bet he would not survive, with her own life at stake if Hong Qitian won.

• Fang Qingyu returned from meeting Jiang Ying, privately reasoned that Hong Qitian had maneuvered him toward the City of Injustice, and then rejoined his teammates for hot pot.
• Lin Yu, Zhang Meng, and Chen Shan visited to say goodbye and asked Fang Qingyu to stop investigating because they feared for his safety; he reassured them and learned they planned to move to the City of Injustice.
• Fang Qingyu revealed that his team had received orders to go to the City of Injustice, and agreed to travel there with Lin Yu's group while keeping the Luo family matter from them.
• Fang Qingyu's team began packing as Lin Yu and her companions went to gather their people.
• Hong Qitian told the Old Man of the South Pole that Luo Qingyi had bet Fang Qingyu would not survive the City of Injustice, and that if Hong Qitian won, Luo Qingyi would die in his place.

Fang Qingyu reunited with old companions and Su Wanqing aboard the Hope Ark as they headed for the City of Injustice, then caught and threw two dream-wielding Apostles into the sea. After Su Wanqing explained the Mirage’s dangerous regional rules and territory-based economy, Fang Qingyu was left preparing to seize territory.

• Chu Kuanglan said he planned to leave the Arctic and make his way in the world while Miss Xiao Hua waited for him.
• Fang Qingyu boarded the Hope Ark with his squad and Dawnbreak members, then learned that Qin Hui, Old Jiao, Lu Chen, and Qi Hao had also come aboard because a higher-up said he needed help.
• Su Wanqing joined the group and explained that she had visited the City of Injustice many times and knew its dangerous regions and trading practices.
• Fang Qingyu overheard two Third Order Apostles planning to torment him through dreams, trapped them in his Eternal Night Domain, and threw them into the Arctic Ice Sea.
• Su Wanqing described the Mirage’s varied forbidden rules and explained that visitors needed to exchange resources or seize territory to earn its currency, prompting Fang Qingyu to consider taking territory.

Fang Qingyu’s team entered the City of Injustice aboard the Hope Ark and posed as a declining family seeking protection from the Azure Dragon Gang. As they traveled toward the gang’s territory, they learned the Inner City riot may have begun because the City Lord was injured, leaving Fang Qingyu questioning how such a powerful figure could be hurt.

• Su Wanqing persuaded the team to join the Azure Dragon Gang discreetly so they could establish a base and investigate the Inner City riot without attracting attention.
• The Hope Ark reached Mirage, a colossal Primordial-level Divine Weaponry that opened to reveal a vast city inside its metallic sphere.
• Fang Qingyu’s group disembarked and met Liu San and A Biao, who welcomed them on behalf of the Azure Dragon Gang as the Su family.
• While driving through Mirage, the newcomers saw its simulated daylight and Chu Kuanglan asked Liu San about the unrest in the Inner City.
• Liu San said the Blood Fiend Arena had drawn guards away, allowing factions to seize territory, and whispered that the City Lord might be seriously injured.
• Fang Qingyu heard the revelation and wondered how the City Lord, a likely fourth- or fifth-tier existence, could have been injured in a city that barred such powerful beings.

Fang Qingyu and his companions settled into the Azure Dragon Gang’s poor Gray Rock Area territory and learned how the City of Injustice’s gangs and rules worked. After meeting gang leader Lei Meng, they were welcomed as recruits and were told they would soon be sent into the field.

• Liu San brought Fang Qingyu and the others to the Azure Dragon Gang’s shabby dormitory and explained that the gang had few fighters compared with its rivals.
• Fang Qingyu refused Wei Banmeng’s suggestion to bring Dawn’s thirty-seven members into the gang, then split the newcomers into two teams to take gang missions or Life Ghost cleanup jobs.
• Su Wanqing explained that the Gray Rock Area forbade the Contemplation Method, and the group saw Blood Wolf Gang members seize two men who had fought over a place in line to see the renowned doctor Su Min.
• Liu San brought the group to meet Lei Meng, the Azure Dragon Gang leader, who tested Fang Qingyu’s reflexes, welcomed the newcomers, and said they would soon take the field.

Fang Qingyu and his companions adjusted to life in the City of Injustice, found ordinary work, and began investigating Scavenger Missions. The group planned to take missions through Wei Banmeng’s family’s Wei Family Group, while Old Qin decided to quit smoking after learning how expensive cigarettes were.

• Liu San warned Fang Qingyu’s group that Life Spirits in the Mirage could not be reliably ranked and that hunting them was extremely dangerous, so Chu Kuanglan asked him to find safer work.
• Liu San took the group to Universal Talents, where Manager Wang arranged jobs; Fang Qingyu began bartending at Crescent Moon Bar to gather information, while the others took various jobs around the city.
• Fang Qingyu earned about 870 Gray Crystals in tips during his first shift, but he and his companions found little useful information about the Inner City’s turmoil.
• Su Wanqing reported that Wei Banmeng had found a Scavenger Mission source through the Wei Family Group in Blue Wave Bay Area, and Fang Qingyu proposed taking missions through the family’s reliable channels.
• Old Qin asked Su Wanqing for money to buy cigarettes, then returned the bill after discovering that the cheapest pack cost 100 Gray Crystals and announced he would quit smoking.

Fang Qingyu and the Azure Dragon Gang attacked the Blood Wolf Casino, where Fang Qingyu concealed his strength while fighting Zhao Kui. After Zhao Kui unleashed a devastating saber attack, Fang Qingyu emerged from the smoke with him unconscious and demanded the Blood Wolf Gang surrender.

• Qin Hui stole Liu San’s cigarettes, and Fang Qingyu told his group to conceal their strength during the coming operation.
• Liu San led more than thirty Azure Dragon Gang members to attack the Blood Wolf Casino while two other groups charged from different directions.
• Fang Qingyu quickly knocked out the casino’s two guards, and Liu San broke down the entrance and ordered the gamblers to flee.
• Liu San assigned Fang Qingyu to fight Zhao Kui, while the Azure Dragon Gang and Blood Wolf Gang clashed inside the casino.
• Fang Qingyu appeared to struggle against Zhao Kui until Zhao Kui unleashed a powerful saber attack that blasted apart the hall.
• Fang Qingyu emerged from the smoke with Zhao Kui unconscious and told the Blood Wolf Gang to surrender if they wanted to live.

Fang Qingyu helped the Azure Dragon Gang defeat the Blood Wolf Gang, then gathered clues about the unrest and the Purple Thorn Society. He learned that the Heaven's Punishment Society had reportedly beaten the Federation's strongest Apostle, giving him a lead on who was targeting the Purple Thorn Society.

• Fang Qingyu defeated Zhao Kui and brought him before the Blood Wolf Gang members, who surrendered as Liu San and the Azure Dragon Gang captured them and seized the casino.
• Lei Meng returned to the Gray Rock Area, celebrated the victory with Liu San, and promised Fang Qingyu and the Su family their rewards.
• Fang Qingyu's group compared intelligence: Qin Hui reported corpse-carrying trucks, Lu Jiuyuan described the Purple Thorn Society's lockdown, and Wei Banmeng shared rumors about the deaths of the Sixth Martial Saint and the ownership of his God-Forged Armament.
• Fang Qingyu told the group he had identified the force targeting the Purple Thorn Society, then questioned a drunken customer at the Crescent Moon Bar.
• The customer claimed the Heaven's Punishment Society had beaten the Federation's strongest Apostle and forced the Purple Thorn Society to retreat behind its defenses.

Fang Qingyu’s team began investigating the Purple Thorn Society, the City of Injustice riot, and the mysterious Heaven's Punishment Society while helping the Azure Dragon Gang prepare its casino. The chapter ended with Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei hiding from three Peak Martial Saints who had ambushed them with a rocket launcher on the overpass.

• Su Wanqing explained that Heaven's Punishment Society controlled part of the Inner City's Core Zone and may have crushed the Purple Thorn Society's strongest apostle.
• Fang Qingyu organized the team to investigate the Heaven's Punishment Society, the Purple Thorn Society, and the riot, while Liu San warned them that the Iron Claw Society protected the Blood Wolf Gang's territory.
• Liu San delivered eight thousand gray crystal banknotes from Lei Meng, and Fang Qingyu divided the money among the five pairs for their investigations.
• Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei rode toward the Inner City, and Jiang Wei asked about his progress with the Formless Heart Sutra.
• A black Maybach pulled alongside Fang Qingyu's motorcycle, and a masked passenger fired a rocket launcher at him and Jiang Wei.
• Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei survived by hiding in the fallen motorcycle's shadow, where they saw that their three attackers were Peak Martial Saints.

Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei faced four Third Order Peak attackers on the elevated highway while Su Wanqing and Wei Banmeng were ambushed by four more members of the Assembly of Gods. Mandala rescued Su Wanqing and Wei Banmeng, then revealed that they had been looking for her all along.

• Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei hid within the Eternal Night Domain as four Third Order Peak enemies searched the highway, then prepared to fight them.
• Fang Qingyu unleashed the Divine Firmament against three attackers, while Jiang Wei confronted the Gray-Clad Apostle; the Apostle was interrupted by a sudden pillar of fire.
• Su Wanqing and Wei Banmeng were surrounded by four Third Order fighters, who identified themselves as agents of the Assembly of Gods and blamed Fang Qingyu for offending their Secretary-General.
• Black Mandala Flowers appeared around Su Wanqing and Wei Banmeng, and the masked Mandala used overwhelming mental pressure to drive the four attackers away.
• Mandala led Su Wanqing and Wei Banmeng out of the force field through a hidden elevator, then told them they had been looking for her.

Yan Lin revealed that the Purple Thorn Society’s headquarters had been infiltrated and its members replaced, then warned Su Wanqing and Wei Banmeng that their teammates were under attack. As Chu Kuanglan and Qi Hao tried to save an injured Purple Thorn Society survivor and reach reinforcements, Fang Qingyu killed one of four Peak Martial Saints before the remaining two transformed into incarnations of savage gods and charged him.

• Yan Lin told Su Wanqing and Wei Banmeng that she was the Sixth Apostle Mandala and had been ambushed by more than twenty Third Order Peaks after arriving to take over the Purple Thorn Society.
• Yan Lin explained that the Society’s headquarters had been taken over and that her identities and the reports of her defeat were disguises she used during her investigation.
• Yan Lin received an urgent call and sent Su Wanqing and Wei Banmeng to rescue their teammates, who had come under attack.
• Chu Kuanglan and Qi Hao escaped with an unconscious Purple Thorn Society survivor, then split up so Qi Hao could find a doctor while Chu Kuanglan called Lin Yu for help.
• Fang Qingyu killed one of the Peak Martial Saints with the Divine Firmament Torrent and broke his neck, then faced two attackers who transformed into Ghost Chariot and Water Serpent incarnations.