Chapter Summaries

Fang Qingyu activated Star Remains and annihilated fourteen Third Order experts before unleashing a three-power fusion attack on Chen Yuanshan. Chen Yuanshan survived, awakened the Crucifix Divine Armament, and dragged Fang Qingyu and the cross into a bottomless abyss as he vowed they would become one.

• Fang Qingyu used Star Remains to destroy Xue Zhenyue and six other Purple Thorn Society experts, then killed seven more experts from the six major factions with Eternal Calamity: Star Abyss.
• Fang Qingyu attacked Chen Yuanshan, but his blade vanished before reaching him, and Chen Yuanshan erupted with a terrifying aura as crimson energy flowed into his body.
• Chen Yuanshan devoured his grandson's corpse while proclaiming his desire to merge with Fang Qingyu, who fused the powers of the Star-Shattering Champion, Divine Firmament Emissary, and Realm Walker.
• Fang Qingyu's fused attack erased Chen Yuanshan's lower body, but Chen Yuanshan survived atop the cross as it awakened and knocked Fang Qingyu back.
• The Crucifix Divine Armament bound Fang Qingyu with blood threads and began sinking underground with Chen Yuanshan, dragging Fang Qingyu into the abyss as Chen Yuanshan laughed and called for them to become one.

After escaping the collapsing Crimson Space, Yan Lin and the others captured living members of the Purple Thorn Society and learned that the headquarters stood above an ancient Mass Grave, only to face Gu Yan and the revived Desolate Bone Gang. Meanwhile, Fang Qingyu reached a vast underground palace and confronted a mysterious figure on a skeleton throne who was about to turn around.

• Old Ghost led Yan Lin and the remaining Lingxiao Society elites out of the collapsing Crimson Space, but Fang Qingyu and Chen Yuanshan had vanished into the abyss.
• Yan Lin recognized that the Black Robed figures in the hall were alive, and the group subdued more than two hundred of them to question them.
• Yan Lin used mental control on a captive, learned that the site had once been the City of Injustice’s largest Mass Grave, and then had the captives killed.
• Yan Lin realized the Desolate Bone Gang was unaccounted for, and Gu Yan emerged from a pillar with an army of corpse-like fighters that surrounded the hall.
• Fang Qingyu awakened beneath the Mass Grave, smashed through the bone-trap passages, and raced deeper into the underground palace as ancient corpses pursued him.
• Fang Qingyu stopped before a figure seated on a skeleton throne, while three ancient corpses entered behind him and the figure began to turn around.

Fang Qingyu confronted Chen Yuanshan in the underground palace and revealed overwhelming power, while the King Corpse recognized Fang as a future king and turned the ancient corpses against their expected loyalties. Chen Yuanshan, driven to desperation, promised Fang the Divine Origin as a heartbeat sounded beneath the blood pool.

• The King Corpse stopped the Three Corpses from attacking Fang Qingyu, admitted Chen Yuanshan was their king, and opened the floor to reveal Chen in a blood pool.
• Chen Yuanshan attacked Fang, who caught his punch and realized Chen was on the verge of becoming a god.
• Chen escaped Fang’s grip and returned to the throne, then summoned the Blood Filth Cross Sword as the King Corpse disappeared.
• Fang unleashed the combined power of his three systems and Shunshi Dragon Craft, striking Chen hard enough to destroy the throne and send him crashing into a bone pillar.
• The King Corpse reappeared and told the Three Corpses that Fang was their true future king, while Fang challenged Chen to complete his transformation so he could claim the Divine Origin.
• Chen drove the Blood Filth Cross Sword into the ground and promised to grant Fang’s wish as a heavy heartbeat sounded beneath the blood pool.

Chen Yuanshan completed his transformation into a godlike being, broke the force field, and welcomed Fang Qingyu back to reality as the battle at Heaven's Punishment Society Headquarters spilled into the city. As the headquarters collapsed, an ancient dungeon rose from underground, leaving the City of Injustice facing a vast new threat.

• Chen Yuanshan summoned thousands of bone-ash wraiths, then emerged from a blood cocoon rejuvenated and claimed divine power as the force field broke.
• The force field's collapse restored the damaged halls and left the Azure Dragon Gang and Lingxiao Society fighting in reality, where Fang Qingyu ordered them to evacuate.
• Wei Banmeng led the withdrawal while Jiang Wei held back the Corpse Transformed, then escaped as the others reached safety.
• Da Lei learned that the battle had broken the force field and ordered the lighthouse to open the dome and let the rising ruins out.
• Wei Banmeng organized civilian evacuations as violent tremors split the streets and the Heaven's Punishment Society Headquarters collapsed.
• Jiang Wei cleared the smoke, revealing an enormous ancient dungeon rising above the City of Injustice.

After Fang Qingyu moved the underground palace beyond the City of Injustice’s restrictions, Chen Yuanshan broke through to the fourth tier and the King Corpse began to awaken as well. The Heaven’s Punishment Society sacrificed more than a thousand city residents to create a hundred-meter corpse giant, while Da Lei realized the spectacle was meant for him.

• The City of Injustice opened its dome, allowing the underground palace to rise into the Arctic night sky.
• Chen Yuanshan broke through the third-tier restrictions and transformed into a fourth-tier divine being, while the King Corpse also began breaking through.
• Jiang Wei, Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, and the others flew toward the underground palace to reach Qingzi, but an explosion blasted them back toward the sea.
• Chen Yuanshan’s red light seized more than a thousand City of Injustice residents and absorbed them as fuel while Da Lei watched and recognized the display was meant for him.
• The red light formed a hundred-meter giant assembled from the sacrificed residents’ bodies, and witnesses recognized that a god had been born.

Fang Qingyu annihilated Chen Yuanshan’s giant form with Falling Stars, then gathered the divine remains scattered across the Arctic Ice Sea. The King Corpse asked to follow him and revealed that people once called him Xu Fu.

• The King Corpse fled the underground palace with three ancient corpses as Fang Qingyu attacked Chen Yuanshan and interrupted his attempt to stop them.
• Fang Qingyu used Edict to halt Chen Yuanshan’s giant, then unleashed Falling Stars and erased him beneath a rain of stellar impacts.
• Da Lei stopped the resulting tsunami and announced new fees and tax reductions, while assuring Wei Banmeng, Jiang Wei, and the others that Fang Qingyu was safe.
• Fang Qingyu collected divine bones, divine blood, a skull, and Chen Yuanshan’s Blood Filth Cross Sword from the sea.
• The King Corpse asked to follow Fang Qingyu as his master, and, when asked his name, said that people once called him Xu Fu.

Fang Qingyu returned to the City of Injustice after defeating Chen Yuanshan and learned that Xu Fu and three Dried Corpses had survived for two thousand years. In the Underground Training Room, he tried to draw Chen Wudi’s consciousness out of his transformed Unspeakable Thing body by feeding and repeatedly smashing it; after it broke through the basement, it gently touched Fang Qingyu between the brows.

• Xu Fu explained that he had crossed the sea on Ying Zheng’s orders and survived as an Ashen Corpse, then promised to teach his three loyal Dried Corpses to serve Fang Qingyu.
• Fang Qingyu left Xu Fu and the Dried Corpses on the Arctic coast and returned to the City of Injustice, where people celebrated his defeat of Heaven’s Punishment Society and Chen Yuanshan.
• Fang Qingyu found Chen Wudi near death in the basement and fed him crushed Blood Essence Crystals, triggering his transformation into an Unspeakable Thing.
• Fang Qingyu repeatedly fed and slammed the transformed Chen Wudi into the ground to try to awaken his consciousness, while Qi Hao, Old Qin, and the returning Jiang Wei and others waited upstairs.
• Chen Wudi broke through the basement floor into the living room, and Fang Qingyu stopped the others from intervening.
• The transformed Chen Wudi slowly raised a Dark Red Crystal finger and touched Fang Qingyu between the brows.

Fang Qingyu received Chen Wudi’s Invincible Law, and the Great Dao’s resonance gave the gathered fighters a chance to deepen their cultivation. After confronting Da Lei with evidence of human trafficking and abuse in the City of Injustice, Fang Qingyu returned to find his companions packing and decided they would leave at dawn the day after tomorrow.

• Chen Wudi transmitted the Invincible Law to Fang Qingyu and vanished after exhausting his origin, while the Great Dao’s resonance helped the gathered fighters gain insights.
• Fang Qingyu reassured Jiang Wei and the others that possessing an Invincible Law was worthwhile even if he could not cultivate it himself.
• Fang Qingyu showed Da Lei records and photographs of trafficked people, then took him to hidden sites in the City of Injustice to expose its abuses.
• Fang Qingyu returned to the villa and learned that Wei Banmeng and the others were packing to leave.
• Fang Qingyu told his companions to finish packing and announced they would set out at dawn the day after tomorrow.

Fang Qingyu prepared to leave the City of Injustice aboard the Hope Ark, as the Azure Dragon Gang sold its assets and gathered followers. Just before departure, thousands more arrived seeking to join him, and he promised to take ten thousand people.

• The Azure Dragon Gang sold its businesses for cultivation supplies while screening people who wanted to leave with Fang Qingyu.
• Yan Lin told Fang Qingyu she would stay to help the city lord carry out reforms and pursue a classified mission.
• At the port, Liu San brought the unconscious Lei Meng aboard, and Fang Qingyu accepted Xia Ze after reading his father's letter of support.
• As the Hope Ark neared departure, more than ten thousand people gathered at the port and asked Fang Qingyu how many he could take.
• Fang Qingyu said he could take ten thousand people, and the crowd erupted in cheers.

Fang Qingyu returned to the Arctic Frontline as reports revealed that the old rules had collapsed and thousands of soldiers had been wiped out. To give his more than ten thousand followers a home, he proposed building a city with Deep Blue Heavy Industries and named it Daybreak.

• Fang Qingyu read the viral reports about supernatural phenomena and discussed the approaching Great Era with Chu Kuanglan, Qi Hao, Su Wanqing, and Lin Yu.
• The Hope Ark received news that an Iceclaw Life Spirit Tide had wiped out 4,321 soldiers, and Fang Qingyu realized a high-rank Life Spirit had broken the Arctic Frontline’s rules.
• Liu San raised concerns about housing the more than ten thousand people traveling with Fang Qingyu, and the group rejected Lu Jiuyuan’s proposal to disperse them among existing cities.
• Jiang Wei suggested moving the City of Injustice to the frontline, but Fang Qingyu instead proposed building a new city himself.
• Fang Qingyu contacted Shen Zhou of Deep Blue Heavy Industries, who enthusiastically agreed to fund and cooperate on the city’s construction.
• Fang Qingyu named the planned city Daybreak as dawn broke over the icebound sea.

Hua Jing reunited with Chu Kuanglan at the harbor after he returned from the City of Injustice, while Fang Qingyu arranged for the returning force to establish the City of Dawn. Fang Qingyu then proposed building the city outside the Great Wall and showed Old Man Hong a golden skull as the elder questioned whether the plan could succeed.

• Hua Jing watched a video of Fang Qingyu’s battle and revealed that she loved Chu Kuanglan, while veterans teased her and helped her reach the harbor.
• Fang Qingyu and his companions returned aboard the Hope Ark with ten thousand people, and Chu Kuanglan eagerly prepared to reunite with Hua Jing.
• Fang Qingyu cleaned Chu Kuanglan with starlight and sent him down to meet Hua Jing, while their companions secretly photographed the tearful reunion.
• Fang Qingyu assigned Wei Banmeng and the others to organize the newcomers and supplies and begin preparations for the City of Dawn.
• Fang Qingyu visited Old Man Hong and proposed building a city outside the Great Wall; after Hong challenged the risky plan, Fang Qingyu opened a box containing a golden skull.

Luo Qinglian accepted that she would die to honor her promise to Hong Qitian, believing Fang Qingyu could protect humanity’s future. Fang Qingyu chose to build the City of Dawn on the Arctic Ocean and demanded it be completed in one month, while Drought Ba learned of his victory and showed new interest in him; the chapter ended with Fang Qingyu discovering the requirements for a powerful legacy.

• Fang Qingyu left Old Man Hong’s office with a document after discussing the city’s garrison and presenting a skull.
• Luo Qinglian learned that Fang Qingyu had survived the City of Injustice and told Xiao Liu she would keep her promise to die in Old Man Hong’s place.
• Luo Qinglian ordered Xiao Liu to set aside his hostility and build a sincere relationship with Fang Qingyu for the Luo family’s survival.
• Fang Qingyu chose an Arctic Ocean site for the City of Dawn and gave Shen Zhou one month to build it, prompting Shen Zhou to commit Deep Blue Heavy Industries to the effort.
• Black Duke told Drought Ba that Fang Qingyu had killed a fourth-tier True Divine Body; she dismissed his offer to capture her other half but showed interest in Fang Qingyu’s feat.
• Fang Qingyu checked the atlas and found that the Stratagem of Primordial Heaven Splitting required perfected Starfall and a forged Spirit Platform before he could activate it.

Fang Qingyu began working as a barbecue apprentice to build his spiritual platform, then helped lead the first stage of construction on the City of Dawn while Jiang Wei mysteriously grew into a young woman. After returning to find her awake, he faced her playful greeting: “Awake?”

• Fang Qingyu secretly took a barbecue apprentice job, demonstrated precise fire control, and activated the Barbecue Apprentice profession.
• Fang Qingyu discovered that Jiang Wei had grown into a young woman and sent Elder Hong news of her condition before joining the City of Dawn construction effort.
• Fang Qingyu guarded the construction site, defeated repeated attacks by Fang-toothed Hunters, and received a note warning that a Life Spirit planned to assassinate him.
• The construction team installed all eighteen Deep Sea Anchors, and Wei Banmeng stayed behind to guard the site while Fang Qingyu returned to check on Jiang Wei.
• Fang Qingyu watched over the sleeping Jiang Wei, then woke to find her teasing him with a strand of her red hair.

After Jiang Wei recovered her memories and grew into an adult, she kissed Fang Qingyu before he left her to guard the Arctic construction site. Fang Qingyu headed deeper into the Arctic to hunt Life Spirits and grow stronger as the City of Dawn project continued.

• Jiang Wei told Fang Qingyu that Drought Ba had accelerated the release of her reincarnation power to help restore her strength.
• Jiang Wei clung to Fang Qingyu at breakfast, surprising Lu Jiuyuan and drawing teasing from Su Wanqing.
• Fang Qingyu and the others picked up Chu Kuanglan from One Thought Cafe, where he introduced his girlfriend, Hua Jing.
• Fang Qingyu's group reached the Arctic construction site, where Wei Banmeng reported that the previous night's defenses had held and construction was advancing.
• Fang Qingyu gave Jiang Wei a bone flute to summon powerful allies if the construction site came under serious attack, then Jiang Wei kissed him and vanished.
• Fang Qingyu flew into the Arctic to hunt Life Spirits for skill points and pursue the strength needed to face the gods.

Hu Biao’s news about Fang Qingyu’s City of Dawn stirred Mo Yan’s long-dormant desire to fight again. Meanwhile, Fang Qingyu advanced his cultivation in the Arctic before receiving an urgent message from the construction site.

• Hu Biao told the tavern that Fang Qingyu was building the City of Dawn beyond the Great Wall as a forward base to fight the life spirits, and that it would recruit people willing to fight until one side was dead.
• Mo Yan reacted to the recruitment news, left the tavern, and walked into the snow with renewed resolve, repeating the name Dawn.
• Fang Qingyu entered Soul Egress while meditating and sensed the life-ghost torrents and the Arctic Great Wall Defense Line, whose will resonated with his Formless Heart Sutra.
• Fang Qingyu reached Lv.3 in the Formless Heart Sutra, improved his attributes and Star-Poor Immortal Body, and prepared to hunt more Life Spirits.
• A voice with a Federation accent told Fang Qingyu that there was a situation at the construction site.

Fang Qingyu's reinforcements from the City of Injustice and the sea turned the desperate defense of the City of Dawn into a counterattack. As he raced to the battlefield, the Life Spirit named Hellwalker appeared in his path and declared that the road was closed.

• Xu Fu warned Fang Qingyu that the construction site was surrounded by a massive Life Spirit Army, and Fang Qingyu rushed back at full speed.
• Chu Kuanglan and Wei Banmeng led the outnumbered defenders in a desperate fight while Xu Fu and Jiang Wei battled two Abyssal-level Life Spirits overhead.
• Three ancient corpses—Red-Haired Corpse, Green-Haired Corpse, and White-Haired Corpse—appeared beside Chu Kuanglan, fought the Life Spirits, and obeyed his commands to help hold the line.
• Thousands of warriors and Transcendents emerged from the sea, led by the Lingxiao Society, Brotherhood, Blood Rose, and other groups, and struck the Life Spirit Army from behind.
• The defenders joined the sea-borne reinforcements in a counterattack as Fang Qingyu neared the battlefield, where Hellwalker appeared in his path and said the road was closed.

Fang Qingyu escaped Hellwalker’s Hell Scroll, killed Hellwalker and the Giant Man, and helped the human forces win the battle, though the Woman in Red Dress escaped. As the survivors celebrated, a colossal burning meteorite descended toward the battlefield, and Fang Qingyu flew toward it to resist.

• Hellwalker trapped Fang Qingyu inside the Hell Scroll, but Fang Qingyu unleashed his Star Remnant Form and shattered the scroll, killing Hellwalker.
• Fang Qingyu struck the Woman in Red Dress and Giant Man with Heavenly Patrol. Star Shatter, killing the Giant Man while the Woman in Red Dress escaped with her Jade Pure Bottle.
• Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei joined the battle, routing the Life Spirit Army and helping the human forces secure a major victory.
• After the battle, Fang Qingyu warned everyone away and pushed Jiang Wei to safety when he sensed danger overhead.
• A colossal meteorite broke through the clouds and descended toward the battlefield, and Fang Qingyu activated Star Remnant Form and charged toward it.

Fang Qingyu destroyed the world-ending meteorite with Divine Judgment Heaven's Pull, saving the warriors and the Dawn Construction Site before Jiu took his unconscious body away. In the Arctic, the Black Duke learned the assassination had failed and ordered the Fate Ghosts to begin an all-out war.

• Fang Qingyu's spreading darkness consumed the meteorite, and Jiang Wei, Xu Fu, Chu Kuanglan, Wei Banmeng, and other warriors joined forces to hold it back while fighters below attacked it.
• The meteorite shattered from within, and the warriors organized to shield the Dawn Construction Site from the falling fragments.
• Fang Qingyu appeared beneath the black sphere in a transformed state, but Jiu arrived and vanished with his unconscious body.
• Chu Kuanglan and Wei Banmeng restored order on the battlefield, while Jiang Wei stayed to guard the Dawn Construction Site.
• A Fate Ghost reported to the Black Duke that Fang Qingyu had stopped the assassination and Jiu had intervened.
• The Black Duke ordered the Fate Ghost leaders to launch an all-out war against humanity's Great Wall.

After the City of Dawn won its first battle at great cost, Chu Kuanglan welcomed tens of thousands of volunteers who joined the city’s defense and construction. Fang Qingyu woke in Hong Qitian’s office, learned about the Life Spirit royal clans and their treasures, and heard that the Life Spirits had declared total war.

• Chu Kuanglan recorded 762 dead and promised that the fallen would be honored and their families supported while the captured spoils were distributed to the survivors.
• Shen Zhou urged Chu Kuanglan to resume construction immediately, but an unknown force of 20,000 to 30,000 people approached from the Great Wall direction.
• Mo Yan and Wang Qi explained that the newcomers had come voluntarily to help Dawn fight the Life Spirits, and Wei Banmeng welcomed them into the City of Dawn.
• Shen Zhou organized the new volunteers into construction and patrol teams, and Chu Kuanglan reflected that their blood was still hot and they wanted to kill Life Spirits.
• Fang Qingyu woke in Hong Qitian’s office, read about the Life Spirit royal clans and their supreme treasures, and learned that the Life Spirits had announced total war.

After the Life Spirits declared total war, supernatural beings across the Federation mobilized for the Arctic while Shen Zhou rushed to build the City of Dawn’s defenses. At Frostbone Fjord, Fang Qingyu disrupted a Life Spirit attack and helped Ji Wuya’s army win the battle, then left Ji Wuya shaken by a remark about his debt and atonement.

• Wu Yu opened registration for eighty Arctic reinforcements, and Lin Kang, Duan Ling, Qu Zhe, and other Qingjian City supernatural beings volunteered.
• Shen Zhou drove workers and Azure Dragon Gang members through round-the-clock construction at the City of Dawn as Wei Banmeng and Chu Kuanglan watched.
• Ji Wuya learned that reinforcements would take days to arrive and ordered Frostbone Fjord’s troops to prepare for another Life Spirit assault.
• Fang Qingyu attacked the Life Spirit army from behind, and Ji Wuya led his soldiers in a counterattack that routed the enemy.
• The Rock Giant tried to escape, but Fang Qingyu wounded it before it fled; Fang then told Ji Wuya that he had been atoning and that someone had helped repay his greatest debt.
• Fang Qingyu flew toward the City of Dawn while the human warriors celebrated victory and Ji Wuya stood frozen on the battlefield.