Chapter Summaries

Fang Qingyu led his team on their first exploration of the D-7 pit, where they fought dangerous life spirits and destroyed spore sacs before withdrawing at nightfall. At a harbor bar, he met its proprietress, Su Wanqing, and recognized the scarlet title “Chosen of God” above her head.

• Fang Qingyu directed the team through the D-7 entrance as Old Jiao mapped their route and recorded encounters with Corpse Hounds and a corpse puppet.
• Fang Qingyu, Wei Banmeng, Qin Hui, Qi Hao, and Jiang Wei quickly defeated three Bone-Chilling Corpse Guards, with Jiang Wei saving Old Jiao from an attack.
• Fang Qingyu ordered Jiang Wei to burn the Miasma Mother Spore Sacs, then called off the exploration and led the team back to the temporary base.
• After the team uploaded its findings, a camp broadcast ordered all entrances closed for the night as Corpse Seed Life Spirits grew more aggressive.
• Fang Qingyu and the others visited Floating Lantern bar, where Wei Banmeng revealed she had been confined at home for a month because of him.
• Su Wanqing introduced herself to Fang Qingyu, who saw the title “Chosen of God” above her before shaking her hand.

Fang Qingyu’s squad cleared the Mist Corridor’s ghoul mission, then a violent tremor devastated the passage as they withdrew. After the shaking stopped, Jiang Wei told Fang Qingyu that she knew what lay deeper below.

• At Floating Lantern, a Qingjian operative told Fang Qingyu’s group that Su Wanqing was the Songdu Su family’s Chosen of God and that four grandmasters were suppressing a Molting Grade Life Spirit in the pit.
• Back at the base, Fang Qingyu chose the high-risk Mist Corridor mission, and his team agreed to clear the ghoul-infested area the next morning.
• Before dawn, Fang Qingyu activated World Scorching Flowing Blade, then led the squad into the D-7 depths and fought through the tunnels toward the mission site.
• Fang Qingyu and Wei Banmeng defeated the Mystic Comprehension Tier ghoul and two Microscopic Tier ghouls, while Jiang Wei helped Qin Hui and Qi Hao kill the last one.
• As the team withdrew, a violent tremor shattered the D-7 passage and left the group buried among rubble and torn flesh.
• After the shaking ended, Jiang Wei clutched Fang Qingyu’s sleeve and said she knew what was down there.

After escaping the Mist Corridor, Fang Qingyu’s Squad exchanged their mission spoils, and Jiang Wei revealed that an ancient Peng Snake might be trapped beneath the Songdu Sinkhole. When a furious roar pierced the Force Field and an unidentified intruder entered the Core Zone, Fang Qingyu, Jiang Wei, and Wei Banmeng rushed to intercept.

• Fang Qingyu’s Squad escaped the collapsing D-7 tunnel and learned that tremors from a struggling Molting Grade Life Spirit had been shaking the sinkhole.
• The squad exchanged their mission spoils for Blood Essence Crystals and Life Orbs at the resource center, where Fang Qingyu noticed the Redflame Squad and Clear Spring Mountain.
• Jiang Wei told Fang Qingyu that an ancient Peng Snake might be hatching underground and that its anguished roar suggested it was being forcibly suppressed.
• A piercing roar broke through the Force Field, and camp alarms announced that an unidentified individual had entered the Core Zone.
• Fang Qingyu ordered Qin Hui and Qi Hao to stay behind, then led Jiang Wei and Wei Banmeng toward the Force Field as other squads moved to intercept the intruder.

Fang Qingyu, Jiang Wei, and Wei Banmeng confronted a masked, deeply modified martial practitioner in a freezing passage and narrowly escaped when the Ancient Ferocious Beast Peng Snake burst through the wall. As the team realized the passage was part of a deadly feeding trap, Fang Qingyu’s chart identified the severed armored arm as an Orange Quality Black Sky Spider Core, but he could not use it to advance yet.

• Fang Qingyu chose the freezing side passage after Jiang Wei sensed something within it, and he led her and Wei Banmeng through the miasma at full speed.
• The three attacked a masked Profound Peak Modified Martial Practitioner together, and Fang Qingyu severed his armored arm with Return to Silence.
• The modified practitioner tore off his mask and killed himself before Fang Qingyu could stop him.
• Peng Snake burst through the passage wall, swallowed the corpse and severed arm, then withdrew as Fang Qingyu’s group fled.
• Fang Qingyu and Wei Banmeng suspected that modified practitioners and elite teams were being used as bait to feed Peng Snake, while Fang Qingyu’s chart identified the severed arm as an Orange Quality Black Sky Spider Core and rejected advancement because his prerequisites were unmet.

After a red-headed, white-bodied beast attacked the teams in the pit, Fang Qingyu helped rescue survivors and reported the threat, prompting the authorities to suspend operations and seal the entrances. As the group regrouped, Fang Qingyu asked Jiang Wei which part of the creature was worth the most, leaving his next move unclear.

• Fang Qingyu discovered that an Orange Quality Life Spirit material could trigger a martial practitioner advancement prompt, then led Jiang Wei and Wei Banmeng toward the main A-2 entrance after the shockwaves subsided.
• Fang Qingyu's group found wounded Clear Spring Mountain martial practitioners, and one survivor said a red monster had swallowed their Senior Brother.
• Fang Qingyu reported the red-headed, white-bodied beast at the command post, where survivors described similar attacks across the passages.
• Zhao Qiming designated the beast a Second Realm threat, ordered the pit entrances sealed, and suspended exploration while explaining that officials had lost stable contact with the four top experts underground.
• Fang Qingyu reunited with Qin Hui, Qi Hao, Old Jiao, and Lu Chen, then asked Jiang Wei what part of the beast was worth the most.

Fang Qingyu accepted Su Wanqing’s offer to join an expedition into the pit’s core, where her father and three others were trapped, hoping to obtain the Peng Snake’s Crimson Python Scales. The next morning, he entered the pit with Jiang Wei, Wei Banmeng, Su Wanqing, and her assembled team.

• Fang Qingyu considered targeting the Peng Snake for its valuable materials, and Jiang Wei sent him a description of its Crimson Python Scales.
• Su Wanqing summoned Fang Qingyu and asked him to accompany her team into the pit’s core to establish communications with the trapped group, including her father, Su Che.
• Fang Qingyu accepted Su Wanqing’s offer and took an advance payment of universal Life Orbs and Blood Essence Crystals.
• Fang Qingyu told Qin Hui, Qi Hao, Old Jiao, and Lu Chen to remain at camp, then chose Jiang Wei and Wei Banmeng to join him.
• Su Wanqing led the assembled team through the Force Field Barrier and into the pit’s purple-black miasma.

After Su Wanqing left Fang Qingyu, Jiang Wei, and Wei Banmeng to guard the main communications node in a cavern, Fang Qingyu cultivated while a Life Spirit swarm approached. The trio fought off the first wave, and Fang Qingyu resumed cultivating as more enemies stirred in the fissures.

• Zhao Qiming ordered a sweeping investigation for the inside man who had helped Genesis Technology's Modified Martial Practitioners enter the battlefield.
• Su Wanqing led the team through the miasma, established relay nodes along the route, and left Fang Qingyu, Jiang Wei, and Wei Banmeng to guard the main Conch node.
• Fang Qingyu and Wei Banmeng assembled the node, then Fang Qingyu used Blood Essence Crystals to cultivate while Jiang Wei kept watch.
• A Life Spirit swarm emerged from the cavern fissures, and Fang Qingyu, Jiang Wei, and Wei Banmeng worked together to kill the advancing creatures.
• After the first wave receded, Fang Qingyu collected fate pearls and resumed cultivating while Wei Banmeng watched in shock and more sounds rose from the fissure.

Fang Qingyu cultivated and fought beside Wei Banmeng and Jiang Wei until both his core skills reached the Transcendent Realm, then pursued the Peng Snake to the pit’s central chamber. There he discovered an Earth Element Chosen of God controlling the terrain and realized the man had helped conceal the Peng Snake and trap the pit’s experts.

• Fang Qingyu fought off repeated Zombie Tide attacks while using Blood Essence Crystals and Life Pearls to cultivate, and Wei Banmeng learned he had practiced martial arts for less than half a year.
• After several days of battle and cultivation, Fang Qingyu advanced both core skills to the Transcendent Realm and reached level two as a Martial Artist.
• A fleeing guardian warned Fang Qingyu, Wei Banmeng, and Jiang Wei to run before the Peng Snake emerged and swallowed him.
• Fang Qingyu hid from the Peng Snake, then left Wei Banmeng to guard the node and followed the beast into a vast chamber at the heart of the pit.
• Fang Qingyu saw a Chosen of God in a suit use an Earth Element Ability to strike and subdue the Peng Snake, then realized the man had been manipulating the terrain to conceal the beast and trap the experts.

Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei discovered that Genesis Technology had engineered the cavern’s horrors and that Su Wanqing and three experts were trapped by the Corpse Nest Monarch. After sending Wei Banmeng to carry the warning back, Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei descended into the abyss and launched an attack to break through the Sea of Corpses.

• Fang Qingyu told Jiang Wei and Wei Banmeng that the Earth Element Chosen of God belonged to Genesis Technology and had helped trap the creatures and block the passages.
• Fang Qingyu ordered Wei Banmeng to take the warning and withdraw with Qin Hui and the others, then left with Jiang Wei to pursue Su Wanqing’s trail.
• Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei used the Eternal Night Curtain to slip through ruined passages and reach the abyss above a vast Sea of Corpses.
• Fang Qingyu spotted the Corpse Nest Monarch holding Su Wanqing and three other experts inside a Blood Moon Force Field Cage.
• Fang Qingyu activated his powers, asked Jiang Wei if she could fly, and leapt toward the Corpse Nest Monarch as Jiang Wei formed a Lotus Platform beneath them.

Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei fought through the corpse horde, struck the Corpse Nest Monarch, and broke the Blood Moon cage holding Su Wanqing and the others. When the underground floor collapsed, they fell into a deeper chamber and found a colossal serpentine creature staring at them.

• Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei carved a path through the corpse fiends, and Fang Qingyu spent skill points to raise the Crimson Bright Nine Revolutions Tribulation Jade Scripture and Nine Heavens Primordial Contemplation Method to their maximum levels.
• Fang Qingyu used Return to Stillness to clear a corridor through the horde, then struck the Corpse Nest Monarch’s Scarlet Tumor with Skyfall while Jiang Wei fired World Annihilation at the cage around Su Wanqing and the others.
• Jiang Wei’s attack dissolved the cage, freeing Su Wanqing, Zheng Xiaohai, Chen Tiejun, and Su Che from the Blood Moon’s suppression.
• The four freed powerhouses unleashed their strength, and the underground ground split apart, sending Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei plunging into the depths.
• Fang Qingyu landed safely with Jiang Wei and used Night Visit to see a colossal crimson-gold serpentine creature open its molten-gold eyes and stare at them.

Wei Banmeng escaped the sinkhole and revealed that Sikong Zhen had betrayed humanity, prompting Zhao Qiming and Qin Hui’s group to organize reinforcements. Below, Sikong Zhen joined forces with the Corpse Nest Monarch to attack the trapped experts, while Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei prepared to fight Peng Snake in the abyss.

• Wei Banmeng warned Zhao Qiming that Sikong Zhen was a traitor, the communication nodes had been destroyed, and Su Wanqing and the other experts were trapped in the Core Zone.
• Zhao Qiming ordered Shangjing to send the highest-level reinforcements, while Qin Hui, Qi Hao, Old Jiao, and Lu Chen set out to rescue Fang Qingyu and the others.
• Wei Banmeng told Qin Hui that Fang Qingyu had gone deeper to find Su Wanqing and the others, then followed the group underground.
• Sikong Zhen appeared before Su Wanqing and the other experts, admitted he was cooperating with the Corpse Nest Monarch, and joined it in attacking them.
• Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei faced Peng Snake, and Fang Qingyu activated the Eternal Night Curtain and formed armor from Liquid Black Flames.
• Fang Qingyu prepared to strike Peng Snake with Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity as Jiang Wei hovered behind him, ready to help.

Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei killed Peng Snake but were trapped in the collapsing abyss, where they survived badly injured with the Crimson Python Scale. In Shangjing City, an officer reported Sikong Zhen’s betrayal and the danger in Song Du, but the Pavilion Master had already left.

• Jiang Wei pierced Peng Snake’s molten breath with a divine spear, allowing Fang Qingyu to wound its jaw and Jiang Wei to strike its core blood vessel.
• Fang Qingyu unleashed Eternal Night Final Judgment and beheaded Peng Snake, then pulled the Crimson Python Scale from its corpse as the cavern collapsed.
• Fang Qingyu carried the exhausted Jiang Wei into a crevice, where they confirmed they had both survived and rested amid the rubble.
• An officer told the Dragon Abyss Pavilion that Sikong Zhen had betrayed them, four powerhouses were trapped, and a threat remained beneath the pit in Song Du.
• The officer discovered that the Pavilion Master had already left Shangjing City.

Lin Kang prepared to go to Songdu, but learned that a Martial Saint was already on the way. Meanwhile, Fang Qingyu struggled to recover while protecting the unconscious Jiang Wei, and Sikong Zhen announced that a god had awakened just as a devastating quake struck Songdu.

• Lin Kang geared up to drive to Songdu, but Wu Yu stopped him and revealed that two powerful figures, including a Martial Saint, were already en route aboard the Black Bird.
• Wei Banmeng, Qi Hao, Old Jiao, and Qin Hui followed traces of Fang Qingyu’s battle, finding his blade marks and the molten-gold blood of an unknown creature.
• Fang Qingyu woke badly injured beside the unconscious Jiang Wei and painfully began circulating the Crimson Bright Nine Revolutions Tribulation Jade Scripture to recover enough strength to escape.
• Sikong Zhen taunted Miss Su and the three Grandmasters as they attacked the Corpse Nest Monarch, then declared that the true god had awakened.
• A pulse erupted from the planetary core, and a violent earthquake shook Songdu’s outskirts camp, collapsing buildings and terrifying its occupants.

A colossal Flesh Giant Monster emerged from the pit, forcing Zhao Qiming and the others to defend the evacuation while Su Wanqing tried to reach Fang Qingyu. Fang Qingyu appeared to strike the monster from above, but he remained trapped underground with Jiang Wei and encountered a mysterious young man in an abandoned mine tunnel.

• An earthquake shook the camp, and a wounded soldier emerged from the Force Field Barrier warning that the pit was alive and pouring out flesh.
• Zhao Qiming entered the barrier, saw the thirty-meter Flesh Giant Monster, and ordered civilians evacuated while he and the others held the line.
• Su Wanqing and her companions emerged inside the barrier and learned that Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei had not come out; she charged the monster but was blasted backward by its shock wave.
• As Su Wanqing urged everyone to kill the monster, Fang Qingyu appeared like a flaming meteor and struck the Bone Crown above its demonic eye.
• Underground, Fang Qingyu carried the unconscious Jiang Wei through collapsed passages into an abandoned mine tunnel, where he encountered a pale young man in a torn suit.

Fang Qingyu fought Sikong Zhen in the collapsing mine while protecting the unconscious Jiang Wei, and the battle ended with Fang Qingyu killing him. After the old man in the Deep Blue Robe destroyed the Flesh Giant Monster, Fang Qingyu emerged from the rubble, collapsed from his injuries, and left everyone shocked by Sikong Zhen’s identity and death.

• Sikong Zhen revealed his role in the disaster and offered Fang Qingyu a place in Genesis, but Fang Qingyu bound Jiang Wei to his back, consumed Blood Essence Crystals and life orbs, and charged him.
• Sikong Zhen blocked Fang Qingyu with rock and attacked with stone spikes, but Fang Qingyu shielded Jiang Wei, counterattacked through the rock armor, and fought him at close range.
• The old man in the Deep Blue Robe struck the Flesh Giant Monster’s demonic eye and destroyed it in a golden explosion.
• Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei burst from the rubble, and Fang Qingyu relentlessly beat the badly injured man in the Dark Grey Suit until Qin Hui and the others restrained him.
• Fang Qingyu collapsed, and Wei Banmeng identified the dead man as Sikong Zhen, stunning everyone who had witnessed the battle.

Yan Shouzheng rescued Fang Qingyu and confirmed that Fang Qingyu had killed the Peng Snake before the injured fighter woke in a hospital. Fang Qingyu learned Jiang Wei was safe but had become a Tier 3 of Realm One believer of the Divine Church, and everyone now called her Sister Jiang.

• Yan Shouzheng gave Fang Qingyu a Crimson Pill that stabilized him, and Qin Hui and Qi Hao carried Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei out of the sinkhole.
• A Martial Saint delivered captured Genesis Technology infiltrators to Zhao Qiming, who reported the sinkhole crisis and Fang Qingyu's squad's role in the rescue.
• After hearing about the Red-Headed White-Bodied Beast and the Peng Snake, Yan Shouzheng retrieved the Peng Snake's corpse and identified Fang Qingyu as the one who had killed it.
• Fang Qingyu woke in the hospital and panicked when Qi Hao, Qin Hui, Old Jiao, and Lu Chen appeared to have aged, but they revealed their fake beards, gray hair, and wrinkles as a prank.
• Fang Qingyu asked about Jiang Wei, and Qin Hui told him she was safe and had become a Tier 3 of Realm One believer of the Divine Church, so they now called her Sister Jiang.

Fang Qingyu woke in the hospital after the battle at the pit, learned Jiang Wei had reached a new stage and that the Martial Saints had stopped the crisis, and confirmed his own breakthrough to Profound Connection. Wei Banmeng told him he had been selected for the Hidden Dragon Program, while Su Wanqing explained that its purpose was to awaken the Power of Nature and prepare Martial Practitioners for the Martial Path Grandmaster realm.

• Qin Hui and the others told Fang Qingyu that Jiang Wei had recovered and become a third-stage believer, and described how two Martial Saints defeated the Flesh Monster and dealt with the crisis at the pit.
• Fang Qingyu checked his Codex and confirmed he had reached Profound Connection, though he still needed to raise his Martial Practitioner level before using the Crimson Python Scales to advance.
• Wei Banmeng visited Fang Qingyu and gave him a card confirming his selection for the Hidden Dragon Program, which would begin in one month.
• Su Wanqing visited Fang Qingyu and explained that the Power of Nature was key to reaching the Martial Path Grandmaster realm and that the Hidden Dragon Program sent its recruits into an abyss to provoke natural resonance.

Fang Qingyu decided to join the Hidden Dragon Program and travel to Yuan, then left Songdu and returned to Qingjian City with Jiang Wei. He reunited with his squad and began a new period of recovery.

• Fang Qingyu resolved to accept the Hidden Dragon Program and go to Yuan to pursue greater strength.
• Jiang Wei visited Fang Qingyu on his discharge day and insisted she would go wherever he went.
• Fang Qingyu slipped away from the officials waiting to thank him and texted Zhao Qiming that he had left.
• On the drive to Qingjian City, Qi Hao showed Fang Qingyu the forum posts discussing the Songdu Sinkhole battle and Jiang Wei's breakthrough.
• Fang Qingyu returned to the Qingjian City bureau, where Lin Kang and the squad welcomed him back and told him to rest.

After returning to Qingjian City's Divine Management Bureau, Fang Qingyu tested the powers he had unlocked by breaking through to the Profound Realm and combined them into a devastating new attack. With twenty days remaining before the Hidden Dragon Program's departure, he planned further training but acknowledged that he still had other things to do.

• Fang Qingyu went to the Underground Training Ground with Jiang Wei and discovered that his breakthrough had formed a Five Elements cycle, with the White Tiger's Metal attribute fully awakened.
• Fang Qingyu used Metal-aligned Five Elements Rotation Force to cut a superalloy mannequin with a casual slash.
• Fang Qingyu activated the Third Revolution of the Crimson Bright Tribulation Jade Scripture, Marrow-Boiling, and crushed another mannequin's alloy neck with his bare hand.
• Fang Qingyu combined Metal sharpness with Marrow-Boiling vitality in a Shocking Firmament strike, slicing through and melting a third superalloy mannequin.
• Fang Qingyu ordered materials to cultivate the Immovable Wisdom King Technique and Incinerate Calamity Body, then told Jiang Wei that he had a few things to do before the Hidden Dragon Program departed in twenty days.

Fang Qingyu returned to Chenfeng Martial Hall with Jiang Wei and showed its new students the power of a martial practitioner by destroying an Alloy Stake Target with one finger. He said goodbye to Zheng Lin and left Qingjian City with Jiang Wei, twenty days before his planned departure for the Hidden Dragon Program.

• Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei toured Chenfeng Martial Hall as Zheng Lin welcomed prospective students and showed them the training grounds.
• Jiang Wei wondered how the martial hall had trained a monster like Fang Qingyu, and he told her to be quiet.
• Zheng Lin recognized Fang Qingyu, asked about his recovery, and invited him to demonstrate his strength to the students learning about Life Spirits.
• Fang Qingyu fired a Platinum Qi Line from his finger and blew apart an Alloy Stake Target, leaving the students stunned.
• Fang Qingyu told Zheng Lin he would leave for the Hidden Dragon Program in twenty days, embraced her, and departed with Jiang Wei.