Chapter Summaries

Gu Qingshan reached Dawn Light Trist with the Wooden Beauty’s help and received a medal after explaining that he had missed her call while trapped. Trist assured him that Su Xue'er was safe inside her sealed world, leaving Gu Qingshan alone in the royal lounge as Trist, the Wooden Beauty, and Big Rooster went to deal with a separate problem.

• The Wooden Beauty accepted Gu Qingshan’s gifts and agreed to take him to the Thorn Bird banquet to speak with Dawn Light Trist.
• At Abluxi Grand Hotel, Big Rooster criticized the Thorn Bird’s banquet etiquette, and the Wooden Beauty silenced it.
• The Wooden Beauty brought Gu Qingshan and Big Rooster to Trist’s private lounge, where they overheard guests worrying that someone was missing.
• Gu Qingshan told Trist that he had missed her call because he was trapped and asked to enter her world; Trist gave him a silver medal and said Su Xue'er could not be injured there.
• Trist promised to send Su Xue'er directly to Gu Qingshan when she came out, then left with the Wooden Beauty and Big Rooster to handle a problem.

Gu Qingshan rested in the Thorn Bird Royal Family’s private room after completing his mission, then encountered a mysterious maid who vanished whenever the guards searched. She revealed that Thorn Princess was missing and that the royal family planned to kill her, leaving Gu Qingshan wondering why only he could perceive her.

• The noblewomen dismissed Gu Qingshan after learning he came from an Ephemeral World, and he stayed behind to eat and drink.
• A little maid appeared unexpectedly, and Gu Qingshan accidentally sprayed liquor over her before cleaning her face and apologizing.
• Gu Qingshan activated the medal’s new War God function while armed guards searched the room for a royal treasure.
• After the guards left, the maid reappeared and said she was Thorn Princess’s maid, that the Princess had gone missing, and that the royal family wanted to kill her.
• Gu Qingshan realized the maid had escaped everyone’s notice and had revealed herself only to him.

Gu Qingshan met a disguised young maid who trusted him because Iron Fist Barry approved of him, and promised not to expose her. He unlocked the War God System’s Apocalypse Chronicles feature, then received an urgent message from Xiao Miao about something terrifying.

• The little girl explained that Barry and Xiao Miao’s trust in Gu Qingshan convinced her he would not expose her hiding place.
• Gu Qingshan decided to avoid getting involved in the maid’s troubles and wait for Su Xue’er to return.
• The War God Operating Interface activated Apocalypse Chronicles, allowing Gu Qingshan to look up famous historical events tied to special items.
• Gu Qingshan tested the feature on Trist’s Seal and the Tide Sound Sword, learning that the seal’s history required one hundred thousand Soul Power and that no famous event was linked to the sword.
• A letter from Xiao Miao appeared, and her voice warned Gu Qingshan that something terrifying had happened.

Barry and Xiao Miao discovered that Abluxi's Guardian had been killed and warned Gu Qingshan that Abluxi faced an imminent demonic threat. Gu Qingshan used Xiao Miao's letter and Trist's seal to uncover a report that the Demon King's Order had appeared and Fire Seed was spreading through Abluxi.

• Barry and Xiao Miao saw the Abluxi Guardian's token burn away and realized he had been killed without warning.
• Barry and Xiao Miao found no report about Abluxi in the Guardian Association newspaper and suspected someone trusted had betrayed the Guardian.
• Gu Qingshan received Xiao Miao's warning that Abluxi was about to fall and that he should take Su Xue'er back to the club as soon as she escaped Trist's world.
• The little maid questioned Gu Qingshan about Xiao Miao's warning, while the War God Operating Interface analyzed the letter.
• Gu Qingshan spent ten thousand Soul Power to view a historical event and read tomorrow's headline announcing the return of the Demon King's Order and the spread of Fire Seed through Abluxi.

After learning that Trist had joined the demons and was spreading World Apocalypse Online through Abluxi, Gu Qingshan desperately searched for a way to save Su Xue'er. He protected a supposedly fugitive maid from the guards, suspected she was Thorn Princess, and ended the chapter noticing a possible clue in who had left the banquet with Trist.

• Gu Qingshan read an urgent bulletin revealing that Trist had defected to the demons and was spreading the seed of World Apocalypse Online through Abluxi.
• Gu Qingshan realized Su Xue'er had entered the dangerous world and feared she would be corrupted, while concluding that no one would believe him if he exposed Trist.
• Gu Qingshan let guards searching for a fugitive maid believe he was Trist's guest and persuaded them not to search the Royal Box again.
• The little girl thanked Gu Qingshan for protecting her, and he deduced that her concealment art and behavior suggested she was Thorn Princess, with the Thorn Bird Royal Family likely under Trist's control.
• Gu Qingshan struggled to find a flaw in Trist's plans, then recalled that Trist, the Eternal Holy Tree Spirit, and Big Rooster had left together and looked toward the little girl.

Gu Qingshan discovered that Lola, the disguised Thorn Princess, had stolen and hidden Trist’s world, preventing the demons from launching their attack. Lola agreed to take him into that world to find his girlfriend in exchange for his help escaping, and she revealed the Crystal Ball hidden inside the cake.

• Gu Qingshan realized Trist was delaying the war because she was searching for the Thorn Princess and her stolen world.
• Lola offered to help Gu Qingshan enter Trist’s world if he promised not to abandon her.
• Gu Qingshan recognized the little maid as the Thorn Princess, and she revealed her name was Lola.
• Gu Qingshan swore to help Lola escape and find her a way to survive if she helped him reach the world.
• Lola split the cake and retrieved the Crystal Ball containing Trist’s sealed world.

Gu Qingshan and Lola entered Trist's sealed Super-Dimensional World to search for Su Xue'er before the seal failed. Meanwhile, Su Xue'er rejected the Thorn Bird's kindling and investigated the body of someone she believed had been sent back to Abluxi.

• Gu Qingshan learned that Lola's Crystal Ball contained a sealed world holding the Demon King's Order, and Lola warned that its seal could last only one day.
• Gu Qingshan agreed to enter the world with Lola, recognizing that she was crucial to stopping Trist, and Lola transported them through the Crystal Ball.
• Su Xue'er rejected the kindling's invitation and had her own system block its messages.
• Su Xue'er watched a group kill a fallen traveler, claiming he had been sent back to Abluxi, though she suspected something was wrong.
• After the others moved ahead, Su Xue'er returned to the traveler's body as it sank beneath the ice.

Su Xue'er discovered that a man killed on the Ice Field had truly died and that the Fire Seed holders had taken most of his Soul Power. After they surrounded her, she summoned Astaroth, but the attackers began pooling their Soul Power to call down a Demon God.

• Su Xue'er used Blood Sea magic on the sinking corpse and learned that the man had died on the Ice Field rather than returned to Abluxi.
• The men who had killed him returned, and Su Xue'er’s system warned that Fire Seed had marked her for encirclement and suppression.
• Su Xue'er learned that the Fire Seed holders were near death and gathering Soul Power for Fire Seed, which intended to use their souls as food for the Demon King's Order.
• When the men attacked, Su Xue'er raised a Blood Sea barrier and summoned the Blood-colored Giant Astaroth.
• Astaroth warned Su Xue'er that death and madness were watching her from the void, while the bald man demanded that his companions give him their collected Soul Power so he could petition the kindling to summon a Demon God.

Su Xue’er faced the demonizers as their summoned One-Eyed Giant fought Astaroth, then called on a mysterious woman through her thirteen-card scepter. The woman vanished after warning Su Xue’er about bearing someone else’s fate, and the men were left unable to move as Su Xue’er’s protection dwindled to just over four minutes.

• The bald strongman summoned a whole One-Eyed Giant with the group’s Soul Power and ordered it to attack Astaroth.
• As the giants fought, the bald strongman and the others moved to seize Su Xue’er and divide her between them.
• Su Xue’er activated her thirteen-card combination and called for help from a woman of the Blood Sea.
• The woman appeared in the cards, told Su Xue’er she was bearing someone else’s fate, and disappeared after asking to hear Su Xue’er’s story if she survived.
• Su Xue’er saw that only four minutes and thirty-six seconds of protection remained, while the eight demonizers regained awareness but could not move.

Su Xue'er exacted revenge on the eight villains, then left with the Flesh Servant after learning she had only 22 minutes to live. Elsewhere, Gu Qingshan and Lola entered Trist's Treasured World, where they faced an undead horde as their first battle began.

• The bald villain learned that breaking Su Xue'er's curse would cost 100,000 Soul Power, and the eight attackers begged her to spare them.
• Su Xue'er had the Flesh Servant disembowel the villains, then let it eat them alive after suspecting they had killed and abused other women.
• Su Xue'er received a system update granting her 22 minutes of survival time and set off with the Flesh Servant.
• Gu Qingshan and Lola arrived in Trist's Treasured World and were told to defeat enemies together to escape an encirclement.
• Gu Qingshan found himself alone with Lola in an abandoned, corpse-filled city as eyeless monsters emerged from the ground and charged.
• Gu Qingshan drew the Earth Sword and prepared to fight the monsters.

Gu Qingshan and Lola faced a growing horde of monsters in the snowbound city, and Gu Qingshan erased the city with the Taiyi Sword Formation. With the trial’s completion still unconfirmed, he worried about whether they could catch up with Su Xue'er.

• Gu Qingshan fought off the encroaching monsters with Earth Sword and Moon Slash while Lola urged him to find a way through the encirclement.
• The monsters devoured the corpses, grew stronger, and surrounded Gu Qingshan and Lola.
• Gu Qingshan summoned three swords and activated the Taiyi Sword Formation, whose gale destroyed the monsters, corpses, and city.
• Gu Qingshan asked why the trial had not confirmed their victory and said he was worried about catching up with Su Xue'er.
• Lola asked whether Gu Qingshan and Su Xue'er had slept together, and Gu Qingshan denied it while thinking of Su Xue'er's kiss.
• Earth Sword seemed to speak to the other two swords, and all three trembled violently.

Gu Qingshan and Lola reached the Ice and Snow Abyss, where Trist's summons assigned them to defeat a group of Snow Demons. Lola gave Gu Qingshan her last bullet for a legendary pistol, which annihilated the monsters and transformed the abyss into a lake of lava.

• Gu Qingshan followed a guiding light across the Ice Field and reached a cliff overlooking the Ice and Snow Abyss.
• A summons told Gu Qingshan to help Thorn Bird Trist defeat the Snow Demons climbing out of the abyss.
• Gu Qingshan prepared to attack with his swords, but Lola offered him a tiny pistol with one bullet left.
• The War God Operating Interface identified the pistol as the legendary firearm Blazing Divine Bird Fennis.
• Gu Qingshan fired the pistol at a Snow Demon, triggering a giant lava bird that incinerated the monsters and turned the abyss into a lake of lava.

Gu Qingshan and Lola discovered a bloodstained feather belonging to Frost of the Cold Night Ilya, and Gu Qingshan deduced that she might oppose Trist. After their mission ended, they learned the next battle was about to begin, while the War God System detected a spark of World Apocalypse Online.

• A Frost Fruit surfaced from the magma and broke open, revealing a powerful crystal feather that Gu Qingshan rescued.
• Lola identified the feather as belonging to Ilya and concealed its aura so Trist would not detect it.
• Gu Qingshan reasoned that Ilya had been wounded outside the world and had come searching for Lola and clues about Trist’s betrayal.
• Lola explained that Ilya was her godmother and had sworn to protect her, leading Gu Qingshan to propose finding Ilya to help defeat Trist.
• The voice declared the mission complete and announced that the Landing Battle would begin in one minute.
• The War God Operating Interface warned that the War God System had detected the spark of World Apocalypse Online.

Gu Qingshan and Lola reached Trist’s hidden world, where he began a mission to descend through a six-hundred-story building and encountered the Fire Seed’s offer. Rejecting the War God System’s two proposed paths, he resolved to destroy the Fire Seed, and the system launched War God Missions.

• Gu Qingshan received a warning that the Fire Seed had noticed him, then followed Trist’s mission with Lola to the Gray Mist.
• Lola explained that Trist had hidden another world inside her own, and Gu Qingshan saw the Six Hundred Story Building within the mist.
• Thorn Bird’s Call tasked Gu Qingshan with passing through all six hundred floors to reach the ground, and the Fire Seed offered him a choice to load its system.
• The War God System offered Gu Qingshan the choices of hiding or rescuing Su Xue’er, but he asked for a third option: destroying the Fire Seed.
• Gu Qingshan declared that he would seek justice for those who had fought and died beside him, and the War God System replaced Fate Missions with War God Missions.

Gu Qingshan learned that the War God Mission system aimed to eliminate the Fire Seed before it gathered enough Soul Power to become World Apocalypse Online: Origin. After initially refusing the Fire Seed, he loaded it on the War God System’s advice and was told to act as if it were his only system.

• The War God System introduced Build-Up, a Soul Power state that could double a skill’s power and stack the effect, and set the Fire Seed as the first War God Mission’s target.
• Gu Qingshan learned that the Fire Seed needed Soul Power to upgrade into Origin, which would enslave beings across three hundred million world layers surrounding Abluxi.
• A Fire Seed prompt threatened to load automatically unless Gu Qingshan chose, and he declined before being asked to explain his reason.
• Gu Qingshan claimed he could not read the prompt, then followed the War God System’s advice to load the Fire Seed without giving it Soul Power.
• The Fire Seed loaded as a crude red interface, while the War God System warned Gu Qingshan to pretend it was the only system present.

Gu Qingshan concealed the God of War Interface from the newly loaded Fire Seed, which urged him to collect Soul Power by killing. He and the God of War System planned to stop the Fire Seed from gaining power, and Gu Qingshan prepared to begin the first mission.

• The Fire Seed loaded, mistook Gu Qingshan for an ideal candidate for demonic transformation, and offered him rewards in exchange for Soul Power gained through killing.
• The Fire Seed ordered Gu Qingshan to kill the people on the six-hundredth floor, while the God of War System vowed to prevent it from accumulating Soul Power.
• The God of War System issued Gu Qingshan the continuous mission "Bird in Flight," beginning with stopping another candidate on the two-hundred-and-thirty-ninth floor and reaching the ground floor.
• Lola gave Gu Qingshan a brass telescope, and the God of War System identified it as a Long Lens that provided adjustable X-ray vision.
• Gu Qingshan looked through the Long Lens toward the door and saw what lay beyond it.

Gu Qingshan used Lola’s telescope to survey the six-hundred-story building and saw people in danger across its floors, while the fire seed grew stronger by absorbing the Soul Power of the dead. He found a way to reach them faster by cutting through the building’s barriers and leaping down its exterior, then rescued the people on the five-hundred-and-fiftieth floor as he continued his descent.

• Gu Qingshan surveyed the building with Lola’s telescope and saw snakes, monsters, and demons threatening people across many floors.
• The War God System confirmed that the fire seed absorbed the Soul Power of everyone who died, and Gu Qingshan decided he could not leave the trapped people to die.
• Gu Qingshan realized his mission, “Birds,” suggested a way to bypass the floors, and used the Six Realms God Mountain Sword to cut a hole into the building.
• Gu Qingshan equipped the Ace Assassin title and Youji General Armor, tied Lola securely to himself, and jumped from the rooftop.
• Ignoring the fire seed’s warnings, Gu Qingshan cut through the outer wall of floor five hundred and fifty and killed the demons attacking three people.
• Gu Qingshan continued falling with Lola and told the fire seed that he had gained Soul Power.

Gu Qingshan and Lola descended through a six-hundred-story building, where he fought a demonized assassin and rescued people in danger. After reaching the ground, Gu Qingshan charged the Taiyi Sword Formation with Soul Power, while the Seed considered how his rescues had cost it potential Soul Power.

• Gu Qingshan and Lola plunged down the building as he used his swords to defeat dangerous monsters and protect people on the floors below.
• On the two-hundred-and-thirty-ninth floor, Gu Qingshan drew out a hidden assassin and killed him with Swallow's Return after evading the assassin's chained Secret Arts.
• Gu Qingshan learned that the assassin's Soul Power included the power he had gained from killing others, bringing Gu Qingshan's total to 1,700.
• After reaching the ground, Gu Qingshan used his first Accumulation to double the attack power of his next Taiyi Sword Formation and learned that the God of War continuous mission, Bird, was complete.
• The Seed gave Gu Qingshan no reward, then fell silent as it realized his rescues had kept potential Soul Power from the kindling.

Gu Qingshan and Lola set out across the Ice Field on Purgatory Wings after receiving their next mission. Su Xue'er learned that a powerful group was hunting Gu Qingshan, so she burned her life force and prepared to fight them.

• Gu Qingshan asked the fire seed for his next mission and learned he had to cross the Ice Field.
• Lola summoned Purgatory Wings, and Gu Qingshan rode with her toward the depths of the Ice Field.
• Su Xue'er encountered a group of armed travelers led by Oldest, who asked whether she had seen a golden-armored swordsman.
• Su Xue'er overheard the group identify Gu Qingshan as their target and realized they intended to kill him.
• Su Xue'er used Life Burning, sacrificed her Law Staff to create seventy-seven cards, and invoked the spell, "Fate! Only when I wither can you bloom!"

Su Xue'er’s desperate Mist Island spell was interrupted when Taisis’s gift restored her vitality and returned her to the Blood Sea Demon Lord. As her master explained why she should not hide danger from Gu Qingshan, Su Xue'er began to wonder how he had escaped the restraints she had placed on him.

• Su Xue'er unleashed the power of seventy-seven cards, but a green leaf appeared on her forehead and replenished her life force before she could strike the Iron Armor Warrior’s group.
• Su Xue'er recognized the leaf as Taisis’s gift, then her Fate Replacement Card shattered and Taisis’s phantom carried her away.
• Taisis used her Fate Return Technique, noticed Gu Qingshan and Lola in the same world, and sent a phantom to retrieve Su Xue'er and another to Gu Qingshan.
• The Blood Sea Demon Lord welcomed Su Xue'er back to Mist Island, and she told him what had happened as they discussed the coming war.
• The Blood Sea Demon Lord told Su Xue'er that hiding danger from Gu Qingshan was unfair to him, and she realized she did not know how he had escaped her restraints.