Recaps

Lei Dong learned that King of Holy Radiance and Udis possessed powerful ancestral weapons, then planned how to use Chaos Crystals and other resources to strengthen his forces before the looming conflict. He left the strategy meeting intending to raise elite Hidden Dragon Army members to Spirit Transmutation and bolster the Fierce Ghost Army with accumulated flesh.

• King of Judgment warned Lei Dong and his allies that King of Holy Radiance likely possessed the Holy Hall, which could summon eighteen powerful heroic spirits for battle.
• The Shadow Demon King told Lei Dong that Udis likely held the Totem Scepter, a destructive weapon that summoned beast souls and attacked everyone except its holder.
• Lei Dong judged that his Chaos Soul Devouring Pagoda and Cave Heaven Blessed Land gave him superior trump cards, and he planned to gather resources and advance trusted allies.
• Lei Dong decided to spend about fifteen Chaos Crystals and some Chaos Origin to raise thirty gifted Hidden Dragon Army members to Early Spirit Transmutation.
• Lei Dong postponed turning the Fierce Ghost Army into Ghost Emperors because of the cost, but planned to use accumulated flesh to strengthen them.

Lei Dong sent his forces to cultivate in the Cave Heaven Blessed Land and organized teams to search the Chaos Otherworld for Chaos Crystals. He led the tenth team with Thunder Tiger, whom he urged to regard him as a brother, as the search began.

• Lei Dong opened the Cave Heaven Blessed Land to the fighters who needed to advance, filling it with Chaos Spirit Qi while accepting that the Heavenly Spirit Stones would run out faster.
• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor, the Purgatory Devil King, and the other cultivators entered the Cave Heaven Blessed Land to pursue breakthroughs, while Lei Dong and his allies prepared to explore outside.
• Lei Dong divided his allies into stealth teams to seek natural Chaos Crystals and other resources, reasoning that the Night Emperor's Mind Devourer forces were poor at independent patrols.
• Lei Dong left Wan Yan at the main camp and led the tenth search team, which included elite Hidden Dragon Soldiers and a newly transformed young man.
• Lei Dong called the young man Thunder Tiger and told him to address him as big brother, explaining that he had always regarded him as a brother rather than a spirit pet.

Lei Dong’s expedition searched the chaotic subspace for resources, found Chaos Crystals and Spirit Stones, and used them to strengthen his forces. As Emperor of the Night’s patrols grew more frequent, King of Holy Radiance and Lord of the Abyss requested a conference, leaving Lei Dong facing a more dangerous situation.

• Lei Dong’s teams explored the wasteland and Dongfang Fu discovered a large Chaos Crystal deposit.
• Lei Dong’s group gathered Chaos Crystals, innate ore, and Heavenly Spirit Stones, then used their resources to advance loyal cultivators.
• Lei Dong avoided an Emperor of the Night patrol after detecting it with his divine sense.
• Over the following half year, patrols appeared more often as Lei Dong continued searching for resources.
• Ding Wanyan told Lei Dong that King of Holy Radiance and Lord of the Abyss had requested a meeting and conference.

Lei Dong assessed his coalition’s growing armies and learned that all thirty elite Hidden Dragon soldiers had reached Spirit Transmutation. Suspecting King of Holy Radiance and Lord of the Abyss were preparing to move against him, he ordered his forces and allies to gather in the Cave Heaven Blessed Land for a confrontation.

• Ding Wanyan reported that Lei Dong’s forces included over twelve thousand Nascent Soul-level fighters and tens of thousands more among their allies.
• Lei Dong and Ding Wanyan reviewed the allies’ troops, including Purgatory Devil King’s, Netherworld Ghost Emperor’s, Flame Devil King’s, Evil Phoenix’s, Demon Dragon’s, and Elder Li’s forces.
• Ding Wanyan told Lei Dong that all thirty first-batch Hidden Dragon soldiers had reached Spirit Transmutation after receiving Chaos Crystals and Chaos Origin.
• Ding Wanyan proposed using Chaos Crystals to help Golden Core soldiers advance, and Lei Dong left the allocation decisions to her.
• Lei Dong ordered elite troops to bring their Nascent Soul-level fighters and allies’ strongest forces into the Cave Heaven Blessed Land, preparing to act against King of Holy Radiance and Lord of the Abyss.

Lei Dong met with the Lord of the Abyss and the King of Holy Radiance to plan a strike against the Night Emperor, but he challenged the King of Holy Radiance over King of Radiance’s suspicious condition. The meeting ended with Lei Dong demanding to know where the Mind Devourer was.

• Lei Dong, the Lord of the Abyss, and the King of Holy Radiance met on a remote plateau with five attendants each to discuss how to deal with the Night Emperor.
• Lei Dong greeted Daga and Bris, while the Lord of the Abyss questioned him about his recent search for treasures and the source of his reinforcements.
• The King of Holy Radiance proposed luring the Night Emperor away from his army for a decapitation strike, and the Lord of the Abyss warned that the Night Emperor would be difficult to isolate.
• Lei Dong questioned King of Radiance’s wooden demeanor and asked how Yilianna had died, prompting the King of Holy Radiance to object.
• Lei Dong cited the Shadow Demon King’s claim that the King of Holy Radiance had obtained a Mind Devourer and demanded to know where it was.

Lei Dong exposed the King of Holy Radiance’s possession of a Mind Devourer, sparking attacks and revelations about his control over the King of Radiance and the King of Liuyue. As the Purgatory Devil King fought the controlled King of Radiance, the King of Judgment confronted Liuyue and urged her to break free.

• Lei Dong accused the King of Holy Radiance of secretly keeping a mid-level Mind Devourer, and the King of Holy Radiance attacked him with the Great Light Cannon.
• The King of Blazing Star ambushed the King of Holy Radiance, then accused him of using a Mind Devourer on the King of Radiance and an Evil Technique on the King of Liuyue.
• The King of Radiance struck the King of Blazing Star, but the Purgatory Devil King appeared and engaged him in battle.
• Bright King Ajana and the King of Twilight hesitated amid the revelations, while the King of Liuyue urged them to attack Lei Dong.
• The King of Judgment appeared before Liuyue, Ajana, and the King of Twilight and pleaded with Liuyue to wake up from the King of Holy Radiance’s control.

Udis and the Abyssal forces tried to flee, but Lei Dong’s allies intercepted them while the Bright Holy Domain’s leaders turned against one another. King of Holy Radiance revealed he had recovered from his injuries and offered Lei Dong submission or death, and Lei Dong mocked him.

• Udis ordered his followers to retreat, but the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and the Old Undying blocked his escape and demanded the Totem Scepter.
• The Heavenly Devil intercepted Bris, Dongfang Fu fought Daga, and Ding Wanyan and Xiao You confronted two other Abyssal Demons.
• King Liuyue accused the King of Judgment of betraying her race for Lei Dong, then rallied Bright King and King of Twilight to attack her.
• Mei'er joined the King of Judgment’s side against Bright King Ajana, while King of Blazing Star entered the battle and accused Liuyue of being controlled.
• Lei Dong called out King of Holy Radiance for pretending to be unconscious, and King of Holy Radiance rose, offered him power if he submitted, and threatened to kill him otherwise.
• Lei Dong laughed and mocked King of Holy Radiance’s judgment.

Lei Dong fought King of Holy Radiance, surviving his powerful light and space techniques before summoning four Spirit Transmutation allies to join the battle. The fight remained evenly matched until Lei Dong tricked King of Holy Radiance and pierced his defenses with the Netherworld Finger.

• King of Holy Radiance offered to share the Six Domains and Nine Provinces, but Lei Dong refused and launched a surprise attack.
• King of Holy Radiance blocked Lei Dong's Netherworld Fingers, blinded and restrained him with his light and True Word techniques, then struck with the Great Light Cannon.
• Lei Dong escaped the spatial restraint, defended himself with the Indestructible Profound Yin Shield, and summoned Mò Yáo, Lei Hu, Ghost Thorn, and Gui Ming.
• King of Holy Radiance fought Lei Dong and his four allies, while Lei Dong used the Devil Emperor True Word Technique to help keep the battle even.
• Lei Dong bluffed that he had frozen space, then fired Netherworld Fingers at King of Holy Radiance, who trusted his Holy Light Shield and was pierced several times.

Lei Dong’s ambush badly wounded King of Holy Radiance, but a Divine Shield Talisman let him survive long enough to summon the Holy Hall’s heroic spirits. Lei Dong brought out his full army to fight them, while King of Holy Radiance discovered that his own troop-storing treasure was dwarfed by Lei Dong’s forces.

• Lei Dong used a concealed, enhanced Netherworld Finger to wound King of Holy Radiance, then had thirty Hidden Dragon Soldiers attack him while space was frozen.
• King of Holy Radiance crushed a Divine Shield Talisman to withstand the combined assault, though the shield eventually broke and he suffered another injury.
• King of Holy Radiance summoned the Holy Hall, releasing eighteen powerful Winged God Clan heroic spirits.
• Lei Dong ordered his forces to attack and summoned more Spirit Transmutation experts through the Spatial Gate to battle the heroic spirits.
• Lei Dong’s Hidden Dragon Soldiers and Fierce Ghost Soldiers poured onto the battlefield in huge numbers, and King of Holy Radiance realized his Soldier Storing Pagoda held far fewer troops than Lei Dong’s treasure.

The King of Holy Radiance forced the King of Radiance to swallow a Void Refinement-level Devil King Essence, risking the Devil King's revival. Lei Dong and the Purgatory Devil King tried to kill the King of Radiance before possession was complete, but Bright King Ajana blocked Lei Dong's attack and the King of Holy Radiance rushed to intervene.

• The King of Holy Radiance ordered the King of Radiance to swallow a Void Refinement-level Devil King Essence as Lei Dong's forces overwhelmed the battlefield.
• Lei Dong sent Evil Phoenix and part of the Fierce Ghost Army to hold back the Holy Hall's heroic spirits, then rushed with Hidden Dragon Soldiers to attack the King of Radiance.
• The Purgatory Devil King struck the King of Radiance with Hellfire Burns the Sky, breaking his defenses, and Lei Dong followed with the Black Dragon Chant.
• Bright King Ajana stepped in front of the fallen King of Radiance and took Lei Dong's attack, suffering a grievous wound without retreating.
• Lei Dong ordered the Purgatory Devil King to help kill the King of Radiance, while the King of Holy Radiance froze the Hidden Dragon Soldiers and rushed to intervene.
• The Purgatory Devil King held back the King of Holy Radiance as Lei Dong gathered power for another Black Dragon Chant, and the King of Judgment warned Ajana to move.

Lei Dong and the King of Judgment tried to stop King of Holy Radiance and save Ajana, but the King of Radiance suddenly broke through the Devil King Essence’s influence enough to protect his daughter. As the battle turned against King of Holy Radiance, King Liuyue sacrificed herself to shield him from the attackers.

• Lei Dong ordered the King of Judgment to attack the King of Radiance while he fired Black Dragon Chant at Ajana, but the King of Radiance appeared and destroyed the attack with one punch.
• The King of Judgment struck the King of Radiance with the Sword of Judgment, but his power had surged beyond the Mid Spirit Transformation stage and he repelled her.
• Lei Dong and the King of Judgment decided to kill King of Holy Radiance and seize command of his troops as the Winged God Clan warriors began doubting their leader.
• King of Holy Radiance mocked Lei Dong and declared that the Devil King’s rebirth could not be stopped, so Lei Dong, the King of Judgment, and the Purgatory Devil King attacked him.
• King Liuyue rushed in front of King of Holy Radiance to shield him, and the Purgatory Devil King’s Purgatory Burns the Heavens struck her.

The Purgatory Devil King killed King Liuyue, and King of Judgment joined the assault on the King of Holy Radiance. As the other fronts fell in Lei Dong’s favor, the transformed King of Radiance slaughtered his Ghost King troops, leaving Lei Dong struggling to contain him.

• The Purgatory Devil King’s strike shattered King Liuyue’s defenses, and the flames in her Primordial Spirit killed her before she could speak; the King of Holy Radiance charged at him in rage.
• King of Judgment overcame his doubts and joined the Purgatory Devil King and Lei Dong’s Hidden Dragon Soldiers in attacking the King of Holy Radiance.
• Lei Dong sent the Fierce Ghost Army against the King of Radiance, whose golden and black power transformed his appearance and let him slaughter more than a dozen Ghost Kings in moments.
• Lei Dong targeted Ajana with Netherworld Fingers, but the King of Radiance rushed to protect her and carried her away while the Ghost Kings attacked.
• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Shadow Demon King defeated Udis and secured the surrender of his allies, while the Evil Phoenix and Lei Long’s forces drove the Holy Hall’s spirits back into their sanctuary.
• The King of Holy Radiance continued to resist his attackers with special items, and the King of Radiance remained a deadly threat as Lei Dong watched his Ghost Kings fall.

Lei Dong and his allies battered the King of Radiance after Lei Dong sealed him in compressed space, while the battle between the King of Radiance’s will and the Devil King’s consciousness was explained. The Devil King seized control and used Ajana as a shield, forcing Lei Dong to tear through space and rescue her.

• Lei Dong entered King's Reign Over the World, sealed the King of Radiance and Ajana in compressed space, and joined forces with more than thirty Spirit Transmutation Experts to strike them.
• The spatial crystal shattered under the combined attacks, severely injuring the King of Radiance and stripping away most of his wings.
• The account revealed that the Mind Devourer’s will had fought the Devil King first, allowing the King of Radiance to regain control before both wills reached a truce under Lei Dong’s attack.
• Lei Dong and the Ghost King army continued their assault, and the Devil King’s consciousness took control of the badly wounded King of Radiance.
• The King of Radiance threw Ajana in front of the incoming spells, and Lei Dong tore through space to catch her with a Netherflame Ghost Claw.

Lei Dong forced the King of Radiance to suppress the Devil King and serve him for three years in exchange for Ajana’s safety. After the King of Radiance captured the King of Holy Radiance, the brothers confronted the betrayal and old grievances that had driven John’s actions.

• Lei Dong used Ajana as leverage while the gathered experts attacked the Devil King, helping the King of Radiance regain control of his body.
• Lei Dong demanded that the King of Radiance obey him for three years and promised not to harm Ajana; the King of Radiance agreed and captured the King of Holy Radiance.
• Lei Dong released Ajana, and the King of Radiance healed her while explaining that he had only three years left to live.
• The King of Radiance asked John why he had betrayed him, and John revealed that he had loved Yilianna and blamed his brother for neglecting her and making secret deals with the High-ranking Devil Race.

The King of Holy Radiance admitted his wrongs, revealed his plans for Ajana, and killed himself after asking to be buried with Liuyue. Lei Dong secured the Winged God Clan’s alliance and mourned the heavy losses before joking with the King of Blazing Star and fleeing the Heavenly Devil.

• The King of Holy Radiance surrendered his authority to the King of Judgment, who promised to protect the Winged God Clan and ally it with Lei Dong.
• The King of Holy Radiance gave the King of Radiance a Soul Sealing Ball containing Yilianna’s soul and confessed that he had planned to use Ajana’s body to restore her.
• The King of Holy Radiance asked to be buried with Liuyue, rejected the King of Judgment’s offer of redemption, and detonated his Primordial Spirit.
• Lei Dong ordered the King of Judgment to gather the surviving Winged God Clan members and fulfill the King of Holy Radiance’s burial request; the battle had killed more than three hundred Hidden Dragon Army soldiers and over five hundred Fierce Ghost Army soldiers.
• Lei Dong tried to console the grieving King of Blazing Star, then joked about visiting his territory and challenging him to a contest of strength.
• The Heavenly Devil appeared behind Lei Dong and challenged him to a fight, prompting Lei Dong to flee as the Heavenly Devil used the Great Heavenly Devil Fist.

Poison Fang and Ba Chong entered the abandoned Mind Devourer Realm and began searching for Mind Devourers and resources. After their troops found Mind Devourer eggs and a natural Chaos Crystal, they realized the realm was an undeveloped treasure trove, while Lei Dong’s group was scavenging elsewhere in the Chaos Dimension.

• Poison Fang identified the land’s abundant, unmined Chaos Spirit Qi and ordered Ba Chong to summon Blood Sha troops to search for Mind Devourers.
• Ba Chong used his Blood Sha Talisman to summon three thousand troops and sent them to conduct a covert search.
• The Blood Sha troops found Mind Devourer eggs in hidden caves and discovered a naturally formed Chaos Crystal underground.
• Poison Fang and Ba Chong grew excited over the find and concluded that the realm was an undeveloped treasure trove.
• Lei Dong continued sweeping the Chaos Dimension for Chaos Crystals and Spirit Qi instead of challenging the Night Emperor.

After defeating the Emperor of the Night’s forces, Lei Dong organized the Chaos subspace’s resources and invested heavily in cultivating his trusted subordinates and armies. His forces began advancing rapidly, leaving him with a growing foundation for the wars ahead.

• Lei Dong deployed more than twenty thousand Nascent Soul-level experts to search the Chaos subspace and gather Chaos Spirit Qi while he refined Chaos Crystals for his forces.
• Lei Dong prioritized cultivating Spirit Transformation-level experts, reasoning that Nascent Soul-level armies could not reliably withstand Void Refinement-level opponents.
• Lei Dong selected trusted allies including the Heavenly Demon, Wan Yan, Xiao You, Lei Qing'er, and others for his first echelon, and named talented Spirit Transformation experts for a second echelon.
• Lei Dong allocated most resources to his inner circle and divided the rest among his own forces, allies, and soldiers; his side received seventy percent of the Chaos resources.
• Golden Core-level soldiers advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm, while some Hidden Dragon Soldiers entered Spirit Transformation and began secluded cultivation.

Lei Dong learned that a powerful army from the Devil Realm had entered the Chaos Dimension with two Void Refinement powerhouses, including one at the middle stage. He agreed to provide the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and the Purgatory Devil King with sixty Chaos Crystals so they could try to break through to Void Refinement before the coming battle.

• Lei Dong’s scouts recorded a bloody clash in which a disciplined squad of mysterious warriors defeated an Emperor of the Night patrol.
• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor captured enemy soldiers and used Soul Searching Technique to confirm that the warriors came from the Devil Realm and had two Void Refinement experts with them.
• Lei Dong asked the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and the Purgatory Devil King how quickly they could reach Void Refinement, and both estimated they could do so within ten years with enough Chaos Crystals.
• Lei Dong pledged to supply sixty Chaos Crystals to support their breakthroughs and help them restrain the enemy’s Void Refinement powerhouses.
• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor and the Purgatory Devil King accepted Lei Dong’s support but insisted they would repay the crystals after the battle.

Lei Dong’s forces secretly provoked Poison Fang and the Emperor of the Night into war while preparing to strengthen themselves in the Chaos Subspace. The chapter revealed the Emperor of the Night’s tragic past and ended as Poison Fang’s army reached the Mind Devourer production base that served as his lair.

• Lei Dong ordered his allies to avoid direct clashes while the Shadow Demon King, Bris, and other races worked to provoke conflict between the Emperor of the Night and the Devil Realm army.
• Poison Fang retaliated against attacks by forces posing as the Emperor of the Night’s subordinates, and the Emperor sent his own army against her in response.
• The chapter revealed that a Devil Race array had trapped the Emperor of the Night and his soldiers, allowing Mind Devourers to parasitize his army.
• The sentient Mind Devourer that possessed the Emperor of the Night struggled with his will for centuries before he regained control, while his subordinates remained living corpses.
• The Emperor of the Night refined the Mind Devourers into an army, but Poison Fang and Ba Chong defeated his forces and advanced to his lair, the old Mind Devourer production base.

The Emperor of the Night used an ancient formation to capture Poison Fang, Ba Chong, and their Blood Fiend army, while Lei Dong shifted to guerrilla tactics against his strengthened forces. Meanwhile, the Netherworld Ghost Emperor broke through to Void Refining and began enduring a powerful heavenly tribulation inside the Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

• The Emperor of the Night activated the High-ranking Devil Race’s automated breeding formation, trapping Poison Fang, Ba Chong, and tens of thousands of Blood Fiend soldiers as Mind Devourer eggs began to hatch.
• Lei Dong learned that the Emperor of the Night had captured the Devil Realm forces and split his army into hundreds of groups to wage guerrilla warfare.
• The Emperor of the Night led his forces on a months-long sweep but managed to eliminate only a few of Lei Dong’s scattered groups.
• Lei Dong used the Cave Heaven Blessed Land’s accelerated time to convert Chaos Crystals into strength for his forces while avoiding a direct battle.
• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor broke through from peak Spirit Transformation to Void Refining, triggering a fierce heavenly tribulation in the Cave Heaven Blessed Land.
• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor faced the falling bolts of heavenly lightning with successive wondrous arts and remained standing amid the tribulation.

Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Purgatory Devil King advanced to Void Refinement inside the Cave Heaven Blessed Land, enriching its spiritual energy. They realized the Chaos alternate space lay beyond the Six Domains and Nine Provinces, then agreed with Lei Dong to stabilize their realms and confront Emperor of the Night.

• Lei Dong kept Netherworld Ghost Emperor’s Void Refinement tribulation inside the Cave Heaven Blessed Land to avoid attracting Emperor of the Night, and Netherworld Ghost Emperor passed it successfully.
• Purgatory Devil King began his own tribulation soon afterward, smashed through the heavenly lightning with his fists, and advanced to Void Refinement.
• Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Purgatory Devil King argued over who was stronger and prepared to spar, but Lei Dong intervened and urged them to postpone it.
• Netherworld Ghost Emperor explained that the Chaos alternate space lay outside the Six Domains and Nine Provinces, meaning their laws would repel them if they tried to return through a spatial rift.
• Lei Dong reminded them that Emperor of the Night was hunting them, and Netherworld Ghost Emperor agreed they should stabilize their realms before confronting him.

After strengthening his forces, Lei Dong launched a surprise attack on one of the Emperor of the Night’s flank units. The ambush began with the three Void Refinement experts quickly killing the enemy’s Spirit Transmutation commanders.

• Lei Dong and his forces advanced through cultivation, bringing their Nascent Soul fighters to over forty thousand and assembling an elite strike force of about fifteen hundred.
• Lei Dong used the Soldier Storing Pagoda to conceal his strike force near a canyon along the Emperor of the Night’s search route.
• Lei Dong’s fighters ambushed a thousand-man unit after it entered the canyon.
• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor trapped and grievously wounded a middle-stage Spirit Transmutation demon, then blasted him to pieces.
• The King of Radiance and the Purgatory Devil King also killed their chosen Spirit Transmutation opponents.

Lei Dong and his forces ambushed and annihilated a thousand-man squad of the Emperor of the Night’s Mind Devourer army, then used repeated strikes to disrupt the Emperor of the Night’s sweeping encirclement. After the enemy withdrew to its lair, Lei Dong resumed harvesting resources across the region.

• King of Radiance, the Purgatory Devil King, and the Netherworld Ghost Emperor used powerful attacks to kill enemy Spirit Transmutation experts and hundreds of Nascent Soul fighters.
• Lei Dong and his Spirit Transmutation and Nascent Soul forces wiped out the remaining Mind Devourers in barely more than two hundred breaths, suffering no deaths.
• Lei Dong’s forces collected Nascent Souls, Primordial Spirits, materials, and other spoils from the battlefield.
• Lei Dong ambushed another thousand-man squad, prompting the Emperor of the Night to pull his scattered troops together and abandon his sweeping encirclement strategy.
• After the Emperor of the Night returned to his lair, Lei Dong resumed stripping the region of resources and rebuilding the Chaos Spirit Gathering Formations.

The Emperor of the Night contacted Mei'er and agreed to use himself as bait in a plan to eliminate Lei Dong and his allies. He led an elite force to a harsh border region, unaware that his faulty intelligence had left him unprepared for Lei Dong's hidden strength.

• The Emperor of the Night summoned a communication formation and questioned Mei'er about her failure to report Lei Dong's earlier operation.
• Mei'er warned that a direct battle would cause heavy losses and proposed luring Lei Dong into a trap by making the Emperor of the Night the bait.
• The Emperor of the Night suspected Mei'er of betrayal, then accepted her assurances and approved her plan.
• Within a month, the Emperor of the Night led a small elite force by an indirect route to a dangerous region near the Chaos alternate dimension's border.
• The Emperor of the Night relied on Mei'er's incomplete intelligence and assumed Lei Dong's forces had no Void Refinement-level expert.

Lei Dong prepared his forces and allies for a decisive clash with Emperor of the Night, discovering that Li Chuchu had risen to Spirit Transmutation and joined his side. The two armies launched their surprise attacks, and Emperor of the Night realized Lei Dong had far more elite fighters than expected as the battle began.

• Lei Dong assembled over a hundred Spirit Transmutation experts and three Void Refining experts, with King of Judgment, Bris, and Ding Wanyan among his key allies.
• Lei Dong discovered that Ding Wanyan had secretly helped Li Chuchu advance to early-stage Spirit Transmutation and obtain a powerful puppet.
• Li Chuchu joined the war council, and Lei Dong accepted her unexpected strength as a valuable addition to his forces.
• Following Mei'er's plan, Lei Dong and Emperor of the Night each launched their elite forces, believing they had caught the other by surprise.
• Emperor of the Night saw Lei Dong's overwhelming numbers and realized Mei'er had betrayed him, but both sides were committed to battle.