Chapter Summaries

After Golden Dragonfly Earl was assassinated, rumors accused Martin Golden Dragonfly, and Marco Golden Dragonfly summoned him to a banquet to publicly frame him. Parr turned the accusations against Marco and exposed him as a disguised One-Star Magician, leaving Old Tom confronting him.

• Old Tom found the Spirit Tool Cannon and dead death warriors but failed to discover who had assassinated Golden Dragonfly Earl.
• Rumors spread that Martin Golden Dragonfly had murdered his father and brothers, so Parr ordered Old Wolf and Black Snake to trace their source.
• Marco Golden Dragonfly invited Parr, disguised as Martin Golden Dragonfly, to a banquet and surrounded Martin Mansion with elite soldiers.
• At the banquet, Marco accused Martin of arranging the assassination and presented witnesses and forged evidence, but the witnesses then accused Marco of fabricating their testimony.
• Parr revealed that Marco wore a Spirit Tool Necklace to disguise himself as a One-Star Magician, and Old Tom drew his sword.

Parr helped expose Marco Golden Dragonfly, secured temporary recognition as Martin Golden Dragonfly’s heir, and then joined Gold Crystal Fortress’s preparations for an orc invasion. The chapter ended with the orcs shifting from restrained duels to deadly challenges after gauging the fortress’s defenders.

• Old Tom killed Marco Golden Dragonfly, and Parr explained how he had turned Marco’s agents against him without discovering who stood behind Marco.
• Old Tom and the fence-sitters saluted Parr as Martin Golden Dragonfly’s heir, while Old Tom warned that Martin would need to prove himself worthy of the family title.
• Parr learned that the orc army was tying down the fortresses while its other half attacked Youyan Fortress, and Gold Crystal Fortress was ordered to hold its position.
• Old Tom and the Minotaur Great Commander fought to a draw, and subsequent duels between human and orc Silver-level fighters also ended evenly.
• After probing Gold Crystal Fortress’s high-end fighters, the orcs sent a Peak Bronze challenger who killed a human commander of a thousand men before being gravely wounded.

After Randy defeated a Peak Bronze beastman, Parr took on a succession of Elementary Bronze challengers and won every fight, turning the fortress’s despair into confidence. He returned to Gold Crystal Fortress acclaimed as a worthy heir of the Golden Dragonfly Family, while Old Tom praised him and told stories about Martin Golden Dragonfly’s grandfather.

• Randy accepted the Peak Bronze challenge and killed the Red-Eyed Minotaur with a single swift sword strike.
• Parr volunteered to face an Elementary Bronze Red-Eyed Minotaur and killed it with his Stars Long Spear, surprising Old Tom with his skill.
• Parr stayed outside the fortress and defeated a fast Rabbit-Head Beastman, then continued to defeat the beastmen sent against him.
• Parr used Danger Prediction and Charge Punch to overcome a shield-bearing Lizardman and kill it with his spear.
• The beastmen sent no more challengers, and Gold Crystal Fortress cheered Parr as he returned.
• Old Tom praised Parr as a worthy successor and recounted the achievements of Martin Golden Dragonfly’s grandfather while Parr listened.

Parr broke through to Intermediate Bronze and defeated a string of orc challengers, while the orc commanders prepared to besiege Gold Crystal Fortress. The siege began after an orc squad destroyed a grain convoy, and the defenders met the Charging Bull Battle Formation with their Golden Tortoise Battle Formation.

• Parr used Life Energy Points to advance to Intermediate Bronze, then killed the Red-Eyed Minotaur seeking revenge for its twin brother and defeated six more Intermediate Bronze orcs.
• After the orc camp stopped sending challengers, the Minotaur Great Commander declared that the orcs would begin a siege and wage a war of attrition against the humans.
• A squad of Bronze-level orcs led by a Peak Bronze Red-Eyed Minotaur ambushed a grain convoy between Gold Crystal Fortress and Mountain Rock Fortress, killing the humans and burning the grain.
• A survivor reached Gold Crystal Fortress the next morning, and Old Tom learned of the ambush as the orc army began its siege.
• The Minotaur Great Commander led over a thousand armored Red-Eyed Minotaurs against the fortress while orc shamans bombarded its Defense Array with fireballs.
• Old Tom ordered the array to defend against aerial attacks and led a thousand elite soldiers in the Golden Tortoise Battle Formation against the Charging Bull Battle Formation.

Parr fought in several orc attacks on Gold Crystal Fortress while hiding his true strength under Martin Golden Dragonfly's identity. As the orcs shifted to unpredictable harassment and attacked supply convoys, the fortress endured a week of mounting pressure.

• Orc shamans raised stone ramps against Gold Crystal Fortress, and the humans fought the attacking orcs until both commanders' battle formations reached a draw and the Minotaur Great Commander withdrew.
• Parr killed a Leopard-Head Orc and many other attackers while concealing his abilities, then returned to Tail and counted the Energy Points he had gained.
• The orcs attacked again at dawn, and Old Tom learned that dozens of Bronze-level orcs had been ambushing supply shipments from Mountain Rock Fortress.
• Parr chose to remain at Gold Crystal Fortress rather than hunt the convoy attackers, expecting daily assaults to yield more Energy Points.
• The orcs launched brief, unpredictable harassment attacks for a week, using their numbers to wear down Gold Crystal Fortress.

Parr used his accumulated Energy Points to advance to Peak Bronze Knight and upgrade several Talents and Skills, but he needed a Battle Qi cultivation method to progress further. Seeking a new source of Energy Points, he left Gold Crystal Fortress and headed into the mountains to capture Snow Feather Eagles as scouts.

• Parr spent Life Energy Points to become an Advanced Bronze Knight and then a Peak Bronze Knight, where he hit a bottleneck requiring a method for condensing Battle Qi.
• Parr raised Talent Prompt Wake-Up to Level 4, upgraded Palm Space and Dual Wield Weapons to their maximum levels, and discovered that Dual Wield Weapons greatly amplified his combined attacks.
• Parr and Randy asked Old Tom for permission to hunt the Half-Orcs attacking grain convoys, and Old Tom agreed after noticing Randy was nearing a breakthrough.
• Parr and Randy left Gold Crystal Fortress, then split up: Randy headed toward Mountain Rock Fortress to escort a grain convoy, while Parr took Hu Ya, Tail, and thirty-four transformed Half-Orcs into the mountains.
• Parr decided to catch Snow Feather Eagles to scout for the elusive Half-Orcs hiding in the mountains.

Parr recruited thirty-two Snow Feather Eagles to scout for orcs and strengthened the Half-Orcs with the remaining points of light. After the eagles found a hidden camp, Parr led a night attack that wiped out its elite orcs, then began testing a guess on one of the corpses.

• Parr used purple powder to incapacitate a flock of Snow Feather Eagles, empowered thirty-two of them, and had Tail instruct them to search for orcs.
• Parr spent the Stars Long Spear’s remaining white points of light to raise the Half-Orcs’ strength, earning Hu Ya’s gratitude.
• A Snow Feather Eagle found orcs resting in a concealed valley and reported their location to Parr.
• Parr froze and killed the valley’s sentry, then led the Half-Orcs in a Crescent Moon Battle Formation that wiped out the camp’s elite orcs.
• Parr used Refinement on the corpse of an elite orc to test his guess.

Parr’s aerial scouts helped him hunt elite beastmen across the Western Mountain Range, while the beastmen’s commander Niu Lang discovered that an unseen force had wiped out many of his squads. Niu Lang learned the attackers were watching from the sky and began planning a response as the fighting around Youyan Fortress paused beneath the snow.

• Parr’s Snow Feather Eagles tracked elite beastman squads, allowing Parr and his men to ambush them and collect a large haul of light points and energy.
• Hu Ya and Tail rested with Parr in a cave during a blizzard after a week of travel and hunting.
• Niu Lang noticed that nine beastman squads had failed to return and heard from seven wounded survivors that their captain had died fighting a powerful human.
• Niu Lang sent a report to the Charging Bull Tribe, then ordered the remaining squads to rest rather than continue their attacks.
• The Shaman’s letter told Niu Lang that the missing beastmen had been killed and that the key was in the sky; Niu Lang realized flying Magic Beasts had been used against them and devised a costly plan.
• The Bull Horned Great Bird flew past ruined Youyan Fortress, where heavy snow had halted the bloody battle between human and beastman forces.

Parr discovered an orc ambush around the elite orcs and led his forces in a dawn assault, using his Bright Eyes and battle formations to destroy most of the hidden squads. By sunrise, he had defeated thirteen of fifteen squads, leaving the strongest squad and the bait squad in the mountain gap.

• Parr spotted energy flickers across the mountains and realized the elite orcs were bait in an ambush, so he mapped the enemy positions and planned to attack from the outside in.
• Hu Ya warned that the force could not fight every squad, but Parr rallied her, Tail, and the thirty-four Half-Orcs to follow his plan.
• At dawn, Parr's group charged through the outer ambushes, defeating four squads before their allies' stamina ran low.
• Parr spent light points to restore the Half-Orcs' strength, then feigned exhaustion and lured pursuing squads into further attacks.
• Parr counted thirteen of the fifteen ambush squads defeated, with the strongest squad and the bait squad still remaining.

Parr strengthened his allies, lured Niu Lang into a duel, and killed him with a powerful combined attack before his Half-Orcs defeated the remaining Orcs. After gathering the Orc corpses, Parr refined them into blood-red crystals and revealed to Hu Ya that they contained the power of an Orc’s bloodline.

• Parr spent white light points to raise thirty-four Half-Orcs to Peak Knight Apprentice and strengthen Hu Ya and Tail, then explained his plan to them.
• Parr challenged Niu Lang’s Orcs and killed a Peak Bronze Rhino Orc, prompting Niu Lang to believe Parr was stalling while a human force retreated.
• Niu Lang charged out to pursue the supposed retreating force, but Parr used Blade Condensation and Combined Strike to kill him with the Cyan White Long Saber and White Light Sword.
• Parr fled while appearing exhausted, then joined the Half-Orcs in the Crescent Moon Battle Formation to crush the remaining Orcs.
• Parr counted the light points gained from the battle, gathered the Orc corpses, and refined them into blood-red crystals using Mental Energy.
• Hu Ya’s Tiger-Head Orc form emerged as she sensed the crystals, and Parr told her they held the power of an Orc’s bloodline.

Parr used Ancestor-Given Blood crystals to raise all thirty-four Half-Orcs to Bronze-level, then planned to ambush orc supply convoys. Meanwhile, cultists burned supplies across the fortresses, and the Charging Bull Shaman secretly negotiated with Black Robe over War Divine Stones and a book page.

• Hu Ya activated Ancestor-Given Blood crystals in a formation, and Parr supplied Spirit Stones until Half-Tusk broke through to Bronze-level.
• Parr and Hu Ya repeated the process, raising all thirty-four Half-Orcs to Bronze-level, and Parr set out to target orc supply convoys.
• Old Tom recalled his son Jerry from scouting duty, urged him to remain loyal to the Golden Dragonfly Family, and sent him toward Mountain Rock Fortress.
• Orc assaults intensified as cultists set fire to the supply depots in every fortress, destroying more than half the stored supplies.
• Several days later, human commanders found their supply convoys arriving safely, while the orcs maintained their siege and the other three major tribes stayed out of the fighting.
• The Charging Bull Shaman told Black Robe to wait for the promised book page, and Black Robe departed through a metal formation disc after saying Red Robe was chasing some children.

Parr led his group into the Cinder Lion Eastern Wasteland and began disrupting the Orc army’s supplies near Gold Crystal Fortress. After Tail’s forgotten past resurfaced and she revealed a Half-Orc cultivation method, Parr gained a way to strengthen the rescued Half-Orcs, but the method required many Spirit Stones.

• Parr chose to target the Orc army outside Gold Crystal Fortress, and Tail briefly recalled fleeing pursuers while Half-Orcs sacrificed themselves to help her escape.
• Parr’s group followed a medicine convoy, killed its leader, seized the supplies, and captured the Half-Orcs who had been forced to work for the Orcs.
• Tail offered to make the captured Half-Orcs into soldiers and revealed that five Spirit Stones could help each one break through to Apprentice-level.
• Tail used Spirit Stones and her golden collar to cultivate all fifty-odd captured Half-Orcs, then taught them and Hu Ya a Half-Orc cultivation method.
• Parr realized the new method could let Half-Orcs grow stronger on their own, but it would require a massive supply of Spirit Stones.

Parr led his people to a Spirit Stone mine near Spirit City and seized it, secretly turning it into a base for raising a Half-Orc army. The mine was producing Spirit Stones and training new soldiers under Parr’s control.

• Parr led the Half-Orc soldiers toward Spirit City, training them by directing them to fight Orc supply convoys while he collected Energy Points with the Stars Long Spear.
• Parr bypassed Spirit City and found that Orcs had occupied the Spirit Stone mine, where hundreds of slaves worked under a small Orc guard force.
• Parr and Hu Ya infiltrated the mine, subdued and controlled its Orcs, and learned from Doghead where the mined Spirit Stones went.
• Parr assigned rescued Half-Orcs to the mine and used its abandoned tunnels to hide them, while Doghead organized mining and concealed the better Spirit Stones.
• Hu Ya trained sturdy Half-Orc slaves into soldiers, and Parr used Bright Eyes to locate and mark Spirit Stone deposits throughout the mine.

Parr discovered a hidden Spirit Vein beneath the mine, including a pool of Spirit Water that restored his strength and cleansed his body. After Parr, Hu Ya, and Tail entered the pool and fell asleep, the Seven-Colored Little Deer explained that Spirit Water could speed up the Myriad Leaves Tree’s growth and asked how Parr could bring some into the Dream Space.

• Parr dug through the mine floor and uncovered a cavern filled with High-Quality Spirit Stones and a pool of warm, powerful water.
• Parr brought Hu Ya and Tail to the Spirit Stone Cave, and they entered the pool; the water put them to sleep and covered their bodies with impurities.
• Hu Ya ordered the Half-Orcs to guard the mine entrances, then joined Parr and Tail in the pool and dreamed of her dead parents and the Ice Mountain Family.
• Tail dreamed of being a child named Nicole, met a woman in a red dress, and called her Mama.
• The Seven-Colored Little Deer told Parr that the pool held Spirit Water, which could accelerate the Myriad Leaves Tree’s growth and help him pass the Dream Space trial in two weeks.
• Parr asked how he could bring Spirit Water into the Dream Space.

After cleansing in the Spirit Water, Parr learned Hu Ya’s Basic Spirit Condensation Method and advanced to Four-Star Magician. He then helped the Seven-Colored Little Deer move the Spirit Vein’s foundation into the Ten Thousand Leaves Tree Dream Space, triggering a prolonged earthquake across the Western Mountain Range.

• Spirit Water cleansed Parr, Tail, and Hu Ya, raising Tail and Hu Ya to Peak Bronze and improving Hu Ya’s Mental Power to three stars.
• Hu Ya taught Parr the Basic Spirit Condensation Method, which Parr maxed out before using the Stars Long Spear’s silver light points to become a Four-Star Magician.
• Parr stored Spirit Water and then put the Stars Long Spear into the pool, where it absorbed all the water and revealed seven-colored Spirit Stones beneath it.
• The Seven-Colored Little Deer summoned the Azure Giant Wolf and White-Gold Giant Dragon to break up the Spirit Stones and transfer them into the Ten Thousand Leaves Tree Dream Space to create a Spirit Vein.
• As Parr watched the pool deepen, an earthquake shook the Western Mountain Range for more than half an hour, damaging buildings but leaving the fortress walls intact.

Red Robe launched an ambush against the Church forces while Youyan Grand Duke and Charging Bull Shaman prepared their own moves amid the earthquake’s mysterious effects. Meanwhile, Parr began raiding Orc supply teams with Tail and the Half-Orc soldiers, but a Bull Horned Great Bird attacked their Snow Feather Eagle scouts.

• Red Robe signaled cultists and more than a thousand Black Armor Cavalry to attack Lucy Ni and the Church personnel in the Western Mountain Range.
• Youyan Grand Duke allowed Old Tom’s anxiety over Martin’s disappearance to become a possible opening and ordered his agent to watch Gold Crystal Fortress.
• Charging Bull Shaman marked a location on a map after the War God contacted him, then sent a Bull Horned Great Bird toward the Orc camp outside Gold Crystal Fortress.
• Old Tom confined Randy for failing to reveal Martin’s whereabouts, while Jerry said he had sent people to search for Martin.
• Parr led Tail and thirty-four Half-Orc soldiers on raids, where Tail demonstrated formidable swordsmanship and the Half-Orcs received Spirit Water.
• A Bull Horned Great Bird attacked Parr’s Snow Feather Eagle scouts, killing several as Parr’s group looked on.

Parr intercepted the Bull Horned Great Bird carrying a confidential orc letter, then secretly disrupted the orc camp’s supply convoys until it faced starvation. After learning the orcs planned a final assault on Gold Crystal Fortress, Parr prepared to move that night.

• Parr used twenty white light points to evolve a dying Snow Feather Eagle into a Bronze-level Magic Beast, which joined the other eagles and helped defeat the Bull Horned Great Bird; Parr finished its attempted escape with an Electric Shock Spell.
• Parr found a metal cylinder among the bird’s remains, but the confidential parchment inside burned before he could read it; Hu Ya explained it was an orc shaman’s protected letter.
• The Charging Bull Shaman used a ritual to learn that a flying beast had killed the Bull Horned Great Bird, then sent a replacement confidential letter to the Minotaur Great Commander.
• After receiving the letter, the Minotaur Great Commander asked about camp supplies and began staging attacks that served as a signal to an observant person in Gold Crystal Fortress.
• Parr intercepted the orc supply convoys, leaving the camp with only one day of food; the Minotaur Great Commander announced a final assault for the next day.
• Doghead told Parr the orcs planned their final assault, and Parr ordered the Half-Orcs to rest because they would move that night.

Parr led his newly armed Half-Orc army to capture Spirit City, then learned the Orcs had launched a desperate assault on Gold Crystal Fortress. As Old Tom fought to defend the fortress, its aerial Magic Shield suddenly vanished and fireballs devastated both sides.

• Parr used Spirit Water and Ancestor-Given Blood crystals to strengthen his Half-Orc soldiers, then marched with them toward Spirit City.
• Parr sent Hu Ya and Tail to cut off the Orcs' escape and captured Spirit City, finding only a few hundred severely wounded Orcs there.
• Parr learned that the Orcs had gone to attack Gold Crystal Fortress and ordered his Half-Orcs to deal with the wounded before setting out again.
• Old Tom ordered Gold Crystal Fortress's Spirit Tool Cannons to destroy the Orc Shamans' stone ramps as the Orc army charged the walls.
• The fortress's aerial Magic Shield disappeared, and falling fireballs struck the human and Orc forces alike; Old Tom sent his Adjutant to investigate the defensive Magic Array.

Jerry betrayed the Golden Dragonfly Family by destroying Gold Crystal Fortress’s defensive array, but Randy killed him and joined Old Tom against the Minotaur Great Commander. After Old Tom died, Parr’s cavalry broke through the orc army’s rear and charged toward the fortress as the battle continued.

• Jerry destroyed the defensive magic array’s control core, leaving Gold Crystal Fortress exposed to the fireballs.
• The adjutant told Old Tom that Jerry had betrayed them, and Old Tom’s grief allowed the Minotaur Great Commander to shatter their battle formations.
• Randy confronted Jerry, learned that he had allied with the Charging Bull Tribe for power, and killed him with white sword qi.
• Old Tom made a final stand against the Minotaur Great Commander, then died after Randy caught his falling body.
• Randy prepared to face the weakened Minotaur Great Commander as the fireballs stopped and the orcs pressed their attack.
• Parr led more than three hundred cavalrymen through the orc army’s rear and up the slope toward Gold Crystal Fortress.

Parr led the Half-Orcs through the orc forces, broke the siege of Gold Crystal Fortress, and killed the Minotaur Great Commander, turning the battle into a decisive human victory. After pursuing the fleeing enemies and learning that Jerry had betrayed the fortress, Parr returned to Martin Mansion and counted the energy stored in the Stars Long Spear.

• Parr’s Crescent Moon Battle Formation destroyed the orc guards and shamans, and his fireballs shattered the fortress’s Positioning Barrier.
• Randy used his sword’s power to hold back the Minotaur Great Commander, allowing Parr to reach the wall and kill him with Blade Separation.
• The Great Commander’s death scattered the orc army, and Parr rallied Gold Crystal Fortress’s soldiers to pursue the fleeing forces and defeat the minotaur elites.
• Parr learned that Jerry had betrayed Gold Crystal Fortress and that the fortress had lost nearly two-thirds of its professional soldiers.
• Parr returned to Martin Mansion and sensed that the Stars Long Spear held 1,800 white light specks and 200 silver light specks.