Chapter Summaries

Jiang E Li joined Yaoguang as Long Lingyun’s observer and endured demanding training to earn a place in the team’s upcoming armed cleanup of the Gray Triangle. She remained determined to reach the battlefield in Southern Xinjiang despite being the assault team’s weakest member and the target of humiliating drills.

• Long Lingyun selected Jiang E Li as her observer, and Jiang hurried after her to join Yaoguang.
• During training, Jiang demonstrated accurate shooting, and Long Lingyun tested her steadiness while learning that Jiang wanted to go to Southern Xinjiang for someone she cared about.
• Long Lingyun teased Jiang by suggesting her concern would keep her from the battlefield, making Jiang drop the shell casings she was balancing on her rifle.
• Jiang joined the eight Yaoguang members experienced in overseas operations and endured intense training, including repeated stripping drills.
• When Ke Zan told Jiang to go back if she could not handle the training, Jiang pinned him against a table and declared that she would not go back.

Jiang E Li completed her trial with the Yaoguang Strike Team, then deployed with the team to the Gray Triangle Zone for Operation Dawn. After the operation was interrupted by a new force led by Garuda, Jiang E Li realized that undercover agent Golden Crow was Jiang Mingzhao and worried about her situation.

• Jiang E Li flirted with Ke Zan and the Yaoguang teammates until Long Lingyun tossed her a jacket and told her she had passed.
• Seventeen months after Jiang Mingzhao went to Southern Xinjiang, the Yaoguang Strike Team received orders to join Operation Dawn and eliminate the Weng Sha gang.
• The commander told the teams that they also had to rescue undercover agents Golden Crow and Biyi Bird, recover research personnel, and obtain drug data.
• Long Lingyun and Jiang E Li watched an unidentified force confront Weng Sha's gang, after which the teams withdrew on orders.
• The teams learned that Garuda led the new force but was publicly a legitimate businesswoman, so they were told to focus on the Weng Sha gang and rescue mission.
• Jiang E Li realized Golden Crow was Jiang Mingzhao and worried about her circumstances.

During the raid on Weng Sha's operation, Jiang E Li and Long Lingyun entered the drug research center to retrieve its files and found Jiang Mingzhao waiting with armed forces. After the two Yaoguang members disappeared, Zhonghua Family discovered evidence that Golden Crow had betrayed them, but the commanders disagreed over whether Jiang Mingzhao had also taken Jiang E Li willingly.

• Ke Zan sent Long Lingyun and Jiang E Li to recover documents and data from the drug research and development area while the other teams dealt with the chaos.
• Long Lingyun and Jiang E Li searched the empty rooms, gathering documents and exporting data from the computers and instruments.
• Jiang E Li found Jiang Mingzhao seated in a room, and Jiang Mingzhao ordered armed people to capture her and Long Lingyun.
• Ke Zan found the research center empty and realized Long Lingyun and Jiang E Li were missing; Golden Crow, Biyi Bird, and Zhonghua Family's Triangle District informants were also unaccounted for.
• A captured informant identified Jiang Mingzhao as Golden Crow and accused her of defecting to Garuda and staging the chaos.
• Old Zhao demanded a wanted order for Jiang Mingzhao, but two commanders urged caution and questioned whether Jiang E Li had been captured at all.

Jiang Mingzhao freed Jiang E Li and Long Lingyun aboard a freighter and explained how Garuda had manipulated Weng Sha and the infiltrators. She gave them a storage chip and planned an escape during a boat transfer, but Jiang E Li noticed that Jiang Mingzhao’s eyes were running out of battery.

• Jiang Mingzhao suffered a drug-addiction flare-up and injected herself while Zhou Yue helped keep the cabin clear.
• Jiang E Li used her Spiritual Power to break free, then Zhou Yue untied Long Lingyun and revealed he was an infiltrator.
• Jiang Mingzhao explained that Garuda had acquired Duopa’s wealth and research team, bought off Sanka, and misled Weng Sha.
• Jiang Mingzhao gave Jiang E Li a storage chip for the commander-in-chief and described how they could escape when the freighter transferred to a smaller boat.
• Jiang E Li insisted on staying with Jiang Mingzhao, and Long Lingyun objected to the operation.
• Jiang E Li realized that Jiang Mingzhao’s eyes were running out of battery.

Jiang E Li entered Garuda’s manor with Jiang Mingzhao and learned about its surveillance, underground operations, and the captive scientists. Garuda demonstrated her power by killing a black-market merchant who claimed true love was the one thing she lacked.

• Long Lingyun shot the watcher monitoring Jiang Mingzhao as she escaped, then Jiang E Li entered Garuda’s manor under Jiang Mingzhao’s cover.
• Jiang Mingzhao warned Jiang E Li about Garuda’s advanced security and explained that she only knew the underground area she oversaw.
• Jiang Mingzhao revealed that Ye Jin'an was safe but confined within a limited area of the manor.
• Jiang Mingzhao went to report to Garuda, who dismissed a merchant’s claims about true love and shot him between the eyebrows.

Jiang E Li reassured Guan Chen that her capture would provoke a response from the Zhonghua Family and asked her to gather intelligence on Garuda’s estate. Long Lingyun returned to headquarters with the chip, while Jiang E Li remained undercover in enemy territory.

• Garuda admired her golden pistol and reflected that power was the source of happiness and security.
• Jiang E Li told Guan Chen that her identity as a Zhonghua Family soldier would make Garuda panic if exposed, then asked for maps and security information about the estate.
• Long Lingyun returned to headquarters at dawn with the chip and told Ke Zan that Jiang E Li was not dead.
• Long Lingyun ordered the Yaoguang Team to assemble and had Little Ten brought out, revealing Jiang E Li’s falcon was with the team.

Jiang E Li infiltrated Garuda’s underground facility, confirmed that Jiang Mingzhao had injected herself with a new drug, and revealed her identity to Ye Jin'an. She returned with stolen hard drives and reported that Ye Jin'an was working on a drug to ease withdrawal symptoms.

• Jiang E Li entered the underground drug section and found Ye Jin'an working in laboratory 000.
• Jiang E Li revealed that she was Ye Jin'an’s daughter, and Ye Jin'an explained why she had stayed in Garuda’s facility to monitor research and gather intelligence.
• Jiang E Li met Jiang Mingzhao, Guan Chen, and Zhou Yue and gave Guan Chen hard drives taken from the underground central control room.
• Jiang E Li said she had destroyed the facility’s surveillance and authentication records, then told Jiang Mingzhao that Ye Jin'an expected to develop a drug to assist with withdrawal soon.

Jiang E Li offered her blood for research and discovered the Gray Triangle’s vast underground armory before contacting Ke Zan. Garuda arrived at the estate and questioned her, and Jiang E Li revealed her connection to the falcon as she faced the crime lord.

• Jiang E Li offered Ye Jin'an her blood, hoping its Spiritual Power could help develop treatments for people recovering from drug addiction.
• Jiang Mingzhao reflected on how drugs had damaged her memory, health, and ability to think clearly.
• Jiang E Li mapped the underground complex, found its armory, and used Spiritual Power to signal her falcon and establish contact with Ke Zan.
• Jiang E Li reported Garuda’s armory to Ke Zan, then Guan Chen warned her that Garuda had arrived downstairs.
• Garuda summoned Jiang E Li and questioned her identity, and Jiang E Li called her falcon down by imitating a bird’s cry.

Jiang E Li and Jiang Mingzhao escaped Garuda’s trap with help from the Yaoguang Team, but discovered that the Garuda they had killed was a double and that the real Garuda’s estate was heavily armed. As the assault teams fought to secure the estate, Jiang E Li led the push underground to rescue Ye Jin'an and confront the real Garuda.

• Garuda threatened Jiang Mingzhao and ordered her subordinates to dismantle Jiang E Li, but distant snipers killed Garuda and two of her men, allowing Jiang E Li and Jiang Mingzhao to eliminate the remaining attackers.
• Jiang E Li used her fire domain to shield herself, Jiang Mingzhao, and Zhou Yue from gunfire, then saved Zhou Yue from the blast that destroyed Jiang Mingzhao’s residence.
• Jiang Mingzhao discovered that the dead Garuda was a double, while a hidden tank attacked and the Western Regions Falcon brought Jiang E Li a communication device.
• Jiang E Li contacted Ke Zan and learned that Guan Chen was trapped beneath the rubble; arriving assault teams secured the area and medics rescued Guan Chen.
• Jiang Mingzhao insisted on joining Jiang E Li to find her mother, Ye Jin'an, in the underground laboratory as more tanks attacked the estate.
• After one armed helicopter crashed, Jiang E Li spread the Southern Bright Domain and used Soul Power to kill the tank gunners.

Jiang E Li and the Yaoguang Team fought through Garuda's underground base, where Jiang E Li used the Southern Bright Domain to destroy Garuda's forces and free the researchers. Garuda tried to escape capture by attacking Jiang Mingzhao, but Jiang E Li stopped her and seized her.

• Jiang Mingzhao's iris scan triggered lasers at the basement entrance, so Jiang E Li pulled her clear and hacked the security system with help from Third Sister.
• Jiang E Li turned Garuda's grenade ambush back on the attackers, then the team entered the underground level and split up to search the control room, laboratories, and armory.
• Jiang E Li and Long Lingyun reached the central control room, where Jiang E Li cut off Garuda's access to the security controls and saw Jiang Mingzhao's group return without the researchers.
• Jiang E Li unleashed the Southern Bright Domain, transformed the underground base into volcanic terrain, and used Endless Annihilation to bring down nearly three hundred of Garuda's people.
• After Jiang E Li withdrew her domain, Garuda attacked Jiang Mingzhao during the attempt to capture her, but Jiang E Li intervened and knocked Garuda to the floor.

Jiang E Li and the Zhonghua Family’s teams rescued Jiang Mingzhao from Garuda’s manor, recovered stolen research data, and ended Garuda’s operations. Afterward, Ling Guang erased everyone’s memories of Jiang E Li’s Southern Bright Domain, and the scale of Garuda’s crimes and Jiang Mingzhao’s covert disruption of the drug trade came to light.

• Jiang E Li reunited with the weakened Jiang Mingzhao and explained that the Zhonghua Family’s Hacker Alliance had breached Garuda’s intranet.
• Ye Jin'an confronted Garuda over missing laboratory data, and Jiang Mingzhao injected Garuda with an excessive dose of truth serum.
• Jiang E Li found the data chip inside Garuda’s pocket watch and handed it to Captain Ke Zan.
• Long Lingyun shot Garuda, then claimed that Garuda’s resistance and a faulty gun had caused the accidental injury.
• Jiang E Li asked Ling Guang for help, and Ling Guang erased everyone’s memories of the Southern Bright Domain.
• The Zhonghua Family’s military rescued 127 victims and uncovered Garuda’s weapons, human remains, and drug operations; Jiang Mingzhao’s reports revealed that she had secretly reduced illicit drug supplies.

After Garuda’s defeat, Jiang E Li stayed with Jiang Mingzhao through her daily drug-withdrawal episodes, unable to ease her suffering. Watching Jiang Mingzhao and imagining the many others harmed by the drugs strengthened Jiang E Li’s wish to become a god, and she offered her blood to Ye Jin'an as a source of Spiritual Power.

• The three teams and several countries’ militaries began cleaning up the Gray Triangle Zone while Ye Jin'an’s team studied Garuda’s drugs and sought samples from victims.
• Jiang E Li rushed to Jiang Mingzhao’s room, helped restrain her during withdrawal, and held her as she suffered after a blood sample was collected.
• When the researcher said the counteractive substance in Jiang E Li’s blood could not be synthesized, Jiang E Li used her Spiritual Power to comfort Jiang Mingzhao.
• Jiang Mingzhao bit Jiang E Li’s wrist and asked her to kill her, but Jiang E Li threw away her weapons and promised to take her home.
• After staying by Jiang Mingzhao through repeated withdrawal episodes, Jiang E Li asked Ye Jin'an to draw her blood and use her as a medicine storehouse.

Jiang E Li joined the final operation to eliminate the Triangle Area’s last drug lord, but the victory left the Yaoguang Team and other units with severe casualties. As she struggled to keep Long Lingyun from losing her arm, Jiang E Li saw Jiang Mingzhao carried in with a pen embedded in her chest.

• Jiang E Li offered to serve as a drug reservoir and proposed a blood transfusion for Jiang Mingzhao, but the plan was medically impossible and both Jiang Mingzhao and Ye Jin'an refused.
• Jiang E Li accompanied Long Lingyun during the final mission, helped eliminate enemy soldiers, and took over the sniper position after Long Lingyun was shot in the shoulder.
• Jiang E Li killed the enemy sniper and the drug lord, completing Yaoguang’s mission, while Ke Zan suffered a ruptured femoral artery and Long Lingyun sustained a serious shoulder injury.
• At the command center, Jiang E Li stopped a military doctor from deciding to amputate Long Lingyun’s arm before Southern Xinjiang’s medical team could assess her.
• A guard brought in Jiang Mingzhao unconscious with a ballpoint pen embedded in her chest, and Jiang E Li rushed toward her.

Jiang E Li sacrificed herself to save the people of Blue Star, then said goodbye to Jiang Mingzhao and the others as her soul was pulled away. Nan Li returned to the Fusang Tree, where Dong Yun told her she had passed her assessment.

• After Jiang Mingzhao was declared dead, Jiang E Li claimed her final words and awakened her Martial Soul to spread a life-restoring domain across the Southern Bright Domain.
• The Goddess of Life ordered Jiang E Li to leave Blue Star for breaking the assessment rules, but Ling Guang God Monarch delayed her departure so she could say goodbye.
• Jiang E Li told Jiang Mingzhao and Long Lingyun farewell, then let her soul leave her body as Jiang Mingzhao held her.
• Ye Jin'an mourned Jiang E Li and sought to preserve her blood, while Nan Li refused to let Ling Guang erase the survivors' memories of her.
• Nan Li returned to the Fusang Tree and learned from Dong Yun that she had passed her assessment.

Nan Li returned to the Douluo Plane and broke down in Dong Yun’s arms, grieving over her experiences on Blue Star and fearing her sister’s departure. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong pressured Ning Xinxin to grow stronger as the sealed City of Slaughter deepened her fear that a crisis was coming.

• Nan Li sobbed to Dong Yun about her pain and admitted that she understood how frightened Dong Yun must have been when Nan Li was hurt.
• Dong Yun refused to stay, and Nan Li asked her to return home if she became tired before sharing her Blue Star experiences.
• Nan Li noticed Red Cloud hiding beneath the Fusang Tree and warned him not to mention what he had seen.
• In Spirit City, Bibi Dong ordered Ning Xinxin to reach rank sixty within three months or be handed over to Qian Renxue.
• Bibi Dong recalled that the City of Slaughter had been sealed for two years and feared an approaching storm, believing war was necessary to fuel her Rakshasa God Trial.

After passing the Sixth Life Trial, Nan Li and Dong Yun entered the one-chance Seven Emotions Trial, where their powers were sealed and seven emotion-themed screens appeared. The screen marked “Joy” engulfed Nan Li, and familiar figures appeared before her.

• The Sixth Life Trial reward expanded Nan Li and Dong Yun’s Seas of Consciousness and increased the age of their Soul Rings by three thousand years.
• Nan Li coughed up blood after a clash between her Sixth Soul Skill and Domain, then told Dong Yun that her Seventh Life Trial was the Seven Emotions Trial.
• Di Yan and Lan Xi sensed the Seventh Life Trial begin and worried about Nan Li and Dong Yun’s safety.
• Nan Li and Dong Yun entered the Goddess of Life’s Divine Realm, where the Goddess separated them and suppressed their powers and abilities.
• Seven Light Screens appeared around Nan Li, labeled Joy, Anger, Sorrow, Fear, Love, Hate, and Desire; the Joy screen engulfed her and revealed familiar figures.

Nan Li faced a trial of joy that showed her an impossible reunion with her family, then a trial of sorrow that replayed Chong Yang’s battle and death. She grieved but stayed determined to protect her clan as the third trial began.

• Nan Li reunited with Dong Yun, Nan Yin, Chong Yang, and Qing Wu in the trial of joy, but recognized the scene was false and stepped away from it.
• Golden cracks split the vision apart, and dark red light revealed a chaotic battle from the past.
• Chong Yang unleashed Chongming Emperor’s Crown and shattered the Overlord Pangolin Tiger Shark’s battle line.
• Nan Li mourned Chong Yang’s loss, remembered how she and her sister had protected Sun Island, and resolved to keep protecting the clan.
• The second Light Screen dimmed as the third trial began.

Nan Li struggled to control the Chongming Bird bloodline as the Seven Emotions Trial placed her amid a vision of Sun Island’s bloody past. After she subdued her killing rage, voices and visions of her dead Clan Members overwhelmed her with sorrow and fear.

• Nan Li found herself in her Vermilion Bird True Form, watching her body fight in a chaotic battle on Sun Island.
• The battlefield stirred Nan Li’s hatred and killing intent, while she fought to keep the Chongming Bird bloodline from driving her berserk.
• Nan Li cut her hand to focus herself, but the pain made her bloodline surge more violently, so she closed her eyes and used her limited Spirit Power to regain control.
• The Light Screen bearing “Evil” dimmed, and a new unmarked Light Screen lit as Nan Li heard a familiar voice calling her Little A'li.
• Nan Li recognized her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and younger relatives among the fallen, and cried for them to return as the Light Screens for Sorrow and Fear lit up.

Nan Li endured the trial of love by recognizing that the Dong Yun who beckoned her was an illusion meant to trap her in guilt. The Light Screen for Anger then ignited, and Nan Li found herself witnessing Dong Yun being berated by the Xumi Raven Clan on Heaven Mountain.

• Nan Li heard the voices of her dead Clan Members and nearly succumbed to grief and guilt among their corpses.
• Dong Yun urged Nan Li to return, and Nan Li realized that the scene was a trial of love designed to exploit her affection and remorse.
• Nan Li recognized that the Dong Yun offering her a hand was another trial illusion and stepped back from the edge of the platform.
• A silver-haired woman appeared and then vanished as blue flames, while the Light Screens for Sorrow, Fear, Aversion, and Love dimmed and Anger blazed.
• On Heaven Mountain, Xumi Ravens confronted Dong Yun and accused her of causing heavy losses to their Clan.
• Dong Yun admitted that she had been incapable of protecting the Clan Members.

Nan Li witnessed Dong Yun endure Dong Han’s abuse and threats during the Life God Trial, learning how much her sister had sacrificed to protect her and Qing Wu. After the trial shattered, Nan Li returned to a peaceful Sun Island scene with her family and recognized the seven emotions intertwined in the memory.

• Dong Han scolded Dong Yun for defending herself and attacked her, but Dong Yun repelled his wind blades.
• Dong Yun confronted Dong Han over Qing Wu’s burdens and her own lack of recognition, but yielded when he threatened to send Nan Li and Qing Wu away.
• Nan Li restrained her fury as she witnessed Dong Yun’s painful arguments with Dong Han and understood the hardships her sister had hidden from her.
• Nan Li’s resolve helped the trial scene shatter, and she awoke on a peaceful Sun Island.
• Qing Wu called Nan Li and Chong Yang home while Dong Yun held out her hand, and Nan Li felt the scene as both joy and sorrow.