Chapter Summaries

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang escaped a collapsing secret realm after Jiang Mian consumed its resources and slightly increased her [Annihilation] fusion. At the Western Defense Line, Yun Shan confronted Jiang An and Xu Xiaoan as she prepared to advance, and an unknown attacker reached for Xu Xiaoan from behind.

• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang left the collapsing secret realm through a spatial rift and joked about their relationship as they headed to clear more secret realms.
• At the Western Defense Line, Xu Xiaoan digested several rounds of [Chaos] power over three days and told Jiang An she felt close to reaching Sixth-tier.
• Jiang An took Xu Xiaoan to the Blood Sea so she could absorb more power, but a sudden surge of gravity crushed bubbles and dragged them toward the void realm's depths.
• Jiang An shielded Xu Xiaoan and confronted Yun Shan, who emerged from a bubble world and demanded that Jiang An leave the girl behind.
• Yun Shan gathered spatial storms and the King of Cysts into a singularity, trapping Jiang An in his gravitational field as an unseen hand reached for Xu Xiaoan.

Jiang An struggled to protect Xu Xiaoan from Yun Ling and Yun Shan, who sought to capture her and drag them into the virtual realm. Xu Xiaoan proposed going undercover among the Fallen Ones, and Jiang Mian reluctantly agreed to let her try with distant support, prioritizing her safety.

• Yun Ling attacked Xu Xiaoan, but Jiang An shielded her with the azure dragon formed by [Awakening of Insects].
• Yun Ling healed his burned fingertips by absorbing vitality from the surviving King of Cysts as Yun Shan and Yun Ling pressed Jiang An toward the depths of the virtual realm.
• Xu Xiaoan contacted Jiang Mian through the Save Point and explained that Yun Ling and Yun Shan were trying to capture her.
• Xu Xiaoan proposed becoming an undercover agent to learn about [Chaos], arguing that her resistance and the Domination Link could help keep her safe.
• Jiang Mian weighed the risks and agreed to let Xu Xiaoan go, promising to send people to follow her from a distance.

Xu Xiaoan went undercover after swallowing Jiang Mian’s Save Point, and Yun Ling captured her while Jiang An was held back. Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang prepared to continue toward the Virtual Realm, where Jiang Mian worried over the risks she had asked Xu Xiaoan to take.

• Xu Xiaoan swallowed Jiang Mian’s Save Point and told Jiang An she planned to be captured as part of her undercover mission.
• Jiang An tried to escape with Xu Xiaoan, but Yun Shan restrained him and Yun Ling seized her before the pair withdrew into the Void Realm.
• Jiang An escaped his restraints and wondered whether his bloodline had protected him from Yun Ling’s [Plague] power.
• Jiang Mian told Ye Chenyang she could not sense directions in the Virtual Realm, and they decided to continue toward the place where Yun Ling and Yun Shan might meet Yu Zhengqing.
• Jiang Mian confessed she regretted putting Xu Xiaoan at risk, and Ye Chenyang reassured her that her concern showed she had feelings.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang traveled to Base City No. 187, where they discussed the northern cities threatened by Withering and the military defenses. As they prepared to enter the autonomous city, Jiang Mian changed her appearance and noticed Ye Chenyang was no longer beside her.

• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang reassured each other about Xu Xiaoan's choices and the dangers posed by the Fallen Ones.
• The pair reached Base City No. 187, a sprawling northern fringe city with a single entrance controlled by its two largest factions.
• Ye Chenyang showed Jiang Mian a map explaining how Withering was isolating base cities by forming a dividing belt near the northern Mist.
• Ye Chenyang explained that northern military forces were stationed in individual base cities as battle groups, then suggested they disguise themselves.
• Jiang Mian transformed into a mature version of Yu Xiaoxiao, with blue-gray eyes and white scales, and found Ye Chenyang had vanished from where he stood.

Ye Chenyang and Jiang Mian reached the city and learned that its guards were charging newcomers steep entry fees. After Ye Chenyang intimidated Qin Shou, Qin Shou tried to reclaim his pride by targeting Jiang Mian, but his colleagues pressured him to demand more from her.

• Ye Chenyang revealed that he could use [Formless] to disguise his appearance and conceal his scent, and Jiang Mian led him toward the city.
• Travelers in the queue complained about the increased tolls and rumors that newcomers also had to pay a landing fee.
• Ye Chenyang paid the toll and entered the city after his menacing appearance frightened Qin Shou into letting him through.
• Qin Shou's colleagues mocked him for backing down, and he decided to regain face by targeting the next arrival.
• Jiang Mian lowered her hood, revealing her silver hair and [Cataclysm] Aberrant features, while Qin Shou's colleagues urged him to charge her extra.
• Qin Shou told Jiang Mian that her payment was not enough.

Jiang Mian arrived at the city and refused Qin Shou’s demand for extra fees, provoking the Wild Hunters with her composure and hidden power. After she revealed her strength, Qin Shou called on Old Dong for help, leaving a confrontation looming.

• Qin Shou demanded that Jiang Mian pay forty more for settlement and offered her a coercive mining contract if she could not.
• Jiang Mian revealed four mid-grade Soul Crystals, then withdrew them after Qin Shou showed his greed.
• When Qin Shou and his colleagues threatened her, Jiang Mian unleashed a freezing domain that revealed her fifth-tier strength and led the two colleagues to back down.
• Old Dong appeared from inside the city, and Qin Shou pointed Jiang Mian out as a troublemaker who refused to pay.

Jiang Mian defeated the Sixth-tier gate enforcer Old Dong and killed him and Qin Shou, ending the toll racket as the crowd entered the city. Ye Chenyang advised her to use her display of strength to infiltrate the Wild Hunters, whose leadership might include someone working for the Oblivion River.

• Old Dong attacked Jiang Mian after she refused to pay the gate toll, but she froze and struck him with an Ice Explosion Technique that left him badly injured.
• Qin Shou tried to beg for mercy, while the other two guards fled; Jiang Mian froze Qin Shou and Old Dong until they shattered into ice fragments.
• The crowd rushed into the city after Jiang Mian removed the toll collectors.
• Jiang Mian met Ye Chenyang in a building's shadow and asked whether she should change her face to avoid trouble.
• Ye Chenyang said her strength might draw the Wild Hunters' attention and suggested infiltrating them, explaining that the organization included members connected to the Oblivion River.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang entered the city under false names, where she effortlessly killed a gang that tried to ambush them. After hearing a description of Jiang Mian, Bai Jin decided to return to the city and meet her himself.

• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang entered the city under the names Ye Chan and Jiang Chen and learned that severely injured or uncontrollable people were sent to the Fourth District.
• A skinny man tried to recruit and threaten the pair, then summoned eight fifth-tier accomplices to attack them.
• Jiang Mian froze and shattered the gang with her domain, frightening nearby onlookers before she and Ye Chenyang continued on.
• At an outpost, two survivors told Bai Jin that a woman had instantly killed Lord Dong and described Jiang Mian's appearance.
• Bai Jin ordered the survivors to return to the city with him so he could meet Jiang Mian himself.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang attacked the Black Bone Gang to claim its warehouse as their public base. After Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang swiftly defeated the gang, Jiang Mian teased Ye Chenyang with the nickname he had asked about.

• Ye Chenyang led Jiang Mian through the Second District toward the Black Bone Gang’s hideout, explaining that the gang traded Aberrant organs.
• Ye Chenyang killed the guards at the warehouse, and Tu Wu led more than twenty gang members outside to confront them.
• Jiang Mian fought Tu Wu in his domain, blocked his chainsaw sword with Heaven's Punishment, and killed him with lightning.
• Ye Chenyang revealed his Radiance power and wiped out the remaining gang members with a beam of light.
• Jiang Mian teased Ye Chenyang by calling him “big brother” and telling him she liked him most.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang destroyed a filthy warehouse and made an ice house as their new base. Meanwhile, Yun Ling’s followers performed a sacrificial ritual that advanced Xu Xiaoan to Sixth-tier and drew her into a void before a gigantic eye.

• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang agreed to meet once a week before inspecting the warehouse that had held Mutant Remains and destroying it with her powers.
• Jiang Mian filled the crater and formed an ice house, then sent Ye Chenyang into [World] as they began their agreed time together.
• Yun Ling brought Xu Xiaoan to an altar in the secret realm north of Base City No. 187, where his followers gathered to awaken the will of Calamity.
• Xu Xiaoan pretended to be affected by the ritual while the followers’ souls flowed into her, completing her advancement to Sixth-tier.
• Xu Xiaoan’s consciousness entered a void and found an enormous black sun that was actually a gigantic eye.

Xu Xiaoan refused to reunite with the Black Sun, but received the [Chaos] authority and feigned acceptance as the Chaos Cult’s Holy Maiden. She shared what she learned with Jiang Mian, while Bai Jin encountered a massive Mist Tide on the road to the city.

• Xu Xiaoan rejected the Black Sun’s call for Unification, and it bestowed the embryonic [Chaos] authority on her instead.
• Yun Ling and Yu Zhengqing saw Xu Xiaoan awaken with a third eye, and she pretended to accept her role as the Chaos Cult’s Holy Maiden.
• Xu Xiaoan secretly spoke with Jiang Mian, agreeing to sort through the Black Sun’s memories and share them.
• Jiang Mian told Ye Chenyang that Xu Xiaoan’s situation was stable and that the Black Sun had consumed countless worlds with many authorities.
• Bai Jin and his guards saw mist gathering into a vast tide on their way to the city.

Bai Jin returned to the city gate and clashed with Ji Chen over who controlled its defenses as the Mist Tide approached. Meanwhile, Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang discussed the threat of corruption in the city, then answered the door when a [Responder] knocked.

• Bai Jin confronted Ji Chen at the city gate, but entered the city to confirm Ji Chen's claim that the higher-ups had put him in charge.
• Jiang Mian woke to find the Mist Tide spreading and discussed with Ye Chenyang how Xu Xiaoan's [Chaos] authority might be connected to it.
• Jiang Mian proposed using [World] to seize the city's Seventh-tiers before they could be corrupted, and Ye Chenyang agreed to follow her plan.
• Jiang Mian sensed the Mist covering the city and found numerous [Silent Death] Calamities outside the buildings.
• A Sequence 46 [Responder] knocked on the ice house door, and Jiang Mian answered it despite knowing its sounds could mark whoever responded.

Jiang Mian let a Sixth-tier Calamity drag her into its layered domain, then erased it and returned to the ice house with Ye Chenyang. There, Ji Chen and the Wild Hunters confronted her over the death of one of their members.

• Jiang Mian allowed the Calamity’s curse to pull her into its domain and figured out that responding to its calls strengthened the curse and stacked nearby responders’ domains.
• Jiang Mian used her destructive Wind Element to erase much of the domain and destroy the attacking Calamities before the domain pulled her back to the ice house.
• Jiang Mian asked Ye Chenyang how long they had been in the [World], then melted the ice door and ignored the low-level Calamities outside.
• Ji Chen arrived with a group of armed Wild Hunters, identified Jiang Mian, and accused her of killing one of their members.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang recognized the confrontation as an unusual encounter with fools who could not read the situation.

Ye Chenyang and Jiang Mian fought off Ji Chen’s Wild Hunters squad, revealing how easily their abilities overwhelmed the attackers. As they finished dealing with the group, another threat appeared at the alley entrance.

• Ji Chen demanded that Ye Chenyang move aside so he could take Jiang Mian, then ordered his men to attack them.
• Ye Chenyang’s spatial slash wounded Ji Chen and cut one of his subordinates in half, while Ji Chen escaped underground using his quicksand.
• Ji Chen resurfaced and found his remaining subordinates frozen into ice sculptures, with Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang waiting for him.
• Jiang Mian used [Element Control] to suppress Ji Chen’s abilities and freeze him, then burned away the ice sculptures.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang exchanged playful remarks before she noticed someone approaching the alley.

Bai Jin and Feng Xun approached Jiang Mian to recruit her into their faction, offering a way to suppress the Will of Calamity after reaching Sixth-tier. Jiang Mian pretended to accept while she and Ye Chenyang suspected the offer involved Oblivion River, and Bai Jin began revealing the secret of the Boundless Gate.

• Bai Jin and Feng Xun sensed the intense cold around the block and realized Ji Chen’s group had failed to overcome Jiang Mian.
• Bai Jin and Feng Xun found Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang waiting outside the ice house, and Jiang Mian confronted them about the earlier attack.
• Bai Jin claimed his faction could guarantee that Sixth-tier Aberrants suppressed the Will of Calamity and tried to persuade Jiang Mian to join.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang secretly questioned the claim and suspected it was connected to Oblivion River.
• Jiang Mian agreed to consider joining but demanded more information, so Bai Jin asked whether she had heard of the Boundless Gate.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang pretended to fall for Bai Jin’s recruitment pitch and followed him to Wild Hunters headquarters, where Han Su confronted them about Ji Chen. Ye Chenyang revealed that Ji Chen and his group were dead and offered to send Han Su to join them.

• Bai Jin used a strange mental influence to persuade Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang to join Boundless Gate and return with him to headquarters.
• Jiang Mian observed the Black Hand Gang’s headquarters and the Radiance Monument before entering the Wild Hunters’ hall with Bai Jin and Feng Xun.
• The hunters recognized Jiang Mian as the Aberrant who had killed Old Dong and noticed that Ji Chen had not returned.
• Han Su confronted Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang about Ji Chen, then threatened Jiang Mian with his Sixth-tier pressure.
• Ye Chenyang revealed his own Sixth-tier [Chaos] power and told Han Su that Ji Chen and the others had gone peacefully to sleep, offering to send Han Su after them.

Ye Chenyang wounded Han Su after Han Su threatened Jiang Mian, and Jiang Mian chose to spare him. Bai Jin then brought Ye Chenyang and Jiang Mian to meet Brother Zhen, whose identity surprised Jiang Mian.

• Han Su accused Bai Jin of letting outsiders kill Ji Chen's group, and Ye Chenyang stood up for Jiang Mian when Han Su threatened her.
• Ye Chenyang swiftly cut off Han Su's forearm, leaving Han Su badly wounded and unable to fight effectively.
• Han Su begged Ye Chenyang and Jiang Mian for mercy, and Jiang Mian decided to spare him.
• Han Su left with his severed hand and secretly headed back into headquarters to seek help from the higher-ups.
• Bai Jin led Ye Chenyang and Jiang Mian to the top floor, where Jiang Mian recognized Brother Zhen as Zhong Zhen.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang met Zhong Zhen, who tried to use mental power to recruit and control them. Ye Chenyang resisted and attacked, while Jiang Mian revealed that she had only been pretending to be affected and unleashed darkness from her shadow.

• Jiang Mian recognized Zhong Zhen but claimed he only resembled an old acquaintance, while Zhong Zhen assessed Ye Chenyang and asked about his name and ability.
• Zhong Zhen used mental power to make Ye Chenyang lower his guard, but Jiang Mian resisted and pretended to be controlled.
• Ye Chenyang realized Zhong Zhen had targeted Jiang Mian and demanded to know what he had done, then released Shadow Power and attacked him.
• Zhong Zhen summoned Bai Jin, Feng Xun, and A Xiang to block their escape, then explained that he intended to make Ye Chenyang one of his own.
• Jiang Mian revealed that she had been acting and unleashed a profound darkness from her shadow.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang trapped Zhong Zhen in their overlapping domains and fought him across a transformed world. The chapter ended with Jiang Mian revealing a black dragon Calamity form that overwhelmed Zhong Zhen.

• A Xiang recognized Jiang Mian’s darkness as [Formless] power and warned the others that [Doom] had arrived, while Zhong Zhen opened his [Judgment] domain to resist.
• Ye Chenyang expanded [Eternal Everlasting Light], turning the darkness into a starry sky and briefly stirring Zhong Zhen’s memories before he returned to his ruthless resolve.
• Jiang Mian combined [Formless], [Eternal Day], and her [World] domain, sending Zhong Zhen into a dark ocean and separating him from the other fighters.
• Zhong Zhen charged Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang, but Ye Chenyang’s Yin Yang Sword broke his blade and forced him to reconsider the fight.
• Zhong Zhen unleashed a powerful Sword Qi attack, pursued Jiang Mian when she evaded it, and was struck by a giant claw after she plunged into the sea.
• Jiang Mian emerged as a colossal black dragon, leaving Zhong Zhen stunned by her Calamity form.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang defeated Zhong Zhen and imprisoned him in a time-slowing coffin, while Jiang Ling subdued A Xiang, Bai Jin, and Feng Xun. The group prepared to search their memories for information about the Oblivion River.

• Jiang Mian cast Bai Jin, Feng Xun, and A Xiang onto the sea at the edge of the [World], where Feng Xun discovered that the elements would not obey him.
• A Xiang and Bai Jin decided to help Zhong Zhen fight Jiang Mian, while Feng Xun resisted; Jiang Ling appeared and identified herself as [Sea of Misfortune].
• Jiang Ling unleashed a destructive storm against the three men, while Jiang Mian fought Zhong Zhen in her [True Form of the Calamity Beast] and forced him into the sea.
• Jiang Mian weakened Zhong Zhen without killing him, then used [Abyssal Sea Eye] to trap him in a black coffin that slowed time.
• Jiang Ling subdued A Xiang, Bai Jin, and Feng Xun, then joined Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang, who planned to search their memories for news of the Oblivion River.