Chapter Summaries

Zhao Bai claimed to possess the Jie Mie Greatsword and showed Gray Serpent a blazing weapon that appeared genuine, despite Gray Serpent knowing the real one was with Siegfried. Gray Serpent concluded that Siegfried’s weapon was fake, but remained unable to trust what he had seen.

• Zhao Bai told Gray Serpent that he had used the Jie Mie Greatsword for barbecue and offered to show it to him.
• Gray Serpent’s lie detector indicated that Zhao Bai was telling the truth, even though Gray Serpent believed the real Jie Mie was with Siegfried.
• Zhao Bai produced a charged, blazing greatsword, and Gray Serpent confirmed that it looked and felt like Jie Mie.
• Gray Serpent decided that Siegfried’s Heavenly Fire Judgment was fake, then doubted his own eyes and trusted his intelligence instead.

Bronya and Zhao Bai questioned Gray Serpent about the dissected zombie corpse and identified World Serpent as the organization behind the Hexie Medicine president. They returned to Superintendent Zhou with the answer, and he prepared to make the arrest.

• Bronya asked Gray Serpent who was behind the dissected zombie corpse in the sewers.
• Gray Serpent explained that the Hexie Medicine president had sought immortality and accepted help from World Serpent.
• Bronya and Zhao Bai left after getting the answer, while Gray Serpent revealed that Bronya had paid him with arcade tokens.
• Gray Serpent considered adding anti-counterfeiting features to his body and planned to test whether Zhao Bai's Jie Mie Greatsword was genuine.
• Zhao Bai told Superintendent Zhou that he could make the arrest, and Zhou was surprised they had found the mastermind so quickly.

Bronya and Zhao Bai could not get enough evidence to arrest Yu Borong, so Zhao Bai proposed breaking into his secret laboratory and exposing it with an explosion. They then encountered a World Serpent Titan, and Zhao Bai prepared to fight while Gray Serpent watched remotely to confirm whether his lord’s weapon was involved.

• Bronya told Superintendent Zhou that Yu Borong fit the profile but admitted she had no conclusive evidence for a warrant.
• Zhao Bai proposed blowing open Yu Borong’s secret laboratory and disguising the blast as a gas leak, and Bronya agreed to proceed.
• Zhao Bai and Bronya set out to break into the laboratory, where they encountered a Titan mech in World Serpent territory.
• Zhao Bai put on his glasses, drew the burning Jie Mie Greatsword, and raised it against the charging Titan.
• Gray Serpent remotely linked his sensors to the Titan so he could test whether Zhao Bai’s weapon was his lord’s.

Gray Serpent tested Zhao Bai’s Jie Mie Greatsword by sacrificing a mechanical body to measure its heat, confirming it was genuine and fully unleashed. Afterward, Gray Serpent reflected on the Venerable Lord and rushed to process new information at Hexie Medicine.

• Gray Serpent lay down and exposed a mechanical body to the Jie Mie Greatsword’s heat, which destroyed him.
• A replacement Gray Serpent measured the temperature as immeasurable and confirmed the sword was genuine and fully released.
• Zhao Bai sheathed his sword and comforted Bronya, whose hands and cheeks had been heated by the blast.
• Gray Serpent recalled the Venerable Lord’s strength and realized he was beginning to forget the Venerable Lord’s face.
• Gray Serpent increased his operating speed at Hexie Medicine after receiving information, as Agent α glimmered with silver light.

Gray Serpent injected the dying Old Master Yu with Agent α, transforming him into a towering purple-eyed monster. The transformation ended without producing a tail, and the monster roared.

• Gray Serpent brought the agent to Old Master Yu and revealed that he had lived for 1,500 years since being reborn.
• Gray Serpent disabled the surveillance and silently killed the guards hidden in the meeting room.
• Gray Serpent injected Agent α into Old Master Yu after his heart stopped.
• Old Master Yu’s body crystallized, then emerged pale, enlarged, and rock-skinned after 76 seconds.
• Gray Serpent confirmed the transformed monster had no tail, and the monster opened his eyes and roared.

Gray Serpent recorded a monster’s transformation and its attack on Old Master Yu’s successor, concluding that it sought to devour its descendants as part of a genetic completion process. Meanwhile, Zhao Bai bought Bronya welding goggles to protect her from Jie Mie’s brilliance, though Bronya disliked how dark and ugly they were.

• Gray Serpent measured the monster’s roar and recorded its transformation, noting that it searched for something rather than eating the nearby corpses.
• Old Master Yu’s successor entered the conference room, and the monster attacked and killed him.
• Gray Serpent observed that the monster preyed on descendants with Y chromosomes and hypothesized that it was trying to complete its genes by devouring its offspring.
• Zhao Bai took Bronya shopping for sunglasses, then led her to a hardware market to buy welding goggles.
• Bronya tried on the welding goggles and found they blocked the glare of Jie Mie but made everything too dark.

Zhao Bai and Bronya reached Hexie Medicine after a monster’s roar and found it attacking Gray Serpent. The monster crushed Gray Serpent’s mechanical body while accusing him of eating its son.

• Bronya put on the ugly green glasses again as a roar shook Sky City.
• Zhao Bai and Bronya suspected Gray Serpent was involved and hurried to Hexie Medicine’s office building.
• Using fake Food and Drug Administration IDs, Zhao Bai and Bronya entered the building and reached the top-floor conference room.
• Zhao Bai kicked open the doors and found bloodied bodies, while a white monster held Gray Serpent by the neck.
• Gray Serpent mocked the monster for trying to suffocate a robot, and the monster crushed his neck, leaving only his recording head.
• The monster accused Gray Serpent of eating its son and stomped the floor in rage.

Gray Serpent tried to provoke the monster into losing control, but it seized his head and carried it away, leaving him unable to detonate the bomb planted near his heart. After the monster vanished, Bronya and Zhao Bai discussed how Gray Serpent differed from the rumors about him.

• Gray Serpent judged his experiment unsuitable for mass production and decided to leave further improvements for later.
• The monster seized Gray Serpent's head and leaped away across the sixty-story building.
• Gray Serpent realized he could not detonate the bomb near his heart and accepted that his plan had failed.
• Bronya told Zhao Bai that Gray Serpent had not matched the rumors describing him as neutral and rational.

Bronya tracked Yu Borong’s monster form after he transformed, learning that he had killed his family and was heading toward Shencheng Medicine’s headquarters. Gray Serpent’s notes revealed that a new, chaotic consciousness had overwhelmed Yu Borong’s old one, and the monster demanded to be turned back.

• Bronya reported the scene at Hexie Pharmaceuticals to Superintendent Zhou, describing seven corpses and Yu Borong’s transformation.
• Bronya told Zhao Bai to pursue the monster after its tracking device showed it was heading to Shencheng Medicine’s headquarters.
• Gray Serpent’s observation diary recorded that Yu Borong’s new chaotic consciousness had overpowered his eighty-seven-year-old primary consciousness.
• The monster objected to Gray Serpent’s formal tone and demanded to be turned back.

Zhao Bai’s transformed target continued toward Shencheng Medicine, intending to create an army of immortal beings, while Gray Serpent waited for Zhao Bai to arrive. The chapter ended with Gray Serpent imagining Raven watching Zhao Bai’s Jie Mie Greatsword fireworks.

• The transformed man asked Gray Serpent whether Shencheng Medicine held a drug that could turn him back, but Gray Serpent knew the transformation was permanent.
• The man’s second personality took control, and he continued running toward Shencheng Medicine to seek an army and conquer humanity.
• Gray Serpent waited for Zhao Bai, hoping to see Jie Mie in action before Raven killed the transformed man.
• Gray Serpent imagined inviting Raven to witness the flames of Zhao Bai’s Jie Mie Greatsword.

Raven spent her idle time practicing peeling apples with her finger blades at Shencheng Medicine until Gray Serpent called to tell her to watch the coming fireworks with reverence for the Venerable Lord. She was left disappointed that the display did not signal an attack.

• Raven passed the time at Shencheng Medicine by peeling apples with her finger blades.
• Gray Serpent called Raven and said fireworks would light up the sky above Shencheng Medicine in an hour.
• Raven thought someone might be attacking and eagerly prepared to fight, but Gray Serpent denied it.
• Gray Serpent warned Raven to watch the fireworks with reverence for the Venerable Lord or face humiliation, and Raven complained that he had no sense of fun.

Raven came out to watch the fireworks and found a monster attacking Shencheng Medicine while Gray Serpent observed from a severed head. The monster continued tearing through the facility as Gray Serpent told Raven to wait, leaving her distressed over the damage to her factory and laboratory.

• Raven realized Gray Serpent might have invited her to watch fireworks, while Gray Serpent watched her through Shencheng Medicine's electronics.
• A monster with a new consciousness stopped outside Shencheng Medicine and set its sights on conquering humanity with an army like itself.
• Gray Serpent's observation log noted that the monster's newborn consciousness could be controlled and proposed developing Agent α.
• Raven went to the rooftop looking for fireworks and was startled by Gray Serpent, who had been reduced to only a head.
• The monster triggered Shencheng Medicine's alarms and repeatedly tore through its guard robots as Raven demanded to know what Gray Serpent was doing.
• Gray Serpent told Raven to wait while she watched the destruction, and Raven lamented the damage to her factory and laboratory.

Zhao Bai arrived at the burning Shencheng Medicine factory and used Gray Serpent’s broadcasts to celebrate the destruction before setting out to fight a monster. The chapter ended with Gray Serpent questioning his confidence as Zhao Bai charged in.

• Gray Serpent stayed silent while the Shencheng Medicine factory burned and others blamed him for the destruction.
• Zhao Bai arrived late, confirmed the burning site was Shencheng Medicine, and Bronya urged him to focus on the monsters.
• Zhao Bai took pleasure in World Serpent’s suffering and used Gray Serpent’s broadcast system to play a celebratory message across the surviving speakers.
• Bronya put on welding goggles and warned Heavy Cannon Rabbit to protect its eyes as Zhao Bai prepared to attack.
• Zhao Bai charged at the monster, and Gray Serpent grew uncertain when he saw that Zhao Bai was not dodging.

Zhao Bai defeated Gray Serpent's monster and questioned Yu about his goal of building an army with the conversion agents. Gray Serpent emerged from Shencheng Medicine in a more complete cyborg body and grew jealous of Raven flying above the Jie Mie Greatsword.

• Zhao Bai severed the monster's arm, split Gray Serpent's head, and pinned it beneath the Jie Mie Greatsword.
• Zhao Bai asked Yu about his ultimate goal, and Yu admitted he wanted to build an army using the conversion agents.
• Zhao Bai pointed out that Yu was destroying the production lines he needed, and Yu failed to explain why.
• Gray Serpent emerged from Shencheng Medicine holding a black umbrella and saw Raven flying above the Jie Mie Greatsword.
• Gray Serpent decided Raven would be fired for using Raven Blade to peel fruit at the office.

Zhao Bai interrogated the defeated monster while Raven and Gray Serpent watched him wield the Jie Mie Greatsword. After the monster asked whether Zhao Bai was humanity’s strongest warrior, he claimed he was only a chef and logistics worker.

• Raven asked Gray Serpent whether the Venerable Lord was truly a thousand times stronger than Zhao Bai.
• Zhao Bai questioned the monster and learned that it had made no plans, assessed no enemy strength, and had encountered no other human warrior.
• Zhao Bai condemned the monster for its ignorance but paused when it showed intelligence and asked whether he was humanity’s strongest warrior.
• Zhao Bai denied being humanity’s strongest warrior and said he was a chef and logistics worker who was not very good at fighting.

Zhao Bai destroyed the monster and Shencheng Medicine’s underground conspiracy with the Jie Mie Greatsword. Gray Serpent exploded to cover Raven’s escape, leaving her wondering if it had sold her out again.

• Zhao Bai unleashed the Jie Mie Greatsword, creating a pillar of flame above Shencheng Medicine.
• Gray Serpent and Raven realized they had no way to defeat Zhao Bai and take his weapon.
• Zhao Bai pulled the sword from the ashes after it destroyed the monster and the underground experimental facilities.
• Raven heard people above notice them and asked Gray Serpent to use its backup plan.
• Gray Serpent discarded its umbrella and exploded into metallic components, leaving Raven to wonder if she had been sold out again.

Zhao Bai defeated Raven Blade when her attack failed to break through his defenses, then mistook her for having surrendered. Raven Blade blamed Gray Serpent for selling her out again.

• Zhao Bai chased the frightened Raven Blade with the Jie Mie Greatsword and urged her to surrender.
• Raven Blade decided she had to fight and dove at Zhao Bai with her blade and a gray energy field.
• Zhao Bai smashed through Raven Blade's defenses and knocked her senseless.
• Zhao Bai lifted Raven Blade and declared that she had surrendered, leaving her humiliated and blaming Gray Serpent.

Zhao Bai and Bronya captured Raven after she instinctively surrendered when confronted with the legendary Venerable Lord’s weapon. They left Raven in Bronya’s custody and discussed the destruction of Shencheng Medicine, which had no insurance coverage for its illegal underground laboratory.

• Bronya judged that Raven had not truly surrendered, and Raven dropped her finger blades and raised her hands before realizing what she had done.
• Zhao Bai called Raven a coward and she asked him to kill her, unable to resist the weapon of the legendary Venerable Lord.
• Zhao Bai handed Raven over to Bronya, who searched her, removed her cloak, and covered her with a rain tarp.
• Zhao Bai and Bronya discussed how Shencheng Medicine’s destroyed underground laboratory was uninsured, leaving the company with little money.

Bronya questioned Raven about her connection to Gray Serpent while keeping her wrapped in a rain tarp, and Raven suspected Bronya did not know she belonged to World Serpent. Raven left with a pork cutlet rice meal in front of her and Bronya demanding an explanation.

• Bronya checked Shencheng Medicine's stock and sold her shares before the market closed because the monster was heading for its factory.
• Raven answered Bronya's casual questions and concluded that Bronya might still be salvageable because she did not know Raven was a World Serpent member.
• Bronya asked Raven what her relationship with Gray Serpent was, leaving Raven uneasy at the sudden interrogation.
• Raven joked that she would give a disobedient criminal pork cutlet rice, and the meal arrived soon afterward.
• Bronya told Raven to eat and then explain her relationship with Gray Serpent while Zhao Bai watched.

Raven stalled while Zhao Bai questioned her, then claimed she and Gray Serpent were a couple. Gray Serpent watched from a skyscraper, believing rescuing her from Zhao Bai would be harder than breaking into St. Freya.

• Raven ate slowly to delay the situation while hoping Gray Serpent would come to her aid.
• Raven gave up on Gray Serpent appearing and told Zhao Bai that she and Gray Serpent were a couple.
• Surveillance cameras turned toward Raven, but Zhao Bai calmly asked whether she admired metallic prosthetic bodies.
• Gray Serpent watched Raven's capture from a skyscraper and explained that rescuing her from Zhao Bai would be harder than rescuing her from St. Freya.