Chapter Summaries

Lan Mu fought Liu Liang on Chiling Reef and identified the limits of the Idealistic Ancient Sword’s Power of Belief. As Lan Mu unleashed a devastating attack, Liu Liang’s disappearance alerted the Hidden Dragon Bureau, which suspected a Blue White Society Contained Object had brought him to Hong Kong.

• Lan Mu and Liu Liang traded sword blows, and Lan Mu realized the ancient sword’s belief power could alter attacks targeting Liu Liang but could not directly impose outcomes on his opponents.
• Lan Mu invited Liu Liang to join the Blue White Society, then escalated the fight by unleashing Dante’s full power and trying to shake Liu Liang’s confidence.
• Liu Liang resisted Lan Mu’s devastating strike by reaffirming his conviction and raising the Idealistic Ancient Sword.
• The Hidden Dragon Bureau detected the battle near Chiling Reef and ordered its Hong Kong personnel to mobilize while investigating the red energy and possible Blue White Society presence.
• The Hidden Dragon Bureau learned that Liu Liang had vanished from the Changbai Mountains base and that Feng Xue had discovered he was in Hong Kong.
• The director ordered Li Shuren to remain in the country and protect the leaders while the bureau investigated the apparent long-distance transportation Contained Object.

Lan Mu fought Liu Liang and Feng Xue, using his abilities and Best Metal to corner them. Liu Liang escaped by sacrificing himself and leaving his ancient sword at Hidden Dragon's headquarters, leaving Lan Mu with a failed mission but a chance to pursue the sword.

• Lan Mu failed to kill Liu Liang with Scarlet Energy, and Feng Xue appeared to protect him and attempt an escape.
• Lan Mu summoned Liu Liang back and learned that Feng Xue was a Hidden Dragon Dao Expounder who could use the Bow of Protection to reach and evacuate him.
• Liu Liang warned Feng Xue about Lan Mu's abilities and told her to rescue Li Qing and report to the Director, then charged Lan Mu while Feng Xue stayed behind.
• Lan Mu attacked Liu Liang with Best Metal and tried to make him accept that his injuries were fatal, while Feng Xue insisted he was safe.
• Feng Xue took Liu Liang away, but Liu Liang discarded his ancient sword during the escape; Lan Mu summoned him back as a corpse and realized the sword had been left at Hidden Dragon's headquarters.

Lan Mu left Chiling Reef and headed for Hidden Dragon's headquarters, where Sky Enforcer Li Shuren intercepted him. Unable to overpower Li Shuren without risking a catastrophe, Lan Mu transformed into Jigglypuff and began singing to hypnotize him.

• Lan Mu abandoned the reef island and flew toward Hidden Dragon's headquarters while Hidden Dragon's forces arrived too late to catch him.
• At headquarters, the director rejected Li Shuren's request to intervene and discussed sending agents into the Blue White Society with their memories erased.
• Feng Xue volunteered for the infiltration mission, but the director refused her before Li Shuren detected a powerful intruder approaching.
• Li Shuren intercepted Lan Mu over the Bohai Sea and attacked him with compressed air, but Lan Mu's barrier absorbed the blasts as he continued toward the Changbai Mountains.
• Lan Mu transformed into Jigglypuff, and after Li Shuren broke through his barrier, Jigglypuff began singing to hypnotize him.

Lan Mu incapacitated Li Shuren and raided the Changbai Mountains Headquarters, where he put most of Hidden Dragon’s agents to sleep and collected some Contained Objects. He reached the deepest level as Dan Sheng and two other Dao Expounders tried to move the remaining objects, and one attacker revealed wings that resembled Bi Fang’s.

• Lan Mu used Jigglypuff’s song to put Li Shuren to sleep, then had bats carry him toward Qilu Province.
• Hidden Dragon discovered Li Shuren unconscious and prepared its forces as Lan Mu arrived at the Changbai Mountains Headquarters in vampire form.
• Lan Mu entered the headquarters, subdued agents by controlling their blood, and claimed over the communications system that he had come for Li Qing’s ransom.
• Lan Mu broadcast Jigglypuff’s hypnotic song through the headquarters, sending most agents to sleep while Dan Sheng and a few others remained awake.
• Lan Mu explored the containment facility, assessed and took some Contained Objects, and left dangerous ones in Hidden Dragon’s care.
• At the lowest level, Lan Mu encountered Dan Sheng, Fan Xing, and a man with Dragon Claws who attacked him with red-and-blue wings resembling Bi Fang’s.

Lan Mu subdued Yuan Haohao, learned that his beastlike organs came from a cellular Contained Object, and discovered that a Dragon Bone beneath Heavenly Lake controlled China's waterways. He caught up with Dan Sheng and Fan Xing, where Dan Sheng refused to surrender the ancient sword without a fight.

• Lan Mu defeated Yuan Haohao, who used rapidly formed organs modeled on sacred beasts, and learned that a cellular Contained Object was consuming and reshaping his body.
• Lan Mu discovered that the Dragon Bone beneath Heavenly Lake represented China's water veins and that Wu Yong guarded it as a Dao Expositor.
• Lan Mu decided not to approach Heavenly Lake yet and pursued Dan Sheng and Fan Xing through the forest.
• Lan Mu intercepted Dan Sheng and Fan Xing after Hidden Dragon reinforcements evacuated the Contained Objects.
• Dan Sheng stood between Lan Mu and Fan Xing, refusing to hand over the ancient sword unless Lan Mu killed him first.

Lan Mu defeated Dan Sheng, took the Idealistic Ancient Sword, and turned him into a Second Generation Vampire before leaving. Hidden Dragon stripped Dan Sheng of his position and made him a research subject, while Fan Xing warned that Lan Mu could control or kill him through their bloodline.

• Lan Mu overwhelmed Dan Sheng, severed his arm, and took the Idealistic Ancient Sword.
• Dan Sheng attacked Lan Mu in a desperate bid to die, but Lan Mu drained his blood and transformed him into a vampire before restoring him.
• Ding Long arrived with reinforcements, and Dan Sheng heard agents whisper that he might have surrendered the sword to survive.
• Dan Sheng told the director what had happened, then cooperated as Hidden Dragon researchers examined his body and blood.
• Fan Xing warned that Dan Sheng's vampire bloodline was controlled by Lan Mu, and the director removed him from agent duty and assigned him to research.
• Dan Sheng accepted his new role as a test subject, unaware that humanity was centuries from understanding vampire genes or finding a cure.

After discovering that time passed differently in higher-energy worlds, Lan Mu changed how he taught Summoning Magic and planted the knowledge in an ordinary shut-in's mind. The man woke from the strange experience with Summoning Magic in his memories and believed he had received an unexpected encounter.

• Lan Mu returned to Shadow Island with twenty Contained Objects, handed them and other spoils to Bai Ze, and checked on Elise and Xina.
• Xina challenged Jinx's authority but became speechless when Elise obediently followed Jinx for a Candy Bomb.
• Lan Mu learned that nobody had answered his summons and realized time passed more slowly in the higher-energy worlds where he had taught Summoning Magic.
• Lan Mu decided to place Summoning Magic knowledge into a person's dreams and arranged for the formula to summon a vampire guard carrying a Void Cloud.
• An ordinary shut-in received the knowledge while unconscious, woke at home, and recognized the Magic Power Refinement Technique and Summoning Magic in his memories.

After receiving a summoner’s inheritance, Shen Wei abandoned home and devoted himself to refining magic power and preparing his first summon. He completed the summoning as his pursuers cornered him, and a black-robed man appeared asking whether this was the New World.

• Shen Wei, a directionless unemployed man, discovered that he had inherited the abilities of a summoner and began refining magic power with unusual determination.
• After arguing with his mother, Shen Wei left home and spent two days cultivating in a park until he had enough magic power to summon once.
• Shen Wei realized he needed an altar and materials, then stole a shovel and food from a general store before fleeing to the park.
• Shen Wei built a soil altar and began the summoning ritual as the store’s staff and customers caught up with him.
• A red ring of light appeared, and a black-robed man materialized beside Shen Wei and asked, “Is this the New World?”

Lan Mu arrived in a Chinese-style parallel world after Shen Wei summoned him, then used a fabricated religious identity and threat of punishment to recruit Shen Wei as a preacher. As Shen Wei imagined a monster apocalypse, Lan Mu began searching the planet’s network for information about it.

• Lan Mu accepted Shen Wei’s summoning and found himself in a modern city where Shen Wei had summoned him in front of several witnesses.
• Lan Mu knocked out the witnesses with a mental shock, then lifted Shen Wei with Psychic Force and rejected his claim of being Lan Mu’s master.
• Lan Mu claimed to be the Black-robed Grand Arbitrator of the Supreme Divine Religion and frightened Shen Wei with a story about three thousand years of soul imprisonment under Blue White Society law.
• Shen Wei explained that he had received a summoning legacy, and Lan Mu told him he had been chosen to spread the religion’s gospel while warning him never to summon Lan Mu again.
• Shen Wei concluded that a monster apocalypse was real, and Lan Mu began gathering information from the planet’s network.

Lan Mu reviewed the monster-war history of the parallel world and decided to strengthen Shen Wei so he could spread the Supreme Divine Religion’s gospel. He granted Shen Wei magic power and summoning formulas, then began transforming him into a werewolf, leaving Shen Wei unconscious as his new bloodline took hold.

• Lan Mu learned that humanity had united to fight monsters but was turning toward rebuilding despite the threat’s unknown source.
• Lan Mu told Shen Wei about the Supreme Divine Religion and encouraged him to believe in Gabriel so Lan Mu could read his thoughts in angel form.
• Shen Wei asked for a system and teleportation, but Lan Mu refused and gave him ten Magic Power Droplets and a Magic Book with five hundred summoning formulas.
• Shen Wei absorbed the droplets and gained the magic power of a White Robe Principal Level mage, then asked Lan Mu to enhance his bloodline.
• Lan Mu chose a werewolf bloodline for Shen Wei’s regeneration, strength, speed, endurance, and longevity, knocked him unconscious, and began transforming him.

Lan Mu recruited Shen Wei to spread belief in the Supreme Heavenly God, then infiltrated a military stronghold to learn the technology humanity had developed to fight monsters. He left with a trove of knowledge intended to benefit Earth, especially its aerospace efforts.

• Lan Mu gave Shen Wei the Blood of the Ancestor, allowing him to regain human form, and tasked him with preaching the Supreme Heavenly God’s gospel.
• Lan Mu considered whether an external enemy could unite humanity but rejected causing an apocalypse on Earth.
• Lan Mu entered Shenxia City in his Asari form and infiltrated the military network to study its technology.
• Lan Mu learned that mechs had turned the war by defeating monsters in close combat with weapons such as Plasma Blades.
• Lan Mu stole knowledge of mechs, materials, detectors, energy systems, and aerospace technology to bring back to Earth.

Lan Mu spent the final days before his transformation studying mech construction in a military town, then fled to a remote island to transform. He became One-Tailed Shukaku, a powerful giant tanuki whose aversion to seawater left him eager to return to land.

• Lan Mu used a fake identity to work on the Crimson Lotus mech and secretly demonstrated extraordinary control of a Beast Mech.
• Lan Mu left the military town in disguise, flew over the steel wall, and crossed the sea to a tiny radioactive island.
• Lan Mu transformed into a twenty-meter-tall, sand-coated giant tanuki with a spiked tail and purple curse patterns.
• Lan Mu recognized his new form as One-Tailed Shukaku and discovered that seawater made him miserable and stiff.
• Lan Mu decided to leave the ocean and return to land.

Lan Mu used Shukaku’s power to create sand and build a path across the sea toward Philbin, where he approached Marani Military Town. The defenders detected his immense energy and evacuated the wall before Shukaku climbed over it and stopped to rest.

• Lan Mu realized Shukaku could produce vast amounts of sand and began filling in the sea to make a route to Philbin.
• Lan Mu’s sandstorm struck the coast, and Philbin soldiers spotted his enormous silhouette approaching the military town.
• The military town’s weapons failed to slow Lan Mu, while researchers detected his rapidly rising high-energy reading.
• The commander ordered the soldiers and non-combat personnel to retreat from the wall after learning the monster’s energy exceeded that of a nuclear reactor.
• Lan Mu’s giant ocher hand struck the wall, and Shukaku rested its head and arms on top of it.

Lan Mu used Shukaku’s sand control to overpower two Manila military mecha, then blasted Silver Fight out of the fight with a Sky-Refining Bullet. The command center ordered the Plasma Cannon activated as the pilots faced rescue.

• Lan Mu assessed Shukaku’s sand control, regeneration, and innate abilities as the two Manila mecha advanced toward him.
• Lan Mu knocked Silver Swallow and Silver Fight down, then wrapped them in sand and lifted them off the ground.
• Silver Fight broke free with its hidden plasma blades, but Lan Mu dragged both mecha through buildings with sand.
• Silver Fight launched itself into the air using Silver Swallow’s help and tried to attack Lan Mu from above.
• Lan Mu fired a Sky-Refining Bullet that hurled Silver Fight more than a kilometer away and left it unable to stand.
• The command center ordered the Plasma Cannon activated and sent people to rescue the mecha pilots.

Lan Mu used sand to trap the mechs and build a massive defense against Xia’s Plasma Cannon, which blasted open the sand sphere. The sphere quickly restored itself, leaving the humans stunned and unaware that it was only a smokescreen.

• Lan Mu used a Sky-Refining Bullet and Shou He’s sand to disable and bury the two mechs.
• Lan Mu spotted Xia’s Aerospace Carrier preparing a Plasma Cannon and raised a towering sand sphere around himself.
• The Plasma Cannon fired and vaporized part of the sphere, prompting the humans to celebrate what they believed was victory.
• General Zhang learned the Plasma Cannon could not fire again for two days, just as the sand sphere rapidly restored itself.
• The humans ordered urgent analyses as they realized the monster had survived, not knowing the sphere was only a smokescreen.

Lan Mu survived the Plasma Cannon by relying on Best Metal, escaped the sand sphere, and hid beneath Somita while the military searched for him. As the military prepared to attack, coordinated monster invasions erupted across coastlines worldwide, showing that the crisis had returned on a larger scale.

• Lan Mu concealed his escape by repairing the sand sphere, then tunneled underground toward Somita and hid beneath the city to recover.
• The military opened and destroyed the sand sphere, found a sand tunnel leading west, and detected Lan Mu beneath Somita.
• The military ordered Somita’s civilians to evacuate and prepared to use the Plasma Cannon against Lan Mu again.
• Lan Mu overheard reports of monster attacks on military towns across Xia Nation, the USA, Britain, and Southeast Asia, with Aerospace Carriers recalled to defend them.
• Lan Mu realized that the monster crisis was not over as monsters launched coordinated attacks across four continents.

As monsters launched a global assault, Lan Mu discovered they were soulless biological weapons and emerged as Shukaku to attack one of them. The civilians and soldiers watched in confusion as Shukaku fought the monsters, unsure which side it was on.

• Monster attacks forced Philbin's general to evacuate civilians inland as nations withdrew their support forces.
• The Marani defensive line fell after four monsters overwhelmed Silver Fight and Silver Swallow, and scientists suspected the monsters had biological nuclear reactors.
• Lan Mu inspected the approaching monsters, found they had no souls, and concluded they were artificial biological weapons.
• Two monsters caught up with the evacuation, and soldiers failed to stop them with electromagnetic railguns.
• Lan Mu emerged as Shukaku, trapped the lizard-like monster with a giant sand palm, and struck its skull while civilians and soldiers watched in shock.

Lan Mu hunted monsters across Somita City, then pursued the survivors toward Philbin while pushing a ball packed with monster corpses. The military realized the fleeing monsters were running from him just as he arrived at their defensive line.

• Lan Mu regenerated his sand armor after a thermal-ray attack, defeated the tentacled monster, and beheaded the lizard monster with a concealed Best Metal blade.
• Lan Mu gathered the two monsters' corpses into a sand ball and headed toward other defensive lines, hoping to capture more monsters before his transformation ended.
• Philbin's defensive line faced five monsters, and the mechs lost six units after the creatures turned to fight them fiercely.
• The general discovered that the monsters were fleeing from Lan Mu, who was pushing a giant ball containing at least eight monster corpses and dragging a shark-headed monster by his tail.
• Lan Mu rolled toward the defensive line, startling the remaining monsters and giving the last mech a chance to strike.

Katers destroyed the monsters threatening eastern Philbin and became known as the Raccoon Dog King, alarming governments worldwide even as people celebrated its intervention. Shen Wei expanded the Supreme Divine Religion through shelters and decided to present Katers as a divine beast in the religion’s story.

• Katers used the desert to crush or drag away the remaining monsters in eastern Philbin, then left the area.
• Philbin’s survivors named the raccoon dog Katers, and reports of its victory spread to the Global Anti-Monster Federation and governments around the world.
• World leaders watched footage of Katers and ordered stronger mech development as they feared the super monster’s power.
• Shen Wei built the Supreme Divine Religion by teaching Summoning Magic to founding elders and spreading the faith among people in shelters.
• Shen Wei told his core followers to describe Katers as a divine beast that fed on monsters and served as their natural nemesis.

Shen Wei learned that Shukaku was a Special Envoy of the Supreme Divine Religion and that he himself was only a Preacher. The Great Arbiter arranged for Shukaku to address the monsters’ root problem and a black dragon Expositor to defeat monsters worldwide, while Shen Wei prepared to claim credit through prophecy.

• Shen Wei’s disciples spread fabricated religious stories linking the Raccoon Dog King to the Supreme Heavenly God.
• The Great Arbiter contacted Shen Wei and confirmed that Shukaku was a Special Envoy, two ranks above him.
• Shen Wei learned that the disciples he had recruited did not qualify for a rank in the religion.
• The Great Arbiter warned that the monster apocalypse could worsen despite humanity’s coming victory and said Shukaku would go to the ocean floor to resolve its root problem.
• The Great Arbiter ordered Shen Wei to prophesy that an Expositor would defeat monsters around the world so the religion could claim credit for saving humanity.
• The Great Arbiter identified the arriving Expositor as a black dragon, leaving Shen Wei to compare its rank favorably with his own.