Chapter Summaries

Su Lu reprimanded the Magic Association president for failing to gather enough juvenile Titan hearts and gave him one year to deliver the hearts needed for the Dragon Hunting Ritual. Xi Zhe then reported that he had failed to kill Chen Lang, and Su Lu blamed Zu Hengyao’s protection before deciding not to risk another attack in Dubai.

• Su Lu demanded that the Magic Association president collect enough juvenile Titan hearts or substitutes within a year, threatening him with severe consequences if he failed.
• The president promised to meet Su Lu’s deadline and left the office in fear.
• Xi Zhe returned and admitted he had failed to kill Chen Lang because a special spatial restriction repelled the attempted extraction.
• Su Lu suspected Zu Hengyao had helped protect Chen Lang and concluded that attacking him in Dubai would risk provoking Great Xia and Shao Zheng.

Su Lu ordered Xi Zhe to keep monitoring Chen Lang and prioritize gathering titan hearts for the dragon-hunting ritual, then learned that the totem hunt had failed and that the moth woman was under the Chen Clan’s protection. As Su Lu vowed to settle accounts with Chen Lang and his allies after obtaining the Black Dragon Emperor, Chen Lang heard from Mu Ningxue about Dog Man’s defeat and looked forward to Su Lu’s frustration.

• Su Lu warned Xi Zhe not to attack Chen Lang in Dubai and ordered him to monitor Chen Lang while they focused on the dragon-hunting ritual.
• Su Lu’s secretary reported that the totem hunt had failed against Mo Fan and Mu Ningxue, and that the moth woman was staying at a Chen Clan branch.
• Su Lu smashed his desk in anger and vowed to deal with Chen Lang, the Chen Clan, Mo Fan, and Mu Ningxue after his dragon hunt succeeded.
• Su Lu dismissed Xi Zhe and his secretary, and they left his office.
• Chen Lang heard from Mu Ningxue about Dog Man’s defeat, praised their actions, and imagined Su Lu’s reaction when he realized he could not beat him.

Chen Lang returned to Fei Niao City and rushed to help Yu Shishi when the Moon Moth Phoenix began to emerge from its cocoon ahead of schedule. Meanwhile, Mo Fan and his companions encountered the fleeing Nie Lengshan in Outer Kunlun Mountain, where Mountain People had slaughtered many mages and the Sacred Tree posed a new danger.

• Chen Lang arrived in Fei Niao City in disguise, having left Zu Hengyao to manage his affairs in Dubai while he returned to arrange for Mo Fan to search for Totem Beasts.
• Yu Shishi and Mu Ningxue met Chen Lang and asked him to help because the Moon Moth Phoenix had become restless in its karst cave in the Nanling Mountains.
• Chen Lang used Thunder and Space Power to take Mu Ningxue and Yu Shishi to the cave.
• In Outer Kunlun Mountain, Mountain People slaughtered many mages before the military drove them back, and the person in charge began plotting against the Sacred Tree.
• Nie Lengshan fled with elite Military Mages as demon beasts pursued them and warned Mo Fan and his companions that the Sacred Tree had problems.

Chen Lang arrived at the battle between Yan Shi, Moon Moth Phoenix, and the Heavenly Crown Purple Linden Demon Tree after destroying the Demon Beasts pursuing Mo Fan and the others. Yan Shi was near death and the Demon Tree was badly weakened, leaving Chen Lang to confront it.

• Moon Moth Phoenix carried Chen Lang, Mu Ningxue, and others to Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan, then flew toward the Heavenly Crown Purple Linden Demon Tree.
• Chen Lang obliterated tens of thousands of pursuing Demon Beasts with a single thunder attack and hurried after Moon Moth Phoenix.
• Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan recognized Chen Lang's overwhelming power as Mu Ningxue warned that Moon Moth Phoenix might be in danger.
• Yan Shi and Moon Moth Phoenix destroyed four of the Demon Tree's main trunks, but Yan Shi's life and their strength were nearly spent.
• Chen Lang appeared and shattered the Demon Tree's attacking vines with lightning, preparing to face it while it was severely weakened.

Chen Lang destroyed the weakened Heavenly Crown Purple Linden Demon Tree and gave its energy fruit to the Moon Moth Phoenix, which recovered and began transforming. As Yan Shi neared death, Chen Lang prepared to use Space Magic while the Moon Moth Phoenix trusted him.

• Chen Lang attacked the Heavenly Crown Purple Linden Demon Tree with lightning, dodged its roots, and destroyed its last main trunk.
• Chen Lang took the demon tree’s energy fruit and gave it to the Moon Moth Phoenix.
• The Moon Moth Phoenix absorbed the fruit, healed, and showed signs of breaking through its limits.
• The transformed Moon Moth Phoenix nudged Yan Shi and lent her a brief return of vitality, though she remained near death.
• Chen Lang began emitting silver light and preparing Space Magic, while the Moon Moth Phoenix remained unguarded around him.

After Yan Shi died, the Moon Moth Phoenix chose Yu Shishi as its next guardian, and Chen Lang brought the survivors to Fei Niao City. Chen Lang invited the Moon Moth Phoenix to stay and summoned Mo Fan, Zhao Manyan, and Ling Ling to the villa.

• Chen Lang comforted the remorseful Yan Shi by telling her that helping defeat the Demon Tree and allowing the Moon Moth Phoenix to evolve had made amends, and Yan Shi soon died.
• Starlight entered Yu Shishi, and Ling Ling told her that she was now the Moon Moth Phoenix’s guardian.
• Chen Lang told Nie Lengshan that the disaster was not his fault and sent the Super-level Mage back to recover and report.
• Shao Yu asked to leave with Chen Lang’s group so she could spar with Mu Ningxue, and Chen Lang agreed.
• Chen Lang used long-distance Instant Movement to take the group and the Moon Moth Phoenix to Fei Niao City, where the Moon Moth Phoenix agreed to stay.
• Chen Lang asked Mo Fan, Zhao Manyan, and Ling Ling to follow him to the villa.

Chen Lang revealed that Mo Fan's pendant held the remnant soul of the Sacred Totem Azure Dragon and explained how finding related Totem Beasts could help Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan grow stronger. He then visited Yu Shishi and learned that the Moon Moth Phoenix had reached the Supreme-level Monarch stage.

• Chen Lang told Mo Fan that he had recommended him to Shao Zheng because the pendant he carried was a Sacred Totem vessel.
• Chen Lang explained that the pendant contained the Azure Dragon's remnant soul and that finding Totem Beasts of its lineage could help Mo Fan cultivate and potentially restore the Azure Dragon.
• Zhao Manyan asked whether finding Black Tortoise lineage Totem Beasts could help him, and Chen Lang confirmed that it could.
• Chen Lang advised Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan to reach High-level perfection before seeking Totem Beasts, then shared information about related Totems in the Qinling Mountains and Baxia's lineage.
• Chen Lang visited Yu Shishi's cabin and learned through her translation that the Moon Moth Phoenix had reached the Supreme-level Monarch stage.

Chen Lang helped the newly emerged Moon Moth Phoenix recover and considered using it to locate the imprisoned Sea East Green Totem Beast, but it could not sense the beast from afar. He agreed to travel to Tian Shan with Zhan Kong the next morning to rescue Qin Yuer and seek help from Zhan Kong's family patriarch.

• Chen Lang gave the Moon Moth Phoenix beast milk to help it digest its energy and promised to provide any resources it needed.
• Chen Lang asked the Moon Moth Phoenix whether it could locate the trapped Sea East Green Totem Beast, but it could not without a general location.
• Chen Lang contacted Zhan Kong, who hurried to Fei Niao City that evening and urged him to leave for Tian Shan immediately.
• Zhan Kong confirmed that he remembered where Qin Yuer was imprisoned, though he worried about taking Chen Lang into the Scar of Tian Shan.
• Chen Lang explained that he also wanted help from Zhan Kong's patriarch, and Zhan Kong pledged his loyalty if Chen Lang helped free Qin Yuer.
• Chen Lang agreed to depart for Tian Shan the next morning and sent Zhan Kong to rest in the guest room.

Chen Lang and Zhan Kong traveled through the Taklamakan Desert to reach Tianshan, where Chen Lang’s reputation and power kept the demon beasts at bay. They entered Tianshan’s wilderness cautiously to begin their search for Qin Yuer.

• Chen Lang and Zhan Kong secretly left Fei Niao City before dawn, with only Mu Ningxue informed of their trip.
• They flew through the Taklamakan Desert, where the feather demons watched but did not attack because of Chen Lang’s strength.
• Chen Lang reassured Zhan Kong that the strongest feather demon tribe on their route had already been destroyed by him.
• A Monarch Level Sand Armor Demon emerged from the dunes, recognized Chen Lang’s black thunder, and retreated underground.
• Chen Lang and Zhan Kong passed Bone Break Cliff, saw Tianshan, and descended before entering its desolate wilderness layer.

Mo Fan and Ling Ling rushed to the Demon Capital after Leng Qing called for help, only to find her gravely wounded and trapped in hiding by an assassin. Xiao Ping revealed that Leng Qing had tracked a Black Vatican red cardinal named Cold Duke, leaving Mo Fan and Ling Ling facing a conspiracy that reached deep into the Judgement Society.

• Leng Qing contacted Ling Ling for help after her investigation into the Vatican was discovered, and Mo Fan learned that Chen Lang had gone to Tianshan.
• Mo Fan and Ling Ling flew to the Demon Capital and found Leng Qing barely alive in a rundown rental room.
• Xiao Ping stopped Mo Fan from taking Leng Qing to a hospital, explaining that an assassin was watching them and had killed a senior who tried to help.
• Ling Ling and Mo Fan suspected a mole in the Judgement Society and asked Xiao Ping why Leng Qing had been targeted.
• Xiao Ping revealed that Leng Qing had tracked a Black Vatican red cardinal, Cold Duke, whose people had pursued them into the city.

Mo Fan struggled to find a way to treat Leng Qing after dark matter severely damaged her, while recalling how he had defeated Beijiang and sent the assassin’s corpse to Feng Zhoulong. Meanwhile, Chen Lang and Zhan Kong entered the Scar of Tian Shan, whose breathtaking beauty concealed extreme dangers.

• Mo Fan found that Leng Qing’s body had been badly damaged by dark matter and that only White Magic healing could clear it.
• Mo Fan recalled that Xin Xia had helped relieve Leng Qing’s condition and that he had delivered Beijiang’s corpse to Feng Zhoulong for study.
• Chen Lang and Zhan Kong crossed the desert and alpine layers and reached the snow-capped region on their way to the Scar of Tian Shan.
• Chen Lang and Zhan Kong entered the Scar of Tian Shan, where vast glaciers and suspended ice clouds formed a beautiful landscape.
• The narration explained that the Scar of Tian Shan was dangerous, with Commander-level flocks, solitary Monarch creatures, and wandering predators threatening even Super-level Mages.

Chen Lang and Zhan Kong crossed the deadly cold and hidden ice fissures of the Scar of Tian Shan to reach the place where Qin Yuer was sealed. After Chen Lang drove off an ice-white Heavenly Tiger, Zhan Kong saw the sealed person.

• Chen Lang warned Zhan Kong to use Fire Element magic power to resist the cold, and Zhan Kong nearly froze to death before following his advice.
• Chen Lang and Zhan Kong navigated the Desolate Ice Domain, where hidden ice fissures and Deathly Desolate Wind threatened to drag them below.
• Chen Lang used powerful spatial magic to protect them as they descended into the White Scar rift valley.
• An ice-white Heavenly Tiger attacked them with a storm of ice cones, but Chen Lang stopped the attack with spatial magic.
• The Heavenly Tiger fled when it sensed Chen Lang's overwhelming power, and Zhan Kong saw the person sealed there.

Chen Lang freed Qin Yuer from the ten-thousand-year profound ice, and Zhan Kong reunited with her after ten years apart. They escaped the Scar of Heaven, and Qin Yuer woke in the desert with Zhan Kong beside her.

• Zhan Kong tried and failed to melt the profound ice imprisoning Qin Yuer.
• Chen Lang used Space Power and lightning to break the ice without harming Qin Yuer.
• Zhan Kong caught Qin Yuer as she fell, then collapsed from the cold and exhaustion.
• Chen Lang teleported himself, Zhan Kong, and Qin Yuer to the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, where Zhan Kong recovered with medicine.
• After several hours, Qin Yuer woke and recognized Zhan Kong, who held her hand and reassured her.

After Chen Lang rescued Qin Yuer, she reunited with Zhan Kong and returned with him to the Chen Clan estate. Chen Lang tested her awakened strength and discovered that her ice magic had grown powerful but remained difficult for her to control.

• Qin Yuer tearfully reunited with Zhan Kong and thanked Chen Lang for saving her.
• Chen Lang took Qin Yuer and Zhan Kong to the Chen Clan estate, promising they could stay together there.
• Chen Lang asked Qin Yuer to attack him so he could assess how her cultivation had changed during her years trapped in ice.
• Qin Yuer launched an Ice Blade, but Chen Lang dodged it and struck the strands of Magic Power that had escaped her control.
• Qin Yuer unleashed Ice Prism Storm, and Chen Lang blocked most of the Ice Cones with a Lightning Wall before stopping the three that broke through with Lightning Spears.

Chen Lang learned that Qin Yuer had fully awakened her Ice Element calamity and took her to Fei Niao City before applying to assist at the Northern Border. The chapter ended with an old herdsman telling a young man the legend of Qiqige, who climbed the mountains to find the frozen springs.

• Chen Shan examined Qin Yuer's aura and confirmed that she had fully awakened her Ice Element calamity while trapped in the ten-thousand-year mystic ice.
• Chen Lang left Qin Yuer to tend to Zhan Kong, then visited Chen Jin before departing the clan.
• Chen Lang learned in Fei Niao City that Mo Fan had uncovered clues about the Judgment Court and the Cold Duke, and he applied to assist at the Northern Border.
• At the Northern Border, an old herdsman began recounting how Qiqige climbed the mountains to find the source of the dwindling water, where she discovered the spring veins frozen by the cold.

Cold Duke activated the Triangular Dimension Mirror, summoning the Underworld God’s pyramid and its Nether Glow onto the prairie. A horde of Egypt Undead poured out and slaughtered the old nomad’s town, while Cold Duke watched.

• Cold Duke told the old nomad the legend of Underworld God and Kong Si while his subordinates set up the Triangular Dimension Mirror.
• Cold Duke’s subordinates powered the mirror, creating a vast coordinate that revealed a towering golden pyramid.
• The pyramid’s Nether Glow chilled the land, and Cold Duke explained that it opened a path for the Death Realm’s troops to enter the human world.
• Dead entities emerged from the earth and charged toward the old nomad’s town, drawn by the living.
• The old nomad ran toward town and found it devastated, with its people dead, while Cold Duke watched with a slight smile.

Chen Lang put Zhenbei Fortress City under full combat readiness after warning that Khufu would bring an army of millions of undead through a passage opened by Cold Duke. As the defenders waited, a host of chain-bearing figures emerged from the dust, dragging a massive demon frog toward the fortress.

• Chen Lang took command of Zhenbei Fortress City, ordered civilians evacuated, and declared full combat readiness.
• Chen Lang told Ye Hong and Bin Wei that Cold Duke had opened a passage to the Underworld and Khufu would lead millions of undead north.
• The fortress mobilized its forces and watched the northern horizon as an oppressive aura and thick dust approached.
• A tattered, tree-bark-skinned figure carrying heavy copper chains appeared beneath the walls, followed by thousands more.
• The chain-bearing figures dragged a huge, unwilling flesh-covered demon frog toward Zhenbei Fortress City.

At Zhenbei Pass, Ling Ling identified the advancing undead as Underworld Ferrymen driven forward by a Nether Lord Frog, confirming Chen Lang’s warning that the Underworld was attacking. Zhenbei’s defenders tried a powerful wind array and then sent in their summoning troops, but the Ferrymen suffered little damage and continued advancing.

• Ling Ling recognized the exhausted chain-bound men as Egyptian Nether Lord Frog ferrymen, cursed to be swallowed and digested if they stopped.
• The Nether Lord Frog released its chains and branded the Underworld Ferrymen with spells that made them glow red and focus on Zhenbei Fortress City.
• Chen Lang ordered an attack, and Bin Wei activated the Wind Corner Eight-star Array to unleash the Azure Yellow Sky Gale against the Ferrymen.
• Chang Yi sent Zhenbei Pass’s Summoning System mages and their summoned beasts into battle, but the Ferrymen smashed the vanguard and endured the defenders’ magic with few losses.

Chen Lang revealed that the Underworld Ferrymen and Nether Lord Frogs were only the vanguard of a larger invasion, while Great Xia also faced a Sea Monster attack along its eastern coast. He confronted the advancing Underworld forces alone, destroyed the Ferrymen with black lightning, and faced the Nether Lord Frogs.

• Chen Lang told the mages to lure the Underworld Ferrymen away from the Nether Lord Frog so they could break the creatures’ protective curses and kill them more effectively.
• Chen Lang revealed that a copper chain stretched from the Nether Lord Frogs to Khufu, the pyramid of the Underworld, and Bin Wei asked for reinforcements.
• Chen Lang reported that Shao Zheng had warned him of a Sea Monster surge on the eastern coast, leaving Great Xia short of manpower and unable to send reinforcements.
• Chen Lang leaped onto the battlefield, and Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan urged the commanders to trust his strength.
• Chen Lang unleashed black lightning that annihilated the Underworld Ferrymen, then turned to face the Nether Lord Frogs as they prepared to attack.

Chen Lang used Nine Heavens Thunder Punishment to destroy every Nether Lord Frog on the battlefield, restoring hope to the defenders at Zhenbei Pass. Meanwhile, the Nether Lord Frogs had been dragging the Pyramid of Khufu through a vast Underworld gate, and its emergence filled the Northern Plains with an overwhelming aura.

• Chen Lang unleashed Nine Heavens Thunder Punishment and killed all the Nether Lord Frogs on the battlefield.
• The defenders at Zhenbei Pass watched Chen Lang's victory and regained their morale.
• A demonic light axis and intersecting lines appeared over Fangba Plain as a void gate opened beneath the Copper Chains.
• The Nether Lord Frogs drove nearly thirty thousand Underworld Ferrymen to haul the Pyramid of Khufu out of the gate, while its weight fractured the plain.
• The emerging Pyramid of Khufu spread an aura of majesty and brutality across the Northern Plains, leaving people unable to resist it.