Chapter Summaries

Chen Lang and Mo Fan confronted Cold Duke as the Pyramid of Khufu awakened the Underworld dead and sent them surging south. Chen Lang sent Mo Fan to hold back the advancing undead, while he remained focused on the threat inside the pyramid.

• Cold Duke celebrated the pyramid’s arrival with his followers until Chen Lang appeared with Mo Fan and mocked him.
• Chen Lang ordered Mo Fan to burn Cold Duke and his followers, and Mo Fan unleashed his demonic power.
• A voice from the pyramid commanded the Underworld dead to grind living creatures into bones and expand the desert.
• The awakened undead flooded across Fangba Plain and began advancing south toward the living.
• Mo Fan stood alone in the undead’s path as Chen Lang watched the pyramid.

Mo Fan fought through the Egypt Undead army and faced a Medusa and the Sphinx, while Chen Lang joined the battle to stop the Sphinx. Chen Lang hurled the Sphinx into Khufu’s pyramid, which shook violently on impact.

• Mo Fan charged into the Underworld army and used Demon Fire to destroy waves of undead.
• A giant Scorpion Body Demonic Beast with a Medusa upper body targeted Mo Fan, but it could not match his strength.
• The Sphinx appeared, and Chen Lang decided to join the fight rather than let Mo Fan face it alone.
• Mo Fan struck the undead with Demon Ray Fist, prompting the Sphinx to send Undead Monarchs after him and leap in to attack.
• Chen Lang bound the Sphinx with Destructive Thunder and hurled it into Khufu’s pyramid, shaking the structure on impact.

Chen Lang confronted Khufu after the Underworld God’s forces threatened the Huaxia Holy Land, then fought him in the sky above the battlefield. The clash left Mo Fan stunned as their attacks tore through the chaos vortex and obliterated Underworld soldiers below.

• Chen Lang warned Khufu to leave Huaxia, while Sphinx backed down and Khufu summoned ten Dark Sword Masters and an ancient golden boat.
• Chen Lang and Khufu vanished into the sky to begin their Emperor-level battle, leaving Mo Fan shocked by Chen Lang’s calm.
• Khufu summoned an Undead Holy Scarab, but Chen Lang destroyed it with Annihilation Thunder.
• Khufu attacked Chen Lang with Death Decrees, but Chen Lang used Space Power to swallow the chains and send a space blade at him.
• Khufu raised a death-qi shield to meet the space blade, and their collision ripped open the chaos vortex as falling fragments erased Underworld soldiers.

Chen Lang sent nine black dragons made of death aura and black lightning against Khufu, who destroyed most of them before the last one wounded its shoulder. Chen Lang followed with a powerful wave of death aura, forcing Khufu to sacrifice its Bone Staff to defend itself.

• Chen Lang summoned nine black dragons and sent them charging at Khufu.
• Khufu used decay power, its Bone Staff, a bone shield, and death spears to destroy eight dragons.
• The surviving dragon struck Khufu's left shoulder with black lightning, heavily injuring it.
• Chen Lang unleashed a wave of death aura at Khufu.
• Khufu threw its Bone Staff to block the attack, leaving the staff dim and diminishing its own aura.

Chen Lang drove Khufu and the Egypt Undead army from Great Xia, then captured Cold Duke with Mo Fan’s help. The Northern Border crisis ended, but Chen Lang and Mo Fan still had to decide what to do with the Red Cardinal.

• Khufu’s bone staff was shattered, and he blamed Cold Duke for misleading him into invading Great Xia.
• Chen Lang attacked Khufu, but Khufu used a burst of deathly Qi to retreat with the surviving Egypt Undead army.
• Chen Lang abandoned the pursuit to protect Mo Fan from Khufu’s bone claws and destroyed the remaining fragments with heavenly lightning.
• Chen Lang said the Egypt Undead had suffered heavy losses and that the Northern Border crisis was over, though Cold Duke remained to be dealt with.
• Mo Fan urged Chen Lang to catch Cold Duke, and Chen Lang used the dark mark to locate and pin him down.
• Mo Fan asked how to deal with Cold Duke, and Chen Lang said the Red Cardinal was unworthy and that killing him would be too easy.

After the Northern Border crisis ended, Chen Lang and the others returned to Fei Niao City, where the Sea Monster threat was growing as Great Xia began planning base cities. Chen Lang destroyed a hidden gathering of Sea Monsters and went to check on Mu Ningxue and Qin Yuer.

• Chen Lang told Mo Fan to imprison Cold Duke for thirty to fifty years before killing him, and considered using him as bait to draw out Salang.
• Sunlight cleared the undead remains from the Northern Border, and Chen Lang and the others returned to Fei Niao City after the crisis was resolved.
• Shao Yu and her team found the bodies of ocean explorers and sensed an approaching threat while surveying the waters off Fei Niao City.
• Chen Lang sensed Sea Monsters gathered underwater and secretly blasted them apart with lightning before bringing Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan back to the city.
• At the Chen family branch, Mo Fan greeted the recovering Zhan Kong while Chen Lang headed to the villa district to check on Mu Ningxue and Qin Yuer.

After returning from the Northern Border, Chen Lang discussed the coastal crisis with Mu Ningxue, who proposed an alliance between the Chen Clan branch and the struggling Dongfang Family and Mu Family. Chen Lang approved and offered to help connect the parties, leaving Mu Ningxue asking what bridge he could provide.

• Chen Lang reunited with Mu Ningxue and learned that rising sea levels had forced coastal evacuations and plans to build base cities.
• Mu Ningxue explained that seawater had devastated the Dongfang Family’s and Mu Family’s resource veins and shipping ports.
• Chen Lang warned that the two proud families might resist an offer of help or alliance from the Chen Clan.
• Mu Ningxue proposed forming an alliance through the newly established Chen Clan branch, combining its needs with the families’ remaining strengths.
• Chen Lang approved the plan and said he could provide a bridge, mentioning Mo Fan’s Flame Belle and Zhao Manyan’s help with negotiations.
• Mu Ningxue asked Chen Lang what bridge he had in mind.

Chen Lang arranged for Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan to stay in Fei Niao City and strengthen their foundations before pursuing a chance to reach the Super-level. He then spent nearly half a year in seclusion, advancing his elemental systems and preparing to focus on the Lightning Element, before remembering the two men he had left waiting.

• Chen Lang reassured Mu Ningxue that he would have Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan handle the alliance follow-up when the Dongfang Family and Mu Family were ready to accept help.
• Chen Lang told Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan to cultivate in Fei Niao City and warned them that weak foundations could cost them their chance to reach the Super Level.
• Chen Lang entered seclusion, where his remaining elemental systems advanced to nearly the third tier of the Super-level.
• Chen Lang reflected that his next goal was to push the Lightning Element toward the Forbidden Curse, with Black Annihilation as his trump card.
• After nearly half a year in seclusion, Chen Lang emerged and remembered that Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan had been waiting.

Chen Lang sent Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan to Magic City to help Mu Nujiao’s family secure a fire vein and build an alliance for Mu Ningxue’s branch. After handling the negotiations, he led the group toward Xu Island, where Zhao Manyan could pursue a Super-level breakthrough.

• Chen Lang told Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan to represent Mu Ningxue’s branch in talks with the Mu Family and Dongfang Family over a newly discovered fire vein.
• Mo Fan agreed to help the Mu Family use Flame Belle to stabilize the fire vein, and Zhao Manyan eagerly joined the trip.
• Chen Lang reviewed Fei Niao City’s status and kept Cold Duke imprisoned, intending to use him later to expose and purge hidden enemies.
• Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan returned from Magic City with Mu Bai, while Chen Lang left negotiations to Mu Ningxue and her father.
• Chen Lang led the group toward Xu Island, the site of a failed breeding base chosen to help Zhao Manyan advance to the Super-level.

Chen Lang and Zhao Manyan reached Xu Island, where failed domesticated sea-and-air beasts attacked them. After Chen Lang rescued Zhao Manyan and identified the creatures, he told Zhao Manyan to search for treasure while he dealt with them.

• Chen Lang and Zhao Manyan flew toward Xu Island, where Zhao Manyan’s slow wing magic tool drew Chen Lang’s scorn.
• Blue-brown creatures leaped from the sea and struck Zhao Manyan, forcing him to defend himself with water and light barriers.
• A giant creature smashed through Zhao Manyan’s defenses and sent him flying, but Chen Lang caught him.
• Chen Lang explained that the attackers were failed domesticated beasts capable of fighting in the sea and air.
• Chen Lang identified the featherless, manta ray-like birds on Xu Island and told Zhao Manyan to follow his totem vessel toward his destined opportunity.
• Zhao Manyan left to search for treasure while Chen Lang prepared to exterminate the dangerous creatures.

Chen Lang destroyed the feather demons, freed and killed their bird monarch, and helped Zhao Manyan and Mo Fan obtain totem energy before returning to Dubai. Su Lu learned that Chen Lang had appeared in Fei Niao City after supposedly leaving solitary confinement, and he reacted with anger and disbelief.

• Chen Lang wiped out the feather demons attacking him with lightning and killed the bird monarch after freeing it from its control binding.
• Zhao Manyan returned after finding the seabed totem beast and believed its energy would let him reach the Super Level before Mo Fan.
• Chen Lang took Mo Fan to the Qinling Mountains, where Mo Fan found the Divine Deer’s horns and received totem energy.
• Chen Lang escorted Zhao Manyan and Mo Fan back to Fei Niao City, then returned to Dubai.
• Su Lu’s secretary reported that Chen Lang had appeared in Fei Niao City after returning from outside, and Su Lu angrily questioned how he had escaped Xi Zhe’s surveillance.

After learning that Chen Lang had escaped Xi Zhe’s Forbidden-curse barrier and returned to Fei Niao City, Su Lu recognized that he had underestimated Chen Lang’s strength. Su Lu ordered Xi Zhe to investigate how Chen Lang escaped and how much power he concealed rather than rushing to confront him.

• Su Lu erupted in anger over Chen Lang’s escape and summoned Xi Zhe to his office.
• Su Lu concluded that Chen Lang’s escape showed strength beyond the protection of Zu Hengyao’s influence.
• Xi Zhe admitted he had monitored the barrier but had not detected Chen Lang leaving, while a Space Element mage was still trying to break the empty array.
• Xi Zhe offered to capture Chen Lang, but Su Lu warned that Chen Lang might have prepared for their response.
• Su Lu told Xi Zhe to investigate Chen Lang’s escape and hidden strength, then dismissed him.

Su Lu chose to wait rather than risk exposing his ambitions by acting against Chen Lang in Dubai. Back in Great Xia, Chen Lang reassured Zu Hengyao, then quietly monitored Pacific developments while waiting for an opening in Su Lu’s Dragon Hunting Plan.

• Su Lu decided to postpone targeting Chen Lang until his plan was more mature, fearing that a move in Dubai would draw the Magic Association’s attention and threaten his position.
• Chen Lang told Zu Hengyao that he had evaded Xi Zhe with Shadow magic and a convincing shadow clone, though a Space Element mage had nearly exposed it.
• Chen Lang told Zu Hengyao that his granddaughter-in-law had been settled with a residence and cultivation resources.
• Chen Lang returned to the Great Xia branch and spent the following days quietly reviewing intelligence, especially reports about the Pacific coast.
• The Pacific waters rose and sporadic sea monster sightings increased, prompting countries to jointly launch a base city construction plan.

Su Lu prepared to hunt the black dragon at Tyrant Mountain, hoping to gain power and crush Chen Lang’s influence. Chen Lang learned of the plan and chose to wait until he could seize the Black Dragon Emperor and take advantage of Su Lu’s near-success.

• Chen Lang accepted only rare treasures from people courting him and turned other gifts over to Zu Hengyao.
• Su Lu received the materials for the Dragon Hunting Plan and ordered Xi Zhe to prepare at the altar while his forces cleared Tyrant Mountain.
• Su Lu resolved to hunt the black dragon and use its power to make the magic world, including Chen Lang and Great Xia, submit to him.
• Zu Hengyao told Chen Lang that Xi Zhe had led a team toward the Tyrant Mountain Range in Italy.
• Chen Lang decided not to interfere yet, because he wanted to subdue the Black Dragon Emperor and defeat Su Lu when he was closest to success.

Chen Lang exposed Apas’s real reason for visiting the Asian Magic Association: after Empress Mother Medusa’s death, she sought his protection and help against her sisters in the struggle to succeed her. The chapter ended with Apas confronted by Chen Lang’s detailed knowledge of her weak position within the Snake Clan.

• Chen Lang learned from Zu Hengyao that Egypt’s military head, Ethan, wanted to visit him and agreed to receive him.
• Chen Lang recognized Apas as a Snake Demon and revealed that they had met before.
• Chen Lang announced that Empress Mother Medusa had died, shocking Apas and Ethan.
• Chen Lang accused Apas of seeking protection and his power to contend with her two sisters for the Empress Mother’s position.
• Chen Lang described the factions backing Apas’s sisters and pointed out that Apas had no followers, military power, or elder support.

Apas sought Chen Lang’s protection amid a succession struggle in the Medusa clan, but he exposed how desperate her position was and demanded that she serve him in exchange for help. The chapter ended with Apas reeling at his condition, struggling to contain her anger and tears.

• Chen Lang confronted Apas about using Ethan to bring her to him, leaving Ethan to realize he had been manipulated.
• Apas recognized Chen Lang’s power and admitted that she needed his help to survive her sisters’ schemes.
• Apas asked Chen Lang to state his conditions, and he offered to protect her and help her become Medusa Empress if she became his female attendant and obeyed him.
• Apas reacted with humiliation and fury to Chen Lang’s demand, while he insisted that he was the only one who could protect her and restore her power.

Chen Lang secured Apas’s reluctant allegiance and left Dubai after learning that Su Lu was preparing his Dragon Hunting Plan. As Chen Lang and Apas headed for the Tyrant Mountain Range, Su Lu’s mages ambushed them, and Chen Lang effortlessly erased their lightning formation.

• Chen Lang explained that Apas’s sisters were the main obstacle to her claiming the African Scorpion Clan throne, but he withheld full assistance because he did not trust her.
• After waiting three days in the Dubai Mage Tower and tracking Su Lu’s movements, Chen Lang left for the Tyrant Mountain Range with Apas following him.
• Su Lu’s agents spotted Chen Lang leaving Dubai and pursued him, hoping to earn credit by capturing him.
• A group of Super-level mages surrounded Chen Lang in the desert with a massive lightning formation.
• Chen Lang halted the formation’s attack and made it vanish with a flash of black electricity.

Chen Lang effortlessly slaughtered the mages who ambushed him, then took Apas to Tyrant Mountain to pursue Su Lu’s Dragon Hunting Plan. They reached the cloud cliff, where Su Lu’s lackeys had gathered.

• The mages who had set up the Third-order Lightning Meteor Array attacked Chen Lang and Apas after Chen Lang destroyed it.
• Chen Lang killed the more than twenty mages with black lightning, ignoring their attacks and pleas.
• Chen Lang flew with Apas across the Mediterranean Sea and entered Tyrant Mountain.
• Chen Lang concealed himself and Apas with Shadow Mage power as they approached the summit.
• Chen Lang and Apas reached the cloud cliff where they had encountered the Black Dragon Emperor, and found Su Lu’s lackeys gathered there.

Su Lu began the Dragon Hunting Ritual, intending to subdue the Black Dragon Emperor and put true dragons beneath humanity. The dragon unleashed its overwhelming power, and its inhaling breath swallowed a mage and pulled the mountain summit’s ruins toward its mouth.

• Su Lu proclaimed that humanity would rule over dragons and began the Dragon Hunting Ritual at the Tyrant Mountain Range.
• The Forbidden Curse Dragon Sealing Array activated and cast a vast net of dark golden light toward the Black Dragon Emperor.
• The Black Dragon Emperor roared, shattered the mountain summit, and rained destructive black blades across the range.
• Su Lu remained confident that he could bring the Black Dragon Emperor under his command as the other mages faced its terrifying might.
• The Black Dragon Emperor began inhaling everything around it, and an old wind-element mage was swept into its mouth and killed.

Chen Lang seized Su Lu’s attempt to subdue the Black Dragon Emperor, using the dragon’s blocked breath and the sealing array to bind it with spatial ropes and a summoning vessel. Su Lu recognized Chen Lang and confronted him, while both men claimed the other would die.

• Su Lu’s Magic Flies grew inside the Black Dragon Emperor’s throat, devouring its source power and preventing it from releasing its Dragon Flame.
• Chen Lang appeared above the trapped dragon and bound its body with dimensional ropes.
• Chen Lang activated a summoning vessel that drew on the Dragon Sealing Array to pull the Black Dragon Emperor toward it.
• Su Lu recognized Chen Lang as the man who had refused his recruitment and accused him of trying to steal the dragon.
• Chen Lang told Su Lu he had only waited to take the dragon and threatened that Su Lu would already be dead otherwise.