Chapter Summaries

Chen Lang discussed his lack of fear of the Holy City with Apas, explaining that his family’s blood feud made reconciliation impossible and that he did not stand alone. When Tucker of the African Magic Association requested a private meeting, Chen Lang suspected Tucker intended to hedge his bets rather than join the fight.

• Apas questioned why Chen Lang seemed unconcerned about the Holy City, and he said his grievances left him nothing to fear.
• Chen Lang reassured Apas that he had allies in his struggle against the Holy City.
• Zu Hengyao arrived with news that Tucker wanted to meet Chen Lang privately.
• Zu Hengyao hoped Tucker would ally with them, but Chen Lang warned that Tucker might only be trying to profit whichever side won.

Chen Lang saw through Tucker’s attempt to gain influence without openly opposing the Holy City and demanded that he choose a side publicly. Tucker refused to commit, deciding to keep watching for a safer opportunity.

• Chen Lang told Zu Hengyao to reject Tucker’s private overtures unless Tucker openly joined forces against the Holy City.
• Apas questioned whether refusing Tucker would invite trouble, and Chen Lang said the Americas and Europe were already making things difficult for them.
• Zu Hengyao relayed Chen Lang’s terms to Tucker through a secretary.
• Tucker became angry when he learned Chen Lang would not accept a private meeting and realized his low-risk plan had been exposed.
• Tucker declined a meeting for the near future and ordered his secretary to monitor Dubai and the Holy City.

Chen Lang tested Qin Yuer’s newly achieved Ice Element Forbidden Curse in the desert outside Dubai, where her power froze the surrounding landscape and produced several formidable attacks. He countered her techniques with his thunder magic as their spar continued.

• Chen Lang brought Qin Yuer to the desert to test her Forbidden Curse strength and see whether her Calamity Wielder bloodline had transformed.
• Qin Yuer’s aura froze the desert across several miles, turning the dunes into ice peaks and the sand into ice crystals.
• Qin Yuer summoned more than a thousand ice coffins with Ten Thousand Coffins Ice Seal, and Chen Lang destroyed them with his thunder power.
• Qin Yuer attacked with Ice Blade Suffocation and secretly formed ice chains, but Chen Lang shattered the chains and countered with lightning arrows.
• Qin Yuer raised an ice wall with Ice Seal Ten Thousand Miles to block the arrows, but Chen Lang’s thunder broke through it.

Chen Lang sparred with Qin Yuer to help her master her newly awakened Forbidden Curse power. Qin Yuer grew stronger and fought him evenly until Chen Lang unleashed his full Thunder Power and destroyed her ice attacks, leaving her stunned by the gap between their strength.

• Chen Lang shattered Qin Yuer's reinforced ice shield with a lightning hammer, and Qin Yuer used Ice Spirit Sacrifice to transform her power and manifest ice wings.
• Qin Yuer summoned Ice Meteor Heaven's Punishment, and Chen Lang countered with Thunder Burial - Realm Breaker, shattering the falling meteors with his lightning spear.
• Qin Yuer adapted during the fight, fused her Calamity Art blood with her ice Forbidden Curse, and exchanged attacks with Chen Lang as her control improved.
• Chen Lang unleashed Nine Heavens Thunder Punishment, pulverized Qin Yuer's ice power, and stopped the sparring match.
• Qin Yuer realized that Chen Lang had been holding back and wondered whether even his full strength matched what she had seen in Dubai.

Archangel Michael broke through to the Sixteen-Winged Forbidden Curse Level and planned to join forces with Uriel to kill Chen Lang in Dubai. Meanwhile, Chen Lang’s forces perfected and publicized Fusion Magic, shaking the magical world and alarming its leaders.

• Michael advanced to the Sixteen-Winged Forbidden Curse Level and considered how to lure Chen Lang into a trap, ultimately deciding to join forces with Uriel and attack him in Dubai.
• Feng Zhoulong told Chen Lang that he had perfected Fusion Magic and could use magical carriers to help mages master it quickly.
• Chen Lang ordered Feng Zhoulong to produce as many carriers as possible, and within a month more than a thousand Dubai mages mastered Fusion Magic.
• Chen Lang publicly announced Fusion Magic through magical communication and released a video showing a mage using it to kill a Commander-level creature.
• Mages across the world welcomed Fusion Magic as a chance to increase their combat power, while leaders of major forces grew apprehensive.

The Holy City’s Archangels debated whether Fusion Magic could help humanity fight the Demon Clan or threaten their control of the magic world. The meeting ended with the leaders favoring suppression, leaving Shaja disappointed by their priorities.

• Magical powers around the world watched footage of a High-level Mage using Fusion Magic to kill a Commander level creature, prompting urgent meetings about the threat to the existing order.
• Michael called Fusion Magic a provocation and a power that should not exist because it could overturn the Holy City’s dominance.
• Shaja argued that Fusion Magic could strengthen human mages and help them survive the Demon Clan’s invasion.
• Raphael acknowledged both the threat to the existing structure and the possibility that Fusion Magic could save humanity, while Midarun rejected it as a danger to the Archangels’ authority.
• Uriel declared Fusion Magic a threat to stability and called for it to be stopped, and Phal pledged obedience to the Archangels.
• Shaja felt disappointed as she concluded that the Holy City’s leaders cared more about their power than humanity’s survival.

Shaja left the Holy City after its Archangels decided to send five of their number to Dubai to kill Chen Lang and eradicate Fusion Magic. She flew to warn Chen Lang and chose to stand with him, leaving the Holy City behind.

• Shaja walked out of the Archangels' meeting after failing to stop their plan to destroy Fusion Magic.
• Uriel named Michael, Sariel, Midarun, Phal, and himself for the expedition to Dubai, while Raphael stayed to guard the Holy City.
• Shaja left the Holy City and flew toward Dubai to warn Chen Lang of the coming attack.
• Shaja resolved to support Chen Lang and protect Fusion Magic, believing it offered humanity a chance to resist the Demon Clan.

Shaja arrived in Dubai as the Holy City prepared to move against Chen Lang and Fusion Magic. After Chen Lang welcomed her, she pledged to face the coming fight alongside him.

• Dubai mages surrounded Shaja, and she said she had urgent news from the Holy City and needed to see Chen Lang.
• A messenger reported Shaja's arrival to Chen Lang and Feng Zhoulong, and Chen Lang ordered the guards to stand down and bring her up.
• Shaja met Chen Lang and Feng Zhoulong in the silver Divine Tower, where Chen Lang predicted that the Holy City was about to act against Fusion Magic.
• Chen Lang confirmed that he would fight, and Shaja firmly vowed to face the conflict with him.

Chen Lang assessed the Holy City's overwhelming force and assigned Dubai's strongest fighters to face its leaders. As the city prepared for battle, he declared that Fusion Magic and Dubai would not retreat.

• Shaja reported that Michael, Uriel, Sariel, Midarun, Phal, and other Holy City forces were advancing on Dubai.
• Chen Lang matched his allies against the Holy City's leaders, assigning Shaja and Ding Yumian to Michael, himself to Uriel, Chen Shan to Sariel, Qin Yuer to Midarun, and the Black Dragon Emperor to Phal.
• Chen Lang told his allies that they had to fight to protect Fusion Magic and Dubai, despite their slim odds of victory.
• Chen Lang ordered non-combatants out of Dubai, while his loyalists and mages from major Asian clans remained in the city as the Holy City's attack approached.

As the Holy City’s army arrived to attack Dubai, Chen Lang led Chen Shan, Qin Yuer, and Shaja into the airspace battle while keeping the Black Dragon Emperor and Ding Yumian hidden. Michael recognized Shaja as the traitor and ordered an assault, giving Chen Lang a chance to strike at the Holy City’s apostles before confronting its Archangels.

• Chen Lang ordered Xi Zhe to execute any clan mage who betrayed Dubai, forcing the wavering mages to commit to the battle.
• The Holy City’s army arrived outside Dubai, and Chen Lang saw Michael, Uriel, Sariel, Midarun, Phal, and the Holy Shadow Apostles assembled against him.
• Chen Lang, Chen Shan, Qin Yuer, and Shaja used a space gate to confront the Holy City’s forces, while he kept the Black Dragon Emperor and Ding Yumian in reserve.
• Michael recognized Shaja as Gabriel and roared at her for betraying the Holy City; Shaja stood calmly beside Chen Lang.
• Michael ordered the Holy Shadow Apostles to kill Chen Lang’s group, and the apostles and Phal charged as the ground and air battles began.
• The Archangels held back to test Chen Lang’s strength, and Chen Lang welcomed the chance to eliminate their subordinates first.

Chen Lang donned the Black Dragon Set and unleashed overwhelming Black Annihilation Thunder against Phal and the Holy Shadow Apostles. As Uriel arrived to confront him, their weapons collided in a blast that shattered the surrounding void, leaving the other fighters unable to intervene.

• Chen Lang activated the Black Dragon Set, and Uriel realized the danger and urged Phal to retreat.
• Chen Lang struck Phal and the charging Holy Shadow Apostles with a storm of amplified Black Annihilation Thunder.
• The Holy Shadow Defense Magic Array broke immediately, killing or wounding more than half of the apostles and forcing the survivors to flee toward Uriel.
• Uriel arrived before Chen Lang and attacked with the Holy Radiance Spear, while Chen Lang formed a Thunder Battle Hammer and met his charge.
• The collision between their weapons shattered the void and sent a devastating shockwave across the battlefield, forcing Shaja, Michael, and the others to withdraw.

Michael and the Holy City’s angels fought Chen Lang, Shaja, Chen Shan, and Qin Yuer in Dubai, while Michael’s jealousy and resentment toward Chen Lang fueled his attack. Michael steadily overwhelmed Shaja, who held on and condemned the corruption of the Holy City.

• Michael recognized that Uriel and Chen Lang far surpassed his expectations and ordered Sariel and Midarun to attack Shaja, Chen Shan, and Qin Yuer.
• Michael charged Shaja with his staff, while Chen Shan fought Sariel and Qin Yuer engaged Midarun, whose twelve wings revealed he was weaker than expected.
• Michael suppressed Shaja with volleys of holy feathers, leaving her injured and struggling to defend herself.
• Michael mocked Shaja as a traitor, and Shaja retorted that the Holy City’s Archangels had corrupted it and become its true disgrace.

Ding Yumian secretly disrupted Michael’s magic and movements while Shaja fought him, creating openings for Shaja to attack. Michael wounded Shaja with his powerful assault, but Ding Yumian’s interference let her evade his finishing blow and launch a fire phoenix at him.

• Michael gathered his magic to kill Shaja, but Ding Yumian disrupted his spiritual world and caused his cyan feather-spirits to dissipate.
• Shaja recognized Ding Yumian’s interference and charged Michael, but he blocked her sword strike with a light shield.
• Michael searched for the hidden intruder as Ding Yumian secretly interfered with him again, allowing Shaja to attack with fire-wreathed sword lights.
• Michael unleashed Holy Feather Divine Punishment and wounded Shaja, tearing her wings and weakening her.
• Ding Yumian disrupted Michael’s movements as he tried to finish Shaja, and Shaja dodged before sending a fire phoenix toward him.

Shaja fought Michael while Ding Yumian secretly disrupted his attacks, and Qin Yuer gained an overwhelming advantage over Midarun. Michael’s rampage devastated both sides below, while Midarun realized Qin Yuer was a Calamity Caster whose power could kill angels.

• Michael unleashed a full-strength attack on Shaja and layered defenses in his mental world, but Ding Yumian breached them with hidden mental interference.
• Shaja exploited Michael’s weakened strike to wound his wings, and Michael retaliated with indiscriminate attacks that devastated Dubai and killed mages on both sides.
• Shaja drew Michael back into their duel while Ding Yumian continued secretly disrupting him, keeping the battle at a stalemate.
• Qin Yuer steadily overwhelmed Midarun with ice attacks that wounded his wings and let her chilling power corrode his divine power and slow his movements.
• Midarun recognized Qin Yuer as a Calamity Caster and understood why the Holy City had hunted and sealed Calamity Casters.

Qin Yuer overwhelmed Midarun with her ice magic, while Michael and Sariel were pinned down by their opponents. As the Holy City summoned a golden dragon, the Black Dragon Emperor entered the battle and knocked it away.

• Midarun realized Qin Yuer was a single-system Calamity Forbidden Curse mage and cried for Michael and Uriel to save him.
• Qin Yuer froze the battlefield with Ice Seal Ten Thousand Miles and prepared a fatal Ice Abyss Spirit Arrow against the immobilized Midarun.
• Michael could not rescue Midarun because Shaja and a Mind Mage kept him occupied, while Chen Shan's Fusion Magic pressured Sariel.
• Holy City mages summoned a golden dragon through a summoning spell.
• The Black Dragon Emperor emerged and rammed the golden dragon away before it could reach Qin Yuer's battlefield.

Qin Yuer overwhelmed Midarun in their battle and killed him with a devastating ice arrow. Midarun’s final attempt to poison her failed, and he shattered into ice as the other combatants remained locked in their own fights.

• The Black Dragon Emperor kept the golden dragon pinned down while Michael, Shaja, and Ding Yumian fought overhead, and Chen Shan and Chen Lang kept Sariel and Uriel occupied.
• Qin Yuer gathered ice elements across the region and fired a crystal arrow at the frozen Midarun.
• Midarun broke through his restraints long enough to unleash a poisonous multicolored Gu worm at Qin Yuer.
• Qin Yuer trapped the Gu worm in layers of ice before it could reach her.
• The ice arrow pierced Midarun, and the Ice Element Origin Power consumed him until his body shattered into ice shards.

After Midarun died, the Holy City forces lost morale and the Dubai mages drove them into retreat with fusion magic. Above the battlefield, Chen Lang and Uriel continued their escalating duel, ending the chapter in a collision of their ultimate attacks.

• Midarun’s death crushed the Holy City faction’s morale and emboldened the Dubai mages, who charged with fusion magic.
• The injured Holy Shadow Apostles joined the battle but were overwhelmed by Xi Zhe and the Dubai Forbidden Curse Mages.
• The Holy City forces’ defenses collapsed as their mages continued to rout across the battlefield.
• Uriel grew alarmed as Chen Lang’s power kept increasing, but he pressed on and brought their duel to its climax.
• Uriel attacked Chen Lang with the Holy Radiance Spear, and Chen Lang met the strike with his Thunder Battle Hammer, causing a devastating explosion.

Chen Lang and Uriel unleashed their strongest attacks, tearing apart the sky and devastating the desert below as their powers collided. Both survived the clash badly shaken, and the duel remained unresolved.

• Chen Lang and Uriel’s first collision sent a shock wave across the battlefield, interrupting Shaja, Michael, Chen Shan, and Sariel’s fights.
• Chen Lang endured Uriel’s full-power strike and felt the Black Dragon Set’s fused power awaken as his strength continued to rise.
• Uriel burned his life force and attacked with Holy Radiance Heavenly Punishment - World-Shattering.
• Chen Lang answered with Black Dragon Devours Heaven - Thunder Annihilation, amplifying his Black Annihilation Thunder to two hundred times the Destructive Thunder.
• Their attacks collided and devastated the battlefield, forcing the Holy City and Dubai mages to flee as the desert collapsed.
• Uriel coughed up golden blood and his wings dimmed, while Chen Lang was hurled back with cracks in his armor; both remained in the air, ready to continue.

Chen Lang fought Uriel in a devastating battle above Dubai while the armies below watched. Uriel’s life-burning power faded, and he fell from the sky, leaving Chen Lang victorious and the Holy City’s rule facing collapse.

• Chen Lang taunted Uriel, and the two clashed again as their battle tore open the sky and plunged Dubai into darkness.
• The Holy City soldiers rallied behind Michael’s cries, while the people of Dubai came to hope that Chen Lang would win.
• Michael watched from below, unable to join the battle, and desperately prayed for Uriel to defeat Chen Lang.
• Uriel’s life-burning power withered as Chen Lang’s strength continued to rise, and Uriel realized he could not stop him.
• Uriel’s sacred light faded, and he fell from the sky as golden feathers drifted over Dubai, signaling Chen Lang’s victory.

Chen Lang defeated Uriel and revealed strength on par with the world’s Demon Beast Emperors, leaving Michael and the Holy City’s forces in despair. With the Holy City’s rule seemingly beginning to collapse, Chen Lang turned his attention to Michael and judged him far weaker than Uriel.

• Chen Lang survived their battle as Uriel lost his aura and fell to his death.
• Michael realized Chen Lang had reached Emperor-level strength and regretted the Holy City’s arrogance and failure to stop his rise.
• Michael recognized that Chen Lang also had a terrifying mental Calamity Mounter ally whose power could grow further.
• The Holy City’s soldiers lost hope, while the Dubai faction’s mages saw Chen Lang as the sovereign of a new era.
• Chen Lang faced Michael after the battle and found the Archangel’s strength unimpressive compared with Uriel’s.