Chapter Summaries

Liu Zhi learned Thunderwing Shield and Death Lightning, then went deeper into the forest while training with Lightning Coral. He discovered Kabishan using poisonous insects and undead poison against a light curtain with the Witch King’s power over time.

• Liu Zhi raised Thunderwing Shield to level 3 and learned Death Lightning at level 1, keeping about 3,000 experience in reserve.
• Liu Zhi searched the charred Druid’s corpse, took out Lightning Coral, and practiced channeling Death Lightning into it as he walked through the forest.
• Liu Zhi sensed that the forest had fallen unnaturally silent and followed the poisonous smell to a clearing.
• Liu Zhi saw Kabishan draw poisonous insects toward a light curtain, where they died of old age and turned to ash.
• Kabishan threw two bottles of undead poison at the light curtain, and Liu Zhi recognized the poison and realized the curtain was accelerating time.

Kabishan unleashed Hell on Earth to destroy the forest and seize the title of Witch King, forcing Liu Zhi to confront her. Liu Zhi used Death Lightning to burn away the substance and reached Kabishan with his sword, but she released a vast deathly aura.

• Kabishan revealed that she had kept Hell on Earth and covered herself with it, while the Witch King Susan condemned her for endangering the continent.
• The forest sent Liu Zhi a distress signal, and he attacked Kabishan with lightning and Wind Blades, which Hell on Earth absorbed.
• The Witch King warned Liu Zhi that Hell on Earth drained life and energy, and explained that Death Lightning could destroy it.
• Kabishan sent yellow-green whips after Liu Zhi, but he used the Giant Lizard's Bloodstained Fang to cut them apart with Death Lightning.
• Liu Zhi struck the ground with Lightning Coral, turning the nearby Hell on Earth to ash, then thrust his sword toward Kabishan's brow.
• Kabishan screamed that she would take Liu Zhi to hell with her and unleashed a vast deathly aura.

Liu Zhi stopped Kabishan from dragging him into the Underworld, and Witch King Susan reversed time to undo the spread of the yellow-green substance. Susan conceded the battle for King of the Wilderness and left, while Liu Zhi found one of the separated potions and decided to take it back for study.

• Liu Zhi destroyed Kabishan’s passage to the Underworld with Death Lightning, burning her ghostly body as she tried to pull him through.
• Witch King Susan used her mother’s last magic gem to reverse time, closing the Underworld door and drawing the yellow-green substances back into two bottles.
• Susan told Liu Zhi that Kabishan had betrayed her, admitted she was wrong to fight, and conceded the battle for King of the Wilderness.
• Susan left the woods, while Liu Zhi saw that the creatures and trees damaged by the substance had not been restored.
• Liu Zhi found the bottle containing the green life potion and decided to take it back for Spinning Fate Spider Woman and the others to study.

After learning that the remaining contestants included a druid, a powerful fighter, and a coordinated trio, Liu Zhi chose the druid as his first target. The trio instead moved to hunt Liu Zhi, who discovered their Doctor could control a plague modeled on Daniel’s research and reconsidered how to attack him.

• Liu Zhi used the Sky Eye to inspect the dead Jacob's Four-Horned Ram-men and inferred that a coordinated group of soldiers, an assassin, and a frost mage had defeated them.
• Liu Zhi learned that only six people remained in the woods and chose to pursue the lone druid before dealing with the trio.
• Liu Zhi spotted the level-three powerhouse heading toward the druid and saw the three-person group approach, apparently targeting him.
• Liu Zhi hid in the canopy and identified the trio as Kayat, Steve, and the white-robed Doctor, whom their actions revealed as a mage and researcher.
• The Doctor produced a controllable plague, and Liu Zhi recognized Daniel’s methods and abandoned his plan to kill the Doctor with a surprise attack.

Liu Zhi identified the Doctor’s body-enhancing plague as a version of T-plague and poisoned a Bone Spear with an antidote. The Doctor’s plague went berserk instead of weakening him, and Liu Zhi attacked again from the air as the Doctor turned on his allies.

• Liu Zhi deduced that the Doctor had strengthened himself with T-plague and coated a Bone Spear with poison that counteracted it.
• Kayat charged Liu Zhi, who took flight and threw the homing Bone Spear at the Doctor while striking Kayat with lightning.
• The poisoned spear pierced the Doctor, triggering a monstrous transformation; the Doctor killed Steve and sent Kayat flying.
• Liu Zhi threw a second Bone Spear, which pierced the Doctor’s left hand and blew off his mutated arm.

Liu Zhi fought the plague-ridden doctor while Kayat attacked in a transformed, mantis-like form, but the doctor killed Kayat and continued pursuing Liu Zhi. After Liu Zhi recovered some magic power and decapitated the doctor, the doctor's body exploded and reformed as a huge creature of flesh and tongues, leaving Liu Zhi preparing another attack.

• Liu Zhi realized the doctor had experimented on himself with multiple plagues, while Kayat transformed his arms into scythe-like blades and attacked the doctor.
• The doctor infected Kayat with plagues, then killed him and tried to eat his corpse, but Liu Zhi struck the doctor with Death Lightning and used Strong Wind to disperse his gray mist.
• Liu Zhi ran out of magic power and fled while the doctor pursued him, then used the Natural Breath Meditation Technique to recover some magic power before the doctor arrived.
• Liu Zhi sliced off the doctor's head with a Wind Blade, but the doctor's body exploded and reassembled into a huge mass of flesh covered in eyes and whip-like tongues.
• Liu Zhi raised both hands and formed a mass of black lightning to attack the creature.

Liu Zhi destroyed the Doctor with an explosion of Death Lightning, then retreated to recover his magic while the Black Panther-suited man fought the Iceman. The Iceman trapped the Black Panther man in a deep freeze, and the fight remained unresolved.

• Liu Zhi charged the Lightning Coral with Death Lightning and hurled it into the Doctor's growing mound of flesh.
• Liu Zhi detonated the Lightning Coral, destroying the Doctor and burning away the plague.
• Liu Zhi took the Token of Zeus and withdrew to meditate rather than risk searching the Doctor's remains.
• The Black Panther-suited man and the Iceman fought with advanced equipment and ice abilities, while the Black Panther man hurried to finish the battle before Liu Zhi recovered.
• The Black Panther man struck a fake Iceman, but the real Iceman grabbed him from beneath the ground and froze him.
• The Black Panther man increased his suit's power and drove his staff into the ground as the cold spread through his body.

Liu Zhi investigated the deaths of Kayat and the Doctor’s companion, then concealed himself to hunt the last hidden enemy. When the Black Panther man ambushed him with a chain of light, Liu Zhi discovered that the man could block his attacks and dropped toward the ground to change the fight.

• Liu Zhi learned that a Level 3 ice-wielder had died, but the forest could find no trace of the druid who had fought him.
• Liu Zhi inspected Kayat and the other corpse, marked them for summoning, buried them, and hid inside a Dark Sky Curtain.
• Liu Zhi sent out Sky Eyes to search for the druid and noticed the air ripple beside him.
• The Black Panther man sprang from hiding and fastened a chain of light around Liu Zhi’s leg to follow him into the air.
• Liu Zhi attacked with Wind Blades and lightning, but the Black Panther man blocked them with a force-field shield.
• Liu Zhi dropped toward the ground, deciding that he needed control spells to defeat the Black Panther man.

Liu Zhi defeated the Black Panther man with a Quicksand Trap and a series of Bone Spears, then collected the purple traces that formed a crown. He became the King of the Wilderness and gained Presence +1.

• Liu Zhi trapped the Black Panther man in quicksand and used a Bone Spear to drive him back.
• Liu Zhi pierced the Black Panther man's shoulder with a Bone Spear empowered by three layers of penetration, pinning him to the ground.
• Liu Zhi struck the Black Panther man's head with another empowered Bone Spear, killing him as black lightning destroyed his body and bodysuit.
• Liu Zhi collected the fourteen purple traces, which joined into a crown while purple energy from his body became its gemstone.
• Liu Zhi raised the crown and received the system notification that he had gained the King of the Wilderness title and Presence +1.

Liu Zhi received the King of the Wilderness reward, which upgraded his Natural Breath and Eye of Ra Meditation Techniques to level 4 and balanced the Feathered Serpent God's divine attributes within him. He realized he had taken the crucial first step toward becoming a god.

• Liu Zhi put on the King of the Wilderness crown and received visions connected to the death of harvest and the death of the sun.
• Liu Zhi's Natural Breath Meditation Technique evolved into a level 4 technique that produced the Sun Stairway, a herb used to make viruses and plagues.
• Liu Zhi meditated on Ra's journey and upgraded the Eye of Ra Meditation Technique to level 4, gaining physical enhancements and automatic recovery in sunlight.
• Liu Zhi sensed that the Feathered Serpent God's four divine attributes had reached balance and summoned an apparition of the deity.
• Liu Zhi concluded that completing a cycle had brought the divine attributes under his control and set him on the path to godhood.

Liu Zhi gathered unusual materials from the King of the Wilderness battlefield as news of the new king reached Racoon Town and Washington. The mayor ordered an attack on whoever had claimed the crown, while King Buster learned that his Xido Guard captain had run into trouble.

• Liu Zhi found Death-Infused Vibranium and Pure Vibranium on the Black Panther man's corpse, then recovered Kayat and the others' bodies.
• Liu Zhi collected the Doctor's Tongue of Conflicting Information and plague-affected flesh, then found an unusual block of ice and a vampire at other battle sites.
• The mayor of Racoon Town recognized that a new King of the Wilderness had appeared and ordered Yadela to mobilize everyone to kill the new king.
• Emperor Lincoln discussed Wakanda's support for the Northern Army with King Buster, who learned that his Xido Guard captain had been attacked.
• King Buster declined Lincoln's offer of help and said Master Xido would handle the trouble.

Liu Zhi was ambushed by the mayor of Racoon Town and a force equipped to counter his Thunderwing Druid abilities. He escaped the encirclement on his solar carriage, only to discover that another force was waiting at his manor.

• Liu Zhi sensed an ambush, but the mayor of Racoon Town recognized him as the King of the Wilderness and ordered his soldiers to attack.
• Liu Zhi threw two corpses infused with Death Lightning at the cannons, then blinded the soldiers with Flash Explosion and attacked them with a Reverse Storm.
• The mayor’s soldiers used bone artifacts to stop Liu Zhi’s wind, so Liu Zhi summoned his solar carriage and charged toward the mayor.
• Liu Zhi narrowly missed the mayor and raced toward his manor on the solar carriage.
• Liu Zhi saw that the rest of Racoon Town’s forces were waiting at the manor to stop him from returning alive.

Liu Zhi confronted the mayor and Racoon Town soldiers who had occupied his manor, then summoned a passage to the Underworld. As the soldiers prepared to attack, Liu Zhi used his deed to begin transporting the manor and its thirteen thousand acres into the Underworld.

• Liu Zhi flew into the manor and struck down its protecting soldiers with lightning while demanding an explanation for their presence.
• The mayor arrived, falsely accused Liu Zhi of being a southern spy, and ordered his soldiers to kill him.
• Liu Zhi prepared to fight as the soldiers brought out cannons and protective altars, then used the Evil Spirit Flame Striker to obtain coordinates for a passage to the Underworld.
• Liu Zhi gave the invaders fifteen minutes to leave and demanded that they surrender the mayor, but the mayor ordered the soldiers to attack.
• Liu Zhi declared the manor and its thirteen thousand acres his territory and began the Underworld Shuttle.

Liu Zhi transported his estate into the Underworld and left the mayor’s forces to face its awakened former owner, Daniel. Daniel reclaimed his domain, trapped the invading soldiers in four buildings, and sent the transformed structures after Liu Zhi.

• Liu Zhi moved his estate into the Underworld and flew away, leaving the mayor and his soldiers behind.
• Daniel Parker Curtis broke free of his seal when the estate entered the Underworld, claimed the deed, and declared the estate his domain.
• Daniel summoned buried laboratories and basements from beneath the estate as animated corpses emerged around the mayor’s forces.
• Daniel captured the soldiers, farmers, officers, and Professionals from Racoon Town and drew them into four buildings, which flew after Liu Zhi.

After returning to the Netherworld, Liu Zhi realized its soulless undead were drawn toward a Summoning Tower and received four building blueprints as a reward from Daniel. The blueprints revealed new ways to grow food, improve research and production, and develop ships, leaving Liu Zhi eager to build a shipyard of his own.

• Liu Zhi landed in the Netherworld and noticed the undead around him had no souls and were moving toward the estate.
• Liu Zhi inferred that a Summoning Tower was gathering souls in one place.
• Four bloodstained building statues flew to Liu Zhi, who accepted them as Daniel's thank-you gift and stored them in his backpack.
• Liu Zhi examined an Undying Farm blueprint and learned it could grow food that strengthened undead.
• Liu Zhi inspected blueprints for an Underground Lab, a Death Assembly Line, and an Eerie Dock, which supported research, production, and shipbuilding.
• Liu Zhi decided he needed a shipyard so he could pursue legendary ships.

Liu Zhi flew through the underworld toward Washington and found the White Eagle Duchy’s Summoning Tower beneath a marble obelisk. When its forces tried to capture him, he unleashed a Flash Explosion, causing chaos and allowing him to vanish.

• Liu Zhi sensed Summoning Towers to the east and flew toward the underworld counterpart of Washington, using Sky Eyes to observe the region.
• After three days, Liu Zhi found a marble obelisk that exerted a powerful pull on souls and recognized it as the White Eagle Duchy’s Summoning Tower.
• The Death Knights split up to surround Liu Zhi, while a gray-robed man ordered them to capture him and make him a warden in South Carolina.
• Liu Zhi cast Flash Explosion, blinding the Death Knights and ghosts and rousing nearby undead, who charged into the knights’ ranks.
• Liu Zhi covered himself with the Dark Sky Curtain and vanished amid the resulting chaos.

Liu Zhi investigated the White Eagle Duchy’s Netherworld and discovered that its Summoning Towers were built from the scalps of murdered Native Americans, while suspecting the Duchy’s rulers had also helped seal Daniel. In Washington, Emperor Lincoln learned of Sandru and ordered him killed and Daniel’s soul kept out of the Netherworld.

• Liu Zhi surveyed the Nether Sea and the thirteen Summoning Towers, finding that they were made from scalps steeped in resentment.
• Liu Zhi saw that some Necromancers were chained inside the towers and suspected the people behind them had played a part in Daniel’s death and sealing.
• Emperor Lincoln questioned his assistant about Sandru, the missing National Security Agency, and the vanished estate.
• The assistant reported that Sandru may have sacrificed the estate to demons, who dragged it away and cast him into the Netherworld.
• Emperor Lincoln ordered someone to bring him Sandru’s head, seek the estate from the demons, and recover Daniel’s soul without letting Daniel appear in the Netherworld.

Liu Zhi decided to retaliate against the White Eagle Duchy's search for him by finding a way to steal a Summoning Tower. He spent his remaining time building ships until he reached Shipbuilding level 8, then summoned Edmond to help with his planned Legendary vessel.

• Liu Zhi realized the White Eagle Duchy's undead were searching for him and decided to strike back by targeting a Summoning Tower.
• Liu Zhi went to the Nether Sea and chose to spend his remaining time preparing a plan instead of attacking the White Eagle Duchy's forces directly.
• Liu Zhi salvaged corpses, shipwrecks, and other materials, then built eighteen ships over twenty-five days and raised Shipbuilding to level 8.
• Liu Zhi prepared materials for a modified three-masted gaff-rigged ship, which he believed would be more useful than a Sun Boat for stealing a Summoning Tower.
• Liu Zhi blew the bone whistle Edmond had given him.

Liu Zhi offered Edmond a legendary ship in exchange for his help seizing something in the White Eagle Duchy, and Edmond agreed. Liu Zhi began building a modified three-masted Gaff-rigged ship from the wreckage of the Santa Maria, leaving the undead and curses in its materials to be dealt with on completion day.

• Edmond arrived on his burning merchant ship and found Liu Zhi’s island covered with eighteen ships and shipbuilding materials.
• Liu Zhi offered Edmond a legendary ship, explaining that he needed Edmond’s revenge story to help make the ship legendary.
• Edmond agreed to help Liu Zhi seize something in the White Eagle Duchy in exchange for a ship that could teleport anywhere, even during the day.
• Liu Zhi revealed a ship based on the Mayflower design and said he would build it using wood from the wreck of the Santa Maria.
• Liu Zhi assembled a massive keel and other ship parts from wreckage, then told Edmond he would deal with the undead and curses when the ship was completed.

Liu Zhi awakened the spirit of the ship he had built, turning it into a legendary vessel. Edmond took command of the flaming ship and named it the Pharaoh.

• Liu Zhi finished building a patched-together three-masted ship from salvaged materials and prepared to awaken its spirit.
• Liu Zhi carved his and Edmond’s names into the mast, extracted a soul, and placed it in the rudder’s Skull Head, raising the ship to legendary rank.
• Edmond transformed into his flaming skeleton form and wrapped his burning chain around the Humpback Whale Statue.
• A volcanic eruption and a phantom humpback whale accompanied the ship’s transformation into a flaming vessel adorned with skulls, chains, and whale-shaped sails.
• Edmond steered the ship around the underworld sea, returned it to shore, and named it the Pharaoh.