Chapter Summaries

The White Phoenix Team defeated Mifflin in Resource Raid Mode to sweep the Super Cup final and become world champions. Bai Xiaowen received championship rewards and prepared for the Class-A League playoffs, where an unexpected visitor arrived at his villa.

• Bai Xiaowen chose Resource Raid Mode, and the White Phoenix Team used its superior vision and tactics to defeat Mifflin and secure enough Resource Points.
• The White Phoenix Team swept Mifflin three to zero, won the World Awakened Super Cup, and took the championship stage.
• Bai Xiaowen received the King of One-on-One title, a Golden Roulette draw, and 10 free attribute points, while his teammates also received attribute points and titles.
• Bai Xiaowen told KULA that he would prepare for the Class-A League playoffs and hoped to win the championship.
• The White Phoenix Team's popularity surged as it played packed playoff matches, and an uninvited guest suddenly arrived at Bai Xiaowen's villa.

Owl gave Bai Xiaowen three pieces of advice about advancing to Evolver, while the White Phoenix Team dominated the domestic league and Bai Xiaowen secured Northland for Xiao Jun. The chapter ended with the team winning the Class-A League championship on May 30.

• Owl introduced himself as an Evolver and advised Bai Xiaowen not to bring Psionic Points, to bring only their best equipment and enough supplies, and to keep any territory's coordinates secret.
• The White Phoenix Team swept the quarterfinals, semifinals, and championship match by 3-0, winning every match mode without losing a minor point.
• Cecilia discovered an Awakened squad attempting Grand Unification on the Kane Plane, and Bai Xiaowen used Tim, Marco, and Phil to sabotage its plans.
• Bai Xiaowen found the Plague Lord and made a secret non-aggression agreement, then used a fabricated Underworld invasion crisis to persuade Nicholas IV to approve Xiao Jun's inheritance of Northland.
• Bai Xiaowen transferred the Northland Fief Token to Xiao Jun, and Cecilia had Tim and the other knights pledge loyalty to her before appointing Tim acting city lord.
• Bai Xiaowen led the White Phoenix Team to win the Class-A League championship at Seven Trees Stadium on May 30.

After disbanding the White Phoenix Team and retiring, Bai Xiaowen and his teammates chose to ascend as Evolvers. Bai Xiaowen completed his first class inheritance, accepted Great Peace Essentials as his second manual, and tried to replace it with Scripture of the Grand Void.

• Bai Xiaowen announced the White Phoenix Team’s disbandment and his retirement after the team won the championship, and his four teammates retired as well.
• The Virtual Battle Platform and Team Manager added powerful versions of Bai Xiaowen to their games, while fans and media celebrated the team as a legend.
• Bai Xiaowen and the other four teammates, along with Zhen Mi, said goodbye to those on Earth and chose to ascend as Evolvers.
• The Spirit Realm Rules gave Bai Xiaowen Taigong's Art of War as his class manual, and he completed the inheritance with a new Origin Force reserve and level 7 base priority.
• Bai Xiaowen used Overlord's Proof to accept Great Peace Essentials as his second class manual, then asked to change it to Scripture of the Grand Void.

After advancing to Evolver, Bai Xiaowen learned the Scripture of the Grand Void and exchanged his Awakened equipment for Spirit Crystals. The Black Soul Stone merged with the Death God's Visage, granting him the new skill Dark Rebirth.

• Bai Xiaowen confirmed the Profession Trial and replaced Great Peace Essentials with the Scripture of the Grand Void, while retaining the ability to use his previously learned Dao Arts.
• The Spirit Realm Rules awarded Bai Xiaowen doubled attribute growth for advancing to Evolver early and converted his equipment into Spirit Crystals.
• Bai Xiaowen discovered that the Black Soul Stone resonated with the Death God's Visage and chose to absorb it into the mask.
• Death God's Visage preserved the Black Soul Stone's abilities and gave Bai Xiaowen Dark Rebirth, which could revive one dead person as an undead fighter.

After advancing to Evolvers, Bai Xiaowen and his companions converted their unusable equipment into Spirit Crystals and learned they would face their Profession Trials alone. Bai Xiaowen claimed authority over his territory, gave each former teammate a Territory Coordinate Orb, and watched them enter separate portals.

• Bai Xiaowen inspected Death God's Visage, noted its effect on his Tier Suppression against undead, and stored it away.
• Bai Xiaowen and his companions awoke from their inheritance states, discussed their transformation, and reviewed the Spirit Realm Rules’ notifications.
• Bai Xiaowen and his teammates converted their worn equipment into Spirit Crystals, with Bai Xiaowen gaining 1,246 and the others gaining a few hundred each.
• The Spirit Realm Rules severed the party connection and converted Oath of Black Edge into 120 Spirit Crystals, so Bai Xiaowen advised everyone to keep some crystals for themselves.
• Bai Xiaowen claimed his territory by fusing with its Territory Token, created Territory Coordinate Orbs, and gave one to each teammate.
• Bai Xiaowen’s four former teammates entered their individual Profession Trial portals, leaving him with Zhen Mi.

Bai Xiaowen began a Lord Mode Profession Trial in a graveyard setting after learning that completing it would let him exchange for territory subjects. Inside the trial, he discovered that the seemingly weak enemies gave way to dangerous Evolver-tier undead, and a Wandering Bones killed his Shadow Assassin with a devastating attack.

• Bai Xiaowen learned that his trial difficulty had increased because he was cultivating two profession manuals and that he would enter Lord Mode, then chose the graveyard setting.
• Bai Xiaowen teleported Zhen Mi to his territory before entering the graveyard trial grounds.
• Bai Xiaowen found that low-level Skeleton Soldiers and other stragglers were helpless against his Tier Suppression and entered the first tomb.
• Bai Xiaowen used Insight on two level-thirteen Wandering Bones, then sent his Shadow Assassin to scout them.
• A Wandering Bones attacked the Shadow Assassin with a strike that dealt 359 mixed damage and killed it, revealing the danger of the trial's undead.

Bai Xiaowen and his summons fought two evolved Wandering Bones in the Trial Grounds, where Tier Suppression made the battle far harder than expected. After earning two trial points, Bai Xiaowen rested and turned to Taigong's Art of War for a way to handle the trial's difficulty.

• Bai Xiaowen summoned Rageclaw and realized his summons had not evolved, while the level 13 Wandering Bones could suppress them.
• Bai Xiaowen, Rageclaw, Butcher, and his ranged summons fought the Wandering Bones, as Origin Force punches proved far more effective than ordinary attacks.
• Bai Xiaowen found that Intimidation and the Heart-Confounding Talisman barely affected the Wandering Bones, then helped Rageclaw and Butcher defeat the second one.
• Bai Xiaowen received one trial point for each Wandering Bones and found no loot among their remains.
• Bai Xiaowen rested and began studying Taigong's Art of War, focusing on its Military Prestige and Army Spirit skills.

Bai Xiaowen studied Taigong's Art of War, learned to control Origin Force, and discovered the Seed Mark method for strengthening loyal soldiers. He successfully marked a Bone Archer, which grew larger and sturdier.

• Bai Xiaowen set aside the Scripture of the Grand Void and studied the first section of Taigong's Art of War.
• Bai Xiaowen completed his first cycle of Origin Force and learned to release and control it, boosting his attack power and speed.
• Bai Xiaowen learned Command-type knowledge, including battlefield formations and the Seed Mark method for creating personal guards.
• Bai Xiaowen planted a Seed Mark in a Bone Archer, whose Soul Fire brightened as its skeleton grew stronger and larger.

Bai Xiaowen used Seed Marks to evolve his summoned creatures into guards, then led them into the Trial Grounds with Death God's Visage to test their strength. He discovered that evolved creatures needed to channel Spirit Force to deal powerful attacks.

• Bai Xiaowen checked the Bone Archer's boosted stats and continued applying Seed Marks to his summoned creatures, raising them all to the Evolver stage.
• The Spirit Realm Rules warned Bai Xiaowen that his mostly undead guards could not benefit from Army Spirit, while Military Prestige had increased slightly against living beings.
• Bai Xiaowen put on Death God's Visage and led his guards down a passage, where he used Death Gaze to suppress two Wandering Bones.
• Bai Xiaowen ordered his guards to attack, but their damage was weak until Kitz struck with Spirit Force, revealing how evolved creatures strengthened their attacks.

Bai Xiaowen trained his summoned creatures to channel Spirit Force during the Trial Grounds, and Delifa rediscovered how to use it from instinct. After clearing the first tomb, the party entered a second tomb inhabited by stronger Frostfury Zombies, whose chilling attacks Kitz and Delifa learned to resist with Spirit Force.

• Bai Xiaowen found that his summoned creatures could not draw on Spirit Force on their own, so he began teaching them while controlling up to four at once.
• Bai Xiaowen trained Bone Archers to infuse their arrows with Spirit Force as the party fought Wandering Bones in the first tomb.
• Delifa instinctively pierced a Wandering Bones with a Spirit Force-infused spear and said she remembered using the technique before.
• Bai Xiaowen taught six Bone Archers to fire Spirit Force-infused arrows, cleared the first tomb's final chamber, and earned fifty trial points.
• Bai Xiaowen entered the second tomb and encountered Frostfury Zombies, whose chilling attacks Kitz and Delifa weakened by shielding themselves with Spirit Force.

Bai Xiaowen cleared the second tomb by defeating its Frostfury Zombie Leader, then entered the third tomb and faced Bone Swordsmen whose elite swordsmanship put his team under pressure. He recognized that the trial was testing combat specialties and concluded he could still clear the third tomb by using numbers and Tier Suppression.

• Bai Xiaowen led his summons through the second tomb, where they defeated four Frostfury Zombies and the Frostfury Zombie Leader with Spirit Force attacks.
• Bai Xiaowen earned 100 trial points for clearing the second tomb, bringing his total to 150, and soon led his group into the third tomb.
• Bai Xiaowen encountered level-thirteen Bone Swordsmen and realized their precise Spirit Force swordplay made them equivalent to Elite Tier creatures.
• Delifa held off a Bone Swordsman with her spear, learned beginner-level Spear Specialization, and prompted Bai Xiaowen to recognize that the third tomb tested Battle Specialties.
• Bai Xiaowen had the Terror Knights surround and overwhelm two Bone Swordsmen, then judged that his team could clear the third tomb through numbers and Tier Suppression.

Bai Xiaowen led his summoned guards through the third mausoleum, learning that Evolver monsters resisted Awakener skills unless those skills were powered by Origin Force. After his squad defeated the Bone Swordsman Boss, he was left considering how to channel Origin Force into his old skills.

• Bai Xiaowen used Dark Rebirth to raise a Bone Swordsman and stabilized his squad’s fight against six Bone Swordsmen.
• Bai Xiaowen empowered his undead allies and used Military Prestige to weaken and frighten the intelligent Bone Swordsmen.
• Bai Xiaowen trained his Terror Knights in Spirit Force attacks and defenses, then advanced carefully through the third mausoleum with his squad.
• Bai Xiaowen used Military Prestige against the Bone Swordsman Boss, but the boss stopped the Death Knight’s Legion Charge with a single slash.
• Bai Xiaowen realized Awakener-stage skills needed to be powered by Origin Force to threaten Evolver monsters, though he could not yet do so.
• Bai Xiaowen’s summons trapped and killed the Bone Swordsman Boss after a fierce battle that lasted about ten minutes.

Bai Xiaowen cultivated the first layer of the Scripture of the Grand Void, transforming his Origin Force into True Essence Force and gaining strength before entering the fourth mausoleum. There, he faced banshee monsters with energy-based skills, though he could no longer use the Kusanagi Sword Soul to release Secret Art-level techniques.

• Bai Xiaowen used Dark Rebirth and triple Soul Essence to recruit the Bone Swordsman Boss.
• Bai Xiaowen studied the Scripture of the Grand Void while holding Spirit Crystals, cultivating until his Origin Force orb condensed and he learned to cast skills with Origin Force.
• The Spirit Realm Rules announced that Bai Xiaowen had completed the first layer, transformed his energy pool into True Essence Force, increased his base attributes, and reached Level 11.
• Bai Xiaowen entered the fourth mausoleum with his summoned creatures and encountered Bloodspike Banshees and Bloodthorn Banshees.
• Bai Xiaowen found that the Kusanagi Sword Soul now orbited in his Elixir Field and that he could no longer use it to release Secret Art-level ultimate moves.

Bai Xiaowen tested how his True Essence Force affected his abilities, using Orochi Nagi to destroy several Bloodspike Banshees and cripple a Bloodthorn Banshee. After learning Thunderstrike Art from the Bone Warlock’s shared memories, he began clearing the fourth tomb.

• Bai Xiaowen unleashed Orochi Nagi, burning the Bloodspike Banshees and gravely wounding the Bloodthorn Banshee, which Kitz finished off.
• Bai Xiaowen tested Intimidation and found that it stunned his summoned creatures as well as his enemies.
• Bai Xiaowen empowered the Taiping Talisman with True Essence Force but found that his Four-Color Talismans could not deal damage.
• Bai Xiaowen shared memories with the Bone Warlock and learned its Thunderstrike Art, then tested the spell on the ground.
• Bai Xiaowen began sweeping through the fourth tomb.

Bai Xiaowen cleared the fifth tomb and entered the sixth, where he found Demonkin instead of the expected undead. He restrained a Demon Guard while his summoned creatures dealt with its Flame Imp companions, but the guard broke free and unleashed a powerful slash.

• Bai Xiaowen defeated the Mother of Blood Thorns with a Heart-Confounding Talisman and confirmed that he could learn Corrosion Mist but could not use it himself.
• Bai Xiaowen cleared the fifth tomb's Darkborn Blood Demons, raising his score to 562 as his summoned creatures grew stronger.
• Bai Xiaowen entered the spacious sixth tomb and found a Demon Guard and a group of Flame Imps.
• The Mother of Blood Thorns silenced the Flame Imps while Bai Xiaowen restrained the Demon Guard with a Binding Talisman.
• Bai Xiaowen's summoned creatures killed the Flame Imps and attacked the Demon Guard, which broke free and struck with a forceful Greenflame Battleblade slash.

Bai Xiaowen and his summoned creatures fought the Demon Guard by exposing him to attacks whenever his protective green flames vanished. After Rageclaw and the Giant Terror Knight pinned him down, the Demon Guard’s health dropped below 30%, his strength collapsed, and he was knocked flat.

• Bai Xiaowen used the Death Knight to block the Demon Guard’s slash, while Delifa and Butcher helped the Death Knight survive the counterattack.
• Bai Xiaowen used a True Essence Force: Berserk Talisman on Rageclaw, who began clashing with the Demon Guard and opening gaps in his green-flame protection.
• Bai Xiaowen and the Bone Warlocks struck the exposed Demon Guard with Lightning Strikes as the other summoned creatures attacked.
• The Demon Guard seized Bai Xiaowen with a green-flame claw, but Bai Xiaowen broke free with True Essence Force and escaped his next blow with True Essence Force: Doppelganger Art.
• The three Terror Knights merged into a Giant Terror Knight, which charged the Demon Guard and took over the front line from Rageclaw.
• Bai Xiaowen’s summoned creatures continued attacking until the Demon Guard fell below 30% health, lost half his fighting strength, and was knocked flat.

Bai Xiaowen entered the final tombs of the Trial Grounds and encountered a point of light that carried him into his Sea of Consciousness, where he reunited with an image of his father, Bai Yuantang. Bai Yuantang revealed that Bai Xiaowen’s two timelines began as fragments of one soul and that his harsh upbringing had been designed to keep them balanced for fusion.

• Bai Xiaowen cleared the sixth tomb, and his summoned creatures mastered Spirit Force attacks and skills.
• Bai Xiaowen found the seventh tomb empty and entered the main burial chamber, where a point of light pierced through his summons and entered his left eye.
• Bai Xiaowen encountered Bai Yuantang’s image in his Sea of Consciousness and learned that Bai Yuantang knew about the Eye of Evolution.
• Bai Yuantang explained that his failed attempt to transplant the Eye of Evolution had split Bai Xiaowen’s soul across two timelines, and that the Eye later brought the fragments together.
• Bai Yuantang said he had kept Bai Xiaowen’s lives and abilities balanced across the timelines so their souls could fuse, and explained that he had restricted the resources Bai Xiaowen received.

Bai Yuantang revealed that Bai Xiaohua had been a powerful ally who was cursed while helping him in a hidden game, and that she had survived by attaching herself to Qiao Rui. Bai Xiaowen realized his sister had held on until she saw him again before her soul vanished, and he was left grieving her loss.

• Bai Yuantang told Bai Xiaowen that Bai Xiaohua had been cursed during a Cosmic Secret Realm expedition and that her soul had begun to dissolve.
• Bai Yuantang explained that powerful players controlled a hidden game, that he had lost his Physical Form, and that his opponents targeted Bai Xiaohua after discovering her identity.
• Bai Yuantang said Bai Xiaohua had hidden in an Awakened Plane and secretly attached herself to Qiao Rui, hoping to return to Earth without harming her.
• Bai Yuantang estimated that Bai Xiaohua's soul had vanished three years earlier, while Bai Xiaowen recalled Qiao Rui's strange behavior when they first met.
• Bai Xiaowen realized Bai Xiaohua had briefly taken over Qiao Rui's consciousness and shed tears when she saw him, then had finally let go after holding on for an extra year.

Bai Yuantang told Bai Xiaowen that his sister Bai Xiaohua could not be revived with what he knew, but he explained that godlike power might make it possible. Before vanishing, he warned Bai Xiaowen to protect his secrets and began helping the Eye of Evolution evolve again, leaving Bai Xiaowen determined to grow stronger and learn more.

• Bai Yuantang said he knew no way to revive Bai Xiaohua, and Bai Xiaowen resolved to help his father reach godhood so they could bring her back.
• Bai Yuantang warned Bai Xiaowen to reject any offer to become a Chosen One and keep the Eye of Evolution and their relationship secret, even from Xiao Jun.
• Bai Xiaowen asked whether the Spirit Realm was real or an illusion, and Bai Yuantang compared it to a game whose characters could become real to its developer.
• Bai Yuantang said the Eye of Evolution was ready to evolve again and began channeling light into Bai Xiaowen's left eye.
• Bai Yuantang disappeared before answering what the Eye of Evolution was, and Bai Xiaowen left his Sea of Consciousness determined to grow stronger.

After losing his Insight Talent, Bai Xiaowen examined his new Spirit Force and spent his trial points redeeming undead laborers for his territory. He sent Kitz and the undead to begin clearing land and building houses, then awaited transport to the Evolver Platform.

• Bai Xiaowen discovered that his Insight Talent was gone, though his left eye could now reveal Spirit Force pathways and no longer showed a red glow.
• Bai Xiaowen redeemed three thousand Skeleton Soldiers, five hundred Skeleton Champions, Skeleton Mages, and additional Skeleton Soldiers with his trial points.
• Bai Xiaowen sent Kitz and the undead into his territory to clear land and build houses, and marked Kitz with a Daoist Beacon so Zhen Mi could find him.
• Bai Xiaowen received notice that he would soon be transported to the appropriate Evolver Platform.