Chapter Summaries

After defeating Calamity Demon King Tifast, Bai Xiaowen chose to prepare humanity for a future fight against Silver King Ismen. He tasked Kelowen with investigating a contract tablet and planned to unite nearby human settlements, but the threat of the Supreme Demon Kings’ Formless Force Field remained unresolved.

• Bai Xiaowen returned to Utu Town, where the townspeople celebrated Tifast’s defeat and embraced him as their leader, Hristos.
• Kelowen and Herbart asked Bai Xiaowen about his next plans, and he decided that his forces were not yet ready to face Silver King Ismen directly.
• Kelowen explained how a Supreme Demon King’s Formless Force Field had once immobilized humans and prevented them from interrupting an attack.
• Bai Xiaowen concluded that the force field had to be overcome before his army could fight the Silver King, and he gave Kelowen the Demon Tongue contract tablet to study.
• Bai Xiaowen asked Herbart about nearby settlements and planned to unite the seven human communities in the Calamity King’s territory.

Bai Xiaowen’s victory over the Calamity King began shaking the Old God Cult’s hold on Utu Town. Mayor Kelly was murdered, and an angry crowd accused Bai Xiaowen as he came out to face them.

• Mayor Kelly learned from Morrison that Hristos had killed the Calamity King and began questioning the Old God Cult’s teachings.
• Priestess Qiong argued that the Calamity King was only a lower god, but Kelly said he wanted to meet Hristos and was expelled from the cult.
• Bai Xiaowen cultivated while Kelowen researched the contract stone tablet’s demon script in the Spirit Hut.
• Morrison told Bai Xiaowen that Mayor Kelly had been murdered, and townspeople gathered outside the hut accusing him of the crime.
• Morrison and another militiaman defended Bai Xiaowen as the crowd shouted for him to leave town.

Bai Xiaowen faced accusations that he had murdered Mayor Kelly, but exposed the weakness of the evidence and turned suspicion toward the mayor’s clerk, Field Mouse Eyes. He had Field Mouse Eyes handed over to the militia for interrogation.

• Field Mouse Eyes showed the townspeople a bloodied linen scrap bearing the word “outsider” and accused Bai Xiaowen of killing Mayor Kelly.
• Militiaman Morrison suggested asking Witch Kelowen to divine the killer, but Field Mouse Eyes argued that she could not be trusted.
• Bai Xiaowen demonstrated his lightning power and explained that he could have killed Kelly without leaving a blood letter, then revealed that he was a summoner with a Shadow Assassin.
• Bai Xiaowen argued that the blood letter had been forged and challenged Field Mouse Eyes to identify who could imitate Mayor Kelly’s handwriting.
• Bai Xiaowen declared Field Mouse Eyes suspected of murdering Mayor Kelly and ordered him handed over to the militia for interrogation.

Bai Xiaowen controlled Mo Wei, uncovered the Old God Cult’s role in Mayor Kelly’s murder, and called for the cult to be purged from human settlements. After the leaders of five settlements agreed to form an alliance against the Silver King, they unanimously supported outlawing the cult before the alliance was established.

• Bai Xiaowen secretly controlled Field Mouse Eyes, whose real name was Mo Wei, and learned from his memories that an Old God Cult priest had instigated the plot.
• Witch Kelowen recognized Bai Xiaowen’s use of mental magic and warned him not to rely on it against humans, while Bai Xiaowen explained that he intended to purge the Old God Cult.
• The cult tried to arrange Mo Wei’s suicide in custody, but Mo Wei instead confessed everything during interrogation.
• Herbart returned with representatives from five human settlements, and Bai Xiaowen warned them that the Silver King would discover the demons’ failure to reincarnate and investigate.
• The representatives agreed to unite against the Silver King, then unanimously supported Bai Xiaowen’s proposal to ban the Old God Cult and expose its role in Mayor Kelly’s assassination.

Bai Xiaowen united the five towns, purged the Old God Cult, and restored peace before Kelowen revealed the power of the Primordial Covenant. She proposed using it to help his followers resist the Silver King’s domain, but then said the plan would not work.

• Bai Xiaowen used Mo Wei’s testimony to hold a public trial in Utu Town, where the townspeople turned against the Old God Cult and its members were sentenced to death.
• Bai Xiaowen sent militias to purge the cult from the other towns, then led the five towns’ forces in clearing demons and Undead from the roads and surrounding lands.
• Bai Xiaowen organized roughly two thousand militia members and trained them in cooperative Spirit Force techniques.
• Kelowen told Bai Xiaowen that the stone tablet was the Primordial Covenant, which bound subordinates to a superior and let them inherit some of the superior’s power.
• Kelowen suggested that a pact with Bai Xiaowen could help his followers resist the Silver King’s domain Suppression, but after Bai Xiaowen agreed, she said the method would not work.

Bai Xiaowen used Death God's Power to erase the existing pact from the Primordial Pact Slate, then tested making new pacts with militiamen. He found that the pacts gave them slight attribute boosts and resistance to Divinity Suppression, with no apparent cost to him.

• Kelowen explained that only Divine Might could erase the pact already written on the Primordial Pact Slate, and Bai Xiaowen failed to erase it with True Essence Force.
• Bai Xiaowen used Death God's Power to scrape the names from the slate, replenished that power with True Essence Force, and spent three hours making the slate blank.
• Kelowen concluded that Bai Xiaowen possessed Divine Might as well as Divinity, while Bai Xiaowen said he was focused on the task at hand.
• Bai Xiaowen made Primordial Pacts with seven militiamen and inspected their status panels for effects.
• Bai Xiaowen found that the pacts slightly increased the militiamen's attributes and resistance to Suppression by Divinity, while he detected no negative effects on himself.

Bai Xiaowen expanded his Primordial Covenant by binding the Human Allied Army, the Undead forces, and Rageclaw’s beasts, then sent the Three Heavenly Kings to keep expanding their army. In Silver City, Ismen studied the Undead’s command ability and received a human survivor of the Old God Cult, who claimed to have come with urgent news.

• Bai Xiaowen signed Primordial Covenants with the two thousand Human Allied Army militia soldiers, though only beings powerful enough could leave their names on the Contract Tablet.
• Bai Xiaowen signed a covenant with Sigrdrifa, the other Three Heavenly Kings, and their servants, then added Rageclaw and his beasts; the names of Rageclaw, Sigrdrifa, Abaddon, and Pudge appeared on the tablet.
• Bai Xiaowen ordered the Three Heavenly Kings to continue small-scale wars and steadily expand the Undead army.
• Silver King Ismen watched a battle image of Spirit Force Giants attacking a demon army and resolved to investigate the Undead lords’ command ability as a new school of magic.
• Demon Guard Gordan brought a human trespasser before Ismen, and the man claimed to be a survivor of the Old God Cult who had come to pledge himself and deliver urgent news.

Silver King Ismen learned that the outsider called the Savior had destroyed Tifast and his Demon Lords beyond rebirth, and prepared a massive assault to capture him. Ismen transformed the traitor Albert Love into the Lord Tier creature Anglaish, Twisted Bone.

• Albert Love warned Ismen that the Savior had defeated Tifast and could destroy demons’ souls, preventing their rebirth.
• Ismen used a skull to confirm that Tifast and his Demon Lords’ souls were gone.
• Ismen ordered Arigante and Saffron to gather their armies and announced he would lead Silver City’s forces in a thirty-thousand-demon attack to capture the outsider alive.
• Ismen rewarded Albert by transforming him into a Lord Tier creature and naming him Anglaish, Twisted Bone.

While drilling the militia in Utu Town, Bai Xiaowen learned through Kelowen’s divination that the King of Pride and the Pain King were marching toward him, apparently under the Silver King’s orders. The threat left Bai Xiaowen suspecting that escaped Old God Cult members had warned the Silver King about him.

• Bai Xiaowen weighed whether to attack the Silver King or the King of Pride while continuing to train the militia in Command-type formations.
• Kelowen reported that demon armies from the territories of the King of Pride and the Pain King were moving toward Utu Town.
• Bai Xiaowen suspected the Silver King had ordered the coordinated attack and asked Kelowen to divine what the Silver King’s forces were doing.
• Kelowen’s divination confirmed Bai Xiaowen’s suspicion, and she collapsed after spitting blood.
• Bai Xiaowen concluded that escaped members of the Old God Cult had reached the Silver King and revealed him as a threat.

Bai Xiaowen learned that the Silver King’s forces were approaching and decided to abandon the settlements and use guerrilla warfare, targeting the King of Pride’s army first. After the King of Pride received a report of a huge Undead army ahead, she ordered her demons to retreat.

• Bai Xiaowen concluded that remnants of the Old God Cult had alerted the Silver King and prepared to face the approaching demon armies.
• Bai Xiaowen told Herbart he would abandon Utu Town and the other four towns, preserve his elite forces, and fight with mobile guerrilla tactics.
• Bai Xiaowen chose the King of Pride as his first target and accepted the Divine-Scion Tier quest to eliminate the Silver King.
• Bai Xiaowen considered using his Divine-Scion Tier Insight Orbs to advance his Scripture of the Grand Void.
• Arigante marched toward Utu Town with roughly eight thousand demons, but ordered a retreat after winged witches reported a large Undead army ahead.

Bai Xiaowen used the Militia Square Formations to hold off the demon army and strike down its Demon Lords. As the Undead Legion arrived and the militia’s Spirit Force walls began to tremble, he summoned ten more Spirit Force Giants from the Skeleton Corps.

• The King of Pride ordered the demon army to break through two thousand human soldiers before the Undead Legion arrived.
• The Militia Square Formations stopped the demons with their Fortified Wall Formations and killed attackers with coordinated spear thrusts.
• Bai Xiaowen directed two Spirit Force Giants to kill a Demon Lord and sweep through the demon ranks.
• Herbart praised Bai Xiaowen’s Way of Command, while Bai Xiaowen continued fighting without revealing that the King of Pride might escape.
• The Undead Legion reinforcements reached the battlefield, and Bai Xiaowen raised ten more Spirit Force Giants from the Skeleton Corps.

Bai Xiaowen used twelve Spirit Force Giants to destroy the King of Pride’s army, though the real King of Pride had stayed hidden. After the victory, he gathered supplies and prisoners, then faced the question of whether his exhausted forces should rest.

• Bai Xiaowen controlled twelve Spirit Force Giants and bombarded the demon army, inflicting heavy casualties.
• Bai Xiaowen revealed that the supposed King of Pride was a Shapeshifter Lord in disguise, and the demon army’s morale collapsed when the illusion was exposed.
• Bai Xiaowen’s forces wiped out more than five thousand demons, routed roughly a thousand, and killed every targeted Demon Lord, while the real King of Pride escaped.
• Bai Xiaowen captured a Bone-Spike Lizard Lord for the Flag Sacrifice skill and ordered his forces to collect Demon Cores and distribute the demons’ weapons and armor.
• Herbart asked Bai Xiaowen whether the exhausted army should find a secluded place to rest.

Bai Xiaowen led the recovering human-Undead army deeper into King of Pride’s territory while King of Pride Arigante and Silver King Ismen responded to the defeat of her forces. Ismen chose to attack Tifast’s territory to force the allied army to abandon its advance and rush to defend its settlements.

• Bai Xiaowen rejected Herbart’s suggestion to rest and marched deeper into King of Pride’s territory while his forces recovered their Spirit Force.
• King of Pride Arigante learned that the human-Undead army was heading toward the Throne of Pride and said she had sent Mansuke as her double to protect herself from the rumored threat to demon rebirth.
• Arigante ordered her remaining demon generals to report the allied army’s movements to Silver King Ismen and ask for his next plan.
• Silver King Ismen received Arigante’s report and dismissed her implied request for help, choosing to continue his original march into Tifast’s territory.
• Ismen ordered his army to destroy every human settlement in Tifast’s territory, aiming to force the allied army to turn back and defend its base.

Bai Xiaowen used a Divine-Scion Tier Insight Orb to cultivate the Scripture of the Grand Void and reached its fourth layer after three days. He emerged at the Pride Throne with greatly improved abilities and six new Immortal Arts branches.

• Bai Xiaowen used a Divine-Scion Tier Insight Orb and Psionic Crystal Clusters to cultivate the Scripture of the Grand Void.
• The allied army fought scattered demon forces as Rageclaw guarded Bai Xiaowen’s curtained White Bone Chariot during his three days of seclusion.
• Bai Xiaowen emerged near the Pride Throne, and Herbart noticed his transformed, otherworldly bearing.
• Bai Xiaowen received major attribute and True Essence Force increases, advanced Spirit Force Mastery to Expert Level 1, and gained six Immortal Arts branches.
• Bai Xiaowen examined the Three Nourishments and Three Refinements, identifying the nourishment methods’ effects on his body, energy, and mind.

Bai Xiaowen captured the Throne of Pride after killing its Demon Lord defender with an Origin Lightning strike enhanced by the Qi-Nourishing Method. He began preparing the coalition army for the inevitable decisive battle with the Silver King.

• Bai Xiaowen ordered the coalition army to attack the Throne of Pride, where the undermanned defenders temporarily held them off.
• Bai Xiaowen unleashed Origin Lightning and killed the female Demon Lord in a single strike, astonishing his allies.
• Bai Xiaowen explained that the Qi-Nourishing Method amplified his attack and that his Expert Tier Spirit Force Mastery helped him direct its power into the Demon Lord's body.
• The demons fled after their defender died, and the coalition army captured the city and began resting and plundering.
• Bai Xiaowen assigned his allies to gather demon blood, inventory supplies, rest the militia, and monitor enemy movements while he prepared for war.

Bai Xiaowen prepared Might Pills and Formation Talismans at the Throne of Pride to strengthen his forces for the coming battle against the Silver King. After learning the Silver King and Pain King’s armies had entered Utu Town, he chose their next destination.

• Bai Xiaowen refined demon blood into Might Pills that could double a human’s combat strength when used with Demon Burst, though they risked severe illness or death.
• Bai Xiaowen began making jade Formation Talismans, explaining that they needed to be assembled as a set to unleash their power.
• After two days of preparation, Kelowen reported that the Silver King and Pain King’s armies had entered Utu Town.
• Bai Xiaowen judged that the Silver King would soon come to the Throne of Pride and pointed out their next destination on the map.

Bai Xiaowen led the human and Undead army to Silver City, where they broke through the defenses and captured Anglaish, a human traitor turned demon lord. The Silver King’s forces then began pouring through a green gateway behind the army.

• Bai Xiaowen chose to attack Silver City and secretly marched the human and Undead army toward it.
• After scouting for two days, Bai Xiaowen ordered the army to attack the city’s lightly defended first line.
• Anglaish rallied the demons and declared that he would become the Demon King, but Bai Xiaowen struck him with lightning and the demons fled.
• The Three Heavenly Kings captured the wounded Anglaish as the army stormed into Silver City.
• Four green beams from the city’s spires formed a gateway behind Bai Xiaowen’s army, and demon lords led waves of troops through it.

Bai Xiaowen sacrificed Anglaish and another Demon Lord to strengthen his army, then confronted Silver King Ismen, who offered him a place among the Demon Kings. Bai Xiaowen tried to weaken Ismen with Seven-Demon Soul Suppression, but Ismen effortlessly destroyed the treasure and challenged the Allied Army to resist his power.

• Bai Xiaowen used Flag Sacrifice’s God Sacrifice option to sacrifice Anglaish and a captured Demon Lord, strengthening his troops.
• Silver King Ismen addressed Bai Xiaowen as Hristos and offered to make him a Demon King if he submitted.
• Bai Xiaowen rejected Ismen’s offer, and Ismen ordered that no one attack Bai Xiaowen’s soul because he wanted to capture it intact.
• Bai Xiaowen unleashed Seven-Demon Soul Suppression and used its seven skulls to twist and weaken Ismen’s soul.
• Ismen broke the soul-twisting cords and shattered the seven skulls, then declared that his forces and power could overcome Bai Xiaowen’s army.

Bai Xiaowen revealed that he had prepared the Voidfall Immortal Formation to trap Ismen’s returning demon army on the icy plain. As the battle began, his formations resisted the demons’ charge, and Bai Xiaowen used Spirit Force Manifestation to kill a Demon Lord.

• Bai Xiaowen told Ismen that the icy plain was the battlefield he had chosen and activated the Voidfall Immortal Formation.
• The formation placed Bai Xiaowen’s human and Undead troops in its safe “Life” zone while slowing and weakening the demons in other zones.
• Gordan blew a bone horn that enhanced the demon army, and Ismen ordered the demons to charge.
• Bai Xiaowen’s fourteen formations used the Fortified Wall Formation to block and strike down the charging demons.
• Bai Xiaowen manifested a codex giant and a whip giant, which bound a Demon Lord and destroyed his body with a Spirit Force spear.

Bai Xiaowen used coordinated Spirit Force Manifestations to kill Demon Lords and halt the demon charge, but Pain King Saffron and King of Pride Arigante entered the battle. After Arigante’s mental interference disrupted one attack, Bai Xiaowen summoned two more giants and forced both Demon Kings into a fight they could no longer control.

• Bai Xiaowen killed two Demon Lords with Spirit Force Manifestations, blunting the demon army’s charge.
• King of Pride Arigante and Pain King Saffron joined the battle with powerful assault squads.
• Saffron blocked an attack on a Demon Lord and charged Bai Xiaowen’s formation, prompting Bai Xiaowen to order Undead Formations One and Two to use full power.
• Bai Xiaowen’s empowered black whip bound Saffron, but Arigante’s mental interference diverted his black spear into the demon army.
• Bai Xiaowen summoned Spirit Force Manifestations from Formations Three and Four, allowing four giants to overwhelm the two Demon Kings’ coordination and devastate nearby demons.