Chapter Summaries

Bai Xiaowen tested several creatures with Death God's Power, raising the Frost Dragon and Bone Giant to Lord Tier before infusing Kitz, who had recently become Boss Tier. As Kitz writhed through the transformation, Han Xu contacted Bai Xiaowen from the Dark Age Plane.

• Bai Xiaowen found that the Plague Behemoth and Bonefolk Lich could not endure enough Death God's Power to reach Lord Tier, while the Frost Dragon and Bone Giant successfully advanced.
• Bai Xiaowen summoned Kitz from the Shaoding Plane and learned that Kitz had broken through to Boss Tier after killing a Mongol commander of a thousand.
• Kitz said he wanted to stay beside Bai Xiaowen rather than take the Bloodkin Heavenly King position, and Bai Xiaowen began infusing him with 50 points of Death God's Power as a test.
• As Kitz suffered through the infusion, Bai Xiaowen received a communication from Han Xu and saw Han Xu's phantom appear over the talisman.

Han Xu traveled to New Silver City to warn Bai Xiaowen that the Heavenly Prefecture Territory was pressuring the White Phoenix Fief after Xia Feng went missing. Bai Xiaowen decided to return to the Star Alliance after two days of preparations.

• Han Xu arrived in New Silver City through the Resonance Teleportation Array and contacted Bai Xiaowen after demon soldiers surrounded him.
• Han Xu told Bai Xiaowen that the Heavenly Prefecture Territory had condemned him in the lord group and threatened war, while Wuzhou Territory and Rivendell Territory defended the White Phoenix Fief.
• The Heavenly Prefecture Territory and the Goldstone Fief blockaded Bai Xiaowen's portal on Dinosaur Planet, claiming Shi Yu had been wronged, while Xiao Xing stayed silent.
• Han Xu said the White Phoenix Fief had no plans to visit Dinosaur Planet, and Li Shuyi had discovered the blockade before anyone entered danger.
• Bai Xiaowen concluded that Xia Feng's disappearance had emboldened the Heavenly Prefecture Territory and said he would return after preparing contingencies for two days.

Bai Xiaowen prepared to leave the Dark Age Plane by securing New Silver City, strengthening its defenders, and bringing a powerful demon army with him. He left Sigrdrifa in charge of the West Continent and planned to register the demons as residents of White Phoenix Fief using the resources he had seized.

• Bai Xiaowen built concealed and maze Immortal Formations to protect New Silver City and the God-Demon Core, then entrusted the city’s defenses to Sigrdrifa.
• Bai Xiaowen ordered King of Pride Arigante to accompany him, rejected Han Xu’s suggestion to kill her, and arranged to keep the Human New Kingdom under his control.
• Bai Xiaowen infused the Three Heavenly Kings with Death God's Power, raising Sigrdrifa close to King Tier and Abaddon and Pudge to Quasi-King Tier.
• Bai Xiaowen transported twenty thousand demon troops from New Silver City and ordered Sigrdrifa to defend the West Continent and use the maze formation if Rochelle attacked.
• Han Xu marveled at the demon army’s combat power of nearly one million crystals, and Bai Xiaowen estimated that registering its members in White Phoenix Fief would cost five million Spirit Crystals.

Bai Xiaowen transported Demon Lords and other demons to the White Phoenix Fief, then returned and assessed the mounting political tension in the Star Alliance. He suspected an influential Pan-Asia Alliance figure was behind the threat from Heavenly Prefecture Territory, while recognizing that his growing power had set him on a perilous road to godhood.

• Bai Xiaowen and Han Xu moved the demon supplies to the White Phoenix Fief, and Bai Xiaowen used his Spirit Crystals to make Arigante and other powerful demons his citizens.
• Bai Xiaowen left the remaining demons behind, relying on Sigrdrifa and the Undead Legion to keep them in line while he planned to sell the supplies and recruit the rest of the army.
• After returning to the White Phoenix Fief, Bai Xiaowen noticed that almost no major Pan-Asia territories had mediated the threat from Heavenly Prefecture Territory.
• Bai Xiaowen told Qiao Rui that an influential Pan-Asia figure might be the real opponent, especially given Xia Feng's disappearance.
• Bai Xiaowen reflected that Death God's Power and his experiences in the Dark Age Plane had placed him on a dangerous path toward godhood, while his companions worried they could no longer help him.
• Li Shuyi asked Bai Xiaowen what he planned to do about the Star Alliance's worsening situation.

Bai Xiaowen publicly warned Heavenly Prefecture Territory and Goldstone Fief to stop blockading White Phoenix Fief’s Dinosaur Planet gate, then prepared to act. Their guards abandoned the gate to explore, leaving it undefended as the transmission gate suddenly lit up.

• Bai Xiaowen announced in the lords’ group that Heavenly Prefecture Territory and Goldstone Fief had sealed White Phoenix Fief’s Dinosaur Planet transmission gate and warned them to stop.
• Bai Xiaowen exchanged accusations with Meng Chuan and Shi Yu, then threatened extreme measures to defend White Phoenix Fief’s sovereignty.
• Bai Xiaowen told Li Shuyi that diplomacy had ended and they could make their move.
• On Dinosaur Planet, Black Bug’s guards discussed their shift and dismissed the possibility that Bai Xiaowen would attack.
• Fu Jing warned Black Bug that Bai Xiaowen had returned and ordered him to hold Bai Xiaowen at any cost if he appeared.
• Black Bug and his team left the transmission gate to explore, and the gate’s azure light suddenly blazed.

Bai Xiaowen and Kitz arrived on Dinosaur Planet, where Heavenly Prefecture Territory’s Evolvers trapped them in a Three-Layer Magic Formation. Bai Xiaowen quickly analyzed and shattered its second layer, leaving the Evolvers facing him directly.

• Copper Pillar and the other Evolvers prepared to defend the portal after it began reacting to incoming travelers.
• Black Bug, Copper Pillar, Wei Xuan, and their groups planned to prevent Bai Xiaowen from summoning his territory’s army and resolved to hold him off.
• Bai Xiaowen arrived with Kitz, whose powerful aura revealed him to be a Lord-tier summoned creature.
• Wei Xuan raised a Three-Layer Magic Formation to isolate Bai Xiaowen and Kitz from the portal and trap them with the Evolvers.
• Bai Xiaowen saw through the formation’s energy channels and destroyed its second layer with a symbol drawn in True Essence Force.

Bai Xiaowen let Kitz fight three coordinated groups of High-tier Evolvers while he remained protected by the Silver Throne. As reinforcements led by Lord Shi Yu and Lord Jiang Zhiru arrived, Bai Xiaowen welcomed their approach with a faint smile.

• Bai Xiaowen sent Kitz to attack the fifteen Evolvers while he sat on the Silver Throne.
• Black Bug summoned Shadow Master, and the three groups coordinated their attacks to restrain Kitz and harass Bai Xiaowen.
• Bai Xiaowen stopped Copper Pillar's javelin with his Spirit Force barrier, then empowered Kitz with Soul Essence and a Berserk Talisman.
• Kitz destroyed Shadow Master and killed two Evolvers, forcing Black Bug, Copper Pillar, and Wei Xuan to organize a defensive formation.
• Black Bug and Copper Pillar spotted reinforcements led by Lord Shi Yu and Lord Jiang Zhiru, while Bai Xiaowen watched them arrive with a faint smile.

Shi Yu and his forces confronted Bai Xiaowen, intending to capture him and seize the secrets of the White Phoenix Fief. When Shi Yu attacked, Bai Xiaowen used Death God's Power to freeze the attackers long enough for six Lord Tier summoned creatures to arrive.

• Shi Yu arrived with Wei Xuan, Fu Jing, and their forces, then used a spatial interference device to prevent Bai Xiaowen from escaping by random teleportation.
• Shi Yu demanded Bai Xiaowen surrender, while Bai Xiaowen warned that only one of them would survive the confrontation.
• Shi Yu charged with his soldiers as the other Evolvers moved to attack Bai Xiaowen.
• Bai Xiaowen unleashed Death God's Power: Intimidation, freezing Shi Yu and the other attackers in place.
• Abaddon, the Bonefolk Heavenly King, Pudge, the Corpsefolk Heavenly King, the Frost Dragon Lord, the Bone Giant Lord, and a revived Demon Lord emerged from the vortices, joining Kitz.

Bai Xiaowen deployed six Lord-tier summoned creatures against the Heavenly Prefecture Territory and Goldstone Fief forces, overwhelming their formation and revealing his growing strength. As Fu Jing ordered High-Tier Hero Evolvers to attack Bai Xiaowen directly, their weapons shattered against his True Essence Force defenses.

• Bai Xiaowen summoned six Lords, alarming Fu Jing and the other observers with the sudden doubling of his summoned forces.
• Abaddon and Butcher teamed up to Suppress Shi Yu, while the Demon Lord and Bone Giant Lord engaged Fu Jing's reinforcements.
• The Frost Dragon Lord froze Shi Yu's yellow-armored warriors, stripping away their Battle Qi support and leaving Shi Yu at a disadvantage.
• Fu Jing ordered Black Bug, Copper Pillar, and other High-Tier Hero Evolvers to attack Bai Xiaowen, but Bai Xiaowen's defenses repelled their Spirit Force and shattered their weapons.
• Bai Xiaowen called Fu Jing noisy and pointed a finger at him from afar.

Bai Xiaowen used Origin Lightning to cripple Fu Jing and advanced the spell to a mastery level that let its lightning snake between targets. After Shi Yu shut down the Spatial Interference Device, Bai Xiaowen’s forces sealed the battlefield again and attacked the trapped Evolvers.

• Bai Xiaowen struck Fu Jing with Origin Lightning, killing two Evolvers bound to Straw Puppets and leaving Fu Jing near death.
• Bai Xiaowen received notice that Origin Lightning had reached advanced mastery and gained the Snake Lightning effect.
• Shi Yu broke away from Abaddon and Butcher and shut down the Spatial Interference Device, restoring spatial fluctuations.
• Bai Xiaowen completed the projection and summoned demon beasts whose talisman collars sealed off the battlefield.
• Bai Xiaowen deployed his summoned creatures and struck Black Bug, Copper Pillar, and other leaders with Serpent Origin Lightning.

Bai Xiaowen defeated Shi Yu and the forces under Fu Jing, then learned Shi Yu was Xia Yu, an agent backed by Xia Yan of Great Evolution Territory. Shi Yu warned that Xia Feng was trapped, but refused to reveal where, and Bai Xiaowen took him captive.

• Bai Xiaowen's forces routed Fu Jing's Heavenly Prefecture Territory Evolvers, while the Frost Dragon Lord and Bone Giant Lord scattered Shi Yu's yellow-armored warriors.
• Bai Xiaowen used the Seven Fiends Great Hand Seal and a strand of Death God's Power to capture and bind Shi Yu.
• Shi Yu revealed his real name was Xia Yu and claimed Xia Yan had given him a linked Warning Jade Talisman; Kitz found the talisman in his storage ring.
• Shi Yu asked Bai Xiaowen to spare him and warned that Great Evolution Territory could retaliate, but Bai Xiaowen refused to release him.
• Shi Yu said Xia Feng was trapped but would not reveal where, so Bai Xiaowen ordered Butcher to carry him away and secured the other captives.

After Bai Xiaowen captured the forces of Heavenly Prefecture Territory and Goldstone Fief, Star Alliance Lords argued over who had started the conflict, and Xiao Xing openly backed White Phoenix Fief. Bai Xiaowen met Candice and the Queen Bee to discuss his gains from the Dark Age Plane and potential trade in its rare materials.

• Bai Xiaowen and Meng Chuan traded accusations in the Lords' Group as Star Alliance Lords took sides over the battle.
• Xiao Xing condemned Heavenly Prefecture Territory and demanded that it reveal Xia Feng's whereabouts, while Meng Chuan threatened him and Xiao Xing vowed to fight for Xia Feng.
• Bai Xiaowen accepted meeting invitations from Candice and the Queen Bee and met them on the Blue Star Evolver Platform.
• Bai Xiaowen showed Candice and the Queen Bee Chaos Cores, and the Queen Bee explained their value in making spatial teleportation scrolls.
• Bai Xiaowen presented more Dark Age Plane materials and proposed a long-term trade arrangement with Candice and the Queen Bee.

Bai Xiaowen offered Queen Bee and Candice discounts on the Dark Age Plane resources he had acquired and asked Candice about Lord Xia Feng’s disappearance. Candice identified Great Evolution Territory as the prime suspect, while Bai Xiaowen remained determined to find Xia Feng and question him.

• Candice offered to connect Bai Xiaowen with buyers for fel metals and asked for a discount on Fel Fire Ebony, while Queen Bee also hoped for lower prices on Chaos Cores.
• Bai Xiaowen offered Queen Bee and Candice discounts of twenty to forty percent, with larger orders receiving smaller concessions.
• Candice and Queen Bee learned that Bai Xiaowen’s stockpile was worth an estimated five to ten million Spirit Crystals, and Candice volunteered to organize sales channels.
• Bai Xiaowen asked Candice whether Lord Xia Feng had been plotted against, and she said Great Evolution Territory was the prime suspect.
• Bai Xiaowen asked where Lord Xia Feng was, saying he hoped to question him in person.

Bai Xiaowen strengthened the White Phoenix Fief’s forces while suspecting that the Heavenly Prefecture Territory’s pressure was connected to Xia Feng’s disappearance. The chapter ended with the Heavenly Prefecture Territory and Cecil Fief declaring war on the Great Xia Fief and the Bone-Melting Fief.

• Candice explained that Xia Feng’s rapid rise had left the Great Xia Fief too weak to investigate his disappearance, and Bai Xiaowen suspected the Heavenly Prefecture Territory was involved.
• Bai Xiaowen assigned Zhen Mi and Qiao Rui to negotiate supply sales using Candice’s market intelligence.
• Bai Xiaowen naturalized demon troops and trained them, but found their unstable Fel Energy and rebellious nature made coordinated commands difficult.
• Bai Xiaowen remained wary as Meng Chuan stayed silent, while the White Phoenix Fief used its growing Spirit Crystals to strengthen its army.
• The Heavenly Prefecture Territory and Cecil Fief announced wars against the Great Xia Fief and the Bone-Melting Fief.

As Meng Chuan's declaration of war isolated Heavenly Prefecture Territory, Bai Xiaowen strengthened White Phoenix Fief's defenses and accepted Xiao Xing's invitation to meet. He gathered with Xiao Xing, Queen Bee, and Candice, then asked Xiao Xing to answer a question truthfully.

• Meng Chuan declared war on territories under Great Xia Fief and ignored the condemnation and trade blockade from other lords.
• Bai Xiaowen upgraded White Phoenix Fief's Five Elements Formation to Tier Three, strengthening its defenses and the Thousand-Soul Jade's effect.
• Xiao Xing invited Bai Xiaowen and Queen Bee to meet, and Bai Xiaowen agreed because he had questions for him.
• Bai Xiaowen invited Candice to join the meeting with Xiao Xing and Queen Bee on the Blue Star Evolver Platform.
• Bai Xiaowen asked Xiao Xing to answer a question truthfully.

Xiao Xing told Bai Xiaowen that Xia Feng had been suppressed in Great Evolution Territory, and Bai proposed exposing the incident to pressure Great Evolution Territory into releasing him. Xiao Xing sought help against Heavenly Prefecture Territory, and Bai agreed to assist while asking Queen Bee and Candice to speak fairly for Great Xia Fief.

• Xiao Xing explained that Great Evolution Territory had suppressed Xia Feng, based on information gathered through the Radiance Society.
• Bai Xiaowen reasoned that Great Evolution Territory had kept the suppression secret to avoid public backlash, and proposed finding evidence to force it to release Xia Feng.
• Xiao Xing agreed to investigate the intelligence further but warned that Bone-Melting Fief and Great Xia Fief were outmatched by Heavenly Prefecture Territory and its likely Great Evolution Territory backing.
• Bai Xiaowen offered to help Xiao Xing and asked Queen Bee and Candice to speak fairly for Great Xia Fief in the Lords' group.

Bai Xiaowen went to support the Bone-Melting Fief as the Heavenly Prefecture Territory began its invasion, but he exposed Xiao Xing as a traitor just as the ambush sprang. The attackers froze under Bai Xiaowen’s Overawing Presence, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Bai Xiaowen, the Queen Bee, Candice, and Xiao Xing discussed secretly ambushing Meng Chuan and agreed that Bai Xiaowen would provide support at the last moment.
• Three days later, Xiao Xing urgently called for aid and opened the Bone-Melting Fief’s Plane Portal to Bai Xiaowen.
• Bai Xiaowen arrived as the Heavenly Prefecture Territory’s army descended through the broken protective barrier, then used a Medium to summon the White Phoenix Fief’s troops.
• Bai Xiaowen noticed Xiao Xing’s suspicious reaction, called him a traitor, and seized his wrist as hidden attackers lunged and froze under his Overawing Presence.

Bai Xiaowen seized Xiao Xing and accused him of betraying Xia Feng, then explained his suspicions to the loyal Evolvers from Great Xia Fief. He claimed the concealed Boss Tier experts planted in Bone-Melting Fief were proof of a plot, though their identities remained to be confirmed.

• Bai Xiaowen used Intimidation and True Essence Force to subdue Xiao Xing as hidden Boss Tier experts surrounded them.
• Xiao Xing warned Guo Baisheng that Bai Xiaowen planned to conspire with Heavenly Prefecture Territory, but Guo Baisheng asked Bai Xiaowen for an explanation.
• Bai Xiaowen told the loyal Evolvers that Xiao Xing had betrayed Xia Feng and questioned Xiao Xing's claim that Xia Feng was being held in Great Evolution Territory.
• Bai Xiaowen argued that Xia Feng could not have been captured in Great Evolution Territory and suggested an insider had lured him into a trap in Bone-Melting Fief.
• Bai Xiaowen identified the hidden experts planted by Heavenly Prefecture Territory, and possibly Great Evolution Territory, as irrefutable evidence of the conspiracy.

Bai Xiaowen accused Xiao Xing of conspiring with Heavenly Prefecture Territory and proposed temporarily controlling him so the loyalists could repel the invading army. The chapter ended as Bai Xiaowen began casting a Heart-Confounding Talisman on Xiao Xing, who resisted and revealed he was a High-Tier Lord.

• Bai Xiaowen inferred that Xiao Xing had hidden enemy experts in the Bone-Melting Fief and planned to ambush him.
• Guo Baisheng’s loyalists refused to accept Xiao Xing’s orders, while Xiao Xing’s private troops threatened to turn against them.
• Bai Xiaowen proposed temporarily controlling Xiao Xing rather than killing him, and Guo Baisheng agreed on the condition that Xiao Xing would be freed if proven innocent.
• Xiao Xing resisted Guo Baisheng’s decision and revealed that he was a level 17 High-Tier Lord.
• Bai Xiaowen formed a Death God's Power · Taiping Talisman · Heart-Confounding Talisman to control Xiao Xing.

Bai Xiaowen used Death God's Power to partially control Xiao Xing and seize authority over the Bone-Melting Fief's formation. When he turned the formation against the Heavenly Prefecture Territory's army, Meng Chuan signaled an ambush, and dozens of powerful enemies converged as Bai Xiaowen summoned the first White Phoenix Fief army.

• Bai Xiaowen used the Heart-Confounding Talisman and Death God's Power to occupy Xiao Xing's Sea of Consciousness, though he could not capture the Spirit Altar completely.
• Bai Xiaowen granted himself secondary authority over the Bone-Melting Fief's Boundary Stele and mastered its Seven-Star formation.
• Bai Xiaowen activated the formation and altered gravity beneath the Heavenly Prefecture Territory's army, slowing its charge.
• Meng Chuan crushed a signal flare, summoning dozens of ambushers, including several High-Tier Lord-level powerhouses, to attack Bai Xiaowen.
• Guo Baisheng and the others realized Xiao Xing had colluded with foreign enemies, while Bai Xiaowen summoned the first White Phoenix Fief army.