Chapter Summaries

Zheng Zha woke after overcoming his inner demons, with Lori’s new Holy War Angel bloodline allowing her to become his battle axe and help him reach the fourth stage of the Gene Lock. Zhang Qi revealed that the Central Continent Team’s next mission would pit them against the Demon Team and Celestial Team in The Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain, entering after Blood Demon Youquan broke free.

• Zheng Zha thanked Lori for entering his dream as a battle axe and helping him overcome his inner demons.
• Zheng Zha thanked Zhang Qi, who told him to protect Lori and explained that he was using the Bagua Furnace to separate the two souls inside Zhao Yingkong.
• Zhang Qi announced that the Central Continent Team’s next reincarnation world would be a team battle against the Demon Team and the Celestial Team.
• Zhang Qi revealed that the team would enter The Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain after Blood Demon Youquan broke his seal.
• Zheng Zha realized the Demon Team and Celestial Team would likely join forces with Blood Demon Youquan against the Central Continent Team.

Ba Dou made progress deciphering the Geng Ao Vajra Pestle using cultivation knowledge from the Infinite World. When the ERP Satellite detected Nether Demon Ba Yuebi in the city center, he ordered the Armor squad to deploy.

• Ba Dou analyzed the Geng Ao Vajra Pestle and concluded it could interfere with or rewrite the world's rules, unlike the energy-based armor technology.
• Using a new cultivation-based framework, Ba Dou activated the pestle's patterns with spiritual energy and recorded the results.
• The ERP Satellite detected a distorted energy field in the city center and identified it as Nether Demon Ba Yuebi of the Nether Legion.
• Ba Dou stopped the pestle's activation and ordered all members of the Armor squad to deploy.

Ba Yuebi, a cursed warrior turned Nether Demon, robbed an ATM to gather negative energy and awaken his sealed brothers, but Earth’s police swiftly overwhelmed him. After his defeat, they retrieved the spatial code that remained of his body.

• Ba Yuebi stole banknotes from an ATM, hoping to gather energy for awakening the Nether Legion and taking revenge on King Pi'er.
• Earth police trapped Ba Yuebi in a force field and ordered him to surrender, but he mocked their laws and attacked.
• Two officers activated their police armor and fought Ba Yuebi, whose combat experience let him withstand their attacks despite his surprise at their weapons.
• More than a dozen armored officers arrived, and a silver-and-crimson armored fighter kicked Ba Yuebi into a shop wall.
• The police surrounded Ba Yuebi and destroyed him with concentrated energy beams, then retrieved his remaining spatial code.

Ba Dou decoded Ba Yuebi’s life data and uncovered the Three Primordial Sins programs, then used them to resurrect Lu Fa. He demanded the Shura Armor, but Lu Fa refused.

• Ba Dou combined Alphaas’s processing with his counterpart’s Digital World analysis to decrypt Ba Yuebi’s life data.
• Ba Dou discovered that the Ares warriors were genetically engineered and recovered the code for the Three Primordial Sins.
• Ba Dou ordered the laboratory staff to seal the sample and destroy the analysis records.
• Ba Dou used the Vajra Pestle to infuse Lu Fa’s sealed garment with simulated Three Primordial Sins energy, restoring Lu Fa to a confused state.
• Ba Dou identified himself to Lu Fa and demanded the Shura Armor, but Lu Fa refused to hand it over.

Ba Dou showed Lu Fa that Ginga’s mass-produced armor and determined defenders could defeat the Nether Legion, then left him imprisoned as his forces were captured. After seeing An Mixiu captured, Lu Fa asked to meet Ba Dou and agreed to cooperate.

• Ba Dou showed Lu Fa footage of Ba Yuebi being defeated by coordinated armor units and of responders using armor to protect people from disasters.
• Lu Fa realized Ginga’s defenders could wield Ares technology and that his Nether Legion was no longer an unstoppable threat.
• Lu Fa tried to bargain with Ba Dou for help returning to Ares, but could offer little beyond the Shura Armor’s hiding place.
• Ba Dou left Lu Fa imprisoned, where he watched his Nether warriors get captured and found his psychic messages blocked by the cell walls.
• After seeing An Mixiu captured, Lu Fa called for Ba Dou and told him they could cooperate.

Lu Fa warned Ba Dou that King Pi'er would attack Earth and asked to clear the stain on his and his brothers' names, but Ba Dou rejected his claim. An unknown hooded man then interrupted an Armor Squad's battle and transformed into Dark Xing Tian.

• Lu Fa told Ba Dou that King Pi'er viewed Earth's crystals, armor troops, and Ba Dou as threats and would inevitably attack Earth.
• Lu Fa asked Ba Dou to help clear his and his brothers' names, but Ba Dou said Lu Fa had forfeited that chance by slaughtering innocent planets.
• An urgent alarm showed an Armor Squad closing in on a Nether Demon until dark red blasts separated them.
• A hooded man ignored the squad captain's warning and revealed a black Xing Tian summoner.
• The hooded man transformed into Dark Xing Tian amid an eruption of black and purple energy.

Dark Xing Tian overwhelmed the Armor Squad and defeated Sharman while demanding to know Lu Fa’s location. Before Sharman could learn more about Dark Xing Tian’s power, a young man arrived and summoned the Emperor Armor.

• Dark Xing Tian used Shifting Shadows to annihilate the Armor Squad’s soldiers, leaving its captain collapsed and alone.
• Dark Xing Tian mocked Sharman and evaded his attacks before striking him down with a palm.
• Dark Xing Tian revealed his immense intent energy, explained that greed, anger, and ignorance were sources of power, and demanded to know where Lu Fa was.
• Sharman realized Dark Xing Tian and his allies were not regular Ares troops but wielders of the three poisons.
• A young man arrived carrying a silver briefcase, fastened the Emperor Armor’s summoning belt, and declared, "Emperor Armor, unite!"

Ziyang summoned Emperor Armor to face Dark Xing Tian, but the veteran fighter outmatched him and broke through his Meditation Seal. Dark Xing Tian transformed into an unknown upgraded form and defeated Ziyang, leaving him unarmored amid the ruins.

• Ziyang summoned Emperor Armor, told the injured armored warriors to retreat, and faced Dark Xing Tian alone.
• Dark Xing Tian evaded Ziyang's attacks and countered with precise strikes that showed his greater combat experience.
• Ziyang used the Wind Eagle Hero's speed and Emperor Demon Sealing Slash, but Dark Xing Tian dodged with Eight-Position Shift and attacked from eight directions.
• Ziyang froze time and space with the Meditation Seal, but Dark Xing Tian resisted it with the power of the Three Poisons and shattered the barrier.
• Dark Xing Tian declared Mace-Wielding Xing Tian's upgrade, transformed into a sinister form, and struck Ziyang so hard that Emperor Armor broke apart.

Ziyang was defeated by Nomos, who revealed that he served King Pi'er, before Ba Dou arrived and recognized that King Pi'er had been deposed. Ba Dou picked up the Emperor Armor summoner, alarming Ziyang because Ba Dou's Shadow Realm bloodline should be incompatible with the Five Elements power.

• Nomos offered to spare Ziyang's planet if he joined him, then identified himself as captain of King Pi'er's armored royal guard.
• Ziyang questioned why King Pi'er and his forces were attacking Earth, and Nomos blamed complications surrounding the king's rule.
• Ba Dou arrived by ERP satellite teleportation and inferred that King Pi'er had been deposed and was seeking planetary energy crystals to regain his throne.
• Nomos challenged Ba Dou after realizing he was a powerful opponent, while Ba Dou picked up Ziyang's Emperor Armor summoner.
• Ziyang worried that Ba Dou could not use the summoner because his Shadow Realm bloodline was incompatible with the Five Elements power.

Ba Dou used his replicated belt to transform into the Shadow Emperor and defeat Nomos’s Dark Xing Tian form, but the belt quickly disintegrated. Nomos mocked Ba Dou for not knowing about King Pi’er as a silver spacecraft arrived at the Federation’s headquarters carrying a young man addressed as “Your Majesty.”

• Ba Dou transformed with the black-gold Shadow Emperor armor and caught Nomos’s attack before overpowering him with a single punch.
• The Shadow Emperor’s belt shattered, ending Ba Dou’s transformation, and Ba Dou picked up Nomos’s summoner and asked where King Pi’er was and how Nomos had found Earth.
• Nomos laughed at Ba Dou for not knowing the answer to his questions.
• A silver-white spacecraft landed at the Federation’s headquarters, where the highest-ranking leader respectfully welcomed the young man who descended from it as “Your Majesty.”

King Pi'er announced an alliance with the Western Federation and turned Earth against the East by accusing it of ties to Lu Fa and the Nether Legion. Ba Dou revealed that Pi'er was using humanity’s divisions to collect the three poisons, then asked Lu Fa where the Shura Armor was.

• King Pi'er and the Federation President announced an agreement to share armor technology and accused the East of ties to Lu Fa and the Nether Legion.
• The Federation-backed press conference ignited global accusations and divided Earth into opposing camps.
• Ba Dou showed Lu Fa dark-red energy streams gathering from human conflict and explained that Pi'er was collecting the energy of greed, anger, and delusion.
• Ba Dou revealed the Dark Xing Tian Summoner, whose energy circuits were designed to use the three poisons.
• Ba Dou asked Lu Fa where the Shura Armor was.

King Pi'er used the Federation's accusations against the great eastern nation as a pretext to threaten Earth, then blasted the moon to demonstrate his power. With Ares offering no help, Ba Dou chose to defend Earth himself and launched the Alphaas to counterattack.

• King Pi'er dismissed a soldier's concerns about cooperating with the Federation and prepared to conquer Earth.
• The Federation president ordered the Seventh Fleet to attack the great eastern nation and demand that it surrender Lu Fa and the Nether Legion.
• King Pi'er hijacked global communications, declared that harboring fugitives would provoke galactic order, and blasted the moon with his warship.
• At ERP headquarters, Ba Dou warned that Ares might be waiting for Earth and King Pi'er to weaken each other, and argued that Earth had to rely on itself.
• Ba Dou inserted the Geng-Metal Vajra Pestle into the console and awakened the Alphaas, ordering it toward geostationary orbit.

King Pi'er sent his armored forces toward the Eastern fleet while the Federal Seventh Fleet attacked Earth’s Eastern fleet, only to be disabled by the Neutron Interferer and outmatched by a humanoid machine. As King Pi'er questioned the Eastern power’s technology, Shura Armor burst onto his flagship’s bridge.

• King Pi'er ordered his forces to attack the Alphaas as the Light and Shadow Colts, Five Elements Armor, Ares Armors, and mass-produced armors emerged from its hangars.
• The Federal Seventh Fleet commander ordered an attack on the Eastern fleet after learning its main armor force had left Earth’s atmosphere.
• The Eastern fleet activated the Neutron Interferer, shutting down the Federal fleet’s power, communications, and radar systems.
• A humanoid machine launched from the Eastern fleet’s carrier destroyed Federal Combat jets and shrugged off their gunfire.
• King Pi'er recognized that the humanoid machine used technology unlike Ares’s, then Shura Armor smashed through the bridge doors and entered his flagship.

Ba Dou wielded the Shura Armor to defeat King Pi'er’s throne guards, even after Pi'er corrupted their armors with negative energy. Ba Dou then appeared before Pi'er and brought the Purgatory Saber down on him.

• King Pi'er offered Ba Dou half the Milky Way’s star territories in exchange for working together, but Ba Dou dismissed his offer.
• The Flying Shadow and Vajra guards attacked Ba Dou, but he outpaced Flying Shadow and stopped Vajra’s punch before sending both guards flying.
• King Pi'er used negative energy to transform the guards into Phantom Calamity Flying Shadow and Smelted Vajra.
• Ba Dou summoned the Shura Purgatory Saber and destroyed both corrupted armors with a single strike.
• Ba Dou appeared in front of King Pi'er and slashed down at him with the Purgatory Saber.

Ba Dou and King Pi'er unleashed the full power of their ultimate armors and weapons in a battle that destroyed the Ares flagship. Their final attacks annihilated a third of the moon, leaving the outcome of their clash unknown.

• King Pi'er blocked Ba Dou's Shura Purgatory Saber with the Demon Heaven Sword and revealed that he had forged it from negative energy.
• King Pi'er summoned Mace-Wielding Xing Tian Armor by channeling the Three Poisons of greed, wrath, and delusion into himself.
• Ba Dou and King Pi'er fought at overwhelming speed and power, deforming the Ares flagship from within.
• Ba Dou transformed his saber into the Shura Purgatory Halberd and attacked King Pi'er with God-Demon Annihilation Cleave.
• King Pi'er combined the Three Poisons with the Demon Heaven Sword and unleashed Purgatory Realm God-Slaying Slash.
• The attacks collided, erased the Ares flagship, and blasted a third of the moon into fragments.

King Pi'er revealed that the Demon Heaven Sword spread greed, wrath, and delusion, infecting Earth and empowering his attack on Ba Dou. As Ba Dou's Shura Armor was driven to its knees, it unleashed stronger Intent Energy and began to transform.

• King Pi'er explained that the Demon Heaven Sword planted the Three Poisons in its victims and disrupted the purity required to wield Shura Armor.
• King Pi'er spread the Three Poisons across space and Earth, turning the Armor Squad and other intelligent lifeforms against one another.
• King Pi'er absorbed the world's negative energy into the Demon Heaven Sword and struck Ba Dou with a devastating attack.
• Ba Dou blocked with the Purgatory Halberd, but the blow forced him to his knees and shifted the Moon's orbit.
• Ba Dou unleashed brilliant Purple lightning, and the Shura Armor began changing into a more powerful form.

Ba Dou defeated King Pi'er after the Shura Armor underwent its Fierce Battle Upgrade, then executed him when he refused to accept surrender. As Ares forces charged to avenge their king, Ba Dou unleashed the Purgatory Star-Destroying Cannon and wiped out the fleet and soldiers in his path.

• King Pi'er was shocked when Ba Dou's Shura Armor evolved into its Fierce Battle Upgrade form.
• Ba Dou transformed the Shura Purgatory Halberd into the Rakshasa Purgatory Cannon and overwhelmed King Pi'er's attack, shattering the Demon Heaven Sword and destroying the Mace-Wielding Xing Tian armor.
• The destruction of the Demon Heaven Sword freed beings across the battlefield from its influence, and King Pi'er begged Ba Dou for mercy.
• Ba Dou executed King Pi'er, erasing his body and digitized soul, then ordered the Ares forces to surrender.
• An Ares commander rallied the remaining soldiers and warships to avenge King Pi'er, and they charged Ba Dou.
• Ba Dou formed the Purgatory Star-Destroying Cannon and swept away the charging Ares forces with its expanding field of energy arcs.

After the Federation surrendered, Ba Dou received King Louis of Ares, who offered him command of Ares’s armor forces and joint rule of the Milky Way. Ba Dou refused the throne and proposed cooperation between Ares and Earth, which King Louis accepted.

• Ba Dou judged that the politicians and corporate coalitions behind the war would face punishment after the Federation’s military surrendered.
• King Louis arrived from Ares and apologized to Ba Dou for King Pi’er’s crimes, explaining that Ares had been weakened by internal conflicts.
• King Louis invited Ba Dou to command Ares’s armor army and govern the Milky Way alongside him, but Ba Dou refused to leave Earth.
• Ba Dou reassured King Louis that he did not want the Milky Way’s throne and proposed that Ares provide Earth with technology while Earth helped maintain peace in the galaxy.
• King Louis accepted Ba Dou’s cooperation proposal on behalf of Ares.

After Ares recognized the Eastern great power as Earth’s sole representative, Ba Dou focused on studying Ares technology at a new laboratory. He astonished Ares’s scientists by using their equipment and sharing knowledge about the soul, then began adapting their technology for Earth and uncovered a report on planetary energy crystals.

• Ares revealed that Pi’er was a disgraced former ruler and criminal, apologized for his attacks on Earth, and credited the Eastern great power with helping capture him and Lu Fa.
• Ares recognized the Eastern great power as Earth’s sole representative in interstellar affairs, citing its actions and the philosophical overlap between Ares civilization and the I Ching.
• The Eastern great power took charge of Earth’s diplomacy and began supporting global reconstruction, while Ba Dou turned his attention to Ares science.
• King Louis arranged an advanced laboratory for Ba Dou, and Ares scientists arrived to exchange technology with Earth researchers.
• Ba Dou activated the Reality Structure Observer with overwhelming Intent Energy, projected quantum reality for everyone to see, and impressed the Ares scientists with his understanding of the device and the soul.
• Ba Dou began integrating Ares technology into Earth’s scientific system and discovered an Ares research report about planetary energy crystals.

Ba Dou learned that planetary Energy Crystals and planetary souls arose from the collective consciousness of civilizations, while Masaki Keigo received his counterpart’s Nascent Soul transformation and began evolving from a human who wielded light into an Ultraman. The chapter left Masaki needing a new device to complete his transformation.

• Ba Dou read a top-secret report proposing that civilizations created planetary souls and that Energy Crystals sustained life on inhabited planets.
• Ba Dou compared Earth’s costly response to the Orphnoch virus with the less damaging defenses of Gaia Ultraman’s Earth and the Type-Moon world, and considered research into Energy Crystals and planetary souls valuable.
• Masaki Keigo received his Armor Hero counterpart’s research gains and realized they could help complete his Hyperspace Positioning System.
• Masaki examined his Sparklence and explained that he and Daigo piloted Giant of Light bodies rather than being Ultramen themselves.
• After his counterpart reached the Nascent Soul stage, Masaki felt his body, senses, and abilities change as he began transforming into a higher life-form.
• Masaki concluded that the Sparklence no longer suited him and that he needed a new device to complete his transformation.