Chapter Summaries

Lu Li killed the demonized Ishii Rokuro with a giant formed from black mist, then demanded that Sakura Prime Minister Ishiba Taro honor his promise to eat three jin of shit. The chapter ended with Lu Li bringing out the [Living Nest] as Ishiba Taro resisted, while the public livestream audience watched and reacted.

• The black mist giant slapped demonized Ishii Rokuro to death, and Lu Li confirmed the kill before approaching Ishiba Taro.
• Lu Li reminded Ishiba Taro that he had promised to eat three jin of shit if Lin Tianxia won, and Ishiba Taro tried to dismiss the promise as a figure of speech.
• A Lighthouse Country delegate tried to get Lu Li to let the matter go, but Lu Li refused and said Sakura would need to find someone else to kill the Flame Poison Monarch unless Ishiba Taro kept his word.
• Lu Li mocked Ishiba Taro about Sakura's so-called Golden Granules and offered to provide three jin from a young girl named Kardashian.
• Lu Li took out the [Living Nest] as viewers flooded the public livestream with cheers, criticism, and arguments about his treatment of Ishiba Taro.

Lu Li imposed a second condition on Ishiba Taro, demanding Sakura provide people for exploitation or face destruction, while declaring he would kill the Flame Poison Monarch regardless. Sakura’s prime minister rejected his threat and claimed the empire would endure, as Lu Li’s growing public support strengthened his Soul Guards and his allies found the Corrupted Demon Well.

• After Ishiba Taro ate the Corpse-Devouring Ant Queen’s golden pellets, Lu Li reminded him that he had not fulfilled the second condition.
• Lu Li demanded that Sakura send men for live experiments and women as slaves and prostitutes each year until the nation was destroyed.
• Public support for Lu Li surged, flooding his Soul Realm with power and raising the Promotion-path Soul Guards’ levels by fifteen.
• Xing Anlin reported that he and Lu Zhongxian had found the Corrupted Demon Well, and Lu Li ordered its destruction.
• Lu Li warned that Sakura would perish immediately if Ishiba Taro refused his terms, but Ishiba rejected the threat and vowed Sakura would prosper for ten thousand years.

Lu Li revealed that Sakura's Demonized Army had lost control and Ishiba Taro turned against everyone by possessing the Flame Poison Monarch. Lu Li sent Zhou Muli, disguised as Xing Anlin, to fight the monster and planned to claim Ishiba Taro's soul before it was devoured.

• Lu Li told Ishiba Taro that the Corrupted Demon Well had been destroyed and most of the Demonized Army had lost control, while Ishiba Taro accused him of causing it.
• The Lighthouse delegation rejected Ishiba Taro's plea for help and condemned Sakura's secret cultivation of the Demonized Army.
• Ishiba Taro used a remote to stop the water cannons, reigniting the Flame Poison Monarch, then possessed it with his Flame Spirit Body and threatened Lu Li.
• Lu Li summoned Zhou Muli and lent him [Heart-Image Ghost Mask], which gave him Xing Anlin's face.
• Zhou Muli attacked the Flame Poison Monarch with a fireball, and Lu Li urged him to finish quickly before Ishiba Taro's soul was devoured.

Ishiba Taro drove the Flame Poison Monarch into the sea to escape Lu Li, but the creature was declared dead, leaving the delegations confused about how it had been killed. As Sakura Island fell into chaos, Lu Li evacuated the Lin family and prepared to deal with the Sakura guards with Wang Chao.

• Ishiba Taro sent the Flame Poison Monarch charging into the ocean to escape Zhou Muli’s fire attacks and planned to slip away while it hibernated.
• A mechanical announcement declared that Lu Li had become the first player to kill a monarch-class creature and confirmed the Flame Poison Monarch’s death.
• Lu Li warned the delegations that the Sakura Demonized Army had gone out of control and told Lin Tianxia to evacuate with the Lin family.
• Lu Li stayed behind with Wang Chao, while most delegations departed and the delegations from Bangzi Country, Lighthouse Country, and Bear Country remained.
• Lu Li told Wang Chao to handle the nearly hundred Sakura guards, and Wang Chao accepted and equipped his bladed shields.

Wang Chao fought the Sakura People while Lu Li watched and a brown bear joined the battle. When the remaining Sakura People unleashed their Corrupted Essence, Wang Chao was caught in the blast and confronted by seven strange figures offering him anything he desired.

• Lu Li infused Wang Chao with black mist and told him to seek revenge without expecting help.
• Wang Chao charged the Sakura People, killed ten, and kept fighting as they overwhelmed him with ranged attacks.
• A brown bear charged into the fight, helping Wang Chao push the Sakura People’s numbers down to fifty.
• Lu Li killed the Sakura People who tried to flee, leaving twenty survivors to fight desperately.
• The remaining Sakura People used Corrupted Essence, and their Demon Cocoons exploded, blasting Wang Chao to the ground.
• Seven bizarre figures appeared to Wang Chao and offered him anything he desired.

Wang Chao resisted the demons’ mental attack through his desire to avenge his grandfather, but soon found himself overwhelmed until Lu Li secretly empowered him. After Wang Chao proved unaffected by Demon Qi, Lu Li urged the demons to bless him again, leaving Wang Chao bewildered as he ordered him to inhale deeply.

• Wang Chao remembered his grandfather and resisted the seductive whispers, causing the seven ghostly figures to vanish and reveal demons.
• Wang Chao fought the demons but was disarmed and nearly used a Thorn Blood Talisman before Lu Li admitted he had been helping him.
• Lu Li’s power surged through Wang Chao, letting him smash demons and tear a Swift Demon apart.
• Lu Li pointed out that Wang Chao showed no signs of Demon Qi Erosion, and Wang Chao wondered if his constitution explained it.
• Lu Li taunted the demons into pouring more demonic energy over Wang Chao, then told him to inhale it instead of resisting.

Wang Chao accepted the demons’ offer of power on Lu Li’s advice, transformed into a powerful Demon Hunter, and slaughtered the surrounding demons. After the delegation witnessed his strength, a brown bear suddenly pounced on Lu Li and licked him.

• Wang Chao followed Lu Li’s instructions and asked the seven demons for power, triggering a major transformation.
• The Data Panel announced that Wang Chao had completed his class advancement quest and could advance to Demon Hunter.
• Lu Li explained that Wang Chao was a rare item unlike the demonized Sakura People, whose faith and composure crumbled.
• Wang Chao attacked and killed the Lesser Demon and the other demons surrounding him, shocking the delegation.
• A brown bear charged at Lu Li and planted a lick on him, leaving Wang Chao stunned.

Lu Li reunited with Nikita, who had transformed from a brown bear and demanded he make up for their lost time. After agreeing to her terms, Lu Li learned that her father, Kaido, was still gravely injured and watched Nikita return to Bear Country while he and Wang Chao remained on Sakura Island.

• Wang Chao realized the brown bear pinning Lu Li might know him, and the bear transformed into Nikita.
• Nikita accused Lu Li of abandoning her, then made him promise to spend seven times a night with her for seven nights.
• Nikita told Lu Li that Kaido's wounds from the power of rules had not healed and that he was barely holding on.
• Lu Li said he still had matters to handle on Sakura Island, and Nikita left for Bear Country with her delegation.
• Wang Chao asked about the hot girlfriend Nikita had offered, and Lu Li promised to take him to Bear Country after dealing with Sakura.

Lu Li left with Wang Chao while the delegations debated what had happened at the Corrupted Demon Well. The Lighthouse and Korean delegations flew there to investigate, where Greta proposed putting Lu Li on the world's wanted list, only for her colleagues to point out how dangerous that would be.

• Lu Li sent Wang Chao away in black mist, then appeared before the Lighthouse delegation as Lu Zhongxian and vanished again.
• The Lighthouse delegation decided to report that Lu Li could turn dead Players into summons, while the Korean delegation agreed to seek a way to survive by heading to the Corrupted Demon Well.
• The Lighthouse and Korean delegations flew to the Corrupted Demon Well and found its facilities destroyed, surrounding towns burning, and monsters roaming the area.
• Greta blamed Lu Li for the Demonized Army going out of control and proposed mobilizing the world's forces to put him on the wanted list.
• The Lighthouse delegation members laughed at Greta's proposal and warned that Lu Li was too powerful to hunt safely.

Greta condemned Lu Li and boasted that she would put him on a wanted list, but Lu Li appeared and challenged her claims of justice by dropping her into the path of the Greedy Lord. As Sakura People cried for help, Greta refused to risk her life to save them.

• Greta denounced Lu Li and accepted the Bangzi Country delegation's flattery as they urged her to spread her message.
• Lu Li appeared behind Greta and mocked her plan to put him on trial, while Greta insisted justice might show him leniency.
• Lu Li used a black mist arm to seize Greta, took away her storage sachet, and dropped her from the flying vehicle.
• Greta survived the fall but found herself in the Greedy Lord's path as a Sakura People couple called for help.
• Lu Li challenged Greta to sacrifice herself to save the couple, but she refused and blamed the disaster on him.

Greta begged Lu Li and the delegations to save her as demons closed in, but they abandoned her while Lu Li focused on a battle elsewhere. The chapter left Greta isolated and likely facing death after her accusations vanished in the public chat.

• Greta attacked a couple and left them for the Greed Lord, but a swift imp killed the fleeing wife after the Greed Lord began eating her husband.
• Greta begged Lu Li to save her, but he refused and continued instructing the fat man as he fought a white-haired, armored demon.
• Greta demanded that the delegations rescue her, but the Lighthouse delegation kicked her out of their group chat and discussed using her death to benefit the Lu Family and the Lighthouse.
• Greta cursed the delegations and posted accusations against Lu Li in the public channel, but her messages quickly disappeared beneath newer ones.

Lu Li coached Wang Chao through a fight with a demon, then left him to practice while he went to Black Sun’s underground headquarters. After capturing Okada Chusheng and stripping the base of its valuables, Lu Li noticed a dead woman in a black robe and wondered who had killed her.

• Lu Li guided Wang Chao through attacks on a demon, and Wang Chao destroyed the hearts on its legs despite being splashed by corrosive blood.
• Lu Li explained his knowledge of Demon Hunters with an invented story about a Demon Omniscience Pill, and advised Wang Chao to wait until level thirty before choosing a class.
• Lu Li left Wang Chao with his Burrowing Bee Queen summon and went to Black Sun’s headquarters, where Xing Anlin had kept Okada Chusheng alive.
• Lu Li bound Okada Chusheng with a Magic-Sealing Rope and sent him through a portal to Lin Tianxia for imprisonment.
• The Soul Guards salvaged Black Sun’s usable supplies and equipment, while Lu Li asked who had killed a woman in a black robe; Xing Anlin suggested an internal conflict.

Lu Li returned to the surface to find Wang Chao had defeated a demon who turned out to be Park Guochang, Park Group’s chairman. He pressured the Korean delegation into offering all their [Abyss Invitation Letters] and [Rule Changer Trial Tickets], but their leader abruptly pulled back the Storage Jade Pendant before handing it over.

• Lu Li swapped places with the Burrowing Bee Queen and arrived above ground beside Wang Chao, the defeated white-haired demon, and the kneeling Korean delegation.
• Lu Li learned from the Bee Queen’s memories that the demon was Park Guochang, though his fully transformed soul could no longer be restored to its former state.
• The Korean delegation pleaded with Lu Li to spare Park Guochang, and Lu Li demanded every [Abyss Invitation Letter] and [Rule Changer Trial Ticket] they possessed in exchange.
• The Korean delegation contacted headquarters and gathered the items into a Storage Jade Pendant, suspecting a mole had revealed their inventory to Lu Li.
• As the pendant was about to be passed to Wang Chao, the bowl-cut Korean leader snatched it back and retreated warily.

Lu Li traded the white-haired demon to the Korean delegation under an Oath Contract and left to use his Rule Changer Trial Tickets. The Lighthouse delegation tried to imitate his trade, but found the Koreans gone and themselves surrounded by demons.

• The Korean delegation asked Lu Li to sign an Oath Contract before completing the trade, and he inspected and signed it.
• The Korean with side-swept bangs confirmed the demon was Chairman Park and ordered the delegation to treat him and return to their group.
• Lu Li took the Storage Jade Pendant from Wang Chao and left, intending to use one hundred Rule Changer Trial Tickets to activate the [Rule Changer] title.
• The Lighthouse delegation decided to capture live demons to trade with the Koreans for resources or information.
• After capturing two demons, the Lighthouse delegation found the Koreans gone and faced the Lord of Greed and a crowd of approaching demons.

Park Jeongsang tried to purge the demonic energy from Park Guochang by immersing him in Purification Potions while Players healed him, but Park Guochang remained in demon form. At Changbai Mountain, Lin Qinxue finished clearing the recovery zones with help from the Wan Family Disciples, who erupted into commotion after checking their Data Panels.

• Park Jeongsang ordered employees and Players to restrain Park Guochang in a bathtub of Purification Potion while Healing Players repeatedly healed him.
• Park Guochang stopped struggling but remained in demon form, so Park Jeongsang decided to keep him locked up until he regained consciousness.
• Park Ke showed Park Jeongsang the Lighthouse Delegation's request to trade demons for intelligence and resources, and Park Jeongsang dismissed the delegation.
• Lin Qinxue confirmed that the last recovery zone had been cleared and went to reconnect the zones, while Wan Juanshu told the Wan Family Disciples to rest and stay put.
• Wan Jiaxi accompanied Lin Qinxue, and the Wan Family Disciples caused a fresh commotion after browsing their Data Panels.

As Wan Juanshu caught up on the public chat, he learned that Lu Li had warned the Tu Family about the danger in Mausoleum City, but Tu Fu’s distrust had led to catastrophic losses. The Wan Family was safe and saw an opportunity to rise in standing by continuing to cooperate with Lu Li.

• Wan Juanshu heard the Wan Family Disciples praising Lu Li’s feats and complaining that they wished they could join the Lin Family.
• Wan Juanshu found a post reporting that a demonic creature had nearly wiped out the Tu Family in Mausoleum City and checked on his relatives.
• Wan Renfeng told Wan Juanshu that ninety percent of the Tu Family disciples at their headquarters had died, while Tu Fu had become a Demon Cocoon.
• Wan Renfeng explained that Lu Li had given Tu Fu advance warning and a refuge plan, but Tu Fu had doubted the information and failed to follow it.
• Wan Renfeng urged Wan Juanshu to work with Lu Li so the Wan Family could potentially rise to Heaven Grade status.

Lin Family activated the Frost Territory, enhancing the strength and recovery of those inside and convincing Wan Juanshu that the Wan Family should submit to Lu Li. Several days later, Zhang Tiechui left Yong City’s Central Shelter for Changbai Mountain to help build the new territory, leaving Little Bao En with her brother.

• A distant boom startled birds, which were transformed by frost as Lin Family activated the revival zones.
• Wan Family members entered the Frost Territory and received buffs that restored their stamina and strengthened them.
• Wan Juanshu realized the territory could turn even Civilian Players into useful combat power and decided the Wan Family should submit to Lu Li.
• At Yong City’s Central Shelter, Zhang Tiechui told Little Bao En he was going to Changbai Mountain to help build the Lin Family’s new territory.
• Zhang Tiechui boarded an airship with other Civilian Players, while Bao Quanyong caught Little Bao En in the wind stirred up by the departing fleet.

Liu Wenjian and Lin Tianxia coordinated another staged clash, using the Lu Family’s covert support to train the Lin and Liu Families’ soldiers while concealing their alliance. Liu Ruyan then arrived with a warning from Wan Juanshu that the Wan Family might act against the Liu Family if its harassment of the Lin Family escalated.

• Liu Wenjian told Lin Tianxia about an incoming ten-person squad, and they arranged for Qin Hua to prepare and agreed to divide another batch of aid.
• Liu Wenjian reflected on how the Lin and Liu Families staged clashes to gain combat experience while misleading the Lu Family, which secretly backed the Liu Family to undermine the Lin Family.
• Liu Ruyan arrived at the Liu Family’s meeting room with a message from Wan Juanshu, while privately lamenting that she had missed her chance to join the Lin Family and meet Lu Li.
• Liu Wenjian overheard Liu Ruyan’s musings, then asked about her message and watched her become wary of his attention.
• Liu Ruyan warned that Wan Juanshu had told the Liu Family to restrain its harassment of the Lin Family or risk action from the Wan Family.

Liu Wenjian followed Lu Li’s orders to detain Liu Ruyan and escalate the conflict with the Wan Family while maintaining the Liu Family’s cover. The chapter ended with Liu Ruyan trapped in the conference room as Liu Wenjian taunted her and offered her the position of his wife.

• Liu Ruyan delivered Wan Juanshu’s message, but Liu Wenjian laughed and said he needed instructions from above.
• Liu Wenjian secretly sent Lu Li details and photos of Liu Ruyan, then received orders to detain her to stabilize relations with the Wan Family.
• Lu Li explained that provoking the Wan Family would help bring it into their faction, test new Players, and preserve the Liu Family’s false anti-Lu Li image.
• Liu Wenjian told Liu Ruyan that the Liu Family would continue its campaign against the Lin Family, despite her warning about Lu Li.
• Liu Ruyan tried to leave, but Liu Family Disciples blocked the conference room entrance.
• Liu Wenjian dismissed her appeal to the Wan Family and taunted her with an offer to become his wife.

Liu Wenjian’s group captured Liu Ruyan while Lu Li arranged for Wan Juanshu to retaliate against the Liu family and recruit people for a Secret Realm. Lu Li then left with Nikita to visit her injured father, drawing attention from Russian Players who recognized him.

• Liu Wenjian’s disciples subdued Liu Ruyan, and he stopped Liu Liu from gagging her to preserve the possibility that Lu Li might want her later.
• Lu Li and Wan Juanshu agreed on a Cooperation Contract, and Lu Li asked him to send a list of people with decent character and normal intelligence for the Secret Realm.
• Lu Li woke Nikita and agreed to satisfy her later before accompanying her to visit her father, Kaido.
• Nikita left with Lu Li in the snow, clinging to his arm and teasing him about keeping warm.
• Russian Players recognized Nikita and Lu Li, and the men who considered challenging him backed down when they realized he topped both leaderboards.