Chapter Summaries

An old Taoist animated by the Rat Talisman destroyed the Apocalypse Knight, but Meng Qing seized the talisman and trapped Nightmare in a Dreamscape battle. Elsewhere, Ren Water attacked Bing Fire and Xin Gold using the powers of absorbed avatars, and the clash escalated as Bing Fire unleashed Heavenly Firefall against Ren Water’s Golden Avatar.

• An old Taoist animated by the Rat Talisman destroyed the Apocalypse Knight with the Immortal Slaying Flying Dagger, then exploded into white paper.
• Meng Qing seized the Rat Talisman, countered Nightmare’s Absolute Darkness with Silk Threads, and forced Nightmare to take them both into the Dreamscape.
• Bing Fire and Xin Gold confronted the masked attacker, and Bing Fire revealed Ren Water’s identity when his mask burned away.
• Ren Water used Wu Earth’s Earth Golem to attack Xin Gold and block Bing Fire’s Heavenly Fire.
• Ren Water charged Bing Fire with Geng Metal’s Golden Avatar, and Bing Fire answered with Heavenly Firefall as Ren Water declared, “Metal cleaves fire!”

Ren Water defeated Bing Fire and confronted Xin Metal, then explained to Jia Wood that he believed only two of the Ten Heavenly Stems could survive and that he had killed Ding Fire to spare her from killing her companions. He revealed a power combining seven secondary avatars and faced Jia Wood, Ji Earth, and Xin Metal as the fight continued.

• Ren Water killed Bing Fire in their clash, then struggled toward Xin Metal despite his severe injuries.
• Jia Wood and Ji Earth arrived, and Jia Wood fought Ren Water before recognizing the grappling move he had taught him during training.
• Ren Water told Jia Wood that he had killed Ding Fire because he believed only two Heavenly Stems could survive, and that he had acted to spare her from the burden of killing her companions.
• Ren Water hinted that someone who sheltered them had arranged their fate, then transformed his avatar and leaped into the sky as Jia Wood hesitated to kill him.
• Ren Water revealed seven secondary avatars at once, including those of Ding Fire, Yi Wood, Geng Metal, Wu Earth, Gui Water, and Bing Fire, and taunted Jia Wood for hesitating.

Ren Water survived a near-fatal battle with Jia Wood and Ji Earth by striking unexpectedly, then killing them both despite running out of energy. He staggered away from the fight, leaving Xin Metal to wonder whether Ren Water was finally finished.

• Jia Wood and Ji Earth attacked Ren Water together in the sky, and Ji Earth struck him hard enough to send him crashing to the ground.
• Jia Wood hesitated when Ren Water thanked him, allowing Ren Water to stab them both with a golden greatblade concealed underground and then kill Jia Wood with Bing Fire's Yang God Avatar.
• Ren Water used Yi Wood's healing ability to tend his wound, then evaded Ji Earth's stone hammer with tear gas and stabbed her in the eye.
• Ren Water subdued Ji Earth and repeatedly stabbed the back of her neck until she stopped breathing.
• Xin Metal saw Ren Water stagger away with barely any strength and wondered whether he was done for.

Ren Water fought the last surviving Heavenly Stem, Xin Metal, until Siwei arrived and killed her, leaving Ren Water to recover. Elsewhere, Meng Qing defeated Nightmare in the Dreamscape, took the Rat Talisman with Cain, and reached the Book of Gods, where they prepared for the Great Serpent to descend upon the human world.

• Ren Water collapsed in the snow and told Xin Metal that they were the only survivors and no longer needed to kill each other.
• Xin Metal attacked Ren Water, but her blades could not pierce him deeply enough to kill him.
• Siwei arrived and beheaded Xin Metal, then injected Ren Water with adrenaline.
• Ren Water absorbed a strand of white energy from Xin Metal and began recovering while Siwei reflected on their partnership and Ren Water's deception.
• Meng Qing defeated Nightmare in the Dreamscape with his Fourth-Tier Peak Mental Power, then took the Rat Talisman and brought Cain away.
• Meng Qing and Cain reached the Book of Gods in Antarctica, and Meng Qing announced that the Great Serpent would descend upon the human world.

Meng Qing and Cain used the Rat Talisman and the Book of Gods to summon the Sequence 024 Great Serpent into a free humanoid body. The Great Serpent seized Apocalypse and activated the Sixth Seal, leaving Cain stunned as the world shook and the sky turned dark.

• Meng Qing placed the Rat Talisman into the serpent statue while Cain chanted from the Book of Gods.
• The Sequence 024 Great Serpent descended into the statue and transformed it into a humanoid body.
• Cain welcomed the Great Serpent and pledged the Hand of the Serpent’s allegiance.
• The Great Serpent took Apocalypse from Cain and opened it to a page that triggered the Sixth Seal.
• The earth trembled, daylight vanished, and the moon turned blood-red as the Great Serpent recited the Sixth Seal.

The Great Serpent’s attempt to use the Sixth Seal as a warning ended in a hurried escape after Sequence 001 confronted him, and the Hand of the Serpent’s Antarctic plans collapsed. With the Book of Gods now known to have been taken by the Hand, Qin Leng stepped down and appointed Ren Shui, restoring her original name, Bai Ye, as the new leader of the O5 Council.

• Cain begged the Great Serpent not to open the Sixth Seal, and the Great Serpent revealed that he had only intended to warn the world that he was free.
• Sequence 001 emerged from The Exiled's Library and stopped the Great Serpent from taking its books, prompting him to summon the Red Rider and flee on its horse.
• Sequence 001 returned from the Inner World and dragged the Red Rider toward the library to ask where Sequence 024 had gone, unaware that someone had entered the library while she was away.
• The Hand of the Serpent withdrew from Antarctica after its plans failed, while Chaos and Nine-Tailed Fox learned that the Hand had taken the Book of Gods.
• Qin Leng withdrew from the O5 Council and appointed Ren Shui as its leader, told her to choose ten people for the vacant Ten Heavenly Stems seats, and restored her name to Bai Ye.

Bai Ye entered the O5 Council chamber and, while the councilors confronted him over his actions, told the story of how hardship taught him to survive and pursue power. He ended by declaring that gaining power meant making a place for himself and being willing to pay any price.

• Bai Ye kicked open the O5 Council chamber doors, sat in Qin Leng's seat, and began eating canned yellow peaches as the councilors questioned him.
• Bai Ye described his childhood in an orphanage, where a wealthy couple chose other children over him despite his efforts to improve himself.
• Bai Ye recounted surviving on the streets after the orphanage closed, teaching himself from discarded books, and struggling through jobs before joining the military and the Nine-Tailed Fox.
• Bai Ye said he had met former orphanage children who wore masks to avoid being abandoned, then summarized the lessons he had learned about belonging, competition, and pursuing power at any cost.

Bai Ye entered the O5 Council with Qin Leng’s backing and immediately called for the removal of Chairman Wang Zhong. Qin Leng then sent him to meet Tang Yan, who foretold Bai Ye’s death, but Bai Ye treated the prophecy as a reason to act boldly rather than fear the future.

• The council members received notice that Bai Ye would take Qin Leng’s seat, gain authority equal to his, and be exempt from liability for the traitor matter.
• Bai Ye criticized Chairman Wang Zhong and proposed replacing him with someone more capable, and Qin Leng approved.
• After the meeting, Qin Leng introduced Bai Ye to Tang Yan, a blind A-rank containment subject and survivor of the Candy Box Experiment.
• Tang Yan told Bai Ye that he could foresee the endpoint of futures through touch and prophesied that Bai Ye would die when the sun rose at night and poplar trees bloomed in the first lunar month.
• Bai Ye told Tang Yan a story about a king whose attempt to escape a death prophecy led to his death, arguing that a foretold death was no reason to live in fear.

Bai Ye struggled to refine the souls and powers of the Ten Heavenly Stems, suffering backlash as their voices grew louder in his mind. At the Chaos Splitter headquarters, Computer prepared Chaos 02 and revealed that he was pursuing Helium-3 to bring about a Mechanical Era.

• Bai Ye told Tang Yan that he had no parents, had named himself, and considered himself a coexistence of good and evil.
• Bai Ye woke from a nightmare filled with the voices of the Heavenly Stems and tried to refine their power, but the attempt failed and injured him.
• Computer modified the captured Nine-Tailed Fox bearer of the Rabbit Talisman while Sequence 009 urged him to retaliate against the Hand of the Serpent.
• Computer said he was assembling Chaos 02 and revealed that he planned to secure Helium-3, which he believed others could not compete for within five years.

Bai Ye unsettled the organization with his bizarre food orders and appointed D-Class Personnel as the new Ten Heavenly Stems. He then led them into a containment zone, where he brutally tested their ability to remember a clown’s face before they fled.

• Bai Ye kept writing contradictory diary entries about canned yellow peaches and ordered staff to bring him different foods each morning.
• Chairman Liu Tao questioned Bai Ye’s background, but Qin Leng explained that Bai Ye was the son of his former comrade and had graduated from National Defense University.
• Bai Ye revealed ten D-Class Personnel as the new Ten Heavenly Stems, despite Liu Tao’s objections.
• Bai Ye took the ten D-Class Personnel to see β077: Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice and gave them drinks.
• Bai Ye showed the group a clown’s photograph, killed two D-Class Personnel who failed his test, and showed the survivors a portrait of Zhang Yuanqing.
• The remaining eight D-Class Personnel ran away.

Bai Ye used Beta 077, causing more than two hundred thousand deaths, then defected to Chaos and attacked the Earthly Branches to take their talismans. He arrived at Chaos Splitter headquarters with the Snake position in his grasp.

• Bai Ye used Soul Orange Juice to kill ten guards, and the chairman later learned that 210,000 people had died from the item’s effects.
• Bai Ye left with the Earthly Branches, telling the Snake position that he planned to defect to Chaos and would help recover the other talismans.
• Bai Ye and the Snake position led the Earthly Branches to Africa, where Bai Ye killed or captured them and took their talismans.
• Computer discussed Bai Ye’s unpredictable actions while trying to save Arthur and Zhang Yuanqing at Chaos Splitter headquarters.
• Bai Ye blasted into the headquarters with the Snake position by the throat and said the wontons were getting cold.

Computer realized Bai Ye had deliberately made his plans seem too complicated, allowing him to mistake a real attack on Chaos headquarters for a false one. Bai Ye reached Chaos’s inner level and detonated Computer’s chassis, then used the Tiger Talisman’s power to manifest the Yin-Yang Two Energies.

• Computer explained that Bai Ye’s earlier actions had made him believe Bai Ye was evading responsibility rather than targeting Chaos headquarters.
• Computer realized Bai Ye had used a layered logical trap to conceal his true objective and acknowledged that he had been outmaneuvered.
• Bai Ye broke through Chaos’s checkpoints and entered the inner level, where Arthur and Zhang Yuanqing could no longer fight.
• Bai Ye and Computer exchanged accusations about whether Bai Ye’s actions had been calculated or simple.
• Bai Ye’s white Yang energy enveloped Computer’s Chaos 01 chassis and detonated its fuel rods.
• Bai Ye manifested the Yin-Yang Two Energies using the Tiger Talisman, which he had broken in half.

Bai Ye destroyed Chaos's final base, captured Arthur and Zhang Yuanqing, and returned with valuable data while the computer and Sequence 009 escaped. The Nine-Tailed Fox then spread basic cultivation methods worldwide and focused on developing Chaos Bodies as humanity entered a new era of energy use.

• The computer used the Rabbit Talisman to escape with its portable main body and activated the base's self-destruct sequence.
• Bai Ye restrained Sequence 009, who escaped using Absolute Hit, then took Arthur and Zhang Yuanqing from the laboratory.
• Bai Ye returned to Nine-Tailed Fox headquarters with Arthur and Zhang Yuanqing, claiming the mission had succeeded and Chaos's core data had been recovered.
• Qin Leng defended Bai Ye's actions before the Council of Elders, ruling that his gains outweighed the casualties and abuses.
• The computer fled to Asia and prepared to continue its plan as news reported a new lunar helium-3 discovery.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox introduced the Qi Guiding Technique to the world, secretly spread more advanced cultivation methods, and prioritized research into Sequence 020's Chaos Bodies.

Zhou Shuyan took over as Bai Ye’s secretary and learned how to handle his erratic stories and routines while accompanying him on a Containment Zone inspection. Meanwhile, Computer secretly hijacked a manned rocket and reached the moon, beginning its plan to build a Mechanical Empire and eventually attack Earth.

• Zhou Shuyan replaced the outgoing secretary, who gave her canned yellow peaches and a diary of rules for dealing with Bai Ye.
• Bai Ye told Zhou Shuyan an invented story about his past, and she checked the diary’s warning not to take his stories seriously or contradict him.
• During a Containment Zone inspection, Bai Ye stopped to look at the living sword Poplar, and Zhou Shuyan recorded that he seemed to care about it.
• Computer took control of a manned rocket and used it to travel secretly to the moon.
• Computer planned to dismantle the rocket, extract helium-3, build lunar factories and Chaos Bodies, and eventually launch an assault on Earth.

After Bai Ye’s campaign drove the Hand of the Serpent toward collapse, the story shifted years ahead to Yang Lin, who inherited his father Yang Yan’s police badge. Meng Qing reappeared and gave Yang Lin a photograph of Jiang Chen, a man who might answer his questions about the Nine-Tailed Fox.

• Bai Ye’s Nine-Tailed Fox crushed Chaos and drove the Hand of the Serpent into hiding over seven months.
• Abel declared that he was surrendering, Cain insisted the Hand of the Serpent would survive, and Meng Qing silently left their meeting.
• Yang Lin decided he wanted to become a police officer, and three years later he inherited his father Yang Yan’s badge in North Ridge City.
• Meng Qing tested Yang Lin with a Silk Thread, then refused to explain the Nine-Tailed Fox or the golden sphere he had given him years earlier.
• Meng Qing gave Yang Lin a photograph of Jiang Chen and asked him to persuade the man to help.

Yang Lin recalled the mysteries his master Meng Qing had left him to investigate and learned how Qin Leng had shaped the Nine-Tailed Fox’s energy and tier system. The chapter ended with the Nine-Tailed Fox under Bai Ye’s control, having abandoned its original principles.

• Meng Qing had returned after four years and given Yang Lin a photograph of Jiang Chen as his only clue.
• Yang Lin had set out to uncover his father’s death at Nanyan Hotel, the Nine-Tailed Fox document his mother had hidden, and his own awakening.
• The account explained the Nine-Tailed Fox’s cultivation methods and human-based tiers, which Qin Leng had assembled from knowledge of another world.
• Qin Leng had left the Nine-Tailed Fox for the Inner World after becoming the first person in the new system to reach the Fourth Tier.
• Bai Ye had taken control of the Nine-Tailed Fox and used ruthless methods that disregarded human morality.

Yang Lin used his new police position to find Jiang Chen, a recently released grave robber, and asked him about the Nine-Tailed Fox. Jiang Chen offered to share what he knew if Yang Lin arrested Old Jin, then led him into the wilderness, where they found several grave-robbing tunnels.

• Yang Lin left home despite his mother's worries and asked his master at the North Ridge City Public Security Bureau to identify Jiang Chen.
• A middle-aged officer recognized Jiang Chen as a grave robber who had been released from prison the day before and gave Yang Lin his file.
• Yang Lin found Jiang Chen at his rural home, where he spotted a collection of Luoyang shovels and asked about the Nine-Tailed Fox.
• Jiang Chen offered to tell Yang Lin about the Nine-Tailed Fox if Yang Lin arrested Old Jin, the leader of a Grave Robber Gang, and claimed he had evidence.
• After nightfall, Jiang Chen led Yang Lin to a remote wilderness, where they found several thief holes and discussed how the tunnels provided airflow to tombs.

Jiang Chen led the police into a looted Han Dynasty tomb and found a broken brick that could link the grave robbers to Old Jin. Meanwhile, Meng Qing attacked a Nine-Tailed Fox branch during a containment breach and escaped with a document titled “SG07: Lingyun Sword Intent General Outline.”

• Jiang Chen and Yang Lin jumped into the thief hole, followed by the police, and searched the empty tomb chamber.
• Jiang Chen showed the officers a broken Han Dynasty tomb brick and explained that it could be compared with Old Jin’s collection to identify the grave robbers.
• The officers suspected Jiang Chen of digging the hole, but he denied it and explained that he had placed a candle in a previous tomb for practical reasons.
• A black-robed Meng Qing killed the Armed Forces members in a Nine-Tailed Fox branch and fought a man wearing Metal Battle Armor and a Snake Talisman.
• After the armored man detonated himself, Meng Qing searched the room, took the “SG07: Lingyun Sword Intent General Outline” document, and kept the Snake Talisman.

Chen Ye’s avatar struggled with forbidden potions while Ye Long fought Insects as the world’s energy grew. Qin Leng and the Starry Sky Principal were interrupted when two bottles of potion emerged from rifts in space.

• Chen Ye’s avatar convulsed, argued with itself about distributing forbidden potions, and made bottles vanish into space.
• Ye Long pinned Insects down and learned that the shackles were weakening and the factions were racing to find a cocoon.
• Ye Long’s growing strength fueled the world’s energy, creating a cycle that could eventually allow Rank Five beings to emerge.
• Qin Leng met the Starry Sky Principal, taught him the local language, and learned magic from him while both advanced to Rank Four.
• Qin Leng beat the Starry Sky Principal at Gomoku, then dodged as two rifts opened and two potion bottles rolled out.

Qin Leng, the Starry Sky Principal, and the Lord of Flesh and Blood drank mysterious Forbidden Potions that transformed their bodies and unleashed dangerous powers. The first two were pulled into the Dream World at higher ranks, while the Lord of Flesh and Blood escaped a Nine-Tailed Fox containment chamber and discovered his ability to cause absolute rot.

• Qin Leng and the Starry Sky Principal found two mysterious potions in the Inner World and tasted them.
• The Starry Sky Principal transformed into a purple energy body and was pulled into the deepest level of the Dream World.
• Qin Leng transformed into a flame-covered being and was also dragged into the Dream World, where he and the Starry Sky Principal realized they had advanced to the fifth rank and identified the potions as Forbidden Potions.
• The Lord of Flesh and Blood drank a potion in a Nine-Tailed Fox containment chamber, causing guards and the chamber to rot into sludge as he escaped.
• Shen used the Monkey Talisman to turn the Lord of Flesh and Blood into a monkey, but the Lord of Flesh and Blood caused Shen to rot, reclaimed his human form, and identified his power as Absolute Rot.