Chapter Summaries

Li Hai and Feifei learned that Zhang Yong, a Vulture Gang bandit, had killed Granny Zan, and they waited at Widow Wang’s residence for him to arrive. Mayor Li came instead and begged Li Hai not to kill Zhang Yong, warning that the Vulture Gang’s leader was connected to Nether Moon Pavilion.

• Li Hai tortured Widow Wang until she revealed that Zhang Yong had killed Granny Zan after she hired him to capture Li Hai.
• Feifei identified Zhang Yong as the Vulture Gang’s Third Master and described the gang’s leaders, the Jiaolan Three Demons.
• Li Hai learned that Zhang Yong might return to Widow Wang’s residence after drinking, while Feifei killed Widow Wang for her part in the affair.
• After Li Hai and Feifei waited half an hour, Mayor Li arrived with more than a hundred women carrying infants and asked Li Hai to spare Zhang Yong.
• Mayor Li warned that killing Zhang Yong would bring Zhong Tianchuan’s wrath upon Jinfu Town and revealed that Zhong Tianchuan’s father was Zhong Xiangsheng, master of Nether Moon Pavilion.

Li Hai rejected Mayor Li’s plea to spare Zhang Yong and avoid provoking Zhong Tianchuan, then revealed the overwhelming power of his four Innate Legend subordinates. As Mayor Li and the townspeople reacted in shock, a drunken man approached Widow Wang’s residence and saw the kneeling crowd.

• Mayor Li begged Li Hai to spare Zhang Yong and protect Jinfu Town from Zhong Tianchuan, while Feifei urged Li Hai to abandon revenge and leave.
• Li Hai learned that Zhong Tianchuan lived as a desert bandit by choice and that he had once crippled Mayor Li, a former Innate martial artist.
• Li Hai accused Mayor Li of knowingly letting Widow Wang inform the bandits and endanger merchant caravans, and Mayor Li admitted his guilt.
• Li Hai summoned Brother Blade’s group of four and the Sky Steel Qilin, then showed Mayor Li the four subordinates’ overwhelming auras.
• Mayor Li realized the four subordinates were likely Innate Legends, while a drunken hard-faced man approached and spotted the women and children kneeling outside.

Li Hai confronted Zhang Yong over Granny Zan’s murder and prepared to punish him while Feifei watched. When the Vulture Gang demanded five hundred townspeople for their chief to kill, Li Hai lifted everyone into the sky and spotted the bandits approaching Jinfu Town.

• Zhang Yong admitted to killing Granny Zan after confessing that Widow Wang had hired him to capture Li Hai.
• Feifei asked Li Hai to avenge Granny Zan, and he suspended Zhang Yong in the air and prepared to torture him with ten thousand cuts.
• A messenger warned Mayor Li that the Vulture Gang demanded five hundred townspeople for Zhong Tianchuan to kill.
• Li Hai lifted everyone at the Wang Residence hundreds of zhang into the air and spotted the Vulture Gang’s mounted force outside Jinfu Town.

Li Hai identified Zhong Tianchuan and fired the Divine Eagle Essence Cannon at the Vulture Bandit Gang. The chapter ended with Zhong Tianchuan caught in the cannon’s blazing bombardment.

• Li Hai recognized Zhong Tianchuan’s abilities and climbed into the Sky Steel Qilin to prepare the Divine Eagle Essence Cannon.
• Feifei, Mayor Li, Zhang Yong, and the captives saw the Vulture Bandit Gang gathered in the desert.
• Zhong Tianchuan demanded captives and brutally slaughtered more than a dozen people to satisfy his bloodlust.
• Li Hai fired the Divine Eagle Essence Cannon, engulfing Zhong Tianchuan in intense light, heat, and pain.

Li Hai used the Divine Eagle Essence Cannon to nearly kill Zhong Tianchuan, then brought him and Zhang Yong back to punish them. Zhong Tianchuan died under Li Hai’s knife, while Zhang Yong endured 129,600 cuts before he died.

• Li Hai fired the Divine Eagle Essence Cannon at the Vulture Gang, creating a vast crater in the desert.
• Li Hai fired twice more at Zhong Tianchuan, leaving him barely alive, then ordered Brother Blade's group to retrieve him.
• Li Hai began cutting Zhang Yong and Zhong Tianchuan; when Zhong Tianchuan showed no reaction, Li Hai beheaded him and received a Stronger Fragment.
• Li Hai used secret medicines and tools to torture Zhang Yong through 129,600 cuts before Zhang Yong died.

After reflecting on his approach to others, Li Hai ordered Mayor Li to kill himself and then set out with Feifei and Brother Blade’s group to destroy Nether Moon Pavilion. He reached the Western Wilds and spotted the pavilion’s island stronghold in the distance.

• Li Hai decided that people should fear him and learned that Nether Moon Pavilion lay on Emerald Glow island in the Western Wilds.
• Li Hai blamed Mayor Li for adding to his anger and ordered him to kill himself; Mayor Li obeyed and died.
• Li Hai promised not to harm Jinfu Town and told Feifei they were going to wipe out Nether Moon Pavilion’s entire clan.
• Li Hai and his companions flew west at tremendous speed, crossed Jiaohong Land Gorge, and entered the Western Wilds.
• Li Hai spotted a large lake and the building-covered island at its center.

Zhong Xiangsheng, Zhuang Xuanggan, Han Qinghong, and Xue Feihong held a tri-sect council when a powerful stranger called out Zhong Xiangsheng from the night sky. After Xue Feihong revealed that she was eighteen and the daughter of Xue Cangqiong, blazing figures descended on Nether Moon Pavilion, prompting the gathered leaders to rush out.

• Zhuang Xuanggan and Han Qinghong teased Zhong Xiangsheng when a booming voice repeatedly called for him from outside.
• Xue Feihong judged the caller might be a Peak Legend, but Zhong Xiangsheng denied making such an enemy.
• Zhuang Xuanggan and Han Qinghong speculated that Zhong Xiangsheng's descendants, including his exiled son, might have brought trouble to the island.
• Xue Feihong revealed that she had turned eighteen and credited her cultivation to her father, Xue Cangqiong.
• Seven or eight torrents of blazing light descended toward Nether Moon Pavilion, and Zhong Xiangsheng, Han Qinghong, Zhuang Xuanggan, and Xue Feihong vanished from the council hall.

Li Hai attacked Nether Moon Pavilion, baited Zhong Xiangsheng with Zhong Tianchuan’s remains, and killed him in a single strike. After gaining his thirtieth Stronger Fragment, Li Hai faced three more Peak Legends and studied the skills of two unfamiliar masters.

• Li Hai fired eight shots from the Divine Eagle Essence Cannon, drawing Zhong Xiangsheng out of Nether Moon Pavilion.
• Li Hai threw Zhong Tianchuan’s remains at Zhong Xiangsheng, who destroyed them before Li Hai revealed what they were.
• Li Hai exploited Zhong Xiangsheng’s shock to pierce his chest and abdomen with whip shadows, then reduced him to ash with frigid blade qi.
• Han Qinghong, Zhuang Xuanggan, and Xue Feihong witnessed the killing, while Xue Feihong was struck by Li Hai’s appearance.
• Li Hai gained a Stronger Fragment, bringing his total to thirty, then learned the skills of two unfamiliar Peak Legends who approached him.

Li Hai encountered Xue Feihong, an extraordinarily talented Peak Legend from the Ice Palace, and learned her powerful skills and King-grade Ancient Cold Dragon Divine Ability. After Xue Feihong explained why she had guessed he planned to wipe out the Nether Moon Pavilion, she offered to help him do it.

• Li Hai inspected Xue Feihong's panel, learned her cultivation arts and Divine Ability, and discovered Ancient Cold Dragon's immense powers.
• Li Hai asked Xue Feihong, Han Qinghong, and Zhuang Xuanggan who they were and why they had appeared in the Nether Moon Pavilion.
• Xue Feihong identified herself as an Ice Palace member and asked Han Qinghong and Zhuang Xuanggan to stay quiet while she spoke with Li Hai.
• Xue Feihong explained the three sects' meeting and guessed Li Hai intended to exterminate the Nether Moon Pavilion because he had killed Zhong Xiangsheng.
• Xue Feihong offered to help Li Hai wipe out the sect, leaving him surprised.

Xue Feihong froze Nether Moon Pavilion and let Li Hai destroy it, after which she openly pursued him. Li Hai departed with Feifei, while Xue Feihong eyed her with suspicion and Han Qinghong warned the envoy to be cautious about her interest in Li Hai.

• Xue Feihong offered Nether Moon Pavilion’s forces, territory, and interests to Han Qinghong and Zhuang Xuanggan, then froze the sect and its disciples with a blast of cold.
• Li Hai refused to let Xue Feihong finish off the frozen sect and shattered Nether Moon Pavilion with a rain of crimson Sword Qi, killing two Grandmasters and raising his Stronger Fragments from thirty to thirty-two.
• Xue Feihong asked Li Hai’s name and tried to call him Haihai, but he rejected her advances and flew toward the qilin.
• Xue Feihong saw Feifei waiting for Li Hai and wondered what their relationship was, while killing intent flashed in her eyes.
• Han Qinghong questioned Xue Feihong’s attraction to Li Hai and warned her that her status called for caution.

Li Hai and Feifei traveled to the Mystic Gu Workshop in Red Earth Forest so he could uncover answers about her past. As they arrived, Feifei’s cultivation surged again, reaching the Innate Madman realm.

• Xue Feihong told Han Qinghong that her heart belonged to Li Hai and that he would have no say if he refused her.
• Li Hai noticed that Feifei’s martial arts and spell cultivation had risen and that she had gained the top-grade divine ability Eighteen Arhats, which he learned from her.
• Li Hai asked Feifei to guide him to the Mystic Gu Workshop in Red Earth Forest, and she agreed, recalling her escape from there more than ten years earlier.
• Li Hai and Feifei rode the Qilin Giant Climber through Red Earth Forest and reached the Mystic Gu Workshop, eight thousand li from Jinfu Town.
• Feifei grew uneasy as she saw the workshop, and her body suddenly shook as her martial arts realm rose to the Innate Madman realm.

Li Hai discovered that the Mystic Gu Workshop was developing Colony Armor, then copied the abilities of its patrol soldiers and became a Colony Soldier Envoy himself. The chapter ended with him gaining insight into the workshop’s cultivation system.

• Feifei demonstrated her newfound strength by punching into a rock wall, then left to handle Granny Zan’s funeral while Li Hai stayed behind.
• A red, flower-shaped mark appeared between Li Hai’s brows, sharpening his mind as he meditated and consolidated his martial arts.
• Li Hai sensed that he could create multiple Overlord Rank techniques but chose to wait until he had collected more fragments before breaking through.
• Li Hai spotted half-human, half-insect patrol soldiers flying from the Mystic Gu Workshop and recognized their Colony Armor abilities as Titan Units.
• Li Hai learned the patrol soldiers’ skills, became a Colony Soldier Envoy, and gained insight into the system.

Li Hai learned how Mystic Gu Augmented Ones depended on their Titan Units, then captured two patrolling Augmented Ones and ripped the units from their bodies. After interrogating the men, he discovered that Mystic Gu Workshop was governed by eight workshop masters who lived in caverns three thousand zhang underground.

• Li Hai realized that Augmented Ones gained formidable strength from Titan Units, but losing one caused their bodies to collapse into fatal illness.
• Brother Blade brought two patrolling Augmented Ones to Li Hai after he froze them with icy beams.
• Li Hai tore the Titan Units from the two men, causing their augmentations to wither and leaving them critically ill.
• Li Hai forced pills and drugs on the men to keep them alive and extract information.
• The two men told Li Hai that Mystic Gu Workshop had eight workshop masters who made decisions together and lived in caverns three thousand zhang beneath the workshop.
• Li Hai learned that the men had grown up inside the workshop and believed their Titan Units were unhatched gu insect eggs.

Li Hai learned how the Mystic Gu Workshop used children and fighting slaves to produce gu masters, and suspected that Granny Zan had escaped during a revolt decades earlier. Discovering that the workshop's children and candidates had been moved into the abyss, he prepared to attack the gu masters left behind.

• Li Hai learned that the workshop’s gu seeds were mostly bare-grade and that failed fusions often killed or transformed their candidates into monsters.
• Li Hai learned that a middle-grade gu master had once freed many slaves and candidates, but the mysterious force supplying children later captured and executed him and fifty-four other gu masters.
• Li Hai suspected Granny Zan had been among those who escaped the workshop during the revolt.
• Li Hai wondered whether the mysterious force supplying children was the Xuan Dynasty Remnants.
• Li Hai learned that the workshop masters had taken its children, qualified candidates, and reserves into the abyss, leaving only gu masters behind, and decided to unleash a slaughter.

Li Hai transformed into a colossal Living Spaceship and destroyed the aboveground Mystic Gu Workshop with a relentless laser bombardment. He then aimed his Macroscopic Matter Incineration Cannon at the molten ground to reach the eight workshop masters hiding in an underground cavern.

• Li Hai flew above the Mystic Gu Workshop and transformed into a gigantic Living Spaceship, stunning the Gu Masters below.
• Li Hai unleashed hundreds of laser cannons, vaporizing Gu Masters and reducing the workshop's buildings to rubble.
• The bombardment melted the ground into lava, killing the remaining mid-grade Gu Masters and destroying the aboveground workshop.
• Li Hai retracted his laser cannons and brought out the Macroscopic Matter Incineration Cannon to strike the underground cavern.
• Li Hai fired the cannon into the ground, aiming to blast through roughly ten thousand meters of earth to reach the eight workshop masters.

Li Hai drilled a ten-thousand-meter passage into a vast underground wilderness and encountered several bizarre species while searching for the Eighth Workshop Master. After killing a Grandmaster-level Nine-Linked-Head Person and finding that it dropped a Stronger Fragment, he abandoned his original search and spent a day and night hunting for more.

• Li Hai used the Annihilation Cannon to vaporize one billion tons of rock and create a ten-thousand-meter passage underground.
• Li Hai flew into the cavernous world below and found it filled with enormous mushrooms, stone pillars, and thunderclouds.
• Li Hai observed Hand-Foot Birds and encountered Eye-Gut Monsters and Linked-Head People during his search for the Eighth Workshop Master.
• Li Hai found a Nine-Linked-Head Person whose strength reached the Grandmaster level, killed it, and discovered it dropped a Stronger Fragment.
• Li Hai changed his target and searched for other Nine-Linked-Head People for a day and night.

Li Hai exhausted the underground world’s Stronger Fragments and set out to confront the eight Mystic Gu Workshop masters. At their blood-sacrifice site, Feng Lianhu and the others prepared their forty-seventh attempt to extract an Immortal Seed from the remains, while Shi Qingsheng worried that repeated failures were abnormal.

• Li Hai explored the vast underground world, found three Nine-Headed Linked-Head Men, and gained three Stronger Fragments.
• Li Hai discovered the Sorrow Knights and killed several powerful individuals, bringing his total to thirty-six Stronger Fragments.
• Li Hai deduced that the eight workshop masters were in the broad region at the base of the underground world and declared he was coming for Feng Lianhu, Ma Yihan, and Shi Qingsheng.
• At the blood-sacrifice site, a Gu Master reported to Feng Lianhu that the ritual was complete and the forty-seventh Immortal Seed extraction could begin.
• Ma Yihan asked whether the fist slaves had run out, and Feng Lianhu confirmed they had all been used.
• Shi Qingsheng noted that the previous forty-six extraction attempts had failed and suspected something was wrong, while Feng Lianhu dismissed his concern.

Li Hai attacked the Mystic Gu Workshop masters, seized their High-Rank Giant God Units, and questioned Ma Yihan about the immortal corpse Gu seed. He learned that the Nameless One Organization had supplied the workshop with children for blood sacrifices, then killed Ma Yihan.

• Ma Yihan and the other workshop masters discussed the unresponsive immortal seed as Li Hai plunged down and struck the ground among them.
• Li Hai unleashed the Constellation Net Sword, destroying the eight workshop masters and the mid-grade Gu Masters caught in its attack.
• Li Hai tore the High-Rank Giant God Units from the workshop masters, dragged Ma Yihan over, and forced him to answer questions.
• Ma Yihan revealed that the crystal held a Gu Immortal’s corpse and that fusing with its Gu seed might make someone a Gu Immortal.
• Ma Yihan disclosed that the Nameless One Organization supplied the workshop’s children and that hundreds of thousands had been blood-sacrificed to extract the Gu seed.
• Li Hai killed Ma Yihan, gaining another Stronger Fragment.

Li Hai interrogated Shi Qingsheng and Feng Lianhu about the Nameless One organization and the Black Son of Heaven’s Sacred Will Envoys. He realized Feifei was likely a descendant of the Great Xuan imperial clan chosen to become an envoy, and learned that the Black Son of Heaven had placed the Memory Nest Book in her bloodline.

• Shi Qingsheng told Li Hai that the seventh-generation Black Son of Heaven founded the Nameless One organization after resurrecting, and that it had grown beyond its original Xuan restorationists.
• Shi Qingsheng explained that the Mysterious Principle Memory Nest Book was a bloodline mark of the Great Xuan imperial clan, leading Li Hai to suspect Feifei was an imperial descendant.
• Shi Qingsheng identified Anping Play as a Sacred Will Envoy and described envoys as powerful imperial descendants who carried the Black Son of Heaven’s will.
• Li Hai learned that king-grade divine ability wielders could not refuse becoming envoys, then punched Shi Qingsheng’s head apart.
• Feng Lianhu told Li Hai that chosen envoys rapidly gained power and could awaken additional divine abilities; Li Hai recalled that their memories were overwritten by the Black Son of Heaven’s.
• Li Hai realized the last Black Son of Heaven had left the Memory Nest Book in Feifei’s bloodline.

Li Hai uncovered that the Holy Will Envoys were members of the Black Son of Heaven collective and learned how deeply the Nameless One organization had infiltrated the Martial Realm. After killing Feng Lianhu and destroying Mystic Gu Workshop, he returned to find that Xue Feihong had taken Feifei to the Ice Palace on Snow God Mountain, and he flew east in a fury.

• Li Hai learned that Dragon Sword Emperor Wu Tianshi was a Holy Will Envoy and concluded that he was another incarnation of the Black Son of Heaven.
• Feng Lianhu revealed the Nameless One organization's bases and outposts across the Martial Realm and beyond, but knew nothing of Anping Play's whereabouts.
• Li Hai killed Feng Lianhu and the remaining Mystic Gu Workshop masters, then stored the crystal containing an incomplete Giant God Unit in the Guiyou Grotto-Heaven.
• Li Hai returned to Cat King Temple and found Xue Feihong's message saying she had taken Feifei to the Ice Palace atop Snow God Mountain.
• Enraged by Xue Feihong's demand that he bring gifts to meet her father, Li Hai destroyed Cat King Temple and sped east toward the Ice Palace.