Chapter Summaries

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin watched Kitaryu Shingen grant wishes while Fang Cheng identified the Soul Stabilizer, then discovered their plan to approach the Pope had been exposed. Kaneda Hideki revealed he had defected to the Truth Cult and left them surrounded by armed worshippers.

• Wakamatsu Kazuki introduced Kitaryu Shingen, whose chest ornaments included the Soul Stabilizer Fang Cheng sought.
• Kitaryu Shingen granted several wishes, and Fang Cheng suspected the cures came at a hidden cost.
• Armed worshippers emerged and surrounded Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin before they could approach Kitaryu Shingen.
• Kaneda Hideki admitted he had reported them to the Pope and defected to the Truth Cult.
• Kanzaki Rin accused Kaneda Hideki of being behind the disappearances and deaths of the Countermeasure Department's undercover agents.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin confronted Kaneda Hideki in the Truth Cult's Grand Temple, where the High Priest revealed he was a Countermeasure Department agent who had been undercover for twenty years. Wakamatsu Kazuki subdued Kaneda, but his claim that the cult had become his home left Fang Cheng and Kanzaki wary.

• Kaneda Hideki blamed the Countermeasure Department for abandoning him and ordered the believers to capture Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin.
• Fang Cheng used hidden mosquitoes to kill the armed believers, and Kaneda threatened the pair with the bombs on their collars.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki took Kaneda's detonator, revealed he was an undercover agent, and knocked Kaneda unconscious.
• Kanzaki Rin recognized Wakamatsu Kazuki as the Countermeasure Department's first agent in the Truth Cult, and he learned that his contact, Matsutake Takuya, had died ten years earlier.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki said he had married and started a family and now considered the Truth Cult his home, making Fang Cheng and Kanzaki wary of him.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin discovered that the man posing as Kitaryu Shingen was Tamagawa Shu, whose face was nearly identical to Fang Cheng’s and Asaka Makoto’s. Fang Cheng asked Wakamatsu Kazuki to keep Tamagawa Shu for him, but Kazuki felt the same overwhelming pressure he felt from the real Kitaryu Shingen.

• Wakamatsu Kazuki told Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin he would not expose their identities, and explained that he spared Kaneda Hideki because he sympathized with him.
• Fang Cheng removed the Soul Stabilizer from the fake Kitaryu Shingen, and Wakamatsu Kazuki revealed that the crown was the only genuine ornament and that the real Kitaryu Shingen was elsewhere.
• Fang Cheng removed the fake Kitaryu Shingen’s mask and recognized that Tamagawa Shu looked almost exactly like him.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki explained that Kitaryu Shingen had found Tamagawa Shu in an orphanage and used him as a double, prompting Fang Cheng to recall that Asaka Makoto also resembled him.
• Fang Cheng asked Wakamatsu Kazuki to keep Tamagawa Shu until he left, and Kazuki felt overwhelmed by Fang Cheng’s stare.

Fang Cheng killed Kaneda Hideki, whose blood activated the Holy Grail and brought the statues in the hall to life. He transformed into a giant Ultraman and fought through the regenerating statues, but Shiva awakened and blocked his path.

• Kaneda Hideki lunged for the Holy Grail, and Fang Cheng killed him with a steel needle.
• Kaneda Hideki's blood activated the Holy Grail, which revived the statues and sent them to attack the group.
• Fang Cheng grew to nearly five meters tall and smashed several statues while Kanzaki Rin guarded Wakamatsu Kazuki and Tamagawa Shu.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki told Fang Cheng to destroy the Holy Grail, and Fang Cheng used six arms to clear the statues in his way.
• Shiva broke free of its pedestal and stepped between Fang Cheng and the Holy Grail.

Fang Cheng destroyed the Shiva statue, the Holy Grail, and the Truth Cult’s attacking forces at the Grand Temple. After Wakamatsu Kazuki revealed that Kitaryu Shingen was hiding underground with the Soul Stabilizer, Kanzaki Rin suspected Wakamatsu was steering them toward a fight for his own reasons.

• Fang Cheng melted the Shiva statue and Holy Grail with Purifying Demon Fire, causing the other statues to collapse.
• Fang Cheng sent blood eagles to attack the Truth Cult followers approaching the Grand Temple.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki revealed that Kitaryu Shingen had hidden beneath Nanmoku Village for five years and gave Fang Cheng the key to the underground passage.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki said Kitaryu Shingen always carried the Soul Stabilizer and warned that he was invincible underground.
• Kanzaki Rin and Fang Cheng restrained Wakamatsu Kazuki and Tamagawa Shu after Kanzaki accused Wakamatsu of concealing his real motives.

Wakamatsu Kazuki explained why he wanted Kitaryu Shingen dead and revealed that a Holy Seal kept him trapped in the Truth Cult. Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin let him believe they represented the Countermeasure Department, then questioned him about the cult’s power.

• Wakamatsu Kazuki admitted he wanted to destroy the Truth Cult because Kitaryu Shingen’s schemes would eventually bring disaster on its members.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki showed Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin the Holy Seal that let Kitaryu Shingen control his subordinates, and Fang Cheng found the same mark on Tamagawa Shu.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki explained that he had revealed himself because Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin’s bold arrival made him think the Countermeasure Department was investigating the cult.
• Fang Cheng let Wakamatsu Kazuki believe the Countermeasure Department might protect him if he proved useful, then asked where the Truth Cult’s power came from.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki said the cult’s powers, including the wish-granting Holy Grail, came from Kitaryu Shingen, though Shingen claimed the Grail came from Shiva.

Fang Cheng forced Wakamatsu Kazuki to guide him and Kanzaki Rin underground, where they planned to find Kitaryu Shingen and the core of Shambhala. The three reached a dark passage behind an elephant-carved door, and Kanzaki Rin sensed danger within.

• Fang Cheng learned that Tamagawa Shu had been cared for by Wakamatsu Kazuki since childhood and let Tamagawa stay behind while taking Wakamatsu along.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki revealed that destroying Shambhala's core would return Kitaryu Shingen's strength to normal, though he did not know where the core was.
• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin exchanged teasing and concerned remarks as Wakamatsu Kazuki led them toward the underground entrance.
• Fang Cheng unlocked a large elephant-carved door at the deepest part of the Grand Temple, exposing a pitch-black passage that made Kanzaki Rin sense danger.

Fang Cheng, Kanzaki Rin, and Wakamatsu Kazuki entered Kitaryu Shingen’s underground Kingdom of Shambhala and traveled through its strange artificial landscape. They found a town whose inhabitants and vehicles were frozen in place.

• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin equipped themselves with Blood Battle Suits and weapons, then used a drone to inspect the dark cave entrance.
• Fang Cheng, Kanzaki Rin, and Wakamatsu Kazuki entered the cave, with Fang Cheng holding Kanzaki Rin’s hand and a Blood Beast carrying Wakamatsu.
• Wakamatsu explained that Kitaryu Shingen had expanded a natural cave to build Shambhala, a hidden domain inspired by the Truth Cult’s beliefs.
• The group reached a vast underground space lit by a dim artificial sun, and Fang Cheng sent Blood Eagles to carry them toward a cluster of buildings.
• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin saw that the bustling town’s pedestrians and cars were all frozen in place.

Fang Cheng, Kanzaki Rin, and Wakamatsu Kazuki entered Kitaryu Shingen’s eerie town of mud-made God-Humans and encountered its Divine Envoy, a replica of Sakurajima Mai. After Fang Cheng defeated her, the Mud Men turned toward the group and attacked.

• Fang Cheng, Kanzaki Rin, and Wakamatsu Kazuki crossed the silent town, where Fang Cheng confirmed that the motionless people were mud-made and bore Holy Seals.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki led Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin to the Divine Envoy, a Bunny Girl resembling Sakurajima Mai.
• Sakurajima Mai declared that the two newcomers without Holy Seals were Animal Humans and attacked them.
• Kanzaki Rin’s bullets failed to hit Sakurajima Mai, but Fang Cheng dodged her strike and kicked her apart, revealing her mud body.
• Sakurajima Mai accused Wakamatsu Kazuki of betraying the Son of Brahma, and the surrounding Mud Men turned toward the group and lunged at them.

Fang Cheng, Kanzaki Rin, and Wakamatsu Kazuki fought through the Mud Men and followed an underground river toward Kitaryu Shingen. As they approached his domain, an unseen force attacked them under the Son of Brahma’s order to kill the intruders and Wakamatsu.

• Fang Cheng used War Stomp and four Vulcan Gatlings to destroy the Mud Men surrounding the group.
• Kanzaki Rin and Wakamatsu Kazuki watched Fang Cheng’s display, and Wakamatsu agreed to lead them to Kitaryu Shingen.
• Wakamatsu warned that Kitaryu Shingen would know they were coming and said he continually made Mud Men.
• Fang Cheng, Kanzaki Rin, and Wakamatsu followed the underground river past buildings filled with tens of thousands of Mud Men.
• As they traveled, Fang Cheng proposed a bet with Wakamatsu about whether danger awaited them in the air.
• Kanzaki Rin sensed an attack, and a voice invoked the Son of Brahma’s decree to kill the intruders and the traitor Wakamatsu Kazuki.

Fang Cheng fought through Kitaryu Shingen’s enormous armies of birdmen and Mud Men, using Blood Eagles and cannons to destroy them. He and Kanzaki Rin reached the underground temple, where they found Kitaryu Shingen sitting with his back to them and playing with mud.

• Garuda led waves of birdmen against Fang Cheng, Kanzaki Rin, and Wakamatsu Kazuki, and Fang Cheng countered them with exploding Blood Eagles.
• After the birdmen overwhelmed his defense, Fang Cheng brought Kanzaki Rin and Wakamatsu Kazuki to the ground, where Kitaryu Shingen’s Mud Men army charged them.
• Fang Cheng created forty cannons and blasted the advancing army while Blood Eagles and antiaircraft guns held off the remaining birdmen.
• Fang Cheng destroyed the Mud Men army, and Garuda abandoned the battle and fled.
• Fang Cheng carried Wakamatsu Kazuki onward with Kanzaki Rin until they reached the underground temple and found Kitaryu Shingen playing with mud.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin confronted Kitaryu Shingen in Shambhala, where he demonstrated his ability to create living beings from mud. Kitaryu Shingen offered Fang Cheng a place in his plan to remake the planet, but revealed that he intended to kill all of humanity.

• Kitaryu Shingen rebuked Wakamatsu Kazuki, then shaped a mud figure into a living being and sent it from the hall.
• Kitaryu Shingen showed Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin the Soul Stabilizer around his neck and called his creation a miracle.
• Fang Cheng mocked Kitaryu Shingen's claim to godlike power and explained that humans could create life too.
• Fang Cheng demanded the Soul Stabilizer, claiming it belonged to him through the Ultimate Bliss Cult, and Kitaryu Shingen said he would have to pay a price to reclaim it.
• Kitaryu Shingen invited Fang Cheng to help turn the planet into Shambhala and declared that he planned to kill every human being.

Fang Cheng fought Kitaryu Shingen, whose immense power and Shambhala-backed defenses shrugged off Fang Cheng’s strongest attacks. Fang Cheng sent Kanzaki Rin and Wakamatsu Kazuki to find Shambhala’s core while he stayed behind to hold Shingen off, but Shingen remained unharmed and began floating above the ruined temple.

• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin condemned Kitaryu Shingen’s plan to kill humanity, and Shingen challenged them to take the Soul Stabilizer by force.
• Fang Cheng’s mental attacks, shotgun blasts, and rocket launcher failed to harm Shingen, whose invisible barrier deflected or absorbed them.
• Shingen unleashed Great Might Heavenly Dragon, shattering the temple hall, and Fang Cheng escaped with Kanzaki Rin and Wakamatsu Kazuki.
• Fang Cheng gave Kanzaki Rin an object and sent her and Wakamatsu Kazuki to find Shambhala’s core while he stayed to fight Shingen.
• Fang Cheng bombarded Shingen with cannons and Word Spirit Arts, but Shingen’s defenses repelled nearly everything and he rose into the air above a collapsed pit.

Kanzaki Rin and Wakamatsu Kazuki searched Shambhala’s temple for its core while Fang Cheng fought Kitaryu Shingen outside. After Kanzaki Rin and the Blood Wolf defeated Garuda, a furtive figure lunged at her from behind.

• Kanzaki Rin fought off Birdmen attacking her and Wakamatsu Kazuki until Blood Eagles arrived to help.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki located the temple area containing Shambhala’s core, and Kanzaki Rin flew there with him on a Blood Eagle.
• Kanzaki Rin and Wakamatsu Kazuki entered the temple and followed Wakamatsu Kazuki through its maze-like corridors to a meditation room full of Mud Men.
• Kanzaki Rin and the Blood Wolf fought the animated Mud Men, then faced Garuda, who emerged from the room.
• Kanzaki Rin used grenades, Flashbangs, and fire while the Blood Wolf attacked, and together they tore Garuda apart.
• As Kanzaki Rin prepared to search for the core, a furtive figure lunged at her from behind.

Kanzaki Rin discovered that Wakamatsu Kazuki had lured her to a nonexistent Shambhala core so Garuda could capture her, then killed him with a blood trap Fang Cheng had planted. Meanwhile, Fang Cheng remained unable to penetrate Kitaryu Shingen’s defense as Kitaryu Shingen unleashed a golden beam that tracked him.

• Wakamatsu Kazuki attacked Kanzaki Rin and admitted that Shambhala’s core did not exist and that he had brought her there as bait for Garuda.
• Kanzaki Rin crushed a blood-red sphere, triggering the blood Fang Cheng had planted inside Wakamatsu Kazuki and impaling him.
• Before he died, Wakamatsu Kazuki revealed that Kitaryu Shingen’s supposedly invincible defense had a limit, and Kanzaki Rin destroyed his corpse with a grenade.
• Fang Cheng and Kitaryu Shingen continued their stalemate, with Fang Cheng’s attacks failing to break through Kitaryu Shingen’s defense.
• Kitaryu Shingen fired his Great Luo Dharma Mantra at Fang Cheng, and the golden beam pursued him as he dodged.

Fang Cheng fought Kitaryu Shingen, whose Buddhist attacks battered him but failed to defeat him. Their battle left Fang Cheng seeking answers about Mother and learning that Wakamatsu Kazuki had deceived him and Kanzaki Rin about Shambhala's core.

• Kitaryu Shingen's giant Buddha phantom unleashed a barrage that drove Fang Cheng into a crater, but Fang Cheng survived and his revealed face shocked Kitaryu Shingen into asking whether he was Mother's child too.
• Fang Cheng asked who Mother was, but Kitaryu Shingen called him an abandoned one and demanded that he join the Truth Cult before learning more.
• Kitaryu Shingen attacked Fang Cheng again while Fang Cheng answered Kanzaki Rin's communicator, and Kanzaki told him that Shambhala's supposed core was fake and Wakamatsu Kazuki had tricked them.
• Fang Cheng realized Wakamatsu Kazuki had made them believe Kitaryu Shingen could be defeated by destroying a core, and Kitaryu Shingen admitted that Shambhala had no core and claimed no one could defeat him.

Fang Cheng fought Kitaryu Shingen in the Underground Space after learning that Shingen’s supposed invincibility was a bluff. He spent lives to strengthen his abilities, survived Shingen’s killing move through revival, and ended the chapter charging at him with a katana and hammer.

• Kitaryu Shingen realized Wakamatsu Kazuki and Garuda had failed, then tried to maintain his act of invincibility against Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng spent 45 lives to raise Steel Blood, Power of the Ghost God, and Blood Explosion, transforming into a ten-meter armored mech.
• Fang Cheng’s enhanced artillery pushed Kitaryu Shingen back as their battle shook the Underground Space and forced Kanzaki Rin out of hiding.
• Fang Cheng closed in with ship-cutting swords, but Kitaryu Shingen pierced his chest with his six arms using his killing move.
• Fang Cheng blew himself up, then revived and rushed at Kitaryu Shingen with a katana and hammer.

Fang Cheng killed Kitaryu Shingen and took the Soul Stabilizer, but Kitaryu Shingen's final attack left Kanzaki Rin unconscious in Nightmare Hell. As Fang Cheng tried to use the Soul Stabilizer to help her, someone struck him from behind, and Wakamatsu Kazuki's soul appeared beside the stolen artifact.

• Fang Cheng shattered Kitaryu Shingen's Turtle Shell with Dojigiri Yasutsuna and the Thunder-Strike Hammer, then killed him after demanding to know who his mother was.
• Kitaryu Shingen's head exploded and released white light that swept through the Underground Space, knocking Kanzaki Rin unconscious while leaving Fang Cheng unharmed.
• Fang Cheng took the Soul Stabilizer and looted Kitaryu Shingen's heart, gaining 18 lives and several abilities, including Nightmare Hell.
• Fang Cheng found Kanzaki Rin unconscious behind a boulder and realized Kitaryu Shingen's final attack might have trapped her soul in Nightmare Hell.
• Fang Cheng took out the Soul Stabilizer to help Kanzaki Rin, but an unseen attacker struck him from behind and stole the artifact, which revealed Wakamatsu Kazuki's soul.

Wakamatsu Kazuki seized the Soul Stabilizer after secretly arranging for Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin to fight Kitaryu Shingen, then tried to kill Fang Cheng. Fang Cheng revealed he was unharmed and defeated Wakamatsu, who broke down and explained how his plan had unfolded.

• Wakamatsu Kazuki gloated over Kitaryu Shingen's death and the Soul Stabilizer, then attacked Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng revealed he had faked his injury and tried Purification, but it had no effect on Wakamatsu.
• Wakamatsu threatened Fang Cheng, but Fang Cheng projected his soul from his body and chased Wakamatsu when he fled.
• Fang Cheng overpowered Wakamatsu and demanded to know what he wanted.
• Wakamatsu recounted his string of misfortunes, his secret plan to use Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin against Kitaryu Shingen, and how he had obtained the Soul Stabilizer.

Fang Cheng learned from Wakamatsu Kazuki how to rescue Kanzaki Rin from Kitaryu Shingen’s Nightmare Hell, then prepared to enter the nightmare through possession. After confirming Wakamatsu had told the truth, he entered Kanzaki Rin’s body to bring her back.

• Wakamatsu Kazuki explained that someone had to enter Nightmare Hell with their soul and lead Kanzaki Rin out, and he asked Fang Cheng to protect his family and Tamagawa Shu.
• Wakamatsu Kazuki’s soul disappeared, and Fang Cheng absorbed his power and fused it with Soul Projection to create Yin Spirit.
• Fang Cheng carried Kanzaki Rin away from the Grand Temple, hid in ruins near Nanmoku Village, and secured the area with Blood Beasts and Steel Blood.
• Fang Cheng summoned Izanae and asked her to verify Wakamatsu Kazuki’s account, and she confirmed it was true but refused to help rescue Kanzaki Rin.
• Fang Cheng removed Kanzaki Rin’s Cross Pendant and projected his soul into her body.