Chapter Summaries

Fang Cheng prepared to visit Iron-Cast Palace with Yuguang Qingxue, but Kanzaki Rin stopped him outside Machine City and asked him to take her somewhere secluded. As they flew together on a Blood Eagle, Fang Cheng asked why she had decided to do this.

• Fang Cheng trained Vector Control and sorted his abilities by their strength and potential, deciding how to develop each type.
• Yuguang Qingxue told Fang Cheng she was ready to accompany him to Iron-Cast Palace, and he said goodbye to the others before they left Machine City.
• Kanzaki Rin texted Fang Cheng to meet her outside the city, then asked Yuguang Qingxue to wait while she spoke with him alone.
• Kanzaki Rin climbed onto Fang Cheng's back and asked him to take her somewhere secluded with a nice view.
• Fang Cheng created a Blood Eagle, flew with Kanzaki Rin above the countryside, and asked why she had decided to do this.

Kanzaki Rin and Fang Cheng spent the day together before she returned to her group, while Fang Cheng and Yuguang Qingxue drove toward Iron-Cast Palace. On the highway, they encountered more than a thousand monsters fleeing toward them, and the chapter ended before the cause of their panic was revealed.

• Kanzaki Rin told Fang Cheng she wanted to be with him before the Sessho-seki awakened, and they spent the day together on the Blood Eagle.
• Kanzaki Rin returned to her group, while Fang Cheng and Yuguang Qingxue set off for Iron-Cast Palace.
• Yuguang Qingxue asked whether Fang Cheng would marry Kanzaki Rin and his other companions, and he said he would.
• Fang Cheng detected an unusual mass of scents ahead and told Yuguang Qingxue to slow down.
• Fang Cheng and Yuguang Qingxue saw over a thousand monsters approaching with frightened expressions.

Fang Cheng and Yuguang Qingxue encountered a Passion Flame Ghost while flying over a forest blanketed in pink mist. After Fang Cheng repelled it with his new Dragon's Wrath ability, he learned that the monster targeted Yuguang because she was his bride, and the enraged ghost charged at them again.

• A frightened tide of monsters rushed toward Fang Cheng and Yuguang Qingxue, but Fang Cheng's aura made them veer around the car.
• Yuguang questioned a fleeing monster and learned that a Great Monster was hunting the others, so Fang Cheng lifted their car above the forest on a Blood Eagle.
• A humanoid monster attacked the Blood Eagle with chains of pink mist, forcing it to land and set the car down.
• The monster called Yuguang a fragrant bride and charged Fang Cheng, who blasted it away with Dragon's Wrath.
• The wounded monster healed, and Fang Cheng recognized it as a Passion Flame Ghost that hunted brides and widows.
• Fang Cheng asked whether Yuguang had been married, and she answered that she had married him; the Passion Flame Ghost then went berserk and charged them again.

Fang Cheng used his new abilities to defeat Passion Flame Ghost and stop the fires spreading through the forest. After capturing the regenerating monster, Fang Cheng learned that Ghost Cultivation Mountain had sent him to Area 11, but Passion Flame Ghost refused to explain why.

• Fang Cheng activated War God Lineage and used Instant Transmission to strike Passion Flame Ghost, who regenerated and tried to bargain for his freedom.
• Fang Cheng used Ghost Shadow Tracking to force Passion Flame Ghost to dance, but the monster burst into flames and ignited the forest.
• Fang Cheng protected Yuguang Qingxue with Dragon's Wrath and created artificial blood-rain to put out the spreading fires.
• Yuguang Qingxue tried to hold Passion Flame Ghost back, while Fang Cheng summoned King Ksitigarbha and battered the monster into a crater.
• Fang Cheng questioned the captured Passion Flame Ghost, who admitted Ghost Cultivation Mountain had sent him to Area 11 but refused to reveal the reason.

Fang Cheng learned that the next Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters competition would take place in Hokkaido, then killed Passion Flame Ghost and had to deal with the curse he unleashed on Yuguang Qingxue. After Purification lifted the curse, Yuguang Qingxue woke in cat form and discovered Fang Cheng intended to pet her.

• Fang Cheng forced Passion Flame Ghost to reveal that Ghost Cultivation Mountain had sent him to Hokkaido to scout for the upcoming Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters competition.
• Yuguang Qingxue realized the competition could devastate Hokkaido and threaten the Iron-Cast Palace’s rule.
• Fang Cheng killed Passion Flame Ghost, whose dying curse released pink mist that overwhelmed Yuguang Qingxue with heat and desire.
• Fang Cheng tried to help Yuguang Qingxue with a vibrating Vajra Pestle, but she threw it at him; she then passed out and transformed into a white cat.
• Fang Cheng used Purification to lift Yuguang Qingxue’s curse, and she woke on his lap after dreaming that he had taken advantage of her.
• Yuguang Qingxue thanked Fang Cheng for breaking the curse, then stiffened when he asked to pet her as payment.

After defeating Passion Flame Ghost, Fang Cheng absorbed its abilities and discovered that his Evolution ability had gained a desire-related trait. He and Yuguang Qingxue flew toward the Iron-Cast Palace, but Fang Cheng stopped to kill a monster eating a rabbit.

• Fang Cheng massaged Yuguang Qingxue until she relaxed and cried out, then gave her space to recover.
• Fang Cheng absorbed Passion Flame Ghost's energy, gained abilities and fragments, and raised his life count to 199.
• Fang Cheng discovered that Evolution had absorbed Passion, a trait that reduced Sage Time and stirred a partner's desire to fight.
• Fang Cheng burned Passion Flame Ghost's corpse and returned to find the car broken, so he and Yuguang Qingxue flew toward the Iron-Cast Palace on a Blood Eagle.
• Fang Cheng jumped from the Blood Eagle, found a monster eating a rabbit, and killed it.

Fang Cheng returned to Iron-Cast Palace with Yuguang Qingxue while Shuten-doji tried to secure Ghost Cultivation Mountain as an ally for the coming contest to become Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters. The chapter ended with Fang Cheng asking Tsukikage Hoshi whether she could still run the Fox Immortal House in Tokyo.

• Fang Cheng absorbed a monster's corpse, gained an extra life, and warned Yuguang Qingxue not to tell Kanzaki Rin more than what had happened.
• Shuten-doji discussed Passion Flame Ghost's death and a possible alliance with Ghost Cultivation Mountain, who agreed to think about it.
• Shuten-doji reflected on being driven from Area 11 and vowed to make his name reign there again.
• Fang Cheng and Yuguang Qingxue rode Blood Eagle to Iron-Cast Palace, where Tsukikage Hoshi greeted them.
• Tsukikage Hoshi invited Yuguang Qingxue to work at the Fox Immortal House, and Fang Cheng asked whether she could still run its Tokyo branch.

Fang Cheng returned to the Iron-Cast Palace and promised Tsukikage Hoshi a new Fox Immortal House as he joined her side. His reunion with Oni Yunjie and Yuguang Kaori ended in a confrontation when Tsukikage Hoshi exposed Yuguang Kaori's feelings for him, and Fang Cheng suggested pursuing both sisters.

• Tsukikage Hoshi angrily blamed Fang Cheng for Fox Immortal House's permanent closure, but he promised to join her and provide a new house.
• Tsukikage Hoshi led Fang Cheng and Yuguang Qingxue into the Iron-Cast Palace, where Oni Yunjie welcomed Fang Cheng and recognized Qingxue.
• Yuguang Kaori returned with confidential documents and thanked Fang Cheng for keeping Mirai safe, while speaking to him with unusual formality.
• Tsukikage Hoshi teased Yuguang Kaori that she was keeping her distance because she feared competing with her daughter over Fang Cheng, and Kaori reacted angrily.
• Fang Cheng suggested that Yuguang Kaori and Tsukikage Hoshi pursue him as sisters instead of fighting over a mother-daughter relationship, provoking everyone's ire.

Fang Cheng warned Iron-Cast Palace that the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters competition would take place in Hokkaido within the next year or two, then learned how Oni Yunjie and Tsukikage Hoshi had helped protect him from the Area 11 government. The group reaffirmed their family ties and ended the discussion teasing one another.

• Fang Cheng told Oni Yunjie and the Fox sisters that Passion Flame Ghost had revealed the competition would be held in Hokkaido soon, leaving Iron-Cast Palace worried about the Great Monsters gathering there.
• Oni Yunjie admitted Iron-Cast Palace had not known the location and had no clear way to handle the threat, while Fang Cheng promised to help protect them.
• Fang Cheng explained his conflict with the Area 11 government and learned that Tsukikage Hoshi had urged Oni Yunjie to threaten war, helping prevent a tactical nuclear strike.
• Fang Cheng thanked Tsukikage Hoshi and Oni Yunjie, declared that they were family, and learned that Yuguang Kaori's family had also sacrificed its Tokyo interests to help him.
• Tsukikage Hoshi and Yuguang Kaori teased each other over their worries for Fang Cheng, while Yuguang Qingxue watched in surprise.

Fang Cheng asked Oni Yunjie to give him Machine City and persuaded her with a plan to increase its production and supply the Iron-Cast Palace. He then asked for help with Tamamo-no-Mae and the Sessho-seki, and Oni Yunjie hinted that she knew a possible method before Fang Cheng revealed that Kanzaki Rin was his wife.

• Fang Cheng asked Oni Yunjie for Machine City and explained how Kanzaki Rin's plan could increase industrial output and secure the Iron-Cast Palace's corpse supply.
• Tsukikage Hoshi and Yuguang Kaori supported Fang Cheng, and Oni Yunjie agreed to give him Machine City if he solved its supply problems.
• Fang Cheng told Oni Yunjie and the fox sisters about Tamamo-no-Mae and the Sessho-seki inside Kanzaki Rin, then asked how Monsters could absorb its power.
• Tsukikage Hoshi said she did not know where Tamamo-no-Mae was, while Oni Yunjie said she knew a method that might work.
• Oni Yunjie teased Fang Cheng about his concern for Kanzaki Rin, and Fang Cheng said she was his wife.

Fang Cheng learned possible ways to deal with the Sessho-seki and gained Oni Yunjie's permission to hunt wild Monsters in Hokkaido. At lunch, Yuguang Kaori told him to leave her daughter and be with her instead.

• Oni Yunjie told Fang Cheng that Master Jianzhen's sacred arrow could counter Tamamo-no-Mae and Genno Monk's staff could destroy the Sessho-seki, though the staff's whereabouts were unknown.
• Oni Yunjie suggested that Kanzaki Rin might absorb the Sessho-seki's power if she gained Monster blood, ideally from a powerful Monster.
• Fang Cheng asked permission to hunt wild Monsters in Hokkaido, and Oni Yunjie approved as long as he spared Iron-Cast Palace personnel and Ibuki City's residents.
• After spending the night in Oni Yunjie's bedchamber, Fang Cheng went to lunch with Yuguang Kaori at her invitation.
• Yuguang Kaori told Fang Cheng to leave Yuguang Mirai and be with her instead, shocking Fang Cheng and Yuguang Qingxue.

Yuguang Kaori tried to arrange a relationship between Fang Cheng and Yuguang Mirai, but he stalled her until after the coming competition for the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters. Afterward, she told him the Iron-Cast Palace wanted him to take Yuguang Qingxue as his attendant, leaving him to consider an official arrangement he had not asked for.

• Yuguang Kaori blurted out that she wanted Fang Cheng to leave Yuguang Mirai and be with her, and Fang Cheng realized Izanae had influenced her.
• Yuguang Kaori pressed Fang Cheng about Yuguang Mirai, but he refused to pursue her and put off the matter until after the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters competition.
• After the meal, Yuguang Kaori sent Yuguang Qingxue out and offered her to Fang Cheng as someone to manage his daily needs.
• Yuguang Kaori said the offer represented the will of Lord Yunji, herself, and her sister, making it official Iron-Cast Palace business.

Fang Cheng agreed to let Yuguang Qingxue stay by his side to strengthen his alliance with the Iron-Cast Palace. When the Loyalty Brand failed to enter his protected soul, he discarded it and freed Yuguang Qingxue, though Yuguang Kaori assumed he had done so deliberately.

• Yuguang Kaori explained that the Iron-Cast Palace wanted Yuguang Qingxue to stay with Fang Cheng to bind their interests, and Fang Cheng agreed after considering the alliance.
• Yuguang Qingxue apologized to Kanzaki Rin over the phone, then joined Fang Cheng and Yuguang Kaori.
• Yuguang Kaori embraced Yuguang Qingxue and told her to put Fang Cheng's interests first, even if that meant opposing the Iron-Cast Palace.
• Yuguang Kaori gave Fang Cheng the Loyalty Brand so he could bind Yuguang Qingxue to him, but it could not penetrate Fang Cheng's soul.
• Fang Cheng discarded the Loyalty Brand, freeing Yuguang Qingxue, and Yuguang Kaori praised him while dismissing his explanation that his soul could not accept it.

Yuguang Qingxue came to terms with her freedom after Fang Cheng destroyed her Loyalty Brand, while Fang Cheng spent his last days at the Iron-Cast Palace with Oni Yunjie. Before he left, Oni Yunjie kissed him out of curiosity, leaving their relationship unresolved.

• Yuguang Qingxue followed Fang Cheng back to the Iron-Cast Palace and realized that his destruction of the Loyalty Brand had given her a new beginning.
• Yuguang Qingxue asked Fang Cheng's permission to help Yuguang Kaori sort the Yuguang Family's documents, and he agreed.
• After three days at the Iron-Cast Palace, Fang Cheng prepared to leave and drank with Oni Yunjie, who confided her worries about ruling and the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters.
• Fang Cheng asked Oni Yunjie for her blood to help Kanzaki Rin become a Monster, but Oni Yunjie explained that her blood was not powerful enough.
• Oni Yunjie said she needed an heir and considered asking Fang Cheng to father her child, but she had not made up her mind.
• As Fang Cheng was leaving, Oni Yunjie kissed him, then said she had only wanted to find out what it felt like.

Fang Cheng returned to Machine City with Fang Qingxue, while Sato Hayato and Kujo Yuri raided the City Guard Department to rescue Fumoto Sho and learn about the city's military. Back at the apartment, Fang Qingxue announced that she had left the Yuguang Family and joined the Fang Family, leaving Ugou Mirai and the others stunned.

• Oni Yunjie pledged Iron-Cast Palace's support, Tsukikage Hoshi asked Fang Cheng to look after the Fox sisters, and Yuguang Kaori discussed the shortage of corpses before Fang Cheng teased her about her earlier suggestion.
• Yuguang Qingxue gave Fang Cheng her identity card, revealing that she had changed her name to Fang Qingxue, and Fang Cheng told her she was his paid assistant rather than his servant.
• Fang Cheng and Fang Qingxue returned to Machine City and spotted wanted posters of Sato Hayato and an unfamiliar woman.
• Sato Hayato attacked the City Guard Department, disabled its officers, and freed Fumoto Sho in exchange for information about Machine City's military deployments and equipment.
• Kujo Yuri drove Sato Hayato and Fumoto Sho away as Sato Hayato described them as spies infiltrating Machine City.
• Fang Qingxue told the apartment residents that she had left the Yuguang Family and joined the Fang Family, prompting everyone to stare at a bewildered Ugou Mirai.

Fang Cheng and Qingxue returned to Machine City, where her explanation about marriage sparked a fight before the misunderstanding was cleared up. That night, several women tried to drug one another, while an apparently sleepwalking Ugou Mirai visited Qingxue with a knife and an apple; by morning, Mirai remembered nothing.

• Qingxue's words about taking Fang Cheng's surname made the other women think she had secretly married him, and Ye Yuqing, Nangong Saya, and the others attacked her.
• Fang Cheng explained that the Iron-Cast Palace had forced Qingxue to stay by his side and that they had not married, ending the fight after Qingxue held her own against the group.
• Fang Cheng told Kanzaki Rin about his plans to supply corpses to the Iron-Cast Palace, while Asaka Akie and Ye Yuqing prepared to sneak into his room using sleeping pills.
• Nangong Saya and Ye Yuqing each tried to drug the others, but both ended up drugged and fell asleep before they could reach Fang Cheng.
• Ugou Mirai appeared beside Qingxue's bed with a fruit knife, asked whether Qingxue liked Fang Cheng, and made her eat a peeled apple before leaving.
• The next morning, Ye Yuqing and Nangong Saya fought over the failed drugging, while Qingxue learned that Ugou Mirai did not remember visiting her during the night.

Kanzaki Rin arranged for the Resistance Organization and the Cyborgs to confront Machine City while she relied on Kozaki Wataru’s reluctance to start a battle. After six days of standoff, Fang Cheng finished digging a tunnel from their camp to Machine City’s sewers, preparing the group to enter the city underground.

• Qingxue told Fang Cheng that Ugou Mirai’s personality had changed after trauma, and they contacted Iron-Cast Palace about whether the Proof was involved.
• Kanzaki Rin began preparing to seize power as the Resistance Organization and the Cyborgs migrated from Tokyo to Aomori Prefecture and crossed the strait to Hokkaido.
• Kozaki Wataru and Siye Yuta decided to keep the newcomers out of Machine City, while Kanzaki Rin told Fang Cheng that he would help her get inside.
• Nozawa Ritsu and Ishiyama Keisuke negotiated with Machine City, but its representatives refused them entry, so the Resistance Organization and the Cyborgs camped outside the city.
• Kozaki Wataru repeatedly refused Siye Yuta’s calls to attack, and the two sides remained in a tense standoff for six days.
• Fang Cheng emerged from a tunnel he had dug from the camp to Machine City’s sewers and told Kanzaki Rin’s group to keep going straight once inside.

Kanzaki Rin sent the Resistance Organization and Cyborgs into Machine City through Fang Cheng’s secret tunnel while Sato Hayato investigated a rumored superweapon. After learning the weapon was real, Sato Hayato returned with Kujo Yuri as the assault began across the city.

• Fang Cheng finished a hidden tunnel into Machine City’s sewers, and Kanzaki Rin sent nearly three thousand soldiers and Cyborgs through it while Sato Mai replaced the surveillance drones’ footage.
• Sato Hayato broke into a nightclub, found Komori Hiroshi, and learned that Machine City had recovered a superweapon capable of destroying half a city.
• Sato Hayato killed Komori Hiroshi, then left with Kujo Yuri after telling her he had obtained the information.
• Nozawa Hana led soldiers out of a manhole near the Parliament Building after an electromagnetic pulse disabled nearby cameras and streetlights.
• The Resistance Organization’s forces split into groups to attack Parliament, the government, and the weapons depot, while Nozawa Ritsu led the largest force against Machine City’s ruling class.

The Resistance Organization and the Cyborgs raided Machine City while its leaders dismissed the threat, and Fang Cheng helped defeat the returning army with hidden explosives. Kozaki Wataru and the Core Committee fled to a sealed shelter, but gunfire outside showed the enemy had reached them.

• Kozaki Wataru and the Core Committee learned that the Resistance Organization and the Cyborgs had entered the city, and a blackout plunged Machine City into darkness.
• Kozaki Wataru led the committee toward a shelter while secretly carrying a transmitter for a weapon of mass destruction, and Siye Yuta urged him not to hesitate if he had to use it.
• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin flew ahead of the returning army, and Fang Cheng planted hidden explosives along its route that devastated the force.
• The Monsters betrayed the City Guard Department, which surrendered as the Resistance Organization and the Cyborgs gained control of the city.
• Kozaki Wataru and the committee gathered in the sealed shelter, but gunfire and guards' screams revealed that the enemy had already reached its entrance.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin captured Kozaki Wataru and the committee members, while Yamane Hitoshi revealed he had helped the Resistance Organization on the Iron-Cast Palace’s orders. Kozaki threatened to detonate a powerful explosive, but Fang Cheng called his bluff and cornered him until he admitted Machine City really had the material.

• Nozawa Ritsu led Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin into the shelter’s conference room, where they confronted Kozaki Wataru and the committee members.
• Yamane Hitoshi stood beside Fang Cheng, revealing through his actions that he had betrayed the committee on the Iron-Cast Palace’s orders.
• Kanzaki Rin told Kozaki that the City Guard Department had surrendered and the army had been badly mauled, leaving the committee with no military leverage.
• As Cyborgs moved to take the committee away, Kozaki threatened to activate a signal transmitter linked to a bomb made from Nitrogen Anion Salt N5.
• Fang Cheng refused to believe Kozaki’s claim and advanced on him until Kozaki backed into a corner and admitted the explosive material was real.