Chapter Summaries

Oni Yunjie and the defenders of Machine City struggled to hold off the Black-Skinned Monsters while Great Demons waited for their chance to strike. Asaka Akie flew to investigate Ghost Cultivation Mountain as it emerged underground and headed toward Machine City.

• Oni Yunjie ordered the defenders to conserve artillery fire, keep flying sorties, and fight with blades when their ammunition ran out, refusing to ask Fang Cheng for help.
• An underground ant monster reported the battle to Alcmene, who decided to wait until Iron-Cast Palace exhausted its manpower before attacking for its million units of raw material.
• Asaka Akie, Takeda Masumi, Sato Hayato, and others continued defending Machine City despite more than ten hours of fighting and severe exhaustion.
• Ghost Cultivation Mountain burst out of the ground near Machine City and fought off the Black-Skinned Monsters swarming it.
• Asaka Akie noticed Ghost Cultivation Mountain was moving toward Machine City and flew out to investigate.

Asaka Akie and Izanae fought Ghost Cultivation Mountain to keep it from reaching Machine City, but their attack only briefly knocked it down. As the monster resumed its advance and threatened the city, two fiery figures arrived and one transformed into a Fire Phoenix that charged it.

• Asaka Akie invaded Ghost Cultivation Mountain's mind, discovered it was insane, and failed to control it.
• Asaka Akie asked Izanae to descend despite the danger, and Izanae's radiance caused hundreds of thousands of Black-Skinned Monsters to collapse.
• Izanae shot Ghost Cultivation Mountain with a light arrow, but its Hurricane blew her away and sent Asaka Akie crashing toward Machine City.
• Takeda Masumi caught Asaka Akie, and they watched Ghost Cultivation Mountain rise and continue toward the city.
• Two flames appeared on the horizon, raced over Machine City, and one transformed into a Fire Phoenix that flew into Ghost Cultivation Mountain.

Kanzaki Rin returned to Machine City and joined Ye Yuqing in fighting Ghost Cultivation Mountain, but their attacks could not penetrate its defenses. After Fang Cheng’s Spaceship crippled the giant turtle with its laser cannon, Fang Cheng found fissures inside its rocky body and began destroying it from within.

• Kanzaki Rin returned to Machine City, where Takeda Masumi praised Asaka Akie for holding the front line and saving the city.
• Kanzaki Rin and Ye Yuqing attacked Ghost Cultivation Mountain, but it resisted their strongest moves and continued toward Machine City.
• Fang Cheng’s Spaceship fired its Gamma Ray Laser Cannon into Ghost Cultivation Mountain’s back, knocking it over and leaving a deep wound.
• Fang Cheng flew to the battlefield, endured Kanzaki Rin and Ye Yuqing’s anger, then told Ye Yuqing to hold back the Black-Skinned Monsters while Kanzaki Rin returned to the city.
• Fang Cheng entered Ghost Cultivation Mountain through the laser wound, discovered fissures throughout its rocky body, and filled them with blood that he detonated from within.

Sato Hayato helped evacuate Machine City’s citizens and unexpectedly reunited with Kujo Tairou and Kujo Go, who mistook him for Reiko and Hayako. Fang Cheng learned why Ghost Cultivation Mountain had attacked the city, while Kanzaki Rin and Asaka Akie reconciled at the Field Hospital before Fang Cheng walked in on their embrace.

• Sato Hayato woke in a dress at the Field Hospital, then joined Kujo Yuri in helping Kanzaki Rin maintain order as citizens boarded the hidden Spaceship.
• Kujo Tairou recognized Sato Hayato as Reiko, while Kujo Go mistook him for Hayako; Kujo Yuri introduced Sato as her boyfriend, shocking both men.
• Fang Cheng read Ghost Cultivation Mountain’s memories and learned it had been driven toward Machine City by corruption from eating contaminated Black-Skinned Monsters after a battle with another Great Demon.
• Fang Cheng took the two Proofs from Ghost Cultivation Mountain and returned to Machine City, where more than half the citizens had boarded the Spaceship.
• Kanzaki Rin apologized to Asaka Akie for leaving her to bear the danger, and Asaka reassured her that they were family.
• Fang Cheng entered the Field Hospital and found Kanzaki Rin embracing Asaka Akie.

After Machine City survived the monster invasion, Fang Cheng evacuated its survivors and searched for the missing Qingxue, Ugou Mirai, and Yuguang Kaori. He reunited with his real body and sent out blood-made drones to search the fused Hokkaido, while Li Yu departed without revealing what she was.

• Fang Cheng interrupted Kanzaki Rin and Asaka Akie's reconciliation by asking how they would divide his time, reigniting their rivalry.
• Fang Cheng explained that his real body had been trapped with Li Yu and that Qingxue and Ugou Mirai were still missing.
• Fang Cheng evacuated the women and civilians from Machine City aboard the Spaceship as Black-Skinned Monsters flooded the deserted city.
• Fang Cheng left the Spaceship to search for Qingxue and Ugou Mirai, while his real body escaped its confinement after Hokkaido fused back together.
• Fang Cheng gave Li Yu a blood-made figurine that would let him sense her location, but she refused to explain what she was before leaving.
• Fang Cheng realized Yuguang Kaori might also be in danger and dispatched supersonic blood-made drones to search the area for all three missing women.

Fang Cheng rescued Yuguang Kaori from the Black-Skinned Monsters, and their relationship grew closer as she accepted his gift and agreed to his promised reward. Meanwhile, Nine-Tailed Fox struggled to protect the exhausted Qingxue and Ugou Mirai from Shuten-doji, until a huge gourd suddenly fell toward them.

• Yuguang Kaori escaped a battle between Great Demons but became surrounded by Black-Skinned Monsters as they reached the hill where she was hiding.
• Fang Cheng arrived, wiped out the Monsters with Solar Rays, and embraced Yuguang Kaori, who accepted his promised reward.
• Fang Cheng gave Yuguang Kaori an earring that let him sense her location, then told her that Ugou Mirai and Qingxue were missing.
• Nine-Tailed Fox carried the exhausted Qingxue and Giant Egg while fleeing Shuten-doji, and Qingxue apologized for misjudging her.
• Nine-Tailed Fox denied caring about Qingxue but helped her up and continued supporting her.
• A huge gourd dropped from the sky toward Nine-Tailed Fox and Qingxue.

Tamamo-no-Mae rescued the Nine-Tailed Fox and Qingxue from Shuten-doji’s ambush, then forced her clone to return so she could fight at full strength. The battle between Tamamo-no-Mae and Shuten-doji escalated into a clash of cursed rain and blue Fox Fire, while Qingxue sheltered the Giant Egg below.

• Shuten-doji surrounded the Nine-Tailed Fox and Qingxue with copies of himself and demanded the Giant Egg.
• A voice warned the Nine-Tailed Fox to get down, and Tamamo-no-Mae crushed the encircling Shuten-dojis with her tails and Ghost Hands.
• Tamamo-no-Mae admitted she had used the Nine-Tailed Fox and Qingxue as bait, then fought the three remaining Shuten-dojis.
• Tamamo-no-Mae told the Nine-Tailed Fox to return to her, and the clone merged into her despite Qingxue’s distress.
• Tamamo-no-Mae and Shuten-doji clashed with Fox Fire and cursed rain as Qingxue shielded the Giant Egg and a drone sped overhead.

Tamamo-no-Mae and Shuten-doji fought fiercely over the Proof, using their most powerful abilities to end the battle quickly. Tamamo-no-Mae trapped Shuten-doji, but he nearly killed her with Onikiri before Ibaraki intervened and crushed his heart.

• Shuten-doji transformed into a towering Ghost God and launched a devastating attack that Tamamo-no-Mae escaped by sacrificing one of her tails.
• Tamamo-no-Mae became a Nine-Tailed Fox and fought Shuten-doji’s Ghost God, while Qingxue struggled to protect the Giant Egg from the destruction.
• Shuten-doji summoned eight Ghost God clones, but Tamamo-no-Mae bound the true form with her tails and dragged the clones into her Netherworld Hell.
• Shuten-doji escaped his Ghost God form, bound Tamamo-no-Mae with his Evil Ghost Possession curse, and attacked her heart with Onikiri.
• Tamamo-no-Mae’s smile made Shuten-doji’s strike veer aside, and she restrained him long enough for Ibaraki to appear and crush his heart with a Ghost Hand.

Ibaraki-doji returned from the dead and joined Tamamo-no-Mae in hunting Shuten-doji, who stole the Giant Egg and tried to escape. Fang Cheng intercepted Shuten-doji with a drone fleet, while Yuguang Kaori and the others confronted him over the egg and Ibaraki-doji’s return.

• Ibaraki-doji revealed himself, cut off Shuten-doji’s head, and took Onikiri from Tamamo-no-Mae before pursuing the fleeing demon.
• Shuten-doji used a clone to distract his pursuers, then attacked Qingxue and stole the Giant Egg; Qingxue signaled for help, and an unseen blow gave her time to survive.
• Fang Cheng’s drone healed Qingxue, while Tamamo-no-Mae and Ibaraki-doji chased Shuten-doji underground as he fled with the egg.
• Fang Cheng tracked Shuten-doji to a mountain ravine and attacked him with drones, then arrived with Yuguang Kaori and Dojigiri Yasutsuna.
• Tamamo-no-Mae and Ibaraki-doji caught up and blocked Shuten-doji’s escape, while Yuguang Kaori focused on the Giant Egg and worried about Ibaraki-doji’s return.

Fang Cheng and his allies cornered Shuten-doji, who threatened Yuguang Mirai’s egg before she emerged as the long-missing Ootengu. After Ootengu joined the battle, the group overwhelmed Shuten-doji, who surrendered and accepted the Punishment of Ghost Penalty.

• Shuten-doji tried to escape underground, but Fang Cheng’s buried steel walls trapped him in the ravine.
• Shuten-doji threatened to smash Yuguang Mirai’s egg, and Fang Cheng used Reality Interference to switch it with a rock before Shuten-doji’s clone exploded.
• Shuten-doji struck the real egg, and Ootengu emerged from it, revealing Yuguang Mirai’s super evolution.
• Ootengu, Ibaraki-doji, Tamamo-no-Mae, and Fang Cheng tracked down and battered Shuten-doji until he fell badly wounded.
• Shuten-doji surrendered and agreed to accept the Punishment of Ghost Penalty.

Fang Cheng killed Shuten-doji, took his abilities, and confronted Tamamo-no-Mae and Ibaraki-doji over their failure to protect Qingxue. After Tamamo-no-Mae apologized and offered compensation, Fang Cheng turned his attention to Ootengu.

• Fang Cheng stabbed Shuten-doji with Dojigiri Yasutsuna and killed him despite Ibaraki-doji's objections.
• Fang Cheng absorbed Shuten-doji's life force and gained four abilities, including Multitude Ghost Aspect and Undying Body.
• Yuguang Kaori struggled with the revelation that Ootengu was the daughter she had raised as Ugou Mirai.
• Fang Cheng confronted Tamamo-no-Mae and Ibaraki-doji for letting Shuten-doji endanger Qingxue, and Tamamo-no-Mae apologized and promised compensation.
• Fang Cheng accepted that compensation would depend on whether Qingxue forgave them, then turned toward Ootengu.

Fang Cheng stopped Ootengu after an Evil God’s corruption drove her berserk, then learned the corruption might be tied to the first Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters contest. Izanae identified the source and suggested Fang Cheng try using Mother's Left Hand to cure Ootengu.

• Ootengu struggled to distinguish herself from Ugou Mirai, then the corruption took over her mind and turned her eyes black.
• Tamamo-no-Mae and Ibaraki-doji tried to stop Ootengu, but Fang Cheng used his clones and powers to capture her in an enormous Blood Sphere.
• Fang Cheng learned that a mysterious force had corrupted Ootengu and that she had survived the first Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters contest at the ravine.
• Fang Cheng questioned Tamamo-no-Mae about the contest and the injuries she and Ibaraki-doji had suffered sixteen years earlier, but postponed hearing the full story.
• Izanae confirmed that an Evil God had corrupted Ootengu and told Fang Cheng to try using Mother's Left Hand.

Fang Cheng used Mother's Left Hand to purge the Evil God's corruption from the Great Tengu, though fragments of the Evil God's consciousness escaped. The Great Tengu awakened as a merged consciousness dominated by Ugou Mirai, who reunited with Yuguang Kaori and explained what had happened.

• Fang Cheng restrained the corrupted Great Tengu and used Mother's Left Hand to drive the Evil God's power out of her body.
• The expelled power split into fragments of an Evil God's consciousness, and Fang Cheng destroyed one fragment while the others escaped.
• Izanae identified the shadows as dangerous fragments of an Evil God's consciousness and said Hokkaido's presence in Subspace might explain how they appeared there.
• Tamamo-no-Mae and Ibaraki-doji watched the Blood Sphere shrink as Fang Cheng emerged with the cured Great Tengu.
• Ugou Mirai embraced Yuguang Kaori and explained that her consciousness now dominated the merged Great Tengu, with Ugou Mirai making up seven tenths.

Fang Cheng read Ugou Mirai’s memories and learned how Ootengu, Tamamo-no-Mae, and Ibaraki-doji had survived the War Horseman and plotted around the Iron-Cast Palace. After Ugou Mirai teased Fang Cheng and confronted her mother, Tamamo-no-Mae revealed that the trio had come for a purpose beyond dealing with Shuten-doji.

• Fang Cheng read Ugou Mirai’s memories and confirmed that her consciousness was in control, while learning Ootengu’s history and the trio’s past plans.
• Fang Cheng learned that Ibaraki-doji had faked her death, entrusted Ootengu to Yuguang Kaori, and used Ootengu as bait while Shuten-doji sought the Proof.
• Ugou Mirai pressed Fang Cheng’s hand against her chest and teased him, prompting Yuguang Kaori to tell her to stop.
• Ugou Mirai confronted Yuguang Kaori about her relationship with Fang Cheng and revealed she had witnessed their embraces from inside the Giant Egg.
• Fang Cheng asked Tamamo-no-Mae and Ibaraki-doji why they had joined forces, and Tamamo-no-Mae said killing Shuten-doji was only a side matter.

Fang Cheng agreed to help Tamamo-no-Mae, Ibaraki-doji, and Ugou Mirai hunt the Death Knight in exchange for favors, but an attack on the Iron-Cast Palace forced them to rush back. Meanwhile, the battered General Khun Phaen was possessed by a shadow and began devouring Black-Skinned Monsters.

• Tamamo-no-Mae revealed that a Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse knight had come to Hokkaido to prevent the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters from being born, and she and Ibaraki-doji sought revenge.
• Fang Cheng warned the group that the Death Knight, not the War Horseman, was in Hokkaido and agreed to help in exchange for one favor from each of Tamamo-no-Mae and Ibaraki-doji.
• Fang Cheng learned that Alcmene had attacked Ibuki City and took Yuguang Kaori, Ugou Mirai, Tamamo-no-Mae, and Ibaraki-doji back toward the Iron-Cast Palace in supersonic jets.
• As battles across Hokkaido killed Great Demons and devastated the island, the wounded General Khun Phaen lay in a crater after losing a fight.
• A shadow entered General Khun Phaen, who rose and began tearing into and eating the Black-Skinned Monsters gathering around him.

Oni Yunjie and Tsukikage Hoshi fought through the insect horde that had erupted beneath Ibuki City, while Alcmene directed the swarm’s assault from the battlefield’s center. As Alcmene sent legendary monsters to kill the Iron-Cast Palace’s leaders, Oni Yunjie tried to attack her but was intercepted.

• Oni Yunjie defeated an A+-rank scarab with Tsukikage Hoshi’s help, then saw that dozens more scarabs and countless insects were overwhelming the Iron-Cast Palace.
• Oni Yunjie noticed that spiders were cocooning fallen but living soldiers and dragging them into underground tunnels, then led Tsukikage Hoshi and tens of thousands of Ghost Clan soldiers toward the separated forces.
• Alcmene received a battlefield report from her subordinates and ordered the Heart of the Swarm to kill the Iron-Cast Palace’s leaders.
• Alcmene’s suited subordinates transformed into legendary monsters and charged the Iron-Cast Palace’s strongest fighters.
• Oni Yunjie attacked Alcmene with two blade beams, but a suited man shattered them and transformed into a lion-headed, goat-bodied monster with a python’s tail to fight her.

Fang Cheng’s clone joined the Iron-Cast Palace’s defense against Alcmene and killed her Chimaera, then challenged her as she attacked the battlefield. He escaped her spiderweb by transforming into blood and sent a drone swarm to attack the Insect Tide while awaiting his true body.

• The Chimaera charged Oni Yunjie, knocked her from the sky, and nearly overwhelmed her until Tsukikage Hoshi caught her with her tails.
• Oni Yunjie used the Blood Sphere to summon Fang Cheng’s clone, which burned and killed the Chimaera with Solar Rays, Purifying Demon Fire, and a blood-spike attack.
• Alcmene recognized Fang Cheng and demanded an explanation for killing her subordinate, but Fang Cheng refused to back down and told her to leave Ibuki City.
• Fang Cheng warned Oni Yunjie that Alcmene was a dangerous mother spider and said his true body could arrive within ten minutes.
• Alcmene attacked Fang Cheng with a vast web of toxic spider silk, but Fang Cheng transformed into blood, escaped through its gaps, and became a drone swarm that fired on the Insect Tide.

Fang Cheng unleashed a massive drone assault on Alcmene’s Insect Tide, then risked his clone to save Oni Yunjie and detonated a Blood Sphere with Alcmene inside. After the blast, Oni Yunjie remembered that the Fang Cheng who had saved her was only a clone.

• Fang Cheng created a vast Drone Swarm that devastated the Insect Tide and killed at least twenty thousand monsters in its first barrage.
• Alcmene used her aura and webs to disrupt the drones, pursued Fang Cheng, and bound him with her threads, but he escaped into an insect monster’s shadow.
• Alcmene targeted Oni Yunjie to draw Fang Cheng out, and Fang Cheng teleported in to take her strike through his chest.
• Fang Cheng clung to Alcmene, formed a Blood Sphere around them, and detonated it in the middle of the Insect Tide.
• Oni Yunjie tried to rush toward the mushroom cloud, but Moonlight Star Hope stopped her and reminded her that Fang Cheng there was only a clone.

Fang Cheng returned to the battle over Iron-Cast Palace as Ibaraki-doji revealed himself as the Ghost God and reunited with Oni Yunjie. Alcmene unleashed an enormous web that spread across the battlefield, leaving Fang Cheng and the others facing a sky covered in webbing.

• Alcmene destroyed Fang Cheng's clone and pursued Oni Yunjie and Tsukikage Hoshi, but Ibaraki-doji appeared as the Ghost God and stopped her web.
• Fang Cheng arrived with Ugou Mirai, Yuguang Kaori, and Tamamo-no-Mae, and he and Alcmene sensed one another as formidable opponents with Proofs.
• Ugou Mirai, Ibaraki-doji, and Tamamo-no-Mae attacked Alcmene's Spider Cocoon but could not break through its resilient webbing.
• Yuguang Kaori told Oni Yunjie that the Ghost God was her father, Ibaraki-doji, who had returned from the dead.
• Fang Cheng pierced Alcmene's cocoon with Solar Rays, then used Level 4 Purifying Demon Fire to ignite the webbing after the cocoon exploded.
• Alcmene's vast web spread over the battlefield and across the sky above Ibuki City, dividing the world into countless diamond-shaped spaces.

Alcmene trapped the battlefield in a vast web and fought Fang Cheng, but his allies broke through and helped wound her. Fang Cheng’s hidden attack made her belly swell until two Blood Spheres burst out of her, leaving the other Monsters convinced he had somehow gotten her pregnant.

• Alcmene transformed into her spider form and filled the sky with webs, trapping Tamamo-no-Mae, Ugou Mirai, and Ibaraki-doji while she searched for Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng sensed Alcmene through droplets of blood in the web, found her, and used Solar Rays and Shadow Leap to attack her.
• Alcmene destroyed Fang Cheng’s clones with webs and venom, but Ugou Mirai, Tamamo-no-Mae, and Ibaraki-doji broke through and struck her together.
• Fang Cheng activated his prepared attack, causing Alcmene’s stomach and spider abdomen to swell until they burst open and expelled two Blood Spheres.
• Ibaraki-doji joked that Fang Cheng had gotten Alcmene pregnant, and the other Monsters stared at Fang Cheng in shock.