Chapter Summaries

Fang Cheng fought Alcmene after she revived and produced three powerful copies, while Oni Yunjie investigated the spiders taking captive soldiers underground. Alcmene poisoned and turned Fang Cheng’s companions against him, but he sent them away and faced the three copies alone.

• Ugou Mirai, Tamamo-no-Mae, and Ibaraki-doji teased Fang Cheng about Alcmene’s swollen belly before he warned them that she was still alive.
• Oni Yunjie rescued a cocooned Ghost Clan soldier, then jumped into the underground cavern to investigate the captured soldiers.
• Alcmene’s spider eggs hatched into three copies with power close to hers, and they attacked Fang Cheng and his companions with venom.
• The toxin weakened Tamamo-no-Mae, Ugou Mirai, and Ibaraki-doji, and Alcmene used it to control their movements against Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng trapped all three companions in blood spheres and sent them away, leaving himself surrounded by the three Alcmene.

Fang Cheng turned the fight against three Alcmene by flooding their webbed battlefield and using the water to kill one of them. He faced the two remaining spider women, who watched him coldly after their teammate fell.

• Li Yu killed a Drake in Hokkaido and continued searching for her target, worried that time was running out.
• Fang Cheng struggled against three Alcmene as their web trapped him and their strength continued to grow.
• Fang Cheng used Deep Sea Tide to flood the battlefield, then weakened the Alcmene with currents and underwater combat.
• Fang Cheng killed one Alcmene with Solar Rays and found no Proof on her corpse.
• The two remaining Alcmene stopped trying to help their fallen teammate and stared coldly at Fang Cheng.

Fang Cheng fought Alcmene’s four spider forms above Ibuki City and detonated his Blood Sphere, devastating both the Insect Tide and nearby Iron-Cast Palace forces. Underground, Oni Yunjie discovered that Spider Cocoons were feeding a giant egg and destroyed an ambushing Earth Dragon as she prepared to attack it.

• Alcmene’s two spider forms laid eggs that hatched into fully grown copies, giving Fang Cheng four powerful opponents to face.
• Fang Cheng trapped the four Alcmene in a Blood Sphere, escaped their attack with Straw Substitute, and detonated the sphere, killing tens of thousands of insects and many nearby Monsters.
• Oni Yunjie fought through the collapsing tunnels, awakened the Ghost God’s power, and followed a Spider to an underground chamber filled with cocoons.
• Oni Yunjie used the Ghost God’s sight to discover that the cocoons were draining their captives to nourish a giant Spider Egg in the ceiling.
• Oni Yunjie leaped toward the egg, but an Earth Dragon ambushed her; she cut it into four pieces with a Ghost God-powered slash.

Fang Cheng and Oni Yunjie fought Alcmene and her multiplying clones, ultimately killing the original Alcmene in the underground cavern. Absorbing her energy triggered the system’s second upgrade, which began progressing toward completion.

• Oni Yunjie killed an Earth Dragon but exhausted herself, then cut open a Giant Egg and drew Alcmene’s attack.
• Fang Cheng survived his own explosive attack, fought five Alcmene clones, and killed them after a scream weakened them, but found no Spider Cocoons or sign that Alcmene was dead.
• Yuguang Kaori told Fang Cheng through her pendant that Oni Yunjie had gone into the cavern and had not returned, so Fang Cheng went to find her.
• Oni Yunjie reached a dead end and faced a pursuing Alcmene, but Fang Cheng arrived and pinned Alcmene with Solar Rays.
• Fang Cheng saw through Alcmene’s false surrender, read her thoughts, and killed her with Solar Rays.
• Fang Cheng absorbed Alcmene’s energy, gained lives and several abilities, and saw the system begin upgrading.

After defeating Alcmene, Fang Cheng learned that Oni Yunjie had disrupted her plan to steal the Earth Mother's divine position, preventing her from growing powerful enough to conquer the world. Oni Yunjie doubted her leadership, but Fang Cheng explained that she had truly defeated Alcmene and indirectly saved the world.

• Fang Cheng gained lives from Alcmene's corpse, received fragments of her abilities, and discovered that the system upgrade had stalled at 1.99%.
• Fang Cheng helped Oni Yunjie up and healed her as she lamented her inability to protect the Iron-Cast Palace.
• Fang Cheng challenged Oni Yunjie's self-doubt and told her that Alcmene had lost because of her actions.
• Fang Cheng explained that Alcmene had planned to convert Monsters and people into believers, use their faith and life essence to grow stronger, and eventually become the world's only god.
• Fang Cheng revealed that Oni Yunjie had disrupted Alcmene's underground scheme and triggered a backlash that weakened her, indirectly saving the world.

Fang Cheng helped Oni Yunjie recognize her role in defeating Alcmene, and the two shared an intimate moment before leaving the underground chambers. On the surface, Fang Cheng found the battlefield’s dead could provide the lives he needed to complete the system upgrade.

• Fang Cheng convinced Oni Yunjie that she had defeated Alcmene and deserved to be proud of saving the world.
• Fang Cheng revealed he had tracked Oni Yunjie with his blood, then turned it into a pendant and gave it to her.
• Oni Yunjie kissed Fang Cheng and confessed she wanted to devour him, while he joked that he was devoted to women with big breasts.
• Fang Cheng found a Proof on Alcmene’s corpse and gave it to Oni Yunjie, who accepted it despite not being ready to compete for Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters.
• Fang Cheng and Oni Yunjie returned to the surface, where Fang Cheng realized the battlefield’s dead could supply the lives needed for his system upgrade.

After gaining control of the remaining bugs, Fang Cheng protected Ibuki City from the black-skinned monsters by sealing the city beneath a vast steel dome. He returned to find Oni Yunjie and Yuguang Kaori both openly concerned for him, while Yuguang Kaori struggled with her growing feelings.

• Fang Cheng used Multitude Ghost Aspect to gather the scattered bugs under his control and ordered them underground while Oni Yunjie arranged for the battlefield corpses to be collected.
• Oni Yunjie asked Fang Cheng to handle the black-skinned monsters attacking Ibuki City, and he agreed after teasing her about leaving him the hard work.
• Fang Cheng used Dragon's Wrath and his blood to raise a towering steel wall around Ibuki City and cover it with a lid, isolating the monsters outside and calming those within.
• Fang Cheng lit the darkened city with a glowing substance he created from his blood, and the monsters trapped inside the barrier were wiped out.
• Fang Cheng pretended to be injured when he returned, prompting Oni Yunjie and Yuguang Kaori to rush to help him in unison; after he admitted the joke, they scolded him together.
• Fang Cheng grabbed Yuguang Kaori's hand, and she struggled to free herself before noticing Oni Yunjie calmly watching them.

After the battle, Fang Cheng teased Tsukikage Hoshi and discussed the weakened monsters’ plans for revenge against the Death Knight. Oni Yunjie and her resurrected father, Ibaraki-doji, then confronted their disagreements over her leadership and Fang Cheng’s influence, leaving their private conversation tense.

• Fang Cheng left with Tsukikage Hoshi, joked that his charm had won over Oni Yunjie and Yuguang Kaori, and accidentally stirred Tsukikage Hoshi’s feelings through his Succubus Lineage.
• Fang Cheng released Tamamo-no-Mae, Ibaraki-doji, and Ugou Mirai from the Blood Sphere and asked whether they still intended to seek revenge on the Death Knight.
• Tamamo-no-Mae suggested that the three monsters support a future fight rather than challenge the Death Knight head-on, while Ugou Mirai insisted that her defeat by Alcmene did not reflect her true strength.
• Oni Yunjie reunited with Ibaraki-doji, and the two went aside for a private conversation about the Iron-Cast Palace and her reliance on Fang Cheng.
• Ibaraki-doji accused Oni Yunjie of using Fang Cheng to purge her opposition and risking the Palace’s legacy, while Oni Yunjie calmly defended him and then laughed softly.

Oni Yunjie confronted Ibaraki-doji over his attempt to curb Fang Cheng’s influence and told him to retire, while Ibaraki-doji privately accepted that Iron-Cast Palace needed to align with Fang Cheng. Ugou Mirai demanded that Fang Cheng marry her, then obtained Oni Yunjie’s Proof and suggested that she and Yuguang Kaori team up.

• Oni Yunjie defended her leadership and Fang Cheng’s help, then used his pendant to have Fang Cheng demand that Ibaraki-doji support her as Ghost Lord.
• Oni Yunjie left Ibaraki-doji to consider whether Iron-Cast Palace’s future mattered more than his power, and he concluded that the palace’s best outcome was to join Fang Cheng’s forces.
• Ugou Mirai demanded that Fang Cheng marry her, but he told her he saw her only as a little sister.
• Ugou Mirai revealed that her dog ears and tail were a Proof from the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters event, which turned into an Energy Fragment when she handed it to Fang Cheng.
• Ugou Mirai asked Oni Yunjie for her Proof, and Oni Yunjie gave it to her before leaving with Fang Cheng to inspect the gathered bodies.
• Ugou Mirai stopped Yuguang Kaori from following them and suggested that she and her mother team up.

Ugou Mirai proposed that she and her mother, Ugou Kaori, team up to win Fang Cheng, but Kaori rejected the idea and left. Meanwhile, Fang Cheng harvested lives from battlefield corpses, rapidly advanced the system’s upgrade progress, and looked forward to the many more corpses awaiting him in Hokkaido.

• Ugou Mirai urged Ugou Kaori to ally with her against Fang Cheng’s other women, but Kaori refused and hurried away.
• Fang Cheng and Oni Yunjie arrived at the corpse piles, where Fang Cheng discovered that weaker monsters now yielded few or no lives.
• Fang Cheng created thousands of clones to sort out and deliver every B-class or stronger corpse for him to touch.
• Fang Cheng gained 1,652 lives from the corpses, spent them on the system upgrade, and ended with 1,671 lives.
• Fang Cheng restrained an urge to provoke another war and thought about the monster corpses waiting for him in Hokkaido.

After the system’s second upgrade, Fang Cheng experienced a vision of a spaceship approaching Earth that might have been his mother’s memory, then examined the system’s new abilities. He discovered that its Observe function could reveal Tsukikage Hoshi’s status and favorability toward him.

• Fang Cheng returned to the Iron-Cast Palace with Oni Yunjie and entered a quiet place to inspect the system after its reboot.
• Fang Cheng possessed someone in a cylindrical pod and saw a spaceship in space with Earth ahead of it before waking back in the palace.
• Fang Cheng suspected the vision was connected to his mother and tested whether Izanae could detect his thoughts about the system, concluding that she could not.
• Fang Cheng learned that the upgraded system offered Skill Trees, stronger upgrades, a Free Market with one Forced Trade per year, and the new Observe, Repair, and Soul Box functions.
• When Tsukikage Hoshi entered, Fang Cheng used Observe and saw that she was a level 42 possession-class monster with favorability 71.

Fang Cheng agreed to join Tsukikage Hoshi's planned Fox Immortal House after her five-year obligation to Iron-Cast Palace, then consolidated his abilities into six Skill Trees. He discovered his level was 95 and joined a tense meeting where Oni Yunjie asked him to weigh in on Iron-Cast Palace's next move.

• Tsukikage Hoshi reminded Fang Cheng of his promise to join Fox Immortal House, and he agreed to join once she had established it and completed her remaining five years of work for Iron-Cast Palace.
• Fang Cheng repaired several Ability Fragments and consolidated his abilities into six Skill Trees, which balanced at levels ranging from 1 to 3.
• Fang Cheng used Earth Escape Technique to reach Oni Yunjie's meeting and saw the levels and affection ratings of the people in the room.
• Fang Cheng created a clone to check his own status and learned that he was level 95.
• Oni Yunjie poured Fang Cheng tea and said that she favored keeping Iron-Cast Palace hidden until the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters ended, while her father and the others disagreed.

Fang Cheng learned that Tamamo-no-Mae wanted to enlist his help against the Death Knight to gain Li Yu’s protection and a possible refuge at Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters. When Ugou Mirai sensed an approaching monster carrying Proof, Fang Cheng took the Proof and set out to lure it away from Ibuki City.

• Tamamo-no-Mae admitted that she, Ibaraki-doji, and Ugou Mirai planned to seek revenge on the Death Knight, and Fang Cheng discovered they also had Li Yu’s help.
• Ugou Mirai revealed that Tamamo-no-Mae wanted to earn Li Yu’s favor because she believed the world was on the brink of destruction and hoped to find safety at Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters.
• Fang Cheng agreed to look for the Death Knight while telling Tamamo-no-Mae to protect Ibuki City, then took Ugou Mirai’s two pieces of Proof after she sensed an approaching enemy.
• Fang Cheng sent his Copper Wall and Iron Bastion ahead as a drone to identify the approaching monster, and his expression turned troubled after he saw it.

Fang Cheng discovered Death outside the Iron-Cast Palace and moved to lure him away while gathering allies to fight him. As Li Yu hurried toward Ibuki City and Izanae remained noncommittal, Asaka Akie learned that Fang Cheng needed help, and one of his clones appeared aboard the Ark.

• Fang Cheng spotted Death outside the Iron-Cast Palace, confirmed his formidable level, and warned the others that the Death Knight had arrived.
• Fang Cheng told Oni Yunjie and the Fox sisters to stay inside, then left with Ugou Mirai, Tamamo-no-Mae, and Ibaraki-doji preparing to join the fight.
• Fang Cheng traveled underground toward Ibuki City to draw Death away and contacted Li Yu, who had just defeated a Great Demon and claimed its Proof.
• Li Yu agreed to come to Fang Cheng, and her figurine transformed into a fast-moving rocket that led her toward Ibuki City.
• Fang Cheng asked Izanae to help and argued that their allies should attack Death together, but she said she would decide later.
• Asaka Akie sensed Fang Cheng was in trouble and that Izanae wanted her help; then a clone controlled by Fang Cheng entered the Ark's lounge.

Fang Cheng faced Death alone while waiting for reinforcements, using his abilities and lives to survive the Disaster-Class enemy. He upgraded his Superman-Type Skill Tree to level 5 and reached Strategic-Class just as Death finished a devastating chant and sent Holy Light toward him.

• Fang Cheng brought Asaka Akie, Ye Yuqing, and Kanzaki Rin to Ibuki City, then lured Death away from the city into an uninhabited area.
• Death blasted Fang Cheng out of the earth, struck off his arm with deathly power, and pursued him underground with a beam of green light.
• Fang Cheng sacrificed a life to use Nightmare Hell, briefly knocking Death unconscious, then used Evil Ghost Possession and Mother's Left Hand to attack him, but Death escaped and began chanting.
• Fang Cheng upgraded his Superman-Type Skill Tree to level 5, spending 800 lives and reaching Strategic-Class.
• Death completed his chant and summoned a beam of Holy Light from beyond the atmosphere toward Fang Cheng.

Fang Cheng survived Death’s Holy Light and used his newly boosted power to overpower Death in a series of brutal clashes. As the three Great Monsters watched from hiding, Death’s strength continued to rise until he nearly matched Fang Cheng, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Fang Cheng hid his soul in the Soul Box and endured Death’s Holy Light with his Level Five abilities and Undying Body, then regenerated completely.
• Fang Cheng’s Level Five Solar Rays overwhelmed Death’s green death beam, and Fang Cheng struck him hard enough to send him crashing several kilometers away.
• Fang Cheng checked his level and found it had risen to 125, five levels above Death, while Death’s severed arms regenerated.
• Fang Cheng and Death clashed again with tremendous force as Tamamo-no-Mae, Ugou Mirai, and Ibaraki-doji watched and chose to wait for an opportunity to intervene.
• Death’s strength, speed, reflexes, and toughness continued increasing until his level reached 125 and he nearly matched Fang Cheng.

Fang Cheng battled Death across a devastated landscape until Tsukimi Mei and Izanae joined the fight. As the three faced Death together, he raised his hand to use his mother's arm.

• Fang Cheng and Death fought across a battlefield that expanded for miles, leaving craters and furrows in their wake.
• Kanzaki Rin, Asaka Akie, and Ye Yuqing arrived; Ye Yuqing transformed into Tsukimi Mei, while Izanae took control of Asaka Akie.
• Tsukimi Mei and Izanae descended into the battle, and Death recognized them as foreign gods who were gathering Satan's incarnations.
• Fang Cheng and Tsukimi Mei attacked Death together, severing one of his arms before he regenerated it; Fang Cheng also removed the decayed flesh Death Force had damaged.
• Tsukimi Mei told Fang Cheng to go all out for her twenty-minute limit, and Izanae arrived as Fang Cheng insulted her.
• Death raised his right hand, making Fang Cheng, Tsukimi Mei, and Izanae realize he was about to use his mother's arm.

Fang Cheng, Tsukimi Mei, and Izanae fought Death, whose attack engulfed the battlefield until Li Yu reversed time and saved everyone. Li Yu joined Fang Cheng, while Tamamo-no-Mae and Ugou Mirai waited for a chance to enter the battle.

• Izanae boosted Fang Cheng and Tsukimi Mei, but Death countered the enhancement and clashed with Fang Cheng and Tsukimi Mei.
• Fang Cheng and Tsukimi Mei wounded Death, while Izanae interfered with him mentally and Death summoned the Horseman of Death.
• Death’s proclamation spread across fifty kilometers and caught Fang Cheng, his allies, Kanzaki Rin, and the three legendary Monsters.
• Li Yu reversed time, undoing the attack and restoring everyone, and Fang Cheng kicked the Black Bible away from Death.
• Li Yu introduced herself to Fang Cheng, and they chatted while the others watched their apparent closeness.
• Tamamo-no-Mae told Ugou Mirai to wait until Fang Cheng and the others resumed fighting Death before they made their move.

Li Yu joined Fang Cheng and Tsukimi Mei against Death, who sacrificed himself to summon the Death Angel. The angel overwhelmed Fang Cheng and Li Yu as its power rose, then returned to the reopened Heavenly Gate to pray, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Death accused Li Yu of breaking the agreement between the Four Horsemen and the Human Revolutionary Alliance, then sacrificed himself to summon the religious remnants through a golden gate.
• The Death Angel emerged at level 135 and attacked Fang Cheng, Li Yu, and Tsukimi Mei; Fang Cheng and Li Yu fought back while Tsukimi Mei stayed out of the battle.
• Kanzaki Rin watched the fight from a fighter jet, while Tsukimi Mei, Izanae, Tamamo-no-Mae, Ugou Mirai, and Ibaraki-doji held back on the ground.
• The Death Angel's level climbed to 145, overpowering Fang Cheng and Li Yu as they endured its attacks and waited for it to reach its limit.
• After the Death Angel split Fang Cheng in two, Fang Cheng regenerated; the angel then flew back toward the aurora and knelt in prayer as the Heavenly Gate reopened.

Fang Cheng, Li Yu, and Kanzaki Rin survived the Death Angel’s last attack, then flew southeast to recover the Proofs and Mother’s Right Arm. When they arrived, they saw something that left everyone stunned.

• The Death Angel opened the Heavenly Gate and aged Fang Cheng, Li Yu, and himself until their levels fell, then tried to drag Fang Cheng and Li Yu through the Gate.
• Kanzaki Rin crossed the Death Zone by dying and reviving nine times, then severed Fang Cheng’s head so he could revive at full strength and pull the Death Angel back.
• The Gate struck the Death Angel with a beam, and his self-destruction killed Kanzaki Rin and Li Yu, but both revived while Fang Cheng survived the blast.
• Tsukimi Mei told Fang Cheng that Mother’s Right Arm and the Proofs had been sent southeast, so Fang Cheng took the group there by transport plane.
• Tamamo-no-Mae, Ugou Mirai, and Ibaraki-doji followed the group toward southeast Hokkaido, while Li Yu and Fang Cheng shared an awkward flight with Kanzaki Rin and Asaka Akie.
• Tsukimi Mei announced their arrival, and the group stared in shock at what lay outside the plane.