Chapter Summaries

Lu Yunhe fought the War King in the arena while concealing his spiritual-class profession and using the battle as an advancement ritual. As the crowd’s cheers formed a path to the Origin Sea, Lu Yunhe advanced to Bronze Tier as an Illusionist, while the War King tried too late to stop him.

• The War King covered himself in blood-and-qi armor and attacked Lu Yunhe, but Lu Yunhe’s crimson butterfly illusion wounded him from within the armor.
• The War King recovered and pressed his assault, while Lu Yunhe dodged his attacks and struck him with a punch after briefly distracting him.
• The arena crowd began chanting “Sky King” in unison, and a host the War King had killed reappeared to announce Lu Yunhe as the victor.
• The War King realized Lu Yunhe was a spiritual-class Professional using the arena and its spectators for an advancement ritual.
• Lu Yunhe drew on the crowd’s cheers to connect with the Origin Dao and advanced to Bronze Tier—Illusionist.
• The War King attacked the spectators to disrupt the ritual, but Lu Yunhe’s advancement had already taken place.

Lu Yunhe advanced to Illusionist and used his new power to subdue the War King, then began planning to consolidate the Lower City. After learning the Upper City had hidden agents there, he agreed to hunt them down and help the Lower City build strength against its rulers.

• Lu Yunhe advanced from Hypnotist to Illusionist and used an illusion to strip the War King of his power and replace his memories, making him serve as a loyal subordinate.
• The War King revealed that he controlled the central core of the Lower City and commanded over a hundred elite professionals, while Lu Yunhe decided to consolidate the city before challenging the Upper City.
• The War King gave Lu Yunhe intelligence about Blackwater City and explained that the Upper City secretly monitored the Lower City to keep it divided and under control.
• Lu Yunhe ordered the War King to begin uniting the Lower City's five major regions and said he would deal with the Upper City's hidden agents.
• The War King offered information about suspected agents, and Lu Yunhe set out to investigate them using his new abilities.

Lu Yunhe dismantled the Upper City's spy network in the Lower City, helped the War King organize resistance, and supplied Professionals with new Secret Arts. Seeking a way to expand his influence without provoking the gods, he visited the Holy Light Divine Hall and found its priests sincerely helping people.

• Ye Mo received Lu Yunhe's order to cooperate with the War King and brought South Warehouse's Five Protectors to him.
• Lu Yunhe used hypnotic illusions to uncover and control the Upper City's agents, including the Silver Tier intelligence leader, then sent the leader to assist the War King.
• Lu Yunhe created low-level Transcendent Secret Arts, and the War King began using them to strengthen the Lower City's Professionals and bind them to his faction.
• After dismissing the War King, Lu Yunhe considered the dangers of spreading faith and went to the Holy Light Divine Hall.
• Lu Yunhe watched the priests heal and cleanse Lower City residents and was surprised by their genuine compassion.

Lu Yunhe visited the Holy Light Divine Hall, assessed its influence and lack of a True God's presence, and considered using dreams to develop faith for his own Dream God. After leaving, he went to the Abyssal Rift, where he saw the Abyss's looming threat over the Lower City.

• Lu Yunhe recalled the Lord of Holy Light leading the hunt for him and entered the Holy Light Divine Hall with a priestess.
• The priestess tried to recruit Lu Yunhe as he observed the hall, its worshippers, and the golden statue, finding no divine will present.
• Lu Yunhe considered using dreams and illusions to cultivate faith, then left a large offering and departed.
• The priestess wondered whether she had forgotten something before an injured professional drew her attention.
• Lu Yunhe reached the Abyssal Rift and saw its dense aura hanging above the Lower City.

Lu Yunhe explored the Black Land, hypnotized a group of armed robbers into serving him, and tested a fallen professional ritual by replacing one man’s heart with a demon’s. The experiment left the man alive with a single demon arm, while the Lesser Demon Hunter died.

• Lu Yunhe picked a Spirit Awakening Grass and hypnotized Boss Jia and his three underlings after they tried to rob him.
• Boss Jia led Lu Yunhe deeper into the Black Land, where they encountered three Lesser Demon Hunters.
• Lu Yunhe defeated the Lesser Demon Hunters and decided to use one of their hearts in a Heart Transplant ritual.
• Lu Yunhe replaced one of Boss Jia’s underling’s heart with a demon heart, then used a recovery potion and Illusionary Power to stabilize him.
• The underling survived with a single demon arm, while the Lesser Demon Hunter died after receiving the human heart.

Lu Yunhe turned three underlings into Half-Demon professionals and led them and Boss Jia toward the Abyssal Rift. Near the Rift, they discovered a Mid-rank Flame Demon commanding more than ten thousand Lesser Demons in a ritual, and Lu Yunhe began studying the gathering while considering the demons as sacrifices.

• Lu Yunhe used Demon Heart Transplant Rituals to advance three underlings into Half-Demons, then gave them the codenames Yi, Bing, and Ding.
• Lu Yunhe led Boss Jia and the three Half-Demons toward the Abyssal Rift, teaching them combat techniques as they fought Lesser Demons and killed a Lower-rank Demon together.
• Lu Yunhe sensed that the Half-Demons' demonic power and irritability had grown after the battle, and noted that faith might be needed to suppress them.
• Lu Yunhe guided the group to a valley near the Rift, where they saw more than ten thousand Lesser Demons gathered around an Altar under a Flame Demon's command.
• Lu Yunhe identified the Flame Demon as a Mid-rank Demon preparing a large-scale invasion and began observing its ritual and learning the demons' language.
• Lu Yunhe decided the demons were excellent sacrifices and watched the Flame Demon with an eager urge to act.

Lu Yunhe discovered that a Flame Demon was using rituals and slaughter to strengthen its forces in Demon Valley, then returned with Yi Bing Ding, Jia, and the others to attack. While the four fought the demon horde, Lu Yunhe confronted the Flame Demon and its guards at the Altar.

• Lu Yunhe observed the Flame Demon’s ritual transform a Lesser Demon into a Lower-rank Demon and judged that the valley’s forces threatened War King City.
• Lu Yunhe left the valley with the three Half-Demons, Yi Bing Ding, and Boss Jia, intending to improve their strength before returning.
• Several days later, Lu Yunhe brought the group into the valley, where the Flame Demon unleashed its demons against them.
• Jia Yi Bing Ding fought together against the horde while Lu Yunhe left them to hold their ground and leapt toward the Altar.
• Lu Yunhe confronted the Flame Demon, which sent four Lower-rank Demons to attack him, and he drew his Bone Steel Sword.

Lu Yunhe used his Bone Sword to slaughter demons and fought the Flame Demon while Boss Jia and the others battled the surrounding horde. After thwarting the Flame Demon's escape, he trapped it in fear and despair to draw power from its soul.

• Lu Yunhe killed four Lower-rank Demons and drained their life force to strengthen his Bone Sword.
• The Flame Demon attacked Lu Yunhe with Hell Bullets and a massive Hellfire Bullet, but Lu Yunhe split the fireball with his Bone Sword.
• The Flame Demon engulfed Lu Yunhe's position in a pillar of fire while Boss Jia and the others fought an increasingly coordinated demon army.
• Lu Yunhe emerged from the flames and drove his Bone Sword into the Flame Demon, then pursued it as it tried to escape toward the Abyssal Rift.
• Lu Yunhe kicked the Flame Demon back from the rift and used his Illusionary Power to overwhelm it with terror, fear, and despair.

Lu Yunhe turned the Balrog’s altar into a demon-summoning trap, using it and the summoned demons to empower the Bone Sword and Jia Yi Bing Ding. When a furious Legendary Demon Lord reached through the gate, Lu Yunhe sprang his trap and severed its finger, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Lu Yunhe hypnotized the Balrog, reshaped its bone altar, and used the Balrog to summon demons from the Abyss.
• Lu Yunhe’s four subordinates and the Bone Sword slaughtered nearly one hundred thousand demons, strengthening the altar and raising Yi Bing Ding from Black Iron Tier to Bronze Tier.
• A Legendary Demon Lord discovered its demons were being harvested and sent a finger through the summoning gate to destroy the altar and seize the Balrog.
• Lu Yunhe ignited the altar and trapped the Demon Lord’s finger with Hellfire, empowering Jia Yi Bing Ding and the Balrog with the souls of the slain demons.
• Lu Yunhe ordered Jia Yi Bing Ding to strike, and they severed the Demon Lord’s finger over the altar.

Lu Yunhe used the Altar to bind a legendary demon’s finger, then sacrificed demon origins to transform Jia, Yi, Bing, and Ding into Silver Tier elemental puppets. He contacted the Abyssal Will to gather knowledge for his Otherworld Scholar class and planted a hidden piece in the Abyss before leaving the story.

• Lu Yunhe trapped a Demon Lord’s severed finger on the Altar and used the Balrog’s body, demon origins, and legendary blood to strengthen Jia, Yi, Bing, and Ding.
• The Altar sacrificed the origins of a hundred thousand demons, granting Jia fire, Yi water, Bing wind, and Ding earth as they advanced to Silver Tier.
• Jia, Yi, Bing, and Ding became obedient elemental puppets, while the Bone Sword absorbed legendary blood and gained a fourth head.
• Lu Yunhe explained that his Otherworld Scholar class needed knowledge from other worlds to develop his Way of Dreams and Illusions.
• Lu Yunhe contacted the Abyssal Will but refused its invitation to become an Abyss World’s master.
• Lu Yunhe sent a spark of spiritual light through the Abyssal Rift to plant a hidden piece in the Abyss World.

Lu Yunhe’s sacrificed wisp arrived in the Abyss as an ordinary Lesser Demon, where he rapidly advanced by devouring other demons and gathering an army. After attacking a demon city, he learned from its city lord’s memories that this Abyss layer was called the Nightmare Realm.

• Lu Yunhe’s wisp awakened in the 3,333rd Abyss layer as a rational Lesser Demon.
• When two Lesser Demons attacked him, Lu Yunhe killed and ate them, then slaughtered the other demons until he advanced to a Lower-rank Demon.
• Lu Yunhe named his demon incarnation Motian and set out to slaughter demons, gathering an army and advancing to Mid-rank Demon within days.
• Motian led one hundred thousand demons against a demon city and stormed the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Motian swallowed the Upper Demon city lord and learned from his memories that the Abyss layer was the Nightmare Realm.

Captain Lei and four Upper City enforcers entered the Lower City under concealment to investigate its changes and retrieve the War King. After discovering that the Lower City had gained powerful combat methods and seeing the formidable War King City, Captain Lei decided the squad would disguise themselves and enter.

• Captain Lei reminded his companions that their mission was to investigate the changes in the Lower City and bring back the War King, not to attack the city.
• Third Sister concealed the five enforcers behind a mobile invisibility barrier as they traveled from the cargo ship into the Lower City.
• Captain Lei noticed that even ordinary Lower City residents used refined combat techniques, suggesting someone had spread new methods throughout the city.
• The enforcers reached the War King's garrison and were alarmed by the runes and defenses of the formidable War King City.
• Captain Lei ordered the squad to hide their auras, change their identities, and enter War King City.

Captain Lei entered War King City to investigate and discovered that its Dream Hall offered an extraordinarily realistic Virtual World for training Professionals. He learned that his teammates had encountered signs of the city's unusual strength, but Third Sister had gone to investigate the War King, and uniformed figures blocked the team before they could act.

• Captain Lei and his four teammates entered War King City, split up, and began investigating.
• Captain Lei registered at Dream Hall and experienced the Dream Realm, whose realistic training functions could not be distinguished from reality even by him.
• After his free trial ended, Captain Lei left Dream Hall convinced that the Upper City would covet its Virtual World technology and that the Lower City might conceal a powerful inheritance.
• Second Brother and Fourth Brother reported that War King City openly offered diverse Profession Paths and extensive facilities, while Captain Lei shared what he had learned about the Dream Realm.
• Fifth Brother revealed that Third Sister had gone to confirm news about the War King, and Captain Lei realized their danger as uniformed figures blocked the team.

Captain Lei and his team were ambushed by the Snake King and Wolf King inside War King City, forcing them to flee and leaving Third Sister and Fifth Brother behind. Captain Lei escaped to the Upper City using a Space Teleportation Talisman, then killed the boatman River Guardian, whose body transformed into a youth after Captain Lei departed.

• Captain Lei and his three teammates attacked the Snake King to rescue Third Sister, but she overwhelmed them with her whip and Dream Realm-honed combat skills.
• Captain Lei ordered a retreat, and the Wolf King pursued him while Fifth Brother remained behind with the Snake King.
• Captain Lei broke his own arm to escape the Wolf King's pounce, used a Space Teleportation Talisman, and fled toward the Upper City as the Wolf King gave up the chase.
• Captain Lei encountered River Guardian at Blackwater River and forced him to row a smuggling boat to the Upper City while questioning him about the Lower City's changes.
• After the boat reached the Upper City, Captain Lei killed River Guardian and destroyed the boat, but River Guardian's charred corpse transformed into a youth watching him leave.

Lu Yunhe quietly set new fates in motion among the Upper City slums while the Gold Council debated the growing power of the Lower City. Both sides committed to war, leaving Blackwater City on the brink of conflict.

• Lu Yunhe walked through an Upper City slum, gave a boy special coins, and quietly set fate-altering events in motion for several residents.
• Captain Lei reported the Lower City's strength and resources to the Gold Council, where the six Gold Families rejected compromise and agreed to attack and seize its inheritance.
• The Lei Family head assured Captain Lei that the ancestors would join the assault, while Captain Lei warned that the Lower City was dangerous.
• War King and the Lower City's leaders discussed the approaching conflict, their resources, and their chance to resist and gain power.
• War King ordered the Lower City to prepare for war.

War King and the Lower City prepared to resist the Upper City, but six Gold Tier ancestors arrived at War King City before their plans could unfold. War King rallied the city’s arrays and defenders to hold them off, leaving the battle locked outside the city walls.

• War King ordered Wolf King and Snake King to lead their teams toward the Upper City while he mobilized the Lower City’s forces for war.
• The six Gold Tier ancestors descended on War King City and discussed claiming the city, its people, and its technology.
• War King rejected the Stan Family Ancestor’s offer to surrender and used the city’s arrays to withstand the ancestors’ first joint attack.
• As the six ancestors continued their assault, War King summoned Jia, Yi, Bing, and Ding, whose Four Symbols Array forced two ancestors to engage them.
• War King City’s Silver Tier Professionals and the Dream Hall joined the defense, preventing the ancestors from advancing past the city’s defenses.

The Wolf King and Snake King led the Lower City’s forces into the Upper City to seize territory, while the Six Great Families’ ancestors attacked War King City. The widespread conflict fulfilled War King’s advancement ritual, and after he reached Gold Tier, the fighting across both cities settled into a stalemate.

• The Wolf King and Snake King infiltrated the Upper City with Lower City forces and began taking territory beyond the Six Great Families’ core areas.
• As the six ancestors attacked War King City, the conflict spread across both cities and fulfilled War King’s advancement ritual.
• War King opened the Path of Origin and advanced to Gold Tier, then attacked the four ancestors still facing him while Jia Yi Bing Ding held off the other two.
• Jia Yi Bing Ding fought the two ancestors to a standstill, while the Wolf King and Snake King seized part of the Upper City before the families organized a counterattack.
• Captain Lei imposed martial law and unified command, helping the Upper City’s professionals resist the invasion.
• The Wolf King and the others brought the Dream Realm into the slums, strengthening their forces until the battle lines split the Upper City in two.

War King and the Six Great Families agreed to leave Blackwater City’s future to their younger generations, while their ongoing competition unified outsiders and transformed the city. Lu Yunhe became a Fate Master by influencing people through the Dream Realm, then considered pursuing the Legendary Realm and challenging the gods; the chapter ended as an Upper City group in the Black Land noticed the Abyssal Rift opening its eye.

• War King rejected the Six Great Families’ offer to join them unless the Lower City’s people were treated as equals, so both sides agreed that their younger generations would compete while Gold Tier experts stayed out.
• Competition between the Six Great Families and the outsiders united people across the Upper and Lower City Districts, loosened family restrictions, and helped Blackwater City flourish as the Dream Realm spread through it.
• Lu Yunhe used the Dream Realm to influence Blackwater City’s inhabitants and advanced to the Fate Master profession, gaining abilities related to divination and fortune.
• Lu Yunhe judged that he needed more accumulation to reach the Legendary Realm and planned to deal with the gods before establishing faith in the Dreamy Divine Beast.
• A group of Upper City descendants entered the Black Land to hunt Abyssal Demons for resources, and one of them noticed the Abyssal Rift opening like an eye.

The Abyssal Rift tore open, unleashing a massive demon invasion across the Black Land and threatening Blackwater City. The Six Great Families’ ancestors joined War King and headed for the rift to close it, with Ancestor Stan preparing a powerful crystal.

• Purple light stirred the Abyssal Rift, and adventurers fled as demons went berserk across the Black Land.
• The rift was forced open, and more than a million demons poured out, killing adventurers and advancing toward Blackwater City.
• Ancestor Stan, Ancestor Lei, Ancestor Jack, and the other ancestors watched the invasion and agreed to close the rift, while also calling on War King for help.
• Five ancestors and War King led their forces through the demon army toward the Abyssal Rift, leaving one ancestor to guard Blackwater City.
• At the rift, Ancestor Stan took out a Colored Crystal, and the six prepared to attack together.

Ancestor Stan and five other Gold Tier experts tried to close the Abyssal Rift, but an Altar corrupted their divine blessing and let seven Upper Demons emerge. The demons trapped the experts in a formation while four Upper Demons led millions of demons toward Blackwater City to sacrifice its inhabitants for the Motian Lord.

• Ancestor Stan and the five Gold Tier experts used Faith Power and their own strength to suppress the Abyssal Rift, but a skull-covered Altar corrupted the blessing and opened the rift again.
• Seven Upper Demons emerged, revealed that they served the Motian Lord, and overwhelmed the experts by surrounding them with a million demons arranged in a formation.
• Ancestor Stan and the others tried to conserve their strength, find a weakness, and plan an escape as the demons harried them with repeated attacks.
• The experts realized that the demons were targeting their families and Blackwater City while keeping them trapped and unable to defend their strongholds.
• Four Upper Demons took command of several million demons and advanced on Blackwater City in the name of the Motian Lord.