Chapter Summaries

Ratman Rolin revealed the Lord of End’s plans and surrendered to the Human Race, while Broken Fang accepted him as a Human Sect Dharma Beast. Rolin then walked out of Human territory, unsure what his new status meant.

• Broken Fang noticed a black mist and discovered that Ratman Rolin had awakened and overheard him mention end.
• Rolin told Broken Fang that the Lord of End had ordered him to investigate the Human Race and Cult Leader Feng, and to help summon the incarnation of end in eleven days.
• Rolin explained that he wanted to surrender because he distrusted the Lord of End and feared Cult Leader Feng more, but Broken Fang initially failed to understand.
• Broken Fang received Feng Buzhi’s approval to accept Rolin’s surrender and cut him free, declaring him a Human Sect Dharma Beast.
• Rolin left the Peach Blossom Forest and realized he had already walked beyond Human territory.

Rolin returned to the Kunlun Region and realized the Human Sect’s influence had changed him, while the Lord of End’s presence had been manipulating his loyalty. The Eye of the Human Sect revealed it had severed Rolin’s connection to the Lord of End, and Rolin saw the vast scale of its incarnations.

• Rolin traveled through his sewer-pipe Soul Vessel to the Kunlun Mountains and found Bolun'er Peninsula transformed by Cult Leader Feng’s [War of Partition].
• Rolin noticed that the Kunlun Region no longer resisted him and realized the Human Sect members had concealed their true strength.
• Rolin sensed the Lord of End beyond human territory, felt his loyalty returning, and retreated into the Kunlun Region to escape its influence.
• Rolin concluded that the Lord of End had bewitched him and wondered what blocked their connection.
• The Eye of the Human Sect told Rolin that it had severed his connection to the Lord of End and showed him countless incarnations beneath a giant eye beyond the heavens.

The Eye of the Human Sect told Rolin that he had become a Human Sect Dharma Beast and explained the sect’s reasons for protecting other races. On the Green Jade Plains, Alice secretly watched Rose self-mutilate while Rose spoke with someone through her ring and a crystal-like chair appeared.

• The Eye of the Human Sect explained to Rolin that its enormous image was an aggregated projection and that its true body was cultivating beside Cult Leader Feng.
• The Eye of the Human Sect said Rolin was a Human Sect Dharma Beast because Cult Leader Feng had declared him one, and described how he could draw on the Human Orthodoxy and contact the Cult Leader.
• The Eye of the Human Sect explained that Human Sect Dharma Beasts helped humanity and that the sect protected rare races for ecological balance and future research, alarming Rolin.
• Alice secretly observed Rose breaking her fingers and using her power of Repair after previously interrogating and releasing her.
• Rose spoke aloud about someone named Ma Dabao and a hidden name of her own, and a streak of light from her ring formed a crystal-like chair beside her.

Rose discovered a crystal seat and awakened her connection to Phoenix, the Immortal Bird, gaining its power of flame after Feng Buzhi warned her to guard against its influence. Alice found Rose unconscious and learned that Feng Buzhi had distributed more rings and planned to visit her later.

• Ma Dabao told Rose about their strange connection and advised her to sit on the crystal seat that had appeared before her.
• Rose sat on the seat, endured its assault on her spirit, and learned that her other name was Phoenix.
• Feng Buzhi warned Rose that the flaming bird was a demon seeking a symbiotic relationship, then identified it as the Immortal Bird and explained its powers.
• Rose touched Phoenix, which merged into her body and awakened the power of flame before she collapsed unconscious.
• Alice caught Rose and noticed a phoenix pattern on her arm, then discovered that Feng Buzhi had distributed the rings and planned to visit her later.

Feng Buzhi investigated the Ring of Truth’s powers and concluded that the whisper inside it belonged to the Great Demon King Belial. Belial drew him into the Ring Space and through a new door into a fiery realm, where a gigantic demon swallowed him.

• Alice threw the box of rings into the Ancestor Banyan Tree’s blast furnace and saw that the flames did not damage them.
• Feng Buzhi cultivated several abilities and examined the Ring of Truth’s white light, learning that it sealed the seventy-three seats linked to Solomon and the demon gods.
• Feng Buzhi listened to the Ring’s whisper and asked whether Belial wanted to revive through his body.
• Belial denied needing to revive, then used a pulling force to draw Feng Buzhi into the Ring Space.
• Belial controlled Feng Buzhi’s body, led him through a newly appeared side door into a world of flames and smoke, and a four-winged demon swallowed him.

Feng Buzhi tested Belial’s infinite lifespan and self-repair from inside the Demon King’s stomach, then summoned Cecily, Caesar, and Jim to withstand the digestive fluid. Jim discovered something about the world, leaving Feng Buzhi with a new clue.

• Belial swallowed Feng Buzhi and tried to alter his thoughts by digesting his projected body.
• Feng Buzhi sensed that Belial had an infinite, cyclical lifespan and tested his self-repair by striking his stomach wall more than two thousand three hundred times.
• Feng Buzhi summoned Cecily, Caesar, and Jim; Cecily used a crimson beehive to resist the stomach fluid, while Caesar transformed into material like Belial’s stomach wall.
• Jim the Clown used his Self-Isolation Magic Box for protection and discovered something about the world.

Feng Buzhi fought Belial for hours, testing the demon’s defenses and instinctive reactions before discovering a hidden presence inside his own finger. He sealed the finger in a sphere of protective shields and sealing chains, confronting the presence at the chapter’s end.

• Clown Jim sensed that they were in an Abyss layer beyond the ninth tier, then lost his [Self-Isolation Magic Box] and returned to the card within Feng Buzhi.
• Feng Buzhi concluded that the layer’s control might belong to a great existence and tested Belial’s defenses with increasingly powerful attacks.
• Belial vomited Feng Buzhi out, and Feng Buzhi found that the demon’s seemingly vacant body reacted instinctively to threats.
• Feng Buzhi and Belial fought for hours as they repeatedly changed size and forms, while Feng Buzhi’s strength gradually waned.
• Belial suddenly lunged to swallow Feng Buzhi again, who dodged, severed his index finger, and sealed it inside a sphere with Vajra shields and [Sealing Chains].
• Feng Buzhi accused the hidden presence in his finger of concealing itself from him.

Feng Buzhi trapped the hidden force inside the severed finger and compressed its remnants while Vajra attempted to deliver them from suffering. The black-gray liquid died, and Feng Buzhi received a new title from the abyss.

• Feng Buzhi revealed that he had baited the concealed force into the finger and sealed it inside multiple layers of Vajra Shields.
• The finger fired a gray ray, but Feng Buzhi removed puppet Belial from its sight to test the shield’s isolation.
• The finger decayed after Feng Buzhi severed his connection to it, releasing black-gray energy that he compressed into liquid.
• Vajra chanted the Diamond Sutra over the liquid while Feng Buzhi sensed the abyssal plane and found flying imps.
• Feng Buzhi caught an imp, but the black-gray liquid died during Vajra’s deliverance, and the abyss granted him the title “The Last Sorrowful Cry of the Great Demon King Belial.”

Feng Buzhi examined the unique title he gained after Great Demon King Belial died, then absorbed Belial’s fragmented memories and discovered a new emotion-based cheat. He learned that Belial’s body was Immortal only on this Abyssal layer and tested his control over it, though the body could not yet leave the layer.

• Feng Buzhi activated Great Demon King Belial's Final Wail and saw the little demon shift from hostility to overwhelming fear.
• Feng Buzhi absorbed Belial’s remains and learned that Belial’s soul had awakened from the Ring of Truth, targeted Feng Buzhi for resurrection, and planned to control the Abyssal layer.
• Feng Buzhi discovered that puppet Belial was Immortal while on the Abyssal layer and learned that Belial had intended to use his resurrection to gain control of it.
• Feng Buzhi obtained an emotion-system cheat, collected fear points from the little demon, and drew a Fear Star revolver before crushing it and absorbing its strange energy.
• Feng Buzhi summoned puppet Belial from the pit and tested his control over its movements, but the body could not leave the Abyssal layer.

Feng Buzhi discovered that Belial could send his power through the Abyss even though his body could not leave its layer, and considered several ways to use him. Back on Penglai Island, Feng Buzhi investigated dangerous problems with the Human Orthodoxy’s Abyss Altars, adjusted their sacrifice rules, and considered gaining another aberrant organ.

• Feng Buzhi tested the Ring of Truth’s door and found that Belial and pieces of his flesh were bound to their Abyss layer, though Belial’s laser could pass through.
• Feng Buzhi recalled the werewolf prisoners he had neglected and decided to modify them as a supplement to the Human Orthodoxy.
• Feng Buzhi inferred from Belial’s memories that Belial could send power through the Abyss to condense a body, and considered refining Belial into an external incarnation.
• Feng Buzhi returned to Penglai Island and found that trial-takers using the Abyss Altars to obtain meridian-type aberrant organs had suffered negative Abyss Points, madness, and fusion with the altars.
• Feng Buzhi traced the altar accidents to trial-takers altering sacrifices, including three who sacrificed themselves, and adjusted the Human Orthodoxy’s sacrifice rules.
• Feng Buzhi considered accepting another eerie entity and forming another aberrant organ after Cui Jue’s consciousness awakened within him.

Edmond returned to the Kunlun Region with seven high-ranking goblin prisoners and his former Evolution Sect colleagues, who had agreed to meet Cult Leader Feng. On Penglai Island, Feng Buzhi used the goblins’ tools to repair his music player and got it working again.

• Edmond brought Fan Xin, Fu Yin, Gu Luo, and seven shackled goblins back to Pine Mist Harbor after a perilous but successful voyage.
• Edmond told Fan Xin and the others that Cult Leader Feng had summoned them to the Land of Inheritance on Penglai Island.
• Rolin appeared through a sewer pipe, calmed Fan Xin with the sight of the surrounding blood-red eyeballs, and transported the goblins’ tools to Penglai Island.
• Rolin took the seven goblins to Penglai Island and told Edmond to prepare while Cult Leader Feng gathered information about immortality.
• Feng Buzhi tested his music player with the goblins’ circuit-testing device, found a minor charging-port problem, and switched it on successfully.

Feng Buzhi questioned the goblins about mechs, and Katu betrayed Hamid by revealing his plan and handing over Magnetic Storm Grenades. As Katu began copying Feng Buzhi’s music player, a hidden corrosive power rotted parts of Feng Buzhi’s body, while Katu transformed into a strange scaled creature.

• Feng Buzhi asked the goblins about rumors of their mechs, and Katu identified Hamid as their leader and suggested Hamid knew about them.
• Hamid attacked Katu, but Rolin restrained him with silver threads as Katu gave Feng Buzhi two Magnetic Storm Grenades and explained Hamid’s plot.
• Katu said he had betrayed Hamid because he did not want to die, then explained that high goblin clans in the Gray Soil Land developed mechs.
• Feng Buzhi asked Katu to make backup music players, and Katu began scanning the player’s casing with a device resembling a 3D printer.
• Black, rotting slime appeared where Katu had touched Feng Buzhi, and Feng Buzhi contained it with the power of Vajra while sensing that it devoured lifespan.
• Katu floated above Feng Buzhi, grew taller, and developed scales, tumors, and a thick tail.

Feng Buzhi confronted a goblin monster that Syne had sent as the second stage of his trial. Syne said Feng had to fight it and earn approval to join the Life Unification Society and qualify for immortality, while failure or refusal would bring punishment.

• Rolin chose to attack the goblin monster with his Soul Vessel sewer pipe, but the monster seized him and drained his strength and lifespan until he became an elderly ratman.
• Feng Buzhi stopped the monster from attacking Hamid and the other goblins, then absorbed black slime to restore his combat power.
• The goblin monster tried to drain Feng Buzhi's lifespan, but Feng drew upon the monster in return and stored the goblins' tools before the battle.
• Feng Buzhi asked whether the monster had been created by Syne, and it attacked him with its tail as plants formed a huge tail and green tornadoes.
• Syne's Eerie Whispers told Feng Buzhi that fighting the goblin monster was the second stage of his trial and that passing would let him join the Life Unification Society.

Feng Buzhi faced Syne’s trial against the goblin monster, but Life failed to understand the monster’s control over vitality in time, and he was declared unfit to join the Life Unification Society. As the monster prepared to leave, it found itself surrounded by converging walls of blood-red eyeballs that concealed an immense ocean of them.

• Feng Buzhi learned that he had to avoid being put at an obvious disadvantage for ten minutes to pass the trial.
• The goblin monster unleashed a plant storm that devastated the area, while Rolin used the Soul Vessel Sewer to escape with several goblins.
• Feng Buzhi let Life study the monster’s manipulation of vitality, but the plant seeds overwhelmed him as Vajra and Chaos kept his body from fully transforming.
• The goblin monster declared Feng Buzhi’s trial failed, stripped him of Syne’s Gaze, and left him collapsed in the crater.
• The goblin monster tried to clear a path through the surrounding blood-red eyeballs, then realized they formed walls backed by an ocean of eyes.

Feng Buzhi revealed that he had only pretended to be incapacitated during Syne’s trial, then captured the goblin monster after the Human Orthodoxy lineages cut off Syne’s perception of the area. He planned to use the monster’s body as a reference for giving Belial a body in reality, though his connection to Syne remained severed.

• Feng Buzhi told the goblin monster that he had faked his weakened condition to test whether Syne could see through the act, but Syne had judged him a failure and revoked his title.
• Feng Buzhi realized that the gathered Human Orthodoxy lineages had blocked Syne’s perception, then transformed into a Golden Dragon and tore off the goblin monster’s tail.
• Feng Buzhi switched back to human form, stopped the goblin monster’s tail from regenerating, and watched its escape attempt fail against the wall of blood-red eyeballs.
• Feng Buzhi restrained the goblin monster with Sealing Chains, Vajra Shields, and the surrounding eyeballs, successfully capturing it.
• Feng Buzhi decided the goblin monster’s body could help Belial condense a body in reality, while lamenting that his connection with Syne had been severed.

Edmond and Pei Chao brought Fan Xin and the other Evolution Sect members through the Bloodmist Sea to Penglai Island, where they found Feng Buzhi’s defeated goblin monster hanging from a towering plant structure. Feng Buzhi restored Rolin’s youth and explained that he had learned to adjust vitality and lifespan, while Wallace turned his attention to the newly arrived Fan Xin.

• Edmond refused to reveal the reason for the Bloodmist Sea to Fan Xin and Pei Chao, and Pei Chao bluntly told the Evolution Sect members they could not know the Human Sect’s affairs.
• Edmond, Pei Chao, Fan Xin, and the others reached Penglai Island and found a huge crater, scattered plant fragments, and a towering vine structure with the goblin monster hanging from its summit.
• Fan Xin recognized Rolin, whom Feng Buzhi was restoring from his aged state, as the rat-man they had met three hours earlier.
• Rolin awoke, saw that his body had become much younger, and asked Feng Buzhi about the change.
• Feng Buzhi explained that Syne’s creation had inspired him to adjust vitality and lifespan, extending Rolin’s expected lifespan from around seven hundred and eighty years to eight hundred and ninety years.
• Wallace recorded Feng Buzhi’s findings and looked toward Fan Xin, making the elderly dwarf retreat several steps.

Feng Buzhi treated the Human Race prophet and captured members of the Evolution Sect after rejecting their proposed cooperation. With his initial longevity cultivation underway, Wallace also began modifying himself to pursue initial longevity.

• Wallace recognized Fan Xin from an encounter thirty years earlier, subdued him, and drew his blood while Feng Buzhi continued treating the prophet.
• Feng Buzhi restored the prophet's lifespan to forty years, though his dim-witted state remained unchanged.
• Gu Luo offered cooperation on behalf of the Evolution Sect, but Feng Buzhi rejected the terms and bound Gu Luo beside the goblin monster.
• Wallace finished drawing blood from Fan Xin, and Feng Buzhi left Fu Yin in Edmond's custody while the others departed Penglai Island.
• With Feng Buzhi supervising and several high goblins assisting, Wallace began modifying himself to pursue initial longevity.

Feng Buzhi watched Wallace separate and modify the Demon Blood aberration, leaving Wallace to undergo a transformation that might grant him an exceptionally long life. Feng Buzhi then used the goblin monster to create a miniature Belial, discovering that making one weakened Belial and prevented another from being created until the weakness passed.

• Wallace stripped the Demon Blood aberration from his body, and Feng Buzhi imprisoned it in a Vajra Shield as it began to form a path back to the Abyss.
• Wallace warned that he would die within two hours unless he completed his modification, then persuaded the Demon Blood aberration to cooperate and fused it back into his soul as modified Demon Iron.
• Wallace fell asleep after the high goblins installed his mechanical prosthetic limbs, beginning a transformation expected to turn his flesh into steel over three to five months.
• Feng Buzhi studied the goblin monster and, after two days, used its body as a vessel or sacrifice to create a self-aware miniature Belial with weakened versions of Belial's powers.
• Feng Buzhi sensed that creating the miniature weakened Belial in the Abyss for one to two years and prevented another miniature from being made until the first died and Belial recovered.

After months of Stockholm Training, Zhang Ming regained the ability to think and was taken with the other trial-takers to a large ritual in the Kunlun Mountains. The ritual began, and Zhang Ming’s consciousness sank as he seemed to awaken in another world.

• Zhang Ming fought Fish-Man monsters on the northeastern coast and ate nutrient-rich compressed biscuits during Stockholm Training.
• Zhang Ming recalled how he had arrived in the world, gained mutated meridians and a cultivation method, and endured Pei Chao’s brutal training.
• Zhang Ming realized he could think clearly again and wondered whether he had passed Stockholm Training.
• Pei Chao ordered the trial-takers to stop fighting and return to Kunlun City for Cult Leader Feng’s ritual.
• Zhang Ming saw more than five thousand trial-takers and over a hundred thousand bound werewolves gathered in the western Kunlun Mountains, and learned their souls would be replaced by the ritual.
• The ritual began, and Zhang Ming’s consciousness sank before he seemed to arrive in another world.

Zhang Ming experienced an illusory life as a human in the Primordial World, where he helped the Ox Horn Tribe survive and prosper before dying of old age. He awoke from the simulation, learned that his ring had earned a third-tier rating, and saw that William had received the top rating.

• Zhang Ming lived from infancy in the Ox Horn Tribe, which lost its giant willow protector before Chen arrived and taught him and other children cultivation.
• After Chen left, Zhang Ming helped the tribe prosper by leading its people and using knowledge from his original world to build blast furnaces, bricks, and cement.
• When a flood caused by Gonggong and Zhurong's battle swept across the Primordial World, Zhang Ming led survivors to safety and rebuilt their home afterward.
• As he aged, Zhang Ming created artifact-refinement methods and weapons from beasts and demons before dying of old age.
• Zhang Ming awoke from the simulation, recognized the Light of Truth's role, and saw that his ring's yellow halo indicated a third-tier rating.
• Zhang Ming spotted William's red halo, which marked the first-tier rating.