Chapter Summaries

Huo Ling’s forces fought off the demons as more Sanctuary-rank enemies arrived, while infighting among the demons claimed a wounded Six-Armed Serpent Demon. The battle remained unresolved, and Huo Ling continued attacking from the War Chariot Fortress, wounding a Horned Demon with Scorching Eyes.

• The Balor Demon killed the White Dragon projection and charged toward Carl as Huo Ling’s allies fought the other demons.
• Four Sanctuary-rank demons arrived, and one of them, a Slaughter Demon, attacked and killed the wounded Six-Armed Serpent Demon before devouring its demon heart core.
• Huo Ling saw that the new arrivals had worsened his forces’ disadvantage, drank a mana restoration potion, and continued casting spells from the War Chariot Fortress.
• The newly arrived demons began watching and scheming against one another, making their side’s fighting less coordinated.
• Huo Ling aimed several Scorching Eye rays at a wounded Horned Demon, which blocked one with its axe but was struck by the others.

Huo Ling’s forces fought off a growing horde of Sanctuary-tier demons, many of which turned on each other, but the battle still shifted against him. He began an orderly retreat, sending the Dread Knights ahead to carve a path through the demon horde.

• A Glabrezu attacked the injured Horned Demon after a Scorching Eye wounded its leg, while the Death Guard recovered with the liches’ aid and returned to battle.
• Sanctuary-tier demon reinforcements kept arriving until twenty-one were fighting, with many attacking one another over old grudges or wounded prey.
• Seeing the enemy numbers rise and his own troops suffer heavy losses, Huo Ling decided to retreat and selected elite units to lead the breakout.
• Huo Ling blasted gaps through the lesser demons with Massive Flameburst, and the Dread Knights charged through while Dark Warriors and skeletons secured the ground behind them.
• Huo Ling’s army withdrew in alternating formations as the mage corps cast war spells to hold back the pursuing demons.

Huo Ling withdrew his army from the demon worm hatchery by the Styx as the demons overwhelmed the battlefield, then watched the demons turn on one another in a massive melee. After catching up with his retreating forces, he postponed his plans to seize the alluvial plain until he could strengthen his high-tier undead army.

• Huo Ling ordered an orderly retreat from the hatchery, leaving Skeleton Warriors and some devils behind to cover the rear as demons pursued his troops.
• Purgatory's will lost its hold over the area, and some Sanctuary-tier demons stopped pursuing Huo Ling's army to study the Abyssal rules.
• Huo Ling's forces killed pursuing low- and mid-tier demons, collected their corpses, and continued withdrawing as the demons began devouring the dead and fighting among themselves.
• The demons' brawls grew into a melee that killed Sanctuary-tier fighters, including a Soul-Judging Demon slain by two Berserker Demons, while more Sanctuary-tier demons arrived.
• Huo Ling caught up with his army, which had lost more than ten thousand devils and over thirty thousand skeletons, and postponed his plans to take the alluvial plain until he expanded his high-tier undead forces.

After rebuilding his forces, Huo Ling learned Greater Concealment and returned alone with seven Sanctuary-tier undead to the Abyss. He reached the alluvial plain, where demons still fought and demon worms fed, as he began hunting Sanctuary demons to prepare for a future assault.

• Huo Ling turned the three recovered Sanctuary demon corpses into Death Guards over two months, bringing his forces to four Death Guards, one Death Vanguard, and one Death Warlord.
• Huo Ling sent Sali to Lovisa to buy a Sanctuary-tier Greater Concealment spell and left Sali and Carl at Kote Fortress to recruit devil soldiers and keep watch.
• After learning Greater Concealment, Huo Ling entered Abyss territory with his seven Sanctuary-tier undead, while the Abyss's influence gradually drew demons toward him.
• Huo Ling returned to the alluvial plain and found one or two hundred thousand demons still fighting and devouring corpses.
• Huo Ling saw more demon eggs washed ashore by the Styx, where demon worms hatched and fed on other worms and battlefield corpses.

Huo Ling tracked down a Wolf Serpent Demon and used his undead to overwhelm it, then killed a Glabrezu that arrived during the fight. He left both Sanctuary demons dead after the brief battle.

• Huo Ling found a Wolf Serpent Demon on a rocky mountain and followed it after it escaped with Greater Teleportation.
• Huo Ling caught the Wolf Serpent Demon and trapped it with Greater Spatial Lock before summoning undead to attack.
• A Glabrezu arrived, and Huo Ling sent more undead to hold it while his other forces fought the Wolf Serpent Demon.
• The Death Warlord smashed both of the Wolf Serpent Demon's heads, killing it.
• Huo Ling offered the Glabrezu a chance to surrender and reveal its true name, but it refused and died under the assault of Huo Ling and his undead.

Huo Ling returned to the Abyss's New Land to hunt more Sanctuary-tier demons, killing several wounded targets before mounting numbers forced him to flee. As another Sanctuary-tier demon pursued him, Huo Ling slowed down and prepared to deal with it.

• Huo Ling returned to Purgatory's New Land, rested for two days, and then entered the Abyss's New Land again.
• Huo Ling and his high-ranking undead killed a wounded Soul-Judging Demon and another injured Sanctuary-tier demon that had been pursuing it.
• Huo Ling used Death's Eye to kill a fleeing Six-Armed Serpent Demon while fighting three other Sanctuary-tier demons nearby.
• Huo Ling fled when more Sanctuary-tier demons approached, and the three demons he had been fighting chose not to pursue him.
• Huo Ling tried to bypass another Sanctuary-tier demon, but it pursued him noisily, so he slowed down and kept it trailing behind him.

Huo Ling lured two Sanctuary-rank demons into a trap, killed them, and returned to Kote Fortress with a valuable haul. He began turning nine more corpses into undead, further increasing his forces.

• Huo Ling led two pursuing Sanctuary-rank demons into an ambush and killed them with his undead forces.
• Huo Ling returned to Kote Fortress with over two hundred Golden-rank demon corpses and nine Sanctuary-rank corpses in total.
• Huo Ling reviewed the fortress’s expansion and patrol work, then ate a meal prepared by Shen Tinghan.
• Huo Ling took Shen Tinghan to her room to guide her cultivation.
• Huo Ling began transforming nine corpses into five Death Vanguards and four Death Guards, growing his undead army.

Huo Ling returned from Purgatory to the Spirit Realm, exchanged demon materials for magic stones, and visited Eighth Group at a bow workshop. He tried to recruit Stone, who declined until the Forest Sea war ended, while Huo Ling left open the possibility of asking again later.

• Huo Ling returned to the Spirit Realm and gave Liu Hu Purgatory specialties before selling demon materials at New Southern City.
• Liu Hu adjusted the prices on Huo Ling's materials, earning Huo Ling more than two million additional magic stones.
• Huo Ling visited Eighth Group at a safer bow and crossbow workshop behind the fortress.
• Huo Ling asked Stone about advancing to Saint Domain and invited him to join his forces.
• Stone declined to leave Eighth Group during the war, and Huo Ling agreed they could discuss it again afterward.
• Bird teased Huo Ling about recruiting her, and he joked that she would only be useful for warming his bed.

Huo Ling returned to New Southern City, spent time with Huo Chengguang and An Ruirui, and attended a family banquet with Shen Tianyu. Shen Tianyu revealed that Silvermoon Elf reinforcements had arrived and would lead a full-scale offensive against Adrian, leaving Huo Ling facing an impending decisive battle.

• Huo Ling helped Huo Chengguang absorb the energy from a Silver-rank fruit, and the boy fell asleep as his dragonblood lineage neared Black Iron rank.
• An Ruirui told Huo Ling that Huo Chengguang wanted a little sister, and Huo Ling agreed to try for one.
• Huo Ling attended a family banquet with Shen Tianyu and his brothers-in-law, then followed Shen Tianyu into a secret chamber.
• Shen Tianyu warned Huo Ling that a full-scale offensive against Adrian might begin soon because Silvermoon Elf reinforcements had arrived.
• Shen Tianyu explained that the Silvermoon Elves had sent two Legendaries, twenty Sanctuaries, and a thousand Gold-rank Silvermoon Knights, and that their leaders had decided to attack.

Huo Ling recalled how gods ascended and learned why the Silvermoon God was considered a subgod. The chapter left the god Dodd and the others worshipped identified as an elven subgod bound to the region where its original plane had merged into the Spirit Realm.

• Huo Ling remembered that the Silvermoon God had weak divine power and followers among elves and other nature-loving races.
• Huo Ling reviewed how demigods gathered faith, bound themselves to foundational laws, and raised divine kingdoms to ascend to godhood.
• Huo Ling recalled that gods guided their dead followers' souls into their divine kingdoms, where they became petitioners and could serve as guards.
• Huo Ling considered the limits on gods' power and movement, contrasting them with the freedom of Legends.
• Huo Ling recalled that gods from absorbed planes became subgods, bound to the region where their original planes had merged into the Spirit Realm.
• Huo Ling recognized that Dodd and the others worshipped an elven subgod.

Huo Ling agreed to let Shen Tianyu summon his projection to fight in the coming battle against the elves, then learned the Projection Spell after returning to Purgatory. He mastered the spell in less than ten days and began forming his first projection.

• Shen Tianyu warned Huo Ling that a decisive battle with the elves was approaching and urged him to leave New Southern City.
• Shen Tianyu asked Huo Ling to sign a stack of archdevil summoning scrolls so he and other family members could summon Huo Ling's projection.
• Huo Ling accepted a Saint Domain-rank Projection Spell from Shen Tianyu's steward and returned to Purgatory after one more day at home.
• Huo Ling learned the Projection Spell in less than ten days after returning to Purgatory.
• Huo Ling cast the spell in his cultivation room, forming a tall figure within the void of his mind.

Huo Ling shaped his mind-projection by combining fire, Purgatory, and death rules into a powerful dragonman form. At the elves’ frontline fortress, You Taining considered the silver moon elves’ arrival as the allied legendary experts gathered to prepare for an offensive against two demons.

• Huo Ling infused his projection with fire rules, then tested how Purgatory and death rules altered its form.
• Huo Ling combined portions of all three rules into a six-and-a-half-meter dragonman projection with demon armor, broad wings, Fear Aura, and a bone spear.
• Six legendary experts gathered at the elves’ frontline fortress in Forest Sea, including five elves and the human mage You Taining.
• You Taining studied the silver moon elves and recalled their higher status and greater number of priests compared with the wood elves.
• You Taining accepted that the elves planned a full-scale offensive against the two legendary demons, since he was only a mercenary.

You Taining and the elven alliance launched a massive offensive against the demon fortress built over the former Wood Elf Royal Court. After nearly a month of marching and fighting, the allied army reached the fortress, where Adrian had gathered his forces to defend the Abyssal Gate.

• You Taining agreed to the Silver Moon Elf priest's proposal, and the alliance set its general offensive for five days later.
• More than sixty thousand human and elven troops marched toward the demon fortress, fighting scattered demons and witnessing the Forest Sea's devastation.
• The alliance reached the fortress after nearly a month, having suffered more than a thousand casualties along the way.
• The allied forces found Adrian's enormous fortress guarded by high-rank demons and corrupted creatures.

Adrian obeyed the legendary demon Hermans, who controlled Adrian’s true name, and prepared the fortress demons for battle. As Adrian invoked the Abyss’s power and the allied priests tried to summon the Silvermoon God, the god did not answer.

• Hermans tortured Adrian through his true name and ordered him to kill more of his former kin.
• Adrian left Hermans’s tower and joined the fallen spellcasters at a seven-tiered altar overlooking the allied army.
• Adrian began the battle by sacrificing a Saint-tier magic beast and calling on the Abyss’s will to strengthen the demons.
• The Silvermoon elf priest and other priests attempted to summon an avatar of the Silvermoon God, but the god did not answer.

The allied forces began their assault on Adrian’s demon fortress, with You Taining and the priests unleashing powerful attacks that Adrian partially deflected. The battle spread into a bloody melee while legendary fighters drew on the land’s rules, damaging the Forest Sea in ways that would be difficult to reverse.

• The priests enhanced the frontline soldiers as You Taining summoned an Earth Elemental Lord and cast the rule-powered legendary spell Searing Meteor at Adrian.
• Adrian blocked the Sword of Divine Punishment, then used Legendary Spell Dispel to divert Searing Meteor, which struck near the fortress and tore open the walls.
• Burns ordered the allied forces to attack, and demons poured through dozens of gates to meet them in a close-quarters battle.
• The Sanctuary-ranked experts and legendary fighters took to the skies and clashed, extracting rule power across the region and causing lasting harm to the land.

As the battle between the allied forces and demons dragged into its fourth day, Shen Tianyu summoned Huo Ling to help him face a powerful Balor Demon. Huo Ling emerged from the summoning array and drove the demon back, then began casting as it turned on Shen Tianyu.

• The allied forces and demons suffered heavy casualties over four days of fighting, while Huo Ling's father-in-law fought almost without rest.
• You Taining ordered Shen Tianyu to stop a Balor Demon, and Shen Tianyu quickly fell behind in their fight.
• Shen Tianyu activated a summoning scroll, and Huo Ling answered by projecting his consciousness onto the battlefield.
• The Balor Demon attacked Huo Ling while he was still emerging, but Huo Ling blasted it with dragon breath and freed himself from the summoning array.
• The Balor Demon turned on Shen Tianyu, and Huo Ling began casting to protect his father-in-law.

Huo Ling used spells and close combat to battle the Balor Demon while protecting Shen Tianyu, ultimately killing the Balor Demon with a spear. He was still fighting the Wolf Serpent Demon when the Balor Demon's corpse unleashed a powerful explosion.

• Huo Ling strengthened Shen Tianyu and weakened the Balor Demon, allowing Shen Tianyu to wound the demon more easily.
• Huo Ling bound the Balor Demon with Wailing Chains and struck him with Death's Eye, but the demon survived and a Wolf Serpent Demon interrupted Huo Ling's attack.
• Huo Ling used Soul Scream to send the Wolf Serpent Demon plummeting, then defeated three Gold-rank demons summoned by the Balor Demon.
• Huo Ling fought the Balor Demon at close range and hit him with Death's Eye again, grievously damaging his chest.
• Huo Ling hurled his spear through the Balor Demon's heart, killing him, and the demon's corpse erupted with Body-Burning Explosion.

Huo Ling’s projection fought through the battlefield, killing a Balor Demon before three Sanctuary-level demons overwhelmed him and drained his mana. Shen Tianyu escaped to You Taining’s position as the legendary battles continued to threaten the allied army.

• Huo Ling killed a Balor Demon, drawing the attention of the battlefield and impressing several old Sanctuary-level men who had considered marriage alliances with him.
• Huo Ling protected Shen Tianyu and helped him wound the Berserker Demon, then turned to face a Glabrezu and a Six-Armed Serpent Demon as a Wolf Serpent Demon attacked from behind.
• Huo Ling used spells and close combat to hold off the three Sanctuary-level demons, but his projection dissipated when its mana ran dry.
• Shen Tianyu abandoned his chance to kill the Berserker Demon, drank several potions, and flew back to the allied army after You Taining called him.
• You Taining restrained Adrian while erasing the aftershocks of other legendary battles to protect the allied troops.

You Taining used Shen Tianyu’s summoning scroll to call forth Huo Ling’s stronger, complete projection and send him into the battle. Huo Ling’s spells shifted the fight in the allies’ favor, but Adrian targeted him with a green ray that rapidly drained his projection’s magic power.

• You Taining asked Shen Tianyu for another summoning scroll and used it to summon Huo Ling.
• Huo Ling arrived in his complete form, greeted You Taining, and flew to the battlefield.
• Huo Ling protected his father-in-law and attacked the demons with spells and rule-infused spell-eyes, forcing the fallen mages to try to dispel them.
• Adrian recognized Huo Ling as the man banished to Purgatory with Sylvia and attacked him with a green ray.
• Huo Ling poured his magic power into a defensive shield, but Adrian’s ray struck it and rapidly drained his projection.

Adrian supported Hermans with Abyssal laws and a potion, turning the demon into an overwhelming force against the elves. As Hermans reveled in his growing power, Adrian killed the demons who tried to escape and sacrificed their bodies to strengthen him further.

• Huo Ling's projection survived Adrian's Sanctuary spell but was badly wounded and forced to fight more cautiously.
• As the demons suffered mounting casualties, Adrian abandoned his duel with You Taining to help Hermans, who was pressured by three legendary elves.
• Hermans swallowed Adrian's blood-red potion, and Adrian channeled Abyssal laws into him, greatly increasing his strength.
• Adrian activated the Abyssal Gate, then killed the wounded Sanctuary demons who tried to escape and sacrificed their bodies to enlarge it.
• Adrian cut down the fallen mages around him and sent their corpses' energy to Hermans, who praised him as his power surged again.