Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• After defeating the Temple Warden, Wu Yu examines the five reward Cards: a Treasure Chest Key, three consumables, and blue-grade equipment. He judges the blue equipment replaceable and chooses Divine Oil, which he expects to use soon.
• Wu Yu privately considers whether he could kill a god if he could guarantee his safety, but decides not to join the others in entering the Temple.
• The group divides the rewards: Wu Yu takes Divine Oil and the Key; Liu Yu takes Divine Sound Piercing the Ears; Bai Xiaotian takes the Flesh Mutation Pill; Chen Lingling gets the Silent Belt.
• None of the group wants to risk confronting the Heavenly God and its many warriors at the Temple. Liu Yu gives Wu Yu the Key, reasoning that Wu Yu may have the best chance to use it.
• Instead, the group targets Heavenly God Warriors drawn to the Sinner Incense. They launch a coordinated ambush using explosions, fire, spirit power, and Wu Yu’s buried Bi Fang Talisman.
• The attack kills some warriors and badly wounds many others. As the survivors recover their senses and panic, Wu Yu and his companions charge in.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu shows strategic restraint: he chooses a useful reward, openly refuses the Temple expedition, and keeps his interest in potentially challenging a god to himself. He remains willing to fight when the odds seem manageable.
• Liu Yu is pragmatic and sociable. He proposes a fair division, offers Wu Yu the Key, and redirects the group toward a safer, more profitable target.
• Bai Xiaotian focuses on the Flesh Mutation Pill and later helps lead the attack, displaying a taste for action.
• Chen Lingling is cautious about facing the Temple’s greater threats, but contributes her fan-based spirit-power attack to the ambush.
• The companions disagree over risk but respect one another’s choices, then cooperate in a coordinated strike.

Significant themes

• Risk versus reward: The group weighs the potential treasure against the overwhelming danger of the Temple.
• Pragmatism and self-preservation: They avoid a likely fatal confrontation and choose a more manageable target.
• Power and ambition: Wu Yu’s private thought of killing a god hints at his growing confidence and larger aspirations.
• Cooperation and division of spoils: The group negotiates rewards before joining forces in battle.

Key plot points

• Wu Yu and his companions exploit the Heavenly God Warriors’ injuries after an ambush, killing them to collect Cards. Wu Yu is especially effective with the Bi Fang Talisman, whose Calamity Fire destroys both the warriors and the weaker Weird Objects they become upon death. His Evernight Lamp suppresses unusual powers, while his sword handles anything that gets close.
• As reinforcements converge on the Refugee Camp, the group retreats through a gap and Chen Lingling teleports them to the mountains. They escape before the Flesh Mountain Cult’s armored forces arrive.
• The companions part ways. Wu Yu refuses Chen Lingling’s request to join him, saying he does not trust her. She remains evasive about her identity but suggests the Tower is an extraordinary opportunity and that the world is about to change, then vanishes.
• Wu Yu returns to True Martial City, now engulfed in looting, arson, and fighting between the Flesh Mountain and Fasting Cults. After noticing that killing Heavenly God Warriors intensifies the strange voices in his ears, he visits the Exquisite Pavilion and buys the Third Finger.
• Having pieced together the cults’ conflict, the families’ and martial halls’ schemes, and the evil gods’ true nature, Wu Yu resolves to slay a god.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu demonstrates increasing mastery of his artifacts and remains practical under pressure: he gathers Cards while fighting, recognizes the danger of approaching reinforcements, and leads the group’s escape. He is cautious and distrustful of Chen Lingling, but his investigation has now turned into a clear plan to confront a god.
• Chen Lingling continues to conceal her background and abilities. Her lighthearted manner contrasts with her grave belief that the Tower will reshape the world. Her teleportation earns Liu Yu’s admiration.
• Liu Yu and Bai Xiaotian cooperate in the battle, then promptly leave after the escape. Bai Xiaotian takes the Flesh Mutation Pill, crushing and consuming it.
• The team’s interactions remain efficient but guarded: they fight together successfully, yet split up as soon as they are safe, and Wu Yu refuses to let Chen Lingling accompany him.

Significant themes

• Power and opportunity amid danger: The Tower may offer unprecedented benefits, but its influence is connected to violence and an approaching upheaval.
• Trust and hidden identities: Chen Lingling’s secrecy leaves Wu Yu wary, while the group’s cooperation is temporary and practical.
• Unveiling the supernatural threat: The cult war, the strange voices, and the transformed warriors point toward the evil gods’ nature—and foreshadow Wu Yu’s coming confrontation with them.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Wu Yu completes his purchases at the Exquisite Pavilion, buying the Heavenly God relic [Third Finger], along with an array diagram, a technique manual, poison, and another item. The pavilion gives him a silver box for the relic and, because of his spending, offers him confidential information.
• The information reveals that the apparent chaos in True Martial City is being manipulated by powerful local interests. The Temple Warden of the Flesh Mountain Cult is a retainer of the Huang Family, while major families and martial halls use religious cults to compete for influence and wealth. The Fasting God’s temple is beside the City Lord’s Manor, and the Mighty Martial Hall and Vajra Martial Hall also have ties to the cults.
• Wu Yu concludes that the city’s disorder is a controlled scheme to exploit ordinary people. So long as it does not become a massacre, the Heavenly God Warriors remain inactive.
• At the True Origin Inn, Wu Yu reunites with the Lin brothers, Zhao Yulian, and Tang Ya and his granddaughter. He proposes striking at the forces behind the city’s turmoil.
• Wu Yu identifies the Huang, Chen, and Li families, along with the Mighty Martial Hall and Vajra Martial Hall, as the principal powers behind the crisis. He claims their strongest fighters will be attacked before nightfall and asks whether Zhao Yulian can mobilize others afterward.
• Zhao agrees that, if those powerful opponents are removed, she can rally supporters that same night and supply money and resources.

Character developments

• Wu Yu shifts from gathering supplies and information to forming a concrete plan of action. He keeps the details of his intended strike secret, presenting himself as someone able to neutralize the city’s strongest factions.
• Zhao Yulian reveals that she has long wanted to end the city’s abuses and has already tried to recruit allies, but her efforts failed because smaller groups feared the major powers. She is ready to act if that imbalance is removed.
• The Lin brothers and Tang Ya show trust in Wu Yu by helping gather the group and joining the discussion.

Significant themes

• Corruption behind apparent disorder: The city’s chaos is not random; powerful families and institutions exploit it for their own gain.
• Power, fear, and collective action: Smaller factions will not resist while the dominant groups remain strong, but removing that threat could make broader cooperation possible.
• Pragmatic alliances: Wu Yu and Zhao Yulian share an objective without necessarily sharing motives, and Wu Yu treats her as a useful partner.

Character interactions

• The Exquisite Pavilion’s attendants reward Wu Yu’s patronage with information, helping him understand the political and religious network controlling the city.
• The inn attendant warns Wu Yu about the Flesh Mountain Cult but confirms that his companions are safe.
• Wu Yu approaches Zhao Yulian through the Lin brothers and frames the coming attack as an opportunity for her to mobilize support. Zhao responds with a conditional commitment: if the major powers’ fighters are defeated, she will provide people and resources.

Key plot points and events

• Wu Yu and Zhao Yulian discuss the Flesh Mountain and Fasting cults, which they blame for the city’s suffering. Zhao explains that destroying temples or followers would only weaken a deity; only another Heavenly God can kill one.
• Wu reveals that his allies have already attacked the Refugee Camp, killed the Flesh Mountain Cult’s Temple Warden, and slain many Heavenly God Warriors. The news shocks Zhao and the others.
• Wu asks Zhao to help provoke open conflict between the cults and cut off worship in True Martial City. Zhao agrees to act if Wu eliminates experts from the Three Great Families and Two Great Martial Halls. She says she can use the True Martial God’s power to interrupt worship for one day, possibly by noon the next day.
• Wu speaks privately with Village Chief Tang Ya about the Tang Sect disciple imprisoned in the Dungeon. After initially hesitating, Tang Ya agrees to Wu’s proposal, though he warns he will flee if things go wrong.
• The chapter shifts to the Huang Family compound. Its leaders celebrate profiting from the Pigpens and Refugee Camp, openly treating human flesh and souls as valuable commodities. A young man is brought before them, and the family head demands to know who he is.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu takes charge of a broader plan, using his demonstrated strength to recruit allies and coordinate a strike against the city’s power structures. He remains composed but uses intimidation when Tang Ya falters.
• Zhao Yulian reveals her hatred of the evil cults and her connection to the True Martial Royal Clan. Though cautious and aware of her limited strength, she commits to helping Wu once he fulfills his part of the plan.
• Tang Ya admits to imprisoning a Tang Sect disciple and shifts from guarded resistance to reluctant cooperation after Wu presents his proposal and exerts pressure.
• The Huang Family elders’ cheerful discussion exposes their complicity in the city’s exploitation, setting them up as likely targets of Wu’s plan.

Significant themes

• Power and worship: Deities depend on worship to grow stronger, but losing followers does not destroy them; divine intervention is required.
• Resistance and collaboration: Challenging the cults and entrenched elites requires coordinated action among people with different motives and levels of power.
• Corruption and exploitation: The Huang Family’s profits from human suffering reveal how the city’s ruling families benefit from the cults’ abuses.
• Pragmatism and risk: Zhao and Tang Ya agree to act, but only within limits and with clear awareness of the dangers.

Key plot points and events

• Wu Yu meets the Huang Family head under the pretense of trading fragrant-meat essence. He reveals that the real trade is the headmaster’s head, then kills him instantly with the flying [Tiger-Soul Sword].
• Two elders attack. Wu Yu uses Divine Sense to disrupt one and decapitate him with the sword; he withstands the other’s blade-energy assault with his powerful blood-and-qi defense, then kills him with a devastating punch.
• Wu Yu displays the family head’s corpse and fires his Psionic Pistol into the air to draw the Huang Family’s people into the compound.
• As Huang Family members gather, Wu Yu orders the doors shut and unleashes Big White Cat in its full Mountain Lord form. The cat blocks their escape and terrorizes them while Wu Yu fights.
• In under fifteen minutes, Wu Yu kills many of the family’s core members, though he recognizes that other Huang Family experts remain. He then changes clothes and leaves.
• The chapter ends with Wu Yu arriving at the Chen Family compound, suggesting he intends to continue his campaign against the Three Great Families.

Character developments

• Wu Yu demonstrates that his abilities far exceed what his opponents expect of a Heavenly God Warrior. His swordsmanship, Divine Sense, transformed physique, and exceptional defensive power let him defeat several powerful enemies with ease.
• He grows visibly exhilarated by the strength of his body and martial arts, boasting of his talent and relishing the fight. His deliberate staging of the massacre shows that his violence is calculated as well as impulsive.
• Big White Cat returns to its full Mountain Lord form and proves useful in battle by sealing off the compound’s exit and frightening the Huang Family members.

Significant themes

• Power and the limits of conventional strength: The elders’ experience and secret techniques cannot overcome Wu Yu’s unusual combination of abilities.
• Deception and spectacle: Wu Yu disguises his intentions as a trade, then uses the displayed corpse and gunshots to lure the family into a trap.
• Escalating revenge or conflict: The attack is not an isolated fight; Wu Yu’s arrival at the Chen compound points to a wider assault on the Three Great Families.

Character interactions

• Wu Yu toys with the family head by naming the head as his “trade,” then kills him before the others can react.
• The two elders respond with fury and coordinated attacks, but Wu Yu’s superior abilities overwhelm both.
• The Huang Family crowd challenges and threatens Wu Yu, yet hesitates to attack until Big White Cat appears and traps them with him.
• Wu Yu and Big White Cat coordinate their roles in the ambush: the cat blocks escape while Wu Yu presses the attack.

Key plot points and events

• Wu Yu arrives at the Chen Residence carrying Bliss Soul Armor. The Chen family suspects he has obtained its secret products through a traitor, but he reveals he also has Bliss Incense and offers to trade.
• The Chen family rejects negotiation and springs an ambush, intending to seize his goods and imprison him. Wu Yu withstands their attacks, grows in size, and cuts down their Innate Martial Artists and crossbowmen.
• As twelve powerful elders prepare their combined attack, Big White Cat appears in its Mountain Lord form and unleashes a devastating roar. The elders’ powers backfire, and the beast kills many of them. The Chen family head attempts to flee, but a Bi Fang Talisman’s fire kills him. Wu Yu leaves the residence amid the carnage.
• At the True Origin Inn, Zhao Yulian learns that Wu Yu has single-handedly devastated the Huang Family, killing roughly seven-tenths of its Martial Artists. Concerned that the weakened great families will invite attacks from smaller factions, she sends an aide to gather people and resources.
• Wu Yu then reaches the Li Family’s centenary banquet. Seeing its lavish celebration beside the city’s ongoing violence and civilian deaths, he reflects bitterly on the family’s indifference. At the entrance, he asks about the required gift and enters after being told the minimum is one hundred taels.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu remains confident and ruthless in confronting hostile families. He calmly resists the Chen elders’ mental pressure, then overwhelms their forces with his strength, Tiger-Soul Sword, and allies. His reaction to the Li banquet reveals growing anger at the elite’s callousness amid public suffering.
• The Chen family head shifts from guarded suspicion to attempted coercion, convinced his forces can control Wu Yu; when the ambush fails and the Mountain Lord appears, he panics and tries to escape.
• Big White Cat proves crucial in battle: its roar disrupts the elders’ powers and its physical attack helps destroy the Chen family’s strongest fighters. The Bi Fang Talisman provides the final blow against the fleeing head.
• Zhao Yulian shows concern for Wu Yu, treating him as an ally after his True Martial Blessing, and demonstrates practical political judgment by anticipating the power vacuum left by the Huang Family’s defeat.

Significant themes

• Power and greed: The Chen family’s wealth and secret techniques feed its desire for greater strength, while its attempt to take everything from Wu Yu turns its advantages into ruin.
• Elite privilege amid suffering: The Li Family’s extravagant celebration contrasts sharply with the nearby deaths and chaos, underscoring the gulf between the powerful and ordinary people.
• Unstable authority: With the city lord gone and institutions unable to enforce order, family power struggles create opportunities for both violence and political realignment.

Key plot points and events

• Wu Yu enters the Li Family’s hundredth-birthday banquet and shocks the guests by announcing a gift of ten thousand taels of silver. His lavish offering earns him an enthusiastic welcome.
• Claiming to be from the Liu Family, Wu Yu lets the Li patriarch mistake him for a wealthy temple-connected guest. Their conversation reveals that the patriarch uses a blood art involving young women and infants to make a “Youthful Immortality Elixir,” and sees common people as disposable resources.
• Wu Yu condemns the patriarch’s callousness, then reveals the Tiger-Soul Sword. While the patriarch admires it, Wu Yu’s attack kills him. Wu Yu also kills a guest who challenges him.
• The Mountain Lord blocks the residence’s main gate, killing the steward and trapping the banquet guests. Wu Yu warns that no one may leave, then fights the Li Family’s gathered martial artists. A quarter-hour later, he leaves the bloodied estate.
• The scene shifts to Mighty Martial Hall, where Temple Warden Tang is trying to keep the Mighty and Vajra Martial Halls from fighting. He has brought them together with Wu Yu’s promised supplies, but the rival groups are trading insults and growing hostile. Tang fears he can stall for only another hour and desperately hopes Wu Yu will arrive.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu acts with calculated deception, using wealth and the patriarch’s greed to gain entry before striking. His fury at the exploitation of ordinary people turns into ruthless, overwhelming violence.
• The Li patriarch moves from pride and delight at his extravagant guest to suspicion, then dies still distracted by greed for Wu Yu’s sword.
• The banquet guests and guards shift from curiosity and flattery to terror once Wu Yu kills the patriarch and blocks their escape.
• Tang Ya is increasingly anxious and isolated, attempting to manage two hostile martial halls with the aid of Wu Yu’s goods.

Significant themes

• Exploitation and dehumanization: The Li patriarch treats poor people as renewable ingredients, reflecting a society in which the powerful prey on the vulnerable.
• Greed and moral corruption: The patriarch’s appetite for wealth and immortality leaves him open to Wu Yu’s trap.
• Violence and justice: Wu Yu presents himself as punishing predatory elites, but his indiscriminate-seeming killing and imprisonment of the banquet crowd make his methods brutal and frightening.
• Fragile alliances: At Mighty Martial Hall, shared need and promised resources barely contain rivalry between the two factions.

Key plot points and events

• Tang Ya tries to broker a sale between the Mighty and Vajra Martial Halls, but their rivalry and greed—fueled by the [Bliss Pill] and the poisoned goods—spark a violent brawl.
• Wu Yu arrives and reveals that the halls’ obsession with the merchandise has made them easy to manipulate. When the Vajra hall master attacks, Wu Yu wounds him, then uses his flying [Tiger-Soul Sword], a summoned Mountain Lord, and repeated [Bi Fang Talismans] to overwhelm the martial artists and destroy the hall.
• The blasts produce eerie “Temple Warden” Weird Objects among the dead. Wu Yu uses the [Lunar Yin Talisman] to daze the fleeing hall masters, allowing the Mountain Lord to kill them, while his [Evernight Lamp] destroys the Weird Objects.
• Wu Yu lets Tang Ya loot the ruins. As they speak, someone calls for help from beneath the rubble, triggering a Gold-quality hidden quest: [The Imprisoned One]. The prisoner is a sect disciple who may know important information about a deity.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Ya remains focused on survival, initially looking for a chance to flee. He is relieved he sided with Wu Yu and, awed by Wu Yu’s power, shifts from familiar “young friend” to deferential respect. He hopes to claim the halls’ resources.
• Wu Yu demonstrates far greater power and control than Tang Ya had previously seen. He is pragmatic—using poisons, weapons, summons, and talismans as needed—and generous enough to leave the spoils to Tang Ya.
• The two hall masters begin as rivals competing for Tang Ya’s goods, but their greed turns into a disastrous fight. Once Wu Yu reveals his strength, they abandon resistance and try to escape, only to be subdued and killed.

Significant themes

• Greed and manipulation: The halls’ hunger for profit, intensified by the Bliss Pill, makes them vulnerable to conflict and Wu Yu’s plan.
• Survival and power: Tang Ya’s instinct to flee contrasts with Wu Yu’s overwhelming ability to control the situation.
• Mystery and supernatural danger: The Weird Objects and the newly revealed imprisoned disciple expand the story’s mysteries surrounding sects and deities.

Key plot points and events

• After the destruction of the martial halls, Tang Ya apologizes to Wu Yu for having cheated him out of silver years earlier. Wu Yu dismisses the matter and explains his priority is using each brief visit to the Great Ruins to build strength.
• Tang Ya reveals that he is a self-appointed Temple Warden whose divine blessings are useful mainly for defense, escape, and storage.
• Wu Yu detects someone imprisoned beneath Mighty Martial Hall, though the hidden space blocks his Divine Sense. Tang Ya searches the rubble and finds a concealed passage.
• The passage contains a forbidden Blood Sacrifice Formation Diagram, capable of harming Heavenly Gods and their servants. Beyond it, Wu Yu and Tang Ya discover the weakened City Lord of True Martial City, bound in blood-red chains, and free him.
• The City Lord reveals that a fallen deity split into the Flesh Mountain God and the Fasting God. Their schemes are behind the city’s religious and political turmoil; the families, gang, and martial halls are merely their pawns. He had planned to reach the True Essence Sect and return with help.
• Wu Yu tells the City Lord that he has already killed the leaders of the Three Great Families and wiped out both martial halls. Tang Ya confirms the destruction of the halls.
• A quest offers Wu Yu a choice: help the City Lord reach the sect and gain its favor, or decline and receive a gold-quality reward. Wu Yu refuses the escort, and the City Lord gives him a Transcendent gold-quality True Essence Spirit Ring that automatically protects its owner.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu remains pragmatic and focused on personal strength. He uncovers the hidden dungeon, rescues the City Lord, and declines the sect’s potential favor in favor of pursuing his own plans.
• Tang Ya drops his earlier performance and speaks candidly with Wu Yu. Though modest about his abilities, he helps locate the passage and confirms Wu Yu’s actions to the City Lord.
• The City Lord shifts from captive and near-death victim to a determined survivor, eager to seek aid and take revenge on the deities’ agents. Grateful to Wu Yu, he offers him a valuable artifact.
• The three men cooperate: Wu Yu’s certainty drives the search, Tang Ya’s experience helps uncover the passage, and the City Lord repays their rescue with information and a gift.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism and strength: Wu Yu values immediate power over uncertain future rewards or wealth.
• Corruption and hidden control: Powerful institutions and local factions serve as tools of the deities’ deeper schemes.
• The limits of divine authority: A forbidden formation can injure even divine beings, while the City Lord’s revelations show that gods may be vulnerable and divided.
• Trust and reciprocity: Tang Ya’s apology and the City Lord’s gratitude underline the value of honesty and repayment amid a dangerous world.

Key plot points and events

• The city lord gives Wu Yu a gold-quality [True Essence Spirit Ring], which can be activated to defend against weapons, poison, and some supernatural power. He then rushes back to the [True Essence Sect], worried that two Weird Gods may merge and endanger the city.
• Wu Yu lets Tang Ya claim the martial hall’s treasures, then hunts transformed Heavenly God Warriors rather than ordinary monsters, whose rewards are poorer. Using the [Evernight Lamp] and [Tiger-Soul Sword], he kills several and collects Cards, but stops when the [Flesh Mountain God]’s whispers begin, wary of spiritual pollution.
• At Hua Tuo Pharmacy, Wu Yu hires its three alchemists to refine his spirit herbs into cultivation or recovery pills. He pays for the missing ingredients and refining, leaves them extra silver, and plans to collect the pills the next morning.
• Back at the [True Martial Temple], Wu Yu meets Zhao Yulian. She reports that merchant groups and minor families are preparing to raid the Three Great Families, while the temples remain untouched. Her plan is to stop worship across True Martial City and weaken the deities; Wu Yu intends to drive them away.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu remains pragmatic and opportunistic: he prioritizes high-value targets, avoids needless exposure to the Flesh Mountain God’s influence, and tests new ways of acquiring resources. He also shows measured generosity by giving the alchemists a bonus.
• The city lord is shaken by the looming crisis and admits his earlier tolerance of the powerful families was secondary to keeping the city safe.
• Tang Ya is grateful for Wu Yu’s permission to search the martial hall ruins and immediately begins scavenging.
• Zhao Yulian is impressed by Wu Yu’s attack on the Huang Family and reveals the next steps of her anti-deity strategy. Wu Yu reassures her but keeps his larger intentions guarded.

Significant themes

• Survival and calculated risk: Wu Yu weighs reward against the danger of supernatural pollution.
• Power and responsibility: The city lord’s priorities shift as the threat grows beyond ordinary political abuses.
• Practical cooperation: Wu Yu trades with the alchemists and coordinates indirectly with Zhao Yulian, using different alliances to prepare for the crisis.
• Contesting religious power: Zhao Yulian’s plan to halt worship reflects the effort to weaken the deities by cutting off their followers’ devotion.

Key plot points and events

• Zhao Yulian reports that a huge blast struck the military camp, the City Lord is missing, and the city’s guards have dwindled from 3,000 to just over 1,000. She also heard of a fight at the Black Market involving two unusual martial artists.
• She admits she can offer little practical help but insists that, as a True Martial Descendant, she will not betray Wu Yu. Her family is expected to be destroyed by the following morning, ending its ancestral rites.
• Wu Yu returns to the True Martial Temple and prepares for nightfall. He suspects Liu Zheng caused the camp explosion while gathering intelligence, and guesses Liu Yu and Bai Xiaotian may have been involved in the Black Market fight.
• Through the night, hostile voices imitate people Wu Yu knows, pleading for rescue or threatening him. He ignores them and continues making Bi Fang and Lunar Yin talismans, then rests after exhausting his supplies and himself.
• Wu Yu again enters the dream of the Moon Palace. He explores it, finds the palace empty, and sets out to investigate more carefully.

Character developments

• Wu Yu remains cautious and self-reliant. He uses the temple’s protection, focuses on strengthening his talisman supply, and resists the night’s emotional distractions. His body and abilities are powerful, but even he has limits.
• Zhao Yulian accepts that she has lost her chance to recruit Wu Yu outright and settles for cooperation. She emphasizes her honesty and loyalty despite her family’s imminent downfall.
• Liu Zheng appears to be an ambitious, secretive information-gatherer, while Yu Tiezhu seems earnest but overly trusting of the Inspection Bureau. Wu Yu chooses not to warn Yu Tiezhu, expecting he would not listen.

Significant themes

• Trust and cooperation: Wu Yu and Zhao Yulian have different aims, but their relationship now rests on practical cooperation and her declared honesty.
• Preparation and survival: Wu Yu relies on planning, supplies, and disciplined work rather than responding to every danger or plea.
• Uncertainty and deception: The city’s unexplained events and the night’s imitated voices make it difficult to know what is real or whom to trust.
• Power and its limits: Wu Yu’s transcendent abilities are formidable, yet producing many talismans and processing so many medicines leave him tired.

Character interactions

• Zhao Yulian gives Wu Yu intelligence and reassures him of her loyalty; he accepts the possibility of working together without promising to share her goals.
• Wu Yu watches Zhao leave with her allies, then privately assesses the motives and weaknesses of Liu Zheng and Yu Tiezhu.
• The night’s false versions of Wu Yu’s acquaintances try to lure him outside, but he refuses to engage and keeps working.

Key plot points and events

• In a second dream visit to the Moon Palace, Wu Yu explores its surrounding palaces but finds the dream world has strict limits. He discovers that time appears frozen unless he enters the pool.
• Wu Yu tests whether he can use dream-time to draw talismans. He can summon supplies and complete the drawings, but neither his spirit power nor his talisman charges are consumed; the results are only illusions.
• After entering the pool, Wu Yu meets Chang Xi again. She catches him as he embraces her and questions how he arrived. He explains that he comes to her in dreams, and they learn that a year passes in her world during a single day in his.
• Chang Xi, lonely after an immeasurably long time, asks Wu Yu to tell her about mortal life. He shares stories of the human world, which she hears with fascination. When another immortal comes looking for Chang Xi, she hides Wu Yu in the pool until the visitor leaves.
• Wu Yu wakes in the True Martial Temple. His dream’s food and wine have been restored, confirming that nothing there was physically consumed. He checks the map and sees that the next danger is approaching.
• While drawing real talismans, Wu Yu senses that the mist around the moon within his mind has thinned. He realizes repeated dreams may strengthen the [Lunar Yin Sigil], though he does not yet know how to improve the [Bi Fang Sigil] or unlock others.
• The map updates to warn of Eternal Night Descends and Weird God Turmoil. Wu Yu decides he must leave before nightfall and plans to strike only once with [Godslayer], retreating if it fails.
• Battle breaks out nearby as martial artists pursue members of the Chen Family. When they spot Wu Yu leaving the temple, he uses his divine sense to lift one of them into the air.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu grows more methodical: he tests the dream’s rules, identifies its limits, and adjusts his survival plan as the threat changes. His attraction to Chang Xi is mixed with curiosity and a growing fondness for their conversations.
• Chang Xi reveals her deep loneliness and weariness with her endless isolation. Though she initially scolds Wu Yu for taking liberties, she becomes intrigued by his mortal stories and shows a playful, trusting side by hiding him from the visiting immortal.
• Their bond develops through conversation rather than action: Wu Yu introduces Chang Xi to ordinary mortal customs and stories, while she shares hints of her name’s meaning and her long existence.
• The unseen female immortal’s visit briefly puts Chang Xi and Wu Yu at risk, prompting Chang Xi to conceal him.

Significant themes

• Dreams and reality: Wu Yu’s dream encounters feel vivid but have no direct material effects, even as they leave emotional and spiritual traces.
• Loneliness and connection: Chang Xi’s long isolation makes Wu Yu’s visits and stories meaningful, while their conversations bridge their very different worlds.
• Growth through experience: Wu Yu learns that repeated dreams may improve his [Lunar Yin Sigil], and his pragmatic response to new warnings reflects his increasing caution.
• The mortal and the divine: Their exchange contrasts Chang Xi’s immortal existence with the everyday human world she finds strange and appealing.

Key plot points and events

• In the aftermath of the city’s upheaval, Wu Yu encounters members of the Storm and Rain Pavilion hunting Chen Family survivors. They claim ignorance about the deities and reveal that the Three Great Families have been attacked: the Huang survivors fled the city, the Chen family took refuge at the Fasting God’s temple, and the Li family was trapped in its silver vault.
• Wu Yu notices the hunters’ bloodstained loot and kills them as he leaves, judging that opportunists are exploiting the chaos.
• Across True Martial City, minor factions raid the families’ properties and fight one another. Wu Yu reaches the Hua Tuo Pharmacy, where his arrival leaves the surrounding street littered with dead gang members.
• The pharmacy has completed the pills he commissioned. Wu Yu inspects and collects them, including medicines that restore vitality and Spirit Power. He also pointedly asks the shopkeeper to “force” him to take extra pills, but accepts only one cheap bottle.
• Wu Yu observes the confrontation between the Flesh Mountain Cult and the Fasting God’s temple. He sees Fragrant-Meat Wraiths being controlled and partially fused, resembling the terrifying “Wall of Darkness,” and suspects the cults are competing over which god will dominate a larger fusion.
• A pillar of light rises from the True Origin Inn and spreads into the Seven-Colored Cloud Sea over the city. As it appears, the temple’s Heavenly God Warriors collapse, and the Fragrant-Meat Wraiths revert to emaciated human forms.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu remains composed and overwhelmingly powerful. He shows little patience for weakness or exploitation, but is practical about securing supplies and observant about the city’s supernatural conflict. His jokingly coercive exchange with the shopkeeper also highlights his dry, teasing manner.
• The Storm and Rain Pavilion hunters shift from aggression to terrified submission, but their appeal to their Tang Sect affiliation does not protect them.
• The pharmacy staff are wary of the city’s violence but confident that their trade makes the pharmacy useful to whoever gains power. The shopkeeper accommodates Wu Yu rather than risk opposing him.
• Wu Yu briefly interacts with the hunters and pharmacy workers, then watches the cult confrontation from a distance rather than intervening.

Significant themes

• Chaos breeds opportunism: With the major factions weakened, smaller groups loot, feud, and prey on survivors.
• Power and survival: People and institutions rely on strength, usefulness, or protection to endure upheaval.
• The human cost of supernatural conflict: The cults’ struggle is tied to the manipulation and fusion of creatures who were once human.
• Uncertain divine forces: The Seven-Colored Cloud Sea’s sudden arrival disrupts the temple’s warriors and wraiths, suggesting a major shift in the balance of power.

Plot points and events

• A Seven-Colored Cloud Sea blocks the sky, cutting off incense offerings and divine power. Heavenly God Warriors and supernatural beings across both cults collapse or weaken; the Temple Warden and invisible Bliss Fiends are affected too.
• Wu Yu confirms that these beings depend on divine power. He has the Lin brothers burn Fragrant-Meat Essence and Bliss Incense as offerings, then prepares Sin Incense. The brothers fear divine punishment, but none comes.
• The Flesh Mountain God realizes his power has been suppressed and suspects a True Martial descendant is involved. Seeing his followers incapacitated, he decides to fuse immediately and heads toward True Martial City.
• The Fasting God also senses the offerings and considers fleeing, but the incense draws him toward Wu Yu instead. Conflicting impulses among his many brains and mouths make him erratic.
• Refugees discover that the supposed meat in the barrels is actually rotten, maggot-ridden flesh.
• Wu Yu sees the Fasting God approach. The sight terrifies him, and the Lin brothers collapse after looking at the deity. Wu Yu uses his Evernight Lamp to restore their composure, then knocks them unconscious with a roar before they can jeopardize his plan.
• As the earth shakes, Wu Yu sees the Flesh Mountain God smash through the city wall and enter the city.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu remains controlled and resourceful, relying on his physical strength, spiritual cultivation, and preparation to withstand divine fear and keep the plan moving. He recognizes that the brothers are no longer capable of helping and renders them unconscious.
• The Lin brothers begin as reluctant collaborators, trusting Wu Yu partly because of Zhao Yulian’s authority. Their fear overwhelms them when they glimpse the Fasting God, and they beg to abandon the plan.
• The Flesh Mountain God is powerful but only partly rational; the loss of divine power makes him suspicious and impatient, prompting him to act before his intended moment.
• The Fasting God displays extreme internal conflict: his many minds urge both escape and pursuit of the offerings, until temptation wins.

Significant themes

• Divine power’s dependence on worship: When offerings are cut off, gods’ followers and supernatural manifestations rapidly weaken.
• The danger of witnessing the divine: Even a brief look at a deity can overwhelm ordinary people; spiritual strength and protective tools help resist it.
• Faith, fear, and coercion: The brothers’ loyalty and belief do not erase their terror, while Wu Yu’s plan leaves them committed before they understand its full danger.
• Grotesque deception: The “Fragrant Meat” that sustained the refugees is exposed as decayed flesh, undermining the cult’s reassuring façade.

Key plot points and events

• Wu Yu watches the [Flesh Mountain God] charge toward the [Fasting God], drawn by the promise of fusion. His traps—incense, meat essence, and poisons—do not harm either deity, but help lure them into a confrontation.
• The gods’ battle devastates True Martial City. Their divine voices and presence knock out people across the city, while their blows destroy buildings and kill countless residents and believers.
• The fight reaches a climax as each god draws strength from its followers: the Flesh Mountain God absorbs human flesh and blood, while strange entities emerge from the Fasting God’s believers and join it.
• Both deities are left severely weakened. Wu Yu approaches, using Divine Oil in the [Evernight Lamp] to resist their oppressive presence. His [Tiger-Soul Sword] cannot pierce their bodies.
• Wu Yu attacks with [Bi Fang Talismans], badly injuring both gods, but their wounds regenerate. He then uses [Lunar Yin Talismans] to immobilize them under an artificial night.
• Recognizing that ordinary damage cannot kill beings that regenerate so completely, Wu Yu prepares his final weapon: the [Third Finger]. Using his own blood as ink, he begins drawing a divine bird directly onto the Flesh Mountain God.

Character developments

• Wu Yu shows caution and adaptability. He revises his plan after learning more about the gods, conserves his resources, withstands their supernatural pressure, and shifts from brute-force attacks to a specialized final measure.
• The Fasting God is divided among countless voices and minds, arguing over the trap even as it is drawn into the battle.
• The Flesh Mountain God is single-mindedly fixated on fusion. After being injured by Wu Yu, it finally recognizes him as a threat.

Significant themes

• Mortal ingenuity versus divine power: Wu Yu’s tools and planning can wound gods, though their immense strength and regeneration make victory far from assured.
• The cost of divine conflict: The gods’ battle reduces a city and its population to collateral damage.
• Limits of conventional force: Weapons and poison prove useless against the deities; survival depends on exploiting their vulnerabilities.
• Preparation and restraint: Wu Yu’s decision to conserve the talismans and wait until the gods are exhausted becomes crucial.

Character interactions

• The gods taunt, threaten, and tempt Wu Yu, insisting that mortals cannot harm them and inviting him to join them. His defenses blunt their influence, and he remains focused.
• The two gods alternately accuse and fight each other, driven by the competing aims of fusion, dominance, and reclaiming divine power.
• Wu Yu’s encounter with the wounded gods shifts from covert manipulation to direct combat, ending with him attempting to mark the Flesh Mountain God with the [Third Finger].

Plot

• Wu Yu uses his [Third Finger], [Embers of the Long Night], and [True Martial Heart] to carve [Bi Fang Sigils] into the Fasting God and Flesh Mountain God. Despite crushing divine pressure, illusions, pain, and severe exhaustion, he keeps working, aided by the [Evernight Lamp], [Pure Spirit Water], and the Bronze Tripod.
• He activates the sigils with a snap. Bi Fang’s calamity fire destroys the city center and burns both gods’ bodies and souls. The Fasting God recognizes Wu Yu as a Night Watcher and panics as its supposedly immortal essence is erased.
• After the flames subside, Wu Yu finds a golden chest and three cards in the crater. He collects two red rewards—the Fasting God’s Soul Crystal and the Flesh Mountain Token—and a gold [Spirit-Flesh Unification Pill]. He cannot open the chest because he lacks the correct key, so he heads for the city outskirts.
• At the True Origin Inn, Zhao Yulian and Tang Ya watch the devastation from a shrine to the True Martial God. They recognize Wu Yu’s audacious plan and wonder whether he can succeed; Tang Ya says the outcome depends on the Heavenly God backing him.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu proves relentless and disciplined, ignoring threats and illusions to finish the sigils. He discovers that Night Watcher power can overcome divine immortality, but the victory leaves him badly depleted. His excitement at the rare rewards briefly gives way to uncertainty about how to use them.
• The Fasting God shifts from taunting Wu Yu and insisting on its immortality to terror when it realizes what he is. The Flesh Mountain God remains contemptuous and silent until the fire destroys it.
• Zhao Yulian is worried about Wu Yu’s fate, while Tang Ya cautiously points to divine support as the deciding factor. Their exchange shows both their concern and their uncertainty.

Significant themes

• Faith in immortality challenged: the gods’ confidence fails when their souls face a power specifically capable of erasing them.
• Endurance and resolve: Wu Yu’s success depends on persisting through pain, exhaustion, and supernatural interference.
• Power and its cost: extraordinary rewards and strength come alongside physical danger, uncertainty, and difficult choices.
• Human scale versus divine power: the gods dismiss Wu Yu as an ant, but his own abilities—and the forces behind him—allow him to overturn their assumptions.

Plot points and events

• In True Martial City, Zhao Yulian and Tang Ya cannot contact anyone outside the city: carrier pigeons vanish, apparently blocked by an unseen force. Zhao remains curious about Wu Yu and the divine powers behind the strange flames and moon, though she intends to return to her clan eventually.
• After escaping the city, an exhausted Wu Yu reaches the Refugee Camp. The fallen deity’s influence has ended: the fragrant meat has become rotten flesh, and the wraiths are gone. He finds refugees looting the dead and torturing female believers. When several invite him to join, he kills them and continues to the Temple.
• Wu Yu opens the golden treasure chest and receives three Cards: a blue-quality Fragrant-Meat Body Tempering Art, purple-quality Flesh Mountain Headgear that boosts vitality and recovery, and a gold-quality idol containing incense power. He keeps the rewards, though the technique and idol have little immediate use to him.
• The Map warns that Weird God Turmoil will arrive in just over an hour, despite the deaths of the Fasting God and Flesh Mountain God. Wu Yu suspects another deity may be involved—possibly the True Martial God—and chooses to evacuate rather than investigate.
• While waiting at Exit Point One, Wu Yu draws talismans until exhausted. He then returns to the Tower, where its restorative chair rapidly heals his body and soul.
• Bai Xiaotian and Liu Yu return battered from their own Black Market operation. When they ask what happened, Wu Yu says he killed two “ordinary monsters”—then dismisses them as “ants.”

Character developments

• Wu Yu remains cautious and strategic despite his confidence: he conserves strength, recognizes his injuries need the Tower’s healing, and evacuates rather than risk facing a potentially greater deity. His final remark reveals how little he regards the monsters he fought.
• Zhao Yulian is intrigued by Wu Yu and the mysterious powers at work, but is also committed to eventually returning to her clan for training.
• The refugees change sharply from seeming vulnerable and honest to greedy and violent once the deity’s control ends.
• Bai Xiaotian and Liu Yu survive their own dangerous venture, but return with serious injuries; their condition contrasts with Wu Yu’s claim that his opponents were merely “ants.”

Significant themes

• Gods and human limits: The chapter begins by stressing the vast gulf between mortals and deities, while Wu Yu’s survival and dismissive confidence challenge that assumed hierarchy.
• Corruption and human nature: With the deity’s influence gone, the refugees’ looting and cruelty suggest that ordinary people can be dangerous without supernatural transformation.
• Uncertainty and escalating danger: The coming Weird God Turmoil implies that the crisis may not be over, and the possibility of another god raises the stakes.
• Recovery and adaptation: Wu Yu relies on preparation, equipment, evacuation, and the Tower’s healing rather than assuming he can withstand every threat.

Character interactions

• Zhao Yulian and Tang Ya discuss their failed attempts to communicate beyond True Martial City and debate her reasons for staying.
• Refugees invite Wu Yu to join their looting; he answers with lethal force.
• Yu Tiezhu offers Wu Yu a recovery injection, which Wu Yu refuses in favor of the Tower’s chair.
• Liu Yu jokes about Wu Yu’s appearance and guesses he challenged a Temple Warden; Wu Yu clarifies that he killed two ordinary monsters, then calls them “ants.”

Plot and events

• Wu Yu and his companions return to the Tower injured, where their bodies regenerate. Liu Zheng criticizes Wu Yu and the others for leaving the expedition early, unaware that Chen Lingling also withdrew midway.
• Their return unlocks three Tower facilities—the Martial Training Platform, Training Room, and Enlightenment Chamber—as well as Wu Yu’s talent skill tree. Their next destination is set as Dusk City, with an hour to prepare.
• Wu Yu receives a Legend settlement for surviving the expedition, killing many Weird Objects and two gods, completing the hidden quests True Martial Descendant and The Imprisoned One, and earning the Godslayer achievement. The Tower removes some looted items, suggesting it prevents players from exploiting its reward system.
• He chooses six rewards, gaining 400,000 Great Ruins Source Points, a title, two pure Godheads, and major upgrades: True Martial Heart becomes the purple talent True Martial Arcane Treasury, which strengthens all five vital organs, and his spirit ring becomes the gold True Essence Blood Spirit Ring. He also receives a Weird God Mutation Ritual, which he considers trading to Bai Xiaotian.
• The group explores the Martial Training Platform. It lets users spend Source Points to accelerate technique training or spar without dying, but it cannot overcome physical limitations. Wu Yu has already mastered nearly all the techniques available to him there.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu is pleased with his Legend rewards and quickly grasps the value of the new facilities and Source Points. He stays guarded about his strongest abilities and considers how to profit from the ritual by trading it.
• Liu Zheng remains self-assured and critical, praising those he believes acted cautiously. At the training platform, he dismisses its benefits, preferring modern technology.
• Bai Xiaotian mocks Liu Zheng, then shares the platform’s limitation: people with bodily defects may be unable to advance, regardless of how many points they spend. His own childhood genetic modification prevents him from mastering a technique.
• Yu Tiezhu eagerly tests the platform and reports how its costs work. Chen Lingling also tries it and teases Wu Yu about having better techniques.
• Liu Yu pushes his training hard, consuming many pills to reach minor mastery, and returns visibly strained.

Significant themes

• Effort, reward, and judgment: Wu Yu’s high rating comes from sustained risk and achievement, while the Tower’s rules distinguish legitimate rewards from exploitable loot.
• Power and its limits: Source Points can accelerate practice, but they cannot replace the body or erase its flaws.
• Technology versus cultivation: The group disagrees over whether accelerated martial training is worthwhile compared with modern enhancements.
• Pragmatism and self-interest: Wu Yu weighs each reward for its future utility and sees opportunities to trade what he cannot use.

Key events

• Liu Zheng tries to buy the team’s Great Ruins Source Points at a low rate, arguing they are of little value. Yu Tiezhu agrees to give him his remaining points, but Liu Yu, Bai Xiaotian, Wu Yu, and Chen Lingling refuse. Liu Zheng leaves, embarrassed.
• The group recognizes that Source Points can do far more than buy ordinary enhancements: they can accelerate time and may become more valuable than the technology and medicines available in the real world.
• They explore the Training Room, where meditation cushions accelerate cultivation and a stone helps practice spells. Wu Yu attempts to cultivate the top-tier technique One Qi Becomes Three Pure Ones, but learns that he lacks a spirit root. Using the Life Circlet gives him a heavenly metal spirit root, yet cultivation remains costly: advancing requires large amounts of Source Points, spirit stones, and medicine.
• In the Enlightenment Chamber, Wu Yu discovers that Tiger Roar Soul-Refining Diagram can improve his soul over time, but advancing its proficiency costs 200,000 Source Points and requires restorative materials.
• Wu Yu examines his talent panel and discovers that both his Sin Immortal and Night Watcher identities have unlockable skill trees. The chapter ends as he opens the Sin Immortal tree, revealing branches for sigil power, range, and model.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Zheng shows entitlement and poor judgment by trying to buy valuable points cheaply. His claim that he can later buy millions of points appears to be a boast; the others treat it skeptically.
• Yu Tiezhu remains loyal to Liu Zheng, despite warnings about the Inspection Bureau. Chen Lingling says she has tried to caution his father, but he dismisses her concerns.
• Liu Yu recognizes the long-term value of Source Points and warns against trusting institutions or human nature. He also needles Liu Zheng with pointed remarks.
• Wu Yu investigates the cultivation systems pragmatically, adapting to his missing spirit root with the Life Circlet. His discovery of multiple talent trees excites him with the prospect of accumulating powers across identities.
• Bai Xiaotian openly mocks Liu Zheng and warns the group that the Inspection Bureau may not be as honorable as it appears.

Significant themes

• Power beyond money and technology: Source Points can manipulate time and bypass ordinary limitations, making them potentially more valuable than conventional enhancements.
• Unequal access and resource scarcity: Even extraordinary training facilities demand vast supplies of points, medicine, and other materials.
• Trust, privilege, and institutional corruption: The group questions the Inspection Bureau’s reputation, while Liu Zheng’s behavior reflects the protection privilege can provide.
• Accumulating identity and power: Wu Yu’s talent system suggests that future identities could provide many skill trees, allowing him to combine abilities into immense strength.

Key plot points and events

• Wu Yu unlocks the basic, intermediate, and advanced upgrades for his Bi Fang Sigil, spending 33,300 Great Ruins Source Points. The upgrades stack to increase its power and range by 60% and improve its stability. Further upgrades are locked until he raises his cultivation realm.
• He explores the Night Watcher skill tree. His True Martial Arcane Treasury talent has added a special branch for Five-Viscera Strength, alongside branches for blood-and-qi strength, capacity, and recovery. He maxes all four branches through the advanced tier, spending 44,400 points; higher tiers are again blocked by his cultivation realm.
• Wu Yu realizes that gaining more identities could mean gaining many more skill trees—and a huge future demand for points.
• Liu Zheng and the others test their improved abilities. They learn that opening the transcendent gate would unlock further upgrades, though Yu Tiezhu says he cannot afford the necessary pills.
• At the Tower’s exit, Liu Zheng recommends the Inspection Bureau. The group departs one by one.
• Wu Yu offers Bai Xiaotian the Strange God Ritual reward for 200,000 points. Bai counters with 150,000 plus items, but Chen Lingling intervenes and persuades them to trade instead for a gold-quality Divine Origin Pill and 10,000 points. The pill advances Qi Refining, but is ineffective after Foundation Establishment.
• Bai explains that Hidden Shops can offer items beyond what the world itself could produce, including the shop in the Newcomer Secret Realm.
• Chen Lingling teases Wu Yu and vanishes through the gate, challenging him to catch her in the real world. Wu Yu returns home, exhausted, and falls asleep. That night, a thunderous crash and brilliant flash wake him.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu eagerly invests in strengthening his abilities, but begins thinking practically about how to fund future upgrades. His exchange with Bai shows him making calculated use of a reward he cannot use himself.
• Bai Xiaotian recognizes the value of the Strange God Ritual and negotiates for the Divine Origin Pill, demonstrating confidence in the trade and his knowledge of Hidden Shops.
• Chen Lingling remains composed while others test their powers, then steps in to steer the deal toward an item useful to Wu Yu. Her playful intimacy with him leaves their relationship intriguingly undefined.
• Liu Zheng takes a leadership role by advising the group about the Inspection Bureau and transcendent benefits. Yu Tiezhu is excited by his physical gains but constrained by money; Liu Yu and Bai Xiaotian also appreciate their newfound talents.

Significant themes

• Power and its price: Upgrades offer dramatic gains, but require both points and higher cultivation realms.
• Ambition versus sustainability: Wu Yu’s excitement about accumulating identities and skill trees is tempered by the realization that advancement may become prohibitively expensive.
• Hidden knowledge and opportunity: Hidden Shops provide extraordinary resources outside normal systems, making discovery and relationships valuable.
• Community and cooperation: The group shares advice and negotiates exchanges, while personal finances and differing goals shape their choices.