Chapter Summaries

The Great Huan Fleet reached the waters near North America and prepared for a likely battle with the allied forces of the United States Region. When Jian Shang exposed a hidden Shadow Dragon and the Shadow Queen spying on the fleet, Godless pursued them as they fled.

• The Great Huan Fleet crossed the Pacific after regrouping and replenishing its forces in the Hawaiian Islands.
• Godless reported that his forces had destroyed a ghost and Bone Dragon reconnaissance party, and Han Xin warned that the fleet would face a fierce battle upon landing.
• Jiang Yao said the United States Region’s Divine Tomb Empire, Calamity Dynasty, and Heavenbone Kingdom had joined forces to block the fleet’s landing.
• Jian Shang sensed a hidden presence, struck the Eastern Sovereign Bell, and revealed a Shadow Dragon carrying the Shadow Queen.
• The Shadow Queen and Shadow Dragon fled, and Godless chased them with his Sacred Wheel Judgment.

Huan Emperor Jian Shang’s forces captured Shadow Empress Tisha after she repeatedly evaded their attacks, and he demanded that she submit or be sent to the Hero Furnace. Tisha remained defiant as Jian Shang ordered her taken away.

• Godless deprived the Shadow Dragon and Shadow Queen of their shadow powers, while Heavenless wounded the dragon with a storm of elemental attacks.
• The Shadow Queen escaped Heavenless and Lawless, but Jian Shang located her among the troops, trapped her with Star-Sealing Origin-Locking, and seized her.
• Jian Shang reassured Godless, Lawless, Heavenless, Jiang Yao, and the other commanders that they had not failed, then asked the captive for her identity.
• The Shadow Queen identified herself as Tisha, and Di Wushuang recognized her as the legendary Hero Civilization figure Shadow Dancer.
• Jian Shang ordered Tisha to submit or be taken to the Hero Furnace, then told his people to take her away.

Jian Shang sacrificed Shadow Empress Tisha in the Darklight Furnace, using immortal crystals and his own blood to produce a powerful six-winged Shadow Angel. He named her Lightless and then Tisha, and she vanished into his shadow as the Great Huan Fleet reached the continent.

• Jian Shang brought Shadow Empress Tisha to the Darklight Furnace and sacrificed her after she refused to submit.
• Jian Shang fed the furnace six immortal crystals and a drop of his purple-gold blood, triggering the birth of a mutated being.
• The furnace produced a six-winged Shadow Angel who declared her race and asked Jian Shang to name her.
• Jian Shang named the Shadow Angel Lightless, and she demonstrated immense strength, speed, and the ability to hide inside his shadow.
• Jian Shang also named Lightless Tisha, and she remained hidden in his shadow as the Great Huan Fleet arrived at the continent.

Jian Shang’s fleet launched its invasion of San Francisco, overcoming the local patrols and landing Great Huan forces on the coast. After seeing the destruction caused by the undead, Jian Shang suggested they could march under the banner of purifying the undead and saving the living.

• Jian Shang assigned the fleet’s four sections to land, support the landing, seal the Golden Gate Strait, and threaten San Francisco, while giving the China Alliance a choice between serving under Great Huan commanders or acting independently without rewards.
• Dragon Soul chose to have the China Alliance obey Jian Shang’s commands after Yan Wuji’s intervention drew the emperor’s displeasure.
• A patrol spotted the approaching fleet, but dragons, giant birds, and black-winged angels descended and slaughtered the defenders before they could raise the alarm.
• Penglai Immortal Island struck the shore, merged with the earth veins, and began disgorging Great Huan troops onto the coast.
• Jiang Yao surveyed the ruined landscape, and Jian Shang said the devastation came from the Undead Storm before proposing a campaign to purify the undead and save the living.

Wisdom Marquis Chengshalina proposed framing the Great Huan Dynasty’s invasion as a campaign to save the living from the undead, and Jian Shang ordered his forces to advance on San Francisco. There, Orson, Alastair, Arthas, and other United States Region powers prepared an ambush, with Arthas declaring that the city would become the Huan Emperor’s grave.

• Chengshalina suggested that the Great Huan Dynasty could claim a righteous cause by purifying the undead and saving the region’s living people.
• Jian Shang praised Chengshalina’s proposal, awarded her the first merit, and ordered six armies and supporting forces to sweep toward San Francisco.
• The Great Huan forces advanced by land while Dragon Consort Chong Shiqie and Heaven-Questioning Marquis Xiao He secured the coast and organized defenses.
• The chapter revealed that Orson and other United States Region leaders had secretly united in San Francisco to trap Jian Shang’s invading army.
• Bone Emperor Alastair questioned the plan to wait for Jian Shang, but Arthas insisted that the Bone Emperor’s Bones of the Dead would ensure the Huan Emperor never returned.

Arthas and his allies prepared a trap for the Great Huan Fleet, while Jian Shang’s forces rapidly conquered Alamo City and uncovered signs of an enemy plan. Jian Shang suspected the Tomb God Empire had buried its undead subjects beneath the ground and ordered the army to prepare for a cautious advance and a distant bombardment of San Francisco.

• Arthas dismissed Kragg’s concerns about the Huan Emperor and threatened to turn the Wild Ox Tribe into undead if it lost its nerve.
• Demonless smashed Alamo City’s gate, and the Great Huan army captured the city in less than ten hours.
• Jian Shang inspected the empty site of Alamo City’s City Lord’s Manor and ordered his forces to make the city their North American base.
• Chengshalina reported that the enemy powers had gathered in San Francisco Royal City, while Jiang Yao admitted the Great Huan Office had not located the missing civilians.
• Jian Shang ordered the city’s bones and corpses cleared and suspected the Tomb God Empire had buried its subjects underground as a hidden undead army.
• Jian Shang told the Great Huan Fleet to move toward San Francisco when possible and prepare to bombard it from a distance.

The Great Huan Expeditionary Army surrounded San Francisco Royal City, and Huan Emperor Jian Shang ordered an assault despite the defenders’ suspicious silence. The city’s forces offered little resistance as Great Huan’s powerful Hero Legions attacked, leaving the reason for San Francisco’s apparent passivity unresolved.

• The Great Huan army formed the Great Ambush on Ten Sides around San Francisco Royal City, and Jian Shang arrived with his troops.
• Meng Tian reported that the enemy had gathered inside the city but had sent no army out to face them.
• Jian Shang ordered the army to attack the city despite the suspicious lack of resistance.
• Demonless and the ninth-tier Hero Legions unleashed their powers, prompting the Devouring Gold Corpse Emperor, the Silverwing Chieftain, and the Bull Demon Chieftain to criticize Jian Shang’s reliance on them.
• Arthas commanded the battle as Great Huan’s siege engines and San Francisco’s magic towers exchanged attacks.
• Demonless and the Hero Legions charged the walls, while San Francisco sent only a small force of dragons to intercept them.

Huan Emperor Jian Shang breached San Francisco Royal City's defenses but, suspecting the enemy was luring his army inside, ordered his troops to withdraw and bombard the city from the fleet in San Francisco Bay. As the bombardment began, San Francisco's leaders debated how to respond and faced a choice between attacking Great Huan's army or striking its fleet.

• The Golden Behemoth Demonless battered down San Francisco's western gate while Great Huan's troops and siege engines fought the city's defenders at the walls.
• After Jian Shang struck the gate with the Eastern Sovereign Bell, Devouring Gold Corpse Emperor Orson ordered the defenders to withdraw and let Great Huan enter the city.
• When the gates fell and Wisdom Marquis Chengshalina warned that the enemy might be luring them in, Jian Shang ordered his army to retreat and bombard San Francisco instead of occupying it.
• Han Xin directed the fleet to fire its main cannons at San Francisco, and the first beams blasted craters into the city and collapsed buildings.
• Arthas showed San Francisco's leaders the fleet's preparations, and Orson proposed either attacking Great Huan's expeditionary army or sending their flying legions to strike the fleet.

Jian Shang ordered elite troops to intercept the Great Huan Fleet while his forces mobilized against San Francisco Royal City. After Zhongda explained why the China Alliance was suited to a flexible assault, Dragon Soul and other Otherworlders charged the walls, leaving the hero leaders unsure whether to march out.

• Arthas and Bone Emperor Alastair agreed to execute both plans at once, and Orson sent the three chieftains to intercept the Great Huan Fleet.
• Five hundred thousand elite flying troops left San Francisco Royal City for San Francisco Bay as the Great Huan armies began emerging from the divine cities.
• Jian Shang ordered the Saint Warriors, Evil Warriors, and China Alliance to assault the city, but Yan Wuji and other alliance leaders protested.
• Zhongda explained that the China Alliance could act as special forces while the enemy was mobilizing, and Dragon Soul led the charge toward the walls.
• Yun Feng, Di Wushuang, the Blade Legion, and more than a million Otherworlders joined the assault, prompting Bull Demon Chieftain Kragg to question whether the hero forces should still march out.

The Huan Emperor kept Great Huan’s regular forces in reserve while outside-China armies and elite legions fought the undead around San Francisco Royal City. As dawn broke and the Huan leaders questioned his strategy, Arthas invoked Frostmourne and began summoning a calamity.

• The undead reclaimed San Francisco Royal City’s walls while the Chinese Otherworlders and Cloth Warriors suffered heavy losses fighting outside the city.
• Jian Shang ordered all combat units outside China Civilization to attack while Great Huan’s regular legions remained in position.
• Angel Cities, Yue Province forces, faction armies, and the ninth-tier Hero Legion joined the assault, colliding with the undead and other defenders around the walls.
• After a night and day of battle, Kragg and Nadir noticed that Great Huan’s formations had remained motionless, and Arthas warned Orson that waiting longer would be futile.
• Arthas raised Frostmourne, darkening the dawn sky and unleashing a freezing wind as he called for the undead to awaken and calamity to descend.

Arthas unleashed the Undead Cataclysm, raising San Francisco’s dead into an enormous army that flooded the battlefield. Jian Shang destroyed undead and sealed one fissure, but Arthas warned that countless more fissures and billions of undead remained.

• Arthas’s chant split the earth and unleashed dragons, ghosts, knights, skeletons, and zombies across the battlefield.
• Chengshalina and Di Wushuang identified the threat as Arthas’s Calamity Legion and suspected he had transformed San Francisco’s inhabitants into undead.
• Jian Shang ordered the Great Huan Expeditionary Army to hold formation and struck down a mass of undead with the Eastern Sovereign Bell.
• Jian Shang used the Thick Earth Underworld King Canon to close a fissure and crush undead beneath the earth.
• Arthas said the Undead Cataclysm could not be stopped and laughed as undead continued to blanket the land.

Jian Shang steadied the Great Huan Expeditionary Army with the Ambush on Ten Sides Formation and prepared the Ravenous Wolf Guards to attack, but Orson’s undead allies revealed their elite legions outside San Francisco Royal City. As the enemy’s numbers threatened to overwhelm the Great Huan forces, Alastair summoned the Heavenbone.

• Jian Shang ordered the army to hold its positions and activate the Ambush on Ten Sides Formation, which pushed back the undead aura and helped restore morale.
• Jian Shang sent Yu Ji and more than forty thousand Ravenous Wolf Guards to clear undead from the battlefield.
• Orson revealed the Golden Corpse Legion, the Dread Legion, the Savage Bull Legion, and other elite forces outside the city, threatening the Great Huan Expeditionary Army with more than a million troops.
• Chengshalina warned Jian Shang that the enemy’s elite legions could cause a major upheaval, while Jian Shang asked whether one hundred thousand Forbidden Guards could defeat them.
• Alastair laughed at Jian Shang’s predicament, raised a translucent jade-like bone, and invoked the Heavenbone.

Heavenbone’s divine artifact transformed the skeletons surrounding the Great Huan Expeditionary Army into powerful troops, overwhelming Great Huan’s defenses. Jian Shang recognized that Great Huan had been utterly defeated, while an enemy offered to spare the soldiers if he took his own life and Great Huan renounced North America.

• Heavenbone’s black-gold light caused skeletons across the landscape to evolve, with many becoming blackiron skeletons and some reaching even higher grades.
• Jian Shang recognized Heavenbone, the Bones of the Dead, and the legendary Bone Emperor Alastair as the source of the transformation.
• The evolved skeleton army charged the Great Huan Expeditionary Army, whose attacks struggled to damage them as formations and legions were overrun.
• Jian Shang watched the army’s losses mount and concluded that Great Huan had been completely defeated.
• An enemy demanded that Jian Shang take his own life and Great Huan swear off North America in exchange for sparing the soldiers.

Arthas offered to spare the Great Huan Expeditionary Army if Huan Emperor Jian Shang took his own life, revealing that the undead had sacrificed San Francisco and billions of civilians to set their trap. Jian Shang agreed, and Arthas halted the attacking undead, leaving the Emperor’s fate and the army’s promised safe return unresolved.

• Arthas explained that the undead could not kill Jian Shang directly and demanded his life in exchange for the Great Huan Expeditionary Army’s survival.
• Arthas and Orson revealed that the undead had sacrificed all of San Francisco and three to four billion civilians to empower their forces.
• Yu Ji and Chengshalina warned Jian Shang not to fall for the enemy’s pressure as the army faced annihilation.
• Jian Shang agreed to Arthas’s demand, shocking Great Huan’s generals and the Chinese Otherworlders.
• Arthas activated Frostmourne and stopped the undead army, promising before the watching world that the expeditionary army would return safely to China.

Arthas demanded that Jian Shang honor their bargain after demonstrating his control over the undead, but Jian Shang’s followers urged him not to sacrifice himself. Wang Ben then argued that Arthas could not truly be controlling the entire undead army and that the enemy’s offer concealed a deeper motive, leaving Jian Shang with a possible way to break the deadlock.

• Arthas used his command over the undead to give the Great Huan Expeditionary Army a brief pause, then urged Jian Shang to fulfill their promise.
• Ji Xing, Di Wushuang, Yu Ji, and the Ravenous Wolf Guards warned Jian Shang that the enemy might be able to kill him permanently, and they declared they would follow him rather than leave him behind.
• Yan Wuji urged Jian Shang to live, arguing that his survival could determine the fate of the Great Huan Dynasty and China's Divine Land.
• As the Great Huan troops gathered around Jian Shang, Arthas pressed him to decide, but Wang Ben instead questioned whether Arthas could control so many undead on his own.
• Wang Ben suggested that a divine artifact might be controlling the undead and pointed out that Arthas's supposed defense of North America did not fit his notorious selfishness.

Jian Shang rejected Arthas’s demand to surrender himself, using delay to gather the Great Huan Expeditionary Army before ordering an attack on San Francisco Royal City. Arthas unleashed the Lich King’s Wrath as the battle began, and Bull Demon Chieftain Kragg prepared to meet the charge.

• Wang Ben and Jiang Yao warned that Arthas likely had another scheme, while Jian Shang ordered Wang Ben to hold the army back and led the other commanders in a surprise assault.
• Jian Shang denied that he had promised to surrender, then stalled Arthas with a speech about ruthless hegemons until the Great Huan Expeditionary Army had assembled.
• Orson urged Arthas to stop pursuing Jian Shang and focus on destroying the Great Huan Expeditionary Army, but Arthas erupted in fury and invoked the Lich King's Wrath.
• Jian Shang commanded the Ravenous Wolf Guards to form the Moonlight Heavenly Wolf Formation and attack San Francisco Royal City as the other Great Huan commanders charged.
• Kragg transformed into a gigantic bull, led the Savage Bull Legion, and unleashed Death Gaze.

Huan Emperor Jian Shang led the Ravenous Wolf Guards in an attack on San Francisco Royal City, but the Savage Bull Legion’s Death Gaze devastated his troops. As undead armies overwhelmed the Great Huan Expeditionary Army, Wang Ben summoned the Heaven-Defying War God Formation to hold the western front, while Jian Shang prepared to risk everything against the Savage Bull Legion.

• The Savage Bull Legion used Death Gaze to kill thousands of Ravenous Wolf Guards and badly weaken the terrifying Sky Wolf, forcing Jian Shang to charge at them.
• Jian Shang attacked with the Eastern Sovereign Bell and Great Huan Imperial Seal as the Ghoul Legion covered the Savage Bull Legion in Death Cloud, and the armies clashed before San Francisco Royal City.
• Arthas lamented Jian Shang’s betrayal as the undead surged against the Great Huan Expeditionary Army, and Wang Ben summoned the Heaven-Defying War God Formation to defend the western front.
• Inside the Death Cloud, repeated Death Gaze attacks killed more Ravenous Wolf Guards despite Jian Shang’s efforts to thin the mist with divine abilities.
• With nearly half the Ravenous Wolf Guards dead, Jian Shang invoked Imperial Fury and poured his power into the Scarlet Firmament Divine Sword.

Jian Shang burned his lifespan to reach the True Immortal realm, drew heavenly punishment, and used the Sky Wolf to disperse the Death Cloud and devastate the Hero Faction army. After seizing Frostmourne and the Bones of the Dead, he discovered the undead kept fighting, leaving the source of their frenzy unresolved.

• Jian Shang unleashed Imperial Fury, broke through to the True Immortal realm, and transformed into his Ancestral Return Form, drawing heaven's wrath.
• Jian Shang and the Ravenous Wolf Guards used the Sky Wolf's howl to clear the Death Cloud and kill nearly twenty thousand savage bulls and tens of thousands of other troops.
• Heavenly lightning struck the Sky Wolf, while Arthas realized Jian Shang's power was draining his lifespan and refused Orson's suggestion to withdraw.
• Jian Shang used the Cosmic Heaven-Sealing Hand to seize Frostmourne and the Bones of the Dead from Arthas and the battlefield.
• Jian Shang discovered that restraining the Divine Artifacts did not affect the undead armies, which continued fighting without them.

Jian Shang unleashed Nine Heavens Annihilation against the enemy heroes while the Heavenly Punishment Lightning threatened to destroy him and the Ravenous Wolf Guards. He killed Orson and many other heroes, shattered Alastair’s Heavenly Bone Crown, and left Arthas protected by the Frozen Throne as a third lightning strike gathered.

• Jian Shang ordered Ji Xing and Xun Xiong to lead the Ravenous Wolf Guards out, then left the formation and attacked the heroes on the wall with Nine Heavens Annihilation.
• Orson, Arthas, Alastair, and the other heroes tried to escape or defend themselves, but Jian Shang’s Godslaying Spear killed Orson and pierced Alastair while Arthas sheltered behind the Frozen Throne.
• The Frozen Throne withstood Jian Shang’s strikes, while his attacks shattered Alastair’s Heavenly Bone Crown and killed more than twenty other heroes; a dozen survivors escaped gravely wounded.
• As a third wave of Heavenly Punishment Lightning approached, the Ravenous Wolf Guards charged through the enemy ranks under Ji Xing and Xun Xiong’s command.
• Jian Shang attacked Arthas again and used Heaven-Overturning Palm to drag the fleeing Alastair back, while the deaths of Orson and the other heroes replenished Jian Shang’s vitality.

Jian Shang endured the third wave of Heavenly Punishment Lightning, destroyed Arthas’s Frozen Throne, and killed Arthas and Bone Emperor Alastair before claiming several of their artifacts. With the fourth wave gathering and the Great Huan Expeditionary Army still surrounded, he went to San Francisco Royal City to clear its undead, while Arthas reappeared on an ancient throne beneath the central United States Region.

• Jian Shang used Heaven-Splitting Claw to withstand the third lightning wave while the Godslaying Spear shattered the Frozen Throne.
• Jian Shang killed Bone Emperor Alastair and Arthas with the Godslaying Spear, then destroyed Alastair’s body in rage.
• Jian Shang seized the King’s Bones, Frostmourne, the Lich King’s Crown, and the Eye of Dalaran, but found no sign of Death’s Regret.
• As the fourth lightning wave gathered, Jian Shang decided to clear San Francisco Royal City to give the surrounded Great Huan Expeditionary Army a chance to hold out.
• Jian Shang rang the enlarged Eastern Sovereign Bell and destroyed undead and buildings across part of the city.
• Frost Lich King Arthas reappeared on an ancient throne in an underground chamber in the central United States Region.