Chapter Summaries

Xue Yunfeng’s attempt to convince Oaisis to involve Triton and bring more Moon Clan forces into the conflict failed, so Hill explained the Undead’s real intentions and pressed Oaisis to give them a new outlet. Oaisis reluctantly appeared and faced a choice between letting the Undead meddle in national politics or arranging the war games they wanted with the Moon Clan.

• Xue Yunfeng repeatedly failed to make Oaisis understand that Triton should be drawn into the battle and that the Undead wanted millions of Moon Clan members to arrive sooner.
• Hill realized Oaisis feared the Undead would disrupt the future he had planned, while the Undead were growing bored after suppressing the Mutant Silk Spider threat.
• Hill reflected on Ao’s helplessness with Edna and concluded that even powerful World Lords had reason to be wary of unpredictable actors.
• Hill asked Oaisis whether he would rather let the Undead interfere in the nations’ noble and royal struggles or let the Moon Clan play war games with them.
• Oaisis reluctantly appeared, and Hill’s question left him with no choice.

'Xue Yunfeng' questioned Hill about Oaisis's unusual cooperation, and Hill explained the World Lord's rigid nature and why he struggled to understand flexible mortals. Hill then reassured Oaisis that following Xue Yunfeng's plans would help him deal with Gaia and Rose, while the aurora above Hill revealed Oaisis was listening.

• 'Xue Yunfeng' asked Hill whether Oaisis's passivity and lack of input could cause trouble, and Hill described Oaisis as a rigid, forceful Thunder who understood passionate and straightforward people.
• Hill explained that Oaisis distrusted nobles because they adapted to circumstances and compromised their principles, while Oaisis's strict rules restrained good people more than schemers.
• 'Xue Yunfeng' remarked that Hill seemed close to Oaisis, and Hill acknowledged his protective feelings toward the young World Lord of the Earth Pantheon.
• Hill assured 'Xue Yunfeng' that Oaisis would stick with the plan as long as they focused on the outer gods, and 'Xue Yunfeng' left satisfied.
• Hill told the aurora above him that Oaisis should follow Xue Yunfeng's orders and let the Undead claim benefits rather than leave Gaia and Rose to take them.

“Xue Yunfeng” used Oaisis’s knowledge of the ocean floor to plan how to draw Triton into the conflict, while “Nanfeng,” “Old School Striking King,” and “Cunlü” asked for a safer place to level. The group selected four undersea volcanoes to erupt together, and “Xue Yunfeng” ended the chapter exhausted by Oaisis’s need for every instruction to be fully explained.

• Oaisis left Hill beneath the green aurora, and Hill returned to the Mage Tower and shut himself away behind thick curtains.
• “Nanfeng,” “Old School Striking King,” and “Cunlü” asked “Xue Yunfeng” for a leveling area because sea monsters kept attacking them outside the valley.
• “Old School Striking King” explained that small gyres could conceal a massive rotting corpse from ocean currents and the Lord of the Ocean.
• Oaisis marked more than thirty small gyre zones on the map, and “Xue Yunfeng” asked several trusted players to choose the safest locations.
• “Xue Yunfeng” picked four undersea volcanoes for a simultaneous eruption and asked Oaisis to trigger them without setting off a wider conflict.
• “Xue Yunfeng” thanked Jasmine for her Clearheaded Fragrance and told “Nanfeng” that he finally understood his pain dealing with Oaisis.

'Xue Yunfeng' and the others watched four volcanoes erupt and sent the resulting tsunamis toward Scarlet, hoping to force Triton into a confrontation with the former Ocean Goddess. Triton arrived to face the enormous sludge-covered corpse, while Hill protected the Cloud Platform from the stench and expected a dangerous battle.

• Four volcanoes erupted at once, sending tsunamis toward Scarlet as 'Xue Yunfeng' explained how the blasts could pressure Triton into breaking his own World Law.
• 'Xue Yunfeng' celebrated finding the former Ocean Goddess with Hill and the Undead, then teased the group about who had chosen the location.
• Chalk rebuked 'Xue Yunfeng' for his comments, and Hill reflected on how well she understood her enemies.
• Triton arrived with his trident, and Hill explained that he had likely notified Oaisis before appearing because a fight could push his strength beyond the permitted limit.
• The volcanic eruption dried parts of the corpse's sludge, and Hill raised wind walls to shield the Cloud Platform from its stench.
• The former Ocean Goddess charged toward Triton, and Hill suggested she might have become a facet while retaining some of her own will.

Hill and Xue Yunfeng watched Triton battle the former Ocean Goddess, who had become a massive creature of rotten mud. Triton destroyed her with the conch’s sound, leaving the Undead to wonder about the Greek Pantheon and Gaia’s role.

• Hill explained that the sea monsters sloughing off the Ocean Goddess grew larger with distance, but could not threaten Scarlet or Triton’s plans.
• Hill and Xue Yunfeng reasoned that Triton would negotiate with Oaisis to move the Moon Clan’s battlefields onto islands and keep them out of Scarlet.
• Triton suspected Gaia had manipulated the Ocean Goddess and angrily blamed her for transforming the goddess into a mass of living mud.
• Triton sounded his conch, and its roar sent waves that shattered the mud monster into countless fragments.
• Xue Yunfeng asked about the Greek Pantheon’s history in the universe, and Old School Striking King said Edna’s library had an account.

Xue Yunfeng and the Undead discussed the Greek Pantheon’s history and Triton’s pursuit of the escaped Ocean Goddess. After Triton departed, Hill revealed that divine crystal fragments remained on the seabed, prompting the Undead to dive down to collect them.

• Xue Yunfeng wondered how much scandalous history the Greek Pantheon had inspired, and Old School Striking King joked about Eden’s documentary broadcasts.
• Hill explained that Triton was studying the Ocean Goddess’s leftover arrays to track her, and noted that similar arrays had once been used by the God of Contracts.
• Triton warned Hill’s group that Oaisis would cheat them, while Hill challenged him over the Moon Clan’s inability to enter Scarlet.
• Xue Yunfeng predicted Triton would summon a third batch of the Moon Clan and told the Undead to prepare for the influx.
• Hill revealed that Triton had left fragments of the Ocean Goddess’s shattered divine crystal on the seabed, and the Undead dove in to retrieve them.

Hill and the Undead watched Triton’s sharks battle sea monsters as they discussed the limits of the alliance. Meanwhile, envoys arrived in Bacia to travel to Kane Valley, and Xue Yunfeng weighed how they should approach Linde.

• Hill let the Undead watch Blackfin Sharks and a Megalodon attack sea monsters, while he and Lu Huayu explained that the shark alliance would likely last only a few days.
• Perfect Baldhead’s tiger stayed hidden in his Pet Space after the Tigerfolk tribe’s females tried to mate with him.
• Ball Ball reported that envoys from several families had arrived in Bacia and planned to leave for Kane Valley the next day.
• Lu Huayu said Lucimar had agreed to guide the envoys and had invited Dieter to join them, prompting Dieter to ask whether they should intervene.
• Xue Yunfeng decided Dieter should not bring his Knight Order to escort the envoys, so Linde would not become dependent on them.
• Xue Yunfeng pointed out that Bacia’s drought-stricken plants needed water despite the city’s access to seawater.

Hill explained why using Oaisis’s Divine Crystal Fragment would mark his soul, while Lu Huayu asked whether Umberlee could use it. Hill advised him to seek Oaisis’s approval, leaving Lu Huayu preparing to ask the World Lord to let Umberlee enter Oaisis’s ocean conflict.

• Hill explained that manipulating water vapor to summon rain required a deep understanding of the Water Law, and noted that Triton had blocked the human faction’s access to the Water Elemental Plane.
• Hill reasoned that Xue Yunfeng’s push to send the third batch of Moon Clan members to the desert likely concealed a larger plan involving the Undead and the Heaven-Defying Alliance.
• Hill told Lu Huayu that using Oaisis’s Law Divine Crystal would mark his soul, so Hill avoided it to prevent an unintended rise to godhood.
• Lu Huayu asked whether Umberlee could use the Divine Crystal Fragment, arguing that she might regain strength and help restore balance in Toril.
• Hill told Lu Huayu to ask Oaisis for permission, and Lu Huayu thanked him while the Heaven-Defying Alliance’s leaders listened with varied expressions.

Lu Huayu sought Hill’s help to bring Umberlee’s influence into Oaisis, hoping to protect her interests in Toril and give her a stable anchor. Oaisis welcomed the plan, seeing Umberlee’s arrival as a way to disrupt the balance among the sea powers, while Xue Yunfeng led the Heaven-Defying Alliance onward.

• Xue Yunfeng reflected that the Heaven-Defying Alliance had agreed to let the Doomsday Boss take the top position in Kane Valley, and he accepted the temporary loss of status despite some members’ resentment.
• Xue Yunfeng teased Lu Huayu for his devotion to Umberlee, while Lu Huayu explained that he wanted Hill to speak with Aglaia before Umberlee’s interests in Toril were settled.
• Old School Striking King and the Black Rose members left to level, while Lu Huayu planned to seek Linde’s approval before asking Oaisis to support his proposal.
• Hill told Oaisis that Umberlee was the supreme God and creator of the sharkfolk, whose sharks would answer her summons.
• Oaisis agreed to allow the Undead’s sacrifices and summoning rituals, hoping Umberlee’s arrival would unsettle Scarlet and weaken Triton’s advantage without making the sea monsters outright enemies.

The Undead’s campaign in Oaisis had achieved its main goals, while Damboro’s nobles maneuvered over desert territories and Energy Ore. Xue Yunfeng became intrigued by Lucimar’s sudden defiance of Ruth, and Hill revealed that Lucimar had felt both respect and fear toward her.

• The Undead’s purges and the rise of new islands showed that Oaisis and Triton had largely achieved their aims, while Damboro’s nobles delayed traveling to Kane Valley amid turmoil in Basia City.
• Xue Yunfeng let the desert’s casual players and smaller families pursue opportunities on their own while he focused the Heaven-Defying Alliance on the ocean.
• Mutant Silk Spiders appeared in Basia City, where nobles tried to use them to frame rivals and the Undead gained merit points while exposing the schemes.
• Earl Ster retreated from his effort to become a magic noble, and Dieter took over the family’s external power as the nobles’ attention shifted to their own disputes.
• Lucimar refused to leave Basia City without Grand Sage Ismael’s order, told Ruth she could find another master, and moved into a female contractor’s home.
• Xue Yunfeng asked Hill about Lucimar, and Hill said Lucimar had felt both respect and fear toward Ruth, whom Hill had assumed was assigned to keep him in line.

Xue Yunfeng studied Lucimar and Ruth’s complicated relationship and grew suspicious of Ruth’s fears and devotion. After Ruth repeatedly bought Silver Moon Holy Water and worried about being controlled by an Evil God, Xue Yunfeng told Hill he wanted to find Rose.

• Xue Yunfeng reviewed recordings of Lucimar and Ruth, concluding that Lucimar showed brief wariness toward Ruth despite his warmth and affection.
• Ruth returned to the Ismail Family merchant association, warded her room, and treated a spider-inflicted wound with Silver Moon Holy Water.
• Ruth recalled Madam saving her from Delgado’s Mage Tower and vowed to protect Lucimar and secure his place as the Ismail Family heir.
• Ruth tested herself with Holy Water, checked that Madam’s Mental Seal remained intact, and resolved to buy more Holy Water at the Silver Moon Temple.
• Xue Yunfeng told Hill that Ruth had visited the Silver Moon Temple daily for three days to stock up on Holy Water and said he wanted to find Rose.

Xue Yunfeng explained why he suspected Ruth was connected to Rose and asked Hill to help uncover the truth before the Damboro nobles left for Kane Valley. Hill warned him that Rose was not someone to exploit, leaving Xue Yunfeng aware that his speculation could attract her attention.

• Xue Yunfeng told Hill that a woman attacked by Silk Spiders had been buying high-grade Silver Moon Holy Water to bathe in, and he suspected Rose had caused her hallucinations.
• Xue Yunfeng explained that he suspected Ruth because Lucimar’s mother might be involved and Ruth had shown abnormal signs during the Silk Spider Calamity.
• Xue Yunfeng reasoned that Rose might be interested in the Elven God-King’s bloodline and asked why Hill thought he could call her out.
• Hill explained that Viole’s Crystal Flower Bloodline could neutralize other bloodlines and account for her peregrine falcon transformation.
• Hill warned Xue Yunfeng that Rose respected the World Tree, was dangerous to provoke or use, and might not ignore his remarks as William of Telashir would.

Xue Yunfeng failed to learn more about Hill and Viole, then welcomed the Damboro delegation to Kane Valley as Lucimar Ismail avoided involvement in the desert. Mo Bi Chenxin asked to take Black-and-White Road members into the desert to catch up, while promising to remain in the Heaven-Defying Alliance.

• Xue Yunfeng accepted Hill’s warning about Rose and learned Hill would ask her about Ruth only if they happened to meet.
• Xue Yunfeng welcomed the Damboro delegation to Kane Valley, where the nobles eventually accepted the available contracts.
• Lucimar Ismail focused on importing produce and magical plants, refusing Ruth’s pleas to get involved with the desert.
• Xue Yunfeng and Mo Bi Chenxin discussed Gaia, Aphrodite, and the strange events in the desert.
• Mo Bi Chenxin asked Xue Yunfeng to let Black-and-White Road members enter the desert so they could catch up, while insisting he had no plans to leave the Heaven-Defying Alliance.

Mo Bi Chenxin negotiated for the Black-and-White Road to go to the desert while still hoping to learn when Paintbrush might disappear from the game. Xue Yunfeng arranged an uncomfortable stay for the Damboro nobles, then recognized something familiar about Susu and asked Old School Striking King to take Cunlü and Nanfeng along.

• Mo Bi Chenxin asked Xue Yunfeng to let the Black-and-White Road go to the desert, and Xue Yunfeng agreed while understanding that Mo Bi also wanted Paintbrush gone.
• Susu asked Xue Yunfeng whether Damboro's guests could have jasmine instead of lilies, and he refused and proposed lodging rival families separately in military camps filled with Windmill Jasmine.
• Xue Yunfeng explained that he planned to make the Damboro nobles answer for how their people had mistreated the Undead on the journey from Basia City.
• Susu questioned Xue Yunfeng about Lucimar and then protested when he speculated that he might have known her mother.
• Old School Striking King arrived, and Xue Yunfeng asked her to take Cunlü and Nanfeng with her now that Black Rose's leveling activity had ended.

Xue Yunfeng arranged for Cunlü to attend the new leveling area, expecting someone to provoke her, while Susu and Cunlü discussed Susu’s feelings and the risks of pursuing a long life with Lucimar. At the opening, Sigel injured Count Gavin O'Connor, and Cunlü began treating him as Lucimar admired her.

• Xue Yunfeng told Old School Striking King that Cunlü would draw out anyone plotting against her and assigned Nanfeng to handle troublemakers.
• Old Age brought Xue Yunfeng Cunlü’s work and leveling schedule, and he said Cunlü should be at the beach on the dates Xue Yunfeng marked.
• Cunlü warned Susu to consider the worst outcome of her feelings for Lucimar and urged her to stay vigilant.
• Nanfeng and Cunlü led the knights toward the leveling area, where nobles were captivated by Cunlü’s custom red dress.
• Lucimar and Ruth watched Sigel confront the Undead, and Ruth said Sigel had long been obsessed with beautiful women.
• Sigel injured Count Gavin O'Connor, and Cunlü treated him while Lucimar wished he had been the one injured.

Lucimar stopped Sigel from attacking the Undead Knight commander, while Nanfeng and Cunlü dealt with the Damboro nobles gathered in Kane Valley. As the nobles moved into barracks, Nanfeng and Cunlü discussed why Susu was devoted to Old Dog.

• Lucimar dragged Sigel into the air and jolted him awake before he could continue attacking the Undead Knight commander.
• Sigel accused Ruth of causing his loss of control, then fainted, and Lucimar dropped him onto the Ismails below.
• Lucimar reassured Ruth and asked Cunlü not to let Sigel’s actions damage the Ismail Family’s reputation.
• Nanfeng declared that Cunlü belonged to him, then told Susu to handle the Damboro nobles.
• Susu offered the nobles private rooms and bathrooms in the barracks, and two-thirds chose to move in.
• Nanfeng and Cunlü discussed Old Age’s question about Susu and speculated that Susu had met Old Dog in real life.

Lu Huayu asked Xue Yunfeng for three days of relief from Young Master's attacks before Doomsday's leader arrived, and revealed that Liang Xingzhu had secretly returned to Oaisis. He planned to expose her scheme to marry her gold-farming team's leader so Young Master would intervene, then left without revealing who would pass along the information.

• Cunlü argued with Nanfeng as Susu escorted the Damboro nobles into Kane Valley's military district, where they settled in the barracks.
• Xue Yunfeng received reports that the nobles had exposed their suspicious intentions and discussed the success of his plan with Lu Huayu.
• Lu Huayu warned that Umberlee was approaching while Young Master threatened to kill the sharks Doomsday had gathered for Asking Sword and Young Wanderer Under Heaven.
• Lu Huayu told Xue Yunfeng that Liang Xingzhu had entered Oaisis with a new name and appearance and was working on a gold-farming team.
• Lu Huayu said Liang Xingzhu was pursuing the team leader for his savings and proposed exposing her to Young Master to secure three days of peace.
• Lu Huayu left without telling Xue Yunfeng who would inform Young Master, saying the third batch of Undead would arrive in three days.

Lu Huayu and the Doomsday Family brought trapped sharks to Kane Valley, where the Undead fed them until some turned friendly. At dawn, about a hundred thousand Heaven-Defying Alliance and Doomsday members arrived and organized into groups, leaving the Damboro nobles uneasy at how obedient they were.

• Lu Huayu and the Doomsday Family arrived with three or four hundred sharks trapped in Endless Vines, and the Undead fed them through the night.
• Some sharks changed from red names to Yellow Names as they grew comfortable with the Undead, and even disguised members of Asking Sword joined in feeding them.
• About a hundred thousand Heaven-Defying Alliance and Doomsday members arrived at Kane Valley in a burst of white light at dawn.
• Xue Yunfeng and the family leaders organized the newcomers into groups, checked their records, and sent them toward assigned leveling areas.
• Lu Huayu revealed that the Doomsday Boss had drawn one of the unwanted black tickets in his own lottery, prompting the gathered leaders to laugh.
• The Damboro nobles watched the Undead assemble without protest and worried that a hundred thousand newcomers obeyed their group leaders more readily than Damboro soldiers would.

Xue Yunfeng and the guild leaders prepared for a major sacrificial ceremony, while Lu Huayu waited for his boss to arrive in Oaisis. Lu Huayu saw his boss approaching and realized he would likely remain his trusted assistant.

• Xue Yunfeng arranged for the Heaven-Defying Alliance to attend the ceremony and prepare for Triton and the Moon Clan’s response.
• Lu Huayu announced that the twelve-thousand-person sacrificial ceremony would begin at dusk the next day.
• Young Master explained that Lu Huayu’s boss wanted to meet Eden’s rich heir, who was rumored to be in love with Paintbrush.
• Xue Yunfeng told the guild leaders to prepare for the ceremony and ordered Old Age to draw aggro while Cunlü stayed hidden.
• Lu Huayu waited on the road from Basia City to Kane Valley and saw a dust storm as his boss approached.
• Lu Huayu concluded that his boss had come to his senses and that he might remain the East Depot’s grand eunuch.

Doomsday Boss and Lu Huayu led a mass ritual to Umberlee, while the Heaven-Defying Alliance watched and prepared for an approaching battle. The ritual summoned Umberlee above the altar as a confrontation with the Moon Clan loomed.

• Doomsday Boss and Lu Huayu organized more than ten thousand people into positions for a ritual honoring Umberlee.
• The crowd's prayers shifted the sun and moon overhead, and Old School Striking King explained how Umberlee's altered prayer differed from its traditional wording.
• The Undead noticed deliberate mistakes in Doomsday's ritual formation and suspected a power struggle within the family.
• Old School Striking King identified the blue-green light Lu Huayu carried as a replica of the Beacon of Light, while Perfect Baldhead warned the Heaven-Defying Alliance to prepare for battle.
• Perfect Baldhead reported that the Moon Clan was advancing and ordered the Alliance to prepare buffs and potions.
• Lu Huayu's locator helped the ritual raise a towering whirlpool, from which Umberlee appeared above the altar.