Chapter Summaries

Su Ziyu created the Void Shadow Beast, chose its distortion and shadow-melding skills, and gained enough spiritual power to approach the Morning Star realm. After his new pet tussled with Ruan Xiaoqi, Su Ziyu prepared to visit his relatives and vanished with her into darkness.

• Su Ziyu completed the Void Shadow Beast, which possessed distortion, shadow, and spiritual attack abilities and reached Awakening Ninth Stage.
• Su Ziyu chose [Void Distortion] and [Meld into Shadow] to solidify, then gained one-tenth of the beast's spiritual power and neared the Morning Star realm.
• Su Ziyu decided to retrieve advancement books from the family library and turned his attention toward visiting his relatives.
• The Void Shadow Beast teased Ruan Xiaoqi by disappearing into a shadow, and Ruan Xiaoqi pounced on it before it hid in Su Ziyu's shadow.
• Su Ziyu calmed Ruan Xiaoqi, then departed with her as darkness covered them and they vanished.

Su Ziyu returned to River City and lured his cousin Su Zihao into a trap at Maple Leaf Bar, where he and Ruan Xiaoqi beat and restrained him. The chapter left Su Zihao terrified as Su Ziyu confronted him over the knife scars he had inflicted.

• Su Ziyu worked undercover as a bartender at Maple Leaf Bar and arranged for Su Zihao to go upstairs.
• Ruan Xiaoqi posed as a girl in the room and violently subdued Su Zihao when he attacked her.
• Su Ziyu entered the room and revealed himself to Su Zihao.
• Su Ziyu reminded his cousin of the scars left by Su Zihao's blade and asked how he should punish him.

Su Ziyu confronted his younger brother Su Zihao at Maple Leaf Bar and discovered that Su Zihao had been contaminated and transformed into a tentacled monster. After Su Zihao attacked in pursuit of the Grimoire of the Old Days, Su Ziyu overpowered him and left him impaled by burning black spears.

• Su Ziyu forced Boss Li to let him handle his private matter, and Boss Li abandoned Su Zihao rather than oppose him.
• Su Zihao recognized that Su Ziyu had mastered the Grimoire of the Old Days and threatened to kill him for it.
• Su Ziyu hurled a dark spear into Su Zihao's shoulder, prompting Su Zihao to mutate into a tentacled monster contaminated by the Grimoire's power.
• Su Zihao attacked Su Ziyu and boasted that abandoning his human body would help him reach Morning Star, but Su Ziyu dodged and kicked him into the ceiling.
• Su Ziyu pinned Su Zihao's shoulders with two black spears and used Netherworld Ghostfire to burn his tentacles.

Su Ziyu took revenge on Su Zihao for years of abuse, letting Ruan Xiaoqi torture him through the night before killing him. He declared Su Zihao the first of his targets and carried away his head.

• Su Ziyu burned Su Zihao with Netherworld Ghostfire, then left Ruan Xiaoqi to continue torturing him.
• Ruan Xiaoqi mutilated Su Zihao while Boss Li and his subordinate waited nearby, frightened by his screams.
• After dawn, Su Ziyu returned with Ruan Xiaoqi and found Su Zihao barely alive.
• Su Zihao warned Su Ziyu that an organization would come after him if he killed him, but Su Ziyu beheaded him and called him the first.

Su Ziyu disguised himself as a waiter and served Xiao Hao’s severed, mutated head to his parents at breakfast. After revealing his identity, he faced the furious couple, who demanded that Su Mingyi kill him.

• Xiao Hao’s parents worried that he had not returned home and discussed their search for Su Ziyu and the Grimoire of the Old Days.
• Su Ziyu, disguised as a waiter, served Xiao Hao’s bloody head to his parents.
• Xiao Hao’s father attacked the waiter, but Su Ziyu dodged his punch and escaped his grasp.
• Su Ziyu removed his disguise and revealed himself to Xiao Hao’s parents.
• Xiao Hao’s mother recognized Su Ziyu, mourned her son, and ordered Su Mingyi to kill him.

Su Ziyu returned to the Su family and killed his uncle Su Mingyi after revealing his mastery of the Grimoire of the Old Days. He left Su Mingyi’s wife terrified and surrounded by the horrors of his powers.

• Su Mingyi accused Su Ziyu of killing Xiao Hao and transformed with his Awakening Ninth Stage ability, Powerful Multiplication.
• Su Ziyu blocked Su Mingyi’s punch with black matter and evaded his attacks.
• Su Ziyu cast Dark Wisdom: Deep Dark Prison, trapping and crushing Su Mingyi inside black pillars.
• Su Mingyi’s wife screamed for help as black flames and a strange affliction overwhelmed her.
• Su Ziyu summoned the Rage Knight, whose monstrous appearance drove Su Mingyi’s wife into despair.

Su Ziyu fought and killed his transformed cousin Su Mingyi, who had turned to an evil god for power. Before dying, Su Mingyi warned that an organization would come after Su Ziyu, leaving him to wonder what secrets the family had hidden.

• Ruan Xiaoqi sent Rage to grapple with the transformed noblewoman.
• Su Ziyu confronted the tentacled Su Mingyi in the dining hall and attacked him with Netherworld Ghostfire spears.
• Su Ziyu used Dark Wisdom: Bound Dungeon to bind and weaken Su Mingyi.
• The Void Shadow Beast emerged from the darkness and cut off Su Mingyi’s head with its black scissors.
• Su Mingyi warned Su Ziyu that an organization would not let him go before he died.
• Su Ziyu extracted materials from Su Mingyi and left the dining hall, pondering the organization and the family’s secrets.

Su Ziyu took revenge on his aunt-in-law and interrogated her about the cult that had corrupted her family. Before she died, she named the Old Days and warned that a Grand Lord would come for him, leading Su Ziyu to investigate the manor’s library.

• Su Ziyu ordered Rage to use the Eighteen Torments of the Netherworld to force his aunt-in-law to reveal the cult’s name.
• Rage tortured the wounded woman with the hellish stake while Su Ziyu reflected on his revenge and the need to keep his Mental Body stable.
• Before dying, Su Ziyu’s aunt-in-law named the Old Days and said a Grand Lord would come to kill him.
• Su Ziyu left Rage and Ruan Xiaoqi to clean up and went to the library, sensing something hidden there and hoping to find books about the Morning Star Tier and Extraordinary factions.

Su Ziyu entered his grandfather’s sealed study and found a secret tome describing advancement to Morning Star. He discovered that its apparent reader was his long-missing second granduncle, Su Jingtian, whose power seemed corrupted.

• Su Ziyu opened the iron door to his grandfather’s study and noticed signs that someone had recently been using it.
• Su Ziyu found a skeletal old man seated at the desk, reading a sorcerers’ tome about advancing to Morning Star.
• Su Ziyu reached for the tome, but the old man attacked and demanded that he return it.
• Su Ziyu recognized the old man as his second granduncle, Su Jingtian, who had vanished years earlier.
• Su Ziyu sensed that Su Jingtian possessed distorted, corrupted power and suspected he had become a corrupted Morning Star powerhouse.

Su Jingtian lost control while forcing his way toward Morning Star, transforming into a monster and attacking Su Ziyu in the study. Su Ziyu fought back with shadows and spells, and the chapter ended with him appearing behind Su Jingtian as pillars of light illuminated the room.

• Su Jingtian tried to take the ancient book from Su Ziyu, then grew multiple eyeball-covered arms as his spirituality surged toward Morning Star.
• Su Jingtian lost control and attacked Su Ziyu with elongated arms, beams of evil light, and sorcery while borrowing a trace of Astral Might.
• Su Ziyu dodged the attacks and used his shadow and the Void Shadow Beast to strike Su Jingtian from the darkness.
• Su Jingtian surrounded himself with spells, unleashed a flaming tornado, and summoned pillars of light that revealed Su Ziyu behind him.

Su Ziyu defeated Su Jingtian, who regained his sanity briefly and warned him about the Old Days curse before dying. Su Ziyu found Su Jingtian’s diary and learned that the Old God Cult had offered him a path to Morning Star, then contaminated and controlled the family; he began examining an old book for more clues.

• Su Ziyu and the Void Shadow Beast killed Su Jingtian after the beast pierced him with God-Slaying Flash.
• Su Jingtian apologized to Su Ziyu, warned him to beware the Old Days curse, and pointed him toward a drawer before dying.
• Su Ziyu searched the ruined study and found a black notebook, several ancient tomes, and a yellowed book.
• Su Ziyu read Su Jingtian’s diary and learned that the Old God Cult had offered him a way to advance to Morning Star and later contaminated him and Su Mingyi’s family.
• Su Ziyu considered the cult’s motives and the priest’s role, then used the All-Seeing True Eye to read the yellowed book.

Su Ziyu found an evil Morning Star advancement ritual among Su Jingtian’s books, then uncovered the Spiritual Visualization Method his grandfather had hidden for him. After reading his grandfather’s guidance, Su Ziyu returned to the villa with Ruan Xiaoqi following him.

• Su Ziyu recognized the yellowed book as a sacrificial ritual that could corrupt its user, and set it aside along with two books he planned to study.
• Su Ziyu searched beneath a banyan tree and uncovered an iron box his grandfather had buried ten years earlier.
• Su Ziyu opened the box with his birthday and found a notebook titled “Spiritual Visualization Method!”
• Su Ziyu read that reconstructing a Visualization Diagram was necessary to advance to Morning Star, and learned his grandfather had prepared diagrams for him in a cabinet.
• Su Ziyu read his grandfather’s farewell message, wiped away his tears, and returned to the villa, followed by Ruan Xiaoqi.

Su Ziyu searched his grandfather’s former room for the Visualization Diagram and discovered several hidden among old paintings. After examining the Ironblood Giant Dragon painting, he began considering which diagram to use for visualization.

• Su Ziyu praised Xiaoqi, told Rage to stand guard in disguise, and searched his grandfather’s room with Ruan Xiaoqi.
• Ruan Xiaoqi noticed several dusty paintings, and Su Ziyu used the All-Seeing True Eye to discover that the Venomous Toad painting was a Visualization Diagram.
• Su Ziyu recognized the Flower Fairy and Coldplain Purple Spider paintings as more Visualization Diagrams, and Ruan Xiaoqi happily took the spider painting.
• Su Ziyu uncovered the Ironblood Giant Dragon painting and considered which creature to visualize.

Su Ziyu began visualizing a being of his own design instead of copying the Ironblood Dragon, using his authority in the System Space to shape the Primordial Demon God from chaotic currents and Creation Magma. The visualization took form as a colossal dragonlike phantom that incorporated the powers of monsters he had created.

• Su Ziyu considered the importance of matching a Visualization Diagram to his Elemental Manipulation ability, then decided not to copy the Ironblood Dragon completely.
• Su Ziyu sat cross-legged and sent his spirituality around the Ironblood Dragon portrait while entering the System Space.
• Su Ziyu used chaotic currents to shape a dragon head and body, then awakened its golden eyes.
• Su Ziyu commanded Creation Magma to climb the God-Creation Stairway and fuse with the chaotic currents, forming the Primordial Aura.
• Su Ziyu completed the visualization of the Primordial Demon God, a vast dragonlike phantom bearing Dread Demon Eyes and the Void Shadow Beast's shadow power.

Su Ziyu broke through to Morning Star, manifesting blood-red clouds that alarmed residents and Professor Bai. He then began helping Ruan Xiaoqi advance using the Coldplain Purple Spider portrait, but the All-Seeing True Eye revealed something unexpected about her spirit body.

• Su Ziyu completed a Visualization Diagram node and broke through to Morning Star, sending his spirituality into the sky and forming blood-red clouds.
• Residents across the city witnessed the strange crimson sky, while Professor Bai suspected it might be connected to Burial Venerable.
• Su Ziyu discovered that his pets had also reached Morning Star Initial Stage and noticed Ruan Xiaoqi's unusual reaction to the Coldplain Purple Spider portrait.
• Su Ziyu agreed to help Ruan Xiaoqi advance to Morning Star and explained the Spiritual Visualization Method to her.
• Su Ziyu used the All-Seeing True Eye to inspect Ruan Xiaoqi's spirit body and noticed something strange.

Su Ziyu stopped an old witch from taking over Ruan Xiaoqi’s spirit body during her advancement and destroyed her with the Spider God’s power. He gained two materials, while Ruan Xiaoqi remained safe and her visualization neared its end.

• As Ruan Xiaoqi began advancing to Morning Star, Su Ziyu recognized that the old witch hidden in her spirit body was trying to seize control of it.
• The old witch emerged from Ruan Xiaoqi and attacked, but Su Ziyu blocked her with the Spirit Scissors and trapped her webs in Netherworld Ghostfire.
• Su Ziyu pressed his hand to the old witch’s forehead, causing the Spider God’s power to mutate and destroy her spirit body.
• Su Ziyu extracted Rootless Tendrils and Cursed Black Soul, then confirmed that Ruan Xiaoqi’s spirit body was normal and her Mental Body was pure.
• Su Ziyu reflected on the Old Gods Cult and the Grimoire of the Old Days before noticing that Ruan Xiaoqi’s visualization was nearly finished.

Wei Kang and Hong Ying investigated the manor, where they found the owners reduced to flesh and discovered evidence of dark sorcery. A surveillance tape showed a shadow-faced figure claiming to be the Lord of Shadows, leaving the Special Affairs Department officers injured and calling for backup.

• Wei Kang led Hong Ying and their armed squad into the manor, where they found traces of blood and discovered three mutilated bodies in the kitchen.
• Hong Ying reported that the servants and butler were unconscious but alive, while the team found a two-star emblem suggesting the bodies belonged to a sorcerer family.
• Wei Kang wondered where the reported Overlord-Tier expert had gone and whether Burial Venerable was involved.
• Hong Ying brought back the only surviving surveillance tape, which showed a waiter carrying the three bodies on a dining cart.
• The waiter raised his shadow-covered face and declared himself the Lord of Shadows, causing Wei Kang, Hong Ying, and other officers to suffer a terrifying vision and call headquarters for backup.

Su Ziyu took Ruan Xiaoqi to the Beyonder night market to gather intelligence, disguising himself in a yellow robe and mask. The guards recognized the robe as belonging to the King in Yellow, a figure connected to a deadly taboo incident, and hurried to alert Steward Wang.

• Su Ziyu reflected on how he had used the Void Shadow Beast's shadow authority to alter a videotape as a warning to the Special Affairs Department.
• Su Ziyu took Ruan Xiaoqi for a haircut, bought her a black Gothic-style dress and snacks, and enjoyed seeing her become more comfortable with the world.
• Su Ziyu changed into a yellow robe from his grandfather's room and led masked Ruan Xiaoqi to a Beyonder night market in the eastern part of the city.
• The guards charged Su Ziyu and Ruan Xiaoqi a hundred Alliance Coins to enter and warned them not to cause trouble on Steward Wang's territory.
• The thin and fat guards recognized Su Ziyu's yellow robe as the costume of the King in Yellow and rushed to notify Steward Wang about his appearance.

At the night market, Su Ziyu discovered a strange bronze key and clashed with a powerful Beyonder who tried to take it from him. The crowd gathered as the Black Bear-masked man prepared to fight Su Ziyu, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Su Ziyu and Ruan Xiaoqi entered the bustling night market, where Su Ziyu searched the stalls for useful items and treasures.
• Su Ziyu found an ancient-looking bronze key at a goatee-masked vendor’s stall and tried to bargain for it.
• A Black Bear-masked man offered one hundred thousand for the key, then raised his bid to two hundred thousand and ordered Su Ziyu to leave.
• Su Ziyu stopped the vendor from selling the key to the Black Bear-masked man, and the two men confronted each other as Beyonders gathered to watch.
• The Black Bear-masked man displayed an earthen-yellow elemental ability and threatened Su Ziyu by pointing out Ruan Xiaoqi.
• Su Ziyu challenged the Black Bear-masked man to attack, and the chapter ended before either man struck.

Su Ziyu killed the Black Bear-masked man after discovering a Seven-Ring Worm was controlling him. Steward Wang arrived and recognized Su Ziyu as the King in Yellow, leaving the crowd waiting to see what he would do.

• The Black Bear-masked man attacked Su Ziyu, but the Void Shadow Beast pierced him with its scissors.
• When the wounded man kept moving, Su Ziyu pinned him down with dark spears and noticed something abnormal in his Astral Spirit Body.
• The Void Shadow Beast pulled a Seven-Ring Worm from the man's brain and killed it, causing the man to go limp.
• Steward Wang arrived with guards and recognized Su Ziyu as the King in Yellow.
• The crowd expected Steward Wang to punish Su Ziyu, while Su Ziyu waited to see what he would do.