Chapter Summaries

Key plot points

• A blood-red aura spreads across the Material Plane as Er Dongsheng senses a powerful presence entering the world. The Bone Queen recognizes Chris as the person responsible for Prince Allen’s bloodline disappearing, an act that violated an agreement and once enraged her lord.
• The sky ruptures, revealing the Crimson World: a terrifying inner realm filled with monsters and scarlet energy. A gigantic portal opens, and its corruption begins spilling into the Material Plane.
• A colossal creature takes shape from the blood-red energy, bearing a mark resembling the Abyssal character for “seven.” Er Dongsheng is startled by the apparent connection to the Abyss, while the creature is equally unsettled by Er Dongsheng’s dark, chaotic aura.
• The newcomers identify the being as Mephistopheles Feres, Demon King of the Seventh Layer and the embodiment of Pride. Followers—and even the Guardians—kneel before him.
• The Material World’s Heavenly Dao reacts to the Demon King’s arrival and begins forcing him out. Er Dongsheng hides his aura, but Mephistopheles disappears. The Bone Queen then rises in a transformed body, wearing a crown and bearing the same “seven” mark. She addresses Er Dongsheng as a powerful being from another world.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng remains composed amid the invasion, intrigued by the Crimson World and its inhabitants. His resemblance to Hell’s darkest beings alarms Mephistopheles, while Er Dongsheng’s discovery of the “seven” mark deepens his questions about the plane’s connection to the Abyss.
• The Bone Queen shifts from confronting Er Dongsheng to exposing Chris’s role in the missing bloodline. Once Mephistopheles is expelled, she reveals a changed, apparently more powerful form and directly challenges or addresses Er Dongsheng.
• Chris and the assembled factions join in welcoming Mephistopheles. Their collective reverence shows that even the Guardians fear provoking him.
• Mephistopheles arrives as an overwhelming threat but is checked by the Heavenly Dao before he can fully establish himself.

Significant themes

• Worlds colliding: The Crimson World’s breach threatens to contaminate the Material Plane.
• Power and resistance: Even a Hell Demon King must contend with the Material World’s Heavenly Dao.
• Hidden connections and identity: The Abyss-like “seven” mark, the Bone Queen’s transformation, and Er Dongsheng’s resemblance to Hell’s creatures raise questions about the characters’ origins and the worlds’ ties.
• Fear and allegiance: Enemies kneel together before a power too dangerous to oppose.

Key plot points and events

• Mephistopheles, inhabiting the Bone Queen, abruptly attacks Er Dongsheng, who is using Allen’s body. Their exchange escalates into a series of devastating blows that devastate the forest and astonish the watching Guardians.
• The fight nearly exceeds the Heavenly Dao’s permitted limits. Its pressure and rejection intensify, so both combatants lower their power and stop fighting—though they continue to confront each other across the ruined forest.
• News of the clash spreads across the plane through Magic Technology devices. Worried elders assemble a vast Magic Array and summon the Elder Councilors, whose combined presence rivals or surpasses the two fighters.
• Mephistopheles explains that he came to see his two youngest brothers. He demands to know what happened to the bloodline of his illegitimate younger brother and warns that others will be angered if humans have tampered with it.
• He identifies Er Dongsheng as a warrior from another world, not simply Allen. Er Dongsheng agrees that he wants to hear the story of “himself” as well. Their tension rises again under the Heavenly Dao’s watch.

Character developments

• Er Dongsheng proves powerful enough to match Mephistopheles, despite fighting through Allen’s body. He remains composed and dismissive of the mechanical Heavenly Dao, which he considers inferior to the Abyssal Will.
• Mephistopheles reveals that his attack was partly a test. Beneath his confident manner, he is surprised by Er Dongsheng’s strength; he is also deeply interested in his younger brother’s missing bloodline.
• The elders and Elder Councilors shift from observing the battle to preparing for a possible crisis. Their arrival establishes that powerful human authorities are ready to intervene, though the Heavenly Dao remains the chief constraint on the fighters.

Significant themes

• Power and limits: Even overwhelming strength is restrained by the Heavenly Dao’s rules.
• Identity and hidden history: The revelation that “Allen” is an otherworldly warrior, alongside questions about a lost bloodline, complicates who Allen is and what happened to him.
• Fear of catastrophe: The observers recall an earlier rampage and worry that the confrontation could bring disaster to their world.
• Worldly authority versus cosmic will: The chapter contrasts the Heavenly Dao’s largely mechanical reactions with the Abyssal Will, which Er Dongsheng regards as more complex and powerful.

Character interactions

• Mephistopheles and Er Dongsheng begin as adversaries, testing each other in battle, then continue their rivalry through a tense standoff and mutual curiosity about Allen’s history.
• The Elder Councilors address Mephistopheles cautiously, urging negotiation while asserting their presence.
• Mephistopheles challenges the humans over their interest in his brother’s bloodline and draws Er Dongsheng into the dispute by asking him to confirm that he, too, wants answers.

Summary

• Key events: Sixue marks reaching 500,000 words on a first novel, despite disappointing subscription and recommendation results and personal difficulties at home. Reflecting on the journey, Sixue recalls that several authors who began around the same time have stopped updating, including some whose work Sixue admired.
• Character development: Sixue moves from feeling discouraged and overwhelmed to recognizing the achievement of having persisted. The milestone becomes a source of pride, regardless of the book’s popularity, and Sixue resolves to keep writing.
• Themes: Perseverance, commitment to readers, the sadness of unfinished creative work, and finding value in effort even when external success is limited.
• Character interactions: Sixue speaks directly to readers, acknowledging their support, expressing a desire not to disappoint them, and wishing them happiness. Sixue also remembers fellow authors and their abandoned stories with regret.

Key plot points

• Chris identifies “Allen” as an impostor: Er Dongsheng, the feared being Chris had tried to keep from emerging.
• Under questioning, Chris admits he extracted Allen’s bloodline and gave it to Shalina. Er Dongsheng pulls the blood essence from her, confirming the theft.
• Allen, whose soul has been trapped inside Er Dongsheng, hears the truth. The betrayal shatters him, and the Ink Spirit Flame completes his demonization.
• Er Dongsheng celebrates Allen’s transformation: because Allen belongs to the Sunlight Plane, he may serve as a foothold—and eventually a bridge—for an Abyssal invasion.
• Er Dongsheng departs, leaving destruction in his wake. He heads for Lentat City, where a huge weapon emerges from a rift and blasts the city’s barrier apart. The Guardians teleport away to respond, while Mephistopheles anticipates a new battle.

Character developments and interactions

• Chris insists he acted to protect Allen, but his confession and the revelation about Shalina expose the harm his choices caused. El and the Councilors condemn him.
• Allen moves from disbelief to devastating despair when he learns his father took his bloodline. His grief triggers his complete fall into darkness.
• Er Dongsheng reveals both his connection to Allen and his larger invasion plan. He treats Allen’s suffering as a means to create an Abyssal foothold, though he also claims he wants Allen to grow stronger for “Little Apple.”
• El reacts with cold anger toward Chris. The Elder Councilors are shocked and alarmed, while Mephistopheles watches events with calculating interest and withdraws before Allen’s transformation.

Significant themes

• Betrayal within family: Chris’s claim that he acted out of love clashes with the devastating consequences of his actions.
• Identity and possession: The group struggles to understand who “Allen” is, while the real Allen remains trapped inside Er Dongsheng.
• Grief turned into corruption: Allen’s traumatic revelation destroys his hope and enables his demonization.
• Invasion and exploitation: Allen’s transformation makes him a potential conduit for the Abyss, turning personal tragedy into a threat to the entire plane.

Key events

• During a quiet noon in Lentat City, a sudden, citywide tremor overturns cars and damages buildings. Culrent recognizes the warning signs from the earlier destruction of his birthplace, also called Culrent, and flees.
• A colossal flaming beast, Phoenix, appears above the city with Er Dongsheng riding on its head. The city’s Vast Sea Magic Array forms a barrier, but most residents assume they are safe and watch with curiosity.
• Er Dongsheng condemns the comfortable population as “fallen” and announces that he will teach them what destruction means. Phoenix tears open the barrier, and black flames incinerate buildings and residents.
• Phoenix seems to withdraw, but a compressed fireball then strikes through the breach and burrows underground. The arriving Guardians, Mephistopheles’s group, and Elder Councilors are too late to stop it.
• The resulting explosion devastates the city. Phoenix descends as Er Dongsheng proclaims that the Demon God of Destruction, Baal, will soon arrive. A final strike breaks through the Heavenly Dao Will’s defenses, apparently bringing the destruction to its climax.

Character developments and interactions

• Culrent, a survivor of a previous disaster, quickly understands the danger and chooses escape. He and other fleeing drivers keep silent rather than warn the crowd, fearing that a mass panic would make escape harder.
• Er Dongsheng presents himself as a merciless destroyer, judging the city’s people as complacent and morally “fallen.” He uses Phoenix to attack and delivers a chilling warning to the survivors.
• The residents move from confidence in their city’s defenses to terror as the barrier fails and the attack escalates.
• The Guardians, Mephistopheles’s group, and the Elder Councilors arrive only after the decisive attack is underway. Even the Heavenly Dao Will cannot prevent the final blow.

Significant themes

• Comfort breeds complacency: The city’s prosperity has left many residents unprepared to recognize danger.
• Self-preservation and selfishness: Those who flee conceal the threat from others to protect their own chances.
• Strength, weakness, and judgment: Er Dongsheng frames weakness and “falling” as sins, using that belief to justify destruction.
• The limits of security: Advanced technology and powerful magical defenses offer little protection against an overwhelming force.

Key plot points and events

• Er Dongsheng’s attack devastates the city with fireballs, magma, and black flames, killing nearly a million people. The city’s magical defenses fail, and its Barrier eventually collapses.
• Elder Councilors join the Heavenly Dao Will to fight Er Dongsheng and protect the survivors, while Guardians are sent to rescue people.
• The survivors’ grief and hatred—and the resentment of the dead—feed the black flames, creating a vast display of dark energy. Mephistopheles and his Fallen Ones watch but hold back, wary of Er Dongsheng and the Heavenly Dao’s intervention.
• Er Dongsheng absorbs the emotions and uses them to strengthen himself. He also tempts Allen, arguing that humans have always rejected him and that he should embrace his superior, demonic nature.
• Allen’s soul transforms into a humanlike Divine Soul. He consumes a human soul and declares allegiance to darkness, completing his fall.

Character developments

• Er Dongsheng grows stronger by feeding on suffering and dark emotion, and delights in the destruction he causes.
• Allen loses his remaining resistance. His guilt gives way to pleasure in consuming souls, and he embraces the identity of a servant of darkness.
• Mephistopheles remains cautious despite his interest in the energy, choosing to wait for a safer opportunity.
• Culrent and the other survivors are left traumatized by the city’s ruin, while the Councilors and Guardians take on the desperate task of fighting and rescuing.

Significant themes

• Destruction and human suffering: A single demon’s power turns a city into a catastrophe.
• Corruption and temptation: Er Dongsheng exploits Allen’s loneliness and resentment to justify his transformation.
• Hatred as fuel: The pain of the living and resentment of the dead become nourishment for demons.
• Loss of humanity: Allen’s consumption of a human soul marks the point where he fully abandons human compassion.

Character interactions

• Er Dongsheng taunts the Heavenly Dao Will and manipulates Allen through promises of acceptance and appeals to Allen’s history of rejection.
• The Elder Councilors coordinate with the Heavenly Dao Will to confront Er Dongsheng, while Guardians try to shield survivors.
• Mephistopheles’s followers urge him to seize the abundant souls, but he restrains them and waits.

Key events

• Er Dongsheng, in his immense Phoenix form above ruined Lentat City, seizes control of Magic Devices across the plane and forces them to broadcast the destruction to everyone.
• The worldwide audience sees the devastation and realizes the crisis may signal another war or demonic invasion.
• Er Dongsheng reveals that Allen has been overtaken: Allen’s human voice and Baal’s commanding presence speak through the same body, declaring that the Dark Executioners will destroy the plane.
• The Elder Councilors, Guardians, Chris, and El try to stop him. The Heavenly Dao empowers the defenders, who attack Er Dongsheng, but he appears overwhelmingly powerful.
• The defenders summon the interstellar-class Lannuski Spear, a weapon powerful enough to have once badly wounded “it.” Its appearance forces Mephistopheles to flee.
• With the Heavenly Dao sealing Er Dongsheng’s escape, the Councilors fire the spear, hoping to destroy him and capture information that could help end Hell’s invasions. A blinding impact engulfs the scene, leaving the outcome uncertain.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng/Allen is presented as a divided or merged identity: Allen’s loved ones try to reach the person they remember, but the demonic presence insists Allen has become one of them. El explains that Allen’s father extracted his bloodline and restricted his violence to prevent the demon’s descent.
• El and Chris confront their transformed family member with grief and desperation; El appeals to Allen’s past and his father’s sacrifice.
• The Elder Councilors and Guardians shift from pleading and conventional attacks to a coordinated, sacrificial plan using the Lannuski Spear.
• Mephistopheles, previously positioned to watch events unfold, recognizes the weapon’s danger and retreats, realizing the attack may threaten him too.
• Ordinary people and world leaders become involuntary witnesses, while the broadcast turns the battle into a crisis witnessed across the entire plane.

Significant themes

• Identity and possession: Allen’s loved ones struggle to distinguish the person they know from the demonic force speaking through him.
• Sacrifice and survival: The defenders risk their lives—and potentially the region—to prevent another catastrophe and break a long cycle of invasion.
• Power and technology: The plane’s advanced magic technology, especially the Lannuski Spear, offers a counterweight to supernatural forces.
• Public catastrophe: The forced global broadcast makes private warfare a shared spectacle, spreading fear and helplessness across the world.

• Key events: The author checks the fantasy rankings on Monday and finds the book absent from both the click and recommendation charts. They plead with readers to cast free recommendation votes.
• Character development: No story characters appear; the author presents themself as a diligent but discouraged new writer who updates regularly.
• Themes: The note highlights the importance of reader support and encouragement, and the emotional strain of feeling overlooked.
• Interactions: The author directly addresses readers, asking them to vote and help sustain their motivation to continue writing.

Summary

Plot points and events

• Just before the Lannuski Spear’s attack, Er Dongsheng senses that he is in mortal danger. Though the weapon’s power pins him in place, he melts the surrounding space with his black flames.
• He sacrifices a vast number of souls through an Abyssal Gate, using his true body as a coordinate to invoke the Abyssal Will. The sacrifice draws immense power from the Abyss.
• A black lightning bolt reaches Er Dongsheng before the Lannuski Spear does. The power amplifies his strength, while a half-formed Crimson Key appears in his mind. Er Dongsheng realizes the Key has intervened to prevent one of its subordinates from receiving the Abyss’s gift.
• Er Dongsheng summons his comrade, the Spear of Destruction, from the Abyssal passage. Meanwhile, the elders order the Lannuski Spear to fire.
• In the Abyss, the Spear of Destruction appears on a battlefield where Destruction Squad members are fighting powerful demons. It annihilates enemies, then scatters into countless spears, striking those without the aura of destruction. Its black flames and white orbs empower the squad, triggering Second Awakenings and major increases in strength. The newly strengthened fighters turn the battle in their favor in the name of Lord Baal.
• On the Sunlight Plane, the Lannuski Spear’s blast produces blinding light and dust. The elders and the public initially assume Er Dongsheng has been killed.
• Er Dongsheng emerges from the smoke, only slightly wounded. He pulls the Lannuski Spear from his abdomen, heals instantly, and destroys it. The Spear of Destruction devours the fragments, growing stronger.

Character developments

• Er Dongsheng reveals that he planned for the Crimson Key’s interference and used the sacrifice to gain a powerful ally and withstand the attack. His confidence and resourcefulness are evident.
• The Destruction Squad undergoes a dramatic transformation: its members awaken new power, their Abyss Stars multiply, and several captains reach four stars.
• The elders shift from confidence that their ultimate weapon will kill Er Dongsheng to stunned helplessness when he survives and destroys it.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and power: Er Dongsheng trades countless souls to summon the Abyss’s influence and the Spear of Destruction.
• Escalating power and evolution: The Abyssal flames and orbs trigger transformations that dramatically strengthen the squad.
• False victory and reversal: The Lannuski Spear’s attack appears decisive, but Er Dongsheng survives and turns its destruction into a gain for his own weapon.
• Loyalty and shared strength: The summoned spear is Er Dongsheng’s “closest comrade-in-arms,” while the squad rallies around Lord Baal and Destruction.

Character interactions

• Er Dongsheng taunts the elders’ weapon and calls upon his “partner” to join the battle.
• The Destruction Squad vice-captain mocks an enemy demon, then leads the newly empowered fighters in renewed combat.
• The elders command the Lannuski Spear to fire, then watch in disbelief as Er Dongsheng walks away from its strike.

Plot points and events

• In Hell’s deepest level, an ancient being—the true ruler of Hell—senses a familiar presence in the Material World. It wonders where the person it has sought across the ages has gone and notes that the coming “Reincarnation of the myriad worlds” leaves little time.
• In the Material World, Er Dongsheng emerges from the Abyssal Will’s aid apparently unharmed. He declares that those who cannot awaken deserve destruction, plunging humanity into despair.
• Because his borrowed manifestation is temporary and the Heavenly Dao is increasingly trying to expel him, Er Dongsheng attacks the remaining Guardians and elders, intent on removing anyone who could threaten Allen—whom he calls his “little apple.”
• He overwhelms the defenders, killing several and consuming their souls. Phoenix absorbs the remaining black flames and souls, revealing its full, immense form.
• Chris mourns the fallen elder and begs Allen to wake up, regretting that his past greed and choices helped lead her into the Abyss. But Allen is fully fallen, and Er Dongsheng has sealed her soul passage so her demonization cannot be interrupted.
• Er Dongsheng turns on El, but El unexpectedly strikes him and sends him flying. Mephistopheles and the others return, explaining that their “boss” has arrived.
• The sky tears open, the world turns blood-red, and time and space seem to halt: the supreme ruler of Hell has descended through a wisp of its will.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng remains ruthless and theatrical, but his urgency is driven partly by his wish to protect Allen from future threats. His confidence falters when El manages to hurt him.
• Chris is overwhelmed by guilt and grief. He blames his earlier decisions for Allen’s fall and desperately pleads for her to return.
• El shifts from appearing withdrawn to revealing unexpected power by striking Er Dongsheng, signaling that he may be far more than he seemed.
• Mephistopheles and the returning Guardians align behind El’s mysterious “boss,” whose arrival changes the balance of power.
• Phoenix grows more vivid and powerful after consuming the souls and flames, unveiling its full appearance to humanity.

Significant themes

• Despair and powerlessness: Humanity’s strongest defenders and weapons appear unable to stop Er Dongsheng.
• Guilt and consequence: Chris’s regret highlights how past choices can contribute to catastrophe.
• Protection within destruction: Er Dongsheng’s violence serves his stated aim of shielding Allen from those who might oppose her.
• Hidden identities and shifting power: El’s intervention and the Hell ruler’s arrival suggest that the apparent limits of the conflict are about to change.

Summary

• After finishing work at noon, Sixue checked the book’s performance and found it had only 23 recommendations and 20 clicks. The disappointing numbers left Sixue feeling close to tears.
• Sixue explains that subscriptions have never been the main measure of the book’s success; recommendations matter most because seeing them increase is encouraging.
• Feeling discouraged, Sixue asked readers for recommendations. Readers responded generously, raising the total from 23 to more than 200. They also sent monthly votes and tips.
• Overwhelmed with gratitude, Sixue says the readers’ support restored their confidence and promises to try to release several extra chapters over the weekend as thanks. Sixue also asks readers to keep sending recommendations and monthly votes.

Character development and interactions

Sixue moves from disappointment and self-doubt to renewed confidence. The chapter centers on Sixue’s warm exchange with readers: Sixue shares their feelings openly, readers respond with support, and Sixue promises to give back through extra chapters.

Significant themes

• Reader support and community: Small gestures can have a powerful emotional impact.
• Gratitude and reciprocity: Sixue responds to readers’ encouragement by offering more chapters.
• Creative motivation: Recognition—especially recommendations—helps restore confidence.

Plot points and events

• Er Dongsheng, inhabiting Allen’s body, faces El, whose body has been taken over by an immensely powerful being. El recognizes something familiar in Er Dongsheng and tries to compel him to reveal his origin. A mysterious red key in Er Dongsheng’s mind blocks the control.
• El attacks with an illusory claw. Though Er Dongsheng tries to evade, the strike seems to bypass time and space, tearing open his chest and leaving behind a dark, Abyss-like will. Black Flame heals the wound, but cannot remove the foreign presence.
• After tasting Er Dongsheng’s flesh, the being in El says it has searched for him for millions of years and believes it has finally found a clue to returning home. The scene briefly freezes for everyone except Er Dongsheng.
• The plane’s vast Heavenly Dao Will intervenes, targeting the being in El and causing the host’s body to crack apart. The being opens a spatial rift and escapes, leaving El behind. Before departing, it gives Er Dongsheng a warning about the Heavenly Dao and says the plane is now his to claim if he can take Hell World.
• Er Dongsheng sees a striking figure in his mind: a seemingly ordinary being with seven pairs each of black and white wings. The figure’s image and some related memories fade, though the fourteen pairs of wings remain vivid.
• Mephistopheles and his followers withdraw, and the world is left uncertain about what has happened. Er Dongsheng realizes the escaping being may have been occupying the Heavenly Dao’s attention. With it gone, something powerful appears ready to break through, and reality begins to fracture.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng discovers that the mysterious key can protect him from El’s coercion. He is also wounded for the first time on this plane, making him confront the scale of El’s power. He becomes increasingly suspicious of the departing being’s motives and warning.
• El and the possessing being are shown to be distinct: El’s body serves as a vessel, while the being inside it has its own memories, goals, and overwhelming power. Its search for a way home ends in apparent escape.
• Mephistopheles witnesses Er Dongsheng resisting the being’s control and takes note of him. After his leader leaves, he chooses to withdraw rather than fight.
• The Heavenly Dao acts as a powerful force against the being, but its intervention leaves open the possibility that it had been preoccupied—and that a greater threat is now emerging.

Significant themes

• Bodies as vessels and tools: Allen and El are both caught up in others’ plans, serving as anchors or hosts for alien wills.
• Home and belonging: The departing being describes the plane as a toy rather than its home, framing its long search as a longing to return.
• Power and uncertainty: Even extraordinary beings can be constrained by bodies, rival wills, and cosmic forces; the chapter ends with danger escalating rather than resolving.
• Memory and hidden identity: Er Dongsheng’s vision of the winged figure fades, leaving only a fragment that hints at a larger mystery.

Plot points

• The Heavenly Dao returns with overwhelming force and begins expelling Er Dongsheng from Allen’s mind. With the Elder Councilors incapacitated and El badly injured, it has few defenders to rely on.
• Er Dongsheng abandons his attempt to kill the surviving Guardians and instead prepares a parting attack. He hopes to corrupt the plane’s Heavenly Dao with Abyssal influence and eventually use the world as a base for expansion.
• The Phoenix’s cry and flames briefly shatter the Heavenly Dao’s restraints. A demonic shadow bursts from Allen, scattering black, blood-like crystals through space and time.
• While the Heavenly Dao and witnesses believe Er Dongsheng has been expelled, his true will escapes with the Abyssal Will. He declares himself Baal, Demon God of Destruction, and promises to return when the Black Sun descends. Humanity marks the event as the beginning of the Dark Age.
• In Hell’s Seventh Layer, a mysterious figure senses Baal’s aura and remarks that it resembles his own, though part of it is missing. Meanwhile, Baal’s journey through the Space-Time Passage is briefly disrupted by an unfamiliar pressure before he reaches the Abyss.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng/Baal reveals the scope of his ambitions and his confidence that he can return stronger. Though forced to retreat, he turns his defeat into a strategic escape and leaves behind a threat.
• The Heavenly Dao shifts from expelling Baal to eagerly pursuing him, but fails to stop the scattered crystals or detect his true escape.
• The Phoenix acts decisively to free Baal from the restraints, its cry producing a global shockwave.
• El, Chris, the Guardians, and humanity mistake the apparent demonic explosion for Baal’s final emergence and believe the danger has ended—only to be left with dread and uncertainty.
• The mysterious figure in Hell recognizes Baal’s aura, hinting at a deeper connection, while the strange disturbance in transit suggests another force may be involved.

Significant themes

• A false victory: Baal’s apparent defeat conceals his escape and a wider threat.
• Corruption and conquest: The Abyss seeks to absorb the plane’s living beings and Heavenly Dao, turning the world into a staging ground for war.
• Uncertainty and foreboding: The scattered crystals, the Hell figure’s recognition, and the unexplained pressure all suggest dangers beyond the immediate conflict.
• The birth of an era: Baal’s departure is not an ending but the event that gives the coming Dark Age its name.

• Key events: The author posts an update after Sixue suspends their broadcast feature. They had hoped to thank a reader for tipping them, but discovered they were banned from broadcasting and cannot appeal for three months. They explain that the ban followed their posting a QQ group, which they did not realize was prohibited.
• Character development: The author comes across as upset and overwhelmed, but also determined to carry on writing despite the setback.
• Themes: The chapter highlights the difficulties newcomers face when navigating unfamiliar platform rules, the emotional strain of online publishing, and perseverance in the face of discouragement.
• Interactions: The author thanks readers who tipped them and asks for continued support through recommendations and monthly tickets.

Key plot points

• Er Dongsheng returns to the Bone Throne after his battle in another world. He tells Little Bei’er and Little Lulu about the sunny, fruit-filled plane and the conflict he witnessed.
• The girls mistake the white beads he produces for fruit. They eagerly eat them—though Er Dongsheng realizes they are human souls—and glow brighter afterward.
• Er Dongsheng notices that an hour has passed despite his journey through the spatial tunnel seeming to take only seconds. He suspects the tunnel slowed time and his perceptions, but cannot explain what happened.
• On the Sunlight Plane, the world reels after the Demon escapes and its shadow scatters. Tiny Black Crystals spread across the planet.
• A dying Moonhowl Demon Wolf King lies alone after being betrayed and defeated by its own offspring. A Black Crystal enters its corpse, revives it, heals its wounds, and transforms it into a powerful, scaled creature wreathed in Black Flame.
• The revived wolf kills another beast, grows stronger, and declares itself Fenrir, the Destruction Demon Wolf King.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng is relieved to be home but remains unsettled by the mysterious time distortion. His affectionate storytelling gives way to serious contemplation.
• Little Bei’er and Little Lulu eagerly listen to his account, especially the parts about fruit. Their playful greed creates a comic contrast with the dark revelation that they are eating souls.
• The Moonhowl Demon Wolf King is introduced as a once-dominant ruler reduced to a dying outcast by battle and betrayal. Its refusal to accept death is followed by a dramatic rebirth, now seemingly empowered by Destruction.
• The wolf’s former rivals wait for it to die, but after its transformation it swiftly kills one of them, reversing its helpless position.

Significant themes

• Destruction spreading: The scattered Black Crystals carry the Demon’s influence into new places and hosts.
• Death and rebirth: Fenrir’s transformation turns a hopeless death into a terrifying new beginning.
• Betrayal and the cost of power: The wolf’s own offspring exploits its weakness to take its place.
• Unexplained forces and distorted time: Er Dongsheng’s lost hour suggests that the spatial passage involved a danger or power beyond his understanding.

Key plot points and events

• Ominous changes appear across the world. A highly intelligent Demon Fish, marked by a Black Crystal, hunts enormous Magic Beasts and announces that Lord Baal’s power—and the “black sun”—will soon come.
• In a poor city, an injured homeless boy returns to an abandoned treehouse where he and several younger children live. Their little sister is gravely ill, and their second-in-command brother has gone alone into the dangerous forest to gather medicine.
• The eldest boy sets out after him, carrying a Black Crystal of his own and hoping its power—the Crystal of Destruction—can save the girl.
• In the Nature Faith’s palace, the Pope is reported to be dying. His possible death exposes rival High Priests’ ambition, while his young disciple and some junior priests grieve sincerely.
• Just as the Guardians declare that they cannot save him, the Pope—Dirax, also called Benedict I—appears healthy and powerful. He claims the Goddess of Nature returned him to the mortal world, then rallies the faithful to build a new world and face their enemies.
• Secretly, Dirax bears a Black Crystal beneath his bandage and credits the Demon God of Destruction for his return, suggesting the apparent miracle is tied to the very power threatening the world.

Character developments and interactions

• The eldest homeless boy shows responsibility and resolve: despite his injuries, he protects the younger children and risks entering the forest to find his brother.
• The younger children depend on him and reveal the group’s desperation, especially over their sister’s illness.
• The High Priests reveal their political opportunism when they assume the Pope is near death; their reactions contrast with the young woman’s genuine grief.
• The blonde young woman, the Pope’s disciple, moves from despair to overwhelming relief and clings to him when he returns.
• The Guardians are weary and grieving after losing respected Elder Councilors, and they recognize that the Nature Faith may fracture without strong leadership.
• Dirax returns with renewed authority, publicly invoking the Goddess while privately acknowledging the Demon God’s role.

Significant themes

• The many faces of human nature: sincere grief, opportunism, fear, loyalty, and relief surface together in the palace.
• Power and moral ambiguity: the Black Crystals may offer hope to desperate people, but they are linked to Baal and a looming global threat.
• Faith and political instability: the Pope’s apparent death threatens division, while his return restores unity—at least on the surface.
• Survival and responsibility: the homeless children’s struggle highlights how ordinary people face danger and illness amid larger supernatural upheavals.

Key plot points and events

• In the aftermath of the destruction of Lentat City, survivors, faction leaders, and Guardian troops surround Allen, but none dare approach him. Empowered by Er Dongsheng’s remaining energy and the souls he consumed, Allen is far beyond their strength.
• Confronted by the blackened ruins and the deaths of over a million people, Allen reacts with disturbing fascination, even as tears run down his face.
• Chris asks whether Allen is still himself. Allen says he can never return to his former life. When Shalina insults him, he strikes her down with a display of overwhelming power and warns her to respect Baal.
• Allen declares that his old blood ties are the last gift he will give his former self. When a young Guardian attacks to avenge his parents, Allen kills him and consumes his soul in front of the crowd.
• Allen leaves without looking back. He tells El they may one day have to fight, warns him to beware those closest to him, and rejects both the names Allen and Adrian. He now calls himself Agares, Baal’s representative, and vows to spread the Demon God’s glory.
• In the Abyss, Er Dongsheng approves of Agares’s rejection of his old identity and anticipates the role he will play in the human world.

Character developments and interactions

• Allen/Agares: Allen’s grief over the ruined city coexists with a growing embrace of darkness. He deliberately severs his bonds, displays cruelty, and adopts a new identity and allegiance. His tears suggest that traces of his former self remain, but his actions show that he no longer intends to live as that person.
• Chris: Still hopes Allen might be the person he knew, but Allen’s violence destroys that hope. Chris breaks down, mourning him as lost.
• El: Despite their complicated past, El feels the pain of losing his brother. He cannot stop Allen from leaving and is left with a warning—and the possibility that they may become enemies.
• Shalina and the Guardians: Their fear and hostility expose how thoroughly Allen has become an object of dread. Shalina’s challenge is answered with force, while the young Guardian’s attempt at revenge ends in his death.
• Er Dongsheng: Sees Allen’s abandonment of his former identity as evidence that he is becoming a suitable agent of darkness.

Significant themes

• Identity and transformation: Allen’s renaming marks a decisive break from his human past, though his grief hints that the transition is not emotionally simple.
• Power and moral corruption: The promise of power and immortality draws people toward darkness, while Allen’s growing strength enables increasingly brutal acts.
• Grief, guilt, and irreversible consequences: Allen confronts the devastation he caused, but neither sorrow nor others’ pleas can restore what was lost.
• Trust and betrayal: Allen’s warning to El suggests that danger may come from those closest to him.
• The spread of darkness: The opening frames Allen’s fall as part of a wider movement: secret devotion to Baal is growing, and the consequences may eventually engulf the world.

Plot points and events

• Er Dongsheng assesses the spoils from the Sunlight World: human flesh and blood, and especially human souls. He has already sacrificed much to the Abyss, leaving fewer than a million souls for his own breakthrough.
• He uses the flesh-and-blood energy to strengthen his body. His strength, toughness, speed, and other physical attributes rise dramatically, though the supply runs out before he can push them further.
• Er Dongsheng then deliberately endures Phoenix’s destructive flames, using the fire to temper himself. His Spirit Runes begin to crumble and reform, but the transformation stalls.
• He activates a Summoning Array based on sorcerers’ bloodline-replacement methods, turning the human souls into a refined, cream-like energy that he consumes.
• The array’s force shakes his body and soul, strips out every Spirit Rune, and draws the runes from his Bloodline Source as well. They gather into a powerful, chaotic glyph. His Phoenix-shaped bloodline source collapses, apparently lifeless.
• With nearly all his souls spent and his body emptied of its runes, Er Dongsheng declares that the final transformation is beginning.

Character development

• Er Dongsheng proves both ambitious and calculating: he treats his spoils as resources, reserves the strongest gains for himself, and knowingly risks extreme pain to force a breakthrough.
• His confidence and audacity grow alongside his power. He believes he has achieved something no one else has dared before becoming a Third-Level Demon.
• Phoenix acts as a partner in the process, supplying refined energy and then unleashing flames to help temper him.

Character interactions

• The two Little Lolitas leave to play with the white “fruits,” while Er Dongsheng focuses on his cultivation.
• Er Dongsheng and Phoenix cooperate in the breakthrough: Phoenix provides energy and fire, while Er Dongsheng suppresses the demonic nature emerging from within him and directs the transformation.
• The chapter’s central conflict is internal: Er Dongsheng forces his body and bloodline through a painful process that strips away their existing structure.

Significant themes

• Power through sacrifice: Er Dongsheng consumes nearly all his souls and endures severe physical torment for advancement.
• Adaptation and transformation: Human energy, normally foreign to the Abyss, becomes a potent catalyst for Demonic evolution.
• Ambition and transgression: Er Dongsheng deliberately attempts a dangerous technique far earlier than convention would allow.
• Destruction before renewal: His runes and bloodline source are dismantled, leaving him weakened and hollowed out just as the final stage begins.

Plot and key events

• Er Dongsheng extracts his own Bloodline Rune and gathers the scattered Spirit Rune fragments within his body.
• He brings out a still-living azure bloodline, which he recognizes as a remnant of his lost former world. Remembering the people, places, and mysteries he can never return to, he resolves to leave his old life behind.
• Using a blade made from human souls, he painstakingly strips the blood from the azure bloodline, preserving its central rune. He plans to implant that rune into his existing body rather than abandon the body for a new one.
• He washes the rune in soul-derived essence to remove the last traces of blood and improve its fusion with him. His concentration falters, leaving a tiny crack in the rune—but the final stain comes free.
• For a final enhancement, he extracts a second Bloodline Rune from the Bloodline Origin once attached to Allen’s Black Crystal. This is the powerful, partially inherited bloodline of a being from Hell.
• He fuses the two runes. Their energies combine into a new, more mysterious rune, and the second rune neatly covers the crack in the first. Er Dongsheng prepares to complete the final fusion.

Character development and interactions

• Er Dongsheng shows grief and nostalgia for his vanished former world, but chooses to commit fully to his life in his present body. His attachment to that body reflects both his hard-won achievements and his suspicion that it hides important secrets.
• His procedure reveals his ingenuity and ruthlessness: he spends human souls to manipulate the bloodline and treats Allen’s welfare as largely irrelevant, assuming Allen can manage without the extracted origin.
• Allen is affected indirectly; Er Dongsheng takes the Bloodline Origin that had been placed in Allen to restrict Er Dongsheng’s descent. Er Dongsheng assumes Allen will be fine without it.
• Chris is mentioned as the one who originally placed the Bloodline Origin in Allen, intending it to restrain Er Dongsheng. Er Dongsheng turns that plan to his own advantage.
• Er Dongsheng recalls figures from his past—Wind King, Tree King, and Dragon Demon—as well as the disasters and strange places of his former world, underscoring the life and connections he has lost.

Significant themes

• Loss and irreversible change: Er Dongsheng accepts that his former home and its mysteries are beyond reach.
• Identity and attachment: He wants to change his bloodline without sacrificing the body—and history—he has made his own.
• Transformation and adaptation: The chapter distinguishes bloodline compatibility from true fusion, presenting transformation as a gradual process shaped by both technique and chance.
• Power, ingenuity, and moral cost: Er Dongsheng’s delicate procedure depends on consuming human souls and exploiting a resource taken from Allen.
• Inheritance and synthesis: The fusion of two distinct bloodlines produces a new power, suggesting that transformation can create something beyond either original source.

Plot points and events

• Er Dongsheng examines two Bloodline Runes: his extracted original Rune and a half-formed Special Rune. He merges the latter into the hollow shell of a small Phoenix left behind when he removed its Innate Bloodline Rune.
• The merge revives the Phoenix and restores the sense of wholeness Er Dongsheng had lost. It awakens within his Bloodline Space, spreads mysterious Spirit Runes through his blood, and transforms his body.
• His scales acquire an orderly pattern that collectively forms a Bloodline Rune. His appearance gains striking red and cyan features, armor-like black scales, spikes, and a large energy-filled crystal in his chest.
• Er Dongsheng discovers three forms: black for attack, red for restraint, and cyan for defense. A further combined form greatly boosts his strength, but consumes nearly half his stored energy in moments; the cyan defense also proves too weak to stop the earlier blast’s fragments.
• He then begins his long-awaited advancement. The Abyssal Will grants him five Abyss Stars, but the sixth remains incomplete. He sacrifices tens of thousands of souls to earn another infusion, stabilizing the sixth star. Two messages then appear in his mind, one announcing that a Demon Warlock restriction has been lifted; the chapter ends before either message is fully explained.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng moves from the unsettling sense that part of him has been torn away to relief when the Phoenix is restored. He is fascinated by his new bloodline’s abilities, while recognizing its formidable energy cost and limitations.
• The revived Phoenix changes from an empty shell into a lively, powerful creature and returns to Er Dongsheng’s Bloodline Space.
• The two little ones outside sense the strange aura and wonder whether it is Er Dongsheng.
• Er Dongsheng restrains his old Rune rather than dealing with it immediately, focusing first on the new bloodline and his advancement.

Significant themes

• Identity and wholeness: The Phoenix’s return repairs a loss Er Dongsheng experiences as almost soul-deep.
• Transformation and fusion: The new bloodline emerges from the meeting of a Special Rune, the Phoenix shell, and Er Dongsheng’s own Bloodline Shell.
• Power and cost: His abilities grow dramatically, but the strongest form drains energy rapidly, and advancement requires sacrificing souls.
• Order and control: His transformed scales form a coherent Rune, while he learns to manage distinct offensive, defensive, and restraining powers.