Chapter Summaries

Lincon helped the Great Wall Defense Line repel an Abyssal assault, where Taiyi killed the Temporal Demon Spirit and Dreamweaver Banshee and drove off the Calamity Lord. After the battle, Lincon collected the Wind Demon Lord’s materials and claimed a living Space Worm, whose abilities made it a valuable mobile warehouse and means of stealthy spatial travel.

• Lincon crushed the Wind Demon Lord’s head, and Taiyi trapped and killed the Temporal Demon Spirit and Dreamweaver Banshee with a cloud hand.
• The Calamity Lord appeared above the Great Wall Defense Line, but Taiyi transformed the cloud hand into an Azure Cloud Sword and dispelled the storm.
• Fang Qingyang told Lincon that Taiyi was the defense line’s key force against the Abyss Sea, but deferred questions about him to General Guo.
• Lincon collected the Wind Demon Lord’s Dark Matter Crystal and other valuable materials after the Great Wall Defense Line cleared the assault.
• Fang Qingyang confirmed Lincon could claim the surviving Space Worm, and Lincon branded it with his mark.
• Lincon examined the Space Worm’s abilities and recognized it as a mobile spatial warehouse with stealthy travel capabilities.

Lincon learned that Taiyi’s clash with the Abyss Sea may have broken a fragile agreement, then met General Guo Chongguang, who explained the Casting Cauldron Plan and offered Longwind City a major share of resources and evacuees. After Lincon insisted that the Great Wall Defense Line must hold, Guo asked whether he wanted to meet Taiyi and led him toward a concealed underground elevator.

• Lincon subdued the Space Worm, shrank it, and used it to store the Wind Demon Lord’s remains.
• Fang Qingyang told Lincon that Taiyi’s killing of the Temporal Demon Spirit and Dreamweaver Banshee had likely voided an agreement that had kept the strongest fighters from attacking one another’s forces.
• Fang Qingyang brought Lincon to meet General Guo Chongguang at the Great Wall Defense Line’s command center.
• Guo Chongguang showed Lincon the Casting Cauldron Plan, including a proposed thirty percent of future resources and seventy percent of Capital Province evacuees for Longwind City.
• Lincon urged Guo Chongguang not to give up on the front line and pledged Longwind City’s support for the defense.
• Guo Chongguang asked Lincon if he wanted to meet Taiyi, then took him into a concealed elevator descending to the fifth underground level.

Lincon met Taiyi in an underground laboratory and discovered that the S-Plus Rank ability user was frail and bound to the facility by countless blood vessels. After Taiyi explained that burning his strength had damaged him, Lincon offered to help, and Guo Chongguang asked whether he was truly confident he could save Taiyi.

• Guo Chongguang led Lincon through a deep underground research facility to meet Taiyi.
• Lincon found Taiyi seated in a candlelit room, frail and connected to the walls by countless blood vessels.
• Taiyi welcomed Lincon, praised the story of the place he had built, and said he hoped to visit Longwind City after the war.
• Lincon recognized that Taiyi's damaged Life Essence was not the only problem and asked him to explain everything so he could help.
• Taiyi said he had killed the Abyss Sea monsters' descendants and planned to send them to hell, while Guo Chongguang asked Lincon if he was confident he could save him.

Lincon learned how Taiyi had sacrificed his body and soul to become strong enough to defend the Great Wall against the Abyss. Though he doubted he could fully heal Taiyi, he began treatment with a Rejuvenation Immortal Bean.

• Lincon told Guo Chongguang he would give everything he had to save Taiyi, and Guo Chongguang eagerly trusted him.
• Guo Chongguang explained that Taiyi had used his light ability to absorb violent Dark Energy, gaining immense power at the cost of becoming Abyssal and suffering severe injuries.
• Lincon learned that Taiyi had held back the Abyss Sea, then arranged the Casting Cauldron Plan when he could no longer endure and prepared to die fighting the Abyss's High-Rank Lords.
• Lincon judged that Taiyi's long-lasting injuries and weakened Life Essence might be beyond his ability to repair, but resolved to help him and take him to Longwind City.
• Lincon summoned a Rejuvenation Immortal Bean and began treating Taiyi, hoping to improve his condition and restore his vitality.

Lincon gave Taiyi a Rejuvenation Immortal Bean, which purged much of the poison and harmful gray substance from his body and restored some of his strength. Taiyi stood again, while Lincon warned that the treatment had only eased his condition and planned further treatment to repair his Life Essence.

• Lincon gave Taiyi an Immortal Bean, and Taiyi ate it as a strange breeze and energy surge filled the room.
• Researchers detected abnormal readings, but Guo Chongguang ordered them to clear the area and silence the alarms.
• The Immortal Bean forced toxic black blood and a dangerous gray substance from Taiyi, which Lincon contained in Runed porcelain bottles.
• Taiyi's condition improved, the blood vessels connecting him to the wall withered away, and he stood up, thanking Lincon.
• Lincon told Taiyi that the bean had only treated his symptoms and planned to restore his Life Essence and use Life Link on him over the coming days.

Lincon treated Taiyi with resources supplied by the Great Wall Defense Line while watching powerful outsiders, including suspected Star Pavilion members, gather ahead of the Casting Cauldron meeting. He tracked the Hive Canyon Expeditionary Army’s arrival in Capital Province and saw that his Hive Legion now included two additional A-Rank Abyssal Lords.

• Lincon used three Life Fruits provided by Guo Chongguang and the Great Wall Defense Line as treatment material for Taiyi and an initial consultation fee.
• Golden Dragon reported that suspected Star Pavilion members had arrived, and Lincon told him the authorities likely had their own plans.
• Jiang Li warned that inland Cauldron-Forgers might target Longwind City at the meeting in two days, and Golden Dragon vowed they would not submit quietly.
• Lincon followed reports of Alashu and the Hive Canyon Expeditionary Army reaching Capital Province and occupying Beach Ruins.
• Lincon saw that Kazi, a Void Eroder Ant Guard, and Isaiah, a Red Lotus Ant King, had joined the Hive Legion as A-Rank Abyssal Lords.

At the Beach Ruins, Isaiah led several of Lincon’s Abyssal Lords as they waited for their Lord and planned to infiltrate the Abyss Sea. A Space Worm arrived carrying a Shrine statue, which stopped a Void Eroder from attacking it.

• Alashu questioned whether Lincon would find the group, and Isaiah assured him that their Lord could sense the marks he had left on them.
• Isaiah argued that infiltrating the Great Wall Defense Line would be dangerous and that the Abyss Sea’s attention could help the group approach it.
• Alashu reported that Abyssal Creatures had come to investigate the group’s hunting activity, but Isaiah welcomed their arrival.
• A Void Eroder prepared to attack the Space Worm, but the creature showed it a wooden Shrine statue, causing the attacker to withdraw into the void.
• The Space Worm carried the Shrine statue over to Isaiah.

Lincon received Isaiah’s report that the Hive Legions would enter the Abyss Sea and pressure nearby humans, along with a Crystal Communicator from Longwind City. After spending two days treating Taiyi and preparing for the Cauldron-Casting Council, Lincon left with Golden Dragon and Jiang Li as the council was about to begin.

• Isaiah accepted Lincon’s command to lead the other Hive Legions into the Abyss Sea and seek the trust of its Epic Lords.
• Isaiah sent Lincon a Crystal Communicator through the Space Worm so Lincon could contact the Hive Legion directly.
• Lincon considered the council, searched the front-line supplies for the Sun Seed and Divine Blood, and avoided using the Seed Mark to advance plants.
• Lincon continued treating Taiyi until most of Taiyi’s negative conditions had healed, though a few deep-rooted issues remained.
• Golden Dragon and Jiang Li told Lincon that the Cauldron-Casting Council was about to begin.

Lincon attended the Cauldron-Casting Council at the Great Wall Defense Line, where powerful ability users from across Xia Kingdom gathered to discuss the Casting Cauldron Plan. The council opened amid distrust and accusations, and Guo Chongguang had yet to explain its true purpose.

• Jiang Li and Golden Dragon accompanied Lincon to the Council Hall, where Guo Chongguang invited Lincon to sit beside him as a sign of trust.
• The other Cauldron-Forgers arrived at the last moment, including Lin Jiuqing, Dugu Zhui, Xu Mo, and Ye Yiyun, and Guo Chongguang began the council.
• Ye Yiyun exchanged a knowing gesture with Lincon, while Lincon assessed the abilities and possible allegiances of several attendees.
• Guo Chongguang said the inland shelters had become effectively independent city-states, and Dugu Zhui and Lin Jiuqing rejected official control over their territories.
• Li Xingzhou defended the front line's actions and argued that the Casting Cauldron Plan aimed to unite everyone against the Abyss.
• Lin Jiuqing challenged the claim that the council was about distributing resources and suggested the front line wanted the inland cities to help fight the Abyss Sea, leaving the attendees waiting for Guo Chongguang's answer.

Guo Chongguang explained that the Casting Cauldron Plan would prepare humanity for a possible Abyss Sea invasion, but Dugu Zhui challenged the plan and accused the front line of unfair resource allocation. After singling out Lincon over his city’s thirty-percent share, Dugu Zhui attacked him during the council, leaving the hall on the brink of violence.

• Guo Chongguang warned that the Abyss Sea was expanding and explained that the Cauldron-Forger cities would form humanity’s chance to strike back if the Great Wall Defense Line fell.
• Dugu Zhui proposed concentrating the front line’s resources on White Dragon City and choosing the strongest Cauldron-Forger to lead the defense, but Guo Chongguang rejected his demands.
• Li Xingzhou confronted Dugu Zhui when he dismissed collective defense, and the two nearly came to blows before Dugu Zhui turned his attention to Lincon.
• Dugu Zhui revealed that Lincon’s city was allocated thirty percent of the plan’s resources, prompting Lincon to challenge him to state his real purpose.
• Dugu Zhui suddenly attacked Lincon with his Disintegration ability, but Lincon kicked his elbow and deflected the strike before it could reach him.

Lincon fought Dugu Zhui as Dugu Zhui unleashed his Disintegration Domain on everyone in the council chamber. Wei Xing discovered that the Great Wall Defense Line had fallen into chaos and reached the Giant Wall, where a silent Abyssal Black Tide was advancing toward a lone figure on the wall.

• Dugu Zhui expanded his Disintegration Domain, destroying the council table and disintegrating several C-Class Ability Users.
• Lincon defended himself with the Fire God Tree's golden flames and ordered Golden Dragon to protect Jiang Li.
• Ye Yiyun and the others fled the collapsing building, while Guo Chongguang told them to trust Lincon and withdraw toward the Giant Wall.
• Wei Xing and Lu Guan saw people across the Great Wall Defense Line rampaging with red pustule patterns and learned that even a B-Rank Ability User had been affected.
• Wei Xing and Lu Guan reached the Giant Wall and saw silent Abyssal Creatures flooding toward it, while a pale, thin figure stood motionless atop the wall.

Lincon battled Dugu Zhui, whose Disintegration power and strange transformation made him a dangerous opponent. After killing him, Lincon heard the voice of Lord of Silence and Plague—Merial, and the encounter left him deeply uneasy.

• Dugu Zhui attacked Lincon with his Disintegration power, but Lincon blocked his strikes and knocked him back with a dragon-enhanced punch.
• Lincon entered the Composite State and attacked Dugu Zhui with the Netherworld Sword Orchid, while Dugu Zhui used Total Domain Collapse to weaken the blow and corrode Lincon's armor.
• Lincon summoned the Light-Dark Cherry of the Far Shore, whose twin blades severed Dugu Zhui's head.
• Dugu Zhui's head spoke through the voice of Lord of Silence and Plague—Merial, who asked Lincon to become his child and promised to spare him.
• Lincon crushed Dugu Zhui's head, but Merial's voice warned that he would appear in person next time before falling silent.
• The scents in the air faded, information about Dugu Zhui's death appeared on Lincon's panel, and Lincon's unease reached its peak.

Lincon learned that Merial, the Lord of Silence and Plague, was spreading the Blood-Eye Plague across the Great Wall Defense Line as part of a test by the Abyss Sea. After receiving a warning from Isaiah, Lincon set out with the Golden Dragon to find Jiang Li, who was still fighting plague-stricken ability users.

• Lincon saw plague-stricken people rampaging in the streets and realized the Blood-Eye Plague had spread beyond Dugu Zhui.
• Isaiah told Lincon that the Hive Legion had agreed to join the Abyss Sea and that Merial would lead an attack on the Great Wall Defense Line.
• Isaiah revealed that the Abyss Sea's attack was only a test and that Merial was spreading the Blood-Eye Plague to verify information obtained from a high-ranking human.
• The Golden Dragon told Lincon that authorities and other fighters had gone to the defense line while he had dealt with abnormal B-Rank ability users near Lincon.
• Lincon and the Golden Dragon located Jiang Li, who was holding her own against two plague-stricken B-Rank ability users.

Lincon and Jiang Li fought infected ability users and identified their condition as the Blood-Eye Plague, which threatened to spread through the city and the Great Wall Defense Line. Lincon set out to help the officials and investigate the plague’s source, leaving Jiang Li to follow him as the city’s chaos worsened.

• The Golden Crow burned one infected ability user to ash, while Lincon and the Golden Dragon stopped another from attacking Jiang Li and helped destroy him.
• Lincon explained that the infected bore red pustules and Blood Eyes, and that the plague drove people of every level of ability into madness.
• Lincon told the Golden Dragon to gather the inland ability users and make them help resolve the plague if they wanted to keep their Cauldron-Forger status and future benefits.
• Lincon and Jiang Li headed toward the city’s most chaotic area to assist the two officials and investigate the Blood-Eye Plague before it spread to the defense line.
• Lincon killed infected people they encountered, choosing this direct approach because he lacked time to isolate and treat them.

Lincon and Zhao Jingyi joined forces to kill the Primordial Demon Lord as it attacked the Shadow Towers. Lincon recovered from his injuries and considered Kindling Sunflower’s revival through Kindling Transmission, though he would temporarily lose its strength boost.

• Zhao Jingyi fought the Primordial Demon Lord to defend the remaining Shadow Towers while Lincon watched for an opening.
• Lincon signaled Zhao Jingyi and fused his abilities, then pierced the Demon Lord’s head with a sword strike as Zhao Jingyi tore out its heart.
• The dying Demon Lord warned that humans could not stop the Abyss, and Lincon vowed to flatten it and make its creatures submit.
• Lincon received experience and Sunlight for killing the A-Rank Primordial Demon Lord, and his Dark Overlord and Nature Saint levels rose to 53.
• Lincon recovered from his injuries and reflected that Kindling Sunflower would revive stronger through Kindling Transmission, but would not boost his strength while it regrew.

After defeating the Primordial Demon Lord, Lincon and Zhao Jingyi turned their attention to containing the Blood-Eye Plague in the Great Wall Defense Line. Lincon gathered the city’s leaders at the Administrative Headquarters, where he prepared to lead a new council.

• Zhao Jingyi thanked Lincon for helping defeat the Primordial Demon Lord and gave him its heart, which Lincon stored with the corpse in the Space Worm.
• Lincon told Zhao Jingyi that the infected had contracted the Blood-Eye Plague from the Lord of Silence and Plague, and they agreed to organize a response before the outbreak spread.
• Lincon and Zhao Jingyi decided to meet at the Administrative Headquarters after finding Li Xingzhou, while Zhao Jingyi headed out to locate him.
• Lincon arrived at the Administrative Headquarters with Jiang Li and asked the person in charge for infection data and a list of available ability users.
• Lincon chose the hall below Guo Chongguang’s office for a gathering, preparing to reconvene the council and coordinate the response.

Lincon convened the ability users in the Great Wall Defense Line to investigate the Blood-Eye Plague and forced them to cooperate after warning that anyone who tried to leave would be killed. Once he explained that the plague could infect everyone and transform victims into powerful Blood Eyes, he assigned teams to contain the infected and asked Ye Yiyun to help sever the plague’s transmission medium.

• Li Xingzhou and Zhao Jingyi arrived at Lincon’s meeting after fighting an Abyssal Lord, and Ye Yiyun brought a frozen third-stage Blood-Eye and shared what he had learned about the infection’s stages.
• Meng Zhou refused to join the Casting Cauldron Plan or help with the plague, but Lincon threatened to kill anyone who tried to leave and ordered the Great Wall Defense Line sealed.
• Lincon explained that the Blood-Eye Plague could spread through eye contact, lie dormant in hosts, and eventually turn infected people into dangerous Blood Eyes.
• Lincon sent Li Xingzhou and Zhao Jingyi to deal with transformed Blood Eyes and ordered Zhong Yan, Xu Mo, and Lin Jiuqing to gather and seal first- and second-stage infected people, killing resisters and burning the corpses.
• Lincon asked Ye Yiyun whether he would help sever the plague’s transmission medium, and Ye Yiyun showed interest.

Lincon proposed using rain and the Overlord Mark to sever the Blood-Eye Plague’s means of transmission, and Ye Yiyun agreed to create a citywide rainstorm. As infected were captured and delivered to the Quarantine Camp, Xu Mo restrained them with ink while Lincon’s plan remained untested.

• Lincon told Ye Yiyun that he wanted to cut off the plague’s source by using a substance as a carrier, and asked him to make it rain across the city.
• Ye Yiyun agreed to prepare a rainstorm within half an hour, and Lincon ordered staff to announce that residents should come outside during the rainfall.
• Two men captured an infected man who was forcing his way into a woman’s home and took him with other infected to the Quarantine Camp.
• Xu Mo used ink lines to restrain the infected already at the camp, while Lin Jiuqing urged him to finish the task.
• Another truck carrying captured infected arrived at the Quarantine Camp.

Ye Yiyun created a cloud whale from extreme heat and cold, allowing Lincon to spread the Overlord Mark through rain to attack the Blood-Eye Plague. As the infected were drenched by the marked rain, a pair of pale green eyes opened in the Abyss Sea.

• Ye Yiyun unleashed his Harsh Winter and Purgatory powers while Lincon used his plant ability to withstand the opposing forces.
• Ye Yiyun expanded his dual-element domain and formed a gigantic whale of ice crystals and heat currents in the clouds.
• Lincon sent the Overlord Mark into the cloud whale, divided it into tiny marks, and spread them through rain to devour the Blood-Eye Plague.
• Xu Mo, Zhong Yan, and Lin Jiuqing watched the marked rain fall over the Great Wall Defense Line and the infected people bound outside the Quarantine Camp.
• A pair of pale green eyes opened in the Abyss Sea amid plague miasma.

Merial detected something extraordinary in the defense line and found Lincon, then exerted mental pressure on him from afar. Lincon used the Seven-Colored Immortal Beans to strengthen himself for the coming confrontation, leaving his allies ready to fight.

• Merial told Hatis that something extraordinary had appeared inside the defense line, then located it.
• Merial’s distant pressure forced Lincon down and crushed Jiang Li to the ground when she tried to help him.
• Lincon warned his companions that the Abyssal Epic had discovered him, and his Spirit Plants helped him resist her pressure.
• Lincon ate all seven Seven-Colored Immortal Beans, gaining temporary powers to boost his strength, defenses, recovery, perception, and ability to harm distant opponents.
• Lincon declared that Merial would not make him fall from afar as his power surged.