Chapter Summaries

Magus was confronted by the Four Great Handsome Men while Jin Dong and Trevor struggled to survive in separate regions of the Grand Venom God Pool. Jin Dong’s Xingtian Armor evolved to fight autonomously, while Trevor’s armor and Meteor Hammer were damaged by Magma Frogs that suddenly paused their attack.

• Magus hesitated when the Myriad Beasts Alliance threatened to withdraw, and the Four Great Handsome Men arrived to confront him.
• Jin Dong fought through endless venomous scorpions until he collapsed, after which his armor transformed and battled on its own.
• Jin Dong woke inside his armor and learned that it had evolved, gaining the ability to mimic his combat style and fight autonomously.
• Trevor encountered Magma Frogs in a magma-filled region, fled their scorching attacks, and accidentally heated his Meteor Hammer red-hot.
• The Magma Frogs stopped attacking Trevor, but one suddenly spat red liquid at his head-scratching hand.

The Four Great Handsome Men cornered Magus until Liu Guan Zhang intervened and the factions agreed that Magus would release Owl and the others. Elsewhere, Trevor fought the Magma Frogs until his armor evolved, while Tang Dachun and Chan Xiaodou worried about what would happen after they freed the prisoners.

• The Four Great Handsome Men overwhelmed Magus, who tried to retreat and then prepared to fight to the death.
• Liu Guan Zhang appeared and said he would prevent anyone from breaking the rules; Magus, Cat Face, and Liu Guan Zhang agreed to release the captives and compete under limits.
• Trevor drew the Magma Frogs' attention with his Meteor Hammer, then attacked them until his armor was badly damaged and he collapsed.
• Trevor's Mountain Ape Armor evolved, gaining Thermal Energy Absorption and Ultimate Explosion.
• Magus handed the teleportation rings to Tang Dachun and Chan Xiaodou before leaving with the elite Lion-Ant-Bees.
• Tang Dachun and Chan Xiaodou released the captives and feared that Owl's group would attack them afterward.

Chapter Summary: “Escape Alive”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chan Xiaodou and Tang Dachun must release the captives but struggle to do so safely. They jokingly consider creating clones to take the risk, then admit they do not know how. With no better solution, they follow Magus’s instructions, release the prisoners, and flee.
• The chapter flashes back to show what happened to the separated companions:
  • Owl is chased through a forest and across a plain by an enormous alliance of snakes after stealing their eggs for food. His invisibility and clones fail to shake them, but he suddenly vanishes just as he is about to be overwhelmed.
  • Long Na becomes trapped above the Poison Water Pool. Exhausted from continuously flapping her wings and unable to land safely, she finally collapses—but disappears before hitting the poisonous water.
  • Sa fights through the Crimson Blood Pool, using her floating cannons to destroy poisonous insects and venomous creatures. Focused entirely on finding Owl, she also suddenly vanishes, leaving her cannons behind and still firing automatically.
• Owl reappears in the outside world and finds Long Na unconscious nearby. Trevor and Jin Dong are also released, while Sa soon reappears.
• A massive explosion in the distance suggests that Sa attacked the mysterious beings who released them. Owl worries that the Coal-Eating Dragon may not have been released.
• The Coal-Eating Dragon is revealed to be trapped elsewhere in the Water-Crushing Pool. Although it wonders whether its situation counts as freedom, memories of Owl’s cooking motivate it to keep searching for a way back.

Character Developments

• Owl remains resourceful and practical, gathering food and using invisibility, clones, and combat skills to survive. Despite his own danger, he prioritizes checking Long Na’s condition and organizing the group after their release.
• Long Na demonstrates endurance and loyalty, continuing to fly despite exhaustion and poisonous surroundings. Her collapse shows the physical limits of her abilities, while her dependence on Owl’s food highlights their close bond.
• Sa displays fierce determination and concern for Owl. She ignores valuable ingredients and attacks everything in her path, concentrating solely on locating him. Her immediate assault after reappearing shows her aggressive protectiveness.
• Trevor and Jin Dong return safely and quickly resume practical cooperation, with Jin Dong bringing back scorpion meat for Owl to prepare.
• The Coal-Eating Dragon shows growing attachment to the group, especially Owl. Though it considers remaining in the strange realm, its longing for Owl’s cooking convinces it to seek reunion.

Significant Themes

• Survival and adaptability: Each character uses their unique abilities to endure hostile environments, from poisonous pools to overwhelming swarms.
• Loyalty and companionship: Sa searches relentlessly for Owl, Owl cares for the unconscious Long Na, and the Coal-Eating Dragon is motivated by its connection to the group.
• Freedom versus safety: The characters are released without knowing whether they are truly safe, while the Coal-Eating Dragon questions whether being stranded can be considered freedom.
• Humor amid danger: The discussion of making disposable clones and the comparison to releasing gas in an elevator lighten the otherwise life-threatening situation.
• Food as comfort and connection: Owl’s cooking is repeatedly associated with security, survival, and emotional attachment, uniting the separated characters even across dangerous dimensions.

Character Interactions

• Chan Xiaodou and Tang Dachun cooperate reluctantly, ultimately choosing a risky escape plan.
• Owl and Long Na’s relationship is emphasized through her reliance on his food and his immediate concern for her after their reappearance.
• Sa and Owl reconnect through the team channel, with Sa’s first question being whether he is safe.
• Owl coordinates with Trevor and Jin Dong, asking them to regroup while he protects Long Na.
• The Coal-Eating Dragon’s thoughts about Owl’s cooking reinforce its emotional connection to the entire group.

After gaining a snake avatar from the King of Gu Serpents’ egg, Owl learned about its abilities and helped it adjust to its new body. The next morning, Long Na recovered, and Trevor and Jin Dong announced that their armor had evolved.

• Owl reunited with his companions at the Void Mushroom Market, and they discussed the unknown person who had freed them.
• Chen Danian identified the large snake egg as an egg of the King of Gu Serpents, and Owl accidentally bonded with it through his Red Thread to gain a snake avatar.
• Owl hatched the avatar, fed it scorpion meat, and practiced controlling its snake body while Chen Danian and Lin Daiyu explained its potential abilities and limits.
• After a quiet night, Long Na woke recovered and teased Owl’s snake avatar until Owl warned that its venom might be deadly.
• Trevor and Jin Dong announced that their armor had evolved, leaving Long Na astonished.

Long Na struggled with the gap between her armor and the others’ evolved armor while Owl’s group waited for the Coal-Eating Dragon. Tang Dachun and Chan Xiaodou plotted against Magus, and the group rescued the Coal-Eating Dragon from a strange pocket realm; Owl’s snake clone remained beside Sa.

• Long Na left to train, and Owl sent Trevor and Jin Dong to watch over her while he practiced controlling his snake clone.
• The Coal-Eating Dragon flew through an isolated pocket realm for three days, unable to escape because it lacked spatial magic.
• Tang Dachun and Chan Xiaodou discussed betraying Magus and decided to use one enemy to kill another.
• Long Na found Spatial Rings and a note outside the Void Mushroom Market, and Owl used the note’s instructions to reveal the worlds inside them.
• Owl and Trevor released the Coal-Eating Dragon from one of the rings and brought it back to the group.
• Sa asked to look after Owl’s snake clone, and Long Na noticed the clone beside Sa.

A dragon-robed man paid Mr. Eye for the secret of the Great Eating Sutra’s inheritance imprint and learned that Sa carried it, while the art was hidden beneath her ancestral well. In the Ancient Dragon Grounds, Owl’s team discussed their enemies’ overwhelming power and the need to find Lightning Horse horns to strengthen their bones.

• A dragon-robed man gave Mr. Eye both of his eyes in exchange for two answers about the Great Eating Sutra.
• Mr. Eye revealed that Sa carried the Great Eating Sutra’s inheritance imprint and that the art lay beneath the well at her ancestral home, so the dragon-robed man planned to abduct her.
• Owl and his team realized they had wrongly assumed the Lion-Ant-Bees and their enemies were constrained by terrain.
• Owl led the team out of the Ancient Dragon Grounds and cooked a meal in the Void Mushroom Market.
• Jin Dong asked Owl how to strengthen their bones, and Owl explained that Lightning Horse horns could improve bone hardness and toughness, but the nearby area had been stripped of creatures.

Chen Danian modified one Spatial Ring so it could teleport its user to locations within the same world, prompting the group to seek Spirit-Touched Jade for more rings. Owl set out alone to find a Lightning Horse, while the others planned to search a jade mine, but his search had not succeeded after nearly an hour.

• Jin Dong, Long Na, and Trevor discussed finding Lightning Horse horn powder, but rejected splitting up because it would leave them vulnerable.
• Chen Danian explained that the Spatial Rings teleported within the same world and modified one with Spirit-Touched Jade, allowing it to teleport once a day and display its destination.
• Jin Dong, Trevor, and Owl supported searching a jade mine south of the Ancient Dragon Grounds for more Spirit-Touched Jade.
• Owl agreed to search alone for a Lightning Horse, and he put Sa in charge while he was away.
• Owl began scanning the surrounding land with the modified Spatial Ring, but nearly an hour of searching had not yet found a Lightning Horse.

Chapter Summary: “Green Devil”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Three low-grade Lion-Ant-Bee worker soldiers hunt through an unnamed forest, slaughtering animals for food to sustain their species and help the Emperor Insect produce stronger soldiers.
• One Lion-Ant-Bee is ambushed and parasitized by a hidden creature called a Green Devil. The Green Devil transforms its host’s body into a wooden, armored form and uses it to fight the other two Lion-Ant-Bees.
• The Green Devil defeats and drains the two uninfected Lion-Ant-Bees, leaving behind empty shells.
• At the Void Mushroom Market, Owl observes the scene through his Spatial Ring. Recognizing the creature as a Green Devil, he travels to the forest, hoping to capture it alive.
• The Great Eating Sutra identifies the Green Devil as a rare, highly valuable slime-mold lifeform. Consuming it could grant powerful reproductive benefits, while combining it with several other ingredients might produce an unknown special ability.
• Owl decides to monitor the Green Devil until the Spatial Ring’s cooldown ends, intending to kill it and bring its remains back for the team to consume.
• His plan is disrupted when fifteen Lion-Ant-Bees arrive and surround the possessed insect. Familiar with Green Devils, they keep their distance and gradually destroy the host.
• When the host’s head is blown apart, the Green Devil abandons it and attempts to merge with a nearby tree. The Lion-Ant-Bees destroy the tree before it can fully hide.
• Owl attacks the Lion-Ant-Bees, killing several through stealth, dagger strikes, and his Light-Shadow Clone technique. However, the Green Devil is badly damaged while trying to escape underground and appears unlikely to survive.
• Furious that the valuable creature—and the opportunity to strengthen the team—has been lost, Owl concludes that his plan has failed.

Character Developments

• Owl demonstrates strategic patience and resourcefulness by recognizing the Green Devil’s value and choosing to wait rather than attack prematurely. He also shows strong concern for the team’s advancement, viewing the creature as a chance to raise everyone’s strength.
• His frustration reveals an increasingly practical and treasure-oriented mindset: the potential benefits of the Green Devil make its loss feel like a major setback.
• Owl also displays effective combat ability, using invisibility, surprise attacks, and Light-Shadow Clone to kill Lion-Ant-Bees despite being outnumbered.
• The Green Devil is established as an intelligent, adaptive predator capable of controlling hosts, modifying their bodies, and changing targets after a host dies.
• The Lion-Ant-Bees are shown to be organized and experienced against Green Devils, quickly recognizing the threat and countering it with coordinated ranged attacks.

Significant Themes

• Predation and survival: Both the Green Devil and Lion-Ant-Bees survive by consuming or exploiting other lifeforms, creating a chain of constant violence.
• The value of rare resources: The Green Devil is treated not merely as a monster but as a potentially transformative ingredient, reflecting the chapter’s recurring connection between power and consumption.
• Control versus catastrophe: The Lion-Ant-Bees’ strength depends on the resources available to them, suggesting that even overwhelming species have natural limits—though losing control of them could cause disaster.
• Hidden dangers and folklore: The Green Devil’s disguises and parasitic behavior explain old legends of resurrected corpses and monsters, showing how misunderstood creatures become myths.
• Missed opportunity and frustration: Owl’s failure to secure the Green Devil emphasizes the unpredictability of hunting rare treasures and the cost of hesitation or bad timing.

Character Interactions

• The Green Devil uses one Lion-Ant-Bee against its former allies, turning a group of workers against one another.
• The remaining Lion-Ant-Bees coordinate to destroy the infected host and prevent the Green Devil from escaping.
• Owl remains hidden while observing the conflict, then intervenes only after the Green Devil is exposed and vulnerable.
• Owl’s attacks distract and kill several Lion-Ant-Bees, but his intervention cannot save the Green Devil, leaving him angry at both the insects and the failed opportunity.

Chapter Summary: “Three Thousand Motherly Loves”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Owl successfully kills another Lion-Ant-Bee by using a real clone as a distraction while striking from behind. The remaining Lion-Ant-Bees respond by forming a defensive circle and become much more cautious.
• Noticing that the Green Devil is dying, Owl abandons the fight and uses Light-Shadow Clones to distract the Lion-Ant-Bees while retrieving its body.
• He escapes the enemies’ sensory range, flies away, and combines the Green Devil with several ingredients, including Dragon Finger Orchid, Numbing Powder, Stone King Gallbladder, and dragon blood.
• After eating the prepared Green Devil, Owl acquires a bizarre new ability. It allows him to reach into the air and retrieve seemingly random objects.
• The objects include gold, an apple, “Zhouliu Poison Milk,” seafood noodles, roujiamo, lamb skewers, toilet paper, a wool sweater, a ring, and an enormous backpack.
• Owl discovers that a new item appears only after he accepts or consumes the previous one. He also realizes the ability does not produce items endlessly and may have limits on what it can provide.
• The poison milk affects a Rainbow-feathered Leopard, making it docile and affectionate rather than visibly ill. The leopard follows Owl and behaves like a clingy house cat.
• Owl repeatedly gives the leopard food as farewell gifts before finally leaving. The leopard remains reluctant to part with him.
• Owl jokingly requests an “indestructible treasured sword,” but nothing appears, suggesting that the ability cannot fulfill overly powerful or unrealistic requests.
• The chapter concludes in Infinite City, where Hawkins receives the same ability and discovers its official name: Origin Divine Skill—Three Thousand Motherly Loves. Its description reveals that the power represents the constant, fussy care of countless mothers.

Character Developments

• Owl demonstrates greater tactical skill and caution. He adapts his clone strategy, recognizes when the Lion-Ant-Bees have countered him, and prioritizes escaping with the Green Devil rather than fighting wastefully.
• After obtaining the new ability, Owl becomes curious and methodical, testing its rules through observation and experimentation.
• His reaction to the ability is mostly confusion and exasperation. He is burdened by the flood of random objects but gradually accepts its usefulness.
• Owl also shows a softer, more humorous side in his interaction with the Rainbow-feathered Leopard, feeding it and treating it almost like a pet.
• The Rainbow-feathered Leopard changes from a wild creature into a tame, affectionate animal under the influence of the poison milk.
• Hawkins confirms that Owl’s strange power is not unique. His discovery of the skill’s name and description provides the comedic explanation for the chapter’s random gifts.

Significant Themes

• Adaptation and survival: Owl relies on deception, timing, and retreat instead of forcing a losing battle.
• The unpredictability of power: The new ability seems random and difficult to understand, showing that gaining power does not always mean gaining control.
• Unexpected usefulness: Even trivial items such as food, clothing, toilet paper, and a backpack can become valuable in the right circumstances.
• Maternal care as comedy: The skill’s random gifts are framed as the overprotective, practical concern of “three thousand mothers,” turning an absurd ability into a humorous form of constant care.
• Control versus acceptance: Owl initially wants to understand and direct the ability, but he must eventually tolerate its strange, unpredictable nature.

Character Interactions

• Owl manipulates the Lion-Ant-Bees’ attention through clones, exploiting their response to the real clone to land a fatal attack.
• The Green Devil’s dying body becomes the source of Owl’s new ability after he consumes it.
• The Rainbow-feathered Leopard becomes attached to Owl after drinking the poison milk, following him and accepting several farewell gifts.
• Owl’s attempts to leave the leopard create a recurring comic interaction, as each new item gives him another reason to pause.
• Hawkins indirectly mirrors Owl’s experience by receiving the same motherly-themed ability and tasting food that carries the flavor of home cooking.

Chapter Summary: Mom: The Sword You Wanted!

Key Plot Points and Events

• At night in the Nameless Forest, Owl hunts a powerful Spotted-Horn Horse after realizing his mysterious ability to summon food has disappeared.
• He uses invisibility and a dagger to kill the horse instantly by severing the nerves in its neck, then begins harvesting its meat.
• A humanoid, Man-Faced Lion-Ant-Bee appears and applauds the hunt. Unlike ordinary Lion-Ant-Bees, it is highly evolved, physically humanoid, and immune to Owl’s familiar attacks.
• The creature attacks Owl, resisting his dagger, Shrinking Gas, and Red Threads. It grabs him and repeatedly headbutts his armor while carrying him higher into the sky.
• Owl’s armor begins to crack, and he realizes he cannot injure the Lion-Ant-Bee or escape its grip. He plans to use the height of their fall as a final desperate weapon.
• At the brink of defeat, Owl experiences the mysterious “urge” again—the same compulsion that previously produced food. This time, it summons a crimson longsword instead.
• The sword effortlessly cuts through the Lion-Ant-Bee’s hand and then severs its other hand. As the creature falls, Owl pursues and brings the sword down in a final attack, apparently killing it.

Character Developments

• Owl demonstrates his skill as a stealth hunter and butcher, but faces an opponent far beyond the ordinary Lion-Ant-Bees he has fought before.
• He remains resourceful and refuses to surrender even when his weapons are ineffective, his armor is damaged, and he is physically overpowered.
• Owl’s mysterious summoning ability returns at the most critical moment, revealing that it can produce weapons—not merely food.
• The Man-Faced Lion-Ant-Bee is established as a highly evolved and intelligent enemy. It possesses immunity to Owl’s previous techniques and is confident enough to ignore his attacks, but its arrogance turns to alarm when it senses the sword’s power.

Significant Themes

• Adaptation and evolution: The Lion-Ant-Bees’ ability to develop immunity to attacks makes them increasingly dangerous and shows that previous victories cannot be relied upon.
• Desperation and survival: Owl survives by continually looking for alternatives, even when the battle appears hopeless.
• Hidden power and timing: The mysterious “urge” seems absurdly inconvenient when it first returns, but ultimately provides exactly what Owl needs to survive.
• Predator versus predator: The chapter begins with Owl efficiently hunting a powerful animal, then reverses the situation as he becomes prey to a superior creature.
• The limits of technology and strength: Owl’s armor and weapons are powerful but insufficient against the evolved Lion-Ant-Bee, emphasizing the importance of the newly summoned sword.

Character Interactions

• Owl silently hunts and kills the Spotted-Horn Horse, using stealth and precision rather than brute force.
• The Man-Faced Lion-Ant-Bee taunts Owl and contrasts itself with the weaker “cannon fodder” Lion-Ant-Bees he has previously killed.
• During the battle, Owl relies on his dagger, armor, Shrinking Gas, Red Threads, and mobility, while the Lion-Ant-Bee uses overwhelming physical strength and repeated headbutts.
• The balance shifts instantly when Owl draws the crimson longsword: the Lion-Ant-Bee recognizes its danger, tries to seize it, and is defeated when Owl cuts off both of its hands before delivering the final strike.

Chapter Summary: “Opportunities Must Be Fought For!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Owl defeats the human-faced Lion-Ant-Bee, cleaving it in half with his treasured sword.
• Afterward, he discovers that his mysterious ability can produce almost anything he requests. He summons juice, a bowl of Spotted-Horn Horse meat over rice, food, drinks, and other useful items.
• He realizes that more valuable objects take longer to appear, as the treasured sword required several hours to manifest. Unsure whether the ability has a hidden cost, he decides to use it cautiously.
• Owl tests the ring that appeared earlier and successfully activates it by letting it absorb his blood. It is confirmed to be a Storage Ring, allowing him to store his sword, backpack, and other belongings.
• While preparing to continue searching for a Lightning Horse, Owl’s ability creates an indestructible floating bubble around him. The bubble carries him into the clouds and appears to force him to rest. A blanket materializes, and Owl falls asleep.
• The bubble automatically protects Owl throughout the night. Various creatures that approach are destroyed by an unseen force.
• The Crow Man locates Owl and attempts to capture and torture him, believing that opportunities must be actively fought for. However, as he nears the bubble, an unknown power twists and annihilates him.
• The next morning, Owl uses Picometer Robots to clean himself, eats breakfast, and descends safely when the bubble bursts.
• Rather than continue searching, Owl tests his ability by requesting a Lightning Horse’s horn. It immediately appears, completing his mission.
• Despite obtaining the horn effortlessly, Owl chooses not to rely completely on his wish-granting ability. He continues searching for a real Lightning Horse until noon, finding nothing, then returns to the group using the Spatial Ring.

Character Developments

• Owl becomes more aware of the scope and convenience of his mysterious ability, but also recognizes the danger of depending on it too heavily. He adopts a cautious, balanced attitude, treating it as a backup rather than his primary strength.
• His resourcefulness increases as he experiments with the ability, tests the Storage Ring, and uses technological tools such as Picometer Robots.
• Owl remains calm and relaxed despite the difficulty of his mission, largely because the ability gives him a reliable safety net.
• The Crow Man is revealed as arrogant, aggressive, and obsessed with seizing opportunities through force. His confidence in his interrogation skills leads him to underestimate Owl’s defenses and results in his immediate death.

Significant Themes

• Opportunities must be earned—or fought for: The Crow Man believes success comes from decisive action and personal struggle, but his philosophy is undermined when his aggressive approach gets him killed.
• The danger of effortless power: Owl’s ability can provide anything he wants, but he understands that obtaining everything too easily may weaken him or leave him helpless if the power disappears.
• Security and preparation: The Storage Ring, summoned supplies, protective bubble, and technological tools demonstrate the value of having multiple safeguards.
• Parental or protective love: The ability behaves like a caring mother, providing food, shelter, rest, and protection without demanding payment. This suggests that its true nature is benevolent and unconditional.
• Convenience versus growth: Owl deliberately continues searching for the Lightning Horse even after obtaining its horn, recognizing that relying only on shortcuts could prevent genuine development.

Character Interactions

• Owl has no direct conversation with the Crow Man, but their opposing philosophies collide: Owl rests peacefully and relies on restraint, while the Crow Man attacks impulsively in pursuit of power.
• The mysterious ability interacts with Owl almost like a protective parent, forcing him to sleep, supplying food and shelter, and eliminating threats around him.
• Owl’s earlier connection to Lin Daiyu indirectly helps him identify the ring as a Storage Ring, while Old Zhou’s previous use of Picometer Robots allows him to understand their function.

Sa and Long Na searched the Daliku Jade Mine for Spirit-Touched Jade, but White Dragon overwhelmed their companions and attacked them. Just as he cornered Sa and gravely wounded Long Na, both women recovered and spoke in unison as starlight froze him in place.

• Sa and Long Na entered the mine and fought a Bat Person that escaped by transforming into bats.
• Catwoman and the Bat Person met White Dragon on the mountaintop, where he killed them before heading to the mine.
• White Dragon defeated Jin Dong and Trevor at the entrance, and the Coal-Eating Dragon emerged to treat them.
• White Dragon entered the mine and attacked Sa and Long Na, cutting Sa's weapons apart and severing Long Na's tail and body.
• Sa and Long Na suddenly recovered, their eyes shone with starlight, and White Dragon was frozen before he could touch Sa.

Chapter Summary: “A Child with a Mother Is Treasure”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The White Dragon is ambushed by Sa and Long Na, who are revealed to be connected to Star-Weaver. They trap him with powerful starlight before he can warn his true body, completely disintegrating him.
• After erasing the evidence, Sa and Long Na collapse unconscious. The Coal-Eating Dragon finds them and carries them away from the mine.
• Owl arrives shortly afterward with food, discovers the injured group, and learns that a mysterious enemy attacked Sa. Worried and enraged, he declares that he wants the attacker dead.
• Owl’s apparently supernatural words immediately cause the deaths of multiple avatars belonging to a powerful dragon-related figure:
  • A dragon-horned schemer dies while preparing to harvest two wounded Red Dragons.
  • A usurper who has seized the Dragon Python Dynasty is crushed by a corpse moments after taking the throne.
  • Similar avatars across countless worlds die instantly.
• The dragon-robed true body realizes that someone is targeting his avatars. He severs their connections and attempts to hide his true identity by creating and dispersing ten children born through a human mother.
• The killing suddenly stops. He discovers that all the avatars who survived share one trait: they were born from mothers, while those without mothers were destroyed.
• Hawkins identifies the cause as the Origin Divine Skill Three Thousand Motherly Loves, whose power derives from the love of mothers for their children. It cannot kill beings who have mothers, but it is fatal to those who do not.

Character Developments

• White Dragon: Revealed to be cautious and aware of Star-Weaver’s vast network of avatars, but he is helpless against her trap and dies desperately.
• Sa and Long Na: Demonstrate overwhelming power and coordination by eliminating the White Dragon, though the effort leaves them unconscious. Their connection to Star-Weaver becomes more suspicious and significant.
• Coal-Eating Dragon: Acts practically and cautiously, rescuing the unconscious women while deliberately avoiding speculation about the White Dragon’s disappearance.
• Owl: Shows strong loyalty and affection toward Sa. His impulsive curse—wishing for her attacker’s death—turns into a devastating, reality-altering power.
• The dragon-horned man: Revealed as an ambitious avatar who rose from a lowly human origin through manipulation and scheming. His dream of ruling a dragon-dominated world ends instantly.
• The usurping emperor: Achieves his long-held goal of taking the throne but dies almost immediately, emphasizing the fragility of power.
• The dragon-robed true body: Displays intelligence and adaptability by severing avatar connections and using mother-born children as decoys. He also learns the crucial limitation of the enemy’s ability.
• Hawkins: Correctly analyzes the nature of Three Thousand Motherly Loves and explains its unusual condition for killing.

Significant Themes

• Maternal love as protection: A mother’s love is portrayed as a literal divine force capable of shielding her children from destruction.
• The danger of being motherless: Beings created artificially, born from corpses, flesh buds, stones, or other unnatural origins are especially vulnerable to the skill.
• Power and unintended consequences: Owl’s emotional outburst has consequences far beyond his understanding, showing how casual words can become catastrophic when backed by supernatural power.
• Avatars and identity: The chapter explores the unstable boundary between true bodies and avatars, where survival depends on hiding, severing connections, or becoming impossible to identify.
• Ambition and impermanence: Several characters achieve power or victory only to die moments later, underlining how quickly political and personal ambitions can collapse.
• Strategy versus brute force: Schemes, infiltration, and manipulation are repeatedly contrasted with overwhelming divine abilities that render careful plans meaningless.

Character Interactions

• Sa and Long Na work together against the White Dragon, speaking in unison and overpowering him.
• The Coal-Eating Dragon rescues Sa and Long Na and treats Jin Dong’s injuries while explaining the attack to Owl.
• Owl’s concern for Sa motivates his murderous declaration, which indirectly triggers the mass destruction of the enemy’s avatars.
• The dragon-horned man manipulates two Red Dragons into fighting while planning to profit from their deaths, but Owl’s power kills him first.
• The usurper confronts Emperor Chonglong, mocks his defeated status, and takes the throne before being killed.
• Hawkins observes the aftermath and explains to others—or to the reader—the protective relationship between mothers and their children that determines who lives and dies.

After the battle with White Dragon, Owl and the others recovered and discussed who had intervened to defeat their enemy. Owl tested his mysterious wish-granting ability, then gained Knowledge Eye, which revealed information about the abilities in his eyes before beginning to identify the power in his right hand.

• Sa and Long Na woke healed, while Trevor and Jin Dong recovered from their severe injuries.
• Owl and the others concluded that an unknown, powerful figure had defeated White Dragon and rescued Sa and Long Na.
• Owl demonstrated that his new ability could provide requested objects, but the group worried about its unknown cost and waited for an answer to his question.
• A mysterious bead appeared in Owl's palm, and he swallowed it despite Sa's concern.
• Owl's eyes changed, and he learned that he had gained Knowledge Eye, which revealed knowledge about things he observed.
• Owl used Knowledge Eye on his right hand and received the words “Three Thousand Motherly Loves.”

Owl concealed the truth about his ability, Three Thousand Motherly Loves, while his wish for the Lion-Ant-Bees to die was followed by their sudden deaths. The chapter ended with the Desperate Frontier Guard and Di Shikun discovering dead Lion-Ant-Bees without understanding what had killed them.

• Owl falsely told the others that his ability consumed secrets, and Long Na offered him a secret so she could ask him for unlimited food.
• While washing dishes, Owl privately explained his true ability to Sa, then wished aloud that all the Lion-Ant-Bees would die before falling asleep.
• The Desperate Frontier Guard rode into a town occupied by a thousand Lion-Ant-Bees and was ambushed, but the attackers suddenly collapsed and died.
• After fighting a Lion-Ant-Bee for eight days, Di Shikun watched it die unexpectedly, then tore off its arm and ate it.

After the Lion-Ant-Bees died, Magus attacked Owl and Sa, while other powerful beings moved to seize them. Owl and Sa escaped the battlefield but were trapped by a man in white’s blizzard and a wall of hair, and Owl used his precious sword to cut through it.

• Magus discovered that every Lion-Ant-Bee had died and decided to kill Owl and Sa in retaliation.
• Magus attacked the Void Mushroom Market, then struck at the Coal-Eating Dragon, Trevor, Jin Dong, Owl, and Sa, badly injuring the group.
• The Coal-Eating Dragon fired a beam at Magus, and the blast threw Owl and Sa away from the others.
• A man in white tried to abduct Owl while hair seized Sa, but Owl and Sa escaped together and used Three Thousand Motherly Loves to obtain milk for healing.
• The man in white summoned lightning and a blizzard, while masses of hair formed a barrier to block Owl and Sa’s escape.
• Owl and Sa charged the hair wall, and Owl’s precious sword cut through its tendrils.

Owl used the Form-Slaying Sword and a mysterious saber to escape powerful pursuers, but Sa was dragged into a fissure by the hair. When Magus attacked Owl, Owl vanished, leaving Di Shikun to confront him.

• Owl used the Form-Slaying Sword to cut through the hair wall and flee with Sa, while Ying Worong and the Four Great Handsome Men tried to seize him.
• A burly man pursued Owl and Sa into the woods, but Owl drew the saber delivered by Three Thousand Motherly Loves and its saber energy killed the man.
• Magus defeated the Coal-Eating Dragon and went after Owl, while the dragon found Jin Dong, Long Na, and the wounded Trevor.
• Owl sent Sa to safety through the Spatial Ring and flew away as bait, but hair dragged Sa and the snake clone into a fissure.
• Magus's punch struck empty air when Owl suddenly vanished, and Di Shikun reconstructed himself nearby and challenged Magus.

Owl rescued Sa and their companions from the Abyss and brought them to safety in Emerald City, where he healed them before scouting alone. He found a powerful revolver intended for Sa and encountered a disturbing fruit tree, then continued toward the city's grandest building.

• Owl used the Mom-Calling Divine Technique to rescue Sa and the others from the Abyss and take them to the Cold Gem Garden in Emerald City.
• Owl treated Sa, Trevor, and Long Na with healing potions, and the group ate before he went to scout.
• Owl wished for a powerful gun for Sa and received the Death Roulette Revolver, whose bullets could inflict varied effects.
• Owl made another wish for a gun for himself but received a peach, which he ate while flying through the city.
• Owl discovered a red fruit tree growing from an old well, saw its fruits writhing, and flew toward the grandest building instead.

Owl explored a strangely pristine, deserted city and found the City Lord’s Manor oddly aged and overgrown, but no books or maps. After he warned his companions that the city felt dangerous, they discussed the mysterious fruit tree, examined Sa’s powerful revolver, and set off together to inspect the tree.

• Owl searched the City Lord’s Manor, where weeds and rusty fixtures seemed much older than the city’s recent abandonment, but found no books or maps.
• Owl described the city’s unexplained cleanliness and dangerous fruit tree to Jin Dong, Long Na, Trevor, and the Coal-Eating Dragon over lunch.
• Owl gave Sa a revolver and explained its abilities, and the Coal-Eating Dragon warned that the Baisen Cult might try to seize it as a toy of the Forest Lord.
• Trevor proposed visiting the fruit tree, and despite Jin Dong’s concern about Trevor’s injury, the group agreed to go with Owl.

Owl and his companions discovered that the apparently spotless Emerald City had been emptied of its residents and that its fruit tree concealed a deadly force. After Sa’s bullets forced the tree to rise, a middle-aged man emerged and admitted that he had fed the city’s people to the Life Tree.

• Owl and his companions found that the city’s houses contained no cooking utensils, bowls, or chopsticks, and they became wary of the strange place.
• Sa saw that the fruit tree’s fruit contained blood and moving shapes, while Owl recognized the city as the Emerald City and realized the Great Eating Sutra might lie beneath the well.
• Owl sent a physical clone to touch a fruit, but an invisible force destroyed it and burned out its Nanorobots.
• Sa fired at the fruit tree until her bullets broke through its energy barrier, making the tree rise and revealing a staircase beneath it.
• A middle-aged man emerged from below the tree and admitted that the city’s residents had become nourishment for the Life Tree.