Chapter Summaries

After exterminating the Nine-Headed Serpent Clan and finding Hades's cache of Level-11 Hades Stones, Chen Fan advanced the Eternal Night Continent to level eight. On the return journey, he discovered powerful Anomalies fleeing toward Human Faction Territory and turned back to hunt whatever was driving them from the Fog.

• Chen Fan received 10,000,000 merit points for exterminating the Nine-Headed Serpent Clan, and Little Qiu found more than sixty thousand Level-11 Hades Stones, which Chen Fan ordered used to expand the Azure Dragon Corps.
• The Eternal Night Continent returned to the Boundary Battlefield and advanced to level eight, but Command Post No. 002's message requesting its help arrived too late, so the command post deployed the Floating Cloud Continent to investigate a spreading field of blood-red fog.
• Fu Yun led the Floating Cloud Continent into the fog, lost contact with Command Post No. 002, and ordered the Heavenly Eye to scan for Anomalies as the continent continued toward the center.
• Chen Fan encountered a huge Anomaly created by the Millennium Stone Coffin and used the Stone Coffin Token to control it, then cleared the fog to investigate more Anomalies moving toward Human Faction Territory.
• Chen Fan contacted his elder brother, learned that nearby Anomalies elsewhere seemed unchanged, and realized the Anomalies heading toward the humans were fleeing from something in the Fog.
• Chen Fan turned the Eternal Night Continent around to eliminate the source of the Anomalies' fear, and asked Qian Jue whether they could defeat a Wraith King.

Chen Fan witnessed Green Edge complete his tribulation and learn that humanity had gained another Level 90+ fighter, while the Strange Entity Clan prepared an ambush for the returning Mortal Domain. Green Edge then asked Qian Jue to help open a mysterious door, and Qian Jue agreed to leave with him despite Chen Fan’s reluctance.

• Qian Jue told Chen Fan that the Extinction Demon Emperor had been a powerful ghost whom the lord converted into an Anomaly, while Chen Fan used Wind-Eroded Stone to push the Eternal Night Continent through Severing Wind.
• Chen Fan and Qian Jue found Green Edge completing his Thunder Tribulation beside a black cat; Green Edge survived the final strike, reached Level 90+, and asked Chen Fan to keep the breakthrough secret and give him dumplings.
• Chen Fan realized that Green Edge’s black cat had likely stolen dumplings from the Eternal Night Continent near the 29th Transit Continent, while Qian Jue explained that human conviction might help people break previously accepted limits.
• A nine-petaled flower withered at the center of the red fog, dispersing it, and Hades used one of its petals to learn about the Human Faction’s movements and questioned Zhao Tianfa about the advancing battle line.
• Yun Du and Qi An planned to ambush the Mortal Domain with three veteran eighth-level strange entity clans and three Level 90 ghosts, believing the extra forces would guarantee victory.
• Green Edge returned and asked Qian Jue to accompany him to a place requiring two Level 90+ beings to open its door; Qian Jue agreed to go, warned Chen Fan to keep their alliance secret, and left Chen Fan without his powerful ally.

Chen Fan upgraded the Eternal Night Continent’s City Wall into a Primordial Wall, expanded the Azure Dragon Corps, and set ambitious goals for preparing the Mortal Domain for the coming decisive battle. When a large Strange Entity force attacked, Qian Jue forced three Vile Ghosts to kneel, and their account revealed that the Extinction Demon Emperor had once joined an assassination attempt in Hell.

• Chen Fan spent ten days upgrading the City Wall to level 80, combining its defenses with the continent’s grand arrays to create the Primordial Wall, which withstood Green Edge’s attack.
• Jiu Wu used 100 quadrillion eerie stones to produce ninety thousand level-70 azure dragons and one thousand level-80 azure dragons, but Chen Fan considered the corps far too small.
• Chen Fan called a meeting, set seven goals for the Mortal Domain’s preparations, and agreed to have Jiu Wu try resurrecting a former trusted aide of Hades for information.
• A huge Strange Entity force surrounded the Eternal Night Continent, and Qian Jue made three level-90 Vile Ghosts kneel with a single command.
• The Vile Ghosts fled toward Qian Jue despite Tian Po’s threat, while the black cat took Tian Po’s Hades Token and the Mortal Domain prepared to fight.
• Qian Jue questioned the Vile Ghosts, who revealed that the Extinction Demon Emperor had led sixty-seven ghosts in an assassination attempt against Lord Executioner; Chen Fan contacted his big brother, who had no memory of it.

Qian Jue freed three ghosts and joined Chen Fan, while Hades punished Qi An and Yun Du after their failed ambush. Qi An engineered a public defection with Yun Du, leaving the Human Race debating whether their surrender was genuine as Chen Fan rested aboard the Eternal Night Continent.

• Qian Jue explained how the lord had destroyed Hell, freed the three ghosts, and ordered them to obey the Mortal Domain.
• After the failed ambush, Hades's clone ordered Qi An and Yun Du to sever their limbs and left them surrounded at the Command Post.
• Qi An persuaded Yun Du to join his fifth stratagem and blackmailed Sky Patrol into taking them to the Rear Headquarters.
• Qi An arranged a staged escape and publicly declared that he and Yun Du were defecting to the Human Race and surrendering to the Mortal Domain.
• Chen Fan learned that the Floating Cloud Continent had resolved an anomalous incident and rested as the Eternal Night Continent continued its return journey.
• The Square-Faced Man learned that two former Strange Entity Clan commanders had surrendered and questioned whether their defection was a trap.

After the Eternal Night Continent cleared the strange tide, Hades punished Yun Du and Qi An for their failed campaign, and they devised a scheme to escape and defect to the Mortal Domain. Their public declaration caused an uproar across the Human Faction, while Chen Fan remained unaware of the surrender as the continent continued its return journey.

• Qian Jue explained how Executioner’s rebellion and the lord’s purge destroyed Hell, then released three ghosts and ordered them to obey the Mortal Domain.
• After the ambush force was wiped out, Hades confronted Yun Du and Qi An, ordered them to sever their limbs, and left them injured in the Command Post.
• Qi An persuaded Yun Du to join his fifth stratagem, using a recording of his bribe to pressure Sky Patrol into taking them to the rear headquarters.
• Qi An and Yun Du staged a public escape and announced their defection to the Human Race, leaving Sky Patrol furious and entangled in their scheme.
• Chen Fan learned that the Floating Cloud Continent had resolved the anomaly, while Human Faction officials debated whether the two former commanders’ surrender was a trap.

Chen Fan accepted the surrender of former Strange Entity commanders Yun Du and Qi An, but kept them under observation while considering their information about Hades’s reserves. Meanwhile, the Strange Entity Clan’s new Commander-in-Chief Fei Yu tried to restore morale and prepare for an offensive, as Chen Fan went to inspect supplies delivered to the Mortal Domain.

• Zhong Yi and the head of Command Post 003 arranged a recorded surrender ceremony for Yun Du and Qi An, who declared their submission to the Mortal Domain.
• Yun Du revealed that he and Qi An had plotted against the Mortal Domain under Hades’s orders, then claimed they had defected to survive and offered information about Hades’s hidden reserves.
• Chen Fan ordered Jiu Wu to have Yun Du and Qi An cleaned up and watched for seven days before he considered using their information.
• Yun Du and Qi An settled into the Retirement Clan’s territory, each secretly planning another stratagem against the other and the Mortal Domain.
• Fei Yu took command of the Strange Entity front line, condemned poems criticizing the war effort, and decided to study Yun Du’s failures before launching an offensive.
• Zhong Yi warned the Human Faction’s continents to watch for an attack, while Chen Fan went to inspect a shipment of supplies delivered to the Mortal Domain.

Chen Fan learned that the eerie stones delivered to the Mortal Domain were being used as ballast, then received an alert that the Strange Entity Clan was preparing a full-scale assault and activating the Ghost Gate. After Qi An revealed a chance for the Mortal Domain to enter the gate first and claim its power, Chen Fan approved a risky charge and began planning it, while Qi An secretly plotted to use the opportunity to serve Hades.

• Chen Fan asked Yun Du why the Strange Entity Clan had transported a huge shipment of eerie stones, and Yun Du explained that they were used as ballast for supply-carrying continents.
• After fifteen days of consolidating the Mortal Domain, Chen Fan received Command Post No. 002's warning of a suspected full-scale assault and saw the Ghost Gate slowly materializing over the frontline.
• Yun Du explained that the Ghost Gate could empower the first faction to enter, and Qi An revealed that the Strange Entity Faction could not enter for one day after activating it, giving the Human Race a chance to claim it.
• Chen Fan approved Qi An's plan to charge through the Strange Entity Clan's defenses and enter the Ghost Gate, then informed Command Post No. 002 and ordered a strategy meeting.
• At the Strategist Pavilion, Chen Fan asked how Qi An knew Hades might have reserves inside the Ghost Gate, and Qi An admitted it was a guess based on Hades's habits.
• As Chen Fan ordered simulations and weighed the risks, Qi An secretly planned to report the Mortal Domain's strategies to Hades and believed his fifth stratagem would succeed.

Chen Fan led the Eternal Night Continent on a high-speed charge through the Strange Entity Clan’s territory toward the Ghost Gate, backed by fire from Skyward Song Continent. After smashing through the enemy’s blockade and defeating the trap meant to stop them, the Mortal Domain reached the gate and prepared to enter as the Human Race began its counterattack.

• Zhong Yi approved Chen Fan’s plan after Command Post No. 001 revealed that the Heavenly Punishment Continent was expected to fall in four months and ordered the Human Race to advance and choose a New King.
• Zhong Yi sent orders for Skyward Song Continent to provide maximum covering fire as the Eternal Night Continent began its charge toward the Ghost Gate.
• Chen Fan used the Neon Halo to drive the Eternal Night Continent through the Strange Tide while Skyward Song Continent cleared its route, and Fei Yu sent only part of his forces after it.
• Fei Yu blocked the Ghost Gate with Strange Entity Clan continents and prepared Sky Spider Wraiths and Falling Star Wraiths to attack the Mortal Domain if it flew over the blockade.
• Qi An recognized the trap and shouted for Chen Fan not to fly, but the Eternal Night Continent instead smashed through four blocking continents and freed itself from the Sky Spider Wraiths’ silk.
• Three Level 90 ghosts attacked the Falling Star Wraith as the Eternal Night Continent entered the Ghost Gate, and Chen Fan ordered the army to prepare to counterattack.

After the Mortal Domain entered the Ghost Gate, the Eternal Night Continent received a day of powerful chaos empowerment and unleashed overwhelming firepower across the Strange Tide. The continent swept through the battlefield, leaving the Human Race astonished by the Mortal Domain’s rise, while the counterattack continued.

• The Yellow Springs Wraith announced that the Mortal Domain had entered the gate, and Zhong Yi ordered the Human Race Defense Line to counterattack.
• The Eternal Night Continent received Primordial Beginning Chaos empowerment, claimed ownership of the Ghost Gate, and gained vast increases to its defenses, weapons, and movement.
• Chen Fan activated the continent’s Falling Star Cannons, Core Energy Cannons, Heavenly Thunder Towers, and other weapons, devastating the surrounding Strange Tide.
• The Eternal Night Continent sped into the Strange Tide, collecting resources and clearing a path as Qi An celebrated that his plan had succeeded.
• Long Qi and the Era Continent Lord saw the continent’s full-firepower advance and narrowly escaped its attack, while Chen Fan’s weapons deliberately spared their continents.
• The Human Race witnessed the Mortal Domain’s overwhelming dominance, and the Eternal Night Continent established itself as a rising power on the battlefield.

The Mortal Domain routed the Strange Entity Clan with the Ghost Gate’s power, and Chen Fan slept for three days before waking to the news and the spoils. As the Human Race exploited Qi An’s defection to encourage more Strange Entities to surrender, Yun Du revealed that Hades had hidden reserves for the heaven gate fated war.

• The empowered Eternal Night Continent helped the Mortal Domain rout the Strange Entity Clan, forcing Fei Yu to retreat and vow to make amends.
• After the empowerment ended, Chen Fan went to sleep while the Human Race pursued the fleeing Strange Tide and continents across 1024 Heavens celebrated the victory.
• Chen Fan slept for three days, then answered the Command Post’s questions and learned that the Human Race had publicized Qi An as the first of the Jiu Returnees.
• Fei Yu blamed Qi An for revealing the Ghost Gate’s power, while the Command Post promoted the Jiu Returnees to encourage Strange Entities to defect.
• Qi An secretly signaled Yun Du that his surrender was only a ruse, but Wang Kui questioned Yun Du about his loyalty and persuaded him to disclose intelligence.
• Yun Du told Chen Fan that Hades had hidden reserves for the heaven gate fated war, and Chen Fan asked him to explain everything.

After defeating the Strange Entity Clan, Chen Fan reviewed the Mortal Domain’s enormous spoils and learned more about Hades’s mysterious Heaven Gate Fated War. As he planned further defenses, the Sky Toad Clan joined the Human Faction and pledged allegiance to him as the Mortal King.

• Yun Du told Chen Fan that the Strange Entity Clan had secretly prepared for the Heaven Gate Fated War since the last dark upheaval, and Wang Kui escorted him away after questioning him about Qi An’s surrender.
• Wang Kui reported the Mortal Domain’s battle spoils, including 100,000 level-11 Hades stones, 34.46 million merit points, and 9.8 million sets of Level-80 Heaven-Deriving Sky-Piercing Pillars; Qian Xiaoping confirmed the pillars were safe.
• Hades sensed that members of his inner circle had died, then turned his attention back toward the Heavenly Punishment Continent while Fei Yu ordered preparations to raid Human supply routes.
• Chen Fan considered expanding the Eternal Night Continent’s defenses and told Qi An that protecting the Human Race’s long supply lines was the command post’s responsibility.
• Command Post No. 002 informed Chen Fan that the Sky Toad Clan wanted to join the Human Faction and work in the Mortal Domain; Tianfei then led the clan in pledging allegiance to Chen Fan as the Mortal King.

Chen Fan restored Hell as a passage and storage base while the Mortal Domain moved millions of Sky-Piercing Pillars into it. As another Wraith King fell, Chen Fan drifted off to sleep, leaving the significance of the deaths unresolved.

• Chen Fan recorded the Mortal Domain’s recent growth as Hao Mao triggered the Bridge’s One Step to Heaven effect and reached level 80.
• Zhou Mo proposed using Bridges to mass-produce powerful cultivators, then began considering how the War Pavilion could make individuals fight as a group.
• A Seventh-Level Strange Entity Clan ambushed a Transit Continent, only to be wiped out by its hidden defenses without disrupting its route.
• Chen Fan brought Hell’s Ghost Gate to Hell, gained a degree of control over the place, and began rebuilding it while the Mortal Domain stored 9.8 million Sky-Piercing Pillars there.
• A crimson beam announced that Tian Xing had fallen to the Eternal Calamity Strange Entity Clan, and Chen Fan wondered whether Wraith Kings were being deliberately hunted.
• Crippled Monkey brought Chen Fan dumplings and wine, but found him asleep on the city wall and gently woke him.

Chen Fan confided in Crippled Monkey that he feared the coming final battle and asked him to take responsibility for the Mortal Domain if he died. Meanwhile, Jiu Wu settled the Sky Toad Clan, trained the Strange Tide, and Chen Fan abandoned his suspicion that Mr. Na might be That One, leaving the hidden threat unresolved.

• Chen Fan told Crippled Monkey about his disturbing dreams and fear of losing the final battle, then asked him to lead the Mortal Domain if Chen Fan died.
• Jiu Wu welcomed the Sky Toad Clan to its new home and saw Xiangyang demonstrate a Legion Technique that fused Meatworm Wraiths to amplify their self-detonations.
• Jiu Wu led the Strange Tide on a morning run while Qi An and Yun Du discussed whether Jiu Wu's gentler nature came from the traits Hades had cut away.
• Chen Fan ate dim sum with Mr. Na and let his suspicion that Mr. Na was That One fade, deciding he could not attack someone close to him on suspicion alone.
• Chen Fan asked Fat One and Fat Two about food, attractions, and customs across the Mortal Domain's continents.

Wan Gu remembered that Eternal Cast had restarted the world millions of times to find a way to end the war, while Chen Fan learned the Human Race had begun its final assault on the Strange Entity Main Camp. The chapter ended with both sides mobilizing their sealed reserves as the Human Race launched the Heavenly Chasm Plan, leaving Chen Fan charging into a months-long battle with no retreat or resupply.

• Wan Gu told Chen Fan that Eternal Cast had restarted the world millions of times until it found an iteration that could end the war, and said he still needed to recover more memories about the rivers' upstream source.
• Command Post No. 002 ordered the Mortal Domain to a new location, then activated three seven-colored Continent Auras and distributed vast war reserves to the Human Faction.
• Command Post No. 002 ordered every human continent to charge the Strange Entity Main Camp, and Chen Fan led the Eternal Night Continent into the all-out assault.
• Fei Yu ordered the Strange Entity Clan to activate its reserves after the Sixth Defense Line fell, and the clan opened its sealed stores and released its forces.
• Zhong Yi began the Heavenly Chasm Plan after learning the Heavenly Punishment Continent could hold out for only three more months, while the Human Race committed its reserves and civilians to the advance.
• Chen Fan continued charging with the army, knowing the Transit Continents had taken the reserves and that the Human Race had no way to retreat or resupply.

Chen Fan led the Mortal Domain to break through the Shield Mountain Wraiths and keep the human army’s counteroffensive moving, while the Strange Entity Clan prepared its reserves for the coming clash. As the charge continued, Chen Fan learned the Research Pavilion had created a prototype void bomb and returned to his Cave to review reports.

• Chen Fan sent the bone powder from Soul Land across the continents so their Sky-Piercing Pillars could damage Giant Wraiths, then charged the Eternal Night Continent toward the Shield Mountain Wraiths.
• Chen Fan overtook the first echelon, raised the Mortal Domain Banner, and led the army’s attack as Zhong Yi and Hundred Flowers Pavilion played war drums.
• Chen Fan used delayed Sky-Piercing Pillar explosions beneath the Shield Mountain Wraiths to break their formation, allowing the human army to crush through without losing speed.
• Tianfei watched the human counteroffensive, while Liu Ying urged Baboon to wait until the decisive battle began before joining it; Baboon agreed and prepared to go with his horse-slaying saber and three Exotic Treasures.
• Fei Yu rejected Sky Patrol’s suggestion to activate Hades’s sealed reserves immediately and planned to wear down the human army before unleashing the Strange Entity Clan’s full strength.
• Qian Xiaoping showed Chen Fan the Research Pavilion’s Return to Ruin Bomb, which used void from a destroyed world, and Chen Fan ordered it mounted on a Sky-Piercing Pillar for a future test.

Green Edge and Qian Jue became trapped in the River of Time and headed upstream in search of a way home, while their journey raised questions about the purpose behind the Boundary Battlefield’s wars. Chen Fan learned that someone had tried to uncover his past in the River of Time, but his Chain of the Time Ruins had concealed it.

• Green Edge and Qian Jue discovered that they had entered the River of Time, where the flowing yellow sand carried them backward through time and their powers could not help them escape.
• Green Edge proposed traveling upstream toward the River of Time’s beginning, and Qian Jue agreed to search for a way out there.
• Qian Jue explained that the Demon Clan’s duty was to sweep away the race that won each war, and revealed that his master had orchestrated the conflicts and watched their final battles.
• Green Edge suggested Qian Jue’s master might be testing races to find the strongest, rather than simply watching wars for entertainment.
• Chen Fan woke when his Chain of the Time Ruins blocked someone’s attempt to investigate his past in the River of Time, and he suspected Hades was responsible.

Chen Fan learned how Reverse Fishing worked and realized it explained why Baobao alone remembered Canghai Yue restoring the Vermilion Bird Clan. The chapter revealed that the Human Race had no King and was relying on the Heavenly Chasm Plan, then ended with Chen Fan watching the human army attack a vast Frost Wraith tide with the Calamity-Cleansing Array.

• Wan Gu explained that Reverse Fishing retrieved objects from the past at the cost of the user's memories, and that the Angler Clan used it only to recover things that no longer existed.
• Chen Fan connected Baobao's memories of Canghai Yue restoring the Vermilion Bird Clan to Reverse Fishing and understood that the inscription at their palace had served as an anchor for the anglers.
• Yaoguang calculated that the Human Race had a 32.68% chance of victory, while Zhong Yi told an elderly commander that Zhao Tianfa had sacrificed himself as part of the Army-Breaking Plan.
• The elderly commander learned that the Human Race had no King in the Third Dark Turmoil, and Zhong Yi repeated the King's words: the Human Race needed no King because every human was a King.
• On the army's eleventh day of advance, Chen Fan saw a huge Frost Wraith tide blocking the route and considered how to counter it.
• Transit Continents deployed Calamity-Cleansing Arrays that poured down fire and engulfed the Frost Wraiths in a vast red blaze.

Chen Fan’s army cleared the Frost Wraiths while Fei Yu prepared the Strange Entity Clan for a decisive battle and plotted to kill Jiu Wu with Black Weapons. As Yun Du warned Chen Fan that the Strange Entity Clan could win by withdrawing and stalling, Qian Jue and Green Edge continued their journey along the River of Time.

• Chen Fan’s human army burned through the Frost Wraiths, and Crippled Monkey told Chen Fan that his concern for the Mortal Domain came from his responsibility as the Hidden King.
• Fei Yu ordered the Strange Entity Clan to stop trying to halt the human advance, gather its reserves, and prepare for a head-on battle.
• Fei Yu rallied the clan kings with a plan to use Black Weapons to kill Jiu Wu permanently and promised that Hades could resurrect those who died fighting.
• Yun Du learned that Tianfei and the Sky Toad Clan were preparing to fight, then urged Qi An to stay quiet after Qi An revealed that the Strange Entity Clan could win by withdrawing and waiting for Hades.
• Jiu Wu gave Chen Fan Yun Du’s intelligence on strange entities, hidden reserves, and battle tactics, and Chen Fan ordered copies sent to the Human Command Center.
• Qian Jue and Green Edge continued searching the yellow sands for the upstream point of the River of Time while discussing dogs, Hell’s Gate, and Qian Jue’s eerie stones.

Chen Fan led the Mortal Domain into the Demon Abyss, where an ancient defense revealed the Demon Clan's victory over the Seraphim Clan and the fate of their homeland. After learning the silver-light attack could only harm demons, he ordered the Azure Dragons to search for the Seraphim king's spear.

• Chen Fan accelerated the Eternal Night Continent toward the Demon Abyss after Celestial Pivot calculated that the Mortal Domain could spend five days there and still rejoin the human army.
• A rift swallowed the Eternal Night Continent, and Chen Fan led Crippled Monkey, Jiu Wu, and the Azure Dragon Corps onto a barren continent near an ancient palace.
• An Azure Dragon triggered a barrage of silver needles that swept across the Demon Abyss and pierced everyone, but no one was injured.
• Chen Fan used the Demon Child Bamboo Flute to view the past and witnessed the Seraphim Clan's king unleash the silver-light attack on the Demon Clan after the demons won their war.
• The vision revealed that the Demon Clan had once been a Victory Clan and that the silver needles targeted demons; Chen Fan then ordered Jiu Wu and the Azure Dragons to dig for the Seraphim king's spear.

Chen Fan recovered two ancient Seven-Colored spears in the Demon Abyss and later discovered that the Eternal Night Continent could advance to ninth level only by uniting every race under the Human Faction. The Yellow Springs Wraith suggested that Chen Fan appeal to the Boundary Battlefield’s races with a speech, but the Mortal Domain lacked an Exotic Treasure capable of broadcasting his voice across the entire battlefield.

• Jiu Wu recovered the Seraphim Spear and Demon Spear, and Chen Fan gave them to Wang Kui to store for Qian Jue.
• Chen Fan left the Demon Abyss with the Eternal Night Continent and learned that testing the spears against the mysterious paper had produced no reaction.
• Hu Wan contacted Chen Fan about the failed advancement of the Gods and Devils Continent, and Chen Fan suggested the other continents grow their populations and raise chickens.
• Chen Fan examined the Eternal Night Continent’s ninth-level advancement requirements and realized its Grand Perfection status meant it had to complete the seemingly impossible Coexistence of the Myriad Races path.
• The Yellow Springs Wraith urged Chen Fan to win the other races’ trust with a speech promising peace, and Chen Fan decided to pursue the idea.
• Command Post 003 reported that it had no Exotic Treasure capable of carrying Chen Fan’s voice across the Boundary Battlefield, so Chen Fan ordered Wang Kui to search the Mortal Domain’s reserves.