Chapter Summaries

After the battle, Zhao Zixuan took the unconscious Yang Yu and the recovered spoils away, while the Giant Mantis Beasts cleared the battlefield. Hidden in a mountain cave near Shangjing City, Yang Yu began unsealing the Insect Codex’s second page to reach earth rank before the Ghost Infant Sect attacked again.

• Zhao Zixuan gathered the Ghost Infant Sect and Ghost Shadow Gate spoils as the Giant Mantis Beasts devoured the corpses and erased the battlefield.
• Zhao Zixuan affirmed his loyalty to Yang Yu, then led the Giant Mantis Beast Squad away with Yang Yu and the spoils.
• Zhao Zixuan returned to Yang Yu’s apartment, ordered the newly evolved Giant Mantis King Number One to protect Yang Yu, and flew to retrieve the natural treasures.
• After Zhao Zixuan brought Yang Yu to a remote mountain cave, Yang Yu regained consciousness and began unsealing the Insect Codex’s second page to strengthen himself before further attacks.

After Yang Yu broke the Insect Codex’s second-page seal, Du Xingze ordered the Ghost Infant Sect to hunt him down and conceal the deadly clash from the public. At the Tongbao Antique Purchasing House, Zhou Zifeng demonstrated his formidable skill and heard about Yang Yu’s victory.

• Yang Yu burned through natural treasures worth fifty million yuan to break the Insect Codex’s second-page seal and absorb its inheritance power.
• Du Xingze raged over the Ghost Infant Sect’s defeat and ordered dozens of Earth Rank elders to find Yang Yu and bring him back dead or alive.
• The Ghost Infant Sect mobilized its forces and used surveillance footage to trace Yang Yu, while paying a price to keep the government from publicizing the incident.
• Zhou Zifeng fought Uncle Liu in the Tongbao Antique Purchasing House’s underground space and revealed that he could conceal his aura while unleashing peak Earth Rank power.
• Uncle Liu told Zhou Zifeng that Yang Yu had killed the Earth Rank leader of the Ghost Infant Sect’s ambush despite being a Human Tier cultivator.

Zhou Zifeng agreed to recruit Yang Yu into the Tongbao Antique Purchasing House, but chose to watch him secretly before offering help. Meanwhile, Yang Yu completed the Insect Codex’s second inheritance and advanced to the Earth Rank.

• Uncle Liu showed Zhou Zifeng information about Yang Yu and suggested secretly helping him before recruiting him.
• Zhou Zifeng approved the plan but ordered Uncle Liu to watch Yang Yu and intervene only if he was in danger.
• Factions across Shangjing City began searching for Yang Yu to recruit him, observe him, or hand him over to the Ghost Infant Sect.
• Yang Yu absorbed the remaining power and knowledge from the Insect Codex’s second page, greatly strengthening his body.
• Yang Yu rose from the cave after advancing to the Earth Rank, and Zhao Zixuan knelt to congratulate him.

Yang Yu studied Zhao Zixuan’s transformed body, granted him second-level command authority over the war insects, and heard his detailed account of what happened while Yang Yu was unconscious. After weighing the Ghost Infant Sect’s strength and his own plans to grow stronger, Yang Yu decided they had to leave their cave before the sect found them.

• Yang Yu examined Zhao Zixuan and praised his Blade Queen transformation, then appointed him a trusted commander of the war insects.
• Zhao Zixuan recounted everything that happened after Yang Yu lost consciousness, including the aftermath of the battle with Elder Xu and their route afterward.
• Yang Yu considered the danger posed by Du Xingze and the Ghost Infant Sect and decided to postpone their confrontation until he had strengthened his Fate Soul and legion.
• Yang Yu revealed that his evolved Life Energy could create stronger Giant Mantis Beasts and planned to expand the legion before fighting the Ghost Infant Sect.
• Yang Yu warned Zhao Zixuan that the Ghost Infant Sect could find their cave within three days and ordered him to pack so they could seek a safer hiding place.

Yang Yu and Zhao Zixuan reached a remote swamp in the wildlife reserve to hide from the Ghost Infant Sect while he cultivated and tested his Life Energy. After building a concealed underground dwelling, Yang Yu vowed to destroy the sect when he returned.

• Yang Yu and Zhao Zixuan traveled southeast from their previous cave to a secluded swamp in the wildlife reserve.
• Yang Yu chose the reserve as a temporary refuge, planning to cultivate for two or three months and use its wildlife to test his Life Energy.
• Yang Yu released his Giant Mantis Beasts and ordered Number One to clear the surrounding area and dig an underground dwelling.
• The Giant Mantis Beasts killed and devoured nearby creatures, then built a reinforced underground home for the group.
• Yang Yu ate with Zhao Zixuan by the campfire and vowed to wipe out the Ghost Infant Sect when his cultivation was complete.

Yang Yu and Zhao Zixuan continued their training in the Wasteland Stone Forest while Yang Yu refined his blade mastery and practiced the Thunder Blade Art. After a month in hiding from the Ghost Infant Sect, he demonstrated the art’s growing power by cleaving a massive boulder in two.

• Yang Yu defeated Zhao Zixuan again in their 101st sparring match, bringing her record against him to nine wins.
• Yang Yu assessed that his blade mastery had reached a bottleneck and hoped a life-threatening battle might help him attain the unity of heaven and man.
• Yang Yu practiced the Thunder Blade Art, which could greatly increase the power and speed of his strikes as its stages advanced.
• Yang Yu spent a month cultivating and sparring while evading the Ghost Infant Sect, killing a scout who discovered him before the scout could report back.
• After more than a thousand repetitions, Yang Yu used the Thunder Blade Art to split a boulder weighing over a hundred tons down the middle.

Yang Yu perfected the second stage of the Thunder Blade Art, strengthened his Fate Soul, and discovered how to extract genes and modify organisms with Life Energy. As he prepared to return to Shangjing City, Zhao Zixuan brought news that experimental genes could improve his Giant Mantis Beast force.

• Yang Yu judged his Thunder Blade Art's second stage unstable and spent two more weeks training until he stabilized it and doubled his blade attacks' power.
• Yang Yu shifted most of his cultivation toward his Fate Soul and experimented on wasteland insects, discovering a method to extract genes and modify organisms with Life Energy.
• After more than two months in the wasteland, Yang Yu neared the limit of what the second piece of the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score could do for his Fate Soul and anticipated returning to Shangjing City.
• Zhao Zixuan entered the Quiet Room and reported that genes from the insects and venomous creatures in the laboratory could make the Giant Mantis Beast force more powerful.

Yang Yu learned that Zhao Zixuan had extracted powerful genes from ordinary insects and venomous creatures, then inspected the ten finished gene preparations in the laboratory. The preparations showed a range of effects, mostly focused on enhancing the body.

• Zhao Zixuan told Yang Yu that the extracted genes could greatly strengthen the Giant Mantis Beasts and led him to the laboratory.
• Yang Yu saw that most creatures in the laboratory cages had nearly died during the violent gene extraction process.
• Yang Yu ordered Zhao Zixuan to gather and heal every surviving creature, and Zhao Zixuan sent a Giant Mantis Beast to move them into treatment vessels.
• Zhao Zixuan showed Yang Yu the ten gene preparations stored in specially made crystal vessels.
• Yang Yu inspected the preparations and found genes that enhanced traits such as movement, strength, armor, reflexes, and vision.

Yang Yu studied ten super-gene preparations and used repeated experiments to find an optimal enhancement combination for the Giant Mantis Beasts. After three months in the wasteland, he reached the peak of Earth Rank, perfected the beasts’ genetic enhancements, and he and Zhao Zixuan also underwent tailored procedures that greatly increased their strength.

• Zhao Zixuan gave Yang Yu detailed biological records identifying the species behind the ten super-gene preparations.
• Yang Yu learned that the genes could strengthen himself, Zhao Zixuan, and the Giant Mantis Beasts, but needed to be balanced to avoid creating weaknesses.
• Yang Yu repeatedly tested different gene combinations on the Number One Giant Mantis King, using life energy to remove genes whenever an experiment caused problems.
• After another half month, Yang Yu completed his life soul cultivation and reached the peak of Earth Rank.
• Yang Yu perfected the Giant Mantis Beasts’ genetic enhancement combination, and he and Zhao Zixuan underwent separate procedures that made them stronger.

After nearly a hundred days of training, Yang Yu prepared to return to Shangjing City and take on the Ghost Infant Sect, while Zhao Zixuan warned that he felt something terrible had happened. In the city, the sect tortured Zhao Zixuan’s parents for information about their son and Yang Yu.

• Yang Yu assembled his enhanced Giant Mantis Beasts and decided they were strong enough to face the Ghost Infant Sect’s forces, though Du Xingze remained a concern.
• Zhao Zixuan told Yang Yu he had felt uneasy for several days, so Yang Yu promised extra protection for him during the coming battle.
• Yang Yu and Zhao Zixuan set out for Shangjing City to settle their score with the Ghost Infant Sect.
• The Ghost Infant Sect captured Zhao Zixuan’s parents after tracing his connection to Yang Yu through surveillance footage.
• Liu Datong continued whipping Zhao Yuantang and threatening him for information, even though Zhao Yuantang insisted he knew nothing.