Chapter Summaries

Qi Wu defeated Angelina by using his space law to evade and bypass her light law, then accepted Layton Rockefeller’s challenge. Angelina warned Qi Wu that Layton was more dangerous than he appeared, and Layton’s smile briefly froze when Qi Wu said he would beat him.

• Qi Wu exposed the limits of Angelina’s light law and evaded her attacks with his space law.
• Angelina condensed her light law into a protective membrane, but Qi Wu separated it from her with precise spatial manipulation and tapped her forehead.
• Angelina admitted defeat, and Qi Wu returned her sword and praised her fighting.
• Angelina vowed to beat Qi Wu next time and warned him that Layton Rockefeller was not as simple as he seemed.
• Layton entered the arena, introduced himself, and shook Qi Wu’s hand after Qi Wu said he would beat him.

Qi Wu fought Layton, whose magnetic field law countered Qi Wu’s spatial attacks and let him sense their spiritual power. Qi Wu used lightning to destabilize Layton’s magnetic field, but Layton escalated by firing a concentrated beam at him and deciding to kill him in the arena.

• Layton revealed his magnetic field law and used it to crush the arena floor while Qi Wu evaded his force field.
• Qi Wu used Spatial Movement and World-Cutting Slash, but Layton blocked the attack with a magnetic shield and transferred its impact into the ground.
• Qi Wu attacked with Red and Blue, but Layton deflected the repulsive force and resisted the gravitational pull.
• Qi Wu realized lightning could interfere with Layton’s spiritual-power-based magnetic fields and sent arcs of purple current at him.
• Layton’s magnetic field weakened, so he concentrated it into a beam and fired at Qi Wu, intending to kill him.

Qi Wu broke through Layton’s devastating beam, forcing Layton to reveal his cybernetic body and continue the fight with enhanced speed and strength. After battling Layton with the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, Qi Wu countered his Magnetic Field: Extreme attack with Destruction: Heaven Slash.

• Qi Wu used Destruction Thunderclap to split Layton’s beam and blast him into the arena barrier.
• Layton rose and revealed that most of his body had been converted into machinery, then repaired his damaged circuits and metal plating.
• Layton attacked Qi Wu at close range, but Qi Wu dodged and deflected most of his blows with Limitless.
• Qi Wu summoned the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade and repeatedly struck Layton’s metal body, damaging its limbs and circuits.
• Layton drove Qi Wu back and fired Magnetic Field: Extreme at him.
• Qi Wu infused the blade with silver-white light and destruction power, then swung it with Destruction: Heaven Slash.

Qi Wu crippled Layton, but Layton refused to concede and expanded his [Cybernetic Heavenly Network] domain. As Layton attacked him with controlled metal, Qi Wu answered with his own domain, [Takemikazuchi].

• Qi Wu cut through Layton’s attack, wounded him badly, and told him to concede while his heart remained intact.
• Layton used a magnetic-field-based Reverse Cursed Technique to repair his cybernetic body and resumed fighting despite Qi Wu’s warning that his heart was failing.
• After Qi Wu split open his chest with a World-Cutting Slash, Layton revealed that the S.H.I.E.L.D. project had remade his body and declared he would not concede.
• Layton expanded [Cybernetic Heavenly Network], where he controlled metal and electronic devices and attacked Qi Wu with relentless metal blades.
• Qi Wu evaded Layton’s attacks, then expanded [Takemikazuchi], and purple lightning overwhelmed Layton’s domain.

Qi Wu defeated Layton in the arena by overwhelming his self-repairing magnetic armor with a massive lightning attack. Layton appeared ready to use a hidden trump card, but after Di Tian silently warned him, he yielded and hinted that a more decisive battle lay ahead.

• Qi Wu countered Layton's metal attacks with his Infinite Thunder Pool, while Layton assembled a giant magnetic-field armor that repaired itself.
• Qi Wu used his Divine Six Eyes to realize that the armor's repairs drained spiritual power and that accumulated electrical charge made them cost more.
• Qi Wu launched his Judgment lightning attack, shattered Layton's shield and armor, and left him badly injured.
• Layton began gathering power to rise, but Di Tian fixed him with a cold look, causing Layton to stop and slump back down.
• Layton admitted defeat to Qi Wu and warned him that being in the spotlight was not always good.

Qi Wu celebrated his decisive National Fortune Tournament victory as the Human Emperor announced a banquet at the Human Emperor Hall. Qi Wu looked ahead to the real battle that night, while Di Tian remained unaware that the Human Emperor knew of his plot.

• The referee declared Qi Wu the winner, and the spectators and VIPs celebrated his victory.
• Qi Wu made a signature pose as drones showered the arena with flower petals, and system notifications rewarded him with popularity, battle intent, and fortune points.
• Qi Wu spotted Di Tian beside the Human Emperor and reflected that their secret plot was about to be exposed.
• Lilith, Gale, and Jiang Qingyue congratulated Qi Wu after he left the arena.
• The Human Emperor invited Qi Wu, senior officials, and foreign delegations to a celebration banquet that night.

After Qi Wu noticed Di Tian's concealed intentions, he prepared his team for business that night and went to the 749 Bureau Headquarters to study Svarog's axe. He fused its Ice Law into the [Landscape of Mountains and Rivers], comprehended the Ice Law, and traced it toward the Time Law.

• Di Tian followed the Human Emperor and secretly resolved to make his decisive move that night.
• Qi Wu noticed Di Tian's telltale gestures, told the three girls to meet him in the Headquarters lobby after dinner, and left Dragon Abyss Plaza.
• Qi Wu went to the underground Training Ground and brought out Svarog's axe, Extreme Cold's Sorrow, and the [Landscape of Mountains and Rivers].
• Qi Wu fused the axe's Ice Law into the scroll, where an ice pillar appeared and revealed a deeper power: the Time Law.
• Qi Wu used his Divine Six Eyes to analyze the Ice Law and traced its principles of freezing and stillness to the Time Law.

After comprehending time law, Qi Wu tested his ice law in the General Bureau’s Virtual Battlefield and defeated a peak False Awakening Sandworm King. He left still unsure what time law could do and wanting stronger opponents.

• Qi Wu emerged from his meditation with his body temperature and heartbeat restored, then demonstrated his mastery of ice law by freezing a Training Ground wall.
• Qi Wu entered the 749 Bureau’s underground Virtual Battlefield and set up a desert simulation with three peak False Awakening Demons.
• A Sandworm King attacked Qi Wu with suction and burrowed underground, but Qi Wu blocked it with an ice shield and trapped it with Ice Line Seal.
• Qi Wu struck the Sandworm King with Ice Dragon Tornado, shattering much of its armor and forcing it aboveground.
• Qi Wu killed the wounded Sandworm King with Ice Spear and decided he needed stronger opponents to test his abilities.

Qi Wu tested his ice and time laws against three early-stage Awakening Demons in the Virtual Battlefield, then left confident he could handle that night’s challenge. He wondered what lay beyond the end of time.

• Qi Wu reset the Virtual Battlefield to spawn a Sandworm King, a Sand Scorpion King, and a Sand Lizard King, then froze all three with Frozen Space and killed them.
• Qi Wu used the time law to activate [The World], stopping time throughout the Virtual Battlefield.
• While time was stopped, Qi Wu froze the three Demons and the desert with Ice Age, then resumed time and shattered the Demons.
• Qi Wu left the Virtual Battlefield with five laws swirling in his palm and said he had enough power to handle that night.

Qi Wu briefed the Salvation Squad on their mission to protect the Human Emperor and the foreign delegations at the banquet. As Di Tian, Layton, and a Mandala Society demon launched a coordinated attack on the poisoned Human Emperor, the chapter ended with him still seated and unmoving.

• Qi Wu showed Lilith, Gale, and Jiang Qingyue a plan of the Human Emperor Hall and assigned them their roles for the operation.
• Di Tian arranged for loyal garrison generals to leave the Imperial Capital while Layton and the Mandala Society prepared to attack it.
• The Human Emperor hosted the foreign delegations at a banquet celebrating Great Xia's National Fortune Tournament victory.
• Di Tian gave the Human Emperor Godslaying Poison in a toast and made a signal to begin the assault.
• A Mandala Society demon, Layton, and Di Tian attacked the Human Emperor from three sides as the guests panicked.
• The Human Emperor remained seated and unmoving as the three attacks closed in.

Qi Wu stopped time during the three assassins’ attack on the Human Emperor and used the frozen moment to strike all three. When time resumed, the Demon elder and Layton were dead, while Di Tian had survived with a badly frozen arm.

• As the Demon elder, Layton, and Di Tian attacked the Human Emperor, Qi Wu activated The World and stopped time for three seconds.
• Qi Wu used a World-Cutting Slash to sever the Demon elder’s body at the waist.
• Qi Wu drove Destructive Thunderclap into Layton’s mechanical heart, shattering it.
• Qi Wu spread ice law through Di Tian’s right arm before time resumed.
• The Demon elder’s body dissolved into black residue, Layton collapsed with his mechanical heart destroyed, and Di Tian shattered the ice but staggered back with a numb, discolored arm.

After Qi Wu stopped the three assassins, the Human Emperor confronted Di Tian about betraying Great Xia. Di Tian defended his alliance with the Mandala Society as the only way to preserve Great Xia, leaving the hall divided over whether resistance could save humanity.

• Qi Wu watched the three failed assassins as the delegations and their guards prepared for further danger.
• Di Tian realized Qi Wu had known about the operation, while Layton asked whether it had been discovered.
• The Human Emperor recovered from the godslaying poison and confronted Di Tian, gently straightening his son’s crooked hair crown before asking why he had betrayed Great Xia.
• Di Tian claimed the Demons would keep coming as spiritual energy revived, and argued that Qi Wu could not defeat an endless tide.
• Di Tian said he had cooperated with the Mandala Society so Great Xia could survive as an autonomous territory, and condemned the Human Emperor for choosing to risk its destruction.

Di Tian rejected the Human Emperor’s refusal to surrender to the Demons and declared that Great Xia should burn. Shang, a Divine Envoy of the Mandala Society, reappeared in the hall and unleashed gray mist to heal Di Tian and Layton.

• The Human Emperor told Di Tian that he had waited for the Child of Destiny because he believed humanity did not need to bow to the Demons.
• Di Tian dismissed his father’s words and snapped his fingers, plunging the great hall into darkness.
• Shang re-formed at the entrance and revealed himself as the Third Divine Envoy of the Mandala Society.
• Qi Wu recognized Shang from earlier attacks and determined that his body was neither a clone nor fully his original body.
• Shang cast Chaotic Tide, sending streams of gray mist toward Di Tian and Layton to heal them.

Shang restored Di Tian and Layton, then revealed that four Teleportation Cores would bring his kind into the Imperial Capital. After Shang vanished, Layton attacked Qi Wu in his newly transformed Demon Fusion form, and Qi Wu prepared to fight back.

• Gray mist healed Di Tian and Layton, alarming Svarog, Angelina, and Pope Pius I.
• Shang revealed that he had placed four Teleportation Cores around the Imperial Capital and that his kind would soon arrive.
• Qi Wu attacked Shang with a World-Cutting Slash, but Shang dissolved into gray mist and urged Qi Wu to fight the others first.
• Layton struck Qi Wu out of the Human Emperor Hall and revealed his Cybernetic Modification: Demon Fusion form.
• Layton fired a beam and attacked Qi Wu with a blade that warped space, while gray mist repaired the damage from Qi Wu's counterattack.
• Qi Wu assessed Layton's increased strength and changed fighting style, then gathered purple lightning for their next clash.

Qi Wu and Layton fought in the square while Angelina and Svarog went to destroy two teleportation cores. Inside the Human Emperor Hall, Di Tian confronted the Human Emperor over Great Xia’s future, and the chapter ended as Qi Wu prepared an ice attack against Layton.

• Angelina claimed the eastern core and Svarog claimed the southern core before flying off to destroy them.
• Qi Wu blocked Layton’s beam with an ice shield and chose to fight him first.
• Di Tian attacked the Human Emperor, who endured the shortsword’s corrosion and condemned his son’s betrayal.
• Di Tian said he wanted to kill the Human Emperor because Great Xia could not change while he lived, and the Human Emperor replied that someone else could change it.
• Layton gained the advantage with his strengthened third form, while Qi Wu dodged and deflected his attacks.
• Qi Wu tricked Layton into expecting the time law, then formed an ice bird with Ice Block: Pheasant Beak!

Qi Wu defeated Layton’s frozen first form, but Layton transformed into a Mechanical Tyrannosaurus and declared that becoming a Demon was evolution. Qi Wu annihilated Layton with Dark Annihilation, leaving him barely able to ask what the power was.

• Qi Wu froze Layton with the Ice Bird and questioned why he had sided with the Demons.
• Layton explained that he had sought immortality and called his transformation into a Demon an evolution beyond humanity.
• Layton changed into his fourth form, a Mechanical Tyrannosaurus, and unleashed every weapon at Qi Wu.
• Qi Wu used Limitless, empowered by the Space Law, to deflect Layton’s barrage without being harmed.
• Qi Wu attacked Layton with Dark Annihilation, which overwhelmed the gray mist and disintegrated Layton’s body.
• Layton, reduced to a ruined head and chest, asked Qi Wu what his power was, and Qi Wu called it the miracle Layton had given up.

Qi Wu killed Layton but faced three simultaneous threats to the Imperial Capital: the Human Emperor fighting Di Tian, demon hordes pouring through four teleportation cores, and the Skyhawk Empire fleet approaching the coast. After the Human Emperor refused his help, Qi Wu set off to reinforce the city's perimeter.

• Qi Wu killed Layton with Black Flash, destroying his Mechanical Heart and reaching a 99.5% Sukuna template fusion rate.
• Qi Wu assessed the three battlefronts: the Human Emperor and Di Tian fought at the Human Emperor Hall, demons poured through four teleportation cores, and the Skyhawk fleet approached Great Xia's coast.
• The Human Emperor Hall exploded as the Human Emperor and Di Tian continued fighting among the ruins.
• Qi Wu offered to help the Human Emperor, but the Human Emperor insisted on handling Di Tian himself.
• Qi Wu opened a silver-white spatial rift to reinforce the Imperial Capital's perimeter.

Qi Wu arrived above the North Gate and saw the Imperial Capital besieged by a Demon horde led by a huge flesh nexus. Jiang Qingyue and Gale fought to hold the walls, but the nexus healed from Jiang Qingyue’s explosion as the Demons kept coming.

• Qi Wu appeared above the North Gate and surveyed the Demon siege and its enormous teleportation-core flesh nexus.
• The flesh nexus opened its maw and unleashed suction that threatened the defenders on the walls.
• Jiang Qingyue hurled a Patrick Star-shaped explosive at the nexus, blasting a large hole in its chest.
• The flesh nexus rapidly healed its wound, and Jiang Qingyue realized it would take at least ten more explosions to destroy it.
• Gale used her Blue Steel Flame to cut down Demons climbing the walls while silently hoping Qi Wu would join the fight.

Qi Wu arrived at the besieged city wall, where Gale and Jiang Qingyue had nearly exhausted their spiritual power defending against the Demons. He rallied the Imperial Guards and summoned a colossal purple-and-gold meteor, leaving its impact on the approaching Flesh Nexus imminent.

• Gale and Jiang Qingyue continued fighting as the Flesh Nexus advanced and their spiritual power dwindled.
• Qi Wu stepped through a rift onto the wall and told Gale and Jiang Qingyue that he would take over.
• Qi Wu’s arrival restored the Imperial Guards’ morale, and they chanted his name before returning to battle.
• Qi Wu snapped his fingers, and a meteor more than a hundred meters across descended through the clouds in purple-and-gold flames.

Qi Wu’s meteor strike shattered the Flesh Nexus, but the monster regenerated around an ancient divine beast’s soul and grew to nine hundred meters. As it prepared to devour the city wall, Qi Wu revealed his own divine power and began a Domain Expansion.

• Qi Wu’s meteor engulfed the Flesh Nexus in purple-gold flames, drawing cheers from the Imperial Guards who believed the threat was destroyed.
• Jiang Qingyue and Qi Wu sensed the danger was not over as the Flesh Nexus regenerated and began growing larger.
• Qi Wu used his Divine Six Eyes to discover an ancient, divine soul within the Flesh Nexus and suspected the Mandala Society had sealed it there.
• The Flesh Nexus grew to nine hundred meters and gathered power to devour the wall while the Imperial Guards feared Qi Wu could not stop it.
• Qi Wu laughed, released golden divine light, and activated Domain Expansion: Demigod Domain: Malevolent Shrine.