Chapter Summaries

The Goldforgers nearly died from the heat of the Metalized Heavenly Pillar, but Qin Xiaoxia used petals from demonized Flowers of Life to save them. Two hours later, they returned with him to inspect the weapon, which they said was almost finished.

• Nan Feng, Gu Hao, and Association Craftsmen found the eight Goldforgers close to death in the scorching Sub-Mystic Realm and rushed to save them.
• Qin Xiaoxia learned of the crisis through an Echo Flower and ordered the Goldforgers treated with Flower of Life sap before hurrying to Dawn Silent Moon Island.
• Qin Xiaoxia gathered thirty-two petals from two Demonized Flowers of Life and brought them to the Goldforgers' intensive care ward.
• Qin Xiaoxia used the petals to heal the Goldforgers, whose bodies expelled dead tissue as golden-red light restored them.
• Two hours later, the Goldforgers led Qin Xiaoxia and the Association members back to the forging site and said the weapon was almost finished.

Qin Xiaoxia helped the Goldforgers quench a massive divine weapon over three days, while the Monkey King led his demon followers in clearing monsters from a forest in western Huaguo. After returning to the Mystic Realm, the Monkey King received a message from Qin Xiaoxia asking him to visit Dawn Silent Moon Island.

• Qin Xiaoxia cooled the boiling sea and summoned an icy current to quench the Goldforgers’ divine weapon.
• Three days later, Big Brother declared the weapon finished, and Baru suspected it was meant for Monkey.
• The Monkey King and his followers defeated a wave of demons that had been rampaging through a forest in western Huaguo.
• A muscular ape told the Monkey King that Qin Xiaoxia had summoned him to Dawn Silent Moon Island.

Monkey arrived on Dawn Silent Moon Island and discovered that Qin Xiaoxia had forged the Ruyi Jingu Bang for him. Though he could not lift it at its original size, he made it shrink, claimed it, and returned to the cliff wielding the staff.

• Monkey traveled to Dawn Silent Moon Island with the old ape and giant bear, who remembered the beating the bear had received there before.
• Doudou and Gou Dandan excitedly led Monkey to the Forging Sub-Mystic Realm, where Qin Xiaoxia and numerous powerful visitors awaited him.
• Qin Xiaoxia asked Monkey about Journey to the West and pointed him toward an enormous metal staff resting on the seabed.
• Monkey recognized the inscription Ruyi Jingu Bang, infused the staff with his magic power, and tried to lift it, but it did not move.
• Monkey willed the Ruyi Jingu Bang to shrink to a manageable size and successfully lifted it from the seabed.
• Monkey burst from the water, twirled the staff overhead, and landed on the cliff with it in hand.

The Monkey King tested the newly forged Golden-Hooped Rod and demonstrated its devastating power. Meanwhile, Niger’s defenses at the Ilorin world touchpoint faltered as a massive demon tide overwhelmed its weapons and revealed a new threat emerging from the rift.

• The Monkey King leaped from the sea and confirmed that the Golden-Hooped Rod responded to his magic power and excitement.
• At Qin Xiaoxia’s request, the Monkey King struck the cliff with the Golden-Hooped Rod, splitting it and sending part of it crashing into the sea.
• Niger’s soldiers struggled to repel an overwhelming demon tide at the Ilorin touchpoint as their guns ran low on ammunition and sonic attacks incapacitated defenders.
• A thrown tree damaged an armed defense station’s radar, forcing its officer and a soldier to leave the protected structure and operate the guns manually.
• Egg-like creatures emerged from the rift, grew by draining demons, and ensnared a Cyclops, who recognized Balendi as they consumed him.
• At the military camp, a staff officer warned the general that the front line was close to collapsing, while the general ordered reinforcements sent forward.

The Ilorin blockade collapsed as high-rank demons overwhelmed Niger’s defenses, and Dawn received word that the refuge city behind the lines was in danger. On Dawn Silent Moon Island, the Monkey King prepared to deploy with the Golden-Hooped Rod and was given a complete set of armor.

• Dawn Members fighting near the Ilorin blockade heard unnatural roars and advanced toward the front as demons continued to break through.
• Demons devastated Niger’s trenches and outposts, while fleeing attack helicopters crashed and the gunfire dwindled.
• A Dawn Magic Controller sent word that the blockade had collapsed and redirected his squad toward the refuge city for street fighting.
• People in Obo City’s Chinese-owned shopping center barricaded themselves as retreating soldiers warned that the front was failing.
• A Magic Controller told the Monkey King and Qin Xiaoxia that high-rank magic beings had appeared at Ilorin, and the Monkey King asked to go fight.
• Qin Xiaoxia directed the Monkey King to put on Golden Fish-Scale Chainmail, the Phoenix-Wing Purple-Gold Crown, and Fine-Gold Battle Boots.

After Niger’s forces retreated to New Aobo, demons overwhelmed the city’s defenses and began slaughtering soldiers and civilians. Fan Jin'er survived an encounter with a powerful demon as the city’s defenses crumbled, while a group of powerful figures appeared at a Mystic Realm Formula Array nearby.

• General Kiyad learned that only about a hundred thousand soldiers had returned to New Aobo after the Ilorin containment line fell.
• Demons swarmed New Aobo, and soldiers, Dawn Members, and Fan Jin'er fought to protect the city and its residents.
• A powerful earth-yellow demon wounded Fan Jin'er and smashed into buildings, while subterranean demons repeatedly disrupted the city’s defenses.
• A demon burst through the ground beneath an artillery position and dragged away the soldiers there, including two Evolver officers.
• Powerful figures appeared at a Mystic Realm Formula Array east of New Aobo, led by a golden-scaled figure wearing a purple-gold crown.

New Aobo City’s fragile defenses came under attack after the Ilorin containment line fell, and Demons rapidly broke through the city’s perimeter. As soldiers and Dawn Members fought to protect civilians, powerful underground and airborne Demons overwhelmed the defenders; reinforcements appeared at a Mystic Realm Formula Array east of the city.

• General Kiyad learned that only about a hundred thousand soldiers had returned from the fallen front, while weapons and ammunition were rushed into New Aobo’s defenses.
• Demons poured over the defensive line, and Dawn Members including Fan Jin’er fought them amid the city’s streets and rooftops.
• A powerful eel-like Demon wounded Fan Jin’er, demolished nearby houses, and helped silence stretches of the defensive line with underground attacks.
• A High-Rank Demon survived a missile strike and burrowed away, then an enormous underground mouth swallowed soldiers and Evolver officers at a city artillery position.
• Powerful figures appeared at a Mystic Realm Formula Array east of New Aobo, led by a golden-scaled figure wearing armor and a purple-gold crown with phoenix wings.

Dawn’s reinforcements raced toward New Obbo as demons slaughtered fleeing civilians and terrorized the city. The Monkey King arrived first, crushed a powerful Sleeper with the Golden-Hooped Rod, and sat above its corpse.

• Demons caught up with the fleeing crowds outside New Obbo and slaughtered civilians and deserters who lacked the weapons to fight back.
• Qin Xiaoxia led Dawn’s reinforcements toward New Obbo, then raced ahead while Baru launched the Monkey King through the air like a cannonball.
• A giant Sleeper attacked people hiding in Dahua Department Store and announced that devouring human souls had helped restore its strength.
• The Monkey King reached the city, enlarged the Golden-Hooped Rod, and crushed the Sleeper beneath it.
• The survivors recognized the Golden-Hooped Rod as the Monkey King sat atop it and challenged the demon’s last boast.

The Monkey King arrived in Kasluopa and used the Ruyi Jingu Bang to crush Demons, thrilling the people from Huaguo and astonishing the surviving Dawn Members, soldiers, and civilians. After defeating the Demons attacking the city and defensive line, he unleashed a colossal strike across the Demon tide and declared himself Sun Wukong.

• The Monkey King appeared above Kasluopa with the Ruyi Jingu Bang, and the people from Huaguo recognized him as the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
• The Monkey King reassured the people in the mall, then flew toward the Demons gathering across the city.
• The Monkey King killed a Sleeper with a series of blows from the Golden-Hooped Rod and used the corpse as a feint to crush another Demon.
• The Monkey King struck the Demon attacking the Nigerien Army defenders, destroying it and many surrounding Demons.
• The Monkey King poured most of his remaining magic power into the Ruyi Jingu Bang and sent it rolling through the Demon tide as he proclaimed himself Sun Wukong.

The Monkey King destroyed the demon horde threatening New Obbo City, and Qin Xiaoxia and Dawn prepared to move against the remaining danger at the Ilorin Contact Point. As Chinese evacuees boarded a military transport, Huaguo agent Liu Yue eagerly asked them for eyewitness accounts of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

• The Monkey King crushed the demons outside New Obbo City with the Golden-Hooped Rod, while Dawn and Baru fought demons pursuing refugees in the wilderness.
• The Monkey King returned to the defensive line, where General Kiyad thanked him and learned that he had come with Qin Xiaoxia and Dawn.
• Qin Xiaoxia gathered Dawn's fighters and announced they would attack the remaining threat at Ilorin; the Monkey King said he had strength for another hundred battles.
• Niger regrouped with international aid as countries struggled to contain demons emerging from contact points around the world.
• Chinese residents evacuated from New Obbo City boarded a Huaguo military transport, and Liu Yue asked Ning Chenggang and the other witnesses to recount seeing the Great Sage.

After the Great Sage Equal to Heaven defeated the Demons in Niger, Huaguo’s Special Security Team published evidence of his appearance and power. The news spread across the country, lifting people’s spirits and deepening their fascination with the Dawn Association.

• Tao Xingzhi examined photographs and videos from Niger, recognized the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, and wondered how much power the Dawn Association had concealed.
• The Special Security Team published a report describing the Niger crisis, the Great Sage’s intervention, and the destruction of the Demons in New Aobo.
• Ma Cheng’s cousin woke him and showed him the breaking news that the Great Sage Equal to Heaven had appeared in Niger.
• Ma Cheng and his cousin watched the report’s photographs and video, then joined countless people reacting excitedly across the internet.
• Soldiers confirmed the report was genuine, and Huaguo’s citizens took heart from the Great Sage’s power and speculated about the Dawn Association’s hidden history.

Huaguo launched Morning Stars 2, 3, and 4, restoring humanity’s global reconnaissance and laying the groundwork for quantum communications. At the Dawn Association, Doudou and Gou Dandan failed to lift the Monkey King’s Golden-Hooped Rod, while Qin Xiaoxia considered the alliance’s nuclear preparations and delays on the Sage’s side.

• The alliance faced mounting losses as contact points with Kasluopa grew harder to defend and dangerous demons reached Earth.
• The Holy Spirit mapped invasive contact points, and Huaguo launched Morning Stars 2, 3, and 4 into safe orbits.
• The three quantum satellites entered service, restoring comprehensive observation and providing a foundation for communications across the globe.
• Doudou asked to try the Monkey King’s Golden-Hooped Rod, but neither Doudou nor Gou Dandan could lift it.
• Qin Xiaoxia watched the group and considered progress on nuclear weapons, noting that the Sage’s side was holding up preparations.

Akrodos explored a region of unnatural darkness in Kasluopa but fled after an inexplicable dread overwhelmed him, then mapped its boundary from outside. Elsewhere, Balendi continued the dangerous mapping expedition, where many participants had already been injured or killed.

• Akrodos traveled through the darkness for three days, sensing terrain but finding no end, until a growing cold forced him to turn back.
• Akrodos fled at great speed as terror erupted, then circled the region and discovered its boundary returned to his starting point despite the seemingly endless route through it.
• Akrodos decided to report the strange region and continue helping the great being, hoping to earn safe passage for himself and perhaps a few friends.
• Balendi ran onward with a stone pillar despite his painful shoulder wound, recalling how he had barely escaped a powerful Sleeper.
• Many mapping expedition participants had been injured or killed, while others recruited awakened ones by promising that Qin Xiaoxia's plan would succeed.

With quantum communications restored, Huaguo’s Third Carrier Battle Division sailed to its designated position to prepare for strikes against Otherworld contact points. After sea creatures killed demons that had emerged underwater and the fleet cleared its patrol area, military forces around the world locked onto targets for a coordinated counterattack.

• The Third Carrier Battle Division received a sonar report of underwater disturbances and sent frigates and antisubmarine aircraft to investigate.
• The aircraft spotted bloodied water, while a great white shark dragged a demon into the depths and killed it; the remaining surface activity soon subsided.
• The captain ordered the aircraft back to the carrier after the pilot reported that sharks and other ocean predators had left the area.
• A Type 05 Frigate used its close-in defense gun to destroy demons swimming toward it, and the fleet reported its patrol area cleared.
• The fleet reached its strike position with all sixteen contact points locked, as military forces in other regions also deployed launch assets and targeted contact points.

Qin Xiaoxia checked on the mapping effort in Kasluopa and promised the magic beings he would honor his agreement once they found enough contact points. Akrodos expected the remaining scouts to return within ten days, though he feared some would not survive to see their departure.

• Qin Xiaoxia set a goal of locating at least 2,400 contact points in Kasluopa and estimated that the scouts had already found a considerable number.
• Qin Xiaoxia entered Akrodos's mystic realm and saw magic beings compiling hundreds of scouting scrolls into a unified map.
• Qin Xiaoxia overheard four furry creatures discuss Kasluopa's dangers and the possibility of escaping to the Otherworld.
• Akrodos returned with the Armored Unicorn, recognized Qin Xiaoxia's presence, and welcomed his arrival.
• Qin Xiaoxia promised to keep his agreement and asked how much mapping remained, and Akrodos estimated the scouts would finish within ten days while silently fearing for their survival.

Qin Xiaoxia reassured Kasluopa’s returning survivors and promised them a final meteor shower after their maps were complete. Dawn finished converting the maps into digital data, allowing Earth’s forces to begin preparing the final phase of Divine Punishment, “Meteor Shower.”

• More than ten thousand survivors returned to the Highland, where furball magic beings recorded their memories to complete maps of Kasluopa.
• Balendi asked Qin Xiaoxia whether he could destroy the threats converging on the contact points, and Qin Xiaoxia described Kasluopa’s collapse before promising the survivors a final meteor shower.
• On July 28, Qin Xiaoxia brought Dawn’s two magic-script maps to the Oriels brothers, who converted them into a complete dataset within two days.
• On July 30, Huang Jiutian told Tao Xingzhi that Dawn had completed the digital terrain maps, and Tao Xingzhi hurried to the National Research Center.
• Research staff began assigning attack paths for the nuclear missiles, bringing Divine Punishment to its final phase, “Meteor Shower.”

Technicians across the world completed targeting calculations for the Divine Punishment plan, and the major powers launched nuclear weapons into the Otherworld. Qin Xiaoxia and Kasluopa’s survivors watched the strikes devastate the demon-filled contact points, while the survivors stood stunned by the blasts.

• Mikaili finished calculating and simulating a nuclear weapon’s route to a demon tide, as technicians worldwide prepared thousands of targets for the Meteor Shower.
• Major powers announced that Divine Punishment would begin in twenty-six hours, and people around the world learned to expect a reverse meteor shower.
• Tao Xingzhi, Huang Jiutian, and leaders across the world watched the final countdown as missiles and rockets launched toward the Otherworld.
• Qin Xiaoxia gathered Kasluopa’s surviving beings near the highland and warned the magic beings to protect everyone’s eyes as the weapons appeared in the sky.
• The nuclear weapons detonated near the contact points, annihilating demons in the blast zones and leaving the survivors blinded, shaken, and stunned by the light, shock waves, and mushroom clouds.

Qin Xiaoxia demonstrated the destructive power of nuclear weapons to the survivors of Kasluopa, convincing them he could take them away. He promised to evacuate them but revealed that at least a third of the survivors were irreversibly corrupted, leaving the magic beings to decide how to handle them.

• Nuclear explosions devastated the distant contact points, and the shock waves battered the Highland while its creatures clung to the ground.
• Qin Xiaoxia reassured the survivors that the blast would not harm them, and Balendi thanked him for sparing them.
• Qin Xiaoxia warned the survivors to avoid the contaminated blast sites and said Dawn would soon take them away.
• Qin Xiaoxia privately told Akrodos, Balendi, and the other magic beings that at least a third of the more than ten thousand survivors were beyond cure.
• Akrodos asked whether anything could be done, but Qin Xiaoxia said even Komir had found no solution; Akrodos then asked him to identify the corrupted survivors.

Qin Xiaoxia told the survivors of Kasluopa that he would take the corrupted beings with them, sealing them safely until a cure could be found. On Earth, frontline troops noticed that monster attacks were declining, though confirmation that the threat had passed was still pending.

• A Rotting Domain magic being proposed killing the corrupted survivors before they learned the truth, but Warisonduo objected and Qin Xiaoxia insisted they had a right to know.
• Qin Xiaoxia promised to take the corrupted beings and seal them somewhere safe until a cure could be found, and the gathered survivors agreed to trust in that possibility.
• Qin Xiaoxia remained in the mystic realm to prepare for the survivors' reaction as the Insect People and others announced the news.
• Near Yangcheng, a captain and his soldiers noticed that monsters were appearing less often and wondered whether Divine Punishment had worked.
• The military increased aerial reconnaissance of fallen regions, while signs suggested the danger was easing; confirmation from Dawn's Sage had not yet arrived.

After the Divine Punishment plan destroyed more than 99 percent of its projected targets, the world celebrated and Qin Xiaoxia prepared to receive Kasluopa’s survivors. In the Wasteland World, he checked the Demon Eye’s preparations and was surprised when Dororiankewa asked for a Dawn Seal.

• Reconnaissance aircraft confirmed that no new demons had appeared in the core of the Yunshui contact point, and reports from other countries showed similar results.
• The Dawn Association informed the World Anti-Dark Tide Convention Alliance that the Divine Punishment plan had achieved more than 99 percent of its projected destruction, prompting worldwide celebrations and plans to hunt remaining demons.
• Qin Xiaoxia entered the Wasteland World and noticed that Earth’s influence had strengthened it, bringing new greenery and stabilizing its world power.
• Qin Xiaoxia met Jilian and the Demon Eye, then learned that Dororiankewa had arranged three Demon Mirrors in the Dark Realm, Margeson, and Baideligao.
• Dororiankewa bashfully asked Qin Xiaoxia for a Dawn Seal because Jilian had one and he had served Dawn for a long time.