Chapter Summaries

Ye Liang led the Harpies to the World Tree and confronted the Elf sisters over their ancestral legacy. After overcoming the elves’ attacks, he negotiated a settlement that gave the elves and Harpies alternating years of occupancy and proposed an election system for the Elf Race.

• Aurelia ordered her archers to attack Ye Liang, but he guided the Harpies through the arrows without anyone being hit.
• Ye Liang approached the World Tree and found Sylvanas protecting Vereesa inside her room.
• Ye Liang argued that the World Tree belonged to both the Elf Race and the Harpies, while Vereesa insisted the elves would not share it.
• Ye Liang used the Law of Wind against the elves, and Sylvanas attacked him with a whip made from her bowstring as Aurelia and the guards surrounded him.
• Ye Liang and Vereesa discussed reconciliation and agreed that the elves and Harpies would occupy the World Tree in alternating years.
• Ye Liang proposed a national election system for the Elf Race and explained the presidential election system of M Country.

A giant gorilla arrived to confront Ye Liang and the Elves over the ruined Elf Forest, but Ye Liang and Aurelia’s formation trapped it. The gorilla called for its little brother, and a second, glowing gorilla charged at Ye Liang.

• A gorilla crossed the mountains and ravines, found the Elf Forest devastated, and roared in anger at the humans’ attack on the Elves.
• Ye Liang and Vereesa signed an agreement and exchanged Friendship Rings, with Zi Ling declaring them confidants.
• Ye Liang evacuated the Harpies and Elves when he recognized the approaching gorilla as the one they had tricked before.
• Ye Liang hurled an Explosive Flame Power fireball at the gorilla, giving the Elves time to form up.
• Aurelia’s formation ensnared the giant gorilla, but she recognized its call for its little brother and ordered her team to scatter.
• A second, smaller gorilla arrived glowing with Law Power and attacked Ye Liang while the first remained trapped.

Ye Liang escaped the apes with Zi Ling and left the island to search for a new home, while the elves and Harpies united to fight the beasts. The story left Ye Liang and Zi Ling sailing away as the remaining islanders prepared to defend the World Tree.

• Ye Liang fled the apes, but used the smaller ape’s self-made fissure to trap it and lead his group to safety.
• Ye Liang escaped with the elves and Harpies, then denied that the ape had been targeting him and suggested the elves attack its unhealed wound.
• The Elf Queen rallied the elves and Harpies to defend the World Tree in honor of their ancestor, the Legendary Troll.
• Ye Liang and Zi Ling boarded a boat and departed to search for a new home, leaving the islanders to face the apes.

Ye Liang and Zi Ling discovered that the island’s scarecrows were connected to the deaths of the fishermen who had once left Ye Liang behind. After escaping the scarecrow attack, Ye Liang found a Cloaked Figure had stolen their boat and jumped into the sea to pursue them, only to realize Zi Ling was slowing him down.

• Ye Liang and Zi Ling followed cooking smoke inland, passing strange scarecrows and finding a hut with human bones and a leg roasting over a fire.
• Ye Liang discovered a skull beneath clothes and saw a scarecrow in the empty hut collapse when a rat darted out of it.
• Hundreds of scarecrows closed in, and Ye Liang recognized one fisherman’s clothing among them, realizing the fishermen had died on the island.
• Ye Liang carried Zi Ling toward the shore and fought off scarecrows as they fled.
• Ye Liang found a Cloaked Figure on their boat with a spiked club and a rag doll, then jumped into the water after the boat had been untied.
• Ye Liang began swimming after the boat but realized Zi Ling was dead weight.

Ye Liang and Zi Ling failed to escape the island and discovered that it trapped anyone who carried something from it. After reading Gargamel’s notebook, Ye Liang learned how they might leave, though one of the notebook’s notes caught his interest.

• Ye Liang retreated from the Cloaked Figure to protect Zi Ling, and the scarecrows stopped moving once their controller left.
• After several hungry days, Ye Liang made a raft from the island’s coconut trees and tried to sail away with Zi Ling, but they returned to the scarecrow-covered island.
• Ye Liang tried again to leave, but returned to the same shore three hours later and realized the island’s power was not an illusion.
• Ye Liang found Gargamel’s notebook in the hut and learned that anyone carrying an item from Lost Island could not escape.
• Ye Liang realized the raft had kept them trapped and concluded they needed to leave without carrying anything from the island.

Ye Liang entered the World of Light and discovered that its Well of Time could let him change the past, forcing him to confront his regret over losing his parents and his responsibility to his wife and children. After days of returning to the hidden space, he began a dangerous breakthrough of his soul and realized that the faith of his followers might help him reach the Earth Immortal state.

• Ye Liang left Zi Ling a note and entered the World of Light at sunrise to search for the treasure Gargamel had guarded for decades.
• Ye Liang found the Well of Time and learned that he could use its memory fragments to change the past, but hesitated between returning to his family and keeping his present life with his wife and children.
• Ye Liang returned to the World of Light at each sunrise for several days, then emerged with greater clarity and began a soul breakthrough beneath gathering lightning.
• Zi Ling recognized the lightning as a dangerous trial that could elevate Ye Liang's soul or destroy it completely.
• Ye Liang realized that the War King and other Cosmic Kings had reached the Earth Immortal state through their clansmen's faith, and that his own subordinates' faith might serve him likewise.

Ye Liang broke through to the Earth Immortal realm after resolving his final regret, then set out with Zi Ling to return and take revenge on the ape. At the World Tree, the apes exploited the elves’ reluctance to attack near it and began destroying its branches.

• Ye Liang endured the mental tribulation and reached the Earth Immortal realm, strengthened by his followers’ faith and the resolution of his regret about his parents.
• Ye Liang regained the ability to use his former techniques through his immortal-level soul power and told Zi Ling they would return to take revenge on the ape.
• On Exotic Beast Island, the ape brothers’ forces were pinned down by the elves and Harpies beneath the World Tree.
• Brother Ape realized the elves were protecting the World Tree, retreated toward it, and climbed onto its trunk with his younger brother.
• The brothers’ weight snapped a branch carrying elf nests, and the elves cried out in despair while their three leaders stayed calm.

After the apes nearly toppled the World Tree, Sylvanas set its trunk ablaze to force them down, and the elves struggled to save what remained. The apes fled while the tree burned, leaving the Elf Race facing the possible destruction of its holy land.

• Vereesa ordered the elves to unleash their full attacks, and the wounded apes climbed the World Tree to escape their arrows.
• The apes broke branches as they climbed, and a fissure opened in the already-unstable trunk.
• Sylvanas ignored Vereesa and Aurelia’s objections and fired a fire-infused arrow into the tree to drive the apes down.
• The apes leaped from the burning tree and fled as the elves let them pass.
• The elves shot water-element arrows at the flames, but half the trunk had already burned away, and the troops wept in despair.

Ye Liang and Zi Ling encountered the two apes while traveling through the forest, and Ye Liang fought them after they fled from the sea of flames. He discovered that the apes understood his attacks and could communicate, leaving him to face two intelligent opponents.

• Ye Liang and Zi Ling spotted the sea of flames, but two apes rushed past them, prompting Ye Liang to turn the Spirit Shuttle around and pursue them.
• Ye Liang used EXcalibur to cut off Little Brother Ape’s ear, then fought Brother Ape with afterimages, a ground-grabbing technique, and Flying Thunder God.
• Brother Ape knocked aside Ye Liang’s thrust and warned Little Brother Ape that Ye Liang was strong and could use strange arts.
• Ye Liang tested the apes by placing red lights in Brother Ape’s path and provoking Little Brother Ape, and Brother Ape knocked his younger brother away from the danger.
• Ye Liang realized the apes were intelligent beings capable of communicating and recognizing threats.

Ye Liang tried to communicate with two apes but angered them by speaking Pig-headed Man language until Zi Ling translated his intentions. The apes revealed a way off Exotic Beast Island through the Beast God Mausoleum, and Brother Ape agreed to lead the group there if Ye Liang could defeat the beast clan leader.

• Ye Liang tried gestures and several languages to calm the apes, but his Pig-headed Man speech made them think he was calling them pigs.
• Zi Ling explained that she could understand beast language and translated Ye Liang's peaceful intentions for the apes.
• The apes calmed down, and Zi Ling learned that a key inside the Beast God Mausoleum could open a passage off Exotic Beast Island.
• Zi Ling learned that the mausoleum lay within the Beast God Sacred Mountain and required a key held by the beast clan leader.
• Brother Ape offered to take Ye Liang to the sacred mountain if Ye Liang promised he could defeat the leader, and Ye Liang agreed.

Ye Liang and Zi Ling traveled with Brother Ape and Little Brother Ape to the Sacred Mountain, hoping to reach the Beast God Mausoleum. When Godzilla appeared and confronted Ye Liang, the apes left him alone before the island’s leader.

• Ye Liang told Zi Ling that Brother Ape and Little Brother Ape were concealing their hostility, but he still needed their help to find the Beast God Mausoleum.
• Brother Ape brought Ye Liang and Zi Ling to the Sacred Mountain, then went ahead with Little Brother Ape to test their leader’s attitude.
• As Little Brother Ape guarded them, Ye Liang gave Zi Ling Flying Thunder God Kunai to scatter around the area as escape points.
• Half a day later, Godzilla arrived, and Brother Ape led Little Brother Ape away from Ye Liang.
• Godzilla fixed its gaze on Ye Liang and asked whether he wanted to enter the ancestors’ mausoleum, prompting Ye Liang to draw his Curry Stick.

Ye Liang attended a feast on the mountaintop, where Godzilla’s beasts mistook him for a Saint and treated him as an honored guest. After the feast, Ye Liang asked to enter the Beast God Mausoleum to use its Space Channel, but Godzilla shot the wild boar just as it began to reveal the ancestral incantation.

• Ye Liang arrived at the feast with a Shadow Clone of Zi Ling while the ape brothers left with a wild boar.
• When the beasts ignored Ye Liang, Godzilla blasted the boar and announced that Ye Liang was Emperor Ye’s descendant.
• The beasts mistook Ye Liang for a Saint, begged his forgiveness, and gave him the seat of honor at the feast.
• After eating, Ye Liang asked how to reach the Beast God Mausoleum and use its Space Channel.
• The wild boar began explaining the ancestral incantation, but Godzilla shot it in the head, prompting the other beasts to challenge their chief.

Ye Liang confronted Godzilla over the Beast God Mausoleum, but Godzilla mistook him for a descendant of the powerful Ye Liangchen and welcomed him instead. Ye Liang followed Godzilla up the mountain, while Brother Ape’s plan to use him to defeat Godzilla fell apart.

• Godzilla recognized the name Ye Liang and let him leave, but explained that the Saint had sealed the last spatial passage and the Beast God Mausoleum was the only way out.
• Ye Liang insisted he needed to enter the mausoleum and warned Godzilla that he had surpassed the realm of Immortals.
• Godzilla feared offending Ye Liang’s powerful family and asked his name; Ye Liang said he was an ordinary Rogue Cultivator named Ye Liang.
• Godzilla assumed Ye Liang was the son of Ye Liangchen, and Ye Liang confirmed that his father had that name.
• Godzilla apologized and invited Ye Liang to a welcoming banquet on the mountaintop, while Brother Ape realized his plan to use Ye Liang against Godzilla had failed.

Ye Liang learned that the beasts could not pass through the Space Channel and promised to help them escape if they opened it for him. As the beasts argued over whether to trust him, Akagi Takenori challenged Godzilla for the Beast King's throne.

• Ye Liang asked why the beasts could not leave through the Space Channel, and an alpaca explained that they were unable to pass through it.
• Ye Liang promised to help the beasts escape if they helped him open the Space Channel, exciting them and drawing objections from Godzilla.
• Godzilla warned that Ye Liang could not free them, and monkeys attacked him until Brother Ape intervened.
• Brother Ape, revealed as Akagi Takenori, urged the beasts to go to the ancestral mausoleum, while the alpaca warned that defying their leader could divide the beast race.
• Akagi Takenori challenged Godzilla to a Beast King's Duel.

Godzilla fought Akagi Takenori in a Beast King's Duel after Akagi's scheme left Godzilla's dorsal spikes ruined. As Akagi prepared to kill him, he revealed that Godzilla had used the ape race as living sacrifices, leaving Godzilla stunned.

• Ye Liang and the alpaca watched the duel, and the alpaca admitted that Akagi had arranged the unfair match but still supported the ape's victory to gain access to the Space Channel.
• Godzilla attacked Akagi with his jaws, but Akagi punched him in the mouth and knocked him down.
• Akagi raised a tree trunk to finish Godzilla, while Godzilla refused to surrender because he feared Akagi's hatred would destroy the beast race's rule.
• Godzilla warned Akagi not to open the Beast God Mausoleum, and Akagi accused him of using the ape race as living sacrifices.
• Godzilla stared at Akagi in shock and asked how he had learned the truth.

Brother Ape accused Godzilla of secretly exterminating the Gorilla Clan, then destroyed the coronation crown and revealed the complete Beast God Mausoleum and its lightning-filled Space Channel. The beasts learned that the passage was deadly, while Brother Ape said their chance to leave depended on Ye Liang.

• Brother Ape accused Godzilla of killing his parents and the Gorilla Clan after they challenged his authority, and Godzilla insisted that the truth was different.
• Elder Alpaca recalled that the Gorilla Clan had rebelled and been defeated, but said he did not know what happened to the pardoned survivors who later disappeared.
• Elder Alpaca concluded that Godzilla had likely concealed the survivors’ fate, while Ye Liang suspected there was more to the story; Brother Ape beat Godzilla nearly to death as he continued to protest.
• During the coronation, Brother Ape tore apart the stone crown, causing the hidden Western city of the Beast God Mausoleum to appear above Exotic Beast Island.
• Brother Ape revealed a lightning-filled Space Channel and said their escape depended on Ye Liang, but a beast that touched the entrance was electrocuted and blasted away.

Ye Liang entered the Beast God Mausoleum through the Space Channel and discovered a city filled with Western landmarks and dangerous dark creatures. After the beasts encountered werewolves and vampires, Ye Liang found an ancient book that could explain the city’s origins.

• The alpaca told Ye Liang that the Space Channel was only an entrance, and Ye Liang entered it alone.
• Ye Liang realized the Beast God Mausoleum occupied a parallel dimension and explored its city of landmarks from different countries.
• Brother Ape, the alpaca, and their companions entered the mausoleum, where werewolves attacked their group and killed several monkeys.
• Ye Liang fled vampire attacks and took shelter in a cathedral near the city center.
• Ye Liang searched the church archives and found an ancient history book titled "The Founding of Dark City."

Ye Liang read a record of Dark City's fall to the Dark Race, then witnessed Vampire Progenitors drain the alpaca creature and fled toward the Space Channel. Brother Ape stopped him and insisted that the city was the beasts’ Beast God’s tomb, leaving Ye Liang stunned.

• Ye Liang read that the Dark Race had conquered Dark City and learned that destroying four holy sites might reveal a way to seal it.
• The alpaca creature arrived outside the church, where Vampire Progenitors mistook it for a Familiar Beast and killed it.
• Ye Liang concealed himself from the Vampire Progenitors, judged them too dangerous to fight, and flew away from the city.
• Ye Liang reached the Space Channel and prepared to leave, but Brother Ape grabbed him and declared that the city was the Beast God’s tomb.
• A strange human emerged from behind Brother Ape.

Ye Liang and the gorilla followed clues about the Beast God to an abandoned Genetic Laboratory. There, Ye Liang began reading documents that revealed the Dark Race’s origins and the threat surrounding them.

• Ye Liang escaped Akagi’s grasp and demonstrated his water magic to the Werewolf General.
• At the werewolf headquarters, the group learned that injured monkeys had been attacked by apparently frenzied traitors, and the Werewolf General feared Behemoth was awakening.
• The Werewolf General said the Beast God might be connected to animal experiments at a Genetic Laboratory, so Ye Liang and the gorilla went there.
• Ye Liang found old laboratory records and asked the gorilla if he was ready to hear the truth about their race.
• Ye Liang read that Dark City researchers had concealed their failure to develop alternative food for the Dark Race, while the Young Master feared both the Dark Race’s loss of control and retaliation from human cultivators.

Ye Liang and Brother Ape discovered that Behemoth had created the Beastmen as food for vampires and uncovered the origins of the dark creatures. They set out to find the werewolves and the Space Channel, but found their former settlement deserted and prepared for a fight.

• Ye Liang read the records describing how Becas transformed humans into Familiar Beasts, and Brother Ape learned that his people had been bred as vampire feed.
• Brother Ape smashed the experimental site, awakening a small beast that attacked him and then fought Ye Liang.
• Ye Liang healed the small beast, which he believed had been transformed from a human child, while Brother Ape grew furious at Behemoth.
• Ye Liang realized the Space Channel might be real and learned that Behemoth had created vampires and werewolves through experiments.
• Ye Liang and Brother Ape went to seek the werewolves, but found their former settlement empty, so Ye Liang drew EXcalibur and warned Brother Ape to prepare for battle.