Chapter Summaries

A winged girl sought hunters to accompany her to the Dark Forest to investigate Kazan's black mist, and the tavern owner secretly assigned her an apparently useless outsider. The chapter ended with the girl questioning whether the handsome, strange Immortal Ye Liang could really help her.

• A winged girl dragged a Sixth Stage Super Strength Demon to Blackbeard's tavern and asked him to recruit teammates for a trip to the Dark Forest.
• The guests mocked her plan to face the Ninth Stage demon Kazan, while Blackbeard hesitated to risk sending anyone against it.
• After the girl began to leave, a guest urged Blackbeard to send the handsome outsider staying at the tavern, and Blackbeard chased after her.
• The next morning, stable hands woke Immortal Ye Liang by dumping freezing dirty water on him.
• The girl frowned at Immortal Ye Liang, and Blackbeard claimed he was capable and invited her to test his knowledge of martial arts.

Ye Liang agreed to help an angel girl test her boxing in exchange for a more advanced martial arts technique from the tavern owner. After spotting flaws in her routine, he demonstrated increasingly elaborate versions of it, leaving the girl captivated and the owner wary.

• The tavern owner offered Ye Liang the Advanced Body Strengthening Art if he helped entertain the angel girl, and Ye Liang accepted after consulting his system.
• The angel girl performed a basic set of punches and kicks and challenged Ye Liang to identify three flaws.
• Ye Liang said he had seen every flaw in half a second, then demonstrated several increasingly refined versions of the girl's technique.
• The tavern owner tried to interrupt Ye Liang, but the girl threatened him with a sharp feather and ordered him to stay back.
• Ye Liang continued transforming the girl's routine into a far more complex and exquisite form while she watched closely.

After Lucy chose Ye Liang as her companion in a tavern, the story rewound a week to Ye Liang's arrival on Nohara Star. Lucy set out to hunt the demon Kazan so she could earn permission to leave the planet and search for her missing brother.

• Ye Liang transformed a simple fist technique into a hundred and eighty variations, impressing the tavern guests and Lucy.
• The tavern owner and guests praised Ye Liang to Lucy, who grabbed his hand and declared, "It's you!"
• A week earlier, a demon hunted two soldiers in the mountains of Nohara Star before a fireball crashed nearby.
• Ye Liang emerged from the crater after killing the demon and complained to his system about Daoist Lei's instructions.
• The soldiers warned Lucy that Kazan was in the mountains, but Lucy charged ahead, determined to defeat him and find her brother.
• One soldier stayed with Lucy while the other left to gather hunters from nearby taverns.

Lucy Hart Sophia led Ye Liang into the mountains to hunt the Demon Kazan, while Ye Liang doubted her account and concealed his own strength. A Super Strength Demon tracked them by scent and attacked, mistaking Lucy for the Angel Race woman who had killed its husband.

• Lucy knocked a guard unconscious and slipped into the mountains to avoid being reported to her father.
• Ye Liang realized Lucy was leading him toward the mountains where he had previously arrived, and Lucy introduced herself as Lucy Hart Sophia, heir of the Sophia Family.
• Lucy claimed she had seen a flaming demon emerge from a lava cave and led Ye Liang toward it, though he sensed no powerful demon nearby.
• A Super Strength Demon roared from a meteorite crater, and Ye Liang identified it as a seventh-rank demon before Lucy decided they should investigate.
• The Super Strength Demon charged toward Ye Liang, accused him of killing its husband, and then turned its attention to Lucy when she attacked with a blazing holy sword.

Ye Liang fought the Super Strength Demon while Lucy recognized his back from an earlier encounter and recalled secretly witnessing him defeat demons. After Ye Liang killed the Kazan Demon with Law Power and left, Lucy stayed hidden and did not reveal herself.

• The Super Strength Demon struck Lucy away, forcing Ye Liang to step in.
• Lucy remembered following Ye Liang through the mountains and watching him defeat Void Race members and a Flame Demon.
• Lucy saw Ye Liang fight the Kazan Demon and considered asking him to train her so she could defeat demons.
• The system advised Ye Liang to use Law Power, and he killed the Kazan Demon with a fiery attack.
• Ye Liang left, and Lucy emerged from hiding without revealing her identity.

Lucy found the master she had been seeking when Ye Liang rescued her from the Super Strength Demon, and she swore an oath to become his disciple. As they traveled, Lucy explained the alliances of the Outer World, while a furious angel sent Bai Changfeng to stop Ye Liang from taking her away.

• Lucy watched Ye Liang defeat the Super Strength Demon and realized he was the master she had been searching for.
• Ye Liang healed Lucy after the demon gravely injured her, and she kissed him, giving him the Angel Race’s Void Curse Seal.
• Lucy swore an oath to take Ye Liang as her master and asked him to help find her missing brother Gray; Ye Liang accepted in exchange for her planet’s cultivation methods and secrecy.
• An angel in a palace ordered Bai Changfeng to deal with the person who had received Lucy’s oath kiss and prevent her from following a human.
• Lucy explained the Order Alliance and Chaos Alliance to Ye Liang, who asked whether the Six-Winged Angel was powerful.

Lucy explained the Chaos Alliance’s power ranks to Ye Liang, then Changfeng, a six-winged mechanical angel, attacked him under orders to protect the princess. When Lucy’s imprint stopped Changfeng from striking Ye Liang, her father overrode the restriction and sent Changfeng to attack them both.

• Lucy explained the ranks of the Chaos Alliance, including the strength of Kazan demons and why she wanted to kill one.
• Changfeng arrived and fired golden lasers at Ye Liang, ignoring Lucy’s attempts to explain that he was her friend.
• Lucy revealed that Changfeng was a half-genetically modified human at Overlord Rank, and Ye Liang stopped himself from using spiritual power after the system warned that nearby Saints could detect it.
• Lucy stepped in front of Ye Liang, and Changfeng’s imprint initially prevented him from attacking him.
• Lucy’s father watched through Changfeng’s holographic image, overrode the restriction, and ordered Changfeng to attack Ye Liang and Lucy.

Ye Liang defeated Lucy’s father’s Mechanical Angel after learning that Lucy was ill and had been blamed for her brother’s disappearance. Ye Liang and Lucy prepared to flee in search of her brother, while Lucy’s father alerted the higher-ups that the 69th Starfield had found a lost bloodline of the Lord of Myriad.

• Lucy’s father attacked Ye Liang and Lucy with the Mechanical Angel, but Ye Liang blocked its feathers.
• Lucy explained that she was ill, that her brother had disappeared while seeking help for her, and that her father blamed her for his loss.
• Ye Liang comforted Lucy and promised to help find her brother.
• Lucy explained that her father’s Divine Descent raised the Mechanical Angel’s power to the eighth level of the Sage Realm, but Ye Liang overwhelmed it with his Rinnegan and Shinra Tensei.
• Lucy said she had hidden a long-distance spacecraft, and she and Ye Liang prepared to escape before her father pursued them personally.
• Lucy’s father summoned attendants and ordered them to report that the 69th Starfield had discovered a lost bloodline of the Lord of Myriad.

Ye Liang and Lucy escaped pursuing combat vessels by abandoning their spacecraft and plunging toward a water-covered planet, where Ye Liang landed on an island and cared for the injured Lucy. After she woke and ate grilled fish, she collapsed from an unknown substance as black shadows crawled toward the shore.

• Ye Liang and Lucy discovered that Order Alliance combat vessels were pursuing them, while their passenger ship was running out of energy.
• Ye Liang stopped the ship and caused the pursuing vessels to crash into it, then carried Lucy through space toward a nearby life-bearing planet.
• Ye Liang and Lucy fell into the ocean, and Ye Liang reached an island, treated Lucy's injuries, and prepared grilled fish.
• Lucy woke, ate the fish, and collapsed with white foam at her mouth as black shadows approached from the shore.

Ye Liang protected the unconscious Lucy from a group of Insectoid Race crustaceans who mistook him for a Beastman and attacked him. When a sea serpent attacked the crustaceans, Ye Liang offered to help, and he realized they belonged to the Insectoid Race.

• Ye Liang carried Lucy ashore and learned that the shell-covered creatures called themselves the Insectoid Race, though they mistook him for a Monkey People Beastman and Lucy for a Swan People.
• Ye Liang tried to explain that he was a traveler, but the crab leader declared him an enemy because he had dealings with the Fish Race and ordered its underlings to attack.
• Ye Liang escaped up a giant coconut tree with Lucy and tried unsuccessfully to treat her mysterious poisoning while the crab leader taunted him from below.
• A sea serpent emerged from the water and badly injured many of the crustaceans, while the crab leader's pincers failed to hit it.
• Ye Liang offered to help the crab leader, then recognized the group as the Insectoid Race after recalling Daoist Lei's explanation of them.

Ye Liang defeated a giant sea snake and entered the Lost Ancient Capital to find an antidote for Lucy. After hiding from Naga guards in a resident’s room, he escaped detection, but the Naga woman uncovered a hidden brick after they left.

• Ye Liang killed the giant sea snake with one blow and asked the giant crab to help cure Lucy.
• The giant crab directed Ye Liang to the Lost Ancient Capital, and he put Lucy in his Portable Space before diving to the seabed.
• A Super Sea Demon told the Naga that their spy’s long wait would soon pay off during the Insectoid Queen’s egg-laying ritual.
• Ye Liang reached the ancient city, hid from a Naga patrol, and encountered a frightened Naga woman in her room.
• Ye Liang showed the woman Lucy and persuaded her to tell the guards that the disturbance was a misunderstanding.
• After the patrol left, the Naga woman pried a brick from the wall.

Ye Liang entered the Lost Ancient Capital seeking an antidote and learned it was kept in the Naga clan’s Pill King Palace. After an attack on Queen Isis gave him a chance to escape, an Insectoid spy mistook him for an envoy and led him deeper into the city.

• A Naga woman hid Ye Liang and told him the antidote was in the Pill King Palace, while warning that the clan was holding a special event.
• Ye Liang followed a crowd to a plaza and saw Queen Isis conducting a ritual at a dry well as red energy strengthened her.
• A guard confronted Ye Liang for covering his face, but four Sea Cockroaches burst from the altar and attacked the Queen, distracting the guards.
• Ye Liang tried to flee and met a black-robed Insectoid spy who mistook him for an envoy and asked about the Insectoid army’s infiltration.
• Ye Liang said he was human but assured the spy that Insectoid members were near the capital, and the relieved spy led him inward.

Ye Liang met Mika, who led him through the sewers to a group of Insectoid spies hiding from the Naga. Mika directed Ye Liang toward the Pill King Palace to find the antidote, while Ye Liang promised to help the abandoned spies return to the Insectoid Race.

• Mika brought Ye Liang into the sewers and explained that the Naga Queen poisoned outsiders to force them to seek an antidote and become sacrifices.
• The Insectoids questioned Ye Liang’s story, and he described the lobster- and crab-like creatures that had guided him, leaving the group doubtful and embarrassed.
• The Naga searched the capital for Ye Liang after he attacked the Naga Queen, forcing the sewer group to keep evading them.
• Mika led Ye Liang to a junction near the Pill King Palace and said the Insectoids could not accompany him because they could not outrun the Naga.
• Ye Liang promised to help Mika and the other spies escape and return to the Insectoid Race, then set out alone for the palace.

Ye Liang infiltrated the Pill King Palace to find an antidote, evaded its underwater traps, and triggered a noisy blast when he opened a sealed room. As Naga guards confronted him, he spotted a bottle marked with a red X and skull, apparently containing the fish poison he sought.

• Ye Liang slipped past the Naga guards and entered the maze-like Pill King Palace.
• He survived the ancient corridor’s traps and found a hidden pull ring that opened a sealed stone wall.
• The sudden rush of air toppled objects and armor, making a loud noise that alerted the Naga guards.
• Ye Liang searched the ruined storage room for the antidote but found only broken containers and unrelated medicines.
• The Naga guards attacked Ye Liang, who noticed a bottle labeled Poison Dye Pill with a red X and skull symbol.

Ye Liang stole the Naga Queen’s antidote and led the Insectoid Race out of the underwater city. The group reached a relatively safe area near the route back to shore, where the grateful Insectoids celebrated their escape.

• Ye Liang used poison to make the Naga guards reveal the hidden antidote, then knocked out the guard holding it and stored the vial for Lucy.
• The Naga Queen sensed that her divine medicine was missing, killed an attendant in a rage, and ordered her attendants to bring the divine pill.
• Ye Liang carried the Insectoid Race members through the underground passage to a safer region outside the Naga city.
• Mika and the other Insectoids thanked Ye Liang and tossed him into the air in celebration.
• Ye Liang stopped the celebration and urged everyone to leave quickly.

Ye Liang used the Naga Race’s antidote and his Aura of Judgment to help Lucy recover on Myriad Islands. He learned that an angel’s recognition let him cultivate the Angel Cultivation Method, then resumed training while Lucy rested.

• Ye Liang wiped poisonous sweat from Lucy after she took the antidote, then used his energy to help restore her strength.
• Lucy woke and tried to rise, but Ye Liang held her down and gave her coconut fruit to drink.
• Ye Liang told the Cockroach Person that Lucy was seeking her biological older brother, and Mika said they could not help find him.
• The Cockroach Person recognized Ye Liang’s manual as an Angel Cultivation Method and warned that it required an angel’s recognition.
• Ye Liang revealed the wing-shaped mark on his forehead, and Mika told the others to leave his private affairs alone.
• Ye Liang continued cultivating with the Angel Cultivation Method.

Ye Liang learned that the Demon Race alone had been attacking the Immortal World, then faced a Naga force led by a Saint-ranked General. He drove the General into the sea with Shinra Tensei and escaped with the Insectoids, who led the group toward an island teleportation device.

• Ye Liang cultivated Aura of Judgment, replenished some of his Essence Qi, and learned from the Insectoids that the Demon Race was the only race besides the Void attacking the Immortal World.
• A Naga General arrived with Tiger Shark riders, accused Ye Liang of stealing the Queen’s divine medicine, and revealed the mutilated woman who had helped him.
• The Naga General recognized the Insectoids and surrounded the island with dozens of soldiers, while the Cockroach People and Mika offered to cover Ye Liang’s retreat.
• Ye Liang refused to abandon anyone and used Shinra Tensei to blast the Naga General off his Tiger Shark, frightening the soldiers into retreating.
• Mika recognized that Ye Liang had only repelled the General, then led the group away before the General returned and ordered his soldiers to chase them.
• The Insectoids guided Ye Liang and the others toward a teleportation device in the island’s center, which they hoped would let them escape the Naga pursuit.

Ye Liang and Mika worked together to trap the pursuing Naga General in a swamp, but he escaped until Mika used a Law Orb to bury him deep underground. The group then hurried toward the island’s teleportation device, knowing the Naga General might emerge once the swamp’s power faded.

• Ye Liang warned that his remaining uses of Shinra Tensei would not be enough to stop the Naga General from catching them.
• Ye Liang proposed creating a swamp while Mika and the others knocked the Naga General into it, and they chose a forest as their ambush site.
• Ye Liang turned the ground into a swamp, and Mika struck the Naga General with Law Power, but the Naga General broke free and resisted further attacks.
• Mika used a Law Orb from his leader to crush the Naga General deep into the swamp.
• The Cockroach People led Ye Liang and the others toward the island’s center, as the Naga General could rise again after the swamp’s power faded.

Ye Liang and Mika reached the buried teleportation device but were stopped by the island’s Rock Golem, which guarded the Queen’s bloodline. As Ye Liang entered the golem to remove its Energy Core, the Naga Queen received a command to kill him and was granted berserk power.

• Ye Liang and the Cockroach People found a mound surrounded by ruined insect race totems and began digging for the teleportation device.
• A Rock Golem burst from the mound, knocked the Cockroach People unconscious, and sent Ye Liang and Mika flying.
• Mika explained that the golem’s Energy Core powered it and that removing the core would disable it.
• With the Naga closing in, Ye Liang entered the golem and reached for its Energy Core.
• A ghostly face appeared before the Naga Queen, ordered her to kill Ye Liang, and granted her the power of berserk fury.

Ye Liang and Mika defeated the Rock Guardian God, buried their fallen companions, and escaped through the insect tribe’s teleportation device. They arrived in the Shadow Jungle, where Mika identified the Spider Race’s territory and warned Ye Liang about the Black Widow.

• Ye Liang defeated the Rock Guardian God and recovered its Gray Energy crystal while Mika revealed that their companions had died.
• Ye Liang and Mika buried the fallen Insect People, activated the teleportation device, and secretly attached an Explosive Tag to it.
• Ye Liang and Mika emerged in a giant bird’s nest after a bird had carried the device away from its original location.
• Ye Liang pulled Mika from a Golden-Winged Bird’s attack, then used the Mysterious Peacock Method to make the bird crash into the ground.
• Ye Liang and Mika recognized the area as the Shadow Jungle ruled by the Spider Race, and Mika asked whether Ye Liang knew of the Black Widow.