Chapter Summaries

Fan Baoluo attacked Manderson as the World-Destroying Church began announcing the [Apocalypse Fragment], and their fight drew the gathering into a tense standoff. Janice Leo took over the announcement, but Zhu Haifeng attacked her; after her first body turned to water, he struck her again, only for her corpse to liquefy once more.

• Fan Baoluo struck at Manderson, who evaded him, and the two fought as they sped into the distance.
• Janice Leo took an [Apocalypse Fragment] and began announcing its contents while the other Envoys remained in the air.
• Zhu Haifeng emerged from the shadows and cut through Janice and the fragment, but her body turned into water.
• Zhu Haifeng attacked Janice again when she appeared behind him, and her pierced body liquefied once more.
• Hu Chan remarked on Janice's death-substitution skill, and Qin Siyang told him to leave him out of his bullshit.

Janice dragged Zhu Haifeng away as Olof revealed his powerful Explosion Art and attacked the World-Destroying Church’s remaining Envoys. Olof was then killed by two men believed to be dead: Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang.

• Janice’s dissolving water enveloped Zhu Haifeng and carried them both away.
• Olof attacked the three remaining World-Destroying Church Envoys with a barrage of explosions, impressing Qin Siyang and the others with the scale of his power.
• Olof’s explosions continued for more than ten seconds, but the three Envoys did not appear to have been defeated.
• Olof grew to the size of a building, was immobilized, and was blasted apart by several red points of light.
• Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang appeared in the sky, astonishing everyone who believed Yu Jianyun had killed them.

Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang revealed that they had survived the Beirong battle and were working with the World-Destroying Church, while Yu Jianyun appeared and confronted them over their alliance. The chapter ended with Yang Guanglie defending his original goals and blaming Zone 1's greed for the suffering across the Fourteen States.

• Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang returned and killed Olof in a surprise attack, then helped reveal that Wang Zhongming had survived the explosions.
• The crowd questioned how Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang had survived Yu Jianyun's massacre at Beirong, while Gu Weiyang watched uneasily.
• Yu Jianyun stepped forward, revealed himself, and accused Gu Weiyang of protecting Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang after they faked their deaths.
• Gu Weiyang said Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang had originally meant well, and Yang Guanglie admitted that he now cooperated with the World-Destroying Church.
• Yang Guanglie defended his alliance as a way to secure enough resources for the Fourteen States and help half the population awaken sequence abilities.

Yu Jianyun tried to kill Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang, but Fred and Virgil deflected his strike and drew him away. With the World-Destroying Church still present, Gu Weiyang refused to prioritize Zone 1’s demand to kill the two men and said there was no need to hurry.

• Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang condemned Zone 1 and the United Government, stirring resentment among the assembled factions.
• Yu Jianyun swung his sword at Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang, but Fred and Virgil diverted the slash with a hurricane.
• Fred and Virgil fled, and Yu Jianyun pursued them instead of killing Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang.
• Zhou Bi demanded that Gu Weiyang deal with Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang, but Gu Weiyang pointed to Wang Zhongming as the remaining threat.
• Gu Weiyang exchanged a knowing smile with Qi Tian and told Zhou Bi there was no hurry to kill Wang Zhongming.

Gu Weiyang refused to help Zhou Bi kill Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang, arguing that Zone 1 should finally do something useful for itself. Zhou Bi rallied the reluctant people of Zone 1 and launched an attack, while Qin Yingguang and Chu Xiaoang prepared to join the fight.

• Gu Weiyang declined to intervene against Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang, and Zhou Bi accused him of having provoked a war with the World-Destroying Church.
• Gu Weiyang criticized Zone 1 for abusing its position without contributing, so Zhou Bi decided that Zone 1 would attack on its own.
• Zhou Bi urged the people of Zone 1 to act, and they followed him after he warned them he would not help them later.
• Zhou Bi unleashed formations that sent blazing spears of light toward Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang.
• Chu Xiaoang warned Qin Yingguang that Zhou Bi would be difficult to kill, and Qin Yingguang said they would give the fight everything they had.

Zone 1's fighters nearly killed Yang Guanglie, Bao Fengjiang, and Wang Zhongming until Qin Yingguang joined the battle and attacked Zhou Bi. Zone 1 then activated the Sky-Screening Instrument, nullifying the fighters' artifacts and leaving Qin Siyang's Drill Pod powerless.

• Zhou Bi attacked Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang, but Yang Guanglie swallowed Zhou Bi's light spears with a vortex before a mental attack immobilized him.
• Xie Chunqiu and Zhou Bi attacked while other Zone 1 fighters restrained Bao Fengjiang and Wang Zhongming with mental, shadow, and mutation abilities.
• Qin Yingguang arrived and struck at Zone 1, giving Yang Guanglie, Bao Fengjiang, and Wang Zhongming a chance to break free.
• Qin Yingguang attacked Zhou Bi again while Wang Zhongming kept Zhou Bi and Xie Chunqiu restrained.
• At Zhou Bi's command, a Zone 1 fighter activated the Sky-Screening Instrument, nullifying artifacts and draining power from Qin Siyang's Drill Pod.

Zone 1's Sky-Screening Instrument disabled the surrounding God-Hunting Artifacts, but Qin Yingguang and his allies pressed their attack amid the resulting chaos. As Zone 1's fighters came under assault from Chu Xiaoang, Yan Mohui, Liu Yufei, Yang Guanglie, and Bao Fengjiang, they switched off the instrument, leaving Zhou Bi exposed to Qin Yingguang's empowered sword strike.

• Zone 1 activated the Sky-Screening Instrument, disabling the artifacts around them and disrupting the battle.
• Wang Zhongming slowed Zhou Bi and Xie Chunqiu again, while Chu Xiaoang attacked Zone 1 and declared that he intended to kill Zhou Bi.
• Yan Mohui used phantom puppets to infiltrate Zone 1's fighters, and Liu Yufei revealed that he was a Guardian of the Reincarnation Church before killing two of them.
• Yang Guanglie and Bao Fengjiang joined the attack, and Zone 1's fighters struggled to defend themselves amid the chaos.
• A Zone 1 fighter ordered the Sky-Screening Instrument switched off, and Qin Yingguang's Heaven-Shaking Sword flared as he struck at Zhou Bi.

Gu Weiyang broke Wang Zhongming’s restraints and struck him down, revealing a level of power that stunned the fighters and onlookers. As the battle between Zone 1 and the Safe Zone escalated, Zhao Longfei and Shan En weighed whether to alert their elder brother and join the fight.

• Zhou Bi called for Gu Weiyang’s help, and Gu Weiyang freed him from Wang Zhongming’s restraints before knocking Wang Zhongming into the ground.
• Wang Zhongming recognized Gu Weiyang’s overwhelming power as level suppression, leaving Zhou Bi, Qin Siyang, Zhao Longfei, and Shan En stunned.
• Zhao Longfei and Shan En discussed the unexpectedly high number of powerful sequence users in Zone 1 and the scale of the Safe Zone’s showdown.
• Shan En wondered whether they should tell their elder brother to act as planned, and Zhao Longfei told him to report the situation so their brother could decide.
• Zhao Longfei and Shan En argued over who should stay behind to look after the three women if they joined the fight.

Zone 1 deployed the Tier Five [Order Tower] and gained the upper hand against Yang Guanglie, Bao Fengjiang, Chu Xiaoang, Yan Mohui, and Liu Yufei. Alexander Ivanov, Jerry Warren, and hidden fighters from the Reincarnation Church and World-Destroying Church joined the battle, easing the pressure on the uprising.

• Zone 1 assembled the [Order Tower], whose blue halos suppressed the rebels' abilities and helped its members surround them.
• Alexander Ivanov revealed that he was [Fusheng] and attacked Zone 1, while Dmitri denied being a cultist.
• Jerry Warren revealed that he was [Fanyang] and joined Qin Yingguang and Wang Zhongming in attacking Zhou Bi and Xie Chunqiu.
• The Reincarnation Church's Senior Stewards revealed themselves and attacked Zone 1 to support Chu Xiaoang and the other rebels.
• Wang Zhongming called out more than a dozen World-Destroying Church fighters, reducing the pressure on the rebels as the two cults joined the battle.

Lu Daoxing exposed the weakness of Zone 1’s Tier Five Artifact, allowing Chu Xiaoang and the others to destroy the Order Tower. Ulit and the supposedly dead Yu Ziying then joined the fight against Zone 1, as Zhou Bi’s forces came under attack from multiple sides.

• Lu Daoxing explained that the artifact could target only six people at once and that its operators were vulnerable when distracted.
• Chu Xiaoang led the rebels in exploiting a lapse in the operators’ defense, forcing one operator to abandon the controls and weakening the artifact.
• Chu Xiaoang and the others overwhelmed the remaining defenders and destroyed the Order Tower.
• Zhou Bi blamed the artifact’s operators while Qin Yingguang continued attacking him, and Chu Xiaoang taunted Zone 1’s forces.
• Ulit appeared and attacked Zone 1, explaining that he had rebelled over its protection fees.
• Yu Ziying, whom Zhou Bi believed dead, joined the battle alongside Ulit and began disarming Zone 1’s fighters.

Zhao Longfei, the Zhao Family, and Nanrong University professors joined the attack on Zone 1, persuading more observers that Zone 1 had become a threat. As Qin Siyang stayed behind to guard his elders and their Drill Pod, Feng Renjie and Xu Wenju entered the battle, further swelling the coalition against Zone 1.

• Yu Ziying joined the assault on Zone 1, and Zhao Longfei arrived with Shan En and attacked alongside the cults and warlords.
• Zhao Longfei accused Zone 1 of threatening everyone, and his involvement prompted many bystanders to reconsider joining the fight.
• Harrison and Lister joined the battle, while Zhao Longfei told Qin Siyang to stay with Zhao Fengjun, Chen Fenghe, and Lin Yaman.
• Qin Siyang noticed people edging toward his Drill Pod, while he worried that Zhao Longfei and the others were outnumbered.
• Feng Renjie and Xu Wenju entered the fight against Zone 1, citing its threat to students and its entrenched elite system.

Principals, officers, and other prominent figures joined the fight against Zone 1, turning the battle into a fierce struggle despite mounting casualties. As the conflict spread across the wasteland, Gu Weiyang refused to keep shielding Zone 1 and watched the United Government’s crisis escalate.

• Feng Renjie and Xu Wenju joined Zhao Longfei, and more local leaders and fighters entered the battle against Zone 1.
• The principal of Starshine University of Technology was killed, but the fighters continued attacking because they had accepted the risks and resented Zone 1’s fees and treatment of them.
• After Gu Weiyang kicked Wang Zhongming away, Zhou Bi and Xie Chunqiu gained the upper hand against Qin Yingguang and Alexander, prompting Chu Xiaoang to switch opponents and assist Qin Yingguang.
• Wang Zhongming challenged Gu Weiyang over the United Government’s failure to retain support, and Gu Weiyang answered that the Church’s path was even more wrong.
• Gu Weiyang chose not to intervene for Zhou Bi or Zone 1 as the battle expanded across several thousand meters of wasteland.

Zhao Longteng, Wei Rulai, and Han Huizhi prepared to attack the Jin Family in District 2 while a wider battle raged between the United Government, the World-Destroying Church, and Zone 1. They destroyed the Jin and Zhi family compounds and drove into the flames to carry out their attack.

• Zhao Longteng told Wei Rulai that the United Government and the World-Destroying Church's leaders had begun fighting, while Gu Weiyang joined the battle against Wang Zhongming.
• Zhao Longteng explained that members of the Reincarnation Church and leaders of other factions were also fighting Zone 1's people.
• Wei Rulai and Han Huizhi confirmed they would attack the Jin Family regardless of how the wider battle turned out.
• Explosions engulfed the Jin Family and Zhi Family villa complexes, and Han Huizhi drove toward the flames.
• Zhao Longteng declared that their three families would carve up Jin.

Gu Weiyang was ambushed by three Reincarnation Church Guardians, including its founder, Zhong Dingming, who explained the Church’s goal of spreading faith in the God of Reincarnation. Before they could attack, Chu Zhongxiong and Guan Fuhai arrived to fight alongside Gu Weiyang.

• Liu Yingrong, Wang Bozhong, and Zhong Dingming attacked Gu Weiyang with Tier Four Artifacts as the battle raged outside the Safe Zone.
• Gu Weiyang identified Liu Yingrong as the new [Greedy Soul] and accused her of using her sister’s identity to turn Xuanxuan Clothing City into a Reincarnation Church base.
• Wang Bozhong admitted he was [Asura], while Zhong Dingming revealed himself as the Reincarnation Church’s [Heavenly Lord] and explained that killing Gu Weiyang mattered more to the Church than destroying the United Government.
• Gu Weiyang asked how many parts of the [Apocalypse Fragment] Zhong Dingming had, and Zhong Dingming said he possessed one.
• As Zhong Dingming and Wang Zhongming prepared to attack Gu Weiyang, Chu Zhongxiong and Guan Fuhai appeared and joined him.

As the battle continued, Gu Weiyang confronted Liu Yingrong while old allies were drawn into separate fights. Olof reappeared to protect Liu Yingfeng, and he and Gu Weiyang watched the conflict, acknowledging that their former friends had taken different paths.

• Chu Zhongxiong and Wang Bozhong vanished in Golden Light to fight, while Guan Fuhai and Zhong Dingming also disappeared to settle their own match.
• Liu Yingrong attacked Gu Weiyang with Purple Radiance, but he absorbed her strike, pulled her from concealment, and threw her into Wang Zhongming.
• Liu Yingfeng pleaded with Gu Weiyang to spare her sister, and he knocked Liu Yingfeng unconscious rather than kill her.
• Olof appeared, said he had trapped Wang Zhongming, and caught Liu Yingfeng as Gu Weiyang confronted him about returning after faking his death.
• Gu Weiyang and Olof chose not to join either side of the battle and agreed that their old acquaintances no longer shared their path.

Hao Liang confronted Olof and Gu Weiyang over Olof’s faked death and their connection to the United Government, revealing why he wanted to overthrow it. After Hao Liang left for the battlefield, Gu Weiyang and Olof argued over responsibility for the government’s corruption and Ander’s role in its creation.

• Hao Liang used a potion on Lei Xiaoting’s Double-Barreled Shotgun to confirm that Olof was alive, then confronted him about faking his death and standing with Gu Weiyang.
• Olof explained that he and Hao Liang had never met at Beirong, while Hao Liang said he had wanted to overthrow the United Government rather than work with the World-Destroying Church or the Reincarnation Church.
• Hao Liang told Gu Weiyang that one of his former students had passed him records exposing Zone 1’s abuses, and accused Gu of protecting Zone 1 and enabling its influence over the United Government.
• Hao Liang returned the shotgun to Olof, swallowed several bottles of chemicals, and headed into the battlefield to help Principal Zhao fight Zone 1’s people.
• Gu Weiyang and Olof debated whether Ander was to blame for the United Government’s failures, with Olof insisting that Ander’s earlier actions did not excuse his later ones.

Qin Siyang left the battlefield to help Principal Zhao while Li Tianming and his allies split off to face their enemies in separate duels. Li Tianming revealed the power of his believer path against Guo Jiuxiao, who angrily accused him of abandoning his research, and Li Tianming asked if Guo had spent his life living in his shadow.

• Li Tianming told Qin Siyang to leave or help Principal Zhao, and Chen Fenghe convinced Qin to take the Drill Pod to the wounded.
• Lu Daoxing challenged Jiang Hao to a one-on-one fight, and Jiang Hao followed him away.
• Zhang Kuang challenged Hu Yunsheng to a duel, and Hu Yunsheng followed after Guo Jiuxiao assured him Li Tianming would die.
• Guo Jiuxiao revealed that three of his companions were Doppelgangers made from borrowed bodies.
• Li Tianming's vines killed two Doppelgangers, revealing that he had stepped onto the path of the believer.
• Guo Jiuxiao berated Li Tianming for taking that path before completing his research, and Li Tianming asked whether Guo had lived in his shadow.

Li Tianming fought Guo Jiuxiao’s multiple clones, using two upgraded shaman abilities to overcome attacks at his own sequence level and destroy two clones. Guo Jiuxiao then prepared to press the fight with attacks at sequence level seven.

• Guo Jiuxiao created multiple clones that attacked Li Tianming with golden light, psychic force, and a lightning spear.
• Li Tianming’s red vines withstood the weakened attacks, while a Crimson Falcon seized the psychic-attacking clone and Li Tianming’s totem and vines killed him.
• Guo Jiuxiao sent a sequence level seven clone in a glass-like form through Li Tianming’s vines while another clone froze and shattered the vines supporting him.
• Li Tianming’s mask turned black and released black flames that annihilated the glass-like clone and his Armor.
• Guo Jiuxiao realized Li Tianming had upgraded the shaman’s sequence ability twice and declared him worthy of defeat.

Li Tianming and Guo Jiuxiao revealed the full extent of their research abilities as their battle escalated. Guo summoned more than ten powerful versions of himself, but Li Tianming answered with an overwhelming transformation and declared that being compared to him was Guo’s greatest honor.

• Li Tianming demonstrated that he could enhance his Shaman Sequence Ability twice, while onlookers marveled at how he and Guo Jiuxiao had advanced as rival researchers.
• Zhang Kuang and the blinded Hu Yunsheng resumed their own fight, agreeing to settle which of them would live and die.
• Guo Jiuxiao explained that he wanted to kill Li Tianming to prove his research was superior, and Li accused him of being consumed by jealousy.
• Guo Jiuxiao revealed that he could control more than ten versions of himself with level six or level seven strength and offered to spare Chen Fenghe and the others if Li surrendered.
• Li Tianming transformed into a towering, armored figure surrounded by lava, golden light, blue swords, and black vines, shocking Guo Jiuxiao.

Li Tianming revealed that his research had succeeded, giving him more than a dozen sequence abilities and twice-enhanced skills, and fought Guo Jiuxiao. Guo Jiuxiao warned that his stronger clones could still overcome Li Tianming, but Li Tianming dismissed his confidence as ignorance.

• Li Tianming trapped Guo Jiuxiao with black vines and destroyed his Tier Four Armor with a blue sword formation, causing his body to explode.
• Li Tianming dispersed Guo Jiuxiao's thunderclouds and demonstrated that his sequence skills could be enhanced twice.
• Onlookers watched as Li Tianming and Guo Jiuxiao's extraordinary research achievements became clear during their battle.
• Guo Jiuxiao argued that his higher-level clones could negate Li Tianming's attacks and exploit his lower sequence level.
• Li Tianming shook his head and told Guo Jiuxiao that he was as ignorant as expected.