Chapter Summaries

Granny Hua drove the invasion of Sigma District to seize a powerful spear, while the defenders’ shield began to fail. As War Readiness Zone 323 urged Wei Rulai to preserve his troops, he ordered them to withdraw and regroup.

• Granny Hua promised the first formation to break into Sigma District a method for passing an unfamiliar god’s Succession Trial, intensifying the assault.
• Invaders breached the Defensive Shield and entered a War Readiness Zone, where Granny Hua ordered them to scatter into ten-person squads.
• Qin Siyang watched one enemy squad advance, chose its direction, and left.
• Wei Rulai learned from Hu Mingxun that War Readiness Zone 323 supported withdrawing the Mobile Defense Fortress troops so they could regroup and rescue other zones.
• After hearing War Readiness Zone 323 chant for freedom, Wei Rulai ordered all personnel to teleport to the regrouping coordinates.

Sima Ji explained his strategy for capturing a distant War Readiness Zone and tried to recruit Xiao Zhigang as a puppet, but discovered Xiao Cunyuan’s claim that Qian Wendao had been in the Safe Zone when the invaders first arrived. Sima Ji realized the Domain Master had deceived them, leaving him and Alan shocked by the revelation.

• Alan questioned Sima Ji about his skill cooldowns and choice of target, and Sima Ji explained his reasons for capturing the distant War Readiness Zone.
• Sima Ji had Xiao Zhigang brought before him, but Xiao appeared unable to respond, while his son Xiao Cunyuan pleaded for a chance to be useful.
• Xiao Cunyuan offered to contact dissatisfied Safe Zone officials and said Qian Wendao had held a meeting there when Sima Ji’s group first arrived.
• Sima Ji learned that Qian Wendao had been in the Conference Room of War Readiness Zone 1, hurled Xiao Cunyuan away, and told Alan that the Domain Master had deceived them.

Sima Ji realized the Eighth Domain’s true Domain Master was still alive and ordered the invaders to retreat before he could break through. Ram’s group received Granny Hua’s withdrawal order, but a spear-wielding figure appeared behind them and blocked their way.

• Sima Ji concluded that Qian Wendao had died to conceal the real Domain Master, who was still alive and could be watching the invaders.
• Sima Ji ordered Alan to begin retreating with their forces before the Domain Master could break through and threaten them.
• Ram led nine men to the Sigma District Arts Center, planning to assault the people inside, but the petals around them carried Granny Hua’s order to withdraw.
• As Ram’s group turned to leave, a figure holding a spear appeared behind them in the street and blocked their way.

Ram and his followers confronted a hidden spear-wielding young man who killed Mukesh with a single thrust. As Ram realized the attacker might be Sima Ji or the Eighth Domain’s Domain Master, the young man struck at the remaining invaders, and the chapter ended with his spear poised before Ram as the Safe Zone’s Crimson Crystals and Vine Hearts reignited.

• One of Ram’s followers stepped forward to attack the spear-wielding figure, but Ram stopped him after noticing he could not perceive the stranger’s appearance or strength.
• Ram allowed Mukesh, an origin sequence level four ability user, to attack, and the stranger killed him with a casual spear thrust.
• Ram suspected the stranger might be Sima Ji or the Eighth Domain’s Domain Master and ordered his followers to support him.
• The stranger moved at incredible speed, prompting Ram to hide the three origin sequence level five invaders with his [Visual Blind Spot] skill.
• The young man appeared above Ram and thrust his spear at him, while the Crimson Crystals and Vine Hearts across the Safe Zone burst into light.

Qin Siyang killed Ram and began breaking through to the domain sequence, transforming his path of self-verification into a golden domain and renewing his body. His information panel advanced from domain sequence level one to level two, but he had not yet learned what the breakthrough changed about his abilities.

• Qin Siyang overwhelmed Ram with his spear and blasted him into a crater.
• Qin Siyang began breaking through, and his path of self-verification split, folded, and fused into a golden domain with a brighter outer ring.
• Golden radiance entered Qin Siyang’s heart and blood, transforming his body, senses, and strength.
• Qin Siyang saw that the information panel had reached domain sequence level one and worried that his skills had vanished.
• The panel changed to show that Qin Siyang was breaking through to domain sequence level two.

Qin Siyang broke through to Domain Sequence Level Two and gained powerful new abilities as Domain Master. As Granny Hua arrived to claim the Gun, Qin Siyang activated Mountain and River Feast to face her.

• Qin Siyang discovered that he had reached Domain Sequence Level Two and examined his upgraded skills, including Rivers and Mountains Feast Kingdom and Mountain and River Feast.
• Qin Siyang realized Mountain and River Feast weakened Outsiders fighting within their own domain, and reflected that Qian Wendao’s death had brought dawn.
• Granny Hua swept onto the battlefield in a storm of petals and announced that she would take the Gun.
• Qin Siyang raised his Long Spear and activated Mountain and River Feast.

Qin Siyang broke through to the domain sequence and activated [Mountain and River Feast], weakening outsiders inside the Eighth Domain and turning the battle in the Safe Zone’s favor. As the Safe Zone launched its counterattack, Qin Siyang faced the approaching storm of petals and realized his enemy had underestimated his strength.

• Qin Siyang’s breakthrough sent golden light across the Eighth Domain, immobilized everyone, and announced that outsiders’ physical attributes would be reduced to one-thousandth within the domain.
• People across the Safe Zone recognized Qin Siyang as the true Domain Master, and the invaders retreated in terror.
• Secretary-General Gu Weirong ordered the Safe Zone to kill, and its forces launched a counterattack across every front.
• Chu Baxing led the Guard Brigade forward, while Wei Rulai and Yan Bunan used spatial teleportation to block the invaders’ escape.
• Qin Siyang noticed that the storm of petals still targeted him and realized his attacker believed she could overcome his Domain Master skill by being several levels stronger.

Qin Siyang used [Domain Banquet Order] to strengthen himself and suppress Pushpa’s skills, then destroyed her [Mandala Kiss] with his spear. Seeing the spear as her chance to defeat the First Domain, Pushpa recalled how fear had led her to surrender and betray the Third Domain, and became consumed by the desire to claim it.

• Pushpa attacked Qin Siyang with [Mandala Kiss], expecting the skill to overwhelm him.
• Qin Siyang activated [Domain Banquet Order], boosting his strength and weakening Pushpa’s abilities.
• Qin Siyang swept his spear through the mandala blossoms and erased Pushpa’s attack.
• Pushpa fixated on Qin Siyang’s spear as a way to win the [Succession Star Competition].
• Pushpa remembered surrendering to the First Domain, which had slaughtered half her people and abducted the rest.

Granny Hua, who revealed herself as Pushpa, attacked Qin Siyang to seize the spear, but his strength and speed overwhelmed her. Qin Siyang told her she could neither defeat him nor escape his domain.

• Granny Hua returned alone to the Safe Zone, obsessed with reclaiming the spear and determined to overthrow the First Domain.
• When Qin Siyang appeared holding the spear, Granny Hua became Pushpa and attacked him with [Red Spider Lily Blooms · Yellow Springs Guide].
• Qin Siyang swept the spear through the air, destroying Pushpa’s red spider lilies in a thousand-meter radius.
• Pushpa used [Poppy Formation], but Qin Siyang put away the spear and dodged the giant poppies with ease.
• Qin Siyang explained that his domain suppressed Pushpa’s skills and revealed that she could neither defeat him nor escape.

Qin Siyang overwhelmed Pushpa in battle, surviving her curse and corpse-flower attack without his spear. He destroyed her garden and declared that he would break her spirit before killing her.

• Pushpa gave up on fleeing and attacked Qin Siyang, demanding that he kill her with dignity.
• Qin Siyang used [Rivers and Mountains Feast Kingdom] to appear beside Pushpa and broke through her petals with two punches.
• Pushpa cursed Qin Siyang with a black rose and trapped him in corpse flowers and poisonous miasma with [Garden Funeral].
• Qin Siyang let Pushpa believe the corpse flowers had devoured him, then revealed himself alive without his spear.
• Qin Siyang shattered the ground and destroyed Pushpa’s garden, telling her he would break her spirit as well as kill her.

Qin Siyang defeated Pushpa and exposed how she had become an oppressor despite once suffering injustice. Pushpa was left alive but consumed by shame and despair.

• Pushpa admitted defeat after Qin Siyang's display of power shattered her confidence.
• Qin Siyang refused to grant Pushpa a dignified death and explained that he had no need to use her to advance.
• Pushpa questioned why the Eighth Domain shared its power with ordinary people, and Qin Siyang said they counted as people.
• Qin Siyang told Pushpa that the Bamboo Kingdom had abolished its caste system after the people drove out their invaders.
• Pushpa wept at the news that ordinary people had gained equal rights, but Qin Siyang condemned her for becoming a butcher instead of fighting injustice.
• Pushpa fell into utter despair, unable to answer Qin Siyang's accusation.

Qin Siyang confronted Pushpa, who accepted responsibility for her cruelty and took her own life after asking him to tell her people she had wronged them. With the invaders routed and fleeing toward the Great River, Qin Siyang pursued them and prepared to strike.

• Qin Siyang rejected Pushpa's advice to ally with Alan and Sima Ji, condemned her for oppressing others, and gave her the chance to take her own life.
• Pushpa remembered the abuse and poverty of her childhood, dissolved into withered petals, and asked Qin Siyang to tell her domain's people that she had wronged them.
• Qin Siyang promised to deliver Pushpa's message but warned that her people might not forgive her.
• People across the Safe Zone watched Pushpa die and celebrated Qin Siyang's return, while the invaders lost their buffs and their formations collapsed.
• Qin Siyang activated [Rivers and Mountains Feast Kingdom] and confronted the fleeing invaders at the Great River as they tried to escape the Eighth Domain.

After breaking through to domain sequence level two, Qin Siyang cleared the Great River bank and tasked Duan Chongfang with commanding Sigma District's pursuit forces. Across the battlefield, Safe Zone fighters seized the opening to break through to domain sequence, while Gu Weirong received reports of their advances.

• Qin Siyang killed hundreds of invaders at the Great River and reunited with Duan Chongfang, who had also reached domain sequence.
• Duan Chongfang told Qin Siyang that Life-Substitution Lamps were killing hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the war.
• Qin Siyang arranged for Duan Chongfang to command Sigma District's pursuit forces and ordered him to stop the fleeing invaders from crossing the river.
• Qin Siyang left to join William as Duan Chongfang began directing the troops.
• Safe Zone fighters, including Olof, Johnny, Wei Rulai, Li Tianming, Zhang Kuang, Chu Zhongxiong, and Fan Baoluo, broke through to domain sequence.
• Gu Weirong learned that Li Tianming had brought injured Chu Zhongxiong and Fan Baoluo to the front and helped them kill origin sequence level five enemies.

Gu Weirong celebrated the Eighth Domain’s counteroffensive as Qin Siyang and Chu Baxing broke through to the domain sequence. Outside Giant Ridge, Sima Ji and Alan argued over their disastrous escape, while Qin Siyang blocked William’s retreat across the Great River.

• Gu Weirong heard reports of Qin Siyang and Chu Baxing’s breakthroughs and said he could finally lay down his burden as Secretary-General.
• Sima Ji, Alan, and the surviving division chiefs and fighters escaped Giant Ridge after losing many of their forces.
• Alan blamed Sima Ji for fleeing without organizing the army’s retreat, but Sima Ji explained that the Domain Master’s suppression made an orderly withdrawal impossible.
• Sima Ji said William had drawn the Eighth Domain’s forces away from the survivors, allowing Alan’s spatial Teddy Bear to help them escape.
• Qin Siyang stood on a wave with Long Spear in hand and blocked William and his men as they crossed the Great River.

William led his surviving Domain Sequence troops toward the Great River, but Qin Siyang and Wei Rulai blocked their escape. Qin Siyang chose to stop William’s force rather than pursue Sima Ji, and the chapter ended with him preparing to fight the invaders.

• After Sima Ji warned him, William contacted Margaret and began retreating with more than eight hundred Domain Sequence troops.
• Qin Siyang appeared in the Great River as Wei Rulai positioned the Mobile Fortress Unit on the bank, trapping William’s troops between them.
• Wei Rulai told Qin Siyang that Sima Ji had escaped while Yan Bunan pursued the abandoned main invasion force.
• Qin Siyang decided to stop William’s powerful army rather than pursue Sima Ji, reasoning that the Domain Sequence troops could threaten the Eighth Domain if they escaped.
• Qin Siyang deduced that William was not the First Domain’s Domain Master, and William confirmed the retreating campaign had failed without answering directly.
• William challenged Qin Siyang’s confidence, and Qin Siyang said he could stop the weaker members of William’s force even if he could not stop William himself.

William confronted Qin Siyang on the river after Qin exposed Granny Hua’s death and offered to spare ten percent of William’s troops if he surrendered the rest. Their battle began with William using a powerful mist attack to strike Qin Siyang, who plunged toward the river.

• Qin Siyang revealed Granny Hua’s death, and William’s troops reacted with shock.
• Qin Siyang argued that William’s ships and disorganized forces were vulnerable on the river, then offered to let ten percent of William’s subordinates live if William accepted the deal.
• William rejected the offer and transformed into black smoke to attack Qin Siyang.
• Qin Siyang struck at William, but William evaded through the water and a combined attack from several domain-tier fighters blasted Qin backward.
• Wei Rulai ordered an attack on the nineteen ships, forcing the invaders to abandon their attacks on Qin Siyang.
• William blanketed the river with corrosive gray smoke, appeared behind Qin Siyang, and struck him hard enough to send him plunging toward the river.

Qin Siyang escaped William’s attack, then used [Feast Kingdom] to swap places with him and strike the invaders’ boats. After William returned to the battlefield, Qin Siyang asked him to consider his deal.

• Qin Siyang fled underwater to recover from his injuries after William overwhelmed him in combat.
• Qin Siyang asked Wei Rulai to show him a live feed and ordered the Defense Force to fire mass attacks at his location.
• Qin Siyang swapped places with William aboard an invaders’ boat and destroyed four boats, killing dozens of invaders and sending more than a hundred into the river.
• Qin Siyang evaded the invaders’ counterattack with [Feast Kingdom] and waited on the river as both armies watched him.
• William reappeared, and Qin Siyang asked him whether he would consider his deal.

Qin Siyang confronted William and demanded that most of William’s remaining forces surrender so they could be used to help Safe Zone fighters break through to the domain sequence. Though Qin Siyang had exhausted his key skills and was bluffing, William’s troops had lost their nerve, leaving the two commanders locked in a standoff.

• William questioned Qin Siyang about his strength, and Qin Siyang admitted he had reached domain sequence level two after killing William’s people.
• Qin Siyang demanded that William let eighty of his fewer than eight hundred surviving soldiers live while the rest stayed behind, but William rejected the terms.
• William hesitated to order an attack because he feared Qin Siyang’s position-swapping skill, while Qin Siyang privately worried that his bluff would be exposed.
• Qin Siyang claimed he wanted William to restrain his soldiers so Safe Zone fighters could kill them as opponents and use them as a path to domain sequence breakthroughs.
• William challenged Qin Siyang’s plan, but Qin Siyang insisted that William would agree because refusing meant everyone would die.

Qin Siyang forced the defeated William to leave most of his elite Domain Sequence warriors behind, refusing his offers of compensation and technology. Zhao Longfei explained that the demand would break William’s authority and intimidate the First Domain, while warning that the First Domain might still have other forces; the chapter ended with Zhao and Wei Rulai trading insults and threatening to fight.

• Qin Siyang rejected William’s attempt to take half his elite warriors and insisted that he could take only eighty, threatening to resume the battle if he kept bargaining.
• William asked why Qin Siyang was making the demand, but Qin Siyang refused to explain himself.
• Zhao Longfei told Wei Rulai that the demand would undermine William’s confidence and support while warning the First Domain not to provoke the Eighth Domain.
• Zhao Longfei guessed that the First Domain might have other forces beyond the defeated army, and Wei Rulai agreed that the Eighth Domain should remain cautious.
• Zhao Longfei and Wei Rulai argued over historical battles, insulted each other’s ancestors, and threatened to settle their dispute in a fight.

Qin Siyang forced William to surrender most of his warriors and arranged for Safe Zone fighters to execute invaders. She Haqiang killed the first chosen captive, leaving William devastated as the executions began.

• William agreed to leave ninety percent of his warriors behind after Qin Siyang threatened to attack.
• Qin Siyang asked Gu Weirong to gather eight hundred Safe Zone fighters willing to kill invaders above origin sequence level five.
• She Haqiang arrived, reunited tearfully with Qin Siyang, and volunteered to kill a domain sequence invader.
• William ordered his warriors to draw lots, and Odo volunteered to go first.
• Odo drew black mist, accepted his death, and was shot by She Haqiang; William watched his corpse float in the river.