Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan and his companions disguised themselves as other races and entered Toad King Town, where they learned about the town’s dependence on Holy Water and its sinister Toad King. They arrived at the Green Field Inn, where Lin Xuan confronted an attendant who mistreated A Tu, and Xing Yan seized the attendant as other adventurers watched.

• Sheng Naiqi gave Lin Xuan and Tong Di Phantom Sound Pills to change their voices and helped the group maintain their disguises.
• A Tu begged Manager Wang for Holy Water for his dying mother, but Manager Wang suggested she give herself to Lord Toad King in exchange; A Tu feared she would be consumed and wondered whether he could offer his own life instead.
• Lin Xuan asked A Tu for directions to an inn and hired him as their guide, learning that Toad King Town had long worshipped Lord Toad King and was not part of an extraterrestrial territory.
• At the Green Field Inn, attendant A'Mu tried to drive A Tu away, but the innkeeper recognized Lin Xuan as a Night Elf and ordered A'Mu to apologize.
• When Lin Xuan challenged the innkeeper over A'Mu’s behavior, Xing Yan used a hand emerging from the ground to lift A'Mu into the air as adventurers watched.

Lin Xuan’s group settled into the Green Field Inn after Xing Yan struck A’Mu, who then sought help from Manager Wang and the cult. As A’Tu warned the group about the cult, Lin Xuan learned that gods existed and asked whether the Scarlet Lord was powerful.

• Xing Yan sent A’Mu flying, and Lin Xuan arranged rooms for the group at the Green Field Inn.
• The inn owner scolded A’Mu and ordered him to stay away, but A’Mu left to report the outsiders to Manager Wang.
• A’Mu told Manager Wang about Lin Xuan’s group, and Manager Wang considered capturing the Six-Eyed youth as a tribute for Lord Toad King.
• A’Tu warned Lin Xuan’s group that A’Mu might report them to the cult and explained the cult’s role in Toad King Town.
• Lin Xuan and the others discussed gods through Lin Xinrui’s psychic channel, and Lin Xuan asked whether the Scarlet Lord was powerful.

Lin Xuan and the others learned that the Scarlet Church was tied to one of Old Soil’s seven Overlord-level Deities, then settled in Toad King Town while a plot formed around them. As Qian Kui approached the town despite Bai Xue’s warning, Sheng Naiqi returned with a divination that foretold trouble and hinted at what he had discovered.

• Sheng Naiqi, Li Zhi, and Lin Xinrui explained the seven great churches and the Scarlet Lord’s influence, while Xing Yan revealed that Scarlet Church followers had appeared on Skysea Island.
• Lin Xuan and the others decided to stay in Toad King Town overnight and find the route to the Half-Dragon Domain, while Sheng Naiqi went to perform a divination.
• A'Mu pressured A Tu to help with a plan involving the distinguished guests, promising Holy Water for A Tu’s mother, and the inn owner tried to stop them before a friend followed them.
• Qian Kui met Bai Xue outside Toad King Town; she warned him that important people were coming, but he destroyed her sparrow and entered the town.
• Sheng Naiqi returned to the group and said his divination had foretold trouble, then revealed he had gone to speak with the inn owner and discovered something.

Lin Xuan used Myriad Spirit Understanding to learn that A'Mu and the Toad Cult planned to frame his group, while a masked mastermind from Nanmu Town had also followed them to Toad King Town. As Lin Xuan prepared to turn the two threats against each other, A Tu revealed the scheme and pleaded for help saving his mother, and Lin Xuan asked him to proceed with the original plan to frame the group.

• Lin Xuan explained that he had used Myriad Spirit Understanding and insects to spy on A'Mu's meeting with Manager Wang and A Tu.
• Lin Xuan learned from a butterfly that the masked mastermind from Nanmu Town had tracked the group to Toad King Town, and he proposed using Lord Toad King against the newcomer.
• A Tu entered Lin Xuan's room, broke down, and warned the group that Manager Wang planned to frame them.
• A Tu explained that he had considered framing the group to get Holy Water for his sick mother but could not bring himself to betray them.
• Lin Xuan promised to help A Tu save his mother if he followed the original plan and framed the group.

Lin Xuan and his companions let themselves be captured and brought to Lord Toad King as part of a risky plan that relied on Lin Xuan’s newly evolved Eloquent talent. They entered the hall grounds, where Chief Manager Mo ordered them taken to Lord Toad King.

• Lin Xuan reassured his bound companions that his plan would work, while Tong Di said he could briefly trap the Toad King if things went wrong.
• Lin Xuan reviewed his status and considered using Eloquent to gain experience by turning his enemies against each other.
• Manager Wang praised A Tu for helping capture the group and drove the carriage to the hall.
• Captain Liu inspected the carriage and let Manager Wang proceed after warning him not to anger Lord Toad King.
• Chief Manager Mo met Manager Wang and A Tu, then ordered his men to carry Lin Xuan and the others inside to Lord Toad King.

Lin Xuan’s group fought their way past Toad King’s servants, and Lin Xuan confronted Toad King inside the ancestral hall. He proposed cooperation after warning that Toad King’s servants were being rapidly plundered.

• Toad King realized Lin Xuan’s group had been pretending to be unconscious, and they defeated the Toadmen guards before Manager Wang was dragged into the ancestral hall and killed.
• Toad King’s tongue attacked A Tu, but Xing Yan, Fang Jingjing, Li Zhi, Tong Di, and Sheng Naiqi helped protect him while Lin Xuan rushed toward the hall.
• Lin Xinrui used her mental ability to confuse Chief Manager Mo and prevent him from stopping Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan discovered that Toad King was a fist-sized yellow toad, showed it Tong Di’s metal sphere, and said the group had come to seek cooperation.
• Lin Xuan warned Toad King that it faced a deadly calamity and urged it to sense its servants, prompting an alarmed, furious croak.

Lin Xuan explained that Toad King Town was in danger because a powerful outsider was turning it into a battlefield, and used his Eloquent talent to persuade the Toad King to focus on the intruder rather than blame him. The Toad King agreed to cooperate with Lin Xuan and his companions.

• Lin Xuan explained that Old Soil settlements faced periodic calamities and that the Toad King protected the Toadmen in exchange for their service and faith.
• The Toad King sensed that its servants were rapidly dwindling and grew furious at Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan admitted the outsider might have come because of his group and argued that the intruder was endangering the whole town.
• Lin Xuan used his Eloquent talent to guide the Toad King toward confronting the outsider, while warning that the enemy might be a High-Ranking War General.
• The Toad King placed its forelimb on Lin Xuan's hand and agreed to cooperate.

Lin Xuan revealed himself and persuaded Toad King to join forces with Bai Xue against Qian Kui. After Bai Xue restrained the controlled Toadmen, Toad King charged Qian Kui without holding back.

• Li Zhi kept Chief Manager Mo pinned down as Lin Xuan emerged from the ancestral hall with Toad King on his shoulder.
• Qian Kui searched Toad King Town for Lin Xuan and clashed with Bai Xue, who had been delaying him.
• Lin Xuan arrived with Toad King and Bai Xue, and Qian Kui recognized the creature as a juvenile Treasure Transformation Toad.
• Toad King attacked Qian Kui, but Qian Kui controlled the surrounding Toadmen and sent them charging at it.
• Bai Xue restrained the Toadmen with vines, allowing Toad King to resume its attack on Qian Kui.

Qian Kui’s metal dolls failed to overcome the Toad King’s treasure-devouring ability, but his next attack injured the toad and forced Bai Xue to intervene. After Bai Xue drove Qian Kui away temporarily, Lin Xuan gave the wounded Toad King a pill, and Sheng Naiqi identified it as a Life-Creating Glazed Pill.

• Qian Kui sent a metal doll at the Toad King, which swallowed it and bit off Qian Kui’s arm before he regrew it.
• Qian Kui maneuvered four metal dolls around the Toad King and detonated them, injuring the toad despite Bai Xue’s attempt to stop him.
• Qian Kui used the explosion’s smoke to try to capture Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan dodged and Bai Xue struck Qian Kui in the form of a giant eagle.
• Bai Xue pursued Qian Kui while Lin Xuan checked on the shrunken Toad King and gave it an amber pill.
• Sheng Naiqi startled Lin Xuan and the Toad King, then identified the pill as a Life-Creating Glazed Pill.

Lin Xuan used a Life-Creating Glazed Pill to heal the Toad King, triggering its evolution and an unexpected master-servant contract. As the evolved Toad King attacked Qian Kui, Bai Xue suspected the masked enemy was a puppet, and another figure appeared above Toad King Town.

• Sheng Naiqi identified Lin Xuan’s amber pills as Life-Creating Glazed Pills, and the pill healed the Toad King while causing it to evolve into a golden toad.
• The Toad King bit Lin Xuan and formed a contract that the Lord of Beasts title turned into a master-servant contract with Lin Xuan as master.
• Lin Xuan asked the Toad King to help Bai Xue, and the evolved toad rushed Qian Kui and fought him with renewed force.
• Bai Xue explained that Qian Kui might be a puppet rather than his real body, and Lin Xuan stopped Sheng Naiqi from revealing the healing pill’s role.
• Bai Xue said their practical combat class might need to end early, then noticed a figure hovering above Toad King Town.

A commander-class Crimson Flame officer named Uncle Feng rescued the Spark Program trainees after Old Soil’s bridges began changing into bidirectional manifestations. The group set out to retrieve the remaining teams, while Lin Xuan learned that the changes could soon threaten Earth Origin Star and reshape its society.

• Uncle Feng killed Qian Kui’s puppet avatar, then told Lin Xuan he had considered taking him as a disciple and ordered the trainees to gather for evacuation.
• The Toad King disbanded Toad King Town and chose to follow Lin Xuan, while its Toadmen servants bid it farewell.
• Bai Xue carried Uncle Feng, Lin Xuan, and the other trainees to retrieve the remaining teams, and Uncle Feng explained that Old Soil’s bridges were becoming bidirectional.
• Lin Xuan realized the changes could bring danger to Earth Origin Star and destabilize its civilizations, churches, and social order.
• The group reached Hu Shan and Chen Donghuang’s team; Uncle Feng said their hidden attackers had fled, and they continued toward the final team.

Lin Hai reunited with his old partner Fang Dali at the Dragon River Security Division and offered him a chance to join Crimson Flame as a field assistant. After Lin Hai and Ye Hongyu returned home expecting Lin Wu and the others, they found Lin Xuan already there and warmly welcomed him back.

• Lin Hai met Fang Dali at the Dragon River Security Division, and the two joked about Lin Hai's new Crimson Flame role.
• Lin Hai offered Fang Dali an opportunity to take the field assistant assessment, and Fang Dali agreed to try.
• Ye Hongyu joined Lin Hai and Fang Dali, then invited Fang Dali to dinner at their home.
• Lin Hai told Ye Hongyu that Lin Wu and the others might come home, and the couple prepared dinner while wondering why they were returning before the holidays.
• Lin Hai and Ye Hongyu entered their home and found Lin Xuan waiting; Ye Hongyu hugged him while Lin Hai carried the groceries into the kitchen.

Lin Xuan reunited with Lin Hai and Ye Hongyu and told them that changes in Old Soil would soon trigger a Second World Declaration on Earth Origin Star. His warning exposed Lin Hai’s connection to the All Worlds Doomsday Theory Forum, and Lin Xuan’s newly contracted Toad King appeared to protect him from his father’s playful flick.

• Ye Hongyu checked Lin Xuan for injuries, while Lin Hai proudly told him he had become Red Flame.
• Lin Xuan explained that he had returned because Old Soil’s changes threatened to outpace the Spark Program, then warned his parents that a Second World Declaration would come within a week.
• Lin Xuan described how new bridges between worlds were appearing in Old Soil, and Lin Hai revealed that he was a junior moderator of the All Worlds Doomsday Theory Forum.
• Lin Xuan reassured his worried parents that he would protect them, but the Toad King leaped onto his shoulder when Lin Hai flicked his forehead.
• Lin Xuan stopped the Toad King from treating Lin Hai as an enemy, and Ye Hongyu mistook the golden frog for a pet Lin Long was raising.

Lin Xuan introduced the Toad King to his family and explained how it had become a powerful ally in Old Soil, prompting them to discuss the Raven Council and the coming upheaval. After Lin Xuan described the National Transcendence Plan, Lin Rou arrived, and the Toad King began to react to her.

• Lin Xuan introduced the Toad King to Lin Hai and Ye Hongyu, who worried that he had formed a dangerous symbiotic contract with it.
• Lin Long's Xiao Jin transformed and backed away when the Toad King displayed its overwhelming pressure; Lin Wu identified the Toad King as a juvenile Treasure Transformation Toad at High-Ranking War General level.
• Lin Xuan recounted how the Toad King had helped repel the Raven Council in Nanmu Town, and his family discussed the council's presence on Earth Origin Star.
• Lin Xuan told Lin Wu and Lin Long about the Second World Declaration and said the countries would push the National Transcendence Plan.
• Lin Rou entered, and the Toad King reacted to her as its golden markings began to flow, signaling its transformation into its complete form.

Lin Xuan reunited with his family, and they rested together while awaiting the Second World Declaration. State Lord Gu then announced that the Old Soil’s barriers were failing, international cooperation was coming, and Great Xia would launch the National Transcendence Plan.

• Lin Xuan restrained the Toad King when it reacted to Lin Rou, then explained the Toad King's situation and the coming Second World Declaration to his family.
• Lin Rou promised to settle the score with the Raven Council's councilor, and Lin Hai and Ye Hongyu arranged for the family to take time off together.
• Five days later, Great Xia announced a nationwide broadcast, and reports revealed that governments around the world would also make major announcements.
• State Lord Gu declared that barriers between realms in the Old Soil were failing and that outsiders would eventually be able to cross over.
• State Lord Gu announced closer international cooperation and Great Xia's National Transcendence Plan, prompting an uproar across the country and the world.

A year after the Second World Declaration, Earth Origin Star established the Earth Safety Council and Great Xia reorganized education around martial arts. Lin Xuan returned to school at Liangjiang Academy, where he reunited with Duo Duo and Xiong Zhen.

• The major powers and Earth Origin Star's Supreme Experts established the seven-member Earth Safety Council as countries consolidated their territories in the Old Soil.
• Great Xia replaced its old school system with ten years of compulsory education focused on martial arts and other transcendent career paths.
• Ye Hongyu brought five-year-old Lin Xuan to Liangjiang Academy and told Duo Duo to keep him from practicing alone at school.
• Lin Xuan reunited with Duo Duo, told her about his dangerous trip to the Old Soil, and was assigned to East Campus Third Grade Class Two with her.
• Lin Xuan recognized the hulking Xiong Zhen in class, and one of Xiong Zhen's former lackeys soon arrived.

Lin Xuan used Other Awareness to assess his new classmates and family, then kept a low profile at Liangjiang Academy. Three months later, during a field trip, Toad King sensed a calamity nearby after Huang Shan ran toward a scream, leaving Lin Xuan facing a sudden crisis.

• Lin Xuan reunited with Duo Duo, Xiong Zhen, and Zheng Nan at school and learned that Dai Dai had moved to the Golden Eagle Federation with his family.
• Lin Xuan recognized Director Huang as Liangjiang Academy's new dean of discipline and learned that his homeroom teacher was Huang Shan.
• Lin Xuan used Other Awareness to examine Huang Shan and reflected on the combat levels of his siblings, including his inability to read Lin Rou's level and Lin Long's unexpectedly low score.
• Lin Xuan deliberately performed only slightly above average on the placement test so he could avoid being moved to another grade.
• Three months later, Lin Xuan practiced alone during a field trip until Huang Shan found him and asked about his martial arts training.
• After a scream drew Huang Shan away, Toad King warned Lin Xuan that it sensed the aura of a calamity nearby.

Wang Lei transformed into a blood-red, superhuman state and attacked his classmates, prompting Duo Duo to awaken an ability that diverted his blow. Lin Xuan stopped Director Huang from intervening until Xiong Zhen underwent the same transformation, and Lin Xuan warned that a calamity had appeared and its source had to be found.

• Wang Lei transformed after Xiong Zhen called him a coward, then injured Xiong Zhen and struck Zheng Nan down.
• Duo Duo awakened a special ability and caused Wang Lei's next punch to miss Zheng Nan, making Wang Lei turn on her.
• Zheng Nan grabbed Wang Lei's foot as Wang Lei prepared to attack Duo Duo, while Lin Xuan stopped Director Huang from intervening from afar.
• Lin Xuan told Director Huang that a calamity had appeared and that they needed to find its source.
• Xiong Zhen transformed like Wang Lei and knocked him away, leaving Director Huang shocked by Lin Xuan's warning.

Lin Xuan recognized that Wang Lei and Xiong Zhen had been affected by a calamity and intervened as their rage spread to Teacher Huang. As Teacher Huang turned on him, Lin Xuan vanished after saying he had found her.

• Director Huang recalled his experience with calamities and agreed to notify the school, Uncle Zhang, and Auntie Li after Lin Xuan warned him the threat might spread.
• Xiong Zhen tore off Wang Lei’s arm, but Wang Lei kept fighting, and Duo Duo used her newly awakened ability to divert Xiong Zhen.
• Teacher Huang arrived and fought off Wang Lei and Xiong Zhen, but the same red-faced rage began affecting her.
• Lin Xuan stepped between Teacher Huang and the others, reassured Duo Duo, and challenged Teacher Huang to touch him within ten moves.
• Teacher Huang refused the bet and ordered Lin Xuan aside, but Lin Xuan vanished and said, “All right... found you!”

Lin Xuan exposed Wang Bingyao as a Calamity Spirit, and a gigantic golden toad swallowed her before she could escape. After Wang Lei, Xiong Zhen, and Huang Shan recovered from her control, Duo Duo used her newly awakened Transfer ability to save Zheng Nan by shifting some of his injuries to Lin Xuan, then fainted as academy and Crimson Flame reinforcements arrived.

• Lin Xuan restrained Wang Bingyao and accused her of manipulating the students, but released her when Director Huang demanded evidence.
• A gigantic golden toad swallowed Wang Bingyao, knocked Wang Lei, Xiong Zhen, and Huang Shan away, then departed after warning Director Huang off.
• Huang Shan, Wang Lei, and Xiong Zhen regained their senses; Wang Lei discovered his arm was gone, and Director Huang warned that Zheng Nan's internal bleeding was life-threatening.
• Duo Duo tried her newly awakened Transfer ability on Zheng Nan, with Lin Xuan accepting the transferred injuries and Zheng Nan improving.
• Duo Duo exhausted herself and fainted after Zheng Nan was out of danger, just as Liangjiang Academy and Crimson Flame reinforcements arrived, including Lin Hai.