Chapter Summaries

Meng Chengfei and his companions captured Boss Zhao aboard the Dark Skyship, while Duke Han Xi moved to take Sun Xiufei and the fetus he believed could host His descent. Five days later, Xu Ye’s heart warned him that a Three-Eyed Giant would appear and Night Spirit City would explode, then revealed that someone was watching him.

• Meng Chengfei, Jian Fang, and He Li entered the Dark Skyship through Jian Fang’s Star Gate and confronted Boss Zhao, whose ritual plans had failed.
• Meng Chengfei identified Boss Zhao as the Six of Spades and said he would be handed over for interrogation, while Boss Zhao begged his Lord to save him.
• Duke Han Xi ordered Sun Xiufei to come with him, claiming her fetus was connected to a dangerous matter, and Anderson stayed silent under his authority.
• Xu Ye learned from his heart that a Three-Eyed Giant would appear in five days and Night Spirit City would explode.
• Xu Ye ran another simulation, and his heart revealed, “He is watching me!”

Xu Ye inventoried his Taboo Objects, learned more about their powers, and discovered that a miniature radio could broadcast the Lord of Darkfall’s dangerous voice as well as distorted news. At Rose Manor, Cheng Tianming watched the excavation of a mysterious coffin and warned Gu Muhan that the Eternal Church matter might not be over.

• Xu Ye examined his Taboo Objects, and Bandit Lord identified the Bride's Red Veil as a Grade D object that let its wearer briefly pass through solid materials as a spirit.
• Alice spoke from inside her egg, announced that her transformation was nearly complete, and reacted with dismay when Bandit Lord teased her about mutating.
• Xu Ye discovered that the Black Umbrella had grown stronger and that the miniature radio could broadcast the Lord of Darkfall’s Profanity, which he stopped before it could harm him further.
• Xu Ye listened to the radio’s Night Spirit City news, including reports of deaths in the Disaster Zone, protests against the sewage plant, and the excavation of Rose Manor’s underground relics.
• Cheng Tianming told Gu Muhan that the coffin beneath Rose Manor would take another four or five days to open and might contain a corpse of Sequence 5 or Sequence 4.
• Cheng Tianming said he still feared the Eternal Church matter was not over and told Gu Muhan to take charge of Sky City if anything happened to him.

Lu Mingwang confronted the kidnapper who abducted Li Yunyao and revealed a powerful presence within himself, while Xu Ye learned of several alarming coincidences surrounding Night Spirit City. The movie tickets’ plot seemed to mirror Xu Ye’s experiences, leaving him urgently questioning Alice about the film.

• Lu Mingwang suffered recurring head pains as he waited for Li Yunyao, who was suddenly attacked and abducted by Lu E amid a truck crash and explosion.
• Lu E revealed that Li Yunyao’s mind contained a clue to the Glorious Holy Grail and that the Young Wives’ Club had collected three keys.
• Lu Mingwang’s hidden aura forced Lu E to release Li Yunyao, bow to him, and leave, but she then forgot what she had encountered.
• Xu Ye declined Chen Yu and Zhong Little Hua’s invitation to a movie because He’s descent and Sun Xiufei’s premature labor coincided with the day Night Spirit City was fated to burn.
• Xu Ye noticed that the movie Three Lifetimes, Three Worlds, Escape from Death featured repeated rebirths and bizarre events, and urgently asked Alice whether she knew its plot.

Xu Ye recognized that the heroine’s experiences in a movie mirrored several pollution incidents from his own life. He concluded that the final ritual clue was the evil in human nature, though the connection remained unresolved.

• Alice described the movie’s heroine enduring atrocities in her first life, and Xu Ye realized several details echoed his experiences.
• Xu Ye connected the movie’s orphan trafficking and forced studying to the Missing Person Notice and Wang Yong’s family.
• Xu Ye linked the wealthy family’s exploitation to Han Li’s pollution and the sewage plant incident, then connected the heroine’s jealous rival to Zhang Feng’s aberration.
• Xu Ye compared the movie’s organ-selling family and revenge plot to the Mechanical Girl and Old Zheng’s story.
• Xu Ye told Alice and the Bandit Lord that the script’s central clue was the evil in human nature.

Xu Ye, Alice, and Bandit Lord realized Divine Sequence 6-001 [Director] had been guiding events toward the Lord of Darkfall’s ritual, whose final test centered on whether Sky City’s nobles would kill Sun Xiufei’s apparently healthy baby. Bandit Lord then accused Xu Ye’s captain, the Ace of Spades Bishop, of orchestrating the plot, leaving Xu Ye shaken as overlooked clues began to fit together.

• Xu Ye identified Divine Sequence 6-001 [Director] as the power manipulating people through a movie-like script and forcing Aberrations into the ritual.
• Xu Ye deduced that the ritual’s final step tested the nobles’ humanity and that the Lord of Darkfall’s vessel was human minds rather than Sun Xiufei’s baby.
• Bandit Lord connected Doctor Chen’s warning about evil in human hearts to the Lord of Darkfall’s descent.
• Bandit Lord accused Xu Ye’s captain, the Ace of Spades Bishop, of accepting the Lord of Darkfall’s power and guiding the ritual while seeking revenge on the Eternal Church and Sky City’s nobles.
• Xu Ye rejected the accusation at first, but details from his past began to form a coherent explanation.

Meng Chengfei revealed himself as the last member of the Eternal Church’s Spades Lineage and set out to settle his ten-year-old revenge, while Ye Qingnuo discovered his identity. At the Sixth Hospital, Gu Muhan challenged the nobles’ plan to kill a seemingly healthy unborn baby over Zhao Kuo’s warning about a deity’s arrival.

• Meng Chengfei marked Zhao Kuo for death and said Duke Han Xi was the last person left before his revenge was complete.
• Ye Qingnuo attacked Meng Chengfei with paper birds, recognized him as the one behind the new Spades Lineage, and confronted him about shutting her out.
• Meng Chengfei knocked Ye Qingnuo unconscious and left, recalling that Doctor Chen had given him the Eternal Holy Book ten years earlier and later entrusted Xu Ye to him.
• At the Sixth Hospital, Zhao Kuo begged to be killed while Duke Han Xi told Cheng Tianming that the baby should be killed after birth to end the ritual.
• Gu Muhan reported that the recovered Ancient Sage’s corpse might aid research into reaching Sequence 4, while the baby’s birth was expected within half an hour and examinations showed no abnormalities.
• Gu Muhan argued that the nobles were prepared to kill an innocent baby because they feared losing power, and urged them to consider the people harmed by contaminated water and the ongoing protests.

Anderson’s refugee-rights march grew despite a deliberate snowstorm, while Li Kang and the Ninth Squad helped support it. Xu Ye learned from Meng Chengfei that the squad’s combat personnel had joined the Eternal Church, Doctor Chen had given Meng the Eternal Holy Book, and Meng had arranged a way for Xu Ye and others to leave Night Spirit City after the coming events.

• Anderson, Dusha, and Owen led a growing march through the Refugee District, demanding better living conditions and rights for refugees.
• An Awakened from Sky City caused snow to fall and hinder the march, but Li Kang arrived with warm clothes and hot water.
• He Li told Xu Ye that the Ninth Squad, including Li Kang, had gone to help the march organized by Anderson, Dusha, and Owen.
• Meng Chengfei revealed that Doctor Chen had given him the Eternal Holy Book and warned Xu Ye that Doctor Chen treated life as secondary to experiments.
• Meng Chengfei explained that the Ninth Squad’s combat personnel were willing Followers, said Li Yunyao had a power he had not investigated, and told Xu Ye to leave Night Spirit City after that day.
• Xu Ye realized Meng Chengfei had arranged his meeting with Duke Aldrich so the Duke would owe him a favor and could help people escape Night Spirit City.

Meng Chengfei revealed how he had manipulated Xu Ye into witnessing and advancing the ritual for His descent, while admitting that he was troubled by the innocent people sacrificed. He left Xu Ye with the power to decide whether the ritual would continue.

• Meng Chengfei explained that Xu Ye had replaced Zhang Feng as the ritual’s witness and described how he had arranged the Cliff Forbidden Zone events to awaken the Three-Eyed Giant and recover the Eternal Holy Book’s missing pages.
• Meng Chengfei revealed that he had orchestrated the Rose Manor arson and used the villa incidents to test the Chief Captain’s weakness and mislead both sides about Sun Xiufei’s fetus.
• Meng Chengfei said the fetus was normal but that killing it would trigger His descent, and he clarified that the Refugee District march was his own effort to make the powerful hear the poor.
• Xu Ye asked why Meng Chengfei had repeatedly given him chances to discover the ritual, and Meng Chengfei confessed his guilt and fear.
• Meng Chengfei told Xu Ye that his gaze would determine the passage for His descent and offered to suspend the ritual if Xu Ye chose to stop it.

Xu Ye weighed whether to stop the Lord of Darkfall’s ritual as a march from the Refugee District pushed into the city, while Meng Chengfei explained the Ninth Squad’s motives and warned Xu Ye about the mystery surrounding his parents’ deaths. The chapter ended with Meng Chengfei revealing that the Fallen Knights and the absent Five-Person Council were connected to a deity.

• Xu Ye asked Meng Chengfei about deities, and Meng Chengfei explained that they came from Heavenly Abyss Star and that humanity had not found the path to godhood.
• Xu Ye told Meng Chengfei that he would always consider him his captain, despite learning about the ritual and its potential consequences.
• A march of more than ten thousand Refugee District residents continued toward the city center as a Sequence Talent caused them to cough, and He Li used a lamp to ease their pain.
• Xu Ye and Meng Chengfei discussed the New World and the Ninth Squad’s willingness to stop the ritual if the city listened to the marchers and agreed to change.
• Meng Chengfei warned Xu Ye that his parents’ deaths had been classified as a Class S Pollution Incident and that the Fallen Knights, who were connected to a deity, might be targeting him because of it.
• Meng Chengfei told Xu Ye that the Five-Person Council had never appeared publicly and might have been seen only by the Chief Captain and Duke Han Xi.

Meng Chengfei brought Xu Ye into a secret meeting where the Silver Nobles decided Zhao Kuo’s fate and debated the newborn Sun Xiufei’s possible connection to the Lord of Darkfall. The chapter ended as Duke Han Xi received news of a protest involving over a hundred thousand people.

• Meng Chengfei explained his regret over Qin Yingying’s death, then entered the nobles’ hidden meeting with Xu Ye.
• The Silver Nobles unanimously voted to execute Zhao Kuo, who laughed that the Lord of Darkfall had not abandoned them before he died.
• Sun Xiufei gave birth to a healthy baby girl, and Gu Muhan reported that she showed no signs of Spiritual Qi or contamination.
• Duke Han Xi argued that the baby might be the Lord of Darkfall’s vessel, while Gu Muhan and Cheng Tianming questioned the intelligence and suggested the coffin might be the true target.
• Duke Han Xi received word that a protest had grown to over a hundred thousand people and ordered his subordinates to handle it according to procedure.

Ye Weiyang and Gongsun Yun witnessed a Three-Eyed Giant emerge from the Cliff and charge toward Night Spirit City. At a meeting, Duke Han Xi admitted to replacing and killing Sun Xiufei’s baby, triggering Meng Chengfei’s despair as the Lord of Darkfall began to descend.

• Gongsun Yun told Ye Weiyang that Doctor Chen had left a Talisman to be placed beneath the Cliff when the time came.
• The Cliff rose, and a giant Ancient Organism burst out and ran toward Night Spirit City.
• Duke Han Xi accused Meng Chengfei of inciting a march, while the nobles criticized Meng Chengfei and Xu Ye watched the dispute.
• Sun Xiufei screamed that the baby she had been given was not hers, and Meng Chengfei realized Duke Han Xi had killed the original child.
• The Bandit Lord sensed the Projection of the Lord of Darkfall descending, and Meng Chengfei threw a glass at Duke Han Xi before declaring that He had come.

Meng Chengfei revealed himself as the Ace of Spades Bishop and accused the nobles of helping bring about His Descent through their corruption and cruelty. As the presence arrived and sealed the conference room, he began exposing the nobles’ crimes, leaving Xu Ye horrified by their exploitation of refugees.

• Meng Chengfei told Gu Muhan and the nobles that they could not change the system, while Cheng Tianming sensed an ominous presence.
• Cheng Tianming recognized Meng Chengfei as the new Ace of Spades Bishop, and Meng admitted his role in the Ninth Squad’s revenge and the Eternal Church’s actions.
• His presence reached the conference room, terrifying Gu Muhan and causing the nobles to take cover as the exits sealed and weapons aimed at Meng Chengfei.
• Meng Chengfei told Cheng Tianming that human nature and the evil in people’s hearts were the vessel for His Descent.
• Meng Chengfei recounted how the nobles had obstructed his search for the truth and revealed that Duke Du Wei and Ms. Han Li had profited from poisoning refugees and freeing residency slots.
• Xu Ye listened as Meng Chengfei described how the nobles treated refugees as resources to exploit and replace.

Meng Chengfei revealed why he had completed the Lord of Darkfall's ritual, blaming the nobles for ignoring his chances to stop it. As Duke Han Xi proposed destroying Night Spirit City, Cheng Tianming disclosed that he had been corrupted long before Meng Chengfei believed, and Meng accused him of betraying his parents and the Ninth Squad.

• Meng Chengfei explained that he had given the nobles chances to uncover the truth and stop the ritual, but their choices led to the baby's death and the Lord of Darkfall's coming descent.
• Meng Chengfei revealed that he had killed his father and taken his Sequence Talent, then said the completed ritual could no longer be stopped.
• Duke Han Xi proposed using the Starry Sky Ship to destroy Night Spirit City and the descending projection, despite the city's nearly hundred million residents.
• Gu Muhan stepped between Meng Chengfei and the nobles, but Meng Chengfei warned that Gu Muhan was no match for him.
• Cheng Tianming admitted that he had been corrupted before the battle ten years earlier, shocking Meng Chengfei, who accused him of leaking information, killing his parents and the Ninth Squad, and seeking the fruit.

Cheng Tianming revealed that he had knowingly endured contamination for ten years while waiting to use the red fruit, and he fought Meng Chengfei as Xu Ye went after Duke Han Xi to stop him from activating the Starry Sky Ship. Xu Ye confronted Han Xi in the Disaster Refugee District, while Meng Chengfei faced Cheng Tianming in a dreamscape.

• Cheng Tianming admitted that fear of death and the city’s safety had led him to cooperate with Old Han’s plan and hold onto the red fruit.
• Cheng Tianming ate the fruit and attacked Meng Chengfei after the conference room’s confinement broke, while Meng Chengfei sent Xu Ye to stop Duke Han Xi from activating the Starry Sky Ship.
• Gu Muhan vanished to confront the hidden Ace of Hearts Bishop, and Cheng Tianming struck what he believed was Meng Chengfei before realizing it was a dreamscape.
• Duke Han Xi arrived at a secret cabin in the Disaster Refugee District and planned to activate the Starry Sky Ship, then escape to Base No. 1.
• Xu Ye appeared before Han Xi, who assumed Meng Chengfei had sent him, and Xu Ye challenged the duke’s confidence.

Xu Ye tried to stop Duke Han Xi from sending a password that would destroy Night Spirit City, but the duke’s abilities and counterattacks made the fight increasingly dangerous. At ten fifteen, Duke Han Xi summoned [Hundred Ghosts Night Parade] as the Bandit Lord warned Xu Ye that he had walked into their line of fire.

• Duke Han Xi told Xu Ye that Night Spirit City would explode in twenty minutes and revealed that the Five-Person Council had once issued an execution order for him.
• Duke Han Xi fired curved bullets, but Xu Ye dodged them and attacked with the Black Blade; the duke redirected his strike and used [Intelligence-Dropping Strike] to weaken his thinking.
• The Bandit Lord guided Xu Ye with commands while a Red Veil puppet attacked Duke Han Xi, and Xu Ye recovered from the effect.
• Xu Ye used Wang Han and the Radio to unleash the Lord of Darkfall’s [Profanity], but Duke Han Xi regained control and severed Wang Han’s spiritual threads, reducing him to Human Skin.
• Duke Han Xi kicked away the Radio, checked the time, and spat black liquid onto the ground to activate [Hundred Ghosts Night Parade].

Xu Ye countered Duke Han Xi’s Hundred Ghosts Night Parade with [Soul-Seizing] and [Gaze], then chased him down and seized the password generator. Duke Han Xi revealed that he had falsified the countdown and directed Xu Ye’s attention to the sky as the Great Xia Federation’s war machine prepared to unleash its power.

• Duke Han Xi transformed himself with Hundred Ghosts Night Parade, using Vengeful Spirits sustained by the souls of his victims.
• Xu Ye purified and absorbed the Vengeful Spirits with [Soul-Seizing] and [Gaze], then pursued Duke Han Xi as he fled through the disaster zone.
• Xu Ye struck Duke Han Xi with the God-Slaying Soulbeam and a punch, then took the password generator from his clothes.
• Duke Han Xi revealed that an F-Rank Taboo Object had altered the time shown on Xu Ye’s watch and warned him to look at the sky as the Federation’s war machine began to unfold.

Anderson led a massive march toward Night Spirit City Hall, but the Federation’s Starry Sky Ship launched three missiles at the city. As the missiles neared their targets, Meng Chengfei revealed he had prepared a Three-Eyed Giant to protect the Lord of Darkfall’s descent.

• Anderson and Dusha led nearly a million marchers toward Night Spirit City Hall, while Owen questioned why the authorities had stopped interfering.
• The Starry Sky Ship appeared over Night Spirit City, and its automated systems approved and launched three missiles after the Supreme Council failed to veto the strike.
• Xu Ye watched the Starry Sky Ship’s attack messages appear on Duke Han Xi’s black phone as the missiles fell toward Night Spirit City.
• Cheng Tianming told the wounded Meng Chengfei that the Supreme Council had ordered his death because of his connection to Doctor Chen, and that the missiles would destroy Night Spirit City.
• Meng Chengfei revealed that he had awakened the Lord of Darkfall’s follower, the Three-Eyed Giant, by arranging events involving Li Kang and Xu Ye.
• The Three-Eyed Giant collided with the three missiles and sacrificed himself as they exploded, while Xu Ye pinned Duke Han Xi’s hands with his blade.

The Lord of Darkfall partially descended over Night Spirit City, but Meng Chengfei had secretly disrupted the ritual by moving the Ancient Sage’s soul. Meng Chengfei explained his plan to force the Nobles to reform and died with the Dawn Blade Ninth Squad, while Xu Ye mourned them.

• The Lord of Darkfall emerged around the Red Moon, but His descent stopped before His projection could fully form.
• The Ace of Hearts Bishop realized Meng Chengfei had obstructed the ritual and blamed him for deceiving the church.
• Meng Chengfei told Cheng Tianming that he had moved the Ancient Sage’s soul, leaving the deity’s projection incomplete and forcing the Nobles to address the evil in their society.
• Meng Chengfei warned Cheng Tianming about the Lineages and Doctor Chen, then began dissolving into black smoke as he and the Dawn Blade Ninth Squad accepted the deity’s wrath.
• Xu Ye realized the Dawn Blade Ninth Squad was gone, put on Meng Chengfei’s Gentleman's Top Hat, and silently mourned them.

After the Ninth Squad’s apparent destruction, Xu Ye learned that Li Yunyao carried a clue to the Glorious Holy Grail and turned back toward Night Spirit City to protect her. Meanwhile, Lu E and Yun Changeng’s Golden Keys revealed that the Grail’s clues were emerging, so they left for the Land of Exiles to await the Gate.

• Xu Ye grieved for the Ninth Squad as Duke Han Xi warned him that the survivors would be hunted and then died, with his soul mysteriously transported away.
• Xu Ye’s heart revealed that Li Yunyao was a clue to the Glorious Holy Grail and that Duke An Lu had ambushed her as a member of the Matchmaker Society.
• The Bandit Lord urged Xu Ye to marry Li Yunyao and claim the Class S Taboo Object, but Xu Ye found no phone signal and headed toward Night Spirit City to protect her.
• Lu E and Yun Changeng saw the Projection of the Lord of Darkfall and realized that Night Spirit City and Sky City were no longer safe.
• Lu E and Yun Changeng’s Golden Keys began glowing as the clues to the Glorious Holy Grail emerged, and they set out for the Land of Exiles to wait for the Gate.

After the Lord of Darkfall’s projection appeared over Night Spirit City, Count An Lu attacked Li Yunyao and took her unconscious, but Xu Ye rescued her. Xu Ye fled with her, intending to reach the Land of Exiles and seek help from Duke Aldrich.

• Li Yunyao realized the Ninth Squad had died and broke down in grief while Anderson and Lu Mingwang tried to understand what had happened.
• Count An Lu revealed his allegiance to the Eternal Church, used a blood vessel to poison Li Yunyao, and immobilized Anderson and Lu Mingwang with a six of hearts card.
• Xu Ye pulled Li Yunyao away from Count An Lu with his tentacles, but An Lu escaped by merging into the ground.
• The Bandit Lord warned Xu Ye that Li Yunyao needed an Awakened with the right detoxification sequence to wake her and urged him to flee Sky City’s territory.
• Xu Ye carried Li Yunyao away through the crowd and decided to seek Duke Aldrich’s help on the way to the Land of Exiles.