Chapter Summaries

Kallen defeated Dali Wenluo by anchoring himself with Chains of Order and withstanding his increasingly powerful attacks. As Dali died after delivering his final blow, Kallen offered him a complete second life, and Dali accepted by saying he would take Kallen’s surname.

• Dali Wenluo attacked Kallen with a wooden club that grew stronger and faster, while Kallen dodged and studied his fighting style.
• Kallen used twelve Chains of Order to anchor himself and turn aside Dali Wenluo’s powerful strikes, then multiplied the chains to withstand Dali’s tree-sized weapon and leave him badly wounded.
• Dali Wenluo refused to flee, explaining that he wanted to uphold the life he believed in and show Kallen life’s end with a final attack.
• Dali Wenluo’s Withered Wood shattered Kallen’s defenses and knocked away his Greatsword, but its power faded before it could seriously harm him.
• Kallen’s Diamans Sword pierced Dali Wenluo, who moved his final splinter aside rather than damage Kallen’s appearance and admitted he could not defeat him.
• Kallen offered Dali Wenluo a complete second life, and Dali said he would take Kallen’s surname before he died.

Kallen used Order-Awakening to revive Dali Wenluo, whose memories revealed the abuse and despair he had endured before his death. Dali Wenluo accepted Kallen as the God of Order, switched allegiance, and set out to help hunt the other young clerics pursuing Kallen.

• Kallen used the Chain of Order to read Dali Wenluo's memories and saw how Dali had suffered his mother's abuse while still hoping to improve her life.
• Dali Wenluo revealed that he had killed his mother after she again planned to take him to the manor gates, then argued with Kallen about whether he was truly dead.
• Kallen revived Dali Wenluo with Order-Awakening and replenished his life energy, convincing him that the awakening was real and different from the usual method.
• Kallen offered Dali Wenluo a place among his followers and the chance to become one of the 12 Order Knights, and Dali agreed to betray the Life Order God Church.
• Kallen named him Dali Wenluo Tu and ordered him to find the clerics hunting Kallen and help eliminate them, while warning him not to fight alone.
• Dali Wenluo left to find the hunters, then stopped to slap himself and marvel at his new life before declaring that he had switched sides.

Dali Wenluo killed Suofuleiya after she tried to steal his sapling, then set out to test the other delegates. Kallen confronted Lango, who had been tracking the group, and Lango offered to join him rather than fight.

• Lango watched the delegates’ markers on his turtle shell and realized that Dali Wenluo, whom he thought dead, was moving toward him, so he kept his distance.
• Suofuleiya found the wounded Dali Wenluo and tried to kill him for his sapling, but the sapling burst from the sand and pierced her.
• Dali Wenluo drained Suofuleiya’s vitality to restore the sapling, then killed her and tied her head to his belt before leaving to test the other delegates.
• Lango found Suofuleiya’s corpse, and Kallen appeared behind him, explaining that puppet magic had fooled Lango’s tracking senses.
• Kallen challenged Lango with the Diamans Sword, and Lango drew his scimitars before proposing that he join Kallen instead.

Kallen and Lango agreed to cooperate in exchange for a personal favor, while Kallen and Philomina killed three pursuers and collected their heads. Lango lured the remaining Observation Delegation members into a Reincarnation Formation, but Dali Wenluo arrived without a soul, thwarting Lango’s plan to learn what deal he had made with Kallen.

• Lango offered to help Kallen kill members of the Observation Delegation, and Kallen agreed to owe him a favor.
• Philomina killed Hosed Wade and the Earth God Church believer who had ambushed her, while Kallen helped defeat the second attacker.
• Kallen scolded Philomina for risking herself and sent her to deliver the heads and spoils to Richard.
• Kallen received Lango’s message that the trap was ready, then sent Dali Wenluo a warning to watch out for Lango.
• Lango gathered the remaining Observation Delegation members inside a Desert Ground Crack, intending to bind their souls with a Reincarnation Formation.
• Dali Wenluo entered the Ground Crack despite Lango’s trap, revealing in his thoughts that he had no soul.

Kallen and Dali Wenluo survived Lango’s attempt to trap them, while the Desert Rebels’ advances left the Desert Order God Church close to collapse. At the Church headquarters, High Priest Norton approved reforms and formally declared the Order God Church’s intervention in the desert civil war.

• Richard shared roasted Sand Wolf meat with Little Kangna and Philomina, and the group prepared to rest while Little Jerry kept watch.
• Lango activated a formation that imprisoned the young pursuers’ souls, then tried to decide whether to seize Kallen’s body as he revealed that three Desert sacred lands had fallen to the rebels.
• Dali Wenluo destroyed the formation’s central hub, freeing Kallen from Lango’s leverage; Kallen let Lango leave, and Dali Wenluo agreed to travel with him.
• Kallen and his companions gathered the heads of their defeated pursuers and contacted the Whip of Order, while High Priest Norton reassigned officials responsible for the desert affairs and approved Fudeng’s plan to rebuild the intelligence network.
• High Priest Norton authorized Kallen’s radical reform plan and declared that the Order God Church would intervene in the desert civil war to use the conflict to train its troops.

Kallen left Desert with the surviving investigation delegation, completed the handover in Dinge District, and met privately with the Whip Bearer before heading back to York City District. He told Little Kangna that their arrival there would mean they were already home.

• Kallen rejected Denemir’s offer to leave Desert with him and discussed Dali Wenluo’s recovery and sparring with Philomina.
• Richard told Kallen that the investigation delegation had been recalled, and Kallen led the survivors through the Teleportation Magic Formation as Order’s forces entered Desert.
• In Dinge District, Kallen completed the delegation’s paperwork and signed the lists of those who had died on duty.
• Andilao took Kallen to meet the Whip Bearer, who summoned him alone but offered no direct praise or instructions.
• Kallen left for the teleportation magic formation and told Little Kangna that York City District was now their home.

Kallen returned to York City quietly and met with Byrne, who confirmed the handover of York City District and urged him to make a new department the center of its administration. After reaching Allen Manor, Kallen rested while Alfred and Dali Wenluo went to meet Neo, whose wagered challenge hinted at a place for him in Alfred’s mural.

• Kallen returned to York City in secret, then Byrne told him Gaspol had resigned and that he would take over as District Chief after the handover procedures were complete.
• Kallen and Byrne discussed making the new department the mainstay of the district’s government, with Byrne offering to draft an implementation plan alongside him.
• Alfred drove Kallen to Allen Manor, where Kallen learned that Neo had returned and offered to make him Deputy Knight Commander of a militia regiment if he wanted to join.
• Kallen went to rest while Alfred and Dali Wenluo left to meet Neo, who had come to the Manor after losing his vouchers again.
• Alfred lent Neo his personal savings and asked him to humble Dali Wenluo; the two headed to a clearing to fight, while Alfred mused about placing him second in the mural.

Alfred arranged for Neo to test the newcomer Dali Wenluo, and Neo defeated him before Alfred threatened to make him study in the stable. Neo then visited Kallen, who recruited him to train people for a future expedition to the Desert Battlefield, while Alfred recorded Kallen’s trust and tolerance.

• Alfred concealed Allen Manor with its Defensive Formation and let Neo handle Dali Wenluo’s challenge.
• Neo survived Dali Wenluo’s opening attack, threatened him with a blood strike, then overwhelmed him with the Armor of Light and left him incapacitated.
• Alfred decided to put Dali Wenluo in the stable to recover and promised to teach him there, while Dali Wenluo begged for forgiveness.
• Neo visited Kallen and discussed his purple hair, Mr. Luther, Kallen’s appointment as District Chief, and a possible crackdown on the Black Market.
• Kallen asked Neo to train people for an expedition to the Desert Battlefield, and Neo agreed after asking to smoke in Kallen’s bedroom.
• Alfred listened at the bedroom door and wrote that Kallen had granted him great trust and shown the Light great tolerance.

Kallen completed a successful teleportation test at Allen Manor, then visited Gaspol before the handover ceremony that made him district chief of the Order God Church’s York City District. The chapter ended with Kallen taking the stage as the clerics pledged themselves to Order.

• Kallen used teleportation runes to bring Old Saman and Dali Wenluo to the hill, and Old Saman asked to keep researching the array with Kevin at the manor.
• Puer, Old Saman, Kevin, and Little Kangna stayed at Allen Manor to handle the ancestral cemetery, formation research, and Eunice’s training while Kallen returned to York City.
• Kallen visited Gaspol and Mavario before the ceremony, where Gaspol admitted she felt wronged and Mavario comforted her.
• At the handover ceremony, Gaspol gave her farewell speech and Kallen was appointed district chief of the York City District.
• Kallen took the stage and said, “Wield the whip,” as the clerics, including Gaspol, answered, “For Order!”

Kallen managed York City District’s work while arranging for Neo to lead a militia regiment into the Desert and fund his reforms through raids and the recovery of relics. Neo agreed to take Earl Recar and possibly Puer, whose surgery could let her briefly become human, though Kallen did not want her exposed to the battlefield.

• Kallen read his report in the Whip of Order’s internal publication and learned that Andilao had ordered every district to study it.
• Kallen reviewed intelligence about the Church’s campaign in the Desert and reflected on how he had narrowly escaped capture by the desert rebels.
• Kallen met Chief Bishop Byrne at Neo’s training ground, where Byrne approved Neo’s appointment to command the militia regiment.
• Kallen gave Neo maps and intelligence to support raids on protected sites and enemy supply networks in the Desert and surrounding regions.
• Neo agreed to bring Earl Recar on the expedition, while Kallen considered whether Puer’s surgery would allow her to join him.

Kallen survived an assassination attempt on the way to the Demon Beast Research Institute, then arranged for Puer to undergo surgery to regain the use of her hands. He left Puer at the laboratory for preparations and ended by promising she would soon be able to hold a cup of coffee herself.

• Philomina drove Kallen toward the institute, and they discussed her possible future trip to the desert and Kallen's treatment of Puer and Eunice.
• An old man and other assassins attacked Kallen's car with a spell crossbow, but Philomina protected him and killed the attackers before their bodies and the truck were set ablaze to destroy evidence.
• Philomina stayed with Kallen instead of going to the desert, and she carried their damaged car back onto the road so they could continue to the institute.
• Kallen gave Aisili's parents a detailed surgical plan, and they said they could prepare to operate on Puer by midnight.
• Kallen visited Xianty while waiting, then Philomina returned with Puer and Little Kangna, who found Kallen at the demon beast enclosures.
• Kallen told Puer she would undergo the surgery, and he promised that afterward she would be able to hold a cup and drink coffee with her own hands.

Kallen and Puer underwent a difficult operation that let Puer share his power, and Puer faced her fear of becoming human by choosing to go through with it. The surgery succeeded, leaving Puer transformed into Paul Allen, who greeted Kallen by asking for fish.

• Aisili returned home and prepared a late-night snack while Kallen, Puer, and Little Kangna waited for the operation; Puer admitted she was nervous about becoming human.
• Kallen and Puer began the operation, which used their symbiosis and the Lax Copper Coin’s power to create a connection between them.
• In a vision of the Immerlis Family villa, Puer confessed that she was afraid of becoming human and facing the outside world, but Kallen offered to end the operation rather than pressure her.
• Puer chose to continue, prayed to Kallen for strength, and received a surge of Spiritual Power as the operation reached its conclusion.
• At dawn, Puer emerged from the Black Light as a woman named Paul Allen, accepted coffee, and asked Kallen for fish.

Kallen prepared a fish feast for Puer after she briefly transformed into a human, then took Puer and Little Kangna on a walk through the Zoo. Puer planned to join Neo’s desert expedition, and she returned to cat form before they drove away.

• Puer asked Kallen to make fish, and Aisili caught three Demon Beast fish from the institute’s aquatic area.
• Puer spent time with Little Kangna and watched Kallen cook, then agreed to join Neo’s expedition to the desert with Reikar.
• Kallen served the fish meal to the Santos couple, Philomina, Aisili, Puer, and Little Kangna.
• Kallen walked Puer and Little Kangna around the Zoo, where Puer visited Xianty’s enclosure and spoke with Kallen about their changing circumstances.
• Philomina drove Kallen, Puer, and the sleeping Little Kangna away, while Puer had turned back into a cat and tied her tail around Kallen’s finger.

Kallen attended the Whip of Order’s annual meeting, where his completed militia preparations drew Fudeng’s attention and he was asked to report. Afterward, Miguel spoke privately with Kallen, who returned claiming he had only taken a nap in the carriage.

• Kallen arrived at Saint Rosen Church with Little Kangna and mingled with the Whip of Order’s district chiefs before the annual meeting began.
• Fudeng arrived late, and the meeting turned to organizing militia regiments to support the desert battlefield.
• Miguel presented Kallen’s report to Fudeng, showing York City District had completed its militia preparations and planned additional rotation batches.
• Fudeng directed the meeting to discuss practical preparations, and Kallen was called to report that York City District’s regiment was ready to enter the desert battlefield immediately.
• After the meeting, Richard distributed a feast, and Miguel took Kallen aside in a carriage for a private conversation.
• Kallen returned to the group, then told Richard that he had napped in the empty carriage.

Neo fought Madam Tang Li after she caught him sneaking into Allen Manor, but the battle ended when he called her Grandmother and she stopped. Kallen discussed the risks of sending his relatives on the desert expedition, while Puer and Madam Tang Li met at the Manor.

• Neo tried to sneak through Allen Manor’s Defensive Formation and was attacked by Madam Tang Li, who mistook him for a thief.
• Neo used his blood powers and seals against Madam Tang Li, but she broke free and nearly killed him with a knife; he stopped her by calling her Grandmother.
• Kallen told Old Delong that the expedition could cause heavy casualties and objected to sending the whole family, while preparing to divide his team between district reforms and the desert campaign.
• Madam Tang Li brought Neo to Kallen, and Puer greeted them while riding with Kevin and Little Kangna.
• Puer dispelled the yin wind around Madam Tang Li and recalled that Dis had once described meeting a hot-tempered girl who carried a knife.

Kallen investigated why the Guman family had been rejected from the Militia Regiment and agreed with Neo to expand the force and send it to the Desert. As the regiment departed, the Gate of Reincarnation opened onto a dark region, where a voice announced that Order would return soon.

• Puer grieved that the eras she remembered had vanished, while Neo went to consult Earl Recar about the Militia Regiment.
• Madam Tang Li confronted Kallen with the Guman family's rejected applications, and Kallen learned from Mr. Eisen that the family wanted to join despite her objections.
• Kallen and Neo agreed to add places for recruits from other districts, divide the regiment into sections, and broadcast its departure; the regiment marched through York City and teleported toward the Desert.
• Lango watched the broadcast from Reincarnation Valley, where the Gate of Reincarnation opened onto a vast darkness and then began to close.
• A voice from beyond the Gate declared, "Order, I'll be back soon!" and the Reincarnation Church rejoiced at the sign of its Chief God's imminent return.

Kallen and Alfred considered whether Kallen’s growing influence was weakening the Previous God of Order’s barrier against the returning gods, while the Whip of Order and Church Headquarters debated how to respond to the Reincarnation Church’s miracle. Fudeng ultimately urged the Order God Church to prevent the God of Reincarnation’s descent, declaring it a violation of the Order Regulations.

• Kallen, Alfred, Leon, and Vic discussed the Reincarnation Church’s miracle and interpreted the words “Order, I'm coming back soon” as a warning from the God of Reincarnation.
• Kallen wondered whether he himself was the point in time marking the gods’ return, and Alfred suggested that Kallen’s expanding authority and influence might be weakening the God of Order’s seal.
• Fudeng invited Kallen to the Whip of Order’s meeting, where the members discussed how to respond to the Reincarnation Church’s miracle.
• When Fudeng called on him, Kallen thanked the Whip Bearer for allowing him to join the meeting, and Fudeng told him he deserved that treatment.
• At the High Priest’s meeting, Fudeng argued that the God of Order might have sealed away the God of Reincarnation, and the High Priest ordered the church to prevent the God of Reincarnation’s descent as a violation of the Order Regulations.

Kallen hosted Miguel, Daina, Aoji, Mavario, and Gaspol, while Miguel confirmed that the Whip Bearer had approved Kallen’s entry into the Church’s inner circle and discussed his career prospects. Alfred then reported that Neo’s militia had captured the second-in-command of a Desert Rebels organization, giving Kallen’s regiment its greatest victory in the desert war so far.

• Kallen took Little Kangna to collect Miguel, Daina, and Aoji from the Church Administration Building and invited them to his home for a meal.
• Miguel told Kallen that the Whip Bearer had approved his participation in a regular inner-circle meeting, and he outlined how Kallen’s reforms and the militia’s battlefield record could advance his career.
• Mavario and Gaspol joined the gathering, and Mavario used his closeness with Kallen to show Miguel their relationship.
• Miguel said Kallen might rise quickly, while Mavario joked that he could someday compete for the High Priest position.
• Alfred told Kallen that Puer had helped Neo’s regiment enter a Desert Rebels command base and capture its second-in-command alive.

Kallen reported that Neo’s militia had captured Mili Yev, the Desert Rebels’ second-in-command, alive, and arranged to share credit with the Whip of Order. Neo revealed that Mili’s secret refuge had fallen after Kevin supplied its location and access method, while Kevin’s history with the desert factions proved more complicated than expected.

• Kallen told Miguel that Neo had captured the Desert Rebels’ second-in-command alive, and Miguel reported the news to Fudeng.
• Kallen confirmed the capture to Fudeng and agreed to credit the Whip of Order’s desert intelligence network.
• Kallen and Miguel went to headquarters, where Kallen arranged for Miguel to review the report and share in the achievement’s credit.
• Neo questioned the captured Mili Yev, who suspected the Desert Rebels’ first-in-command had betrayed him, and argued that their civil war had invited outside forces into the desert.
• Neo explained that his troops had found Mili’s refuge using Kevin’s precise directions, surrounded it, and secured Mili’s surrender without significant losses.
• Puer explained that Kevin had helped build the Secret Realm and supported the Desert Believers after collecting service fees from both the Desert God and the rebels.

Kallen used a detailed report to secure the Whip of Order’s backing, then led an overnight raid on the assassin guilds behind a contract on his life. The Whip Bearer read the report of Kallen’s rampage and decided to summon him for a personal reprimand instead of issuing an official letter.

• Kallen approved Miguel’s report, which credited the Whip of Order with the desert operation and gave its backing to Neo’s regiment’s activities.
• Leon delivered a report tracing an assassination contract on Kallen through several intermediary guilds, and Kallen decided to visit the assassins with Alfred, Vic, Leon, Daina, Aoji, and Little Kangna.
• Kallen’s group killed the assassins at a York City inn, then used district teleportation privileges to travel between guild bases and destroy them.
• Aoji transformed into a Frost Dragon to carry Kallen’s group to an island guild, where the local Church Venerable mistakenly mobilized forces in the Whip Bearer’s name.
• Miguel reported Kallen’s raids to the Whip Bearer, who declined to issue an official reprimand and instead ordered Kallen to come see him.