Arc 22The Mother Tree’s Design

Xu Le joined the Red Moon Holy Temple’s defense against Spider Queen Rose, then pursued Puppet with Cangming, Flying Feather, and Chi Xiao. After defeating Puppet and absorbing the Gundo Mother Tree, Xu Le reached Level 8 and vanished, leaving Chi Xiao to follow him while Night Fiend learned of Puppet’s death.

  • Xu Le arrived at the Red Moon Holy Temple, where Full Moon battled Spider Queen Rose and the Soul Devouring Tree helped protect the defenders from Heart Energy.
  • Li Wen brought Zion’s fleet to the battle, and Zion joined forces with the Red Moon Holy Temple as Xu Le and Chi Xiao pursued Puppet with Cangming and Flying Feather.
  • The group followed Puppet’s coordinates into her nest, overcame her traps, and found a strange realm where Puppet had hidden among the Gundo Mother Tree.
  • Xu Le and his companions fought Puppet’s Dolls, and Xu Le defeated her with the Soul Devouring Trees after discovering that she had been weakened.
  • Xu Le and his companions entered the Mother Tree and found three Guyinduo Fruits, but Puppet possessed Xu Le and Chi Xiao fought to drive her out.
  • Xu Le awakened, destroyed Puppet, absorbed her remaining power, and merged with the Gundo Mother Tree before beginning his advancement to Level 8.
  • Xu Le reached Level 8, learned that the Gundo Mother Tree had brought him into the world as its first plan, and disappeared after asking Chi Xiao to take charge if he failed.
  • Chi Xiao used the Mother Tree’s will to follow Xu Le, while Night Fiend told Black Sheep that Puppet had died.
Chapters 526–550 Vol. 6 Read

Ch. 526A hero arrives

The Red Moon Holy Temple fought Gangshi’s Hand as the Black Tide attacked, but Spider Queen Rose’s Heart Energy storm and mutations pushed the defenders toward collapse. Xu Le arrived, restrained the giant hand with the Soul Devouring Tree, and helped steady the battlefield, leaving the Temple Masters astonished by his rapid growth.

  • Meilis, Bai Ya, and Zhang Zhe identified the giant rock arm as Gangshi’s Hand, a remnant of the Lightforging Body that had broken the Red Moon Barrier from within.
  • Meilis and Bai Ya attacked the giant hand, and the Holy Temple’s Legendary Warlocks joined them until Meilis drove a devastating yin-yang detonation into it.
  • Spider Queen Rose unleashed a Heart Energy storm and Queen’s Howl, causing Warlocks to mutate into demons and Oddities.
  • Xu Le descended as the Soul Devouring Tree sprouted beneath the Holy Temple, entangled the giant hand, and provided Heart-Steadying Tree Branches to resist Rose’s influence.
  • Bai Ya and Meilis recognized how much Xu Le had grown, while Meilis wondered whether he was an Epoch Creator heralding the end of the age.
  • Xu Le spoke with Bai Ya and eased the Heart Energy emotions inside the Holy Temple grounds.

Ch. 527Battles on all fronts

Xu Le urged the Red Moon Holy Temple to summon Full Moon against Spider Queen Rose, and Bai Ya led the ritual with the Temple’s experts. Full Moon began fighting Rose while the Holy Temple’s warlocks prepared to defend the fallen barrier, as Full Moon’s suspicious attention toward Xu Le and Xuandu’s unsettling Puppet Projection remained unresolved.

  • Xu Le pointed out that the Red Moon should intervene, and the Red Moon Holy Temple’s experts knelt to ask Bai Ya to summon Full Moon.
  • Bai Ya began the ritual, and Black Crow, Meilis, and the other experts lent her their Spirit Energy until Full Moon appeared.
  • Full Moon answered Bai Ya’s request and charged at Spider Queen Rose, while Xu Le suspected that Full Moon had marked him as a target.
  • Full Moon and Rose began fighting, ending Rose’s Heart Energy interference as Meilis, Black Crow, Wu Qi, and the other Legendary warlocks rallied to defend the Temple.
  • Xuandu watched over the Puppet Projection, which had repaired itself and spoke to him in a cloyingly coquettish voice.

Ch. 528Xuandu and the Puppet

Xuandu brought the Puppet Projection to Miwang after discovering he had been corrupted, then left to join Full Moon in the Black Tide War. The Red Moon ordered Miwang to bring Puppet Above the Red Moon, leaving Miwang troubled by the Red Moon’s divided will and Puppet’s taunts.

  • Xuandu resisted Puppet’s attempts to provoke him but carried the projection to Miwang, unaware that it had corrupted him.
  • Miwang sensed Xuandu’s corruption and threatened him, then helped dispel it after Xuandu explained that Full Moon had gone to fight Spider Queen Rose at the Red Moon Holy Temple.
  • Miwang accepted the Puppet Projection and explained that he had to guard High Heaven while Flying Feather was missing and Full Moon was fighting below.
  • Miwang prepared to destroy Puppet, but the Red Moon commanded him to bring the projection Above the Red Moon.
  • Puppet mocked the Red Moon’s division and offered to speak on Miwang’s behalf, while Miwang remained unable to refute him.

Ch. 529At last, they met

Puppet reached the Red Moon Between and discovered that the Red Moon Lord was absorbing Guyinduo, before the Red Moon killed and devoured its projection. Puppet’s hidden finger escaped with the information, while the Red Moon began to sense the breach it left behind.

  • Miwang delivered Puppet to the Red Moon’s reflection grounds, where the Red Moon praised Miwang and reassured him that a new age was coming.
  • Puppet’s damaged projection rapidly healed in the Red Moon Spirit, prompting it to suspect a profound change in the Red Moon.
  • Puppet left behind a finger containing nearly half the projection’s origin power, then opened the invisible gate and reached the Red Moon Between.
  • Puppet confronted the Red Moon and realized he was absorbing Guyinduo; the Red Moon confirmed the secret and devoured Puppet’s projection.
  • Puppet’s hidden finger escaped through a rift, but a tentacle bored through the weakened space as the Red Moon opened his eyes.

Ch. 530Rear-Wing Surprise Attack

Red Moon lured Cangming and Xu Le toward Puppet while the Black Tide overwhelmed the Red Moon Holy Temple. As Xu Le chose to stay and help defend the Temple, Li Wen arrived with Zion’s new airships, leaving his purpose unclear.

  • Red Moon recognized Puppet’s bait but devoured the source power and sent word to Cangming and Xu Le about Puppet’s coordinates.
  • Full Moon and Rose fought while the Black Tide absorbed their clashing Spirit Energy and grew more dangerous, straining the Red Moon Holy Temple’s defenders.
  • Bai Ya rallied the Temple’s fighters to stand together “for the light,” and Meilis and Black Crow echoed her call.
  • Xu Le released the Soul Devouring Tree to protect the defenders’ Heart Energy, then learned from Chi Xiao that Cangming had found Puppet’s beacon.
  • Chi Xiao asked Xu Le to pursue Puppet despite the danger and the crisis at the Temple, but Xu Le chose to stay and watch the battle against Rose.
  • Xu Le spotted Zion’s new airships approaching and realized that Li Wen had come to the Red Moon Holy Temple.

Ch. 531Zion's forces

Li Wen led Zion’s Sky Fleet to the Red Moon Holy Temple, where its new weapons broke the Black Tide’s assault and gave the defenders room to fight. With Zion joining the battle, Xu Le left with Chi Xiao to hunt Puppet, while Cangming and Flying Feather noticed their arrival.

  • Xu Le and Li Wen spotted each other as Li Wen’s fleet approached the Black Tide and prepared to deploy its Heavenly Punishment weapon.
  • Zion’s Heavenly Punishment and Prism Beams devastated the oddities, halted their advance, and stunned the Red Moon Holy Temple defenders.
  • Li Wen invited the Red Moon Holy Temple to set aside past grievances and fight beside Zion, and its leaders and warlocks agreed.
  • Zion’s Sky Fleet and the Red Moon Holy Temple warlocks began fighting together, allowing Xu Le to pursue Puppet with Chi Xiao.
  • Cangming sensed their arrival, and Flying Feather suggested increasing the pressure on the Red Moon Holy Temple.

Ch. 532Just a hundred million little requests

Xu Le, Chi Xiao, Cangming, and Flying Feather prepared to hunt Puppet after Cangming revealed that the Red Moon Lord had provided her coordinates. Xu Le agreed to activate the coordinates alone, then hinted that he had many small requests.

  • Chi Xiao deferred to Xu Le when she and Xu Le arrived, prompting Cangming to suspect Xu Le had grown even stronger.
  • Cangming explained that the Red Moon Lord had supplied Puppet's coordinates, and Xu Le reasoned that Red Moon had obtained them through a captured Puppet Projection.
  • Xu Le considered the danger of exploring Puppet's nest and eyed Flying Feather as a possible trap-springer, though he kept his thoughts to himself.
  • Cangming proposed that all four of them spend spirit energy opening the fixed rift to Puppet's location.
  • Xu Le volunteered to activate the coordinates alone, citing his unusually large spirit-energy reserves, then said he had a hundred million small requests.

Ch. 533Puppet

Xu Le and his allies entered a strange spider-filled cave that he identified as Puppet’s nest, then descended into a deep abyss. A gigantic skeletal arm attacked them during the fall, and Xu Le recognized it as Puppet.

  • Xu Le activated the coordinate jewel and led Cangming, Flying Feather, and Chi Xiao through a rift into a dark cave.
  • Flying Feather killed Lilith’s Oddity, and the group followed fleeing spiders to a silk palace surrounded by countless spiders.
  • Flying Feather destroyed the palace, releasing mutated wraiths that she and Cangming fought while Xu Le identified them as Puppet’s offspring.
  • Xu Le confirmed the cave was Puppet’s nest, and the group continued through it until they reached a seemingly bottomless pit.
  • The four descended into the pit, where a gigantic skeletal arm struck at them and Flying Feather’s attack barely marked it.
  • Xu Le recognized the skeletal arm as Puppet, a Level 8 oddity.

Ch. 534Brute force works miracles

Xu Le and the others fought through Puppet’s successive traps, discovering that each victory left gray substance that strengthened the rules. As a fourth, frost-filled trap drained their Spirit Energy, Xu Le concluded that brute force might be their only way out, and Chi Xiao, Cangming, and Flying Feather combined their attacks.

  • Cangming bound and destroyed the giant skeletal arm, while Xu Le noticed gray traces left on Cangming’s Soul Lock and Flying Feather’s feathers.
  • Magma engulfed the area, and Chi Xiao drew out Puppet-Kegtua by reversing the flow with her Great Flame Realm.
  • Cangming and Chi Xiao trapped Kegtua, and Cangming killed it with Soul Lock Curse, gaining more gray substance on his eyes.
  • Snow and cold filled the next trap, and Xu Le deduced that Puppet had arranged the successive challenges to make the rules grow stronger through the gray substance.
  • Xu Le proposed breaking through with brute force, and Chi Xiao, Cangming, and Flying Feather pressed their powerful techniques toward one another.

Ch. 535A Bold Conjecture

Xu Le and his allies escaped Puppet’s shattered pit, but purple Guyinduo spirit energy badly affected Flying Feather as they explored the darkness. After stabilizing her, Xu Le connected Chi Yu’s transformation to a possible fusion of Guyinduo and the Red Moon, then suspected the two powers might be cooperating; the group reached a strange Mother Tree Realm and continued their search for Puppet.

  • Xu Le and the others broke the pit’s rules, escaped into the air, and Cangming rescued Flying Feather when purple spirit energy began assimilating her.
  • Xu Le absorbed the purple energy from Flying Feather and helped stabilize her, allowing the group to remain allies and consider continuing their expedition.
  • Xu Le told Cangming that Chi Yu had undergone an aberration, reached Level 8, and wielded fused Guyinduo and Red Moon powers.
  • Chi Xiao recognized a strange purple tree as resembling a Mother Tree Realm, and Xu Le speculated that the area might be a Gundo Mother Tree experimental site where beings like Chi Yu were created.
  • Xu Le learned that the Red Moon Lord had sent Chi Yu to Cangming’s Underground Prison as experimental material and suspected that the Red Moon and Guyinduo were in contact or cooperating.
  • After reaching the strange realm, Xu Le and Chi Xiao prepared to keep exploring and seek answers from Puppet.

Ch. 536The Blue Maid

Xu Le and his companions reached the Mother Tree Realm and used his power over fate to pull Puppet out of hiding. Puppet appeared as a blue-maid-dressed doll, revealed a dangerous ability that affected Xu Le’s perception of time, and hinted that she had expected him to join the Children of Guyinduo.

  • Xu Le gave Cangming a seed from the Tree of Life, which grew into saplings on Flying Feather and absorbed the surrounding spirit energy.
  • Flying Feather carried Xu Le, Chi Xiao, Cangming, and herself to the Mother Tree, where Cangming explained that reality and illusion seemed to be merging.
  • Unable to find Puppet, Xu Le sensed the threads of fate and seized one that led into the Mother Tree.
  • Flying Feather and the others pulled on the thread with Xu Le, drawing Puppet out and breaking the thread of fate.
  • Puppet’s gaze made Xu Le experience a disturbance in time, but he broke free and faced her with his companions.
  • Puppet explained how she had fled pursuit and told Xu Le she had thought he would become one of the Children of Guyinduo.

Ch. 537This way, honored sir

Xu Le, Cangming, Flying Feather, and Chi Xiao fought Puppet and its three dolls, with Xu Le insisting he had never wanted to become a Child of Guyinduo. The battle left Flying Feather’s badly damaged opponent restoring itself through a giant pocket watch’s power.

  • Xu Le rejected Puppet’s suggestion that he shared the Children of Guyinduo’s nature, affirmed his human resolve, and attacked with chaos power alongside Chi Xiao, Cangming, and Flying Feather.
  • Puppet summoned Zhong Dun and a bladed doll, and their spatial movement and close-combat attacks challenged the group; Xu Le rescued Cangming from the bladed doll’s strike with Chaos-Traversal.
  • Flying Feather transformed and overpowered the bladed doll, weakening its metal body with Flesh and Blood Curse before tearing off its arms with Heavenly Tyrant Across the Sky.
  • Flying Feather and Cangming tried to finish the bladed doll with a coordinated attack, but Puppet shifted their trajectories and opened a black hole where Flying Feather was about to land.
  • The black hole became a giant pocket watch whose counterclockwise hands reversed the bladed doll’s damage and restored its severed arms.

Ch. 538One of the Strongest in This World

Xu Le and the others battled Puppet’s Dolls while trying to understand her abilities, and Chi Xiao disabled Chubby Middle Shield before its Substitute Life Technique repaired it. Puppet then described a hypothetical attack and challenged Xu Le to counter it; after Xu Le offered a detailed response, Puppet explained how she would overcome his plan and corner him.

  • Xu Le identified the pocket watch as another Level 8 Puppet, while the blue maid watched Chi Xiao and Chubby Middle Shield fight.
  • Chi Xiao overwhelmed Chubby Middle Shield with flames, shattered its gears, and then saw the Doll regenerate through the Guyinduo Substitute Life Technique.
  • Chi Xiao kept attacking while considering the pocket watch’s ability to restore damaged Dolls, and a Boundary-Crossing Gate appeared before her.
  • The blue maid asked Xu Le how he would respond to a hypothetical combination of Puppet’s Dolls and their abilities.
  • Xu Le entered the Tranquil State and laid out a coordinated counter involving Cangming, Flying Feather, and Chi Xiao.
  • Puppet praised Xu Le’s analysis, then described how she would use the Clock of Time, Boundary-Crossing Great Dimension, and Guyinduo Offspring Embers to defeat his allies and confront him.

Ch. 539Armchair Strategizing

Xu Le and Puppet debated how their battle would unfold, and Xu Le claimed his Reincarnation Tribulation Realm could break even Guyinduo’s strongest rules. Puppet then began testing their predictions in earnest, summoning Black Sword to fight Flying Feather while keeping Xu Le from intervening.

  • Xu Le described how the Three Great Experts could defeat Puppet and revealed that his Reincarnation Tribulation Realm could break all Guyinduo power and rules.
  • Puppet explained that Night Fiend had entered the Land of Darkness and used Fading Fire to weaken herself, then called for a real fight to test their predictions.
  • Puppet summoned Black Sword, who vanished with the aid of Trajectory of the Void to attack Flying Feather.
  • Xu Le tried to use Chaos Shuttle to warn or help Flying Feather and Cangming, but Puppet restrained him and insisted that each fighter face their own opponent.
  • Puppet identified herself as Xu Le’s opponent and used Guyinduo Spirit Energy to calm his fighting spirit; Xu Le explained that he called his power chaos because order would be born from chaos.

Ch. 540Order will be born from chaos

Xu Le faced Puppet’s attempt to corrupt him as the battle against Guyinduo’s guards turned desperate. Cangming and Flying Feather survived Black Sword’s assault, and Chi Xiao destroyed the mechanical maid and helped shatter Black Sword’s body.

  • Xu Le admitted he wanted order to be born from chaos, and Puppet wrapped him in corrupting blue mist.
  • Black Sword struck Flying Feather with Fated Death, and the Clock of Time intensified the attack until she was near death.
  • Cangming used Phase Shift and Soul Transfer Art to save Flying Feather, then had her forge him a new body.
  • Flying Feather used her flesh and blood to hinder the Clock of Time while Cangming confronted Black Sword with Thousand Soul Lure.
  • Chi Xiao arrived as Cangming faced Black Sword’s Sun-Chasing Slash, and her Flame Demon form overwhelmed the attack and melted the mechanical maid.
  • Cangming’s Thousand Souls Explosion shattered Black Sword’s body, and Chi Xiao caught the Throwing Dart containing his soul.

Ch. 541Complete Form

Chi Xiao, Cangming, and Flying Feather defeated the remaining enemies and destroyed the Clock of Time, while Xu Le learned how Puppet controlled beings through Fate’s threads. Puppet destroyed the Black Sword and confronted Xu Le alone, who revealed his Complete Form and challenged her to show the true power of the Children of Guyinduo.

  • Cangming and Flying Feather used Thousand Soul Wings to trap Zhong Dun, giving Chi Xiao the chance to destroy the Clock of Time with a Flame Demon strike.
  • Xu Le and Puppet discussed teamwork, puppets, and their competing use of Fate’s power.
  • Puppet revealed that the Black Sword and her other puppets had once been real beings, then used Guyinduo Spirit to corrode and shatter the Black Sword.
  • Puppet reshaped the broken rules into a blue saber and isolated Xu Le from Chi Xiao, Cangming, and the others for a one-on-one fight.
  • Xu Le met Puppet’s Fated Death with Night Fiend’s Approval and unleashed his concealed Power of Chaos.
  • Xu Le revealed his Complete Form and challenged Puppet to show the true power of the Children of Guyinduo.

Ch. 542Now This Was Getting Interesting

Xu Le fought Puppet in the Mother Tree Realm and unleashed the Soul Devouring Tree, which overwhelmed and began consuming her. As Puppet weakened, Xu Le suspected something was wrong with her apparent lack of absolute rules, while she hinted that unforeseen changes were part of a larger plan.

  • Puppet and Xu Le clashed with their Guyinduo and Chaos energies as she pressed him with Fated Death and knocked the Black Sword from his hand.
  • Puppet pierced Xu Le's defenses and sent Fate Power into his body, but Xu Le unleashed Soul Devouring to absorb her Guyinduo Spirit Energy.
  • Puppet defended the Gundo Mother Tree against Xu Le's growing Soul Devouring Trees, but their endless regeneration overwhelmed and entangled her.
  • Xu Le's Thorns pierced Puppet and revealed that she bled, and the Soul Devouring Trees began consuming her body and immense Spirit Energy.
  • Xu Le realized Puppet's Rules were absent and questioned why she had not counterattacked, while Puppet spoke cryptically about unforeseen changes and plans.

Ch. 543Becoming a puppet

After killing the Blue Maid, Xu Le gained control of a body freed from Puppet’s rules and persuaded Cangming to search the Gundo Mother Tree for Puppet’s hidden core items. Chi Xiao remained convinced that the seemingly flawless Xu Le was disguised, leaving his true identity uncertain.

  • Xu Le killed the Blue Maid, completed his interaction with Puppet’s rules, and gained control of his body and the Soul Devouring Trees.
  • Xu Le told the arriving Cangming that Puppet was dead and claimed her hidden core items were inside the Gundo Mother Tree.
  • Cangming agreed to explore the Gundo Mother Tree, while Chi Xiao noticed something wrong with Xu Le and demanded an account of the battle.
  • Xu Le recounted the fight with Puppet, describing how his Soul Devouring Trees defeated the weakened Blue Maid.
  • Chi Xiao found no flaws in Xu Le’s account but suspected Puppet’s rules had disguised or controlled him.

Ch. 544The Controller

Xu Le led Cangming, Flying Feather, and Chi Xiao into the Gundo Mother Tree’s hidden world, where Chi Xiao increasingly suspected that he was Puppet rather than the real Xu Le. They passed through Fate’s Gate and found three true Guyinduo Fruits, which Xu Le said granted the supreme God's Rule.

  • Cangming, Flying Feather, Chi Xiao, and Xu Le entered the Mother Tree and discovered its inner world, filled with Guyinduo Fruit.
  • Xu Le promised to help Chi Xiao obtain complete crystallization rules, but Chi Xiao grew suspicious when he failed to sense or use fading fire.
  • Xu Le revealed Fate’s Gate, and Cangming and Flying Feather followed him through; Chi Xiao lingered before entering as well.
  • Cangming emerged on an island inside a powerful Spirit Energy storm and found Xu Le beside a small tree bearing three Guyinduo Fruits.
  • Xu Le explained that the three fruits granted the supreme God's Rule.

Ch. 545Divine fruits

Xu Le revealed the powers of three divine fruits and proposed how to divide them among the group. Flying Feather challenged his claim to a fruit, and their argument escalated toward a fight before Cangming urged them to avoid needless losses.

  • Cangming considered using a divine fruit instead of fighting Xu Le and Chi Xiao for Puppet, weighing the fruits’ potential benefits.
  • Xu Le used Guyinduo Vision to identify Puppet’s fruit as Control, explaining that it could manipulate others, and another fruit as Yellow Springs, which controlled the Soul River.
  • Xu Le identified the last fruit as Unknown, whose effects could not be predicted, and divided the three fruits among himself, Cangming, and Chi Xiao, leaving Flying Feather without one.
  • Flying Feather objected to Xu Le’s claim and challenged his strength, while Xu Le defended his share by citing his role in killing the Blue-Clothed Maid.
  • Xu Le and Flying Feather prepared to fight, but Cangming urged them to avoid losses and preserve the possibility of future cooperation.

Ch. 546My head hurts-I'm about to grow a brain

Xu Le, who was possessed by Puppet, negotiated the Divine Principle Fruits with Cangming while Chi Xiao suspected Puppet wanted the Unknown Fruit. After Cangming left with the Control Fruit, Chi Xiao faced Puppet alone and asked which fruit he wanted.

  • Cangming argued that he and Flying Feather deserved a better share, then asked to join a future hunt and receive first pick of the spoils in exchange for giving up his claim to a fruit.
  • Puppet realized his possession of Xu Le was incomplete and decided the Unknown Fruit could help him fuse with Xu Le and seize the Gundo Mother Tree’s power.
  • Chi Xiao reasoned that Puppet’s unusual willingness to give up the Control Fruit meant he wanted the Unknown Fruit, and urged Cangming to choose first so he would leave.
  • Cangming took the Control Fruit and escaped through the spirit energy storm with Flying Feather.
  • After confirming Cangming had gone, Chi Xiao turned to Xu Le and asked which of the remaining fruits he wanted.

Ch. 547Possession

Puppet used Xu Le’s body and tried to claim the Unknown Fruit, but Chi Xiao ate it and attacked him to force him out. After she tore off Xu Le’s right hand and leg, Chi Xiao tried to weaken Puppet by appealing to his obsession with Night Fiend.

  • Puppet remembered his resentment toward the sheep Night Fiend had chosen and resolved to take Xu Le’s body and the Unknown Fruit.
  • Puppet persuaded Chi Xiao that the Yellow Springs Fruit would restore her limbs, but Chi Xiao took both fruits and ate the Unknown Fruit instead.
  • Chi Xiao attacked Puppet with Flame Emperor and Great Flame Realm, while Puppet struggled to use Xu Le’s abilities and tried to make her stop by invoking Xu Le’s body.
  • Chi Xiao used Flame Demon to tear off Xu Le’s right hand and right leg, but Puppet refused to leave his body.
  • Chi Xiao noticed the chaos spilling from Xu Le and asked whether Puppet had done everything for Night Fiend, then warned that his incomplete soul would keep him from fulfilling his wish.

Ch. 548Parting at last

Chi Xiao and Xu Le defeated Puppet after Xu Le awakened the Reincarnation-Tribulation Mirror and dragged her back from across space. Wounded and changed by his new power, Xu Le approached the Gundo Mother Tree with Chi Xiao to ask whether his current state was what it had wanted.

  • Chi Xiao burned Xu Le's severed leg and expelled Puppet from his body, then attacked Puppet’s summoned doll form until Puppet threatened that Xu Le would die if Chi Xiao pursued her.
  • Xu Le awakened and used the Reincarnation-Tribulation Mirror to reverse the Spirit Energy storm and drag the fleeing Puppet back before him.
  • Xu Le destroyed Puppet with Reincarnation, absorbing her broken body, remaining Spirit Energy, and spatial rules.
  • Chi Xiao asked whether Xu Le was all right; he admitted he was not, and they eased the tension before deciding to examine the tree.
  • Chi Xiao supported Xu Le as they approached the untouched Gundo Mother Tree, where Xu Le asked whether his current state was what the Mother Tree had wanted.

Ch. 549Promotion

Xu Le absorbed the small tree and Yellow Springs Fruit, transforming his Soul Devouring Tree World and breaking past the Mother Tree Realm’s defenses. He reached the threshold of Level 8, leaving the Gundo Mother Tree Projection exposed as his promotion began.

  • Xu Le wondered what the Gundo Mother Tree wanted, then absorbed the small tree with his Soul Devouring Tree after sensing that it had chosen to merge with him.
  • Xu Le explained to Chi Xiao that greater power brought greater responsibility, and he accepted the Yellow Springs Fruit from her.
  • Chi Xiao’s new fruit seemed to improve her control of Flame Demon, but she worried about Xu Le’s growing complexity and left him alone at his request.
  • The Soul Devouring Tree devoured the island’s projected world, shattered the surrounding realm, and carried Xu Le and Chi Xiao into the Mother Tree Realm projection.
  • Xu Le’s Soul Devouring Tree absorbed the fusion spirit energy sustaining the Mother Tree Realm’s shield, exposing the Gundo Mother Tree Projection.
  • Xu Le pressed his hand to the Mother Tree Projection and began promoting from Forbidden Warlock LV7 toward Level 8.

Ch. 550LV8-Tribulation of Reincarnation

Xu Le reached LV8 and learned the Gundo Mother Tree’s history and plan to save the world, then vanished to pursue the remaining rules and enemies. Chi Xiao commanded the Soul Devouring Tree to take her after him, while Night Fiend learned that Puppet had died.

  • Xu Le reached LV8, balanced the rules within his power, and formed and shattered a miniature universe.
  • Xu Le understood how the Gundo Mother Tree had used the Children of Guyinduo, Red Moon, and Night Fiend in its efforts to prevent the world’s destruction, and learned that it had brought him into the world as its first plan.
  • Xu Le told Chi Xiao to stay alive and take charge if he failed, then shattered space and disappeared.
  • Chi Xiao used the Gundo Mother Tree’s will to force the Soul Devouring Tree to find Xu Le and take her to him.
  • Night Fiend sensed Xu Le’s advancement, and Black Sheep doubted he could overcome the world’s powerful enemies.
  • Night Fiend told Black Sheep that Puppet had just died, and Black Sheep welcomed the news.
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