Chapter Summaries

Xu Le extracted the information and energy from the Lightforging Heart, learning that the Children of Guyinduo were ancient wills separated from the Mother Tree to fight threats. As he finished, Wang Man and Li Qingcheng discovered that something had disappeared and wondered if it had been eaten.

• Chi Xiao told Xu Le how she survived after being abandoned in the wilderness, then gave him a Mystic Type-Candle Fruit and warned him to watch his desires before he left the Mother Tree Realm.
• Xu Le returned to Zion, directed the cleanup of Oddity corpses, and spoke with Wang Man before Li Wen took him to the transferred Lightforging Heart.
• Xu Le insisted on extracting the Lightforging Heart's energy alone, and Li Wen agreed while arranging for him to meet old Moen afterward.
• Xu Le and Yan Luo used the Furnace Core Room to extract the heart's energy and Lightforging's information, while Xu Le learned how the Children of Guyinduo came to exist.
• After Xu Le finished extracting the information, Wang Man noticed that something was gone while she and Li Qingcheng drank coffee, and asked if it had been eaten.

Xu Le absorbed Lightforging’s power into the Thunder Fruit, gaining a ripe Thunderlight Fruit and testing his new ability. He visited the dying Moen, who refused a Longevity Fruit and entrusted Zion’s future to Xu Le before Li Wen explained that the fruit could no longer help him.

• Wang Man sensed that Lightforging had truly vanished and left Li Qingcheng to deal with urgent work.
• Xu Le’s Soul Tree transformed the Thunder Fruit with Lightforging’s power, producing a ripe upper-grade Thunderlight Fruit, which Xu Le ate.
• Xu Le tested Thunderlight by launching himself through the sky, lost control, and crashed into the pool at Moen’s estate.
• Xu Le met Moen and discussed the Furnace’s output, Zion’s future, and the goodwill visit he would make after becoming a councilor.
• Xu Le offered Moen a Longevity Fruit, but Moen refused it, announced that he would donate nearly all his assets, and asked Li Wen to care for his grandsons.
• Li Wen showed Xu Le another Longevity Fruit and explained that Moen had exhausted its benefits and could not be saved by it.

Xu Le finalized Zion’s energy plans, prepared for his Council election, and agreed with Wang Shu and Gu Beichen to return to Lighthouse after the election to settle old scores. After winning a Council seat, he met Li Qingcheng and Wang Man and insisted they call him Councilor.

• Li Wen explained that Moen had to step down because his family’s influence threatened Zion’s political balance, then pressed Xu Le until he admitted he had made 1,930 bars of soap.
• Xu Le outlined plans for civilian energy, weapons research, and city defenses, then spent the following days preparing for the election while continuing his research and training.
• Xu Le scolded Gu Beichen for failing to contact the Red Moon Holy Temple’s intelligence department, learned from Wang Shu that Gu Beichen had spent his funds on prostitutes, and assigned him to hide documents about the Guyinduo Technology Core as bait.
• Xu Le, Wang Shu, and Gu Beichen agreed to return to Lighthouse after the election and finish what they had left unfinished there.
• Xu Le delivered his election speech, promised affordable energy, and was announced as one of Zion’s four new councilors alongside Ms. Mai Lele, Mr. Zhou Hua, and Mr. Zhang Shaoyun.
• Xu Le waited to discuss the Guyinduo Airship Modification Project, then met Li Qingcheng and Wang Man and told them to call him Councilor.

After becoming a Zion councilor, Xu Le invited Wang Man to accompany him on a goodwill visit to Lighthouse, then arranged support for Wang Qing and prepared the Furnace for his absence. He assembled a small team and set out for Lighthouse with diplomatic and undisclosed objectives.

• Xu Le met Wang Man and Li Qingcheng for breakfast, discussed the Illuminati, and invited Wang Man to Lighthouse; she left to consider the offer.
• Wang Qing offered Xu Le ten percent of the Wang Family’s shares, but Xu Le told him to donate the money to the Zion Progressives and asked him to provide a workshop, engineers, and an airship.
• Xu Le attended the Round Table Council’s first meeting as a new councilor and was assigned a goodwill exchange visit to Lighthouse.
• Xu Le told Yan Luo he might be away until before the next Red Moon Calamity and left a Guyinduo Tree mark that would summon an Evil God-level Guardian if needed.
• Xu Le asked Xia Libo to oversee the Furnace and selected Ai Li, Wang Shu, Gu Beichen, and possibly Wang Man for the Lighthouse trip.
• Xu Le told the team they would conduct a goodwill visit and pursue two classified objectives, then ordered them to prepare weapons and ammunition.

Xu Le traveled toward Lighthouse and visited Night Fiend in the Land of Darkness, where he learned that the Mother Tree was dying and Red Moon had to be killed before it perished. Night Fiend revealed that the fire she tended was the last light protecting the world from Eternal Night.

• Xu Le boarded an airship for Lighthouse with Ai Li, Wang Man, and his companions, while his sister Xu Ting served among the attendants.
• Xu Le entered the Land of Darkness and told Night Fiend the love story of Josee, the Tiger and the Fish.
• Xu Le asked Night Fiend about the visions in Yellow Springs, and she confirmed that the Mother Tree was dying and the world would wither if it died.
• Night Fiend told Xu Le to keep doing what he was doing because it could help kill Red Moon before the Mother Tree perished.
• Night Fiend explained that her fire was the last light of dawn and that it must not go out; she fed it branches of the Mother Tree and the remains of gods.

Xu Le and his companions investigated strange iron fragments floating in the sky after Gu Beichen spotted them from their airship. As they explored the wreckage, Ai Li saw a sinister reflection of Xu Le in a steel plate, and a hand suddenly thrust out of it.

• Night Fiend told Xu Le to stay alive and prepare new stories before Xu Le left the Dark World.
• Gu Beichen reported an unidentified flying object, and Ai Li detected a faint smell of rust; looking through Gu Beichen's flame, Xu Le spotted floating fragments and stopped the airship.
• Xu Le sent White Cicada to test the fragments and discovered that wreckage surrounded the stationary airship.
• Wang Man identified the fragments as possibly connected to the legendary Sky Ring, forged from Dragon's reverse scale, and asked Xu Le to take her along.
• Xu Le, Ai Li, Gu Beichen, and Wang Shu crossed to the wreckage, where Ai Li saw a distorted, cruel-looking Xu Le in a steel reflection and a hand thrust out of the plate.

Xu Le and his companions explored a ruined floating fortress, where Ai Li and Wang Shu suffered strange distortions and eventually collapsed. As Xu Le and Gu Beichen tried to escape with them, the fortress was torn open, revealing a gigantic eyeball that Xu Le wondered might belong to an Angel.

• Ai Li attacked Xu Le after seeing a mirror version of herself, then told him she had lost a stretch of time; Wang Shu later faced a distorted vision of Bai Jing and also experienced disorientation.
• Xu Le connected their experiences to a force distorting people’s deepest bonds, and the group continued through the wreckage despite Ai Li and Wang Shu sensing danger.
• The four found a ruined floating fortress with claw marks on its steel gate, discovered a breach, and entered together; Xu Le recorded the runes and destroyed a mirror.
• Inside the fortress, Ai Li and Wang Shu grew nervous and began losing control of their bodies, while Xu Le and Gu Beichen remained unaffected; Wang Shu and Ai Li then fainted.
• Xu Le carried Ai Li and dragged Wang Shu toward the exit with Gu Beichen, but the opening collapsed before an unseen force tore away part of the fortress shell.
• Xu Le looked up at the exposed sky and saw a gigantic eyeball, asking whether it was an Angel.

Xu Le and Gu Beichen discovered that Red Moon angels were drawing the floating fortress upward and searched its control room for a way to stop them. When Wang Shu and Ai Li became infected, Xu Le purified Ai Li with the Mother Tree’s power and called on Lord Puppet as Wang Shu attacked.

• Xu Le explained that the eyeball-covered creatures were Red Moon angels, and he and Gu Beichen carried Ai Li and Wang Shu toward the fortress entrance as the air grew buoyant.
• Xu Le realized the whole fortress was flying upward, summoned White Cicada, and then led the group deeper inside to search for whatever the angels wanted.
• Xu Le and Gu Beichen found the control room’s central hub but no useful object, while Wang Shu and Ai Li suddenly awakened in altered, infected forms and attacked Xu Le.
• Xu Le used Golden Thunder-Judgment to halt Wang Shu and Ai Li, then revealed that both were undergoing Red Moon infection.
• Xu Le changed his appearance with Red Moon spirit and used Ai Li’s Tree mark to draw the aberrant spirits from her, while Wang Shu attacked and Xu Le called for Lord Puppet’s help.

Xu Le and his companions reached the source of the fortress’s intense Ancient Yin Duo Energy and found a deformed ring that Sora of the Invisible wanted. Cornered by the level 7 Full Moon Angel, Xu Le put the ring on his finger instead of surrendering it, leaving its power and the group’s fate unresolved.

• Puppet removed the Red Moon influence from Wang Shu, and Xu Le led the recovered group toward the fortress’s center as it continued to break apart.
• Gu Beichen’s wildfire revealed Sora of the Invisible, a level 7 Full Moon Angel who recognized Xu Le, while Death’s Nail intervened and fought her as the others fled.
• Xu Le found a plain, bent ring in a storeroom where its Ancient Yin Duo Energy was making Ai Li and Wang Shu ill, and Gu Beichen helped him reshape it.
• Sora entered the storeroom seeking the ring, and Xu Le tried to bargain for his friends’ safety by threatening to take it into the Land of Darkness.
• When Sora threatened Ai Li and demanded the ring, Xu Le cursed her and put the ring on his finger.

Xu Le obtained the Sky Ring, which killed Sora of the Invisible and caused Ai Li and Wang Shu to collapse before Night Fiend's mist eased their condition. After Xu Le used the ring to make a path back to the airship, Night Fiend warned him that Dragon would never normally allow an angel into his territory, suggesting Sora's arrival had been deliberate.

• Xu Le grabbed Sora of the Invisible with the Sky Ring's power, and an unseen force crushed her to death as Dragon appeared nearby.
• Xu Le realized the ring's aura was harming Ai Li and Wang Shu, then Black Sheep's mist flowed over the ring and helped them recover.
• Xu Le used the ring to gather floating steel into a bridge and led Ai Li, Wang Shu, and Gu Beichen back to the airship.
• Wang Man tried to remove the Sky Ring, but its power exhausted her and she collapsed before Ai Li confirmed she was unharmed.
• Xu Le visited Night Fiend, who told him Dragon would never normally let an angel enter his territory and suggested Dragon had allowed Sora in deliberately.

Xu Le learned that Dragon’s ring would eventually let Dragon’s power invade him, so Night Fiend urged him to seek Lightforging’s source power or cut off his arm. After Xu Le arrived in Lighthouse with his delegation, he began official talks while Xiong Zemo secretly investigated Wang Man’s belongings.

• Night Fiend suppressed Dragon’s ring with her power and told Xu Le to find another Child of Guyinduo’s source power, likely Lightforging’s, before the suppression wore off.
• Xu Le returned to the airship, where Wang Man woke and spoke with him and Ai Li before the group reached Lighthouse.
• Xu Le and his delegation arrived in Lighthouse, where Councilor Zhou Bi welcomed him and led the group to their hotel while Zion’s team began trade and cooperation talks.
• After Xu Le left, Xiong Zemo entered the airship’s first-class cabin and collected information from Wang Man’s belongings, saying he wanted to turn her into a Doll.

Luo Juya and Xiong Zemo discussed Zion’s new energy and their past, while Xiong recognized Xu Le and two of his companions as men he had once killed. Xu Le and his companions explored Lighthouse’s night market, then headed to the Night Watchers Memorial to visit Bai Jing as Luo Juya and the new Sixth Squad arrived there too.

• Luo Juya told Xiong Zemo that her information came from rules she could not reveal, and she promised to find a biological fruit that could cure him.
• Xiong Zemo examined photographs of Xu Le, Wang Shu, and Gu Beichen, recognized all three as men he had killed, and suspected their abilities involved substitution or resurrection.
• Xu Le chatted with councilor Zhou Bi, then went out for a late-night meal with Ai Li, Gu Beichen, Wang Shu, and Ding Ke.
• Ding Ke spoke while looking at the High Tower and said she had stolen things from inside it.
• Xu Le and his companions decided to visit Bai Jing at the Night Watchers Memorial, while Luo Juya and the new Sixth Squad arrived there for their operation.

At the Night Watchers Memorial, Luo Juya sensed a Person of Fate and soon found herself trapped in a strange Heart Energy effect before an attacker struck with a destructive Gundo Relic. She survived the blast, but a mysterious Night Watcher kicked her down and identified himself only as one of her own.

• Luo Juya paid respects at the memorial, saw Bai Jing's name, and remembered Xu Le and her former teammates.
• Luo Juya sensed a Person of Fate nearby, then noticed a tall, muscular man in black leaving the memorial.
• Luo Juya experienced strange distortions around the gravestones and moved her mission team’s departure forward, but remained behind as they left.
• Rain began to hang motionless as Luo Juya floated, and she realized the effect had begun when she encountered the Person of Fate.
• A black sphere from the Gundo Relic Rainy-Day Part-Timer exploded; Luo Juya escaped into the shadows but suffered severe burns.
• A mysterious man kicked Luo Juya down, and she asked who he was before he answered, “A Night Watcher.”

Xu Le, Ai Li, Gu Beichen, and Wang Shu fought Luo Juya in a rainy ambush and killed her after Xu Le overwhelmed her shadow magic with thunder and light. Xu Le sensed that killing another Guyinduo Fate User had changed something within his Soul Tree, while Xiong Zemo vowed to avenge Luo Juya.

• Luo Juya battled Ai Li, Gu Beichen, and Wang Shu, whose combined attacks injured her while Xu Le secretly waited for an opening.
• Luo Juya created shadow clones and fled, but Wang Shu held back her Shadow Realm as Ai Li and Gu Beichen pursued the real one.
• Luo Juya’s black sphere destabilized when lightning and light entered it, gravely wounding her, and Xu Le illuminated the rain before striking her with a Lightning Spear.
• Xu Le defeated Luo Juya with Fear Suffocation, a Thunder Sword, and Thunder Punishment, then burned her corpse as the others escaped.
• Xu Le sensed that his Soul Tree had absorbed something after Luo Juya’s death, and Xiong Zemo’s beads snapped as he vowed to avenge her.

After Luo Juya was killed, Xiong Zemo questioned the Night Watchers’ findings while Alchemist Duo Lei suspected he might not be human and discovered a Golden Radiance Tree branch. Xu Le reflected on the battle and his strange exchanges with Death’s Nail and Ding Ke, then arrived at the High Tower with his companions for a meeting, where Wang Man warned Wang Shu about the Light and Xu Le noticed something suspicious about Lower City Councilor Jin Mingzhu.

• The Night Watchers identified Luo Juya as Xiong Zemo’s wife, and Xiong Zemo arrived to mourn her and ask about the traces left by the killer.
• Duo Lei reported shadow, flame, and lightning energy at the scene, then wondered whether Xiong Zemo was a puppet and found a branch from the Golden Radiance Tree.
• Xu Le entered the Mother Tree Realm, thanked the wounded Death’s Nail, and realized he could understand its clicks as language.
• Xu Le recalled killing Luo Juya and questioned Ding Ke about having visited the High Tower and stolen something, but Ding Ke gave no answer.
• Xu Le and his companions met Councilor Zhou Bi and traveled to the High Tower, where Wang Man warned Wang Shu to resist the Light and beware of the Illuminati’s guidance.
• At the High Tower, Xu Le met several councilors and noticed an unusual smell beneath Jin Mingzhu’s perfume before following the group up the spiral stairs.

Xu Le toured the High Tower and began Zion’s trade negotiations with Lighthouse, where he promoted the Guyinduo Energy Core as an unlimited power source. The meeting was interrupted when Jin Mingzhu left, and she later asked Xiong Zemo whether Ju Ya was dead and what evidence they had.

• Zhou Bi led Xu Le and the others up the High Tower, where Xu Le noticed the Lighthouse group seemed unusually unaffected by the climb’s pressure.
• Zhou Bi showed Xu Le the Lighthouse Council area inside the Golden Radiance Tree and explained that negotiations would keep the delegates inside for about three days.
• At the negotiations, Xu Le declared that Zion’s Guyinduo Energy Core could reshape the world and presented a blue core, provoking skepticism from the Lighthouse councilors.
• Jin Mingzhu left the conference room, saying she felt unwell, and Xu Le suspected her interruption was deliberate.
• Jin Mingzhu met Xiong Zemo on the observation platform and asked whether Ju Ya was dead; Xiong Zemo confirmed it and said they had leads but no evidence.

Xiong Zemo told Jin Mingzhu that a Zion councilor was behind his old team’s deaths, while Xu Le impressed Lighthouse’s councilors with Zion’s energy policy and a powerful Guyinduo weapon. After leaving the conference, Xu Le encountered Xiong Zemo, who introduced himself as the district head of District B.

• Xiong Zemo showed Jin Mingzhu old Night Watchers Team 6 records and revealed that he had killed Bai Jing, Gan, Gu Beichen, Wang Shu, Xu Le, and the others.
• Xu Le told the Lighthouse councilors that Zion provided free basic energy and used its abundant energy to develop Guyinduo weapons.
• Xu Le fired a Guyinduo City Defense handgun, demonstrating its long-range energy beam and arguing that overwhelming firepower could protect cities from the Black Tide.
• Zhang Mozhi paused the negotiations for further discussion, and Xu Le left Wang Man behind while he explored the High Tower.
• Xu Le met Jin Mingzhu and Xiong Zemo outside the conference room, where Xiong Zemo introduced himself as a Lower City district head.

Xu Le and Wang Man used Wang Man’s spirit passage to explore the Golden Radiance Tree above the High Tower, finding hidden guards, rotting branches, and decayed Illuminati monks. They reached a garden of contaminated red flowers, where an unseen voice spoke beside Xu Le.

• Xu Le traded barbed remarks with Xiong Zemo and Jin Mingzhu, then concluded that Lighthouse’s pursuit of light made its methods and interests their enemy.
• Ai Li reported an upward airflow and a decay smell on Jin Mingzhu, while Wang Shu confirmed that something connected to his ability lay above them.
• Wang Man took Xu Le into a spirit state that let them float through the ceiling and pass through the ventilation fan.
• Xu Le and Wang Man crossed a formation of Golden Runes guarded by faceless beings and entered the luminous branches inside the tree.
• They found the Golden Radiance Tree turning scarlet and rotting as they climbed past decayed monks and reached a garden of red flowers.
• Xu Le searched the empty garden for someone who seemed to visit often, then heard an unseen voice ask what he was looking for.

Xu Le and Wang Man fled the Golden Radiance Tree’s upper garden after a mysterious voice warned them, while Xiong Zemo revived Luo Juya long enough to learn about Xu Le’s group. As negotiations over Zion’s energy stalled in Lighthouse, Chi Xiao arrived at the airship grounds.

• Xu Le and Wang Man left the upper garden after a voice warned that a woman was coming, and Xu Le later told Wang Shu about the rotting Golden Radiance Tree.
• Gu Beichen suggested that Wang Shu, Wang Man, and he could use their connections to the Illuminati to gain access to the High Tower’s upper levels.
• Xiong Zemo used the Soul-Returning Technique to revive Luo Juya briefly, learned about Xu Le’s abilities, and let her soul fade before taking her heart.
• Xu Le watched Lighthouse’s negotiators reject Zion’s cheap energy offer, and he challenged the Councilors over their refusal to benefit the people.
• Chi Xiao stepped off an airship at Lighthouse, and a guard recognized her from their previous meeting.

Chi Xiao arrived in Lighthouse, identified Xu Le as the killer of Luo Juya, and kept her presence quiet while investigating the murder. Meanwhile, Xu Le finalized a trade agreement with Lighthouse and agreed to take Wang Man to the High Tower; as he prepared to rest, an unknown figure seized Ding Ke through the window.

• Chi Xiao rejected an Airship Grounds guard’s invitation, then gave Xiaoming a miniature metal figure during a bus ride.
• Chi Xiao visited the Night Watchers’ memorial and learned that Luo Juya had been killed; using the report’s evidence, she concluded Xu Le was responsible and left without alerting the Night Watchers’ superiors.
• Xu Le and Lighthouse settled an energy deal at four dollars and arranged exchanges involving weapons technology, cultivation methods, alchemy, and Life’s Guidance.
• Wang Man showed Xu Le her maps of the High Tower and insisted on joining the next expedition, and Xu Le agreed.
• Xu Le’s group signed the agreements and returned to their hotel, where a golden prosthetic limb reached through the window and grabbed Ding Ke.