Chapter Summaries

Xu Le projected himself through Labi to meet Meilis, the master of the Red Moon Holy Temple, and fought her after she attacked and injured Labi. Their battle ended without a clear victor, and Meilis invited Xu Le to continue their private encounter as Duo En took Labi away.

• Xu Le possessed Labi with dark particles and met Meilis after Duo En left them alone.
• Meilis attacked Labi and accused Xu Le of scheming against her, prompting Xu Le to reveal himself and fight back.
• Xu Le used the Black Sword, darkened versions of Chi Xiao’s techniques, and other abilities against Meilis, then explained that he had come to investigate the Red Moon Holy Temple’s previous master.
• The clash between Xu Le and Meilis damaged the Sub-temple and drew Duo En inside; Meilis told her to take the injured Labi for treatment.
• Duo En left without questioning Meilis further, while Meilis called for Xu Le to emerge so they could continue.

Xu Le asked Meilis about Cangming, the Red Moon Holy Temple’s former master, and learned that Cangming had tried to enslave the gods before he was killed. The chapter ended with Meilis insisting that the Red Moon itself had passed final judgment on Cangming, despite Xu Le’s doubts that he was truly dead.

• Xu Le convinced Meilis to tell him about the former temple master, Cangming.
• Meilis explained that Cangming proposed the God Enslavement plan, attacked angels and Seat Guardians, and triggered a purge and bloody infighting within the temple.
• Meilis said Full Moon defeated Cangming and that Cangming’s plan failed because he opposed the temple’s reliance on Red Moon spirit energy.
• Meilis defended the Red Moon Holy Temple’s efforts to restrict dangerous power, citing the risks of ordinary people wielding destructive technology.
• Xu Le questioned how Meilis could be certain Cangming was dead, and Meilis said the Red Moon itself had passed final judgment on him.

Xu Le learned that Meilis and the other deputy temple masters had seen the Red Moon itself, while Duo En sought a way to track and kill Xu Le. Using a Guyinduo card, Duo En entered the darkness between illusion and reality and began searching for him.

• Meilis told Xu Le that she had seen the Red Moon's true appearance and that it had judged Cangming.
• In the infirmary, Labi revealed two ways to find Xu Le: use the Black Card-Black Sheep Girl or plant black seeds to perceive the darkness.
• Meilis summoned Duo En and asked her to bring several men, while Duo En privately suspected that Meilis had failed to subdue Xu Le.
• Duo En bought Guyinduo Cards and prepared to use one to locate Xu Le, resolving to kill him before he could grow stronger.
• Duo En activated [Black Card-Black Sheep Girl], entered the darkness between illusion and reality, and began searching for Xu Le.

Duo En tailed Xu Le into the Red Moon Holy Temple’s forbidden zone, where Xu Le chose to watch Ding Ke, Chi Xiao, and Bai Ya reunite instead of killing her. As the former companions caught up, Chi Xiao asked Bai Ya for help curing Ding Ke’s Whisperer condition, and Bai Ya said she had a treatment that required Ding Ke’s cooperation.

• Duo En used Xu Le’s hair and Blood Draw to track him, then followed him toward the Red Moon Holy Temple’s forbidden zone.
• Xu Le revealed that he had noticed Duo En and had deliberately led her there, but he abandoned his plan to kill her when he saw Ding Ke, Chi Xiao, and Bai Ya reunited.
• Ding Ke, Chi Xiao, and Bai Ya shared food and drinks as they reminisced about their earlier days together.
• Chi Xiao told Bai Ya that Ding Ke had become a Whisperer after an accident while breaking through to Level 7, and asked whether she could be cured.
• Bai Ya said she had a method to treat Whisperers, but Ding Ke would need to cooperate.

Chi Xiao, Ding Ke, and Bai Ya reunited and decided to visit their former teacher Cangming’s grave, while Xu Le and Duo En secretly watched them. After Chi Xiao exposed Duo En’s puppet and discovered Xu Le nearby, she left him a message that redirected his attention to Cangming’s tomb.

• Ding Ke resisted Bai Ya’s offer to free her from whispering, and Chi Xiao warned her after Bai Ya used a strange influence on her.
• Bai Ya explained that Cangming remained a condemned sinner of the Red Moon Holy Temple, but said she could arrange a visit to his grave.
• Ding Ke asked Chi Xiao to accompany her to Cangming’s tomb, and Chi Xiao agreed despite suspecting Bai Ya had ulterior motives.
• Bai Ya noticed hidden observers, and Chi Xiao destroyed Duo En’s puppet with Flame Prison-Great Serpent while Xu Le remained concealed in the Shadow Realm.
• Chi Xiao dropped a message near Xu Le, who collected it and realized that Cangming’s tomb was now his priority.

Xu Le reasoned that the Red Moon itself might have spared Cangming and considered how the Red Moon System’s Gods could be at odds with it. After Bai Ya, Chi Xiao, and Ding Ke left, Xu Le used Chi Xiao’s dropped branch to trace their destination and escaped a search of the Red Moon Forbidden Land by teleporting.

• Xu Le concluded that the Red Moon itself was the likeliest reason Cangming had survived, and suspected Cangming’s plans involving the Gods had drawn its interest.
• Bai Ya opened a portal, and Chi Xiao and Ding Ke entered it before Bai Ya noticed Xu Le and gave him a nod.
• Xu Le found that Chi Xiao had dropped a Soul Devouring Tree branch marked for dark teleportation and sensed that a God’s power was interfering with the Dark Particles.
• Half Moon Angels and high-level warlocks began searching the forbidden land while Xu Le waited for Chi Xiao’s location to stop moving.
• As the searchers approached, Xu Le cast Demon Eye-Boundary-Crossing Gate and vanished, leaving the Angel to confirm that someone had escaped.

Xu Le encountered the Red Moon and learned that it awaited him, while Chi Xiao and Ding Ke reached the Red Moon Cemetery with Bai Ya. The chapter left Ding Ke under attack after she crossed the cemetery’s first gravestone.

• Xu Le arrived beneath a dark red sky, faced the Red Moon’s eye with Night Fiend’s darkness, and received the message that it awaited his arrival.
• Xu Le reasoned that the Red Moon might be keeping its gods from learning about him, then prepared to teleport toward Chi Xiao and the others.
• Miwang sensed a clash involving the Red Moon and wondered why it had ignored him for more than ten years.
• Bai Ya admitted she had been stalling as she led Chi Xiao and Ding Ke to the Watchers’ cemetery, where Chi Xiao challenged her beliefs about darkness.
• Ding Ke crossed the first gravestone, triggering a skeletal phantom that attacked her with Red Moon Slash.

Ding Ke and Chi Xiao visited Cangming’s grave in the Red Moon Holy Land, where Ding Ke learned that Bai Ya and Chi Xiao had hidden the truth about their teacher. Ding Ke searched beneath the grave and uncovered a human hand bone, leaving Bai Ya shocked.

• Ding Ke entered the cemetery and fought a skeletal Heroic Spirit, then Bai Ya subdued four more spirits before they could attack her.
• Bai Ya led Ding Ke and Chi Xiao through the cemetery to Cangming’s gravestone, where Ding Ke mourned and asked why he had proposed enslaving the Gods.
• Ding Ke said she wanted to take Cangming’s remains, but Bai Ya demanded she stay and atone while Chi Xiao refused to let her remain.
• Ding Ke realized Bai Ya and Chi Xiao were concealing whether Cangming was still alive, then struck through the ground beneath his grave.
• Ding Ke pulled a human hand bone from beneath the tomb, surprising Bai Ya, who had believed the grave was empty.

Xu Le explored the Red Moon Holy Land and reached its Cemetery, unaware that a mysterious red-haired man was following him and secretly influencing the heroic spirits there. After Chi Xiao and Ding Ke left Bai Ya, Xu Le unexpectedly appeared in front of her without either of them sensing the other.

• Xu Le repeatedly slipped out of the Shadow Realm as he climbed the white jade platforms, while an unseen red-haired man followed him by exploiting his blind spots.
• Xu Le prepared escape marks near the Cemetery, and the red-haired man reacted with fear when he saw Xu Le use fading fire.
• Xu Le disturbed a gravestone, summoning six skeleton heroic spirits, which bowed to him after the red-haired man quietly gestured at them.
• Ding Ke questioned whether the hand bones found at Cangming's tomb belonged to her teacher, and Bai Ya said the bones had likely been taken from another grave.
• Chi Xiao invited Ding Ke to learn what had happened, and the two left together as Bai Ya watched them go.
• Xu Le stumbled into Bai Ya's presence, and neither of them had sensed the other approaching.

Xu Le encountered Bai Ya in White Jade Paradise, where Miwang’s haze concealed them from each other and Miwang secretly guided their meeting. Bai Ya led Xu Le toward Red Moon, and their conversation about Chi Xiao, Ding Ke, and Bai Ya’s role as Temple Master left their destination and Miwang’s intentions unresolved.

• Xu Le realized Bai Ya and Miwang’s haze had hidden Bai Ya from his perception, while Bai Ya learned that Xu Le had not sensed Miwang.
• Miwang signaled Bai Ya to let Xu Le pass, and she led him onward despite recognizing his Guyinduo energy and dark aura.
• Xu Le noticed Cangming’s dug-open grave, but told Bai Ya he had no connection to the previous Temple Master.
• Bai Ya told Xu Le that Chi Xiao and Ding Ke had already returned, then questioned him about his friendships with them.
• Xu Le explained that he had found Ding Ke as a Whisperer and considered her family, while Bai Ya described herself as a puppet Temple Master.

Xu Le and Bai Ya grew more comfortable talking as she guided him toward the Red Moon, revealing that she had become the temple master because the Red Moon Holy Temple wanted an obedient puppet. They reached the entrance to a domain where the Red Moon resided, and Bai Ya warned Xu Le to be careful.

• Xu Le joked with Bai Ya about his reputation and Night Fiend, and Bai Ya admitted that Night Fiend's presence had intimidated the Red Moon Holy Temple.
• Xu Le asked about Bai Ya's daily life, and she revealed that she spent most of her time cultivating and thinking in a life that felt like imprisonment.
• Bai Ya explained that the Red Moon Holy Temple had chosen her as its master because she was easy to control after Cangming.
• Xu Le said he would help Bai Ya if he could, and she thanked him for helping her understand why Chi Xiao and Ding Ke trusted him.
• Xu Le, Bai Ya, and Miwang reached the final entrance to the domain where the Red Moon resided, and Bai Ya warned Xu Le to be careful.

Xu Le met Red Moon in its vulnerable Nebula Form and learned that the hidden god following him was Miwang, Red Moon’s loyal subordinate. Red Moon asked Xu Le to return and help Cangming complete the God Luring Plan, leaving Xu Le at a crossroads he believed he could no longer avoid.

• Xu Le concluded that a god connected to Hazy had been following him and entered Red Moon’s domain in a guarded disguise.
• Red Moon revealed its Nebula Form, explained that it was vulnerable in that state, and introduced itself to Xu Le.
• Red Moon admitted that Miwang had been following Xu Le and said its creations had flaws and its subordinates’ wills had diverged from its own.
• Red Moon explained that Xu Le’s fate and unusual abilities had drawn the attention of powerful beings, then asked for his help concerning Cangming.
• Red Moon told Xu Le to return and help Cangming complete the God Luring Plan, which Cangming had already invited him to join.

Xu Le left his meeting with Red Moon and encountered Miwang, who tried to stop him and learn what Red Moon had asked him to do. Red Moon intervened to halt Miwang, allowing Xu Le to escape, while Miwang was left questioning whether Red Moon had strayed from their ideals.

• Xu Le reasoned that Red Moon might use the God Luring Plan to weaken the Children of Guyinduo and purge his own subordinates, then left Cosmic Stars after Red Moon told him to begin the plan.
• Miwang confronted Xu Le on the White Jade Platform and demanded to know what Red Moon had discussed with him, while Bai Ya urged Miwang not to interfere with Red Moon's will.
• Miwang blocked Xu Le's attempt to leave and prepared to attack when Xu Le spread the Soul Devouring Tree's darkness across the platform.
• Red Moon stopped time and space, ordered Miwang to carry out his own duties without forcing the issue, and compelled him to abandon his attack.
• Xu Le taunted Miwang and fled in Thunder form, while Miwang told Bai Ya that they could no longer understand Red Moon's thoughts and prayed to him without receiving a response.

Xu Le returned to his Safe House and used an ambush by Duo En’s Red Moon Holy Temple Warlocks to lure her into confronting him. After killing the attackers, Xu Le faced Duo En and struck her with an exploding Black Sword, leaving her shield shattered.

• Xu Le sensed Duo En had located his Safe House and chose to eliminate her before seeking Chi Xiao.
• Xu Le prepared the battlefield, approached the Safe House, and was attacked by seventeen Red Moon Holy Temple Warlocks.
• Xu Le countered the Warlocks’ spells and killed them, but a Soul Chain pierced his collarbone during a surprise attack.
• Duo En arrived and acknowledged Xu Le’s growing strength as they renewed their determination to kill each other.
• Xu Le threw the Black Sword at Duo En, causing it to erupt in dark needles that killed her nearby subordinates and shattered her Red Moon shield.

Xu Le and Duo En fought with their powers and puppets, and Duo En trapped him in the Iron Tombstone Array after sealing his escape. She believed Xu Le had finally died inside it.

• Xu Le killed Duo En's first puppet with black needles, survived an assassin's attack, and tore the Soul Chain from his shoulder to escape two scythe-wielding puppets.
• Xu Le summoned a Corrupted Angel from a Guyinduo Card, and it battled Duo En's tall puppet while another puppet attacked him.
• Duo En's puppets battered Xu Le, who used the Substitute Life Technique and a Four-Leaf Clover card to stay alive.
• Xu Le tried to open a Boundary-Crossing Gate, but Duo En sacrificed a Human Puppet to seal the space and stop his escape.
• Duo En trapped Xu Le with Heavenly Sin and the Iron Tombstone Array, which overwhelmed his defenses until the array fell silent.

Xu Le defeated Duo En after revealing that his apparent near-death struggle had been a puppet’s performance, then captured her real body. He left Duo En gravely wounded as Meilis watched her daughter’s candle flicker at the temple.

• Duo En’s Iron Ghost formation reduced Xu Le and the battlefield to dust, but Xu Le crawled from the rubble and tore out the Mechanical Core of her last Human Puppet.
• Duo En hesitated to confront Xu Le directly as he opened a Darkness Boundary-Crossing Gate, then charged when she feared he would escape.
• Meilis watched Duo En’s Spirit Tablet candle flicker and accepted her daughter’s possible death as a way to appease Xu Le.
• Duo En attacked Xu Le with poison-coated blades, but he knocked her down and restrained her with Toad as he revealed that a damaged Doll had taken all the injuries she had inflicted.
• Duo En tried to strike Xu Le again, but he evaded her attack, broke her arm, and tore it off as darkness began corroding her body.

Xu Le killed Duo En, erased the battlefield, and left the Red Moon Holy Temple aboard an airship bound for Lighthouse to seek Cangming. As Bai Ya called him for advice about her strained relationships with Chi Xiao and the others, Xu Le insisted that knowing an ending did not mean he would stop trying to change it.

• Xu Le told Duo En that her death had been part of his and Meilis’s test of each other, and Duo En accepted her fate as darkness corroded her body.
• After Toad departed, Xu Le used fading fire to erase the battle traces and boarded an airship to Lighthouse, sensing that his search for Cangming could affect the war between Guyinduo and Red Moon.
• Meilis noticed Duo En’s Everlasting Candle had gone out while Bai Ya, conflicted in the main hall, decided to contact someone.
• As Xu Le’s airship left the Red Moon Holy Temple, he sensed the vast spirit energy of the Red Moon Barrier and received a call from Bai Ya.
• Bai Ya asked Xu Le about friendship and the rift between her and Chi Xiao’s group, then asked whether he would keep going if he knew his ending; Xu Le answered that his arrival would make the ending different.

Xu Le learned that Cangming was a formidable former Temple Master whose resolve would be difficult to influence, then left an airship and met him near Lighthouse. Cangming praised Xu Le’s reforms in Zion and revealed that he had been watching him even before he went there.

• Bai Ya warned Xu Le that Cangming could abandon the world and would be difficult to affect with Heart Energy.
• Xu Le gave an attendant identity papers and money so he could start a new life in Lighthouse, then leaped from the airship and descended through a bolt of thunder.
• Xu Le encountered a tiny dwarf who had escaped his perception and recognized him as Cangming, the former Temple Master and a near-godlike Level 8.
• Cangming greeted Xu Le warmly and praised the impact of his reforms in Zion.
• Cangming compared their reform efforts, said his own plan for the Red Moon Holy Temple had failed, and revealed he had noticed Xu Le before his trip to Zion.

Xu Le accepted Cangming’s invitation to inspect his secret plan, but Cangming sent him down a dangerous passage to prove his strength. Xu Le crushed the passage’s first monster and unleashed Black Wind as more threats appeared.

• Cangming praised Xu Le’s past choices and exploits, then asked him to join forces to kill a Guyinduo.
• Xu Le insisted on seeing Cangming’s plan for himself, and Cangming led him to a secret underground passage.
• Cangming disappeared after warning that Xu Le would have to prove his strength on the path ahead.
• A stone monster tried to drag Xu Le into the passage, but Xu Le slapped it apart in one blow.
• Chi Xiao and Ding Ke watched Xu Le’s progress from Cangming’s Secret Base and discussed his confidence and violence.
• Xu Le unleashed Black Wind through the passage and called out that he was coming in.

Xu Le unleashed his power of darkness in Cangming’s underground passage, destroying its defenses and forcing Zeximi to act to prove his worth. As Xu Le approached, Chi Xiao decided he could become Xiao’s new leader and began explaining to Ding Ke why ending the Dark Age required action.

• Xu Le’s darkness spread through the Netherworld Corridor, eroding the passage and killing the special Oddities hidden there.
• Cangming dismissed Zeximi’s complaints and warned that his value to Xiao was declining, prompting Zeximi to prepare to intercept Xu Le.
• Chi Xiao reflected that she could not replace Cangming herself, but Xu Le’s growing strength and shared ideals made him a potential new leader for Xiao.
• Chi Xiao revealed to Ding Ke that Xu Le’s arrival was worth celebrating, while Ding Ke worried that Cangming would endanger him.
• Chi Xiao told Ding Ke that true peace required ending the Dark Age because even the cities could no longer remain safe.