Chapter Summaries

Xu Le brutally defeated Annie and secured her support for Black Crow’s bid to become Temple Master. Black Crow then warned the Black Hall that the coming Black Tide could bring powerful enemies, including the Children of Guyinduo, and urged everyone to prepare for war.

• Xu Le caught Annie’s attack, broke her fingers, shattered her Red Moon Shield, and beat her down after she fled through a Spatial Gate.
• Xu Le spared Annie, who apologized and promised to support Black Crow becoming Temple Master.
• Black Crow took the floor and warned the Black Hall that Gods and possibly Children of Guyinduo could descend during the coming Black Tide.
• Black Crow urged everyone to bring out their weapons, Spell Formulas, Scrolls, and equipment and prepare to fight together.
• Black Crow explained that the Children of Guyinduo could surpass ordinary Gods and had gathered power over the two Black Tides since their seals were lifted.
• The Black Hall members agreed to return for their supplies and come back prepared for battle.

As the Black Tide broke into the Red Moon Holy Temple, Xu Le exposed a disguised Rose’s Child and watched space rifts unleash hordes of oddities. He left Black Crow to defend the Black Hall and flew with Chi Xiao to find the rifts’ other end, sensing a target ahead as Chi Xiao wondered whether Xu Le could reach Level 8.

• Xu Le noticed the Red Moon withdraw its light, and Black Tide oddities invaded the Red Moon Holy Temple through space rifts.
• Xu Le identified an infiltrator as a Rose’s Child, but she exploded when Black Crow and Annie tried to capture her, opening more rifts and flooding the Black Hall with oddities.
• Xu Le left Black Crow in charge of the Black Hall and took Chi Xiao outside, where they saw Swallow Heaven and Full Moon angel-Sana clash.
• Xu Le explained that he and Chi Xiao should search for the other ends of the rifts and find another Child of Guyinduo without revealing their strength.
• Chi Xiao questioned Xu Le about reaching Level 8, and Xu Le said it would not take long before sensing a target ahead.

Xu Le attacked the Space Rift and fought the projections of Puppet and Spider Queen Rose, using his power of chaos to overpower Puppet. After sensing four Legendary experts approaching, he pinned Puppet in place and vanished, leaving the Rift and its defenders behind.

• Xu Le and Chi Xiao reached the enormous Space Rift, where Xu Le discovered Puppet guarding it and realized Spider Queen Rose was assisting through spider silk.
• Xu Le used Chaos Gaze, chaotic mist, and Chaos Shuttle to evade their attacks and pierce Puppet’s projection with the Black Sword.
• Xu Le battered Puppet until Rose restrained him with Heavenly Net, allowing Puppet to tear him apart with Trajectory-Rend.
• Xu Le’s apparent remains transformed into black crows that followed Puppet through its spatial transfers, and Xu Le reappeared unharmed.
• As four Legendary experts approached, Xu Le stopped preparing Reincarnation-Tribulation, pinned Puppet with four Black Rods, and disappeared through the Space Rift.

Xu Le overwhelmed Puppet’s projection, but the Red Moon Holy Temple captured it before he could destroy it and questioned it about its attacker. After the Temple sealed the rift, it secretly shattered and opened a passage to the Red Moon Holy Temple, while Xu Le returned to Chi Xiao.

• Puppet struggled against Xu Le’s black rods, and the Red Moon Holy Temple arrived and sealed the weakened projection.
• Xuandu questioned Puppet, which revealed that the young human Xu Le had exceeded its expectations and that the Temple already knew of him through Night Fiend’s Approval.
• The three legendary Warlocks warned that forcibly closing the Space Rift could open a path to the void, but Xuandu accepted responsibility and ordered them to proceed.
• Xuandu took Puppet away after the rift appeared to close, but the space later shattered and released the void’s aura through cracks leading to the Red Moon Holy Temple.
• Xu Le returned to Chi Xiao, who praised his battle and said he had surpassed her former strength at level 7.

After defeating the Puppet Projection, Xu Le left the Space Rift open to draw out Red Moon’s true form and returned to the Red Moon Holy Temple with Chi Xiao. The Black Tide assault then shattered the Temple’s barrier, leaving its warlocks exposed to Spider Queen Rose’s influence and the attacking Oddities.

• Xu Le told Chi Xiao that he would leave the Space Rift open to pressure Red Moon into revealing itself, then returned with her to the Red Moon Holy Temple.
• A giant claw and swarms of Insects emerged through a Space Rift inside the Temple as Guyinduo Oddities detonated themselves against the barrier outside.
• Spider Queen Rose approached with the giants and used Heart Energy to tempt the Temple’s warlocks with promises of peace, weakening their will to fight.
• A gigantic stone hand struck the Red Moon Barrier repeatedly, severed its Spirit Energy supply, and caused it to dissipate.
• An old warlock urged his disciples to resist for their families, friends, and freedom, helping the shaken warlocks recover their fighting spirit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.