Chapter Summaries

Xiluo pursued and killed the fleeing Paladin Laina after the Xikalei Army was routed, then returned to help his allies. He left the battlefield with most enemies captured or fleeing and the other three fights still deadlocked.

• The Death Legion, Vampires, and Descenders pursued fleeing Xikalei soldiers while the victorious forces secured prisoners and spoils.
• Laina fled the battlefield using spatial teleportation, but Xiluo tracked him down despite his repeated attempts to escape.
• Xiluo disrupted Laina’s teleportation and decoys, broke through his defenses, and killed him when he tried to surrender.
• Xiluo collected Laina’s equipment and rings, then flew back to the battlefield with Laina’s corpse.
• Xiluo joined the other elites to help their allies, finding the fights against the remaining enemy forces still deadlocked.

After Xiluo’s forces turned the battles into a decisive victory, he and his allies counted their casualties, spoils, and prisoners. Xiluo proposed making the Gerlo Kingdom pay their compensation, then returned to his army and agreed to Abel’s demand for gold.

• Xiluo’s reinforcements joined the battlefields and routed Xikalei’s allied troops, allowing Xiluo’s forces to win across the front.
• Xiluo and his three allies reported their casualties and spoils, then agreed how to divide the prisoners.
• The allies worried that compensation for their dead and wounded would leave them in debt, but Xiluo suggested they seek payment from the Gerlo Kingdom.
• Xiluo returned to his army, where Abel claimed compensation for his injuries and lost dragonbeast, and Xiluo agreed to pay him 400 gold coins.
• The Young She-Dragon refused to heal Abel and insulted him.

After returning victorious to Niro City, Xiluo earned two achievements but refused to redeem his points. Meanwhile, Marquis Xikalei resolved to preserve his family, and Xiluo and allied nobles pressed Gerlo’s king to fund compensation for war casualties, leaving the king facing their demands.

• Xiluo promised the dragons compensation, returned to Niro City, and joined the victory celebration before sleeping.
• Xiluo earned the [Glorious victory] and [Unmatched might] achievements, bringing his total to 45 points, but declined to redeem talents.
• Marquis Xikalei accepted that he might have to surrender the Legendary Ring to keep the Xikalei Family from being destroyed.
• Gerlo’s king angrily lamented losing his chance to become a Dragonblood Warrior and worried that Xiluo and the nobles might be coming to punish him.
• Xiluo and the nobles gathered before the king and argued that Gerlo should counterattack Ularuo or compensate the Heroes who had suffered casualties.
• The nobles turned their attention to the king and implied that he should pay compensation, leaving him asking what they wanted.

Xiluo and the other three lords pressured the King into paying compensation for their losses, then Xiluo returned to Niro City after spending the night with Matriarch Baili'er. He arrived to find the injured Abel mating with a magical beast.

• Xiluo, Dorian, Doges, and Melano rejected the nobles’ calls for compensation and urged a counterattack against Ularuo, forcing the King to pay each of them thirty thousand gold coins.
• After the other three lords left, Xiluo stayed in the Royal Capital and met Matriarch Baili'er at his inn that night.
• Baili'er praised Xiluo’s strength and secretly hoped their bloodlines would produce a child capable of helping her establish her own kingdom.
• Xiluo left Baili'er before dawn and returned to Niro City, thinking about using his compensation to buy mutation materials.
• Xiluo heard strange sounds near Abel’s lair and found the supposedly injured dragon whelp mating with a magical beast.

Xiluo returned from the war with 30,000 gold coins in compensation and agreed with Alice to strengthen the territory’s defenses. After paying for Red Thunder Mutation supplies and planning new walls and military camps, construction began, leaving him with 13,856 gold coins.

• Abel showed Xiluo the [Power of the Sea Emperor], a nine-thousand-gold bracelet that raised his displayed level to 13 and let him cast water spells.
• Xiluo told Alice he had received 30,000 gold coins from the King, and Alice proposed building walls so enemies could be spotted before reaching the territory.
• Xiluo agreed to build defensive walls and expand the military camp, and he paid the Temple of the Goddess of Wealth his 6,500-gold debt before buying another year of mutation materials for 5,000 gold coins.
• Xiluo learned the defensive project would cost 25,000 gold coins and take half a year, with walls and military camps planned in all four directions.
• Xiluo finalized the plans with Alice, and construction began, leaving him with 13,856 gold coins.

Xiluo learned that rumors about the Legendary Ring were spreading through Niro City, risking unrest and attacks, and decided to make others believe his side was too powerful to challenge. He invited the three merfolk sisters to visit Niro City, and they agreed after he provided water elementals to keep them comfortable and promised them protection.

• Xiluo ordered a defensive warning wall built, and his subjects praised him as construction began.
• Rumors spread that Xiluo possessed the Legendary Ring, and Allen and Barbara warned that the story could draw enemies and cause unrest.
• Xiluo decided to make his enemies believe he was stronger and flew to the Tate Mountain Range to summon the merfolk sisters.
• Anali, Xueli, and Flora explained that they disliked being away from seawater, so Xiluo offered to let them travel inside water elementals.
• Xiluo welcomed the sisters as his little sisters and assured them that Niro City would protect them.
• The merfolk sisters agreed to visit Niro City and offered to sell Xiluo Conch Stone for 30 silver coins an ounce.

Xiluo brought the three merfolk sisters to Niro City, presenting them as high-ranking nobles of the Hai Jialan Empire to impress the city’s subjects and intimidate outsiders. After treating them to local food and amusements, he led them to the Clubhouse, where they came face-to-face with three familiar figures.

• Xiluo introduced the merfolk sisters to Niro City’s subjects as his sworn sisters and nobles of the Hai Jialan Empire, impressing the crowd and unsettling spies.
• Xiluo took the merfolk and Naga Guards to Deliciousness Without Limits, where the sisters eagerly devoured the land dishes.
• After the meal, Xiluo showed the merfolk games and more of Niro City’s food, and they said they wanted to stay longer.
• Xiluo led the merfolk sisters to the Clubhouse, where they unexpectedly encountered three familiar figures emerging from inside.

Anali and the other mermaid sisters discovered that their Naga agents had been enjoying Niro City instead of reporting back, then stayed to enjoy the city themselves. A month later, Depu asked Xiluo to name his newborn daughter, revealing that Descenders had children in Niro City and prompting Xiluo to consider educating them for future roles.

• Anali and the other mermaids confronted the Naga trio about visiting the Dark Horse Club, then punished them by sending them back to their tribe and forbidding them from coming ashore without orders.
• The mermaid sisters and their guards enjoyed Niro City, attracting more Sea Folk and boosting local businesses while the city remained peaceful under the deterrent of their fabricated noble identities.
• Xiluo continued studying spells and strengthening his knowledge as he waited for the city's growing tensions to erupt.
• Depu asked Xiluo to name his newborn daughter and explained that Descenders could have children with natives of Domirank Star.
• Xiluo learned that Niro City had 714 children of Descenders and asked Depu whether Descenders would want their children trained from an early age for future careers.

Xiluo Utrasis announced Niro Academy, promising training for students of all backgrounds, and enrollment drew crowds despite tiered tuition. The academy’s operators then promoted expensive nearby school-district homes, leaving wealthy merchants tempted and Descenders convinced Xiluo had been fed another scheme.

• Xiluo Utrasis announced plans for Niro Academy, where subjects could train in various professions and gifted students could advance to higher tiers.
• Subjects and Descenders flocked to enroll, learning about the academy’s four tuition tiers, teacher credentials, scholarships, and graduation standards.
• Niro Academy accepted students of many ages and backgrounds, and classes were scheduled to begin in half a month, even before construction was complete.
• Hyena-people approached wealthy merchants and Descenders about nearby school-district homes priced at three gold coins per square meter.
• The merchants considered the sales pitch about future demand, while the Descenders grimly suspected someone had taught Xiluo Utrasis another way to profit.

Xiluo celebrated the gold earned from academy tuition and school-district housing, then spent 30,000 gold coins on Conch Stone to strengthen himself. The Conch Stone raised his Thunderfall Dragon bloodline to 75%, where he discovered he needed Sea God Crystals instead, so he flew back to ask the merfolk sisters whether they had any.

• Descenders bought Niro City's school-district homes, and Xiluo counted 53,700 gold coins in revenue from housing and the academies.
• Xiluo visited the new academy, saw its teachers and students at work, then waited outside the merfolk sisters' home while they went shopping.
• Xiluo bought all the Conch Stone the merfolk sisters could spare for 30,000 gold coins and consumed it outside the city.
• Xiluo's Thunderfall Dragon bloodline reached 75%, but he learned that further growth required Sea God Crystals rather than Conch Stone.
• Xiluo flew back to the merfolk sisters' home to ask whether they had Sea God Crystals.

Over two years, Xiluo researched spells, bought rare Sea God crystals, and continued building his strength while his son Pawa grew into a formidable Dragonkin child. The chapter ended with Pawa returning home to his parents and Xiluo reflecting on the boy’s growth and his own progress.

• Xiluo asked the Hailan Clan and Bishop Xiwel for Sea God crystals, and learned the temple could supply only ten thousand gold coins’ worth per year.
• Xiluo bought the available crystals, raising his Thunderfall Dragon Bloodline from 75% to 75.8%, then spent two years researching spells and strengthening himself.
• At the academy, Pawa defeated Kululuo again, and the children praised him for inheriting Xiluo’s bloodline.
• Allen picked Pawa up from the academy and took him home after Pawa asked why his parents had not come for him.
• Pawa heard noises behind his mother’s door, mistook his parents’ exercise for his father hitting her, and waited until they opened the door.
• Xiluo observed that Pawa had advanced to a level 2 elite template and considered how the boy might grow stronger in the years ahead.

Xiluo reviewed his two years of growth, Niro City's prosperity, and the enormous sums he had spent raising his bloodlines and Allen. Abel visited to exchange Soul Fruits for his newly one-year-old Dragonbeast, while boasting about his plans to defeat Gordon.

• Xiluo saw that his level remained 17 while his three mutated bloodlines had each surpassed 75%, and he reflected on Niro City's growth and his accumulated wealth.
• Xiluo noted that he had spent 125,000 gold coins on bloodline growth, crystals, and Crimson Thunder's mutation, with another 35,000 going toward Allen.
• Xiluo observed that Allen had reached level 14 and had learned [Dragon Domain - Extreme Cold], which helped Xiluo reverse-engineer [Dragon Domain - Extreme Thunder].
• Abel arrived with good news, and Little Pawa excitedly asked him when he could join him in making films; the lady used a Weakening Spell and dragged Pawa away from the window.
• Xiluo joined Abel outside, and Abel asked to exchange three Soul Fruits for his one-year-old Dragonbeast.
• Abel boasted that his twelve Dragonbeasts would help him defeat Gordon, while Xiluo agreed that the Soul Fruit exchange would be no problem.

Xiluo learned that the Pleasure Demon could no longer supply enough Soul Fruits and considered whether her invitation to the Abyssal Hell was a trap. After Abel suggested sending the fearless Descenders to help gather souls, Xiluo sought information about crystal deposits that might provide another opportunity.

• Xiluo entered the Twelve Royal Rings meeting and confronted No. 7, who accused him of using a false identity and complained that dragons had beaten him up.
• Xiluo privately spoke with No. 1, the Pleasure Demon, who said her Soul Tree lacked nourishment and asked him to visit her in Abyssal Hell to collect souls in exchange for discounted Soul Fruits.
• Xiluo suspected No. 1 might be colluding with No. 7, refused to visit or sign a devil contract, and returned to Niro City without Soul Fruit.
• Abel proposed sending the Descenders to help the Pleasure Demon gather souls, and Xiluo considered the idea before entering the King's Ring again.
• Xiluo asked No. 4 about crystal mines or production areas occupied by a single person, beast, or monster, and she offered to answer three questions for thirty thousand gold coins.

Xiluo bought a map to an underwater Sea God Crystal source from No. 4 Information Lady for 15,000 gold coins, gambling that the site met his requirements. After learning the site lay 4,000 meters beneath the sea, he left alone for a villa in the Rich District.

• Xiluo asked No. 4 Information Lady for information on crystal deposits and chose a Sea God Crystal source owned by someone below Legendary strength.
• Xiluo consulted Barbara and the dragons, but they knew of no suitable targets they could safely attack.
• Xiluo paid No. 4 15,000 gold coins for a map and found the marked site 1,500 kilometers from Babari Island, 4,000 meters underwater.
• The dragons reacted to the cost, and Abel and Allen admitted they could not safely accompany Xiluo into the deep sea.
• Xiluo told the dragons to stay behind and flew toward an enormous walled villa in the Rich District.

Xiluo ventured into the deep sea to find Sea God Crystals, using his Thunderfall Dragon abilities to evade the Lanboer Kingdom’s fishmen. Near his destination, he discovered three Tidal Titans searching for the same treasure, including an old acquaintance, and overheard them warn that an escapee might bring reinforcements.

• Xiluo asked Anali, Xueli, and Flora about the marked location and learned it lay in the Lanboer Kingdom, whose Sawtooth Shark Fishmen attacked outsiders.
• The mermaids advised Xiluo on how to approach the site and sent a Naga Spellcaster to guide him to the kingdom’s border.
• Xiluo descended to 4,000 meters, killed and tasted a Deep-Sea Demon Fish, then swam toward the treasure while avoiding fishmen settlements and patrols.
• After searching the dark seabed without success, Xiluo spotted three powerful Tidal Titans and recognized one as the Titan he had helped the Merfolk defeat years earlier.
• Xiluo overheard the Titans confirm they had come for Sea God Crystals, argue about the old acquaintance’s failures, and order Tam to lead them to the crystals before an escapee returned with reinforcements.

Xiluo followed the Tidal Titans to a cavern of Sea God Crystals, where four Deep Sea Dragon Turtles confronted them. After the Tidal Titans lured the turtles away and sent a fourth Titan to collect crystals, Xiluo ambushed and killed the lone collector.

• A level 17 Tidal Titan opened a seabed cavern, and three Titans attacked the Deep Sea Dragon Turtle inside.
• The Dragon Turtle called for help, revealing three more Dragon Turtles; the Titans drew all four away while another Titan entered the cavern to collect Sea God Crystals.
• Xiluo followed the collector into the cavern and found the walls covered in Sea God Crystals.
• Xiluo disguised himself as a Twisted Borer, approached the distracted Titan, and weakened him with an ambush.
• Xiluo pinned the Titan, killed him with lightning and a bite to the neck, and left the Sea God Crystals unclaimed.

Xiluo discovered that eating the Tidal Titan’s heart, liver, and lungs increased his Thunderfall Dragon and Ancestral Dragon bloodlines, then escaped the Titan’s allies and Dragon Turtles. After feeding to satisfy a resulting hunger, he returned to the area, found the Titans gone, and impersonated one to provoke a Fishmen patrol into reporting an attack to their king.

• Xiluo ate the Tidal Titan’s heart, liver, and lungs and saw his Thunderfall Dragon and Ancestral Dragon bloodline concentrations rise.
• When four Dragon Turtles and three Tidal Titans confronted him, Xiluo evaded their attacks and escaped using water control and Water Elementals.
• Xiluo’s Ancestral Dragon bloodline rose further as intense hunger struck, so he transformed into a whale and devoured schools of fish.
• After returning to the battlefield and finding the Tidal Titans gone, Xiluo disguised himself as his old Titan acquaintance and swept a Fishmen patrol hundreds of meters away with tidal-like waves.
• The furious Fishmen captain vowed to report the incident to the Lanboer Kingdom’s king, and the patrol headed back.

After returning from the deep sea, Xiluo argued with No. 4 over misleading information, then absorbed the Sea God Crystals and attracted a group of water elementals into his body. His Thunderfall Dragon Bloodline passed 80%, his level rose to 18, and he discovered a new ability that let him expand and extend his body with water elements.

• Xiluo returned to the Tate Mountain Range with about 3,000 pounds of Sea God Crystals and decided to warn the Merfolk about possible Titan retaliation.
• Xiluo confronted No. 4 about the dangerous Sea God Crystal deposit, but she refused a refund and offered him 5,000 gold coins' worth of information for free.
• Xiluo swallowed the Sea God Crystals, attracting a level 14 water element spirit named Nana, who entered his body and summoned other elementals.
• Five giant wave elements and three tidal spirits joined Nana inside Xiluo, and he expelled his weaker wind and lightning elementals to make room for them.
• Xiluo's level reached 18 and his Thunderfall Dragon Bloodline rose to 80.7%; he demonstrated a new ability that let him stretch his forelimb and enlarge his body by infusing it with water elements.

After reaching 80% Thunderfall Dragon bloodline, Xiluo tested his newfound water-filled form, warned the merfolk sisters to relocate, and unlocked three achievements before buying Illusion Mastery. Meanwhile, a Tidal Titan Deputy Leader discovered Wali’s death and set out to hunt Xiluo through the merfolk; the chapter ended with Xiluo summoning the Dragons to share news.

• Xiluo tested his water-filled form and found that it greatly reduced damage from impacts and sharp weapons, then returned to Niro City and warned the merfolk sisters about the Tidal Titans.
• Xiluo unlocked the Titan Slayer, Titan Devourer, and Lord of Elements achievements, raised his total to 70 points, and spent 50 points on Illusion Mastery.
• The Tidal Titan Deputy Leader arrived at the lair, killed the four Deep Sea Dragon Turtles with his control over liquids, and confirmed that Wali had died.
• The Deputy Leader blamed the three Titans for Wali’s death, claimed the remaining Sea God Crystals, and ordered them to find the merfolk and kill Xiluo.
• The next morning, Xiluo told Allen to gather all the Dragons so he could share news with them.

Xiluo told the dragons that eating a Tidal Titan’s organs had strengthened his bloodlines, then considered why the ancient dragons had concealed this knowledge. He studied illusion magic and tested it on Alice, leaving the castle soldiers confused about where he was.

• Xiluo gathered the dragons and claimed that killing a Tidal Titan had strengthened his thunderfall dragon and ancestral dragon bloodlines.
• Barbara and Xiluo warned the dragons that revealing the bloodline effect could drive dragons and Titans into an all-out war, and Xiluo urged them to grow stronger.
• After sending the dragons away, Xiluo studied illusion spells and found that Spell Genius let him understand their principles with ease.
• Alice found Xiluo engrossed in spell research, then returned with him to the castle, where Andre and Little Pawa were watching Pawa exercise.
• Xiluo used an illusion to make Alice believe he was beside her while Andre and Pawa could not see him, then revealed himself at the doorway.
• Xiluo reassured Alice and Andre, but after he went upstairs with Alice, the soldiers saw him beside them and asked why he was not resting with the lady lord.