Chapter Summaries

An Xiaoran used her Healing Cross to suppress the Seventh-Tier Giant Bird Fierce Beast and rally the city’s Sequence Users. As her Divinity grew amid their cheers, Luo Fan emerged from a collapsing space.

• The Seventh-Tier Giant Bird Fierce Beast unleashed a barrage of Wind Blades, devastating the battlefield and killing Sequence Users.
• An Xiaoran summoned the Healing Cross, then transformed it into a sword and launched it at the Giant Bird.
• The Cross Sword struck the Giant Bird and pinned it to the ground with its Rule Power.
• The Sequence Users cheered An Xiaoran as her Divinity increased, while Ding Wanning and Ding Yuening watched.
• A crack opened in the void, and Luo Fan walked out of the collapsing space.

Luo Fan returned from the Alternate-Dimension Space after killing the eighth-tier Fierce Beast and discovered that his new level 56 skill, Ode to Courage, could temporarily raise him to match a stronger opponent at a severe cost. After An Xiaoran healed his wounds, he announced the beast’s death, leaving the battlefield stunned and celebrating their victory.

• Luo Fan learned that Ode to Courage could raise his level to match a higher-level target for a limited time, after which he would lose access to his powers for twenty-four hours.
• An Xiaoran healed Luo Fan’s wounds with her golden light while the battlefield’s fighters and beasts watched him return.
• Ding Wanning asked Luo Fan where the eighth-tier Fierce Beast had gone, and he said he had slain it.
• The Sequence Users reacted in disbelief as they realized Luo Fan had broken through to the fifth tier and killed an eighth-tier Fierce Beast.
• The battlefield erupted in cheers as the fighters celebrated their victory.

After Luo Fan killed the eighth-tier Winged Queen, the Fierce Beast tide scattered, and Holy City’s defenders finished off the pinned seventh-tier Giant Bird. A message from Lian Ziqiong led Luo Fan away from the battlefield as she opened the secret chamber in the City Lord’s Manor and entered it.

• The Fierce Beasts fled after the Winged Queen’s death, and the Sequence Users cheered as Ding Wanning realized Luo Fan had turned the battle around.
• Luo Fan called for ranged attacks on the pinned seventh-tier Giant Bird, and the Sequence Users killed it with a barrage of attacks.
• Luo Fan received Lian Ziqiong’s message that she had found the passage to the secret chamber, then left An Xiaoran to rest and departed for the City Lord’s Manor.
• Lian Ziqiong found and pressed a hidden button in the study, opening a concealed passage in the wall.
• Lian Ziqiong checked the passage for danger, pushed open the stone door at its end, and entered the secret chamber.

Lian Ziqiong entered a hidden chamber and stole the milky-white metal Luo Fan wanted, while discovering a strange, dangerous black heart inside. After she left, the heart began beating faster and more strongly in the sealed darkness.

• Lian Ziqiong entered the hidden chamber and spotted a milky-white metal piece glowing like sunlight.
• Lian Ziqiong noticed a suspended black liquid heart beating faintly and sensed that it was extremely dangerous.
• At the Money Rat's urging, Lian Ziqiong took the metal and placed it in her Mustard Seed Bag, plunging the chamber into darkness.
• Lian Ziqiong left through the study window using Shadow Walk, and the hidden chamber sealed itself again.
• The black heart's beats grew stronger and their intervals shortened from over ten seconds to eight seconds.

After the Holy City survived the beast tide, Ding Wanning thanked Luo Fan and the Hope Convoy for helping defend it. Luo Fan returned to his residence to find Lian Ziqiong waiting with the Innate Yang Steel.

• The surviving Sequence Users cleared the battlefield and counted the fierce beast corpses as members of the Hope Convoy returned from the fight, exhausted and injured.
• Ding Wanning watched Luo Fan and his companions leave the battlefield, then bowed and thanked them for saving the Holy City.
• Luo Fan told Ding Wanning that he had fought because he considered himself part of the Holy City and believed humanity shared a common enemy in the Weird and fierce beasts.
• Luo Fan and Ding Wanning discussed the distribution of corpses, treatment of the wounded, and repairs before she urged the convoy to rest.
• Luo Fan returned to his residence and found Lian Ziqiong sitting in the courtyard, handling the Innate Yang Steel.

After Lian Ziqiong delivered the Innate Yang Steel, Luo Fan explained that it suppressed Weird and admitted he had concealed its value from her. As Ding Wanning finally fell asleep after the beast tide, a black aura appeared and a version of herself in her consciousness accused her of losing authority to Luo Fan and his companions.

• Lian Ziqiong gave Luo Fan the Innate Yang Steel, and the Hope Convoy gathered to examine its glow.
• Luo Fan explained that the Innate Yang Steel repelled Weird and was why none dared approach the Holy City.
• Lian Ziqiong realized Luo Fan had come to the Holy City for the steel, and Luo Fan admitted he feared she might keep it after learning its value.
• Lian Ziqiong accepted his honesty, reminded him to pay her two sixth-tier Weird Crystals, and went to bed.
• Ding Wanning returned to her bedchamber and fell asleep, relieved that the beast tide had been defeated and the Holy City saved.
• A faint black aura seeped from Ding Wanning as a version of her appeared in her consciousness and accused her of letting Luo Fan and his companions eclipse her authority.

After leaving Holy City with the Innate Yang Steel, Luo Fan sensed something in the night sky while Ding Wanning was overtaken by her evil self. The transformed Ding Wanning awakened with a murderous fixation on Luo Fan and An Xiaoran.

• Luo Fan decided the convoy would return to Lin City before planning how to use the Innate Yang Steel, and the Hope Convoy departed Holy City.
• Luo Fan told a guard he was going out to check on the Fierce Beasts, and the convoy traveled east across the Gobi Desert.
• As Luo Fan considered the Innate Yang Steel, the Nightmare Nekomata landed on his lap, and he suddenly looked toward the distant night sky.
• In a dream, evil Ding Wanning exploited Ding Wanning's fears about Luo Fan, Ding Yuening, and An Xiaoran to persuade her to accept her desires.
• Evil Ding Wanning merged with Ding Wanning, who awoke surrounded by black smoke and declared that An Xiaoran was hers.

Ding Wanning, now a seventh-tier Sequence User with a Weird-like aura, attacked Luo Fan and the Hope Convoy without warning. Luo Fan’s invulnerability protected him from her strikes, and he tried to learn what had happened while Mo Yuling urged him to let her intervene.

• Luo Fan sensed an approaching figure, and Ding Wanning crashed down before the Hope Convoy with black wings and a corrupted appearance.
• Luo Fan used his Monitoring Glasses to discover Ding Wanning had risen from Lv55 to Lv72 overnight and recognized the aura of a Weird in her.
• Ding Wanning accused Luo Fan of deserving to die and fired black beams at him.
• Luo Fan activated his Decapitation Skill on An Xiaoran, making himself invulnerable as Ding Wanning’s attacks vanished without harming him.
• Ding Wanning continued attacking Luo Fan, who asked her what had happened, while Mo Yuling offered to intervene.
• Luo Fan told Mo Yuling not to act rashly and insisted on handling Ding Wanning himself.

Luo Fan tried the Innate Yang Steel and Petrification Bait on the transformed Ding Wanning, but neither affected her. After Niu Dagang blocked her attack and broke his arm, Luo Fan abandoned his reluctance to fight and aimed a Pear Blossom Needle Storm at her.

• Luo Fan brought out the Innate Yang Steel, but Ding Wanning ignored it while the Nightmare Nekomata was weakened by its radiance.
• Luo Fan used Petrification Bait, but Ding Wanning did not look at it or obey its rule power.
• The Decapitation Skill's invincibility ended, and Niu Dagang blocked Ding Wanning's attack, breaking his already injured left arm and losing his shield.
• Luo Fan's doubts and reluctance to kill Ding Wanning gave way after Niu Dagang was injured.
• Luo Fan drew a Pear Blossom Needle Storm and aimed its forty-nine poisoned Steel Needles at Ding Wanning.

Luo Fan tried to build Killing Blow stacks against Ding Wanning with the Pear Blossom Needle Storm and a Gatling, but her speed and black barrier stopped him at fifty-two stacks. With his other options exhausted, he drew the Wraith Short Sword and activated Ode to Courage, preparing to confront her directly.

• Luo Fan fired the Pear Blossom Needle Storm at Ding Wanning, whose Seventh-Tier body shrugged off the needles as Burning and Poisoning effects activated.
• Ding Wanning extinguished the effects with her black aura, and Luo Fan fired a second Pear Blossom Needle Storm as she dodged most of its needles.
• Luo Fan used a Gatling against Ding Wanning, who formed a black barrier to block the bullets and kept his Killing Blow count at fifty-two.
• Luo Fan decided he could no longer delay, drew the Wraith Short Sword, and activated Ode to Courage.

Luo Fan used a temporary power to reach Lv72 and faced Ding Wanning in a desperate battle limited to ninety seconds. After stealing some of her attack power and breaking through her defenses, he caught up to her at close range.

• Luo Fan’s level surged from Lv51 to Lv72, leaving him only ninety seconds before the power ended and a period of weakness began.
• Ding Wanning recognized that Luo Fan had matched her level and feared the threat posed by his assassination abilities and Rule-Type Skills.
• Luo Fan used God-Tier Enchanting to steal thirty percent of Ding Wanning’s attack power, weakening her and strengthening himself.
• Luo Fan’s Wraith Short Sword cleaved through Ding Wanning’s black liquid barrier and split her counterattack.
• Luo Fan used Spirit Void Step to catch the retreating Ding Wanning, appearing within arm’s reach as terror showed in her eyes.

Luo Fan defeated Ding Wanning while Ode to Courage raised him to the Seventh Tier, then learned that his theft of the Innate Yang Steel had left her vulnerable to a Weird heart. He accepted responsibility but killed her to protect the Hope Convoy.

• Luo Fan used his boosted strength to overwhelm Ding Wanning and leave her badly wounded.
• Ding Wanning pleaded for her life and explained that a stolen treasure had stopped suppressing the Weird heart inside her.
• Luo Fan realized that taking the Innate Yang Steel had caused the treasure's disappearance and Ding Wanning's corruption.
• Luo Fan decided he could not risk sparing Ding Wanning and drove the Wraith Short Sword through her heart.

After killing Ding Wanning, Luo Fan endured the weakness caused by Ode to Courage and learned that Holy City had lost the protection of the Innate Yang Steel he took. He promised Ding Wanning’s revenant that he would resurrect her and protect the city, then discovered his fifth-tier advancement had unlocked a new Mall feature.

• Luo Fan killed the corrupted Ding Wanning, reached Lv52, and explained Ode to Courage’s strength and severe aftereffects to the Hope Convoy.
• When Ode to Courage expired, Luo Fan lost access to his skills and was left physically weak for twenty-four hours.
• Lin Feifei summoned Ding Wanning’s revenant, who explained that a Weird’s heart had been suppressed in her study and that the stolen treasure had protected Holy City.
• Luo Fan admitted that he had taken the Innate Yang Steel, which had caused Holy City to lose its protection, and promised to resurrect Ding Wanning and care for its people.
• After the convoy rested, Luo Fan checked that his system abilities still worked and found that reaching the fifth tier had expanded his storage space and unlocked a new Mall feature.

After reaching Fifth-Tier Sequence User, Luo Fan fused the Wraith Short Sword into his Weird Gun, gaining a new soul-enslaving rule at the cost of his melee weapon. Once the convoy’s period of weakness passed, he sent An Xiaoran and the others toward the Holy City and flew ahead to Lin City with the Innate Yang Steel.

• Luo Fan unlocked the Fusion feature and combined his fourth-tier Weird Gun with the Wraith Short Sword for 500,000 yuan.
• Luo Fan appraised the fused Fusion Sniper-Kill Gun, which gained the sword’s soul-enslaving rule and a rating of 1,188 points with a B-grade rule effect.
• Luo Fan received 120,000 yuan from his daily check-in and saw that upgrading the gun to fifth tier would cost 3.2 million yuan.
• The Hope Convoy rested safely overnight with the Innate Yang Steel keeping Weird away, then waited until the twenty-four-hour period of weakness had ended.
• Luo Fan told An Xiaoran and the others to return to the Holy City and lead its people to Lin City, while he headed to Lin City first to ask his wife how to use the Innate Yang Steel.
• Luo Fan left his RV for An Xiaoran and Ai Si, then flew his helicopter toward Lin City.

Luo Fan’s helicopter was attacked by a giant sixth-tier Fierce Beast, forcing him to fight in midair after the aircraft crashed. He landed on the bird’s back and used Killing Blow to strike its lethal spot, instantly killing it.

• Luo Fan considered resurrecting Ding Wanning, relocating Holy City residents, improving his Uncanny Artifacts, and using his Innate Yang Steel while flying toward Lin City.
• Luo Fan chatted with Jiang Shengnan, asked about Mr. Mo Mo’s research, and questioned Lian Ziqiong about a heart near the Innate Yang Steel.
• A giant bird attacked Luo Fan’s helicopter, which lost power and crashed; the Nightmare Nekomata possessed Luo Fan as Black Bird escaped.
• Luo Fan identified the bird as a Lv62 sixth-tier Fierce Beast and wounded it with his Weird Gun, then dodged its attack and landed on its back.
• Luo Fan used his Gatling to build marks and activate effects, then shot the bird’s highlighted lethal spot with Killing Blow and sent it plummeting to its death.

After defeating a sixth-tier Fierce Beast, Luo Fan returned to Lin City and showed the Weird Bride his newly acquired Innate Yang Steel. She said he could have Willow Immortal Elder, a special Weird being in Shennongjia who was unafraid of sunlight, forge it into a weapon.

• Luo Fan recycled the sixth-tier Fierce Beast for 1.2 million check-in funds and arranged to obtain a jet fighter from Master Wen Hao in exchange for aviation kerosene.
• Luo Fan flew to Lin City on Black Bird and met the Weird Bride, who congratulated him on obtaining Innate Yang Steel.
• Luo Fan showed the Weird Bride the Innate Yang Steel, and she confirmed it could help his attacks counter Weird beings.
• The Weird Bride told Luo Fan to seek Willow Immortal Elder in Shennongjia, who had made her red veil and could forge the Innate Yang Steel.

Luo Fan arranged for survivors from the Holy City to migrate to Lin City, then traveled to Shennongjia to ask the Willow Immortal Elder to forge the Innate Yang Steel. The Willow Immortal Elder recognized the red veil Luo Fan carried as one he had made for Her Highness and realized she had sent Luo Fan to him.

• Luo Fan discussed the Holy City survivors' migration with the Weird Bride and arranged for the Aerospace Base and Greenedge Base to escort them to Lin City.
• After gaining 13 million faith points from the Weird Bride, Luo Fan flew toward Shennongjia with the black bird.
• Luo Fan reached the Willow Immortal Elder, a level 78 Weird, and approached him through a crowd of dangerous Weird.
• Luo Fan showed the Willow Immortal Elder the red veil, and the elder recognized it as a veil he had made for Her Highness.
• The Willow Immortal Elder asked what Uncanny Artifact Luo Fan wanted forged, and Luo Fan brought out the Innate Yang Steel.

Luo Fan brought Innate Yang Steel to the Willow Immortal Elder and asked him to forge weapons that could suppress Weirds. The Elder agreed to modify Luo Fan’s Weird Gun and make a short saber, then Luo Fan asked him to embed a rule-type Weird Crystal in the blade.

• Luo Fan’s Innate Yang Steel drove the nearby Weirds into a panicked flight.
• Luo Fan explained that he had brought the metal because it would not harm the plant-based Willow Immortal Elder, who examined it and agreed to fuse some into Luo Fan’s Weird Gun.
• The Willow Immortal Elder said the Weird Gun would take four or five days to modify and offered to forge a short saber from the remaining Innate Yang Steel and other materials in about three days.
• Luo Fan asked whether the short saber could hold a rule-type Weird Crystal, and the Willow Immortal Elder said it would add one day to the work.
• Luo Fan told the Willow Immortal Elder to begin modifying the Weird Gun while he waited.

Luo Fan watched Willow Immortal Elder finish embedding Innate Yang Steel into his Weird Gun and learned that the metal gave its bullets a sunlight-like suppressive effect against Weird. While waiting, he found a rule-type weird crystal that had been realized through his godhead authority, leaving him with a new trump card and a newly modified weapon to test.

• Luo Fan kept watch as Willow Immortal Elder embedded Innate Yang Steel into the Weird Gun and checked with Jiang Shengnan about the Holy City's migration.
• Jiang Shengnan told Luo Fan that the first wave of more than four thousand people had set out from the Holy City with her and an elite Aerospace Base squad.
• Luo Fan spotted a crystal beneath an old tree, dug it up, and sensed Rule Power inside it.
• Luo Fan realized the rule-type weird crystal had appeared through his godhead authority, Faith Becomes Reality, fulfilling his request to the Weird Bride.
• Willow Immortal Elder completed the Weird Gun's modifications, and Luo Fan tested it by shooting through a nearby tree trunk.
• Willow Immortal Elder explained that the Innate Yang Steel gave the bullets a sunlight-like power that could suppress Weird.

Luo Fan watched Willow Immortal Elder finish forging a rule-type dagger from Innate Yang Steel, then used the Mall System to appraise and reforge it until its side effect became manageable. With the Demon-Breaking Dagger and Weird Gun ready, he thanked Willow Immortal Elder, but his Doomsday Phone rang as he was about to leave.

• Willow Immortal Elder finished forging the short blade, and Luo Fan found he could conceal or reveal its glowing Innate Yang Steel edge at will.
• Luo Fan appraised the weapon as a fourth-tier uncanny artifact named the Demon-Breaking Dagger, whose shield rule could also consume his own skills.
• Luo Fan reforged the dagger three times, settling on a side effect that required him to consume a third-tier or higher weird crystal after the shield nullified a skill.
• Luo Fan thanked Willow Immortal Elder, who asked him to give His Highness his regards.
• The Doomsday Phone rang as Luo Fan was about to exchange more pleasantries.