Chapter Summaries

Lu Heng led his growing puppet Green Demon army deeper into the Withered Reed Plain, ignoring fleeing survivors until he discovered some were following to scavenge the aftermath of his battles. When a Goblin Warrior blocked the army and demanded that the Green Demons disperse, Lu Heng ordered his puppets to charge, while keeping the scavengers under watch.

• Lu Heng marched with the parasitized Green Demons, adding isolated stragglers to the growing army and letting fleeing humans and beasts go.
• Several survivors Lu Heng had spared followed the army from a distance, hoping to loot resources after its battles.
• Lu Heng detected the survivors' plan and grew hostile toward them but continued advancing while tracking their positions.
• A Goblin Warrior emerged from the reeds, accused the Green Demons of disrupting the wilderness's hunting order, and prepared to suppress them.
• Lu Heng sent a silent command through the microbial network, and the Green Demon army charged the Goblin Warrior as he kept watch on the scavengers behind them.

Lu Heng let his Green Demon Puppets wear down a Silver Tier goblin while he secretly spread his Blood Taisui mycelium beneath the battlefield to trap survivors hiding in the reeds. The goblin remained dominant, and Lu Heng waited for the greedy onlookers to leave their hiding places and enter his prepared trap.

• The Green Demon Puppets swarmed the Silver Tier goblin, whose spear and furious attacks killed them in large numbers while their relentless grappling gradually drained its stamina.
• Lu Heng slipped away from the melee, lay motionless in a shallow depression, and spread his Blood Taisui mycelium underground toward the survivors' hiding places.
• Lu Heng left the fight to the Puppets and watched the goblin continue to dominate as the battle became a war of attrition.
• The survivors stayed concealed in the reeds, hoping to collect gains after the aliens exhausted each other, while Lu Heng waited for them to step into his trap.

Lu Heng watched as the exhausted goblin warrior finished killing the Green Demon puppets, while survivors crept toward the battlefield to claim its spoils. He detected a stronger Goblin Mage approaching from the forest and remained hidden as the three sides converged.

• The goblin warrior killed the last wounded Green Demons, but no treasure chests appeared.
• The survivors Lu Heng had spared crept through the reeds toward the battlefield, expecting to claim its spoils.
• Lu Heng sensed a Goblin Mage approaching from the forest and withdrew his mental perception.
• Lu Heng concealed his underground mycelium network to prevent the Goblin Mage from detecting it.
• Lu Heng stayed motionless in the mud and watched the exhausted warrior, greedy survivors, and approaching mage draw closer.

Lu Heng concealed himself beneath the battlefield as a goblin priest drove off human survivors and questioned a wounded Goblin Warrior about the Green Demons’ strange attack. He learned that goblins had a strict tribal hierarchy, but the Green Demons’ identity and relationship to them remained unknown.

• Human survivors crept toward the battlefield to claim its spoils, but the Goblin Mage arrived and drove them away with a fireball.
• The Goblin Mage asked the wounded Goblin Warrior what had happened, and the warrior said the Green Demons had attacked in a stiff, abnormal frenzy.
• Lu Heng recognized that the Goblin Mage was a priest and inferred that goblins lived in organized tribes with a strict hierarchy.
• Lu Heng considered whether the Green Demons were goblins, independent allies, or subordinates, but found too little evidence to determine their relationship.
• The goblins and distant human survivors remained on the battlefield while Lu Heng stayed hidden, preserving his concealment and reviewing what he had learned.

After Green Demon corpses turned into treasure chests, the Goblin Priest realized a hidden third party was nearby, prompting Lu Heng to reveal himself and attack. Lu Heng struggled against the goblins’ coordinated defense and tried to shoot the Priest, but the Silver Goblin Warrior took the shot meant for it.

• The Green Demon corpses transformed into treasure chests, and the Goblin Priest deduced that someone nearby had killed the outsiders and was collecting the loot.
• Lu Heng realized the treasure chests had exposed his presence, spread Mycelium underground to block the goblins’ escape, and charged them with his Goblin Battleaxe and Mind Spikes.
• The Goblin Priest and Silver Goblin Warrior coordinated their ranged spells and spear defense, stopping Lu Heng’s attacks and forcing him to change tactics.
• Lu Heng drew the Kiss of Nightmare and rushed into firing range to target the Goblin Priest.
• The Silver Goblin Warrior recognized Lu Heng’s plan and threw itself in front of the Priest, taking the imminent shot meant for it.

Lu Heng used the Silver Goblin Warrior’s severe wounds to break the goblins’ coordinated defense and dominate the fight with shotgun fire and Mind Spikes. With the warrior incapacitated and the Goblin Priest trapped, Lu Heng sealed the battlefield and kept pressing his advantage, wary that the Priest still had hidden powers.

• The Kiss of Nightmare shattered the Silver Goblin Warrior’s energy barrier and badly wounded him, leaving him unable to hold the front line.
• Lu Heng rushed forward and fired another shotgun barrage, forcing the warrior back and exposing the Goblin Priest to close-range attacks.
• Lu Heng repeatedly struck the Goblin Priest with Mind Spikes as he tried to cast, disrupting his spells and preventing an effective counterattack.
• The Goblin Priest tried to retreat with the warrior, but Lu Heng’s gunfire and Greedy Wolf Power kept them pinned at close quarters.
• Lu Heng secretly adjusted the underground Mycelium network to seal escape routes while continuing to suppress both goblins.

Lu Heng defeated the Goblin warrior and Priest, absorbed their Origin Energy, and found two high-grade treasure chests. As survivors closed in to steal his spoils, he killed the first group with his mental perception, while more greedy humans gathered around the battlefield.

• Lu Heng killed the Goblin warrior and Priest, and absorbed the Origin Energy released by their bodies.
• Two high-grade treasure chests appeared, and Lu Heng sensed survivors approaching through the reeds.
• The survivors tried to ambush Lu Heng and steal the treasure, but he killed several of them by crushing their brains with mental force.
• More survivors gathered around the battlefield, drawn by the gunfire and treasure chests, while Lu Heng remained at full strength.

Lu Heng used the Blood Taisui mycelium to control survivors who came to steal the chests, forcing them to slaughter one another before killing the remaining people. After collecting every chest, he set his sights on finding the source of the Withered Reed Plain's Portal.

• Lu Heng secretly spread the Blood Taisui mycelium beneath the battlefield as survivors converged on the chests.
• Lu Heng parasitized the survivors and made them attack one another while he waited for more people to arrive.
• Lu Heng drove the mycelium to kill everyone still alive after the survivors' numbers dwindled.
• Lu Heng collected the ordinary chests and the two top-grade Goblin Victorious Chests.
• Lu Heng decided to venture deeper into the Withered Reed Plain and find the source of its Portal.

Lu Heng reached the dormant Portal in the heart of the Withered Reed Plain, but discovered that combining his heat and Frost powers nearly injured him. After the Portal briefly opened to release a Green Demon, he suspected it was vulnerable during transportation and waited for it to open again so he could strike.

• Lu Heng traveled deeper into the Withered Reed Plain, killing the Green Demons that attacked him along the way.
• Lu Heng found the dormant Portal and realized he had no Frost Talisman to help destroy it.
• Lu Heng tried to activate his heat and Frost powers together, but their conflict caused a painful backlash, so he stopped.
• The Portal briefly opened and released a Green Demon, which Lu Heng killed with his Goblin Battleaxe.
• Lu Heng suspected the Portal's defenses weakened while it opened and waited with his axe ready to attack during its next activation.

Lu Heng damaged the Portal and defeated the goblin forces sent to stop him, including the Goblin Executioner dispatched by the Goblin King. He collected the executioner’s loot chest and waited at the cracked Portal, ready to attack it again or face more goblins.

• Lu Heng struck the Portal as it opened, killing a Green Demon and cracking its frame.
• A Bronze Tier goblin squad emerged and attacked Lu Heng, but he disrupted their formation and killed all three.
• The Portal opened wider, and a black energy barrier blocked Lu Heng’s attack as the Goblin Executioner-Silver Tier entered.
• Lu Heng tested the executioner’s strength, dodged his attacks, and used a Mind Spike to create an opening before cutting through the armor at a joint.
• The Goblin Executioner fell, and Lu Heng collected his loot chest before resuming his watch over the Portal.

Lu Heng was ambushed through the Portal and badly injured, but prepared to kill the Goblin executioners emerging from it to replenish his strength. As two executioners closed in, their armor activated with an unfamiliar outside power that restrained him.

• Lu Heng waited for the Portal to open, and a Green Demon briefly peered out before retreating into it.
• A powerful dark-energy attack shot from the Portal and struck Lu Heng, damaging his Blood Taisui defenses and weakening him.
• Lu Heng decided to devour a powerful enemy’s Origin Energy to recover and drew the Kiss of Nightmare.
• Two Goblin executioners emerged from the Portal and began approaching Lu Heng in a coordinated formation.
• The executioners activated patterns on their armor, and an unfamiliar outside power linked them and pressed down on Lu Heng.

Lu Heng defeated both Goblin Executioners after the force beyond the Portal used its only two chances to interfere. Fully restored by Greedy Wolf Power and the Blood Taisui, he turned to destroy the cracked Portal.

• The patterns on the Goblin Executioners' armor briefly flared with power from beyond the Portal, then went dark as Lu Heng realized the outside force could not intervene again.
• Lu Heng blasted open the left Executioner's breastplate with the Kiss of Nightmare and killed it with his battle-axe.
• Greedy Wolf Power restored Lu Heng's stamina while the Blood Taisui repaired its damaged protective layer using the Executioner's corpse.
• The right Executioner attacked, but Lu Heng evaded its sword, struck its weapon off balance, and killed it with a single axe blow.
• Lu Heng concluded the presence beyond the Portal had exhausted its ability to act across planes, then raised his axe and struck at the Portal's cracked core.

Lu Heng destroyed the Withering Source’s cross-plane passage and learned that the Forest Will had removed the executioners’ illicit enhancements without directly intervening. The Forest Will forbade him from helping on other battlefronts, leaving the scattered threats for the remaining survivors to face.

• Lu Heng struck the Portal’s core with his axe, shattering the passage to the Other Plane and collapsing from exhaustion.
• The Forest Will informed Lu Heng that the Withering Source had been eradicated and assessed his battle achievements.
• Lu Heng asked why the Forest Will had not intervened, and it explained that it had erased the executioners’ illicit enhancements while obeying the world’s rules.
• The Forest Will ordered Lu Heng not to interfere in other battlefronts and said the remaining survivors had to handle the scattered threats themselves.
• Lu Heng accepted the Forest Will’s reasoning, sat up, and looked toward the Frost Forest with a settled mind.

After the invasion ended, Lu Heng left the battlefield with internal injuries and severe mental exhaustion, then returned to Moonview Valley. He secured the territory and went to sleep without opening his reward chests.

• The Forest Will's consciousness disappeared, and several victory chests appeared, which Lu Heng collected in his Wristband Space.
• Lu Heng left the Withered Reed Plain and rode an Off-Road Motorcycle toward Moonview Valley, eating a Purifying Water Lotus seed to soothe his internal injuries.
• At the valley entrance, Lu Heng ordered the Mech-Driven Butler and ground-based attack robot to guard Moonview Valley while he rested in seclusion.
• Lu Heng entered the Astrology Room, ignored his unopened chests, and lay down for a deep sleep.

After recovering from his injuries, Lu Heng realized he had reached Silver Tier’s peak and needed to find a way to advance to Gold Tier before entering the Green Demon Plane. He decided to sacrifice his chests and accumulated supplies at the Sacrificial Altar, staking everything on its ability to reveal a path forward.

• Lu Heng woke after sleeping for more than a day, fully recovered but unable to grow stronger beyond the Silver Tier bottleneck.
• Lu Heng recalled surviving the Executioner’s Gold Tier attack and recognized that he could not face powerful enemies from the Green Demon Plane at his current realm.
• Lu Heng gathered high-tier loot chests, unused equipment, and surplus supplies instead of opening the chests for ordinary resources.
• Lu Heng resolved to offer everything to the Sacrificial Altar and walked toward it, hoping to discover a breakthrough to Gold Tier.

Lu Heng sacrificed his accumulated treasures and supplies to break through the Gold Tier bottleneck, transforming his power into the exclusive Greedy Wolf talent. He forged a new saber that absorbed his weapons and meteorite ores, then reshaped it into a mountable Astral Greedy Wolf under his control.

• Lu Heng sacrificed his treasure chests, weapons, and supplies at the altar, and its vast consciousness opened his path to Gold Tier.
• The Starlight Meditation Method transformed into Greedy Wolf Meditation, the Big Dipper star chart dwindled to Greedy Wolf alone, and his King Snake avatar merged into the new power.
• Lu Heng formed the Greedy Wolf Long Saber and learned that it could absorb metal and evolve without a fixed limit.
• Lu Heng fed his Insect Armor Sword, old weapons, and meteorite ores to the saber, which gained a penetration trait.
• Lu Heng transformed the saber into an Astral Greedy Wolf and mounted it, finding it entirely bound to his will.

Lu Heng learned that reaching Gold Tier required fusing his entire origin with the Astral Greedy Wolf, and he accepted the transformation that would take him beyond humanity. Before beginning the fusion, he set out from Moonview Valley to test his new powers and discovered that his Blood Taisui had also gained intelligence.

• Lu Heng learned that he had to fuse his flesh, soul, and origin with the Astral Greedy Wolf to advance to Gold Tier.
• Lu Heng accepted that the transformation would sever him from the human race and chose to focus on growing stronger.
• Lu Heng decided to patrol the wilderness and test the Astral Greedy Wolf's speed and combat power before attempting the fusion.
• Lu Heng discovered that star power had awakened a stable seed of intelligence in the Blood Taisui, allowing it to judge danger and coordinate with him.
• Lu Heng commanded the Astral Greedy Wolf to carry him out of Moonview Valley and into the wilderness.

Lu Heng rode the Star Wolf through the forest and tested how beasts reacted to its aura, then transformed it into a saber to kill three Green Demons. He felt that his strength had risen to an entirely new level.

• Lu Heng rode the Star Wolf at full speed through the forest, causing the wild beasts along its path to hide.
• A pack of gray wolves bowed and growled meekly at the Star Wolf, but Lu Heng left them behind without recruiting them.
• Lu Heng entered the Green Demons’ territory to test the monsters’ reaction to his changed power.
• Three Green Demons attacked, and Lu Heng transformed the Star Wolf into a purple-patterned saber.
• Lu Heng killed all three Green Demons with three swift strikes and recognized that his strength had greatly increased.

Lu Heng practiced controlling his newly strengthened star power against a Goblin Warrior, then left the valley to avoid drawing the Forest Will’s attention. On the woodland path, fleeing survivors tried to use him as bait for pursuing Green Demons, which charged him as the survivors escaped.

• Lu Heng restrained his star power while sparring with a Goblin Warrior, then killed it once his weapon control had improved.
• Lu Heng tested transforming his saber into a star wolf and back, then left the valley rather than risk provoking the Forest Will.
• Lu Heng encountered three fleeing survivors on the path to Moonview Valley and tried to walk past them.
• The lead survivor attacked Lu Heng with a knife to draw the pursuing Green Demons onto him, then fled with the other survivors.
• Several Green Demons turned toward Lu Heng, who drew his purple-patterned saber as they charged.

Lu Heng killed the Green Demons that the three men had deliberately led toward him, then pursued them on the Star Wolf. He found them resting in the woods and prepared to settle the matter once and for all.

• A man redirected the Green Demons toward Lu Heng before fleeing with his two companions.
• Lu Heng unleashed his full star force and killed the Green Demons with decisive saber strikes.
• Lu Heng summoned the Star Wolf and followed the three men's trail through the woods.
• The three men stopped to rest and dismissed their decision to use Lu Heng as bait.
• Lu Heng watched them from the shadows and resolved to settle the matter.