Chapter Summaries

Lu Heng silently controlled six Bronze Tier Elite Green Demons into an ambush against the three survivors who had sacrificed him, intending to let them face the consequences of their betrayal. Just as the monsters were about to kill them, an unknown archer slew the demons, and Lu Heng turned toward the approaching stranger.

• Lu Heng sensed six Bronze Tier Elite Green Demons patrolling nearby and used mycelium to control them and surround the three survivors.
• The Elite Green Demons attacked, and the three survivors betrayed and shoved one another in a desperate attempt to escape.
• Lu Heng watched as the three were mauled and grew too weak to survive.
• An unknown attacker fired arrows that killed all six Elite Green Demons and interrupted Lu Heng's punishment.
• Lu Heng sensed the powerful stranger approaching through the woods and stared toward their direction with irritation.

Lu Heng confronted a Silver Tier hunter who had interrupted his attempt to kill the three survivors, while the hunter claimed he had acted to protect them and unite the region’s survivors. Lu Heng silently spread Blood Taisui’s mycelium across the battlefield as the two prepared to fight.

• Lu Heng sensed a lone Silver Tier presence approaching and waited in hiding as the hunter entered the clearing.
• The hunter detected Lu Heng, who emerged and asked how he had found him; the wounded survivors accused Lu Heng of controlling the Green Demons.
• The hunter said he had relied on a hunter’s sixth sense and defended his intervention by arguing that survivors should unite against the Portal’s threat.
• Lu Heng rejected the hunter’s appeal and warned him that he would suffer the same fate as the survivors if that was his only reason for interfering.
• The hunter raised his Silver Tier presence and declared the survivors under his protection, while Lu Heng spread Blood Taisui’s mycelium through the hollow and sealed off escape routes.

Lu Heng waited as Luo Qi’s four squadmates arrived, then rejected their attempt to negotiate and trapped all five with hidden Blood Taisui mycelium. The squad was left immobilized as Lu Heng began his reckoning.

• Lu Heng sensed Luo Qi’s squad approaching and revealed that he knew Luo Qi had brought companions.
• Two wounded survivors armed themselves and retreated behind Luo Qi as his five-member squad gathered in the hollow.
• The shield warrior stopped Luo Qi from escalating and tried to settle the conflict through negotiation.
• Lu Heng assessed the squad, found that only Luo Qi was silver tier, and refused to talk.
• Lu Heng activated the Blood Taisui mycelium, binding all five squad members in place.

Lu Heng freed the Silver Tier squad from his Mycelium restraints, then killed the two wounded survivors while Luo Qi was unable to protect them. He tested the Star Blade against the squad’s coordinated assault and, after confirming his superiority, prepared to finish the fight.

• Luo Qi cut through the Mycelium binding him and freed his four teammates with his short-handled knife.
• Lu Heng tightened the remaining Mycelium and drained the two wounded survivors of their lives, leaving Luo Qi horrified and angry.
• The five squad members formed a tactical formation and attacked Lu Heng with coordinated shield, claw, magic, and bow strikes.
• Lu Heng calmly blocked and dodged their attacks with the Star Blade, using the encounter to practice while the squad realized he was stronger than they were.
• Lu Heng ended his test of the blade and prepared to finish off the five-person squad.

Lu Heng spared Luo Qi and his teammates after the Forest Will revealed they were destined for selection to the Green Demon World. With the outside world offering no immediate challenge, he returned to Moonview Valley and began training underwater to address a major combat weakness.

• Lu Heng bound Luo Qi and the other four with Blood Taisui mycelium, but the Forest Will ordered him to let them go because they were survivors slated for selection to the Green Demon World.
• Lu Heng released the team, warned them they were lucky, and left the hollow; Luo Qi and the others withdrew, shaken and confused.
• Lu Heng returned to Moonview Valley and concluded that underwater combat was his most serious remaining weakness.
• Lu Heng trained for hours in the deep pool, practicing breath control, movement, Star Blade strikes, and mycelium control underwater.
• Lu Heng surfaced when exhaustion and cold forced him to stop, having made preliminary progress while remaining concerned about the Forest Will’s warning.

Lu Heng spent several days honing his blade work, underwater combat, and control of Greedy Wolf Power while waiting in Moonview Valley for survivors to deal with the Portals. After two Portals were destroyed and the Mist Forest assault failed, Green Demons began spreading and survivors were permitted to hunt them, giving Lu Heng a chance to act.

• Lu Heng meditated through the night, reviewing his past battles and settling his foundation.
• For three days, Lu Heng practiced with the Star Blade on land and underwater, trained his mycelium in the current, and consolidated his progress in the Astrology Room.
• The Survival Bracelet announced that the Blackwater Swamp Portal and the Hill Valley Portal had been destroyed.
• An emergency announcement reported that the assault on the Mist Forest Portal had failed and all participating survivors had been killed.
• Green Demons poured out of the out-of-control Mist Forest Portal, and survivors were allowed to hunt them as Lu Heng prepared to leave Moonview Valley.

After the regional Portal went out of control, Lu Heng entered Mist Forest and hunted the monsters that had wiped out human squads there. He defeated several groups but learned that silver tier goblins were still pouring through the unstable Portal, and continued deeper into the fog.

• Lu Heng left his Shelter on Star Wolf and headed for Mist Forest after the Wristband announced that the regional Portal had gone out of control.
• Lu Heng entered the devastated forest and used mycelium to silently kill a group of black iron tier Green Demons.
• Lu Heng broke the formation of six bronze tier Green Demons with mycelium and killed them with his Star Blade.
• Lu Heng restrained a silver tier Goblin Mage, evaded a silver tier Goblin Warrior's charge, and killed both enemies.
• Lu Heng received a notification that the Mist Forest Portal remained unstable and silver tier goblins were still spreading through the region, then advanced toward the approaching monsters.

Lu Heng silently cleared monsters from the Mist Forest and avoided the survivor teams entering its outskirts by heading into the deeper woods. There, an unseen force encircled him in the fog, leaving him with no clear way out.

• Lu Heng used Blood Taisui's mycelium and the Star Blade to silently kill scattered Green Demons and goblins as he advanced.
• He sensed survivor teams fighting monsters across the forest outskirts but chose to avoid them and head deeper into the Mist Forest.
• Lu Heng entered the dense, quiet heart of the forest, where Silver Tier goblins watched him from the fog and withdrew rather than attack.
• Lu Heng detected an invisible pressure surrounding him from every direction and realized he had been encircled.

Lu Heng was ambushed in the Mist Forest by a coordinated squad of three Silver Tier goblins and struggled to withstand their attacks. The battle left him pinned down as his Blood Taisui protection weakened.

• The Silver Tier Goblin Assassin, Silver Tier Goblin Warrior, and Silver Tier Goblin Mage attacked Lu Heng together from three directions.
• The Goblin Mage used the fog to suppress Lu Heng’s mental perception while the Warrior charged him and the Assassin struck from concealment.
• The Assassin’s first two chest strikes damaged Lu Heng’s Blood Taisui mycelium, while the Warrior’s relentless axe attacks restricted his movements.
• Lu Heng recognized that the goblins’ complementary tactics had caused the survivors in the Mist Forest to be wiped out.
• The Assassin landed a third strike that further cracked Lu Heng’s protective layer, and the coordinated squad kept him on the defensive.

Lu Heng broke free of a coordinated Goblin assault by using Blood Taisui’s mycelium to track the enemies through the fog. He used Mind Spike to disrupt their formation and killed all three Goblin elites, then reflected on how deadly the Mist Forest’s depths were.

• Lu Heng escaped the Goblin Warrior, Goblin Assassin, and Goblin Mage’s close-range assault and spread Blood Taisui’s mycelium through the fog to track them.
• Lu Heng’s fireball failed to penetrate the dense, magically controlled fog, so he abandoned ranged attacks.
• Lu Heng used Mind Spike to interrupt the three Goblin elites’ coordination and killed the exposed Goblin Assassin.
• Lu Heng anticipated the Goblin Warrior’s attacks with the mycelium and killed it after its fighting style became predictable.
• Lu Heng bound the Goblin Mage with mycelium and finished it with the Star Blade.
• Lu Heng watched the fog settle and concluded that the forest’s depths posed a danger capable of annihilating even well-equipped survivor teams.

After defeating three elite Goblins, Lu Heng discovered that the Mist Forest had no Victorious Chest drops and realized its rules differed from the outside world. He avoided taking the Goblins’ unpurified gear, scanned for nearby threats, and prepared to continue through the forest.

• Lu Heng killed the three Silver Tier elite Goblins but waited in vain for a Victorious Chest to appear.
• Lu Heng concluded that the Mist Forest had been isolated from the outside world’s loot rules and resolved to ask the Forest Will about the anomaly if he could reach it.
• Lu Heng left the Goblins’ weapons and armor untouched because the Forest Will had not purified them.
• Lu Heng used the Blood Taisui to scan the area and found no nearby high-level threats.
• Lu Heng recovered and prepared to continue through the mist-shrouded forest.

Lu Heng entered the Mist Forest’s core and discovered that a Silver Tier Bloodthirsty Vine sheltered Green Demons and goblins instead of attacking them. He concluded that the Vine Nest concealed a passage from the Green Demon Plane, then stopped at the core’s outer edge.

• Lu Heng used the Blood Taisui’s mycelium to conceal himself and sense movement as he traveled through the dense fog.
• Lu Heng found a massive Mutant Bloodthirsty Vine surrounded by the remains of creatures and human survivors, but none from the Green Demon system.
• Lu Heng watched two Goblin Warriors and three Green Demons emerge unharmed from the Vine Nest as its vines opened a path for them.
• Lu Heng inferred that the Vine Nest was a hidden transit hub sending monsters from the Green Demon Plane into the Mist Forest.
• Lu Heng reached the outer edge of the forest’s core, where the Forest Will’s original order had been lost.

Lu Heng unleashed the Blood Taisui against the Mutant Bloodthirsty Vine, the root system anchoring the Green Demon Plane’s passage into the Mist Forest. As the plants fought underground, Lu Heng held off waves of monsters aboveground, and the hidden teleportation passage began to reveal itself.

• Lu Heng sent the Blood Taisui’s mycelium into the Bloodthirsty Vine’s roots, triggering a violent battle between the two plants.
• The Bloodthirsty Vine fought back with its roots and extraplanar energy, but the Blood Taisui steadily parasitized and replaced its root system.
• Green Demons and Goblin Warriors gathered around the shaking Vine Nest and moved to investigate the disturbance.
• Lu Heng withdrew into the fog and killed or drove back the monsters, preventing them from reaching the battlefield and disrupting the Blood Taisui.
• Lu Heng learned that the Mutant Bloodthirsty Vine anchored the Green Demon Plane’s passage, while the hidden teleportation fissure began to emerge during the underground struggle.

Lu Heng watched Blood Taisui nearly devour the Bloodthirsty Vine while he guarded the Vine Nest from approaching monsters. A pack of native Mist Badgers then intervened to protect the vine, restoring the underground battle to a stalemate and leaving Lu Heng facing a more complicated confrontation.

• Blood Taisui steadily consumed the Bloodthirsty Vine's roots, while the vine briefly revived itself by draining nearby Goblin Warriors and Green Demons.
• Lu Heng held the outer defensive line and intercepted monsters trying to reach the Vine Nest as Blood Taisui closed in on the vine's main root.
• A pack of Silver Tier Mist Badgers emerged from underground tunnels near the collapsing Vine Nest.
• The Mist Badgers breathed mist over the vine's damaged roots and attacked Blood Taisui's mycelium instead of the vine.
• The Mist Badgers disrupted Blood Taisui's invasion, restoring a stalemate as Lu Heng watched without advancing.

Lu Heng watched the Mist Forest’s native beasts unexpectedly turn against the Blood Taisui and attack its mycelium. He ordered it to abandon its outer growth and withdrew toward the forest’s outskirts, leaving the cause of the creatures’ behavior unknown.

• Lu Heng prepared to intervene in the stalemate between the Blood Taisui and the Mist Badgers.
• Hundreds of Mist Bats appeared and began gnawing through the Blood Taisui’s exposed mycelium.
• A Ghost Tiger and numerous other native beasts joined the attack, targeting the Blood Taisui instead of the invading Bloodthirsty Vine.
• Lu Heng realized the forest’s creatures had all turned against the Blood Taisui and decided to retreat.
• Lu Heng ordered the Blood Taisui to abandon its outer mycelium and gather its core essence back beside him.
• Lu Heng concealed his presence and fled through the mist toward the forest’s outskirts.

After retreating from the Mist Forest’s Inner Region, Lu Heng learned from the Forest Will that native creatures had sided with foreign invaders to seek a chance to advance to Gold Tier. He ordered the Blood Taisui to purge the disloyal lifeforms across the subsidiary territories while sparing human survivors.

• Lu Heng warned survivors on the public channel not to rush into the forest because something was wrong.
• The Forest Will explained that creatures in the subsidiary territories had joined the invaders because they had little chance to advance to Gold Tier under the usual order.
• The Forest Will confirmed that the disloyal creatures had to be eliminated to restore stability.
• Lu Heng awakened the Blood Taisui and ordered it to target rebellious native lifeforms in the Mist Forest, Hill Valley, the Withered Reed Plain, and Blackwater Swamp, excluding human survivors.
• The Blood Taisui spread its mycelium throughout the subsidiary territories, sealing escape routes and beginning the purge while Lu Heng watched from the boundary.

After survivors ignored Lu Heng’s warning and entered the Mist Forest, he unleashed the Blood Taisui across the territory to purge and control its creatures. The survivors fled as Lu Heng’s blood-colored web spread over the entire forest and reached Hill Valley.

• Lu Heng checked the public survival channel and saw survivors panic over the hostile creatures, then dismissed their complaints because he had warned them.
• Lu Heng released every restraint on the Blood Taisui and sent its mycelium spreading throughout the Mist Forest.
• The Blood Taisui devoured weak creatures and parasitized powerful native creatures, placing them under Lu Heng’s control.
• Survivors at the forest’s edge watched the blood-colored web avoid humans and fled beyond the forest boundary.
• Lu Heng continued expanding the web until the Mist Forest and its connection to Hill Valley were under his control.

Lu Heng unleashed Blood Taisui across the Mist Forest and hunted down the native monsters that had helped the Goblins ambush him. With the forest cleared of those creatures, he turned his attention to the surviving Goblin stragglers trapped in a rocky dead end.

• Lu Heng spread Blood Taisui's blood-red threads throughout the forest and sensed the hidden Mist Badgers, Mist Bats, and Ghost Tiger.
• Lu Heng killed the Mist Badgers by binding and crushing them with blood threads.
• Lu Heng sealed the sky with blood threads, cutting down the fleeing Mist Bats and finishing them on the ground.
• Lu Heng restrained the fleeing Ghost Tiger until it exhausted itself, then strangled it with the threads.
• Lu Heng confirmed that only Goblin stragglers remained, hiding in a rocky dead end, as the blood-red net began closing around them.

Lu Heng reanimated the slain monsters as Puppet Corpse Beasts and took control of the Mutant Bloodthirsty Vine to trap the Goblin stragglers in the Mist Forest. The puppets overwhelmed and killed the Goblins, leaving only the Portal as the remaining target.

• Lu Heng used the Blood Taisui's threads to turn the dead Mist Badgers, Mist Bats, and Ghost Tigers into Puppet Corpse Beasts.
• Lu Heng sent the puppet beast tide through the Mist Forest toward its center, crushing minor Aberrants and insects along the way.
• Lu Heng connected to the Mutant Bloodthirsty Vine and used it to seal the forest core, trapping the Goblin stragglers.
• Lu Heng ordered the Puppet Corpse Beasts to attack, and the Goblins fought back with blades and spells but were overwhelmed and killed.
• Lu Heng surveyed the silent forest core after the outside enemies had been eliminated, with only the Portal remaining.

After annihilating the Goblin invasion, Lu Heng destroyed the interplanar passage and used the Blood Taisui to purge the Mist Forest. The Forest Will rewarded him with a Mist Talisman and warned that the true planar counteroffensive was about to begin.

• Lu Heng tested the Portal with the Star Blade, confirmed no ambush remained, and concluded the Green Demon Plane had lost its invasion force.
• Lu Heng shattered the teleportation platform and collapsed the passage between the worlds.
• Lu Heng activated the Blood Taisui to devour the Mist Forest’s mutated energy and corruption.
• The Mist Forest Will declared the incursion over, then burned the forest to complete its purification.
• The Mist Forest Will gave Lu Heng a Mist Talisman and warned him to prepare for the coming planar counteroffensive.