Chapter Summaries

With Han Shuo away, Lolth defended Celestial Pivot Pharmacy from masked attackers led by a middle-stage Upper God seeking revenge for his brother's death. Lolth fought the leader while Han Tu and Han Huo battled the others, but an Upper God’s Ice Arrow struck Han Huo and left him badly shaken.

• Lolth sensed a masked group approaching the shop and warned Han Tu and Han Huo that their leader was a middle-stage Upper God who used lightning power.
• Lolth engulfed the warehouse in Endless Darkness, allowing Han Tu and Han Huo to ambush and mortally wound two attackers before the masked leader ordered his group to retreat.
• The leader revealed that his younger brother was the Upper God killed at the shop ten days earlier and declared that everyone there would die.
• Han Huo provoked the leader, who attacked him with a lightning dragon, and Lolth engaged the man while Han Tu and Han Huo fought the remaining attackers.
• Han Huo used the Fire Lotus to evade attacks and Han Tu disappeared underground to ambush their opponents, but an Ice Arrow from an Upper God struck Han Huo in the back and chilled him.

Han Tu and Han Huo fought the water-cultivating upper god to protect Lolth, but his attacks overwhelmed them and left Han Huo exposed. As the attacker moved in to kill Han Huo, a bone spike streaked toward him.

• A water-cultivating upper god ambushed Han Huo, and Han Tu pulled him underground while Lolth fought the lightning cultivator.
• Han Tu and Han Huo came back to help Lolth, combining earth and fire to attack the water-cultivating upper god.
• The upper god focused on Han Tu and Han Huo, and a barrage from him and the middle-god attackers broke through their defenses and sent them flying apart.
• The attacker pursued the dazed Han Huo while Han Tu shouted for him to run, but Han Huo charged back at the man instead.
• A three-meter-long bone spike carrying death energy shot toward the attacker pursuing Han Huo.

Han Hao arrived at Celestial Pivot Pharmacy and killed the Upper God who had attacked Han Huo, then drove off the remaining attackers. Lolth stayed behind with Han Tu and Han Huo while Han Hao pursued the fleeing lightning cultivator.

• A bone spike disrupted the attacker's assault on Han Huo, and Han Hao emerged and killed the Upper God with his bone weapons.
• Han Hao captured the dead man's divine soul and slaughtered the masked Middle Gods as the lightning cultivator fighting Lolth hesitated.
• Han Huo and Han Tu greeted Han Hao as their big brother, and Han Hao told them they were too weak.
• The lightning cultivator fled, and Han Hao ordered Lolth to stay while he went after him.
• Lolth sent the shop assistants and pharmacists back to their quarters, then learned Han Hao was Han Shuo's son.
• Han Tu teased Lolth about liking Han Shuo, embarrassing her and prompting Han Huo to scold Han Tu.

Han Shuo met Baum, who proposed a risky poison-potion business and asked about Han Shuo’s unusual power, which Han Shuo concealed with a fabricated explanation. Later, Han Hao tracked down and fought the Upper God who had attacked Celestial Pivot Pharmacy, but Baum arrived after Han Hao left and pursued him.

• Han Shuo visited Baum at the City Lord’s Mansion, where Baum asked whether Celestial Pivot Pharmacy would make poison potions for a friend involved in magical beast hunting.
• Han Shuo said he would consider the deal only after meeting Baum’s friend, then listened as Baum asked about his power and gave him a misleading account of the Demonic Cultivation Art.
• The masked Upper God who had attacked Celestial Pivot Pharmacy tried to evade his pursuer in Ethereal City but stopped when Han Hao confronted him.
• Han Hao attacked the Upper God with death energy, baleful energy, and bone spikes, overwhelming the man’s lightning defenses and leaving him bloodied.
• When spatial fluctuations appeared, Han Hao left the stone forest before Baum arrived; Baum then followed Han Hao’s trail without questioning the wounded Upper God.

Han Shuo reunited with Little Skeleton Han Hao and learned that Han Hao had become a powerful Godhunter leader who knew of Baum’s ties to the Godhunter Alliance. Han Hao also revealed that he had practiced Han Shuo’s Demonic Cultivation Art and forged his own body and demonic artifacts.

• Han Shuo returned to Celestial Pivot Pharmacy and found dead Upper Gods, learning that Little Skeleton had killed one while another escaped after Baum appeared.
• Han Shuo suspected Baum after hearing how the attackers had targeted the pharmacy, while Lolth confirmed she had helped protect Han Tu and Han Huo.
• Little Skeleton returned and explained that Baum’s arrival had forced him to abandon his pursuit of the surviving attacker.
• In the underground chamber, Han Hao told Han Shuo that he had become a regional leader in the Godhunter Alliance after rising to Upper God by devouring enemies and gathering followers.
• Han Hao said he had never felt the compulsive hunger that afflicted his followers, then revealed that he had practiced Han Shuo’s Demonic Cultivation Art, forged demonic artifacts, and refined his body anew.

Raine reported his defeat by Little Skeleton Han Hao to Baum, who suspected Han Hao’s identity, while Han Shuo spent time teaching Han Hao before Han Hao left to pursue information about McKinley’s divine body. Han Shuo then learned that Han Jin had arrived in Ethereal City seriously injured and rushed to help him.

• Raine told Baum that a woman at Celestial Pivot Pharmacy and the young death-power cultivator had overwhelmed him, and Baum questioned him about the young man before leaving with a suspicion.
• Han Shuo discussed the Demonic Cultivation Art with Han Hao, discovered how deeply Han Hao understood it, and grew concerned that Han Mu, Han Shui, and Han Jin had not arrived.
• Han Hao offered to use another Godhunter leader to get Baum to reveal McKinley’s whereabouts, then left Ethereal City and asked Han Shuo to keep their relationship discreet.
• Five days later, Myles told Han Shuo that Han Jin had reached the Golden Stone Shop seriously injured.
• Han Shuo hurried to the shop, gave Han Jin golden medicinal pills, and used demonic essence to stabilize his injuries.

Han Shuo treated Han Jin after raiders in the Chaos Lands stole his rare ores and killed his employees. Meanwhile, Han Hao hired Boro to obtain McKinley’s Divine Body, and Boro decided to bet on Han Hao’s connection to Brian as he prepared to approach Baum.

• Han Jin told Han Shuo how a band from the Chaos Lands had ambushed his party, seized their ores, and killed his employees.
• Han Shuo healed Han Jin with Demonic Essence and Golden Essence Pills, then took him to Celestial Pivot Pharmacy and gave him instructions to recover.
• Han Jin ordered Myles to conceal his injuries from the other branches and investigate the raiders in the Chaos Lands.
• Han Hao offered Boro payment to find and retrieve the Divine Body of McKinley, a space-element Upper God.
• Boro agreed to pursue the Divine Body and told his subordinate to ask Baum to lend it, while keeping Han Hao’s request secret from Baum.

Han Mu and Han Shui headed toward Ethereal City, but Han Mu’s former lovers caught up with them at a stronghold and dragged Han Shui into their quarrel. Han Mu secretly helped Han Shui escape, and the two continued on their way.

• Han Mu left a woman unconscious in the forest and argued with Han Shui about his casual relationships before they set out for Ethereal City.
• Three women recognized Han Mu at a stronghold and chased him over promises he had made them.
• Han Mu fled through the crowd while the women and their allies surrounded Han Shui and demanded that he find Han Mu.
• The three groups began fighting over Han Shui, and Han Mu used animated trees to create a distraction.
• Han Shui escaped with Han Mu’s help, and they hurried out of the stronghold toward Ethereal City.

Han Hao rescued Han Mu and Han Shui from Xiao Mi’s family, then warned Han Mu to focus on cultivation. In Ethereal City, Han Shuo cautiously considered a large medicine order from Leixi and Baum.

• Han Mu and Han Shui were cornered by Xiao Mi’s father and his Middle God subordinates after escaping the fortress.
• Han Hao arrived, drove back the attackers, and led Han Mu and Han Shui toward Ethereal City; Xiao Mi’s father forbade anyone from pursuing them.
• Han Hao learned what Han Mu had done and told him to be more careful and devote himself to cultivation.
• Han Hao told Han Mu and Han Shui that Han Shuo was waiting anxiously for them in the city.
• Baum introduced Han Shuo to Leixi through a Magic Mirror Surface and offered a list of medicines worth five hundred thousand black crystal coins.
• Han Shuo postponed accepting payment until his pharmacists confirmed they could fulfill the order, and Leixi agreed to wait.

Han Shuo reunited with Han Mu and Han Shui, reprimanded Han Mu for his womanizing, and discussed moving the Han Family to the Chaos Lands. Ten days later, he and Han Hao watched Baum retrieve McKinley's divine body and followed the courier out of the City Lord's Mansion.

• Han Shuo scolded Han Mu for his misconduct and ordered Han Hao to keep him confined at the Celestial Pivot Pharmacy.
• Han Hao told Han Shuo that a Godhunter leader had agreed to obtain McKinley's divine body from Baum, and Han Shuo explained his plan to leave Shadow City for the Chaos Lands.
• Han Shuo sent the Five Elements Armored Corpses to practice the Heavenly Corpse Five Elements Formation while Han Hao watched over them.
• Ten days later, Han Shuo used a Demon Head to spy on Baum as he retrieved McKinley's divine body and gave it to an Upper God serving Boro.
• Han Shuo and Han Hao set out to follow the Upper God, but Han Hao warned that killing him could expose their involvement to Boro.

Han Shuo recovered McKinley’s divine body and reunited it with his divine soul, allowing McKinley to regain his strength. McKinley left to seek the Space-Time Main God’s approval to deal with Baum, but two days later the Main God destroyed Baum and the City Lord’s Mansion.

• Kediya handed McKinley’s divine body over to Han Hao after Han Hao paid the remaining Black Crystal Coins.
• Han Shuo removed Baum’s mark from the ice crystal coffin, and McKinley reunited with his divine body and revived.
• McKinley thanked Han Shuo, promised to craft space divine artifacts for him, and left to report to the Space-Time Main God before confronting Baum.
• Two days later, spatial power destroyed the City Lord’s Mansion, killing its Divine Guards and reducing Baum to ashes.
• The destruction also caught Han Shuo’s Demon Head, which exploded after transmitting its final view of the ruined mansion.

After the Space-Time Main God destroyed the City Lord's Mansion and killed Baum, McKinley returned with the Main God's Divine Talisman and became Ethereal City's new City Lord. McKinley offered Han Shuo a place in the city and promised to craft space artifacts, but Han Shuo declined and prepared to leave for the Chaos Lands to avenge his injured son.

• The City Lord's Mansion was destroyed by the Space-Time Main God, killing Baum, the Divine Guards, and Han Shuo's watching Demon Head.
• Five days later, McKinley returned with a Divine Talisman and took control of Ethereal City, blaming Baum for colluding with Godhunters and restoring order.
• McKinley visited Han Shuo at Celestial Pivot Pharmacy and promised to make him long-distance communication devices and a Plane Teleportation Array.
• McKinley invited Han Shuo to stay and help govern Ethereal City, but Han Shuo declined because he feared Main Gods and had plans of his own.
• Han Shuo told McKinley that his son had been injured and that he was leaving to settle the score with the culprit.

Han Shuo and his group traveled from Ethereal City toward the Chaos Lands, where Little Skeleton Han Hao arranged to reunite with his Godhunter followers. Han Shuo discovered that Han Hao had trained more than three hundred Godhunters into a formidable force, and the group continued into the Chaos Lands with them as his new base.

• Han Shuo, Little Skeleton Han Hao, the Five Elements Armored Corpses, and Lolth left Ethereal City for the Chaos Lands, with Han Hao asking about the Golden Armored Corpse's attackers.
• At a fortress, Han Mu's reputation for attracting angry women became clear, and Han Shuo hurried everyone away before four women pursuing Han Mu caught up.
• Han Hao led the group to a waterfall, then entered a hidden cave and told his Godhunter followers that Han Shuo's party were friends they must not attack.
• Han Hao ordered his followers to leave the Death Divine Domain and bring the rest of his people to the Chaos Lands, where they would establish their new base.
• Han Hao told Han Shuo that he had trained three squads of more than three hundred Godhunters, surprising Han Shuo with the strength of his new force.

Boro learned that McKinley had become Ethereal City's City Lord and ordered Kodia to investigate the robbery of the Golden Stone Shop's goods for Han Hao's sake. Han Shuo's party entered the Chaos Lands, and after reaching the site of Han Jin's ambush, Han Shuo began killing those he lured over while searching for clues; Kodia then arrived.

• Boro heard that the Space-Time Main God had killed Baum and destroyed the City Lord's Mansion, while McKinley had become Ethereal City's City Lord.
• Boro told Kodia to investigate the Golden Stone Shop robbery thoroughly and report any findings to him.
• Han Shuo and his party entered the Chaos Lands, saw its violence firsthand, and traveled into its interior, where Upper Gods frequently fought.
• At the site of Han Jin's ambush, Han Shuo released demon heads to lure nearby travelers over and question them about the stolen ore.
• When one Upper God claimed he knew nothing, Han Shuo ordered Little Skeleton Han Hao, Lolth, and the Five Elements Armored Corpses to kill him and collect the group's divine souls.
• Han Shuo continued luring and killing travelers without finding clues until Kodia and other Godhunters arrived.

Kediya revealed that Yingzhun had stolen ores and was hiding in a lair in Kaji Valley, though he paid tribute to the powerful sovereign Saras. Han Shuo and Han Hao chose to investigate, and Han Tu opened a passage into the lair.

• Kediya told Han Hao that Yingzhun, a middle-stage Upper God, had stolen the ores and was preparing to sell them.
• Kediya located Yingzhun's lair in Kaji Valley and warned that Yingzhun was protected by Saras, one of the Chaos Lands' five Main God sovereigns.
• Lolth explained Saras's power, while Han Shuo admitted he was unsure he could defeat him; Han Hao urged caution before they acted.
• Han Shuo and his companions traveled toward Kaji Valley, killing nearby deities and collecting their divine souls in the Myriad Demon Cauldron.
• Han Shuo surveyed the valley with his Demon Heads, and Han Tu opened a passage underground toward Yingzhun's lair.

Han Shuo and his companions slaughtered Yingzhun’s subordinates in the underground lair and learned that Yingzhun had taken the stolen ore to Lord Saras. After collecting useful supplies and hiding the rest deep underground, they left to investigate Chaos Deep Valley.

• Han Shuo sent Han Tu to seal the lair’s exit and ordered the group to kill everyone inside while searching for Yingzhun’s stolen ore.
• Little Skeleton Han Hao, Lolth, the Five Elements Armored Corpses, Han Shuo, and Han Tu attacked through the lair, killing Yingzhun’s subordinates as they tried to escape.
• Han Hao tortured an Upper God for information, and the man revealed that Yingzhun had taken the ore to Lord Saras before Han Hao killed him.
• Han Shuo’s group finished killing the lair’s inhabitants and gathered supplies, with Han Hao collecting equipment for his Godhunters.
• Han Tu moved the remaining supplies and rooms deeper underground, and Han Shuo’s group left to look into Chaos Deep Valley.

Han Shuo and his party reached Chaos Deep Valley, a costly refuge jointly governed by the Five Great Monarchs, after surviving eight days of battles and gaining strength by devouring their enemies. As they explored the valley, they learned how its taxes and guards worked before an old woman recognized Lolth and challenged her for returning.

• Han Shuo's party fought off attackers during eight days of travel, killing more than two hundred deities and strengthening Han Shuo through their Divine Souls.
• Han Shuo's group entered Chaos Deep Valley through Vasias's checkpoint and paid eight hundred Black Crystal Coins for one day.
• Han Hao suggested that they could make great profits by controlling the valley, while Han Shuo warned everyone not to tamper with the Main God's will inside their entry badges.
• Han Shuo explored the valley's markets and learned that residents paid steep taxes for safety and hired costly guards to travel outside.
• A hideous, bald old woman recognized Lolth, laughed, and asked whether she had dared to return.

Han Shuo’s group learned that Yingzhun was on Saras’s heavily guarded Celestial God Peak, forcing them to wait before pursuing him. After Bai Sha’s threat and Haruli’s failed attempt to extort them, Han Shuo invited Haruli to join him, but Haruli rejected the offer.

• Bai Sha confronted Lolth and threatened Han Shuo’s group because Lolth had killed her son, while Lolth warned that Bai Sha’s partner, Buz, was a dangerous late-stage upper god.
• Han Shuo paid the Wind Spirits a thousand Black Crystal Coins and learned that Yingzhun had gone to Saras’s Celestial God Peak.
• Han Shuo decided not to challenge Saras while Yingzhun remained at the peak and continued exploring the valley with his companions.
• Haruli approached the group, offered to escort them out for a million Black Crystal Coins, and warned that Bai Sha and Buz’s men waited outside the valley.
• Han Shuo refused Haruli’s offer and asked him to follow him, but Haruli scornfully declined and left with his men.

Han Shuo planned to use Haruli’s hostility and Deep Valley’s predatory factions to build a reputation and recruit allies in the Chaos Lands. As he led his group toward the exit, twenty-three factions gathered outside, all watching for a chance to attack.

• Haruli ordered Loxia to watch Han Shuo’s group and report when they left Deep Valley.
• Han Shuo explained that he meant to provoke Haruli, overwhelm him with their strength, and then invite him to join them.
• Han Shuo decided to leave Deep Valley despite Buz and Bai Sha waiting outside, hoping to find Lolth’s friends and draw local factions into conflict.
• Lolth pointed out merchants who sold cheap goods before arranging ambushes, and Han Shuo bought from them to attract their attention.
• Merchants, scouts, and subordinates of Buz and Haruli followed Han Shuo as he approached the checkpoint.
• Twenty-three factions assembled outside Deep Valley, and Haruli cursed Han Shuo for drawing so many ruthless groups to the exit.

Han Shuo led Lolth, Little Skeleton Han Hao, and the Five Elements Armored Corpses out of Deep Valley despite the forces waiting to kill them. As Buz ordered his men to attack, Han Hao’s Bone Spike struck the Darkness Upper God who had targeted Lolth, revealing its potent Corpse Poison.

• A checkpoint guard warned Han Shuo that enemies were waiting outside, but Han Shuo led his companions out of Deep Valley anyway.
• Han Shuo sensed twenty-six gathered forces, and several groups blocked their retreat to the checkpoint, surrounding them.
• Buz emerged with Bai Sha and claimed the right to kill Han Shuo’s group, while the other forces held back to claim their Black Crystal Coins afterward.
• Buz threatened Lolth, and Han Shuo took her hand and warned Buz that he would die if he attacked her.
• Buz ordered his men to kill everyone, and Little Skeleton Han Hao attacked the Darkness Upper God who had targeted Lolth with his Bone Spike.
• The Bone Spike’s green light weakened the Darkness Upper God, and Han Shuo sensed Corpse Poison within it.