Chapter Summaries

Laklison and Hofus tested the Han Family estate’s misty spatial defenses and found their scouts trapped in an illusion. Inside, Bolands, Blood Spirit, and Gilbert prepared a trap, and Kinu’s lightning attack revealed a fake scene of the Han Family in panic as Hofus ordered his forces to charge.

• Laklison and Hofus sent Divine Power attacks and scouts into the mist, but the attacks vanished and the scouts wandered in circles, unable to find a way forward or out.
• Laklison concluded that a powerful spatial Barrier was trapping the men, and Hofus pressured him to contribute his own forces.
• Laklison sent Kinu, an Upper God who cultivated lightning power, to attack the estate’s spatial defenses.
• Bolands told the others to open the Illusion Realm Window and lure the attackers inside, while Gilbert concealed some Magic Arrays and activated the illusions.
• Kinu’s lightning dispersed the mist and revealed an illusory scene of the Han Family fleeing in panic, convincing Hofus that the defenses had fallen.
• Hofus ordered his forces to charge into the estate and kill the Han Family.

Hofus and Laklison led their forces into the Han Family grounds, where Gilbert reactivated Han Shuo’s Magic Arrays and trapped the invaders. As the arrays slaughtered the attackers, Emily ordered the Han Family to escape before the arrays ran out of power, and Blood Spirit and Bolands returned from the killing to join the retreat.

• Hofus and Laklison led their forces into the seemingly undefended Han Family grounds to seize its wealth and capture Phoebe and Stassom.
• Gilbert reactivated the Magic Arrays, trapping the intruders in a vast vortex of mist and unleashing deadly illusions, poison, and other attacks.
• Blood Spirit and Bolands entered the arrays and killed the trapped attackers while Gilbert warned everyone that the arrays could not last indefinitely.
• Emily ordered the Han Family members to gather underground and prepare the Flying Bat for an immediate escape from Berglas Fortress.
• Gilbert called Blood Spirit and Bolands back, and the two joined him in the passage as the Han Family began its retreat.

After surviving the Han Family’s Magic Arrays, Laklison and Hofus pursued the family toward the Death Divine Domain, while Ralph prepared an ambush on Wallace’s orders. Phoebe’s group met Ralph’s Second Division forces and began a battle, with Blood Spirit, Bolands, and Gilbert engaging powerful opponents.

• The Han Family’s Magic Arrays ran out of Heaven and Earth Essence, leaving fewer than three hundred of Hofus’s thousand Divine Guards alive.
• Laklison and Hofus searched the estate, found no valuables, and led their surviving forces in pursuit of the Han Family.
• Ralph learned that the Han Family was approaching and ordered his troops to block their route and kill them.
• Blood Spirit sensed Ralph’s ambush, and Phoebe ordered the Han Family’s more than seven hundred guards to disembark and form ranks.
• Ralph accused the Han Family of betraying Shadow City, then ordered his forces to attack after Phoebe rejected his demand to return.
• Blood Spirit charged Ralph, Bolands and Gilbert intercepted Wallace’s two Upper Gods, and Phoebe sent the Han Family guards into battle against the Second Division.

The Han Family guards overwhelmed Ralph’s Second Division Divine Guards through disciplined formations while Blood Spirit, Bolands, and Gilbert held off the opposing Upper Gods. Ralph ordered a retreat, and after Blood Spirit recovered by drawing in the battlefield’s spilled blood, the Han Family party resumed its journey toward the Death Divine Domain.

• The Han Family guards broke through the Second Division’s defenses and inflicted far heavier casualties while Ralph and his allies fought Blood Spirit, Bolands, and Gilbert.
• Phoebe ordered the Han Family guards into a more lethal formation, and Ralph called for his forces to retreat as their losses mounted.
• Old Monster Stassom and Phoebe stopped the Han Family guards from pursuing, then withdrew the group to avoid Hofus and Laklison.
• Emily checked on Blood Spirit, who used his sword to absorb the battlefield’s spilled blood and rapidly recover his strength.
• Gilbert urged everyone to move, and the Han Family party boarded the Flying Bat and continued toward the Death Divine Domain.

The Han Family’s Flying Bat entered Longsen Grand Canyon, where Godhunter leaders plotted to ambush them. Wenman warned the family because she believed Han Hao was connected to them, and the Han Family pressed on through the canyon despite the danger.

• Stassom and the Han Family’s companions discussed the dangers of Longsen Grand Canyon as their procession crossed into the Death Divine Domain.
• Quincy persuaded the Godhunter leaders to join forces against the Han Family, while Wenman objected because she suspected they might be connected to Han Hao.
• After the other leaders mocked Wenman, she left the meeting and sent a subordinate to contact Han Hao’s men.
• Wenman approached the Han Family’s Flying Bat and asked whether they knew Han Hao; Gilbert and the others recognized the name after she described his seven bone spikes.
• Wenman warned Emily and the others that the Godhunters planned to attack them, but Phoebe said retreating could expose them to Hofus and Laklison, so the Han Family continued onward.

The Han Family’s Flying Bat was intercepted by Godhunters in Longsen Grand Canyon, who planned to seize their wealth and women. Wenman and Xiliao invoked Han Hao’s lingering influence to deter them, but Quincy and Kelison refused to back down and ordered an attack.

• Wenman secretly followed the Han Family’s Flying Bat, expecting Quincy’s factions to track them down.
• More than a dozen Godhunter factions surrounded the Flying Bat, and Quincy and Kelison singled out the Han Family’s women as spoils.
• Wenman warned the Godhunters that Han Hao was a member of the Han Family, but Quincy persuaded them to surround the Flying Bat anyway.
• Xiliao arrived and declared that Han Hao had ordered his followers to protect the Han Family, prompting most of the Godhunter leaders to withdraw.
• Bolands recognized Han Hao as the mysterious young man who had been the strongest Godhunter in Longsen Grand Canyon.
• Quincy and Kelison rejected Xiliao’s warning and ordered their subordinates to attack.

The Han Family guards and their allies crushed Quincy and Kelison’s Godhunter forces in Longsen Grand Canyon. With both leaders dead, the surviving Godhunters fled, while Xiliao and Wenman watched in horror.

• The Han Family guards charged Quincy and Kelison’s forces and overwhelmed them with their formations and superior teamwork.
• Blood Spirit held Quincy at bay while Bolands and Gilbert fought Kelison, and Phoebe ordered the Han Family members to attack.
• Kelison lost focus under Gilbert’s insults, and Bolands killed him with a strike from behind.
• Old Monster Stassom warned the others that Quincy intended to take someone down with him, so they kept their distance and wore him down with attacks.
• Blood Spirit, Bolands, and Gilbert killed Quincy, and the surviving Godhunters fled as Xiliao and Wenman watched in horror.

The Han Family escaped Shadow City and reached the Death Divine Domain, while Wallace and his allies plotted against Han Shuo. In Deep Valley, Han Shuo enlisted Han Hao to block supplies from shops opposing his entry, leaving the valley cut off as the supporters’ caravans passed untouched.

• The Han Family crossed Longsen Grand Canyon and reached the Death Divine Domain, where Divine Guards escorted them away from Laklison and Hofus.
• Wallace met with Laklison and Hofus, and the three agreed to join forces against the Han Family and Han Shuo if they returned to the Darkness Divine Domain.
• Wallace failed to uncover how the Han Family’s Magic Arrays worked, reclaimed Berglas Fortress, and faced criticism from Andrei and Kamelita for driving the Han Family from Shadow City.
• Han Shuo learned that only twenty percent of Deep Valley’s shop owners supported his entry, so he left information for Han Hao.
• Han Hao ordered his captains to intercept supplies bound for shops on a list, and Godhunters began surrounding Deep Valley’s routes.
• The Godhunters plundered caravans for months, while shipments from shops that supported Han Shuo entered Deep Valley without harm.

Han Shuo met Tyr, Rogg, and Vasias to discuss Han Hao’s raids disrupting trade in Deep Valley. After Vasias challenged his standing in the Chaos Lands, Han Shuo dared him to fight one-on-one.

• Deep Valley’s merchants appealed to Tyr, Rogg, and Vasias to stop the raids that were blocking supplies.
• Han Shuo sensed Osoe approaching the Celestial Pivot Pharmacy, and Osoe told him the three Great Monarchs wanted to meet.
• Osoe warned Han Shuo that the three might join forces against him, but Han Shuo went with him to an extinct volcano outside Deep Valley.
• Tyr, Rogg, and Vasias discussed Han Hao’s raids with Han Shuo, while Tyr reconsidered their planned approach after failing to gauge Han Shuo’s strength.
• Vasias accused Han Shuo of violating the Chaos Lands’ rules and dismissed his power, so Han Shuo challenged Vasias to fight him alone.

Han Shuo challenged Vasias to a spar so he could demonstrate his strength without fighting Tyr and Rogg to the death. He left the watching sovereigns stunned when he withstood Vasias's ice-blade attack with his body alone.

• Tyr and Rogg encouraged Vasias to face Han Shuo, hoping the fight would reveal Han Shuo's strength while keeping their own options open.
• Han Shuo assured Vasias the match would not be to the death, and Vasias agreed after Rogg taunted him.
• Han Shuo formed Heavenly Demon Blades from his fingernails and chose to fight Vasias at close range.
• Vasias covered himself in solid ice and attacked Han Shuo with icy swords as Han Shuo struck the ice on his chest.
• Han Shuo's body repelled Vasias's attack and sent him flying, astonishing Tyr, Rogg, and Osoe.

Han Shuo gained the upper hand over Vasias with a Divine Sense attack, then stopped the fight and won Vasias’s support for entering Deep Valley. Tyr accepted that Han Shuo could establish himself there but demanded that he address the Godhunter Alliance’s threat to the Chaos Lands.

• Han Shuo attacked Vasias’s Divine Soul with his Divine Sense, disrupting his movements and overwhelming his defenses.
• Han Shuo withdrew his attacks and called the fight a draw, but Vasias admitted that he was not Han Shuo’s equal.
• Vasias rebuked Rogg and supported Osoe’s view that Han Shuo could establish himself in Deep Valley until Saras returned.
• Tyr agreed to speak with the Ten Monarch Shops’ owners but raised the Godhunter Alliance’s growing influence in the Chaos Lands.
• Tyr demanded that Han Shuo either make Han Hao leave the Godhunter Alliance or take his Godhunters out of the Chaos Lands.

Han Shuo secured control of the Monarch Shops in Deep Valley and learned that Tyr and Rogg had exposed his relationship with Han Hao to the Godhunter Alliance. He warned Han Hao, who revealed that the Alliance had twelve Main God commanders and said he had no intention of returning to its service.

• Han Shuo agreed to handle the threat posed by the Godhunter Alliance, and the monarchs granted him the Monarch Shops that had belonged to Saras.
• After the others left, Vasias warned Han Shuo that Tyr and Rogg had told the Godhunter Alliance about Han Hao and cautioned him to beware of Osoe.
• Three days later, Han Shuo met Han Hao near Deep Valley and told him to stay in the Chaos Lands because the Godhunter Alliance might target him.
• Han Hao explained that twelve Main God commanders led the Godhunter Alliance and that the Death Divine Domain commander had summoned him.
• Han Hao told Han Shuo that he would not return to the Alliance or obey anyone but his father and the people he cared about.

Han Shuo learned that the Han Family had been threatened by Godhunter forces in Longsen Grand Canyon and secretly left Deep Valley to investigate. In Withered Bones City, the Han Family remained trapped at the Jialan Family estate, where Phoebe refused to surrender their potion formulas and guard-training methods.

• Han Shuo established himself in Deep Valley, took over Saras's ten Monarch Shops, and returned one shop to Osoe.
• Han Shuo brought Golden Armored Corpse and Zoqi to Deep Valley to establish the Golden Stone Shop and build an intelligence network.
• Zoqi told Han Shuo that Godhunter forces had joined together to attack the Han Family in Longsen Grand Canyon, based on news that was already four months old.
• Han Shuo instructed Zoqi to conceal his departure, contacted Han Hao, and left the Chaos Lands to find out what had happened to the Han Family.
• In Withered Bones City, the Jialan Family kept the Han Family at its estate and obstructed their departure while seeking their potion formulas and guard-training methods.
• Phoebe rejected the Jialan Family's demands, while Old Monster Stassom warned that the Han Family could not force its way out of the city.

Hill and Shatuo gave the Han Family one month to reveal the Celestial Pivot Pharmacy formulas and guard-training methods or face death. Emily urged the family to stall and wait for Brian after learning that Daxiaxi had sent him a message.

• Hill ordered Shatuo to obtain the Han Family's secrets and set a one-month deadline before resorting to force.
• Daxiaxi warned Old Monster Stassom, Almerick, Emily, and the others that Hill and Shatuo planned to kill them and extract their secrets from their souls.
• Gilbert, Blood Spirit, and Bolands considered fighting the Jialan Family, while Emily stopped them from acting rashly.
• Emily asked Bolands, Blood Spirit, and Gilbert to prepare a copy of the guards' Magic Arrays to coordinate.
• Daxiaxi said he had spent Emily's million Black Crystal Coins to send Brian a message, and Emily urged everyone to stall until Brian arrived.

Han Shuo learned that the Han Family had survived Longsen Grand Canyon and was in Withered Bones City, but the Wind Transmission Agency’s old woman revealed his arrival to Porterlem. As Han Shuo headed for the gate, Porterlem blocked his way, and Han Shuo prepared to confront him.

• Han Shuo reached Wraith City after traveling at full speed and sought information about the Han Family at the Wind Transmission Agency.
• When the old woman asked about the Eight Desolations Separation and Reunion Purgatory Formation, Han Shuo threatened her until she revealed that the Han Family was at the Jialan Family in Withered Bones City.
• Han Shuo learned that the Han Family was alive, paid the old woman to keep the information, and left to continue toward Withered Bones City.
• The old woman contacted Porterlem and told him Han Shuo was in Wraith City, hoping to earn a reward by helping him intercept Han Shuo.
• Porterlem and Bacheld Family guards blocked Han Shuo at the gate, and Han Shuo recognized Porterlem and threatened him.

Han Shuo killed Porterlem and two Upper Gods who tried to stop him at Wraith City’s gate. He left the city after daring the Bacheld Family’s head to pursue him in Withered Bones City.

• Porterlem dismissed Han Shuo’s strength and sent two early-stage Upper Gods to attack him.
• Han Shuo repelled the pair’s attacks, killed both Upper Gods, and collected their souls.
• A Divine Guard ordered the city gates opened after witnessing Han Shuo’s strength.
• Han Shuo killed Porterlem with his Void Hand and collected his soul.
• Han Shuo told the Bacheld Family’s guards to tell their family head he was going to Withered Bones City and invited him to seek revenge.
• The guards cleared a path, and Han Shuo walked out of Wraith City.

Emily handed Shatuo a Han Family guard-training method, but Shatuo humiliated Bolands and threatened the Han Family when he dismissed it as useless. Bolands restrained his anger and stopped Blood Spirit and Gilbert from attacking, insisting the Han Family would seek revenge later rather than risk everyone’s lives.

• Emily gave Shatuo a scroll describing the Han Family guards’ Magic Array training method.
• Shatuo struck Bolands with the scroll, insulted the method, and threatened to settle the score if it failed to improve the Jialan Family guards.
• Bolands calmly explained how Shatuo could test the training method, then left the Council Hall with Emily and Old Monster Stassom.
• After Bolands departed, Jialan Family Upper Gods urged Shatuo to kill him, but Shatuo ordered them to test the scroll first and planned to spare Bolands until they had extracted what they wanted.
• Back at the Han Family’s residence, Blood Spirit and Gilbert tried to rush out and fight the Jialan Family after hearing what Shatuo had done.
• Bolands ordered Blood Spirit and Gilbert to stand down, reminding them that revenge could wait and that an impulsive fight would endanger the whole Han Family.

The Jialan Family tested the Han Family’s formation and discovered that even guards with only three days of training could defeat equal-strength opponents. After torturing a captured Han Family guard and extracting his memories, Shatuo grew afraid of the family’s strength and issued a three-day ultimatum, while Han Shuo arrived in Withered Bones City’s territory.

• Shatuo watched three Jialan guards trained in the Han Family’s formation repeatedly repel and defeat three equal-strength guards, convincing the Jialan elders of its power.
• Stassom told Emily that a Han Family guard had disappeared, and Emily ordered him to keep the news secret to prevent panic and retaliation.
• Shatuo found the missing guard tortured in the dungeon, learned that he had bitten off his own tongue, and extracted his memories, killing him.
• Shatuo learned from the guard’s memories that Han Shuo had defeated powerful enemies and disrupted Veilshade City, then ordered the Han Family to hand over every formation method within three days.
• Han Shuo entered Withered Bones City’s territory after racing there through the night.

Facing Shatuo’s three-day ultimatum, the Han Family chose to attack the Jialan Family estate before dawn, while Shatuo and Hill learned that Han Shuo was far more dangerous than they had believed. Han Shuo arrived in Withered Bones City as the Han Family’s assault faltered, leaving its members cornered by Shatuo and Hill.

• Stassom explained that Shatuo had extracted secrets from a dead Han Family guard’s soul, and Bolands and Emily decided to launch a desperate attack that night.
• Shatuo told Hill what he had learned about Han Shuo, and Hill ordered the Han Family wiped out and planned to blame the massacre on outsiders.
• A Divine Guard reported that the Jialan Family estate was under attack, prompting Shatuo and Hill to race there.
• Han Shuo entered Withered Bones City and paid a Middle God to point him toward the Jialan Family estate.
• The Han Family guards caught the Jialan Family unprepared, destroyed buildings, and killed over a hundred members before the Jialan Upper Gods and Hill’s Divine Guards turned the fight against them.
• Shatuo and Hill arrived at the estate as the Han Family retreated under the overwhelming counterattack.

Shatuo and Hill led Withered Bones City’s forces in an assault that overwhelmed the Han Family’s coordinated defenses and threatened its leaders. As Emily whispered that she would never see Brian again, a terrifying howl and destructive aura engulfed the city.

• Shatuo ordered the Divine Guards and seven upper gods to attack the surrounded Han Family, while Hill secretly hoped to seize its potion formulas and training methods.
• The Han Family shifted its formation and coordinated their defenses and counterattacks, inflicting heavy losses on the city’s forces despite the seven upper gods’ advantage.
• Hill told Shatuo to spare the Han Family leaders so their memories could be extracted, and Shatuo redirected the upper gods’ attacks toward the perimeter guards.
• Bolands stopped Stassom and Emily from killing themselves, warning that their deaths would not keep the enemy from obtaining useful information from their souls.
• Emily murmured that she would never see Brian again as a tremendous howl and world-ending aura swept across Withered Bones City.