Chapter Summaries

Chen Nian revealed his overwhelming strength by saving Lan Jing'er from a Devouring Beast and summoning two powerful beasts to fight the monster tide. With the battle turning in the defenders’ favor, Lan Jing'er wondered what condition Chen Nian would ask of her.

• Chen Nian stopped a Devouring Beast’s claw with two fingers and told Lan Jing'er he would handle the crisis if she agreed to one condition.
• Lan Jing'er agreed, and Chen Nian killed the Devouring Beast instantly with his golden-eyed power.
• Chen Nian teased Lan Jing'er for acting cute, then summoned a Primordial Divine Ape and an Undead Bone Dragon to attack the monsters at the cave entrances.
• The summoned beasts cleared the entrances, and Tianye returned to Lan Jing'er as the battle began to turn in the defenders’ favor.

Chen Nian slaughtered the monster tide and gained enough experience to reach level 95, then confronted Lan Jing'er over his promised condition. He dismissed her concerns about the Crystal Domain's neutrality and demanded that she kiss him, leaving her to approach him while everyone else turned away.

• Chen Nian's summoned beasts killed the monster tide, earning him over a million experience points and raising him seven levels to level 95.
• Chen Nian ordered the Undead Bone Dragon to burn the monster corpses, then accepted the miners' leader's apology and received thanks from Lan Jing'er.
• Lan Jing'er said the Crystal Domain could not help open a spatial passage without risking its neutrality, and Chen Nian told her that helping her world was Bi Shuang's plan, not an obligation.
• Chen Nian named his condition: Lan Jing'er had to kiss him, provoking anger among the Crystal Domain's fighters.
• Lan Jing'er ordered everyone to look away and walked up to Chen Nian despite their protests.

Lan Jing'er kissed Chen Nian, shocking the Crystal Domain men, then explained how her abusive father had made her fear men. The mining crew discovered a crystal barrier hiding Holy Crystal Stone, but an A-Rank man failed to break through it.

• Lan Jing'er kissed Chen Nian, and the onlookers reacted with heartbreak and envy.
• Lan Jing'er ordered everyone to stop discussing the kiss and return to mining.
• Lan Jing'er told Tianye and Chen Nian that her father's abuse had caused her fear of men.
• The miners uncovered a crystal barrier and learned Holy Crystal Stone lay behind it.
• An A-Rank man tried to break the barrier to impress Lan Jing'er, but his weapon bounced off.

Chen Nian helped Lan Jing'er and the Crystal Domain miners obtain the sacred crystal by dissolving the crystal wall that Tianye could not break. Lan Jing'er thanked him and became noticeably more comfortable around him, though she still insisted to herself that she would not be nice to him again.

• Tianye cracked the crystal wall with her sword, but the sacred crystal's energy quickly repaired it, and she admitted she lacked the strength to break through completely.
• An A-Rank Wallbreaker asked Chen Nian to help, but Chen Nian said he would only act if Lan Jing'er asked him herself.
• Lan Jing'er approached Chen Nian and asked what it would take for him to help, and he agreed without making any demands.
• Chen Nian used his Word Spirit, Origin-Destroying World, to dissolve a hole in the crystal wall.
• The miners entered to gather the sacred crystal, while Lan Jing'er thanked Chen Nian and spoke to him more naturally than before.

After returning from the mining expedition, Chen Nian learned that Lan Jing'er's estranged father, Mo Yun, had arrived as an envoy from the Crimson Flame Domain to negotiate for crystals. Lan Jing'er decided to reject the deal, but Mo Yun threatened to expose a recording of himself violating her mother unless she favored him in the negotiations.

• Lan Jing'er rewarded the miners, who praised Chen Nian for helping them survive and earn a large payday.
• Chen Nian met Bi Shuang and learned that Mo Yun, Lan Jing'er's biological father, had arrived to buy crystals for the Crimson Flame Domain.
• Lan Jing'er told her mother that she was willing to trust Chen Nian and help outsiders, but she would never sell crystals to Mo Yun.
• Mo Yun requested a private meeting with Lan Jing'er, then threatened to reveal a recording of himself violating her mother unless Lan Jing'er considered her mother's welfare during the negotiations.

Lan Jing'er agreed to Mo Yun’s deeply discounted crystal deal after he provoked her by insulting her mother. Chen Nian confronted the Crimson Flame Domain delegation outside, where he shrugged off an A-Rank Wallbreaker’s fire attack.

• Mo Yun insulted Lan Jing'er and pressured her into agreeing to sell ten tons of crystals for far below the usual price.
• Lan Jing'er signed the agreement despite protests from the Crystal Domain officials, and Mo Yun left with his delegation.
• Chen Nian, having removed his Divine Mark, blocked the delegation in the square as an outsider beyond the Crystal Domain’s authority.
• Lan Jing'er declined to intervene, and Mo Yun ordered an A-Rank Wallbreaker to attack Chen Nian.
• Chen Nian emerged from the firestorm and remarked that the Crimson Flame Domain’s fire was not very powerful.

Chen Nian confronted the Crimson Flame Domain envoy Mo Yun and proved overwhelmingly stronger than the group protecting him. After Mo Yun tore up the agreement and tried to leave, Chen Nian repeated his threat to kill him, leaving the Crimson Flame Domain terrified.

• Chen Nian repelled a Crimson Flame Domain A-Rank Wallbreaker and drew everyone’s attention.
• Mo Yun politely asked why Chen Nian had blocked their way, and Chen Nian said he wanted to kill Mo Yun.
• Chen Nian compared the Crystal Domain’s agreement to a Holy Maiden being bitten by a dog, earning Lan Jing’er and the Crystal Domain’s approval.
• Mo Yun ordered Chi Lin to stop Chen Nian and continued onward, but Chen Nian swiftly severed Chi Lin’s right arm and blocked the group again.
• Mo Yun tore up the agreements and called the dispute a misunderstanding, but Chen Nian repeated his demand to know whether Mo Yun would die by his own hand or Chen Nian’s.

Chen Nian killed Mo Yun, the Crimson Flame Domain's envoy, after Lan Jing'er refused to save him. Lan Jing'er then agreed to help Chen Nian's group open a spatial passage and sent him a Crystal Qilin scale as a token of cooperation.

• Chen Nian ignored Mo Yun's pleas and threats, and Lan Jing'er covered her eyes rather than intervene as Chen Nian killed him.
• Lan Jing'er pretended to order Chen Nian's arrest, then privately told Tianye that the Crystal Domain would provide crystals and technical support for the cooperation.
• Chen Nian met Bi Shuang and Jing Feng, who doubted the Crystal Domain would work with them after his killing of Mo Yun.
• Tianye delivered Lan Jing'er's offer, and Chen Nian's group agreed to begin preparing the next day to open a large spatial passage.
• Tianye gave Chen Nian a pink brocade pouch from Lan Jing'er, and she identified its contents as a Crystal Qilin scale.

Chen Nian accepted Lan Jing'er's crystal scale and stayed in the Crystal Domain as it began helping his side. The Crimson Flame Domain learned of the envoy's death and prepared to retaliate against Chen Nian and invade the Crystal Domain.

• Tianye, Jing Feng, and Bi Shuang explained that Lan Jing'er's crystal scale represented entrusting her entire life to a man, and Chen Nian accepted it.
• Lan Jing'er admitted to her mother that she had given Chen Nian her crystal scale to stake the Crystal Domain's future on him, and her mother told her that her trust meant she liked him.
• Jing Feng and Bi Shuang led the Crystal Domain's crystal shipment and engineers to open a spatial passage, while Chen Nian stayed behind to face the Crimson Flame Domain's retaliation.
• The Crimson Flame Domain learned that Chen Nian had killed its envoy, and Chi Xiang recognized him as the man who had severed his arm.
• The Crimson Flame Domain decided to attack the Crystal Domain as well as take revenge, and its lord ordered Chi Xiang to summon Chi Ming and lead the campaign with Yanhuang's Divine Blessing.

The Crimson Flame Domain launched an all-out assault on the Crystal Domain, prompting Lan Jing'er to invoke divine protection and seek help from the King Domain. Chen Nian volunteered to carry the request for aid, leaving the Crystal Domain with a three-day barrier and an uncertain chance of reinforcements.

• Chi Ming and Chi Xiang received orders to invade the Crystal Domain, and the Crimson Flame Domain's forces set out in nearly two thousand airships and battlecraft.
• Lan Jing'er learned that the enemy would attack from four directions in three hours and called an emergency council meeting.
• Lan Jing'er prayed to the Divine Crystal Deer, creating a protective barrier that would last three days.
• The council agreed that the Crystal Domain needed aid from the King Domain, but no one volunteered to make the journey.
• Chen Nian volunteered to deliver the request for aid, and Lan Jing'er entrusted him with the document.

Chen Nian went to the King Domain seeking help for the Crystal Domain, but the queen refused to see him and he could not reach Qin Yu. Qin Yu recognized that an outsider might be looking for her, sang the Tiankong Hymn to find him, and Chen Nian followed her voice into the forbidden grounds, where he found her among white flowers.

• Chen Nian traveled to the King Domain to request help for the Crystal Domain, which was under attack by the Crimson Flame Domain.
• The queen refused Chen Nian an audience, and the messenger drove him away when he asked to meet Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu overheard guards discussing the young man from the Crystal Domain and hurried to find him, despite being expected at the cells where patients were suffering from Madness Disease.
• Qin Yu sang the Tiankong Hymn before Queen Tiankong's statue, soothing the patients and drawing the attention of people across the King Domain.
• Chen Nian recognized Qin Yu's voice, followed it into the forbidden grounds, and found her standing amid a sea of white flowers.

Chen Nian reunited with Qin Yu and asked her to help the Crystal Domain, which was under attack by the Crimson Flame Domain. Qin Yu confronted the King Domain’s queen and called for a council vote, leaving the decision to the twelve remaining elders.

• Qin Yu greeted Chen Nian in the forbidden grounds and confirmed that he had saved her from a Demon God in Linhai City.
• Qin Yu agreed to help Chen Nian and asked him to tell her more about himself.
• Chen Nian explained that the Crystal Domain could only hold out for three days and that the queen had refused to meet him, possibly because she had colluded with the Crimson Flame Domain.
• Qin Yu confronted the queen and demanded that the King Domain send reinforcements to the Crystal Domain.
• Qin Yu and the queen cast tied votes in the King Domain Council, leaving the twelve other elders to decide the outcome.
• Qin Yu entered Tiankong Temple for the vote while Chen Nian waited outside.

Qin Yu won the King Domain council’s vote to send troops to aid the Crystal Domain, but the queen responded by having Nan Xing stab her and ordering the King Domain’s forces to attack Qin Yu and Chen Nian. Chen Nian held the gravely wounded Qin Yu as thousands of soldiers surrounded them and opened fire.

• The queen accused the Crystal Domain of treason, but Qin Yu argued that it had acted to save their world from pollution.
• The council elders voted six to five in favor of Qin Yu, and the King Domain declared it would send troops to aid the Crystal Domain.
• Chen Nian encountered Nan Xing outside Tiankong Temple and sensed that King Domain troops had surrounded the area.
• As Qin Yu came to share the council’s decision with Chen Nian, Nan Xing stabbed her through the heart.
• The queen appeared with the elders who supported Qin Yu in custody and ordered the King Domain’s soldiers to eliminate Qin Yu and Chen Nian.
• Thousands of soldiers, dozens of A-Rank Wallbreakers, and three S-Rank Wallbreakers surrounded them and opened fire.

Chen Nian protected the wounded Qin Yu from the King Domain’s assault and revealed the full power of his Word Spirit. He slaughtered the queen’s elite troops, leaving Nan Xing and the queen among the few survivors.

• Nan Xing ordered the bombardment to continue after Chen Nian and Qin Yu were engulfed, but Chen Nian’s golden-armored divine general shielded them.
• Chen Nian held the wounded Qin Yu as she showed him their matching signatures and revealed that she had figured out he was Buyu.
• Chen Nian promised Qin Yu he would write and sing songs for her if they survived, then faced Nan Xing and the attacking Wallbreakers.
• Nan Xing struck Chen Nian with his Divine King Sword, but the golden-armored divine general blocked the blow.
• Chen Nian completed his Word Spirit chant and unleashed Wrath of the Gods, calling down golden divine swords that killed nearly everyone who had surrounded him.
• The King Domain’s elite troops were wiped out, while Nan Xing and the queen survived amid the ruins outside Tiankong Temple.

Chen Nian unleashed the Demon Blade’s Red Moon and killed the fighters who tried to stop him after realizing Qin Yu had died. Queen Tiankong’s sacred light then entered Qin Yu, leaving the queen’s fate and Qin Yu’s condition unresolved.

• The elders blamed the queen for provoking Chen Nian, while Chen Nian fled with Qin Yu and resisted the urge to turn back and kill them.
• The queen ordered her surviving fighters to attack, and eight A Rank and S Rank fighters surrounded Chen Nian as he carried Qin Yu.
• Nan Xing revealed that Qin Yu was already dead, and Chen Nian laid her down before drawing the Demon Blade, Murasame.
• Chen Nian used Demon Blade-Red Moon to kill seven fighters and grievously wound Nan Xing, then killed Nan Xing with Murasame.
• The queen called for Queen Tiankong’s power, and a beam of sacred light from the forbidden grounds entered Qin Yu’s body instead.

Queen Tiankong chose Qin Yu as her Agent, and blessings from the other gods transformed her into a divine figure. Qin Yu killed the fallen queen and calmed Chen Nian, leaving them reunited and embracing.

• Queen Tiankong's light revived Qin Yu and chose her as an Agent, while the queen watched in disbelief.
• Gods from six other domains sent blessings that gathered into Qin Yu's bow, and the King Domain's elders, soldiers, and people knelt to honor her.
• Qin Yu used the Bow of Tiankong to kill the queen with a blazing arrow, reducing her to ashes.
• Qin Yu kissed Chen Nian between the brows and suppressed the demon blade's bloodlust, restoring his clarity.
• Chen Nian embraced Qin Yu in relief, and she teased him by asking him to repeat his earlier threat.

Qin Yu accepted the throne of the King Domain and ordered its armies to support the Crystal Domain. As the Crystal Domain's barrier neared collapse and surrender talks failed, the King Domain's forces arrived, leaving Lan Jing'er hopeful that Chen Nian was back.

• Qin Yu accepted the role of queen and ordered the King Domain's armies to assemble and aid the Crystal Domain.
• Lan Jing'er refused to surrender while the Crystal Domain waited for Chen Nian and its barrier weakened under the Crimson Flame Domain's attacks.
• The Crimson Flame Domain demanded crystals, technology, and Lan Jing'er as a captive bride, so the Crystal Domain rejected surrender and prepared to fight.
• Chi Xiang waited for the barrier to fall as dawn approached, but a report revealed the King Domain's Air Flight Army was coming.
• Lan Jing'er saw the approaching army and rejoiced, believing Chen Nian had returned.

Qin Yu led the King Domain's army in a surprise attack that helped the Crystal Domain defeat the Crimson Flame Domain's invasion. After the victory, Lan Jing'er appointed Chen Nian as the Crystal Domain's Siming and offered her hand for the customary kiss, just as Qin Yu arrived.

• Qin Yu opened the battle by firing an arrow that destroyed dozens of Crimson Flame Domain warships.
• The King Domain and Crystal Domain forces joined together and drove the Crimson Flame Domain's army into retreat, shooting down more than a hundred additional warships as they pursued.
• Lan Jing'er praised Buyu for bringing reinforcements and invited him to serve as the Crystal Domain's Siming.
• Chen Nian accepted the appointment and learned that he was expected to kiss Lan Jing'er's hand.
• Qin Yu arrived with the King Domain's troops as Chen Nian prepared to kiss Lan Jinger's hand.

Qin Yu claimed Chen Nian as the King Domain’s Arbiter of Fate, prompting the Crystal Domain and King Domain to compete for him until he redirected attention toward connecting their worlds. Meanwhile, a new-world leveling opportunity drew Transcendents from Dragon Country and around the globe to Hawaii, where they awaited the passage’s opening.

• Qin Yu arrived with the King Domain’s troops and told Lan Jing’er that Chen Nian was already the King Domain’s Arbiter of Fate.
• Lan Jing’er and the people of the Crystal Domain challenged Qin Yu’s claim, while King Domain citizens argued that Chen Nian should remain with them.
• Chen Nian urged both women to focus on opening a bridge between the worlds, postponing discussion of titles.
• On Blue Star, Yang Wei announced a new-world leveling spot, and Transcendents flocked to Hawaii after hearing that Buyu had already gone there.
• Yang Wei, Zhao Yixue, Su Jinyu, Ye Hongling, and Uesawa Ueki arrived in Hawaii as Transcendents crowded the island and competed for lodging.

The Crimson Flame, Earth Vein, and Chanting Wind Domains plotted to use Ghost Cry Flowers to sabotage the opening of the spatial passage. When a monster tide attacked the new arrivals, the transcendents eagerly charged into battle, and Chen Nian called them the Fourth Scourge.

• The Crimson Flame and Earth Vein Domain lords persuaded the Chanting Wind Domain lord to oppose the Crystal, King, and Dragon Wing Domains, then decided to plant Ghost Cry Flowers to summon monsters.
• Chen Nian discovered infiltrators carrying Ghost Cry Flowers and learned they planned to unleash a monster tide, but let them proceed because the transcendents could gain experience by fighting monsters.
• The Crystal cannons shattered the barrier between the worlds, and Yang Wei's team welcomed the transcendents through the new spatial passage with purification masks and supplies.
• The infiltrators planted the Ghost Cry Flowers, drawing a massive monster tide toward the camp as the newly arrived transcendents formed parties and charged into battle.
• Watching the transcendents fight from the sky warship, Chen Nian called them the Fourth Scourge.