Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze and Slacking on the Sidelines met Colonel Ding in a bar and persuaded him to share what he knew about Mrs. Jing and the believers. Ding agreed to pass along clues from the Inspection Team’s investigation.

• After a day of searching for the believers, Qin Ze and the Dew Duo stopped at a bar, where the bartender warned Qin Ze that the Black Dragon Gang boss wanted revenge on Slacking on the Sidelines.
• Qin Ze spotted Colonel Ding drinking alone, and Slacking on the Sidelines confronted him about concealing the truth after they completed his task.
• Ding said a Cloud Clan law enforcer had recruited him to search for a wanted Maka Race criminal, then told him how to recognize believers while investigating the city’s serial murders.
• Ding explained that he suspected Mrs. Jing was a believer, tested her by hiring the group to catch her cheating, and notified the Cloud Clan member after seeing what happened at the hotel.
• Slacking on the Sidelines persuaded Ding to share information, and Ding agreed to contact them if his men found clues linking the believers to the serial murders.

Qin Ze and the Dew Duo investigated a mass killing at Red Maple Mansion after Ding Wenxuan reported new deaths. They found bodies arranged in a bloody ritual, and discovered more corpses upstairs.

• Ding Wenxuan texted Qin Ze and the Dew Duo that more deaths had occurred at Red Maple Mansion.
• Qin Ze secretly ordered the Five Heavenly Kings to surround the mansion without entering.
• Hooknose let the Dew Duo investigate but warned Qin Ze not to enter; Qin Ze ignored him and followed them inside.
• The group found more than a dozen mutilated bodies hanging in the bloodstained hall and a ritual-like pattern made from blood and entrails.
• Passerby A found no further clues on the first floor, and the group went upstairs, where they saw another dozen corpses hanging in the corridor.

Qin Ze and the Dew Duo discovered that the hooked-nose captain was the serial killer, while Mrs. Jingke and two Cloud Clansmen revealed themselves in the corridor. Mrs. Jingke began transforming the bloody scene as Qin Ze felt the Desolate God Bloodline stir within him.

• Qin Ze sensed that an Advanced Martial Artist was still at the murder scene, so he, Slacking on the Sidelines, and Passerby A began retreating to wait for Fairy.
• The hooked-nose captain blocked the stairs and revealed himself as their enemy, while Qin Ze and Slacking on the Sidelines tried to stall for time.
• Mrs. Jingke appeared behind the group, and Qin Ze realized the hidden watcher might have been her.
• Mrs. Jingke summoned Brother Unscathed and a bald Cloud Clansman from Shelter Spaces, and Brother Unscathed demanded that she surrender the relic.
• Mrs. Jingke announced that the party could begin as the corpses melted, blood vessels spread across the corridor walls, and Qin Ze felt his Desolate God Bloodline stir.

Qin Ze and the Dew Duo fought their way through the Red Maple Mansion as Mrs. Jingke and the hawk-nosed captain unleashed blood-based attacks and mental contamination. Qin Ze’s blue flames burned back the flesh, but Slacking on the Sidelines and Passerby A were infected, the exits were sealed, and the mansion’s formation activated.

• Brother Unscathed and the bald Cloud Clan member fought Mrs. Jingke while Qin Ze and the Dew Duo tried to escape downstairs.
• The hawk-nosed captain destroyed Slacking on the Sidelines’s Shelter Space, then sacrificed himself and intensified the mansion’s mental shocks.
• Qin Ze unleashed Blue Flame Release, burning the attacking flesh and weakening Demonic Whisper so the Dew Duo could move toward the entrance.
• Blood vessels sealed the exit, an eye paralyzed the Dew Duo, and blood-red eyes appeared on Slacking on the Sidelines and Passerby A.
• Mrs. Jingke descended the stairs, turned the hanging corpses into blood, and activated the Red Maple Mansion’s formation.

Taoist and Scholar joined Qin Ze and the Dew Duo at the mansion, where they fought Mrs. Jingke’s stitched monster and tried to stop her from channeling the World Overlord’s power. Their combined attack failed to break the monster’s defenses, and Fairy still had not arrived.

• Taoist broke into the mansion, used talismans and a pill to suppress the contamination, and restored Slacking on the Sidelines and Passerby A to normal.
• Scholar arrived and strengthened the group’s resistance to the Overlord’s mental attacks, while Taoist explained that Mrs. Jingke was using the mansion’s inhabitants to empower the stitched monster.
• Mrs. Jingke fed the monster more puppets, increasing its strength, and dragged Brother Unscathed from his Shelter Space while keeping the bald Cloud Clan member occupied.
• Scholar temporarily sealed the monster with his Martial Artifact, and Qin Ze, Taoist, Slacking on the Sidelines, and Passerby A launched a combined attack.
• The stitched monster broke free and survived their attack, prompting Qin Ze to order the minions to attack through the Local Area Network.

Fairy fought Taurus to reach the new Virgo's assessment, while Qin Ze's team faced the Stitched Monster with help from the Circus's clones and reinforcements. The battle continued as Brother Devour stood between the Stitched Monster and the others, trading heavy blows with it.

• Fairy tried to get past Taurus, but he repeatedly blocked her from going to Virgo's assessment, forcing her to fight him with plants and blood-colored vines.
• Qin Ze sent his clones into the fight after Scholar weakened Demonic Whisper and restored the team's energy, while Slacking on the Sidelines struggled to hold off the Stitched Monster.
• The Circus's clones charged the Stitched Monster, and three members of the Self-Destruct Squad detonated themselves to open the team fight.
• Taoist and the Hunter squad attacked while the surviving clones distracted the Stitched Monster, and Dharma King struck it with lightning.
• Brother Devour charged into the hall and shielded the others by trading powerful blows with the Stitched Monster.

Qin Ze unleashed his strengthened Desolate God Bloodline, overwhelmed the stitched monster, and burned its remains to ash. He then confronted Mrs. Jingke, who shed her disguise and revealed herself as Ding Wenxuan.

• Qin Ze lured the stitched monster toward him, used Black Tortoise Shield to fake being crushed beneath the rubble, and secretly escaped through Shelter Space.
• Qin Ze activated the Desolate God Bloodline and emerged transformed, his divine might forcing Taoist and the others to kneel and making the stitched monster recoil.
• Qin Ze battered the stitched monster through the building and into the night sky, then destroyed its regenerating pieces with Heavenly Fire Judgment.
• Qin Ze turned to Mrs. Jingke, who laughed, tore open her skin, and stepped out of her disguise as a naked man.
• Slacking on the Sidelines recognized the revealed man as Ding Wenxuan.

Qin Ze confronted Ding Wenxuan, who revealed his plot to offer people to his lord and transformed into a towering fusion monster. Qin Ze unveiled his ultimate form and attacked Ding Wenxuan, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Ding Wenxuan blamed Qin Ze and the others for ruining his plans, then killed Brother Unscathed and absorbed the remains of Mrs. Jingke.
• Ding Wenxuan prayed to his lord for power, and a force erupted from underground despite Qin Ze's divine might.
• Ding Wenxuan transformed into a massive fusion monster, while a tentacle struck the bald Cloud Clan member and drove him into the ground.
• Qin Ze grew to the monster's size, revealed his ultimate form, and swung his flaming bone sword at Ding Wenxuan.

Qin Ze and Ding Wenxuan fought to a stalemate, leaving both battered and close to exhaustion. As Qin Ze drew on every clone for one last strike, Fairy arrived on the battlefield.

• Qin Ze used his bone sword, lightning, fire, and the Dragon of Lightning and Fire to attack Ding Wenxuan, but Ding Wenxuan's red force field blocked his strongest strike.
• The battle left Ding Wenxuan's trunk and legs damaged and his force field dimmed, while Qin Ze was badly strained by the Desolate God Bloodline.
• Ding Wenxuan offered Qin Ze one last chance to serve his lord, but Qin Ze refused and used Fog of War to begin another round of attacks with his clones and the Five Heavenly Kings.
• Qin Ze's clones and the Five Heavenly Kings attacked Ding Wenxuan, while several clones urged Qin Ze to retreat.
• Qin Ze activated Sage Time and began drawing on every clone's strength for a final blow, but Fairy arrived through the Fog of War as flowers bloomed across the battlefield.

Fairy and Qin Ze fought Ding Wenxuan’s monstrous form, seeking to destroy the eyeball that fed him power from the World Overlord. Ma Yan shattered the weakened force field at the last moment, letting Qin Ze strike Ding Wenxuan down.

• Fairy tore apart Ding Wenxuan’s concrete-and-flesh body and fed its pieces to man-eating flowers, but he transformed into a huge tumor bristling with regenerating tentacles.
• Fairy told Qin Ze that the eyeball in Ding Wenxuan’s mouth was his source of power and weakness, then attacked from the front while Qin Ze targeted it.
• Fairy repeatedly buried Ding Wenxuan in petals as Qin Ze fought through the tentacles and struck the scarlet force field with his bone sword.
• Ma Yan emerged from the shadows and stabbed the force field with her red blades, shattering it before vanishing.
• Qin Ze landed his final sword strike, engulfing Ding Wenxuan in lightning and fire.

After the battle, Taoist and the others discovered the relic had been stolen, while Qin Ze survived but suffered catastrophic physical damage from his power. Elsewhere, Ma Yan completed his assessment and Taurus led him to the president, while Zhan Li found a wounded bald man with bloodstained wings outside his hideout.

• Fairy confirmed that a woman had stolen the relic, and Scholar reported that the Cloud Clan member had vanished.
• Taoist told Fairy that Qin Ze had died, but Qin Ze called out from the rubble and was pulled to safety by Scholar.
• After the others left, the real Qin Ze emerged from hiding, aged and bleeding; Thousand Faces gave him a Source Crystal and carried him away.
• Ma Yan showed Taurus the object he had obtained for his assessment, and Taurus returned to human form after Ma Yan watered him before offering to take him to the president.
• Zhan Li heard a crash outside his abandoned house and found a bald man with bloodstained wings lying in the snow.

Zhan Li killed Baldy after learning that the Shadow, a special operations team under the Ancient Clan Alliance, had issued the mission to capture him, then accepted an offer to help find whoever placed the wanted order. Two days later, Qin Ze recovered enough to review the battle, absorb the power of Ding Wenxuan’s relic, and send his clones to cultivate as he continued healing.

• Zhan Li questioned Baldy about the capture mission, learned that the Shadow from Maka World had issued it, and killed him.
• Zhan Li agreed to the black card’s offer on the condition that they help him find the person behind the wanted order.
• Qin Ze recovered from overusing his Source of Life and reflected on the strength and cost of activating the Desolate God Bloodline.
• Qin Ze realized that Ma Yan had passed Ding Wenxuan’s relic to Thousand Faces, who later switched it with the relic Qin Ze had already absorbed.
• Qin Ze absorbed the power of the relic, strengthening the Desolate God Bloodline, and urged his clones to cultivate while he rested.

Qin Ze refused Zhan Li’s request to accompany him back to the empire, then decided to lead his group into the Abyss. At their farewell dinner, the group noticed a dark aura around Taoist, while an old man named a new Virgo and discovered that something inside a relic had disappeared.

• Dharma King and his clones made Zhan Li sign an IOU for three hundred million before Qin Ze heard his request for help returning to the empire.
• Qin Ze refused to serve as Zhan Li’s bodyguard, citing the risk, and predicted they would meet again soon.
• Qin Ze decided to leave the Northern Territory for the Abyss with his clones the next day.
• At the group’s dinner, Taoist said goodbye, and Qin Ze and the others noticed a black aura around him that Scholar identified as accumulated negative energy.
• Qin Ze told the group he had reached level four and would descend into the Abyss, and they advised him on what to expect.
• An old man declared the woman who passed a test the new Virgo, then discovered that something inside a black relic had vanished and called out, “Apostle...”

Qin Ze entered Penglai City, crossed the heavily guarded Gate of the Abyss, and arranged safe passage to the Maka Race’s world through the embassy. He left the embassy with a travel document for the next morning and released his excited clones in a quiet corner.

• Qin Ze entered Penglai City using the diplomatic identification arranged by Brother Yuanzi.
• Qin Ze passed the strict checks at the Gate of the Abyss and arrived in the Abyss.
• Qin Ze visited the Maka Race’s embassy and presented his diplomatic identification and the Fifth Prince’s token.
• The ambassador arranged for Qin Ze to travel with a unit returning to the Empire at eight the next morning and gave him a stamped document.
• Qin Ze declined the embassy’s offer of a room, then found a secluded corner and let out the Five Heavenly Kings and his clones.

Qin Ze left Penglai City aboard the Maka Race's departing vessel, where he recognized the disguised fifth prince, Zhan Li. The journey was interrupted when a huge flock of flying exotic beasts attacked the vessel.

• Qin Ze left Penglai City with the Five Heavenly Kings and passed through the city's inspection under his diplomatic status.
• Outside the city, Qin Ze's World Imprint shielded him from the Abyss's contamination, and he traveled to the Maka Race outpost.
• A Maka Race soldier tried to stop Qin Ze from entering the outpost, but the captain admitted him after seeing the embassy's letter of introduction.
• Qin Ze boarded the vessel bound for the Maka Race's world and recognized the disguised Zhan Li among the soldiers on deck.
• An explosion woke Qin Ze during the night, and he saw a huge flock of flying exotic beasts charging toward the vessel.

Qin Ze and Zhan Li escaped the destruction of the steel flying ship and set off for Torch City. They left the beast horde behind and continued toward the Maka Race's world aboard a giant exotic beast turtle.

• A swarm of hornet beasts overwhelmed the steel flying ship's defenses, and the captain ordered an evacuation and emergency landing.
• Most landing craft were shot down, and Zhan Li opened the Shelter Space as the ship broke apart; Qin Ze followed him inside and persuaded him to keep him safe by claiming he was the Fifth Highness's teacher.
• Zhan Li flew Qin Ze away from the crashing ship on fiery wings, and they watched the exotic beasts devour the wreckage's survivors.
• Zhan Li led Qin Ze toward Torch City, then deactivated the Shelter Space once they were clear of the beast horde.
• Zhan Li and Qin Ze boarded a giant exotic beast turtle and began traveling toward Torch City on what Zhan Li called the Abyss's free bus.

Qin Ze and Zhan Li traveled toward Torch City on a mountain tortoise, and Qin Ze learned why the mysterious wanderers below were losing their world’s protection. The chapter left them watching a battle’s aftermath and Qin Ze wondering what had become of the Blue Flame People.

• Zhan Li questioned Qin Ze about his mastery of the Fire Movement Technique, and Qin Ze teased him while making him keep watch.
• Qin Ze and the clones suspected that the beast horde ambush on the transport ship had been deliberate, but continued toward the imperial capital.
• Zhan Li woke Qin Ze after the mountain tortoise changed course, and the two set off on foot toward Torch City.
• Qin Ze and Zhan Li found a crashed Maka landing craft, dead soldiers, and survivors fighting a group of ragged people.
• Zhan Li explained that wanderers had lost their worlds and would eventually be corrupted by the Abyss without a World Imprint, prompting Qin Ze to think of the Blue Flame People.

Qin Ze and Zhan Li reached Torch City just as a spatial rift unleashed a massive beast tide. While Torch City's army fought to contain it, a Hunting Beast ambushed them, and Qin Ze caught and burned it.

• The Abyss wanderers searched the wreckage of the last landing craft, photographed the scene, and left to settle the balance with the Maka Race.
• Qin Ze and Zhan Li overheard the wanderers and continued toward Torch City, using Zhan Li's Shelter Space to pass through the city's forward defenses unnoticed.
• A spatial rift opened above Torch City, and a massive beast tide charged toward the city as its gates closed and its army deployed.
• Zhan Li told Qin Ze that rifts outside Torch City brought beast tides and that the city's forces should contain this one within a few hours.
• A Hunting Beast attacked Qin Ze and Zhan Li, but Qin Ze grabbed it when it emerged from the void and engulfed it in blue flames.

After helping Zhan Li enter Torch City, Qin Ze learned that the Maka Race was facing unrest and witnessed a Blue Flame Person confront diners who insulted his people. The man blasted one of the offenders into the street, where he continued shouting accusations.

• Qin Ze killed a Hunting Beast, and he and Zhan Li hid in Shelter Space until Torch City's soldiers wiped out the beast tide.
• Qin Ze and Zhan Li entered Torch City, booked a hotel suite, and went to a restaurant to try local food.
• Qin Ze overheard diners discussing a rebellion, the closed Gate of the Abyss, and fighting across the Northern Continent.
• A burly, hooded man entered the restaurant, and diners insulted him and the people he called primitives.
• The man revealed his red eyes and blue flames, demanded an apology, and blasted one of the diners into the street.

Qin Ze watched a Blue Flame man get arrested in Torch City, then learned from Zhan Li how the Blue Flame Race joined the Maka Empire and why the empire had failed to assimilate it. The chapter ended with Zhan Li asking Qin Ze where he had learned his Fire Movement Technique.

• A Blue Flame man forced an aggressor to apologize, then surrendered to a Torch City patrol after a Maka officer provoked him.
• Qin Ze recognized the Blue Flame man's Fire Movement Technique as nearly identical to his own.
• Zhan Li explained that Emperor Shang's Wanderer Reception Act let outsider civilizations join the Maka Race by contributing their heritage.
• Zhan Li said the Blue Flame Race had retained most of its world and population, and that the Maka Empire accepted it after seeing the power of its Fire Movement Technique.
• Zhan Li explained that the two worlds had merged into northern and southern continents, but the Maka Race had never succeeded in assimilating the Blue Flame Race.
• Zhan Li asked Qin Ze who had taught him the Fire Movement Technique.