Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze learned from Brother Yuanzi that Shadow might be fueling conflict within the Maka Race and decided to continue toward the royal capital despite the danger. After an explosion triggered martial law in Torch City, the Blue Flame man from the restaurant escaped prison and raced past the guards.

• Zhan Li explained that the Maka Race's Fire Movement Technique produced purple flames, while Qin Ze's blue flames were unusual; he revealed that his mother was one of the Blue Flame People.
• Qin Ze told Brother Yuanzi what he had learned, and Brother Yuanzi suspected Shadow was stoking the Maka Race's internal strife to help awaken the World Overlord.
• Brother Yuanzi warned Qin Ze to turn back, but Qin Ze chose to continue to the royal capital and planned to meet the fifth prince and the Blue Flame Race's Great Sage.
• An explosion woke Qin Ze, and he saw Torch City under martial law with its streets cleared and guarded.
• The Blue Flame man from the restaurant sped through the city and knocked aside soldiers trying to stop him.

Qin Ze and Zhan Li left the Abyss after a Blue Flame man fought his way through Torch City, then parted ways in Sand City. Qin Ze boarded a flying boat with Zhan Li’s pass and arrived at the imperial capital the following morning.

• A Blue Flame man defeated the uniformed Level Six Martial Artist and escaped Torch City toward the Abyss exit.
• After Torch City lifted its lockdown, Zhan Li gave Qin Ze a pass that let them leave the Abyss without trouble.
• In Sand City, Zhan Li declined to travel to the imperial capital with Qin Ze and warned him not to trust the imperial family or the Fifth Prince.
• After Qin Ze left, Zhan Li contacted someone and reported that he had arrived in Sand City.
• Qin Ze boarded a passenger flying boat using his pass and arrived at the imperial capital the following morning.

Qin Ze visited the Maka Empire's fifth prince, Zhan Li, at the royal palace and agreed to help him study the Fire Movement Technique. Their meal was interrupted by the arrival of the First Highness.

• Qin Ze explored the royal capital and placed wards before presenting his diplomatic credentials and the fifth prince's token at the palace gates.
• The fifth prince introduced himself as Zhan Li while Qin Ze awkwardly mistook the fish in his painting for ducks.
• Qin Ze joined Zhan Li for a meal and noticed guards following them as though they were monitoring the visit.
• Qin Ze demonstrated his deep-blue flame, and Zhan Li asked him to teach him about the Fire Movement Technique the next day.
• A guard announced that the First Highness had arrived, and the First Highness reproached Zhan Li for not inviting him.

Qin Ze met the Maka Empire’s first prince, Xuan Ling, and his fifth-prince host amid signs that someone was manipulating their emotions and thoughts. As Qin Ze left the palace, he realized his trust in the fifth prince might have been planted, and a crowd blocked his car.

• Xuan Ling questioned how Qin Ze had mastered the Fire Movement Technique, and Qin Ze’s sudden anger faded when Azure Dragon Meditation activated.
• Qin Ze suspected someone was trying to turn him against Xuan Ling, so he asserted his status as a human diplomat; Xuan Ling dismissed his hostility as a joke and left.
• The fifth prince explained that their father had died two months earlier and that Xuan Ling was governing while keeping him under surveillance.
• Qin Ze learned that Gong Shangyu was the fifth prince’s maid and that her mother was one of the Blue Flame People; after Qin Ze left, the fifth prince asked whether she had planted it, and she confirmed she had.
• Xuan Ling ordered someone to follow Qin Ze, then went to meet the Great Sage.
• On the ride away, Qin Ze questioned his sudden trust in the fifth prince, and his car slowed before a large crowd.

Qin Ze arrived in the Maka royal capital and saw how violently the empire’s outsider protests were being suppressed. While investigating the mystery surrounding the Fifth Prince, he planted wards around the city, then heard screams and saw smoke rising outside his hotel window.

• Qin Ze’s car was blocked by a protest against the Wanderer Reception Act and the First Prince, and imperial guards killed more than twenty marchers.
• Qin Ze reached the hotel arranged by the Fifth Prince and noticed someone secretly watching him.
• Qin Ze used the Shelter Space to leave the hotel, changed his face, and planted wards around the city while his clones gathered information.
• Qin Ze considered whether the Fifth Prince in the palace was Shadow or an impostor, but favored Zhan Li as the real prince and concluded that key information was missing.
• After an attendant brought dinner, Qin Ze stored away half the food, told his clones to investigate, and went to bed.
• Qin Ze opened his window after hearing a commotion and saw people fleeing as smoke billowed from below.

Qin Ze escaped a coordinated arson attack in the royal capital and discovered that Zhan Li had helped the perpetrators gather intelligence. After learning who had issued the wanted order against him, Zhan Li left, while Qin Ze returned to the burning hotel and was greeted by a worried butler.

• Qin Ze escaped his smoke-filled hotel by jumping from a window and saw fish-headed figures setting fires before fleeing the imperial guards.
• A clone told Qin Ze that Zhan Li was nearby, and Qin Ze found him arguing with a hairy man about the arson attacks.
• The hairy man told Zhan Li that the Fifth Prince, who shared his name, had personally issued the wanted order against him.
• Zhan Li explained that he had helped the other races in exchange for learning who wanted him, and warned Qin Ze to leave the increasingly unsettled empire.
• Qin Ze hinted that the Fifth Prince would make a good emperor, but Zhan Li showed no reaction and walked away without revealing his promised secret.
• Qin Ze returned to the burning hotel, where firefighters and imperial guards were present, and a butler welcomed him safely back.

Qin Ze learned from Thousand Faces that the fifth prince had been an impostor whose Equality Act had been derailed by a war between the continents. Still unsure why the impostor had invited him, Qin Ze set off for the palace the next morning.

• Qin Ze evaded an Imperial Guard captain’s mental probing and was taken to a new hotel suite.
• Qin Ze watched reports of arson attacks and arrests across the royal capital, then turned off the television.
• Thousand Faces revealed that the fifth prince had returned to the palace only recently and had proposed an Equality Act granting other races equal rights.
• Thousand Faces explained that the act’s referendum was halted when the Southern Continent’s army entered the Northern Continent, confirming to Qin Ze that the fifth prince was an impostor.
• Qin Ze wondered why the impostor had invited him, then left for the palace the next morning.

Qin Ze taught the Fifth Prince the Fire Movement Technique before meeting the Blue Flame Race’s Great Sage, Ling, who revealed that the prince was an impostor and warned Qin Ze to leave. Ling explained the races’ competing plans to seize the Maka Race’s World Will, and Qin Ze asked why their world had not produced a new one.

• The Fifth Prince paid Qin Ze to teach him the Fire Movement Technique, but after a morning of instruction he had not managed to form even a small flame.
• Qin Ze recognized the Great Sage as Ling, his former fellow student, and told him the world they had known was annihilated.
• Ling asked whether Qin Ze had visited that world, and Qin Ze said he had promised its remnant will to help Ling’s people if he could.
• Ling warned Qin Ze that the Fifth Prince was an impostor and that summoning him was not simply about learning the technique.
• Ling explained that other races sought to rise, the Maka Race planned to annihilate them, and the Blue Flame People hoped to seize the Maka Race’s World Will.
• Qin Ze asked Ling why their world had not given birth to a new World Will after so many years.

Qin Ze learned that Ling and the Blue Flame People had abandoned the plan to nurture a new World Will and intended to seize one from the Maka Race. After a banquet with the fifth prince and Gong Shangyu, Qin Ze was driven out of the palace by a suspicious driver with red eyes.

• Ling told Qin Ze that the Blue Flame People no longer had the unity needed to create a new World Will, and many favored taking one from the Maka Race.
• Qin Ze condemned the plan and left Ling, who wondered what the Great Sage would have done in his place.
• At the banquet, the fifth prince revealed that he knew about the Lost World, while Qin Ze discovered Gong Shangyu's music could influence emotions.
• An explosion struck the council hall, and the fifth prince sent Qin Ze away as he arranged to reach a safe place.
• Qin Ze grew suspicious of the inexperienced driver, who revealed red eyes when Qin Ze put a hand on his shoulder.

Qin Ze revealed his ties to the Blue Flame Race and learned why its Hunter had attacked the delegation: the Great Sage’s opponents threatened the race’s survival. He promised to help Ling and warned him to watch out for the World Overlord, then returned to the hotel intending to involve himself in the conflict.

• Qin Ze overpowered the Blue Flame Hunter’s flames and revealed that he had learned the Fire Movement Technique from the previous Great Sage.
• Qin Ze learned that the Blue Flame Race had only two Hunters left and that the driver’s connection to the dead World Will had been severed.
• The driver explained that Blue Flame leaders had stripped Ling of power and that the Great Sage planned to seize the Maka Race’s World Will to preserve his people.
• The driver admitted he had attacked the delegation because its members opposed the Great Sage’s plan, though only two had died.
• Qin Ze promised to help Ling, warned him about the World Overlord, and returned to the hotel.

Qin Ze stayed in the Maka Race's capital despite Brother Yuanzi ordering him to return, while unrest and war escalated around him. After the Equality Act failed and the imperial armies suffered a devastating defeat, the fifth prince began his next move and asked Qin Ze about his world.

• Qin Ze told Brother Yuanzi what had happened, agreed to return to Torch City, but secretly planned to remain and sent his clones to watch the fifth prince.
• Qin Ze concluded that the fifth prince had manipulated the Blue Flame Hunter into attacking the delegation, and he continued teaching the prince the Fire Movement Technique as conflict spread.
• The fifth prince told Gong Shangyu to check for anyone who had not been planted, then hinted that it was time to draw in the net.
• Parliament rejected the Equality Act, and foreign races launched their largest attack yet on the capital during a night-long curfew.
• Gong Shangyu drove Qin Ze to the palace, where they heard that the Imperial First Army and Second Army had been wiped out in the north.
• As explosions drew closer to the palace, the fifth prince stopped their lesson and asked Qin Ze about his world.

With the Blue Flame army overrunning the north and foreign races breaching the royal capital, Xuan Ling decided to enter the forbidden grounds and imitate Emperor Shang. Meanwhile, Qin Ze told the Fifth Prince a fanciful story about his family until Zhan Li and the foreign races surrounded them, accusing the prince of being an impostor.

• Xuan Ling rejected the council members’ proposal to sue for peace as reports came in that foreign races had breached the royal capital.
• Xuan Ling declared himself the empire’s savior and left alone for the forbidden grounds.
• The Fifth Prince asked Qin Ze about his family, and Qin Ze spun a tale about six extraordinary older brothers and a cruel neighbor.
• An explosion sounded near the garden, and the guards fought off an attack before the foreign races entered and surrounded the Fifth Prince.
• Zhan Li confronted the Fifth Prince, called him an impostor, and vowed to take back what he had lost.

The Great Sage revealed his alliance with the Fifth Prince as the First Prince entered the forbidden ground, prompting the duke to attack him. Qin Ze then witnessed the Fifth Prince subdue Zhan Li and capture both Zhan Li and Qin Ze as the world began to shake.

• The Great Sage admitted that he and the Fifth Prince had joined forces, and the duke attacked him after realizing the First Prince had gone to the forbidden ground.
• Thousand Faces reported what he had seen, and Qin Ze pieced together how the Great Sage and the Fifth Prince had used the Tide and the First Prince to advance their plans.
• Zhan Li attacked the Fifth Prince, but Gong Shangyu struck him with a sound wave from her violin and cut down the outsiders accompanying him.
• The world shook and the Overlord’s whisper returned, leaving Zhan Li incapacitated while Qin Ze pretended to convulse.
• The Fifth Prince used his green bracelet to capture Zhan Li and Qin Ze, then said he planned to visit the human world after this one ended.

Qin Ze and Zhan Li were trapped in a living storage artifact with many other prisoners, where Zhan Li revealed that he was the fifth prince of the Maka Empire. Meanwhile, Xuan Ling unleashed the Sovereign's Power and devastated the palace, while the fifth prince waited for him to exhaust himself.

• Qin Ze realized the storage space could be broken with a powerful mental shock and found Zhan Li trapped inside with him.
• Zhan Li began to share his promised secret, but other prisoners interrupted and teased them about a supposed confession.
• Zhan Li revealed that his true identity was the fifth prince of the Maka Empire.
• Xuan Ling lifted a layer of the seal in the royal palace's forbidden grounds and transformed under the Sovereign's Power.
• Xuan Ling killed most of the invading allied forces, then attacked the Imperial Guard and surviving outsiders indiscriminately.
• The fifth prince and Gong Shangyu watched Xuan Ling's rampage and chose to wait until he had exhausted himself.

Qin Ze shattered the fifth prince’s storage bracelet with Little Azure Dragon’s mental power, freeing the captives, but the fifth prince’s companion Gong Shangyu slaughtered them with her violin. The fifth prince then prepared to kill Qin Ze with Gong Shangyu’s Sixth Movement, Sound Kill.

• Zhan Li insisted that he was the Maka Empire’s fifth prince and explained that an impostor had taken his place, while Qin Ze collected Source Crystals from him and the other prisoners.
• Qin Ze revealed his immense mental power by summoning Little Azure Dragon, whose rampage shattered the storage bracelet and freed more than twenty captives.
• The freed captives attacked the fifth prince, but Gong Shangyu played a violin note that burst their heads before they could reach him.
• The fifth prince told Zhan Li that he was the Maka Race’s last Hunter and that his world’s inheritance would soon be lost, while Zhan Li realized his people were likely dead.
• Gong Shangyu sealed the space to prevent Zhan Li from escaping, then aimed her violin at Qin Ze and announced her Sixth Movement, Sound Kill.

Qin Ze resisted Gong Shangyu’s mental attack and fought back as the fifth prince moved against Xuan Ling. Gong Shangyu summoned palace guards to overwhelm him, but Qin Ze’s Circus clones joined the battle and forced her onto the defensive.

• Qin Ze realized Gong Shangyu’s music had planted a mark in his sea of consciousness, but Little Azure Dragon swallowed it before it could destroy his mind.
• Qin Ze sent an azure dragon at Gong Shangyu, who countered with her Fifth Movement, Barrier Breaking, while the fifth prince acknowledged Qin Ze’s strength and left to deal with Xuan Ling.
• Qin Ze told Zhan Li to check on his eldest brother, then dodged Gong Shangyu’s sound-wave attacks as he tried to close the distance.
• Gong Shangyu used her Fourth Movement, Puppet, to summon nearly a hundred palace guards, and Qin Ze called in his Circus clones to fight them.
• The Circus’s Five Heavenly Kings attacked Gong Shangyu, breaking through her defenses and leaving her battered as Qin Ze announced that it was the Circus’s turn.

Qin Ze learned that the Sovereign’s awakening would destroy the world and tried to stop Ying, but Ling intervened. Ling revealed that he needed Ying to awaken the Sovereign for his plan to cut apart the world.

• The Great Sage Ling held the duke off while the Fifth Prince approached Xuan Ling, and Qin Ze and the three great heavenly kings fought Gong Shangyu.
• Yao Yuan warned Qin Ze that the Sovereign’s awakening would erase the world’s rules and kill every living being, and that the Blue Flame People could not claim the Maka Race’s World Will.
• Qin Ze decided Ying had to die, left the heavenly kings to fight Gong Shangyu, and flew toward the Fifth Prince.
• The Blue Flame Hunter blocked Qin Ze from attacking Ying, but Ling ordered Qin Ze to stand down and promised Ying would not leave the world alive.
• Ling told Qin Ze he still needed Ying to awaken the Sovereign because he intended to cut apart the world.

Ling revealed that he wanted to separate the Blue Flame People’s world from the Maka People’s world so the Blue Flame civilization could eventually form its own World Will. Meanwhile, the Fifth Prince manipulated Xuan Ling into breaking the seal on the forbidden ground, releasing a deathly power.

• Ling explained to Qin Ze that the war had united the Blue Flame People and that the World Overlord’s revival could create a chance to separate the fused worlds.
• Qin Ze backed away from Ling’s fight with the Duke and decided to gamble on the World Overlord’s power, while the Blue Flame Hunter returned to the Shelter Space.
• The Fifth Prince urged Xuan Ling to seek greater power by breaking the forbidden ground’s seal and communing with the World Will.
• The Duke briefly restored Xuan Ling’s clarity and told him to drive the King’s Sword into his heart to suppress the Sovereign’s Power.
• The Fifth Prince used his ability to control Xuan Ling, who entered the sealed land and plunged the King’s Sword into it.
• Cracks spread through the sealed land as dark red light, oppressive deathly power, and chaotic whispers poured out.

Ling and the Blue Flame Army sacrificed themselves to sever the Northern Continent from the world as the World Overlord awakened. Ling then dragged the Fifth Prince and Gong Shangyu into the abyss, leaving the royal palace as the continent vanished into the void.

• Qin Ze ordered the clones to retreat from the polluted royal palace while Gong Shangyu attacked them and Zhan Li remained unconscious in the garden.
• As the World Overlord began to awaken, Ling trapped the duke in blue flames and called on people across the world to sacrifice themselves to sever the world.
• At the northern front, the commander and two hundred thousand Blue Flame Army soldiers burned themselves, sending their lights into the Great Sage's token.
• The token broke apart after the Sources of the World and Life merged, and a curtain of blue light split the Northern Continent from the Southern Continent and sent the North into the void.
• Ling confronted the Fifth Prince, resisted his ability, and engulfed him and Gong Shangyu in blue flames before plunging with them into the abyss.

The duke used the First Emperor’s Sword and the World Will to repair the sealing formation and suppress the Sovereign. The surviving fifth prince transformed and challenged Qin Ze, who revealed his Desolate God Bloodline.

• The duke used Xuan Ling’s royal blood to activate the First Emperor’s Sword, remove the corruption from Xuan Ling, and help repair the sealing formation.
• The fifth prince escaped the Abyss with the dying Gong Shangyu, then transformed into a winged form and recognized Qin Ze as an apostle.
• Qin Ze reclaimed the King's Sword and activated his Desolate God Bloodline, transforming into a six-armed Desolate God.
• The fifth prince declared Qin Ze an apostle of the God of Apostasy and fired a beam of holy light at him.