Arc 11The Five-Year Sentence

Aidan survived the battle, while Ground punished Hela and the Four Seasons before Aidan left to protect the children and free prisoners. The story then followed Ye Yiqing’s escape and a mysterious girl released from a submerged rock, before showing Hela’s new life with her mother and Zhao Rui.

  • Hela fought the Four Seasons and Ground, who revealed himself as Fuluolan and sealed Hela in a stone cube for five years.
  • Aidan returned from death, defeated Summer, and watched Ground judge the Variants, and Autumn died after remembering Ruini, and Ground left Aidan to choose whether to return to humanity.
  • Bai Yu offered Hela membership in the Light God Society and a future wish, while Ground accused him of helping the society gather the Five Calamities.
  • Aidan reunited with Xiaojie, Shasha, and Beibei, arranged for their care, then infiltrated Vortex Prison and freed Tuote as Ye Yiqing escaped by killing the guards in his path.
  • Yixue traded fifty years of her lifespan for Gu Gongming to revive Jixue, while Brown’s squad discussed the Five Calamities and Ye Yiqing reunited with his family after Lin Wushuang brought him home.
  • A pale girl emerged from a rock in an underwater museum, discovered she could breathe underwater, and repelled a merman with a strange power in her hand.
  • Hela returned to Great Xia after her father’s burial and learned that her mother had a malignant brain tumor, and Zhao Rui began bringing her food and taking her to the hospital as she grew closer to him.
Chapters 252–277 Vol. 3 Read

Ch. 252Slaughter, Chaos, War!

Hela fought the Variants alongside the Godslaying team, overcoming [Winter] and gaining the upper hand against [Autumn]. As Meng Yuan suddenly weakened, Gu Gongming protected her, while Hela prepared to devour the defeated [Autumn].

  • Hela and [Winter] wounded each other before [Winter] trapped Hela in ice against the Godslaying Technology Company building.
  • Gu Gongming melted the ice for 100,000 yuan, but Hela ignored his offer and returned to the fight.
  • Meng Yuan suddenly coughed and weakened, and [Winter] tried to attack her before Gu Gongming intercepted the ice spike with a fiery projectile.
  • Hela unleashed a powerful sword-qi attack that broke through [Autumn]'s insects and cut deeply into his chest.
  • Hela bit into [Autumn], swallowed flesh to restore her strength, then stabbed him, severed his hand, and prepared to devour him.

Ch. 253[Four Seasons] Is the Strongest!

The Godslaying Technology Company building collapsed during the fight, leaving Fuluolan gravely injured and unresponsive to Meng Yuan’s healing magic. Then [Summer] possessed Fulan, revealed that he could wield his power of origin, and charged the [Godslaying] squad.

  • Hela attacked [Spring] while [Autumn] and [Spring] dodged her sword qi, which sliced through the Godslaying Technology Company building and brought it crashing down.
  • Meng Yuan rescued Beibei, Xiaojie, and Shasha from the collapsing building, then found Fuluolan crushed beneath rubble and failed to heal him.
  • Lei Yong’s attack opened a chance for Hela and Brown to strike the Variants, but a torrent of flame forced them to retreat.
  • [Summer] emerged in Fulan’s body, and Hela realized that [Four Seasons] had used possession through their special symbiosis.
  • [Summer] announced he could use his power of origin and attacked the [Godslaying] squad, then Xiunuosi charged him and the two collided.

Ch. 254Chaos Is Resolved by Order

Summer fought Hela and the others, repeatedly dispersing and reforming amid their attacks. As Fuluolan neared death, he suddenly understood that disorder had caused his suffering and awakened a power connected to order.

  • Summer's flames let him survive Xiunuosi's attacks, but Hela ambushed him, tore out his heart, and bit his neck before his body erupted in a massive blast.
  • Summer reformed from the flames and fought Lei Yong, Hela, Gu Gongming, Jixue, Xiunuosi, and Winter as their attacks and powers filled the battlefield.
  • Meng Yuan tried healing Fuluolan while the three children begged him not to die, but he remained weak and confused.
  • Fuluolan's golden eyes cleared, and he shouted that he understood as walls and rocks began floating around him.
  • Fuluolan declared that disorder had caused his death and that order needed someone to protect it as fragments gathered around him.

Ch. 255Order as Firm as Rock

[Ground] revealed his [Reincarnation] ability and sentenced Hela to five years without freedom for her slaughter. When he condemned Jixue to death, Brown and Gu Gongming intervened, and the clash began as Lei Yong prepared to unleash his full strength against him.

  • [Ground] emerged from the stones, declared himself the judge of order, and forced everyone except Hela to their knees with his gravity.
  • [Ground] explained that his symbiotic ability, [Reincarnation], let him live as Fuluolan until his power awakened, then sentenced Hela to five years without freedom.
  • [Ground] judged [Four Seasons] not guilty but sentenced Jixue to death for siding with humans and killing her own kind.
  • Brown and Gu Gongming defended Jixue, and Brown opened a spatial tunnel to divert [Ground]'s attack before Gu Gongming lifted the squad into the air with a hurricane.
  • Brown urged Lei Yong to use his full strength, and Lei Yong's body at Great Xia's Starbearers headquarters dissipated as his power returned to him.

Ch. 256A Four-Way Melee

Lei Yong and the Godslaying squad fought Ground, who moved them to a high stone platform to begin his judgment. Nearby, Hela attacked the Four Seasons, and the battle left Summer badly wounded as Winter prepared an icy assault.

  • Lei Yong revealed his human-limit strength and clashed with Ground, who moved the squad onto a towering platform to avoid harming civilians.
  • Meng Yuan teleported the squad away from Ground’s crushing stone walls, and Lei Yong and Brown struck back, leaving a cut on Ground’s cheek.
  • Summer recalled how Ground had once killed him, while Spring, Winter, and Autumn noticed Hela approaching.
  • Hela attacked the Four Seasons with a flesh whip, crushing Summer’s right fist before striking his face and abdomen.
  • Spring healed Summer as Autumn and Winter countered Hela, and Winter summoned icy clouds that began raining icicles onto the battlefield.

Ch. 257Return

Four Seasons cornered Hela and nearly killed her, but Aidan suddenly returned and saved her. Hela let him face Summer as the two prepared to fight.

  • Summer, Winter, Autumn, and Spring battered Hela until she fled, pursued by the Four Seasons.
  • The Four Seasons caught Hela, bound her with ice and vines, and Summer prepared to kill her with fire.
  • Aidan appeared, cut through Summer’s flames and the restraints, and helped Hela to her feet.
  • Aidan told Hela that he had died but had been given another life, then asked to face Summer.
  • Hela agreed, and Aidan confronted Summer as a pixel heart floated from his body.

Ch. 258Resurrection

Aidan awoke in a void after dying and learned that his friends planned to use their souls to resurrect him. As the monster souls and the human souls he had taken gathered, Fulan refused Aidan’s offer to find him a body, leaving Aidan stunned.

  • Little Goat told Aidan that he had died and that the monsters would use their souls to bring him back.
  • Aidan rejected the sacrifice and broke down, but Goat Mom and Goat Dad comforted him while the others urged him to keep living.
  • Sans and the monsters reminded Aidan that they were game characters, and each gave him advice before vanishing into pixel hearts.
  • Little Goat gathered the monsters’ souls and revealed that Aidan also had enough human souls to resurrect himself.
  • Aidan recognized Fulan among the six human souls and promised to find him a body, but Fulan said there was no need.

Ch. 259The Seventh Boss

Fulan told Aidan about his fiancée Ailin and said goodbye before dissolving into a heart. In the white expanse left behind, Aidan met Frisk, who revealed himself as the seventh boss and attacked him while his ability failed.

  • Fulan told Aidan that his fiancée Ailin shared a body with Sky and that he had kept living through their symbiotic relationship, though he had lost hope after the accident.
  • Fulan praised Aidan and the others, embraced him, and said goodbye before turning into a pale blue heart.
  • Little Goat gathered the hearts, and Aidan found himself alive in a vast white expanse.
  • Frisk appeared and explained that the six defeated bosses represented the human realms, while he was the final boss and the player-controlled protagonist.
  • Frisk revealed that Aidan could not use his ability because Frisk was the ability, then raised a knife and struck at him.

Ch. 260Breaking out of the cocoon to become a butterfly

After passing Frisk’s trial, Aidan gained the genocide-route knife and flew to confront [Summer], who had killed Fulan. Aidan’s attacks could cut through [Summer]’s flames and damage his source, leaving [Summer] wounded and alarmed.

  • Frisk gave Aidan the pixel knife after declaring that his kindness toward monsters had passed the trial.
  • Aidan awakened in a scorched landscape, summoned the knife, and flew away with enormous wings.
  • Aidan remembered Fulan and swore to kill [Summer] for destroying his brother.
  • [Summer] turned his body to flames and evaded Aidan’s attacks, while Aidan remained unharmed by the fire.
  • Aidan’s knife severed [Summer]’s arm, and [Summer] realized it could damage his source and potentially kill him.

Ch. 261Violent Tearing

Aidan fought Summer while trying to understand why he could no longer sense or contact Hela. Hela battled Winter, Spring, and Autumn, and the chapter ended with her impaling Autumn and beginning to tear him apart.

  • Summer demanded to know why he could not hit or kill Aidan, but Aidan attacked instead of answering and discovered his connection to Hela had been severed.
  • Summer engulfed Aidan in flames, but several massive Gaster Blasters appeared where his corpse should have been.
  • Hela attacked Winter and Spring, wounding Winter and forcing them to dodge her barbs as she narrowed their escape routes.
  • Autumn arrived and rescued Winter and Spring from Hela's attacking tentacle.
  • Hela targeted Autumn, pierced his body, restrained his arms, and began expanding the metal spike inside him to tear him apart.

Ch. 262Power of the Source

Hela devoured [Autumn] and gained the Power of the Source, then attacked the remaining members of the group. The battle left [Spring] dead and [Winter] skewered, while [Summer] struck at Hela with the Eye of Fire as Aidan charged after him.

  • [Autumn] saw a photograph of a young woman and used black insects to stitch his ruined body together, then charged Hela despite [Winter]'s warning that he was burning his lifespan.
  • Hela overpowered [Autumn], swallowed part of him, and gained the Power of the Source, while an explosion nearby sent a fire-wreathed figure into the seawater.
  • Aidan pinned [Summer] beneath the seawater as Hela attacked [Spring]; [Winter] pulled [Spring] away and helped her heal her chest wound.
  • Hela's planted barbs pierced [Winter]'s foot, and Hela shattered her ice shield, skewered both women, and bit off [Spring]'s head.
  • [Summer] rose behind Hela with the Eye of Fire and swung it at her as Aidan charged toward him.

Ch. 263Know When to Stop!

Ground stopped the Four Seasons from fighting, killed Summer and Winter, and sealed Hela in a stone prison at the bottom of the sea. He revealed to Aidan that he was Fuluolan reborn, then left Aidan to decide whether to return to humanity or continue following Hela.

  • Ground separated Summer and Hela, then declared that the Four Seasons’ bodies would be confiscated for their crimes.
  • Ground killed Summer and Winter, spared the newly sprouted sunflower, and sensed Life hiding in the ocean.
  • Ground found Hela clinging to a boulder and sealed her in a rune-marked stone cube at the bottom of the sea.
  • Ground stopped Aidan from rescuing Hela and revealed that he was Fuluolan, whose special symbiosis was reincarnation.
  • Ground told Aidan that Hela would be free after five years and left him to choose whether to return to humanity, asking him to arrange care for Xiaojie and the others.

Ch. 264The God of Plague... [Autumn]

As [Autumn] struggled to keep his ruined body alive, a photograph of Ruini brought back memories of their life together and her death. [Autumn] died in the rain, and Aidan returned the photograph to his arms before leaving.

  • [Autumn] tried to repair his body with black threads and insects, but his strength failed and the photograph of Ruini fell from his flesh.
  • [Autumn] remembered how Ruini had cared for him, named him Ruiqiu, and taught him to live alongside humans.
  • [Autumn] recalled infecting villagers to bring patients to Ruini's clinic, then helping her after he saw her distress.
  • [Autumn] remembered Ruini's illness, their trip to the city, and the photograph they took together before she died that night.
  • [Autumn] recalled killing people after Ruini's death and stitching their body parts onto himself while keeping the photograph close to his heart.
  • Aidan picked up the photograph, placed it in [Autumn]'s arms, and left as [Autumn]'s Source died.

Ch. 265Any One Wish

Hela escaped [Ground] by splitting off a smaller body, but he caught her and prepared to sentence her to five years of imprisonment. Bai Yu intervened and offered Hela membership in the Light God Society, including a future gift and any one wish; after [Ground] killed Hela’s body, he confronted Bai Yu over the Society’s plan to gather the [Five Calamities].

  • Hela left a hotel after devouring its last person, but [Ground] pinned her down with gravity and said her power was less than thirty percent of what it had been in her previous life.
  • Bai Yu attacked [Ground] with a snow-white spear and carried Hela away, then admitted he was a former Night Star captain and an unofficial member of the Light God Society.
  • [Ground] allowed Bai Yu to speak privately with Hela, and Bai Yu offered her membership in exchange for a future gift and any one wish, including the power to bring people back to life.
  • Hela pondered the meaning of her survival as Bai Yu told her she could seek the Light God Society in Nihon Nation after regaining her freedom in five years.
  • [Ground] crushed Hela’s body after Bai Yu left, then accused him of helping the Light God Society gather the [Five Calamities] for a plan he called sinful.

Ch. 266Goodbye, Kids

After the Godslaying Technology Company was destroyed, Aidan rescued Xiaojie, Shasha, and Beibei, then returned them to the warehouse and prepared to leave. The chapter ended with Aidan flying away and a handcuffed man arriving at a prison on a remote island.

  • Aidan reunited with Xiaojie, Shasha, and Beibei in the company’s ruins and reassured them that they were safe.
  • Police arrived, mistook Aidan for a victim, and took him and the children to a temporary aid station before allowing them to leave.
  • Aidan told the children that their big brother had gone to protect the world’s peace, then brought them back to the warehouse.
  • Aidan gave the children phones and access to money, explained that he had hired a nanny, and said he had to leave.
  • Aidan hugged the children goodbye and flew into the sky as they called after him.
  • Two armed men escorted a handcuffed, dust-covered man into a massive prison on a remote island.

Ch. 267Serious Offender

Tuote was taken to Vortex Prison, where he encountered the severely tortured Ye Yiqing. In a special cell, a blonde woman treated Ye Yiqing and urged him to reveal what he knew, but he remained silent.

  • Special police arrested Tuote and Weier after Hela threw them into a car that crashed into a police vehicle, then sent them to separate prisons.
  • Tuote was taken to Vortex Prison, where guards suppressed his abilities and placed him in a cell.
  • Tuote saw Ye Yiqing escorted through the prison under heavy guard, bound and badly injured.
  • Two interrogators told a blonde woman that Ye Yiqing had revealed only a little information despite their methods.
  • The blonde woman anesthetized and stitched Ye Yiqing's wounds, then fed him and asked him to tell the interrogators what he knew.
  • Ye Yiqing ate without answering the blonde woman's question.

Ch. 268The Warden

Ye Yiqing endured an interrogation about his family and received a concealed knife from a cleaner before the scene shifted to the warden’s office. Aidan overwhelmed the warden and deputy warden, trapped them in cages, and fled without killing them.

  • The blonde woman questioned Ye Yiqing about his younger brother and revealed that they shared a mother but not the same father.
  • The blonde woman left when Ye Yiqing’s anger index passed the threshold, and a cleaner slipped a small knife into the gap in his chair while whispering that the Light God Society would save the world.
  • Aidan entered the warden’s office after knocking the guards unconscious, and the deputy warden tried to seize him with an invisible hand.
  • The warden activated his Domain, but Aidan suppressed both wardens with overwhelming force.
  • Aidan trapped the warden and deputy warden in pixel bone cages and left without killing them.

Ch. 269Tuote's Redemption

Aidan rescued Tuote from prison, but their escape coincided with Ye Yiqing’s breakout and a massacre of the prison forces. At Night Star headquarters, Zhou Fan ordered special squads to capture Ye Yiqing and warned Jian Luo that he was no ordinary King Master.

  • Aidan freed Tuote from his cell, and Tuote asked about Weier, whom Aidan said he had already rescued and taken to a port in Russia.
  • An alarm sounded when Ye Yiqing escaped, and Aidan flew Tuote away as the prison guards charged past them to confront Ye Yiqing.
  • Ye Yiqing stopped the guards’ bullets with his killing intent and killed the prison forces with a sword strike before heading toward the sea.
  • Zhou Fan reviewed Wang Canxin’s records and wondered why he repeatedly scored zero in history.
  • After learning Ye Yiqing had escaped, Zhou Fan ordered the Special Extermination Squad and Special Capture Squad to pursue him and told Jian Luo that Ye Yiqing had killed his own father at age twelve.

Ch. 270You'll Always Be My Boss

Zhou Fan explained how Ye Yiqing mastered the Saber Gate of Five Gates Mountain by killing thousands, then learned that Ye had overwhelmed the prison guards. Meanwhile, Aidan set off to find Boss, and Yixue agreed to sacrifice fifty years of her life to revive Jixue.

  • Zhou Fan told Jian Luo that Ye Yiqing had masterminded two massacres and personally killed nearly ten thousand people to master the ninth form of the Saber Gate of Five Gates Mountain.
  • Zhou Fan received a call from prison guards screaming as sword qi crushed them, despite Ye Yiqing having no weapon.
  • In Russia, Tuote and Weier reunited at the dock, and Aidan said he would find Boss even though Boss's cells were no longer in him.
  • Aidan flew away with Xiao Huan after parting from Tuote and Weier.
  • Yixue begged Gu Gongming to revive Jixue, and she accepted the cost of fifty years of her lifespan.

Ch. 271Resurrected Lover

Gu Gongming saved Jixue by sacrificing years of his own life, and Lei Yong and Brown later used the same ability to give Gu Gongming three years each. After Xiunuosi woke and reunited with the squad, Brown led a discussion about the powerful Variants they had encountered and the Five Calamities.

  • Gu Gongming's scales enveloped Jixue in golden light and restored him, and Yixue embraced him as Lei Yong gained a point of favorability with Jixue.
  • Brown questioned how Gu Gongming had saved Jixue, and Gu Gongming admitted he had used his ability despite the cost to his lifespan.
  • Lei Yong revealed he had drawn Gu Gongming's ability in the lottery, and Brown and Lei Yong forced Gu Gongming to accept three years of their lifespans each.
  • Xiunuosi woke in Brown's [Room], became angry that he was unclothed, and insisted that he was a woman at heart.
  • Brown gathered the Godslaying squad to discuss their defeat and concluded that the powerful Variants included the Five Calamities, possibly including the white-haired girl.

Ch. 272I'll Find You

Lin Wushuang found the badly wounded Ye Yiqing at sea and brought him back to the Shimizu Residence, where Ye Linwan and Ye Ciqing reunited with him before taking him to the hospital. After hearing what had happened, Ye Yiqing vowed to find Hela.

  • Brown ordered his squad to report the white-haired girl and search for her, then find a way to kill the stone man.
  • Lin Wushuang found Ye Yiqing adrift in a small boat, bleeding after cutting a tracker out of his body.
  • Ye Yiqing ate and drank from the lunch box, then reinserted his demonic eye while Lin Wushuang prepared to teleport them home.
  • Lin Wushuang transported Ye Yiqing and his boat to the Shimizu Residence, where Ye Linwan and Ye Ciqing welcomed him back.
  • Ye Linwan took Ye Yiqing to the hospital, where he asked about recent events and vowed to find Hela.

Ch. 274The Undersea World

A class of young sea-dwellers visited the Surface Museum, where a mysterious rune-covered rock broke open and released a girl. She survived underwater with newly formed gills and wondered whether she had died.

  • A teacher led her students through the Surface Museum and showed them a tree and a fossil from the land.
  • The teacher brought the students to a strange rock that had fallen from the surface five years earlier.
  • A little fish questioned whether the surface and its creatures really existed, then noticed the rock glowing.
  • The rock split apart and released a pale girl, causing the teacher to flee with the students to find the guardian.
  • The girl struggled to breathe underwater, then discovered that gills had appeared on her neck.

Ch. 275The Guardian

A girl woke up with gills on the seabed and fled from a giant shark that transformed into a merman. Her right arm suddenly overpowered him, then returned to normal, leaving both of them wary as she backed against a wall.

  • The girl awoke underwater, discovered she had gills, and saw a huge shark enter with the merman teacher pointing her out as the target.
  • The shark chased her through the exhibits, but she escaped into a narrow tunnel while it avoided damaging the fossils.
  • The shark transformed into a muscular merman, who pursued her into the tunnel and attacked with a spear made of seawater.
  • The girl's right hand stopped the spear, crushed it, and blasted the merman backward as scarlet eyes and a mouth appeared on her arm.
  • The eyes and mouth vanished and the girl regained control of her hand, while the shaken merman watched her warily and she backed into a wall.

Ch. 276(Hela Side Story) White in Bold Strokes

After her father’s burial, Hela returned to Great Xia with her mother and tried to resume ordinary life. Her mother collapsed at school and was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, leaving Hela alone at home as she struggled to process the news.

  • After the burial, Hela’s mother took her back to Great Xia, where Hela remembered her father and began living with her mother again.
  • Hela offered to help her mother grade papers, then went to school and attended class beside Zhao Rui.
  • A teacher called Hela out of class after her mother fainted at school, and Hela rode with her to the hospital.
  • A doctor told Hela that her mother had a malignant brain tumor and needed chemotherapy to stabilize her condition.
  • Hela returned home with other teachers and sat in silence before making noodles for herself.

Ch. 277Hela Side Story: End

After her mother was hospitalized, Hela found comfort in her classmate Zhao Rui, who brought her meals and helped her visit the hospital. Their bond grew closer, and the chapter left Hela painting while shyly thinking about her feelings for Zhao Rui.

  • After burning herself while making noodles, Hela broke down crying until Zhao Rui arrived with hot meals and helped clean her kitchen.
  • Zhao Rui began visiting Hela almost every day, bringing food and pedaling her to the hospital to see her mother.
  • Hela delivered a meal to her mother, then left the hospital with Zhao Rui on his bicycle while Xiaohei chased them.
  • When Hela hugged Zhao Rui to steady herself, both blushed, and later she asked whether he helped her because he liked her looks.
  • Zhao Rui denied that was why he helped, then called after Hela that he would buy groceries for her as she went to paint.
  • Hela painted beneath a tree, thinking of her recovering mother and Zhao Rui, while Xiaohei approached her.
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