Chapter Summaries

Gu Gongming relived memories of his adoptive grandfather in an illusion before breaking free, while the battle against the Light God Society continued. As Ye Qing began a powerful attack on Lei Yong, Brown became the target of a dangerous threat.

• Gu Gongming relived his adoptive grandfather’s death and recalled how he had risen to power after rejoining his biological family.
• Gu Gongming shared a peaceful meal with his grandfather in the illusion before the scene shattered.
• Brown teased Gu Gongming for crying, while the child who cast the illusion and the wounded Bai Yu remained incapacitated.
• Gu Gongming saw Chi Jiu attack the Light God Society fighters as Ye Qing struggled against Lei Yong.
• Brown moved to help Ye Qing, who retreated and unleashed the tenth form of the Nine Forms of the Blade School, Ghost Purple Intestine.

Ye Qing fled after unleashing a devastating attack, while Brown pursued him and Lei Yong stayed behind to tend his wound. Bai Yu confronted Gu Gongming and revealed that he had betrayed the Night Star Organization in hopes of bringing Xiao Lin back to life.

• Ye Qing's attack shattered Lei Yong's shield and Edgeless Blade and wounded him, while Brown escaped through a door.
• Brown pursued Ye Qing through successive teleports, and Ye Qing used a giant skeleton to launch himself farther away before Brown cut it down.
• Bai Yu attacked Gu Gongming and knocked the feather pendant from his chest, causing Gu Gongming to fall back to the ground.
• Gu Gongming asked Bai Yu why he had betrayed the Night Star Organization, and Bai Yu accused justice of failing to save Xiao Lin and his family.
• Bai Yu said he was fighting for the chance to bring Xiao Lin back, and Gu Gongming stood silently as he finished.

Gu Gongming and Lei Yong subdued Bai Yu before a serene stranger arrived, forcing them to rush toward Jixue and Xiunuosi. Meanwhile, Brown cornered Ye Qing, but Ye Linwan rescued him, and he tearfully told her Brown had bullied and insulted her.

• Gu Gongming bound the defeated Bai Yu and urged Lei Yong to trust their comrades as they prepared to help their captain.
• A man carrying a white oil-paper umbrella appeared in the rain, and Lei Yong and Gu Gongming hurried toward Jixue and Xiunuosi.
• Brown cornered the exhausted Ye Qing and provoked him by insulting his family.
• Ye Qing charged Brown, who hurled a cutting door at him, but Ye Linwan rescued Ye Qing with her spider silk.
• Ye Qing clung to Ye Linwan and sobbed that Brown had chased him and insulted her.

Ye Linwan and Ye Qing chased Brown through a web of spider silk, but his spatial abilities let him evade their attacks. Ye Linwan released tens of thousands of trapped human souls to stop his escape, leaving Brown furious and the souls panicking.

• Ye Linwan used her beads to boost her and Ye Qing's speed, then sent her spiders to pursue Brown along a road of silk.
• Brown ran into the web Ye Linwan had woven and cut through it with a spatial blade, but Ye Qing and Ye Linwan attacked him from both sides.
• Brown escaped their barrage by teleporting and taunted them about his ability to evade even the [Five Calamities].
• Ye Linwan summoned and released tens of thousands of souls she had collected from two massacres, causing Brown to stop and accuse her and Ye Qing of being shameless.
• Ye Linwan blamed Brown for making her do it, while Ye Qing said he wanted to slaughter living beings again.

Ye Linwan and Ye Qing tricked Brown and wounded him, but he escaped using his ability to open a gate. The chapter left Brown badly injured and nearing Lei Yong’s location while Ye Linwan and Ye Qing pursued him.

• Ye Linwan threatened Brown with the souls and absorbed them to build power while Ye Qing distracted him with a feint.
• Ye Linwan stabbed Brown from behind, and Ye Qing revealed that their coordinated attack had been a trap.
• Brown pulled out the spider leg and deflected both attackers’ strikes, but Ye Qing sliced through his right hand.
• Brown opened a gate beneath himself and escaped, and Ye Linwan and Ye Qing set off after him toward Lei Yong.
• Brown traveled through alternating Room and reality while badly wounded, pressing his chest and struggling toward his destination.

Nan Tian overwhelmed Lei Yong and Gu Gongming, healed the child and Bai Yu, and faced a coordinated attack from the [Godslaying] Squad. Ye Qing wounded several attackers before collapsing, and Ye Linwan arrived and restrained Xiunuosi, leaving Brown and the injured squad members behind.

• Nan Tian froze the raindrops and launched them at Lei Yong and Gu Gongming, knocking them down without killing them.
• Nan Tian soothed the child, freed Bai Yu, and reattached Bai Yu’s severed arm, then called for Chi Jiu to stop fighting.
• Brown appeared through a spatial door and led Lei Yong, Gu Gongming, and Xiunuosi in an attack on Nan Tian.
• Ye Qing used Ghost Purple Intestine to block the attacks and slash Brown, Lei Yong, and Gu Gongming, but then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Brown pulled Lei Yong away from Ye Linwan’s spiderweb attack, and Ye Linwan bound Xiunuosi in a cocoon of silk.

Nan Tian turned Lei Yong and Brown’s attacks against them while Ye Linwan helped Chi Jiu wound Jixue. Gu Gongming sacrificed his right arm to heal himself and rescue Jixue, but Nan Tian’s doors sent Gu Gongming and Jixue into the Room and then pulled Xiunuosi inside as well.

• Ye Linwan left Nan Tian to help Chi Jiu fight Jixue, and Lei Yong and Brown attacked Nan Tian.
• Nan Tian switched the direction of Brown’s spatial slash and transferred Lei Yong’s force onto Brown, causing the slash to sever Lei Yong’s legs.
• Ye Linwan struck Jixue with spider silk, and Chi Jiu prepared to attack him as he fell.
• Gu Gongming used his scales to trade away his right arm, healed his fatal wounds, and pulled Jixue to safety with a rope.
• Gu Gongming flew into a door with Jixue, and another door opened beneath Xiunuosi and pulled him in.

Nan Tian and his allies defeated Lei Yong and his team, killing Brown and Lei Yong before leaving the battlefield. Ye Linwan reunited with her sons, and Nan Tian led the group home after cleansing and clothing them.

• Brown used his remaining mental power to create a door beneath Lei Yong, but Lei Yong avoided it and confronted him.
• Ye Linwan's spider legs cut Brown into pieces, and Nan Tian stopped her from attacking Lei Yong.
• Nan Tian explained that he and Lei Yong served different missions, then killed Lei Yong with a touch to his head.
• Nan Tian and Ye Linwan left the bodies for others to collect, while Ye Qing and Ye Yiqing emerged from a mass of flesh and reunited with their mother.
• Nan Tian removed the slime from Ye Ciqing and Ye Yiqing, gave them clothes, and led the group away from the battlefield.

[Ground] questioned whether Hela’s purpose was truly to destroy humanity, but she left without finding an answer. As Hela prepared to return Lin Wushuang to the Shimizu Residence with Aidan, a huge figure appeared outside the cave.

• Hela visited [Ground] in his cell, and he challenged her belief that she was born to destroy humanity.
• Hela asked [Ground] what purpose she and [Life] had, but he could only tell her to give herself a purpose.
• Hela dismissed the thought and left the cell, then met Aidan examining a fish and ate it before he could identify it.
• Hela picked up Lin Wushuang and asked him to take her back to the Shimizu Residence.
• A huge figure swam over and covered the cave entrance as Lin Wushuang prepared to use spatial teleportation.

Hela, Aidan, and Lin Wushuang returned to Shimizu Residence after meeting Sea Dragon, and the reunion meal turned violent when Ye Linwan recognized Aidan as the man who had cut off her leg. Hela stopped Ye Ciqing and Ye Yiqing from attacking Aidan, but scarlet tentacles struck at the brothers, forcing Ye Linwan to intervene.

• Sea Dragon confronted Hela for leaving without keeping her promise, then let the matter go as Lin Wushuang transported Hela and Aidan away.
• At Shimizu Residence, Yuliu admitted he felt undeserving of the celebration because he had fled during the battle to capture Ground, and Nan Tian reassured him.
• Lin Wushuang accidentally landed Hela and Aidan on the dinner table, where Nan Tian welcomed them to eat.
• Ye Linwan recognized Aidan as the man who had cut off her leg three years earlier, and Ye Ciqing and Ye Yiqing attacked him.
• Hela halted the brothers' weapons as scarlet tentacles struck toward them, and Ye Linwan intercepted the tentacles with dark webs before angrily confronting Hela.

A dispute at the Light God Society gathering escalated when Hela threatened Ye Linwan and the others, but Nan Tian stopped the fight and secured apologies. Hela left with Aidan and found the secluded house arranged for her at the Shimizu Residence.

• Ye Linwan confronted Hela to defend her underling, and Hela’s tentacles and fleshly eyes threatened everyone except Ye Linwan.
• Nan Tian halted the standoff, acknowledged that Ye Yiqing and the others had struck first, and apologized to Hela, who withdrew her tentacles.
• Ye Yiqing apologized to Hela, and Hela tossed a chicken leg to the rattled Aidan before the gathering ended.
• Ye Linwan later apologized to Hela and made her sons apologize again, then Hela left with Aidan.
• With [X] guiding them, Hela and Aidan found the separate house prepared for her beside the Shimizu Residence.

Hela recovered from her fight with [Ground] by eating the Light God Society’s store of high-level meat while Aidan stayed with her. She reunited with Xiao Huan, who learned that Aidan had finally found her and that she was working with the Light God Society.

• Hela sent Aidan to fetch food and discovered the refrigerator held meat from powerful Variants and humans.
• Hela ate the frozen meat, telling Aidan he could sleep on the sofa because he had no room of his own.
• Hela pulled Xiao Huan from Aidan’s pocket and woke it after it had tried to sleep for a week.
• Xiao Huan recognized Hela and asked whether she was angry; Hela said she was.
• Aidan recounted how he had found Hela, and Hela clarified that she was working with the Light God Society rather than joining it.
• Hela continued eating as Xiao Huan and Aidan settled down to rest on the sofa.

Hela, Tuote, and Aidan discussed waiting for the right moment to seize the Tree of Terra while news of the Star God Group’s downfall and the [Godslaying] Squad’s possible destruction spread online. Hela decided to find someone she could fool to help publicize the information and cause panic.

• Tuote asked Hela why she had forgotten him again, and she explained that she had been busy with [Ground] and Aidan.
• Tuote said Nan Tian had told them to wait for the right moment to seize the Tree of Terra, and he judged that the Night Stars were weakened by the [Godslaying] Squad’s losses and the Star God Group’s downfall.
• Hela, Tuote, and Aidan saw reporters crowding Gu Gongming’s car, while Gu Gongming kept his head down and ignored their questions.
• showed the group online posts speculating about the flying building, restrictions in Atan Country’s capital, and the possible destruction of the [Godslaying] Squad.
• Hela proposed spreading what they knew through a media company or personal account to cause panic, then left to find someone easy to fool.

After failing to obtain a photo of Gu Gongming, a reporter received one from Hela, who asked for a job as a reporter. The reporter took Hela to meet her boss, while Aidan and the others were left unsure what to do.

• Gu Gongming escaped a crowd of fans and reporters in his Maybach.
• A reporter failed to get a fan to share her photo of Gu Gongming and worried she would be fired.
• Hela gave the reporter a photo showing Gu Gongming with his right hand missing.
• Hela refused payment and told the reporter she wanted a reporter job after graduating in media.
• X helped Hela identify Great Xia University of Communication, and the reporter took her to meet the boss.
• Aidan and the other two stood outside the coffee shop, unsure what to do.

Aidan and Tuote had [X] prepare Hela’s résumé, then followed her to the interview at Dongte Media. Hela handed the interviewer her résumé, and her beauty quickly warmed his initially chilly attitude.

• Tuote suggested preparing Hela a résumé, and [X] reluctantly completed one after arguing with Xiao Huan.
• Aidan and Tuote printed copies of the résumé but had no money to pay, so a passing child tossed them five yuan and insulted them.
• The female reporter brought Hela to Dongte Media, where Hela spotted Aidan and accepted the résumé he had prepared.
• Hela entered the interview room, startled Mr. Yin and spilled his tea, then handed him her résumé.
• Mr. Yin noticed Hela’s beauty, softened his expression, and invited her to sit.

Hela passed her interview after crushing a fruit knife with her bare hand, then joined Qin Fengfeng as her assistant. Qin Fengfeng brought Hela to their desks and asked her to send photos for a news piece.

• The interviewer questioned Hela about her résumé, including her claim that she had trained at the Night Star Training Camp.
• At the interviewer's request, Hela crushed a fruit knife, convincing him to stamp her résumé with a pass.
• Hela left the interview room and told the waiting reporter that she had passed and was assigned to work with her.
• Qin Fengfeng offered Hela an assistant position, and Hela accepted.
• Qin Fengfeng showed Hela her desk, introduced herself, and asked Hela to send her photos for a news piece.

Hela joined Qin Fengfeng at a media company, where Qin worked on a news piece about Gu Gongming. After dinner, Hela offered to help arrange an interview and shocked Qin by claiming she had once been in a relationship with Gu Gongming.

• Hela struggled to send Qin Fengfeng a photo, so [X] sent it for her while secretly instructing her to expose news about the [Godslaying] Squad's destruction and provoke Gu Gongming.
• Hela made coffee and waited as Qin Fengfeng worked through the day, then went with her to a barbecue stall after work.
• Qin Fengfeng gave Hela a portable video camera, saying she would be her assistant and handle filming.
• Hela asked whether Qin wanted to interview Gu Gongming, then showed her his address when Qin said she did not know where he lived.
• When Qin asked how she had found the address, [X] suggested an explanation, but Hela instead said she had been in a relationship with Gu Gongming, leaving Qin stunned.

Qin Fengfeng mistook Hela’s account of fighting alongside Gu Gongming’s squad for a sexual assault and resolved to expose them. After learning Hela had nowhere to live, Qin Fengfeng took her home for the night.

• Qin Fengfeng asked Hela whether she and Gu Gongming had been intimate, and Hela said they had fought alongside his whole squad.
• Qin Fengfeng misunderstood Hela’s answer as describing a group assault and promised to expose the [Godslaying] Squad and get her justice.
• Qin Fengfeng took Hela to her apartment after Hela said she had no home.
• Qin Fengfeng offered Hela the couch, but Hela lay down on Qin Fengfeng’s bed while Qin Fengfeng slept on the couch.

Tuote and Aidan could not reach Hela and spent the night in a park, but Aidan spotted a suspicious sedan and followed it in case Hela was in danger. Meanwhile, Qin Fengfeng and Hela reached Pearl Tower to interview Gu Gongming, but after being turned away, they decided to wait for him to come out.

• Tuote and Aidan failed to contact Hela, and [X] shut off the park's streetlights after Xiao Huan insulted it.
• Aidan sensed powerful auras inside a passing black sedan and followed it alone, worried that Hela might be in danger.
• Qin Fengfeng and Hela arrived at Pearl Tower, where a guard refused to let them in without identification and a reservation.
• Qin Fengfeng rejected Hela's suggestion to knock out the guard and decided they should wait in a coffee shop for Gu Gongming to leave the tower.

Qin Fengfeng and Hela waited outside a building all day without seeing Gu Gongming, until Han Xiaoxiao and her companions arrived. Hela noticed Han Xiaoxiao’s life force was burning abnormally fast, and the two women locked eyes.

• Qin Fengfeng kept watch on the building entrance while Hela secretly ate a feast in the café.
• The café staff closed up and threw Qin Fengfeng and Hela outside before Qin Fengfeng could eat, so Hela gave her a cake.
• Hela spotted Han Xiaoxiao arriving with Twin Tails and a screen-faced robot, while a thread of electricity slipped from their car into the building.
• Twin Tails refused to move the car when the security guard ordered her to leave, then waited with Han Xiaoxiao for the thread of electricity.
• Hela sensed that Han Xiaoxiao’s life force was burning so quickly she might die within two years, and Han Xiaoxiao turned to meet Hela’s gaze.