Chapter Summaries

Yang Lie secured the Federation’s loyalty, ordered Scarlet Scale Flame Demon to suppress two rebellious states, and introduced a fee-based martial arts system that could extend the lives of ordinary cultivators. Scarlet Scale Flame Demon attacked a rebel-held village in Dalolit State, where the defenders met him with a barrage of modern weapons.

• Scarlet Scale Flame Demon reported that all but Dalolit State and Garobode State had sworn loyalty to Yang Lie, and Yang Lie ordered him to crush the rebellion.
• Yang Lie presented a basic martial arts manual and explained that cultivating it before injecting an Abnormal Grade Monster Cell could let a person reach War-level strength with a much longer lifespan.
• Yang Lie told the assembled Monster Warriors that his martial arts could not restore the lifespans they had sacrificed, and Christina agreed to oversee the manual’s promotion.
• Yang Lie announced licensing fees for martial arts and said advanced training would require spirit rice, nutritional solution, and paid access to higher-grade manuals.
• At a command post outside a Dalolit State village, Scarlet Scale Flame Demon transformed and charged the rebel soldiers defending it.
• The rebel defenders fired machine guns, sniper rifles, grenades, missiles, and drone-dropped bombs at Scarlet Scale Flame Demon, engulfing him in explosions.

The Scarlet Scale Flame Demon crushed the rebellion in Dalolit State, forcing its military to surrender and helping Yang Lie consolidate control of the Trendia Federation. His return to the battlefield stirred other aging War-level Monster Warriors, and five frail elders appeared at his manor.

• The Scarlet Scale Flame Demon survived the attack, burned a rebel village, and helped the Federation army capture rebel positions.
• Lieutenant General Kachit arrested Governor Polly, and the Scarlet Scale Flame Demon ordered Dalolit State to surrender and Kachit to await trial.
• The Scarlet Scale Flame Demon burned Polly’s family, after which Dalolit State surrendered; Garobode State’s governor was also arrested and his family was burned.
• Yang Lie investigated financial conglomerates, dismantled them, and nationalized many of their assets, restoring calm to the Trendia Federation.
• The Scarlet Scale Flame Demon’s apparent recovery alarmed the other federations and stirred longing among aging War-level Monster Warriors.
• At his manor, the Scarlet Scale Flame Demon sensed intruders, and five frail elderly men emerged.

The Scarlet Scale Flame Demon secured three powerful Monster Warriors as Yang Lie’s subordinates by offering them youth and extended lifespans in exchange for swallowing Parasitic Vines. Yang Lie sent them to hunt monsters for corpses, leaving the new recruits eager to serve him.

• The Scarlet Scale Flame Demon told five War-level Monster Warriors that regaining their youth required serving Yang Lie and swallowing Parasitic Vines; the Black Demon Knight, Rage War Giant, and Golden Fortress agreed, while the Silver Chariot and Blood Blade Battle Maniac refused.
• Yang Lie rewarded the Scarlet Scale Flame Demon with medicine and gave the three recruits Parasitic Vines and bottles of youth-restoring medicine.
• The Black Demon Knight, Rage War Giant, and Golden Fortress regained their youth and learned their lifespans could potentially exceed four hundred years.
• The Scarlet Scale Flame Demon offered to help Yang Lie conquer the world, but Yang Lie instead asked the Warriors to hunt monsters in exchange for medicine.
• The Black Demon Knight, Rage War Giant, and Golden Fortress eagerly departed to hunt monsters for Yang Lie.

Yang Lie’s clone advanced from Disaster-class to War-level Monster Warrior, then served as Trendia Federation president while arranging a meeting with Kadite Federation’s White Lightning leader. He arrived in Kadite for a state visit and was welcomed by President Dutton.

• Yang Lie’s clone suppressed the Disaster-class Monster’s will, absorbed its cells, and was appointed captain of the Forty-Sixth Brigade.
• Despite warnings from Saide and Christina about the dangers of consecutive injections, Yang Lie accepted War-level Monster Cells and successfully became a War-level Monster Warrior.
• Yang Lie celebrated his advancement with the Black Guardians at Man He Restaurant.
• Seven days later, Christina told Yang Lie that Kadite’s White Lightning leader, Nut, offered twenty intact Disaster-class Monster corpses for a meeting, and Yang Lie agreed.
• Yang Lie traveled to Kadite Federation for a state visit, met President Dutton, and rode with him to the presidential residence.

Yang Lie negotiated trade agreements with Dutton, then met with Nut and Daniel, who sought the Longevity Elixir formula and life-extending medicine. He refused to hand over the formula, set a steep price for the medicine, and proposed hunting monsters on the Bando Continent instead.

• Yang Lie and Dutton agreed to allow spirit rice into the Kadite Federation with a 100% tariff, leave martial arts unopposed, and sign trade and cooperation agreements.
• Nut and Daniel welcomed Yang Lie to a clubhouse, where Nut introduced the superstar Blanche.
• Nut asked Yang Lie to sell the Longevity Elixir formula and proposed forming a multinational corporation, but Yang Lie refused and warned them against attacking him.
• Daniel asked to buy life-extending medicine, and Yang Lie demanded a large number of intact monster corpses for each vial.
• Yang Lie proposed that they hunt monsters on the Bando Continent, and Nut warned that War-level Monsters lived there.

Yang Lie organized a landing expedition to Bando Continent, recruiting War-level Monster Warriors and veteran hunters with the promise of monster hunting and Longevity Elixirs. As the fleet crossed the ocean, its warriors fought off an aquatic monster tide, and Black Demon Knight earned a reward that increased his strength and lifespan.

• Yang Lie agreed with Nut and Daniel to lead a small expedition to Bando Continent and hunt its monsters.
• Yang Lie returned to the Trendia Federation and recruited War-level Monster Warriors and Black Guardians for the expedition.
• Half a month later, the fleet set out for Bando Continent, while Scarlet Scale Flame Demon and Black Demon Knight mocked Blood Blade Battle Maniac and Silver Chariot over their weakness.
• An Abnormal Grade Monster Warrior warned that aquatic monsters were attacking, and the War-level Monster Warriors jumped into the sea to fight them.
• The warriors hauled aquatic monsters aboard the cargo ships, and Black Demon Knight earned a First Order Source of Life Juice after killing ten Disaster-class Monsters.

Yang Lie’s fleet reached Bando Continent and battled a swarm of flying monsters, which Yang Lie and the War-level Monster Warriors slaughtered for Life Essence. Nut saw that the Longevity Elixir worked but failed to recruit Blood Blade Battle Maniac, who remained torn between joining Wu Ming and keeping his freedom.

• After another half month at sea, Yang Lie’s group spotted Bando Continent and a vast flock of flying monsters descended on the fleet.
• Black Demon Knight, Azure Giant, Scarlet Scale Flame Demon, and the other War-level Monster Warriors transformed and attacked the swarm, followed by Nut, Daniel, and Christina.
• Yang Lie used Wind Dragon Transformation to shred flying monsters that broke through the fighters’ attacks and threatened the ships.
• After a day of battle, Yang Lie’s group killed all one hundred thousand flying monsters, while Nut and Daniel gave nearly all their prey to Yang Lie for a small amount of fruit juice.
• Nut offered Blood Blade Battle Maniac a bottle of Longevity Elixir in exchange for his service, but Blood Blade Battle Maniac refused and said Yang Lie’s price was ten times cheaper.
• Nut drank the juice and regained his youth, while Blood Blade Battle Maniac wondered whether to join Wu Ming but decided he wanted to remain free.

The Three Great Federations secured a foothold on Bando Continent while Yang Lie set up a Life Crystal factory and advanced to Grandmaster Second Heaven. Three months later, War-level Monster Yelifijia approached the allied forces, and Nut urged Wu Ming to retreat by sea.

• The Three Great Federations landed on Bando Continent and used drones, satellites, and Monster Warriors to hunt monsters with few casualties.
• Yang Lie returned to War University, revealed to Ge Donghai that he had reached Grandmaster Second Heaven, and demonstrated his Half-Domain.
• Yang Lie moved Ge Donghai’s Life Crystal production line into his industrial park, where robots manufactured crystals bought by War University.
• Yang Lie continued turning seventh-rank Dragon Species Extraordinary Creature corpses into Life Fruits, rapidly improving his strength with resources from Monster World.
• Three months later, War-level Monster Yelifijia advanced toward the territory held by the Three Great Federations, alarming the Human Allied Forces command center.
• Nut proposed that Wu Ming abandon the stronghold and retreat by sea to avoid Yelifijia.

Yang Lie fought and killed the peak Tier 7 monster Yelifeijia with the Armored Azure Dragon, while the other War-level Monster Warriors struggled against its power. After restoring the Azure Dragon with a Tier 7 Life Crystal, Yang Lie ordered the others to kill Yelifeijia’s remaining monsters.

• Yang Lie refused to leave Yelifeijia to the others and led the War-level Monster Warriors toward it.
• Yang Lie transformed into the Armored Azure Dragon and evaded Yelifeijia’s Demonic Eye Cannon.
• Yang Lie scorched Yelifeijia’s eye with the Radiant Dragon Transformation, then shattered its protective barrier and destroyed its eye and head with the Azure Dragon Cannon.
• Yang Lie cut apart Yelifeijia’s regenerating flesh, severed its limbs, and collected its remains into his Small World until he killed it.
• Yang Lie restored the Azure Dragon with a Tier 7 Life Crystal and ordered the others to attack the remaining monsters, while Christina charged into them.

Silver Chariot submitted to Yang Lie in exchange for a Parasitic Vine Seed and First Order Origin Juice, then set out to hunt monsters for him. After Azure Dragon consumed Yelifeijia's Source Fruit, Yang Lie chose to face two approaching Yelifeijias himself, and the chapter ended with him attacking them.

• Silver Chariot asked to become Yang Lie's subordinate, swallowed a Parasitic Vine Seed, and drank First Order Origin Juice to regain his strength.
• Silver Chariot left to hunt monsters, and Blood Blade Battle Maniac arrived to speak with Yang Lie.
• Yang Lie fed Yelifeijia's Source Fruit to Azure Dragon and decided to continue following the pure martial path rather than become an Implant User.
• A surveillance officer warned that two Yelifeijias and a horde of monsters were approaching headquarters, so Yang Lie and Christina went to intercept them.
• Yang Lie used a Wind Optical Clone to evade the Yelifeijias' crimson beams, then struck both with an Azure Dragon Cannon and launched a close-range assault.

Yang Lie and Christina defeated the monster army, and Yang Lie hunted several Yelifeijias and a Yedam Anduo while investigating the monsters’ arrival. He left eager to hunt more War-level Monsters and strengthen his Azure Dragon Armor.

• Christina entered her Silver Witch monster form and fought the horde while Yang Lie dismantled two Yelifeijias and stored their remains in his Small World.
• Yang Lie learned from Christina that Bando Continent now had three Yelifeijias, then sent her back to headquarters while he followed their trail alone.
• Yang Lie used Dark Dragon Transformation to approach another Yelifeijia, discovered it could sense him from about five hundred meters away, and killed it with the Azure Dragon Cannon.
• Yang Lie hid from the arriving Yedam Anduo and observed that it could not detect his shadow stealth, then watched it set the forest ablaze with fire.
• Yang Lie blasted Yedam Anduo’s head, pursued it as it fled, and tore it apart before storing it in his Small World.

Yang Lie hunted the Black Scale Dragon King and hordes of Disaster-class Monsters in the ruins, then discovered six Yelifeijia guarding a strange distortion between worlds. After finding no more War-level Monsters for ten days, he fed their Source Fruits to the Azure Dragon, which grew into a fourteen-meter-tall humanoid form.

• Yang Lie challenged the Black Scale Dragon King, regenerated after its beam killed him, and then tore the monster apart with the Armored Azure Dragon.
• Yang Lie killed several thousand pursuing Disaster-class Monsters before retreating and hiding from the remaining swarm.
• Yang Lie found six Yelifeijia gathered around a warped expanse of space that revealed another world, but left rather than fight them all.
• Yang Lie searched Bando Continent for more War-level Monsters but found none over the next ten days.
• Yang Lie fed War-level Monster Source Fruits to the Azure Dragon, transforming it into a fourteen-meter-tall humanoid form.

Yang Lie used the Azure Dragon to kill six Yelifeijia and thousands of accompanying monsters. The next day, his clone entered the warped space and discovered a world with more than a hundred times the Monster World’s gravity, which he named the Monster Origin World.

• Yang Lie had the Human Alliance launch missiles at the six Yelifeijia, provoking them to summon a vast monster army.
• Yang Lie ambushed two Yelifeijia, killed them, and then pursued the four leading the monster army.
• Yang Lie used a storm to blind the lesser monsters, destroyed the Yelifeijia’s hearts, and killed all four after his Azure Dragon Cannon recharged.
• Yang Lie slaughtered several thousand surviving monsters and retreated with his spoils.
• The next day, Yang Lie sent his clone into the warped space in a Nano-Optical Combat Suit.
• Yang Lie’s clone endured the world’s extreme gravity and towering grass, and Yang Lie named it the Monster Origin World.

Yang Lie explored the Monster Origin World, encountered overwhelming Tier 8 monsters, and withdrew before his clone was lost. Back in camp, he developed a plan to lure Yelifeijia and planted enhanced Blood Scale Grass, which quickly attracted Tier 7 Yelifeijia.

• Yang Lie’s clone sensed a Dimensional Door in the Monster Origin World, but a Tier 8 monster nearly sucked it into its maw, forcing Yang Lie to retreat and leave the door untouched.
• Yang Lie concluded that the passage allowed only Tier 7 monsters and asked the Three Great Federations’ experts how to lure Yelifeijia.
• The Scarlet Scale Flame Demon suggested using Christina’s blood, while Nut proposed Blood Scale Grass as bait for Yelifeijia larvae.
• Yang Lie gathered Blood Scale Grass with Nut, then enhanced its seeds in the Small World to attract Tier 7 Yelifeijia.
• A month later, Yang Lie’s invisible clone planted the mutated Blood Scale Grass near the Monster Origin World entrance, and Tier 7 Yelifeijia began arriving within a day.

Yang Lie hunted Yelifeijia in the Monster World and advanced his cultivation before learning that the Tedaenmu Star System had rebelled against the Human Alliance. He chose an auxiliary military assignment, sought to bring his friends with him, and bought Ge Donghai’s old Tier 7 Battle Mech as war approached.

• Yang Lie killed Yelifeijia in the Monster World for days while strengthening the Azure Dragon and improving his cultivation.
• After reaching the Fourth Layer of Sword Intent and Grandmaster Third Heaven, Yang Lie received Ge Donghai’s summons and learned that Governor Uzer had led the Tedaenmu Star System to join the Evil God Mother of Spirit Blood’s faction.
• Ge Donghai explained the Human Alliance’s mobilization and offered Yang Lie a choice between frontline combat and the auxiliary force, and Yang Lie chose the auxiliary force.
• Yang Lie asked Ge Donghai to help assign his close friends to the same auxiliary force, and Ge Donghai directed him to consult Lei Jian first.
• Yang Lie bought Ge Donghai’s old Stealth Knight Tier 7 Battle Mech for three hundred Tier 7 Life Crystals and then gathered his friends to tell them about the impending war.

Yang Lie arranged for his friends to join his auxiliary force, ordered the Monster World forces to withdraw to Belen Continent, and reported to the Human Alliance military as a major. At military headquarters, he met Zhuo Shiya and Wang Chenyu and asked why they had joined the auxiliary force together.

• Ye Kongyao, Jiang Yang, and the others chose between joining Yang Lie in the auxiliary force and earning Merit Points with the main force.
• Yang Lie asked Lei Jian to transfer several of his companions to the auxiliary force, and Lei Jian agreed.
• Yang Lie ordered the forces on Bando Continent to retreat to Belen Continent so he could cultivate a secret technique without risking a Tier 7 Monster attack.
• A month later, Yang Lie reported to Blue Sea Star military headquarters, received his uniform and standard equipment, and examined the prices of combat mechas.
• Zhuo Shiya congratulated Yang Lie on becoming a Martial Arts Grandmaster and remarked on his choice of the auxiliary force; Yang Lie asked why she had joined it with Wang Chenyu.

Yang Lie joined the Human Alliance’s wartime military force, received command of the 103rd Regiment, and boarded the Blue Starfire with the 3rd Division. During the journey, he entered the Alliance’s virtual combat system and was defeated in a mecha battle by Zhuo Shiya.

• Yang Lie, Zhuo Shiya, and Wang Chenyu bought military equipment, and Yang Lie marveled at the rare Eighth Order Life Ascension Gem available for Merit Points.
• The military assigned Yang Lie to command the 103rd Regiment, with Gu Mingdong as his adjutant and several of his old acquaintances among its members.
• Gu Wangyue ordered the 3rd Division to train in the virtual combat system aboard the Blue Starfire, a massive interstellar battleship.
• Yang Lie entered the virtual system, selected the sixth-order Blue Knight mecha, and assessed how its simulation compared with reality.
• Zhuo Shiya challenged Yang Lie and destroyed the cockpit of his mecha, defeating him.

Yang Lie and the 103rd Regiment landed on Dalmut Star to eliminate the followers of the Mother of Spirit Blood, with Yang Lie appointed supreme commander of the operation. After the Blue Starfire cleared the planet’s satellite defenses and bombarded targets, the landing force established a base in a primeval forest and fought off a Mutated Beast attack.

• Yang Lie repeatedly challenged Zhuo Shiya to mech battles and learned that her Mechanical Heart made her a formidable Mech Warrior.
• After three months of training and cultivation, Yang Lie arrived above Dalmut Star aboard the Blue Starfire with the landing forces.
• Gu Wangyue assigned the 101st, 102nd, and 103rd Regiments to destroy the Mother of Spirit Blood’s followers, naming Yang Lie supreme commander.
• The Blue Starfire bombarded Dalmut Star and deployed three landing ships carrying the regiments’ elite forces.
• Zhuo Shiya used the Phoenix Knight to destroy missiles that Jimmy identified as carrying pheromones to enrage Mutated Beasts.
• Yang Lie ordered the troops to follow their drill as they fought the incoming Mutated Beasts and established a fortified base around the landing ships.

Yang Lie used his enormous Seventh-Order Armored Azure Dragon to overwhelm and kill several Seventh-Order Mutated Beasts during the battle. Gu Wangyue admired the armor and considered taking it, but Jenny warned him that doing so could provoke Professor Ge Donghai.

• Xiao Zitong warned Yang Lie that a Seventh-Order Mutated Beast had been detected, and Yang Lie activated his ninety-five-meter Armored Azure Dragon.
• Yang Lie detected a Gray Scale Mutant Dragon and killed it with a kick and a crushing stomp, shocking the watching soldiers.
• Yang Lie swiftly killed a three-headed Seventh-Order Mutated Beast and tore a giant centipede in half.
• Gu Wangyue asked Jenny why Yang Lie's armor was so powerful, and Jenny explained that it was an over-spec Seventh-Order armor cultivated with rare treasures.
• Gu Wangyue admitted he wanted to take the armor, but Jenny warned him that harming Yang Lie could bring Professor Ge Donghai's wrath.

The 3rd Division wiped out the Mutated Beasts attacking its landing force over ten days while suffering no casualties. An Haiquan and Hao Yunsheng then launched a night assault on the landing ships, but Yang Lie’s forces had anticipated the attack and devastated the attackers with artillery.

• Gu Wangyue left the battlefield’s command to Jenny and the other officers while the landing force fought off the Mutated Beasts.
• Yang Lie hunted the stronger beasts as robots built defenses and processed corpses, and the 3rd Division eliminated the attackers over ten days without casualties.
• An Haiquan ordered Hao Yunsheng to gather fifty Implant Users and six thousand Beast Tamers for a sneak attack on the landing force.
• An Haiquan led thousands of Mutated Beasts toward the landing ships, while Hao Yunsheng sensed a trap after spotting Yang Lie’s Azure Dragon mech.
• Yang Lie ordered the landing ships’ automated weapons and heavy artillery to open fire, inflicting devastating losses on Hao Yunsheng’s forces.