Chapter Summaries

Yang Lie fought Hao Yunsheng but was overwhelmed after An Haiquan restrained him and Hao Yunsheng pierced the Azure Dragon with his Gray Dragon Cannon. As Hao Yunsheng gloated over Yang Lie's fall, Li Mudan unleashed her power and struck him down.

• Yang Lie killed a Seventh-Order Gray Scale Mutant Dragon, then transformed and attacked Hao Yunsheng.
• Hao Yunsheng used his Seventh-Order Implant Mutant Gray Dragon to gain the advantage over Yang Lie, while Gu Wangyue chose to watch the battle.
• An Haiquan used the Spirit Blood Scepter to bind Yang Lie, but Yang Lie shattered the blood threads.
• Hao Yunsheng blasted through the Azure Dragon's chest with his Gray Dragon Cannon, and Xiao Zitong collapsed in grief as Zhao Meixian, Ye Kongyao, and Nangong Hui reacted to Yang Lie's apparent death.
• Li Mudan revealed her peak Extraordinary Seventh Order strength, trapped Hao Yunsheng in her Five Elements Domain, and punched him into the ground.

Yang Lie revealed that he had survived Hao Yunsheng’s attack and helped Li Mudan defeat the Spirit Blood Divine Sect’s forces. After the battle, Li Mudan and Zhao Meixian reunited with him, while Gu Wangyue’s plans to capture Li Mudan remained a threat.

• Gu Wangyue ordered Bore to support the battle and bring Li Mudan back alive.
• Hao Yunsheng overpowered Li Mudan, but Yang Lie appeared behind him and crushed his head.
• An Haiquan tried to flee, but Yang Lie and Li Mudan captured and drained him before Yang Lie stored his body.
• Yang Lie killed the remaining Implant Users, and the 3rd Division wiped out the Spirit Blood Divine Sect’s elite forces.
• Li Mudan and Zhao Meixian embraced Yang Lie, relieved that he had survived.

Yang Lie returned safely after the battle and reunited with Xiao Zitong and Li Mudan, but Gu Wangyue ordered Li Mudan transferred to Bore so he could exploit her. Yang Lie refused to approve the transfer, and Bore threatened to arrest him for disobeying orders.

• Li Mudan and Zhao Meixian welcomed Yang Lie back, and he returned to Landing Ship No. 3 with them.
• Xiao Zitong embraced Yang Lie, and she and Li Mudan joined him in bed while he slept.
• Gu Wangyue suspected Li Mudan was a human fused with an evil god's power and ordered Bore to bring her to him for refining into a medicinal pill.
• Bore arrived with soldiers and demanded that Yang Lie transfer Li Mudan under his command.
• Yang Lie verified Gu Wangyue's formal order in the Blue Starfire system but refused to approve the transfer, so Bore threatened to arrest him and bring him before a temporary military court.

After Gu Wangyue transferred Li Mudan away from Yang Lie, he accused her of spying and tried to refine her into a great medicine. Li Mudan revealed her Eighth Order Martial Saint power and fought back aboard the Blue Starfire, leaving Gu Wangyue fleeing and Luke dead.

• Li Mudan agreed to go with Bore's group, and Yang Lie warned her to be careful as she departed.
• Luke arrested Li Mudan aboard the Blue Starfire and placed Essence Locking Bracelets on her wrists before taking her to an interrogation room.
• Gu Wangyue revealed that he intended to refine Li Mudan into a great medicine and summoned a blood-red furnace to attack her.
• Li Mudan transformed into an Eighth Order Martial Saint, shattered her restraints, and struck Gu Wangyue as he tried to escape.
• The Blue Starfire threatened to classify Li Mudan as a traitor, while Gu Wangyue's shield robot failed to stop her punch.
• Luke attacked Li Mudan with his Goat Demon implant, but she evaded his cannon and killed him with a single blow.

Li Mudan fought through the Blue Starfire to kill Gu Wangyue, defeating the Mech Warriors Bore and Liu Zhenhao before destroying the warship. She pursued Gu Wangyue’s landing ship toward the planet, while he believed Yang Lie might be able to stop her.

• Gu Wangyue fled as Li Mudan’s black flames spread through the Blue Starfire, and Bore and Liu Zhenhao tried to block her and persuade her to stop.
• Li Mudan smashed Bore’s defenses and struck Liu Zhenhao’s mech, but Liu saw Gu Wangyue escape without helping them.
• Bore’s cannons destroyed Liu Zhenhao’s mech, and Li Mudan killed Bore with sword qi.
• Li Mudan ignited the Blue Starfire with her Five Elements Domain, causing the warship and everyone aboard to perish in an explosion.
• Li Mudan pursued Gu Wangyue’s landing ship, and Gu Wangyue concluded that Yang Lie might be the one person who could defeat her.

Yang Lie manipulated military procedure to send Jimmy and Shen Gonghai’s regiments to reinforce Gu Wangyue while taking control of two landing ships. The troops attacked Li Mudan, but her Martial Saint-level black flames overwhelmed them, and Jimmy called for artillery support.

• Gu Wangyue ordered Yang Lie to bring reinforcements after Li Mudan destroyed the Blue Starfire, but Yang Lie used the chain of command to order Jimmy and Shen Gonghai to lead their regiments to Gu’s landing ship.
• Yang Lie claimed his implants were under repair, cut off the call, and ordered the 103rd Regiment to seize No. 1 and No. 2 Landing Ships.
• Jimmy and Shen Gonghai arrived with their troops and saw Li Mudan attacking Gu Wangyue’s No. 4 Landing Ship with black flames.
• Gu Wangyue ordered Jimmy and Shen Gonghai to save him, and both commanders led their soldiers in attacking Li Mudan.
• Li Mudan swept the troops with black flames, setting many soldiers ablaze and breaking their morale, so Jimmy requested artillery support from No. 1 Landing Ship.

Li Mudan destroyed Gu Wangyue’s forces and killed him despite his pleas, while Yang Lie refused to intervene. She then revealed to Yang Lie that she was a Child of the Evil God and said she was leaving the Human Alliance.

• Yang Lie ordered Mike to lead his squad to support Gu Wangyue, forcing the 1st Battalion to comply.
• Li Mudan’s black flames killed Jimmy, Shen Gonghai, and many soldiers from the 101st and 102nd Regiments as their commanders received no fire support.
• Li Mudan broke through the barrier around Landing Ship No. 4 and confronted Gu Wangyue, who begged her to spare him and offered Yang Lie a Transcendence Pill.
• Yang Lie refused to plead for Gu Wangyue, and Li Mudan burned him and his seventh-order mech to ashes.
• Yang Lie recognized Mu Dan in Li Mudan, who revealed she was Kuye Lingmu’s child and said she had come to learn human martial arts but was now leaving.

Li Mudan warned Yang Lie to stay away from Ku Ling Star, then left after killing five soldiers from his regiment. Yang Lie took command of the surviving expeditionary force and began its campaign on Dalmut Star, where its troops captured Ender Town and forced the townspeople to renounce the Spirit Blood Divine Sect.

• Li Mudan told Yang Lie that Kuye Lingmu was an evil god beyond the Great Martial God and warned him not to visit Ku Ling Star or provoke Her.
• Yang Lie ordered Li Mudan to kill five soldiers from the 103rd Regiment, and she burned them to ashes before kissing him goodbye and departing as black flame.
• Yang Lie took command after Division Commander Gu's death and decided to continue the campaign using remotely operated bionic robots as the main force.
• The expeditionary force sent powered-armored robots and soldiers toward Ender Town, where they killed hunters who resisted and rounded up the townspeople.
• Gu Mingdong demanded that the townspeople burn the Spirit Blood scriptures, spit on the sect's statues, and insult the Mother of Spirit Blood to prove they were not followers.

The Human Alliance expeditionary force crushed the Kandun Empire’s resistance while Karen III ordered the empire to fight on until the Spirit Blood Divine Sect Leader’s plan succeeded. Meanwhile, Yang Lie hunted Yelifeijia in Monster World and fed the last Source Fruit and Tier 7 Life Crystals to his Azure Dragon Armor as it evolved toward Tier 8.

• Human Alliance soldiers killed fanatical followers of the Mother of Spirit Blood, occupied a town, and advanced to capture the capital of Dongte Province.
• Karen III questioned Katon about the missing Sect Leader, considered surrendering to the Human Alliance, then ordered the Kandun Empire to resist until the Sect Leader’s plan succeeded.
• The Spirit Blood Divine Sect organized ambushes and sabotage, but the Human Alliance’s technological advantage inflicted devastating casualties on its followers.
• Yang Lie handed the Kandun campaign to Xiao Zitong and returned to Monster World to hunt Tier 7 Yelifeijia.
• Yang Lie killed the final Yelifeijia and fed its Source Fruit to his Azure Dragon, then supplied Tier 7 Life Crystals as the creature absorbed his true qi.

Yang Lie evolved the Azure Dragon into Eighth-Order Transcendence colonization equipment and sent a clone through the Dimensional Door to explore another world. After learning that the world was technologically ordinary but might contain Dimensional Door fragments, he assumed Guo Zinan’s identity and went to Lidong High School, where Cheng Bao confronted him.

• Yang Lie fed the Azure Dragon Tier 7 Life Crystals until it evolved to the Eighth Order, then bound its Colonization Core with his blood.
• Yang Lie created a clone and sent it through the Dimensional Door, where it tested technology and found the corpse of Guo Zinan.
• Yang Lie used the Evil Ghost Skin to read Guo Zinan’s memories and decided to search the world for Dimensional Door fragments.
• Yang Lie went to Guo Zinan’s home, began cultivating martial arts, and quickly reached the Qi Blood Realm.
• At Lidong High School, He Dong warned Yang Lie about the Cheng brothers, but Cheng Bao soon arrived and called him over.

Yang Lie punished Cheng Hu and Cheng Bao for bullying Guo Zinan, then publicized their abuse and disappeared into the mountains to cultivate. On Mingli Mountain, hikers witnessed him walking through the air, and he approached Tian Mingfen after recognizing something about her.

• Yang Lie kicked Cheng Hu and the others in the groin when they attacked him, then uploaded evidence of their bullying and exposed their families and Lidong High School.
• Public condemnation spread, the bullies' parents lost their jobs, and the school and families failed to find Yang Lie as his avatar went into the mountains to cultivate.
• On Mingli Mountain, Zhao Bo showed Tian Mingfen, Sun Xia, and Wang Jifan a video of Yang Lie moving across the mountain slopes.
• Sun Xia spotted Yang Lie walking through the air, prompting Zhao Bo to proclaim that immortals existed while Wang Jifan searched for wires or fishing line.
• Yang Lie sensed the crowd with his spiritual power, focused on Tian Mingfen, and approached her group while forcing the onlookers to their knees with a mental wave.

Yang Lie learned that Tian Mingfen was cursed by a ghost and agreed to accompany her back to the haunted house for a fee. After opening a popular martial arts school and teaching paying students, he set out for Gouyin Mountain with Tian Mingfen, Sun Xia, and Zhao Bo.

• Yang Lie explained the costs and benefits of cultivating ancient martial arts, then recognized Tian Mingfen's distress and heard that a ghost had ordered her to bring three substitutes or die.
• Tian Mingfen described how the ghost at a house on Gouyin Mountain forced visitors to play deadly games and made survivors recruit three more people within a month.
• Yang Lie agreed to investigate the ghost for one million Zhou Yuan and offered Wang Jifan, Tian Mingfen, and Sun Xia lessons for one hundred thousand yuan each; Zhao Bo could not afford tuition.
• Yang Lie opened a martial arts school at the foot of Mingli Mountain, and it quickly attracted many students.
• Fifteen days later, Yang Lie, Tian Mingfen, Sun Xia, and Zhao Bo headed toward the haunted house, and Yang Lie asked why Sun Xia had chosen to come.

Yang Lie, Sun Xia, and their companions entered a haunted cottage where a ghost trapped visitors and demanded three deadly games. Yang Lie attacked the ghost and woke up hanging from the noose, leaving Sun Xia and Zhao Bo terrified.

• Yang Lie led Sun Xia and the others into an abandoned cottage, where its doors multiplied and a ghost appeared among eight young people.
• The ghost offered a way out to anyone who found replacements, and Tian Mingfen and several others escaped while the remaining visitors fought over who had tricked whom.
• Zeng Ming escaped by throwing lime powder in the faces of three women, but another man who crossed the threshold returned under the ghost’s control and hanged himself.
• Wang Honghua revealed that the trapped visitors had to survive three games and bring three replacements within a month, while anyone who refused or lost would be hanged.
• Yang Lie attacked the ghost with his Fire Dragon Transformation, but his fist passed through it and he woke up hanging from the rope as Sun Xia and Zhao Bo panicked.

Yang Lie fought a ghost whose nooses wielded rule-like power, then discovered that killing it did not stop its repeated revival or the deadly loop trapping the others. He continued testing the ghost’s limits as the standoff persisted.

• Yang Lie burned through the ghost’s endless nooses and assessed its power as an existence above the tenth Transcendent rank.
• Yang Lie used Saint Dragon Swordplay to sever the ghost’s head, causing the house to return to normal and the captives to flee.
• Yang Lie warned Sun Xia that the ghost might not be dead, and it reappeared to announce that survivors had to bring three substitutes within a month.
• Yang Lie repeatedly decapitated the ghost, but it revived each time and the fleeing captives repeatedly returned under its influence.
• Yang Lie kept killing the ghost to test whether its revivals would eventually exhaust its energy.

Yang Lie sealed a repeatedly resurrecting ghost and discovered that it could produce a King of Anomalies Origin Shard Fruit, then returned to his martial arts school. As reporters and the powerful Jin Yuan Er arrived to see him, Yang Lie remained in seclusion.

• Yang Lie used two Seal Boxes to trap the ghost, confirmed it did not reappear outside the cabin, and led Sun Xia and the others to safety.
• Yang Lie opened a Seal Box in his Small World and buried the rejoined ghost beneath layers of soil, where a King of Anomalies Origin Shard Fruit could grow after ten days.
• Yang Lie realized the fruit contained a trace of law power and could bind whoever ate it to Weird Star for more than seven days, and he suspected the King of Anomalies was dead.
• Han Bingbing of the Great Zhou Times asked Wang Jifan for an interview with Yang Lie, and Wang defended the martial arts school's claims about his master's abilities.
• Jin Yuan Er arrived at the martial arts school in an armored convoy, drawing attention from the people outside.

Jin Yuan Er visited Guo Zinan’s martial arts school to test the claims about his abilities and his power to extend life. Yang Lie charged one billion Zhou Yuan to demonstrate his lightness skill, then stunned the visitors and watching crowd by walking through the air.

• Jin Yuan Er arrived at the martial arts school and asked to meet Guo Zinan, while Wang Jifan and Sun Xia guided him inside.
• Yao Zhang dismissed the students’ basic martial arts as useless as Jin Yuan Er observed them practicing.
• Yang Lie offered to demonstrate his flying ability for one billion Zhou Yuan, and Jin Yuan Er had Jin Mingzhu transfer the money.
• Yang Lie walked into the sky and circled above the courtyard as the students, Jin Mingzhu, An Zaiming, Yao Zhang, and onlookers watched in amazement.
• Yang Lie descended, and An Zaiming examined him but found no wires or mechanisms.

Yang Lie demonstrated his overwhelming power to Jin Yuan Er, defeating Yao Zhang with a breath and turning aside bullets and sniper rounds. He then offered Jin Yuan Er two kinds of longevity medicine and argued that buying them was a better choice than attempting to cultivate Ancient Martial Arts.

• Jin Yuan Er paid Yang Lie five hundred million to test Yao Zhang, who attacked but was knocked down by a blast of Yang Lie’s breath.
• Jin Yuan Er paid another ten billion, then ordered his bodyguards and four snipers to attack Yang Lie, whose protective energy stopped the bullets and whose counterattack shattered the sniper rifles.
• Yang Lie returned to his seat and told Jin Yuan Er that his current condition could lead to heart failure within three years, while careful retirement might give him two more years.
• Yang Lie offered a medicine that could restore Jin Yuan Er to roughly the condition of a forty-year-old and extend his life by ten years, as well as a separate medicine that could add twenty years, each priced at one hundred billion Zhou Yuan.
• Jin Yuan Er asked about reaching the fifth realm of Ancient Martial Arts, and Yang Lie warned that Jin Yuan Er lacked the time and likely the talent, recommending that he buy the medicines instead.

Jin Yuan Er bought Yang Lie’s medicines, became his disciple, and offered him captives and two famous beauties as gifts. Yang Lie rejected the women and asked for help building an intelligence organization to investigate hauntings, prompting Jin Yuan Er to ask whether ghosts were real.

• Jin Yuan Er bought a bottle of First Divine Medicine and transformed into a vigorous middle-aged man.
• Jin Yuan Er bought a Longevity Elixir, then bowed to Yang Lie and asked to become his disciple.
• Jin Yuan Er presented Cheng Bao and the others who had bullied Guo Zinan, and Yang Lie ordered them executed.
• Jin Yuan Er brought Luo Jing and Mido Mika as gifts, but Yang Lie said he needed capable subordinates instead.
• Yang Lie asked Luo Jing and Mido Mika to help establish an organization to investigate hauntings, and Jin Yuan Er asked whether ghosts were real.

Yang Lie learned more about the Ghost Gate and gained a new ability for his Weird Clone by consuming the King of Anomalies Origin Shard Fruit. Testing the Hanging Rope showed that it could briefly restrain even the Azure Dragon, while Yang Lie remained wary of entering the Anomalous World with his true body.

• Jin Yuan Er told Yang Lie that the Ghost Gate opened every hundred years and shared the story of the Shadow Stepping Ghost, so Yang Lie ordered an investigation of Linquan Village and the creation of an intelligence company.
• Several days later, Yang Lie had his Guo Zinan clone consume the King of Anomalies Origin Shard Fruit and gain the Hanging Rope ability.
• Yang Lie tested the Hanging Rope on his monster clone and found it could suspend a Tier 7 opponent, though the rope could be broken and the ability required a ten-second cooldown.
• Yang Lie used the Hanging Rope on the Azure Dragon and found it could briefly restrain even the Tier 8 implant before the rope snapped.
• Yang Lie concluded the ability could control most experts below Martial God for a second and resolved to keep his true body out of the dangerous Anomalous World.

After Fan Donghai's team vanished while investigating Linquan Village, Yang Lie sent forty death row inmates to investigate the abnormality. He subdued the inmates who attacked him and offered to pardon Nie Guhe if he obeyed orders and survived the operation.

• Fan Donghai noticed Linquan Village was unnaturally quiet and tried to leave, but he and his two companions were killed when their heads rolled into the car.
• Jin Mingzhu told Yang Lie that Fan Donghai's team had lost contact, and Yang Lie ordered her to obtain forty serious offenders and death row inmates.
• Yang Lie took the inmates toward Linquan Village and warned them to follow his orders in exchange for possible reduced sentences or pardons.
• Balong attacked Yang Lie, but Yang Lie burned him alive with a spark; he then cut down six inmates who lunged at the humanoid intelligent robot driving the bus.
• Yang Lie identified himself as Guo Zinan, a Grandmaster with control over fire and wind, and promised to pardon Nie Guhe if he obeyed and survived the operation.