Chapter Summaries

Yang Lie lured Coulomb through a Dimensional Rift to Weird Star, where he killed him and gained the strength to advance to Martial Saint. After learning that the Shadow Assassin knew nothing about his employer, Yang Lie spoke with Ming Xin Hui, who revealed that several universities were relocating amid signs of a looming disaster.

• Yang Lie led Coulomb into Weird Star, shut the Dimensional Door, and used the Weird Clone and Ship-Slaying Blade to cut him apart and seal his remains.
• The Box of Rats purified Coulomb and produced a ninth-order Lord of Rats-type Evil God Origin Fruit, which Yang Lie swallowed before sensing he could advance to Martial Saint.
• Yang Lie read the Shadow Assassin's memories and learned that the assassin had accepted the job through the Dark Web without knowing who hired him.
• Yang Lie found Ming Xin Hui alive and learned that the Shi Yuan Family had pushed Bio-Armor University to use the Box of Rats to mass-produce Magic Rats.
• Ming Xin Hui told Yang Lie that Bio-Armor University, Starship University, and Mecha University were relocating to Blue Sea Star, possibly because a great disaster was approaching.

Yang Lie swallowed a Transcendence Pill and successfully advanced to Martial Saint in a secret chamber on Dragon Bone Mountain. His breakthrough drew congratulations from War University, and news of his new status spread to his friends and Da Ling Group.

• Yang Lie used the True Dragon Scripture to transform as he consumed a Transcendence Pill, while Ge Donghai waited anxiously outside.
• Ge Donghai celebrated when Yang Lie’s Martial Saint-level energy appeared, and professors Jiang Hongli and Shi An arrived to congratulate him.
• Yang Lie emerged from the chamber and confirmed his breakthrough, then left with Ge Donghai, Jiang Hongli, and Shi An.
• Ou Zilong, Nangong Hui, Shangguan Xuanhai, Ye Kongyao, and Zhao Meixian received the news and reacted to Yang Lie’s advancement.
• Xiao Zitong postponed her meetings and hurried back after learning that Yang Lie had advanced, while her secretary celebrated the benefits for Da Ling Group.

Fu Tianye negotiated with the Dark Web to renew his attempt on Yang Lie, while Yang Lie celebrated his advancement to Martial Saint with powerful allies. The chapter ended with Yun Zhaoming warning that Blue Sea Star would be left vulnerable as forces were sent to the front lines, where they would face the Yellow Sand Demon Lord.

• Fu Tianye learned Yang Lie had become a Martial Saint and agreed to trade intelligence about a Tier 9 Mech's maintenance for the Dark Web's renewed attempt to kill him.
• One month later, Yang Lie celebrated his advancement at a feast attended by Garo, Shangguan Xuanhai, and other prominent guests.
• Yun Zhaoming attended the feast, congratulated Yang Lie, and sat with He Zhen in the seat of honor.
• After the guests dispersed, Yun Zhaoming warned Yang Lie and the others that powerful forces would be conscripted to the front lines, leaving Blue Sea Star vulnerable.
• Yun Zhaoming identified their enemy as Evil God Yellow Sand Demon Lord, a subordinate of Mother of Spirit Blood.

Yang Lie learned that the Human Alliance was preparing to evade the powerful Mother of Spirit Blood, while Ning Haoke agreed to aid a statue-bound entity in exchange for advancement. On Weird Star, Yang Lie’s clone was drawn to the dead King of Anomalies and began using its power to form a defensive Evil God Forbidden Object.

• Yun Zhaoming told Yang Lie that the Human Alliance needed all its strength to face the mid-level Evil God Lord of Yellow Sand and could not contend with Mother of Spirit Blood, so it was clearing Her path.
• A voice in a ruin warned Ning Haoke that he could be exposed for his crimes if War University stopped protecting him, and Ning Haoke agreed to help in exchange for becoming a Martial Dao Grandmaster.
• Yang Lie’s Weird Clone was pulled underground on Weird Star, passed through a Dimensional Door, and found the dead King of Anomalies in a vast, frozen space.
• The King of Anomalies’ memories and power began consuming Yang Lie’s clone, but a green light from the divine tree helped preserve his awareness.
• Yang Lie used the Central Divine Tree to examine the King of Anomalies and sought to awaken briefly, consume its power, and condense a Forbidden Object suited for defense and escape.

Yang Lie used a mass ritual on Weird Star to obtain the Strange Box, an Evil God Forbidden Object that could protect him from rule-based attacks. Two months later, traitors and Lang Wu Xin’s demonic wolves launched a coordinated assault on War University.

• Yang Lie ordered Weird Star’s faction leaders to stage a blood-sacrifice ritual, and billions of people prayed to the King of Anomalies.
• Yang Lie briefly took control of the King of Anomalies through his Weird Clone, causing it to send down the Strange Box, which he purified and stored in his Small World.
• Yang Lie learned that the Strange Box could block rule-based attacks, conceal its user, and read the memories of the dead, though it needed rituals to replenish its power.
• Yang Lie continued hunting Tier 8 Monsters and cultivating the True Dragon Scripture for two months.
• Ning Haoke killed War University student Wang Xiang and destroyed a base station with a Tier 6 mech, while other traitors attacked across the university.
• Lang Wu Xin unleashed demonic wolves from the Myriad Manifestations of Demonic Wolves Diagram against War University.

Lang Wu Xin and the Evil God Cult attacked War University while many of its strongest fighters were away, forcing He Zhen and the remaining defenders into battle. Yang Lie slipped into the Evil God Forbidden Object Storage seeking power to affect the fight, where a request bearing He Zhen’s seal arrived at the guarded entrance.

• Lang Wu Xin, Liu Gu, and the Tier 10 Martial God Tai Ling led an assault on War University as hundreds of its Martial Saints mobilized to defend it.
• He Zhen confronted Tai Ling, and the two sides’ forces clashed as Tai Ling’s Blood River met He Zhen’s Five Elements Domain.
• Yang Lie concluded that he and Azure Dragon were too weak to influence the battle, discarded his wristwatch, and infiltrated the Evil God Forbidden Object Storage.
• Zheng Yuanliang and Wang Daquan presented Xu Lao and Niu Lao with an order bearing He Zhen’s seal and urged them to open the Sealed Hall.

Yang Lie stopped Zheng Yuanliang and Wang Daquan from stealing the Pale Ancient Tree Heart and killed the Tier 9 assassin Lady Poison Hummingbird. When he opened the heart’s seal, its rhythm began turning his body to wood.

• Wang Daquan used the Trance Bell to daze Xu Lao and Niu Lao, and Zheng Yuanliang killed them.
• Yang Lie ambushed Zheng Yuanliang and Wang Daquan, then killed Zheng Yuanliang after he survived the first attack with the Moulting Substitute Technique.
• Lady Poison Hummingbird attacked Yang Lie, but he trapped and crushed her with the Box of Oddities.
• Yang Lie read Zheng Yuanliang and Wang Daquan’s memories and learned they had come to steal the Pale Ancient Tree Heart and unleash its deadly power.
• Yang Lie entered the Sealed Hall, unlocked the Pale Ancient Tree Heart’s crystal rack, and began turning to wood as the heart beat.

Yang Lie absorbed the Pale Tree Heart into his Small World, gained the power to create Tree Ghosts, and used Evil God Forbidden Objects to cultivate Ninth Order Tree Ghosts. They intervened when Ge Donghai was ambushed, and Yang Lie sent them to fight his attackers.

• Yang Lie evolved his Small World by absorbing the Pale Tree Heart and learned that the Central Divine Tree could create Tree Ghosts.
• Yang Lie collected the Evil God Forbidden Objects in the Sealed Great Hall and used them to create a Ninth Order Tree Ghost.
• Ge Donghai sent Xiao Zitong and the others to shelter in a research institute, then went out to fight.
• A Ninth Order elephant-headed monster and the cloaked Fu Tianye attacked Ge Donghai and badly damaged his mecha.
• Yang Lie appeared with Ninth Order Tree Ghosts, which shielded Ge Donghai and besieged both attackers.

Yang Lie’s Tree Ghosts killed the Ninth Order elephant-headed monster and then defeated Fu Tianye, who had colluded with the Evil God Cult and attacked Ge Donghai. After leaving a Tree Ghost to guard Ge Donghai, Yang Lie headed to support the front lines.

• The Tree Ghosts bound, drained, and killed the Ninth Order elephant-headed monster, and Yang Lie stored its body in his Small World.
• Fu Tianye revealed his identity and ordered Yang Lie to stop, but Yang Lie accused him of conspiring with the Evil God Cult and chose to kill him rather than risk the Yuwen Family shielding him from punishment.
• Ge Donghai warned Yang Lie that Fu Tianye was Martial God Yuwen Kuang’s live-in son-in-law, but Yang Lie argued that the Alliance would likely let him evade a proper sentence.
• Fu Tianye used his Sword Domain against nine Ninth Order Tree Ghosts, but their combined Wood Domains overwhelmed him and drained him into a mummy.
• Yang Lie stored Fu Tianye’s corpse, left a Ninth Order Tree Ghost with Ge Donghai to protect his people, and went to support the front lines.

Yang Lie and Yun Shishi hunted the Evil God Cult’s forces across War University with help from Yang Lie’s eight Ninth Order Tree Ghosts. As Yang Lie spotted Gu Chong using an Evil God Forbidden Object against Great Martial Saint Wei Dong, Wei Dong attacked before Gu Chong could finish transforming.

• Yang Lie joined Yun Shishi’s fight against a bull-headed Ninth Order monster, and they killed it with the Tree Ghosts’ Wood Domains and Yang Lie’s water attack.
• Yang Lie and Yun Shishi rescued Professor Wu Pengfei from four Eighth Order cult experts, then disappeared under Yang Lie’s Dark Dragon Transformation.
• Yang Lie’s Tree Ghosts killed three Eighth Order Evil God Cult Martial Saints who were attacking Jiang Hongli.
• Yang Lie explained that they could kill Eighth Order enemies more efficiently than Ninth Order experts, and Yun Shishi set out to hunt on her own.
• Gu Chong drove the Saintly Corpse Bone into his spine and began transforming as Wei Dong struck him with a six-layer sword-intent attack.

Yang Lie and the Tree Ghosts killed Gu Chong and seized the Saintly Corpse Bone, while Yang Lie continued assassinating Evil God Cult powerhouses. As the battle turned against the cult, Lang Wu Xin used the Lord of Rats Forbidden Objects to hatch a monstrous rat creature.

• Gu Chong's Bone Power shattered Wei Dong's bones and killed humans below the fourth Extraordinary rank, but eight Tree Ghosts overwhelmed him and drained him to death.
• Yang Lie stored Gu Chong and the Saintly Corpse Bone, then healed Wei Dong before leaving with the Tree Ghosts to attack more Evil God Cult powerhouses.
• Yang Lie's ambushes killed one Tier 9 cult powerhouse after another, shifting the battle in War University's favor.
• Tai Ling called on Lang Wu Xin, who hid behind a Tier 9 Stone Giant and fed Lord of Rats Forbidden Objects into a pitch-black stone egg.
• Professor Trian attacked the stone egg, but it absorbed the rat swarm and hatched a ten-meter-tall, black-furred monster with a rat's head.

The King of Rats slaughtered War University fighters until Yang Lie summoned the King of Anomalies to the battlefield. The King of Anomalies overwhelmed the rat monster, piercing it even after it split into countless rats to escape.

• The King of Rats killed Lang Wu Xin and Professor Trian, then swallowed Professor Leonid after regenerating from his attack.
• The War University professors realized the King of Rats was a Tenth Order monster, and He Zhen considered retreating because they could not form a martial formation.
• Yang Lie prayed to the King of Anomalies and used the Central Divine Tree to awaken it and bring its tentacle through a Dimensional Door to HaiLan Star.
• The King of Anomalies' presence caused people across Blue Sea Star to sense its arrival, while some who looked at its tentacle mutated into monsters.
• The King of Rats tried to flee by splitting into countless rats, but the King of Anomalies drew them back together and pierced its body.

Yang Lie used the King of Anomalies to kill the King of Rats and Tai Ling, then returned to Ge Donghai and offered to take him away. He Zhen revealed that the Human Alliance cooperated with True Gods and invited the King of Anomalies to become its fifth True God, leaving Yang Lie to consider the proposal.

• The King of Anomalies killed Tai Ling and dropped his corpse and the King of Rats' corpse before Yang Lie, who stored them in his Small World.
• Yang Lie returned to Ge Donghai's shelter and explained that he had summoned the King of Anomalies to defeat two invading powerhouses, then asked Ge Donghai to leave with him.
• He Zhen appeared and assured Yang Lie that he meant no harm, asking him to stay and talk.
• He Zhen explained that the Human Alliance distinguished True Gods from Evil Gods by whether they could communicate and were willing to protect humanity, and that the Four Great True Gods had helped the alliance defeat Evil Gods.
• He Zhen offered to recognize the King of Anomalies as the alliance's fifth True God if It agreed not to kill people and accepted living sacrifices provided by the alliance.

Yang Lie left War University with Zhao Meixian, Xiao Zitong, and Ye Kongyao to avoid being detained for colluding with an Evil God, then returned to He Zhen to explain the King of Anomalies’ role. He Zhen planned to propose the King as the Human Alliance’s fifth True God, but said Yang Lie first had to undergo testing for mental corruption.

• He Zhen told Yang Lie that the Human Alliance might tolerate agents of neutral gods, and Yang Lie went to the shelter to invite his companions to leave with him.
• Zhao Meixian, Xiao Zitong, and Ye Kongyao joined Yang Lie, while Garo, Shangguan Xuanhai, and Nangong Hui stayed behind because they feared consequences for their families.
• He Zhen revealed the Human Alliance’s secret willingness to negotiate with some gods, while Ge Donghai warned that he did not trust the other Martial Gods.
• Yang Lie took the three women through a Dimensional Door to Weird Star and settled them in his territory.
• Yang Lie told He Zhen that the King of Anomalies had acted in exchange for the Evil God Forbidden Objects, and gave him evidence that he had killed only the traitor.
• He Zhen said he would propose the King of Anomalies as the Human Alliance’s fifth True God and make Yang Lie his first Pope, pending a test for Evil God corruption.

He Zhen presented Yang Lie and the King of Anomalies to the Martial God Roundtable, which debated making the deity the Human Alliance’s fifth orthodox god. Yang Lie accepted the proposed conditions but required powerful Evil God Forbidden Objects to summon the King of Anomalies, and He Zhen brought him to a replenished Sealed Hall.

• He Zhen told the Martial God Roundtable that Yang Lie had summoned the King of Anomalies to defeat the Evil God Cult and proposed recognizing the deity as an orthodox god.
• The Martial Gods reviewed Yang Lie’s files, and several supported He Zhen’s proposal while Yuwen Kuang demanded that Yang Lie marry Yuwen Liuli.
• Yuwen Kuang agreed to support the proposal if Yuwen Liuli could be Yang Lie’s equal wife, and Liu Shanlong asked the King of Anomalies to prove its strength and attitude toward humanity in an operation.
• He Zhen relayed the Martial Gods’ conditions to Yang Lie, who agreed but required many sacrifices and powerful Evil God Forbidden Objects to summon the King of Anomalies.
• He Zhen took Yang Lie back to the Sealed Hall, where they found it stocked with Evil God Forbidden Objects again.

Yang Lie negotiated a share of the spoils for helping the Human Alliance summon the King of Anomalies against the Lord of Rats, then strengthened himself and prepared to hunt in the Monster Origin World. The chapter ended as he released his Tenth Order Tree Ghost to attack a ninth-order giant monster.

• Yang Lie agreed to help the Human Alliance summon the King of Anomalies in exchange for the largest share of the target's spoils, and He Zhen revealed they planned to hunt the twelfth-order Lord of Rats.
• Yang Lie created a Tenth Order Tree Ghost and swallowed the King of Rats' Sub-God Level Source Fruit, advancing to the fourth level of the Martial Saint Realm.
• Yang Lie consumed his remaining Extraordinary Source Fruits and advanced to the fifth level of the Martial Saint Realm.
• Yang Lie entered the Monster Origin World and found a sleeping ninth-order giant monster with thirteen bear heads and eyes covering its body.
• Yang Lie released the Tenth Order Tree Ghost and ordered it to attack the giant monster.

Yang Lie killed a ninth-order beast with his Tenth Order Tree Ghost, then became a professor at War University and met his fiancée Yuwen Liuli. After the Alliance recognized the King of Anomalies as its Fifth True God, Yang Lie gathered his companions to establish the Oddity God Sect, leaving them to decide who would serve as its Saintess.

• Yang Lie used his Tree Ghost’s Wood Domain to kill a ninth-order beast and collected its corpse.
• The Human Alliance announced that the King of Anomalies was its Fifth True God and permitted people to worship Him.
• He Zhen showed Yang Lie his new laboratory and explained the benefits of his professorship at War University.
• Yuwen Liuli introduced herself as Yang Lie’s fiancée and explained that the Yuwen Family hoped to reconcile with him through their marriage alliance.
• Yang Lie introduced Yuwen Liuli to his companions, then announced that Xiao Zitong was also his fiancée.
• Yang Lie proposed copying the Extermination God Sect’s structure for the Oddity God Sect, named himself pope, and asked who would be its Saintess.

Yang Lie accepted the Blood Throne from He Zhen and used it to evolve his Small World, increasing his control over the King of Anomalies to ten percent. At the Human Alliance’s gathering, Ming Yizhen sacrificed himself to conceal heaven’s secrets for three hours, and Ophelia began praying for divine power to bless the Moon God Demon-Slaying Spear.

• Zhao Meixian became Saintess of the newly established Oddity God Sect, which Yang Lie kept deliberately small to avoid conflict with the Four Great Churches.
• He Zhen gave Yang Lie the Blood Throne and asked the King of Anomalies to act within three days in exchange for a prepared sacrifice.
• Yang Lie absorbed the Blood Throne into his Small World, which evolved and strengthened his control over the King of Anomalies to ten percent.
• He Zhen gathered ten Martial Gods and Ming Yizhen, who sacrificed himself with the Heavenly Secret Net to conceal heaven’s secrets for three hours.
• Ophelia prayed to the Great Moon God Ceres to bless the Moon God Demon-Slaying Spear with the power to kill Evil Gods.

Kane and the Human Alliance attacked the Lord of Rats on Rat God Star, using powerful ships, mechs, and divine assistance to overwhelm him. As the Lord of Rats tried to flee, Yang Lie summoned the King of Anomalies, whose arrival terrified Ophelia.

• Ophelia’s Moon God Demon-Slaying Spear received the gathered faith of the Moon God Church, and Kane vanished to join the attack.
• Shu Yiheng ordered one hundred virgins prepared for the Lord of Rats, then watched Kane’s warship emerge and bombard the Rat God Palace.
• The Lord of Rats resisted Kane’s Pale Ancient Tree warship, but Du Shentong and Warrek fused their Black Giant King mechs and struck him, prompting him to flee.
• Yun Zhaoming trapped the fleeing Lord of Rats in webs, while He Zhen called on Yang Lie to summon the King of Anomalies.
• Yang Lie’s ritual sacrificed one million death-row prisoners and two Tree Ghosts, opening a Dimensional Door through which the King of Anomalies descended.
• Ophelia saw the King of Anomalies’ tentacles and felt more fear than she had from any Evil God she had hunted.

The King of Anomalies killed the Lord of Rats with a single strike, astonishing the Human Alliance’s Martial Gods and strengthening the Oddity God Sect’s standing. He Zhen offered Yang Lie two-thirds of the remains by their agreement, then asked to buy some of his share for the Alliance.

• The Lord of Rats tried to break free from Yun Zhaoming’s webs, but the King of Anomalies pierced its head and killed it despite its attempt to split into flying rats.
• Kane, Du Shentong, Yun Zhaoming, Ophelia, and Yuwen Kuang witnessed the King of Anomalies’ power, while Yuwen Kuang reflected that he had wisely resolved his grudge with Yang Lie.
• The King of Anomalies’ tentacle withdrew, and Yang Lie sighed with relief, knowing he could control it for only one attack and risked having his consciousness eroded.
• He Zhen told Yang Lie that the King of Anomalies had earned two-thirds of the operation’s contribution and offered him two-thirds of the Lord of Rats’ remains.
• He Zhen asked Yang Lie to sell part of his share so the Human Alliance could receive half of the remains, and Yang Lie asked why the Alliance wanted them.