Chapter Summaries

Loran Kane defied his family’s warning and entered the Kane Lineage’s forbidden area, where he found the wounded Qilin Lei Lin and formed a contract with it. After the bond strengthened him, black-robed attackers began forcing their way through the barrier, and Loran prepared to face them.

• Loran learned that the royal city had delayed reinforcements for three months and decided to seek the first family head’s inheritance in the forbidden area.
• Loran forced his way through the barrier before his coming-of-age ceremony and discovered a wounded crimson Qilin named Lei Lin.
• Loran used his last healing potion on Lei Lin, who formed a contract with him and restored his power, bringing his warrior cultivation to the Third Tier.
• Old Byrne warned Loran that black-robed people had broken through the outer defenses and were attacking the forbidden area’s barrier.
• Loran hid the sleeping Lei Lin, ignited his sword with fire magic and Dou Qi, and advanced to stop the attackers.

Loran reinforced the forbidden-grounds barrier with his power and fought the Bone-Eroding Cult leader until Lei Lin awoke and shielded him with crimson light. After the cult leader escaped, Loran learned Lei Lin was the cult’s target and opened the Kane Lineage’s secret chamber to seek a way to heal him.

• Loran discovered that his bloodline power strengthened the barrier and poured battle qi and magic into it while the black-robed leader attacked him with a poisoned ray.
• Loran left the barrier to fight the black-robed men, but Lei Lin awakened and protected him from the leader’s deadly ray with crimson light.
• Old Byrne’s guards killed two attackers and surrounded the leader, who escaped by crushing a black talisman and left behind a badge bearing the Bone-Eroding Cult’s emblem.
• Old Byrne identified the cult and explained that its members hunted divine beasts, while Loran learned the cult sought Lei Lin and that the Purification Crystal might suppress his Evil Qi.
• Loran and Old Byrne reached the secret chamber, where Loran used his Kane bloodline power and magic to open its first stone door.

Loran and Old Byrne entered the Kane Lineage’s secret chamber, where Loran opened the trial gate and reached the third tier as a Fire Element mage. After the purification crystal healed Lei Lin, the Bone-Eroding Cult approached Fallen Maple Territory, and Loran prepared to defend it.

• Loran and Old Byrne explored the heritage passage and learned about the Snow Spirit Qilin that had contracted with the first lineage head.
• Loran failed to open the Dual Power Trial Gate on his first attempt, then synchronized his Dou Qi and magic to open it and broke through to third-tier Fire Element magic.
• Loran carried Lei Lin beneath the purification crystal, which cleansed its Evil Qi and merged into its body, restoring its strength.
• Loran and Old Byrne read the platform’s message about twin qilin before a guard warned that the Bone-Eroding Cult was approaching Fallen Maple Territory.
• Loran, Lei Lin, Old Byrne, and the remaining guards prepared to defend the territory against the approaching cultists.

Loran and Lei Lin defended Fallen Maple Territory from the Bone-Eroding Cult, discovering that their powers could combine to purify poison and defeat a powerful phantom. After the cult leader escaped, Loran resolved to strengthen the territory and seek the Snow Spirit Qilin and the secret of “Two Qilins appear in the world.”

• Loran split the guards between Maple Leaf Forest and the lord's manor as Rotting Bone Bats attacked, and Lei Lin's flames helped repel them.
• The black-robed leader unleashed Bone-Eroding Vines, so Loran charged him while Lei Lin kept the bats occupied.
• The leader's Bone-Eroding Shield absorbed Loran's Battle Qi Slash, and a blast of evil energy wounded Loran and poisoned him.
• Lei Lin told Loran to combine his Dou Qi with its flames, allowing them to purify his poison and fuse their powers against the leader's phantom.
• Loran and Lei Lin destroyed the phantom and wounded the leader, but he escaped after crushing a black talisman; the battle left the guards depleted and injured.
• Loran and Old Byrne discussed the Snow Spirit Qilin, and Loran vowed to investigate the lineage's ancient records and prepare for the Bone-Eroding Cult's return.

Loran and Lei Lin learned from the Kane Lineage's ancient texts how to find the Frostfire Secret Realm and set out for the Blackthorn Mountains to seek the Snow Spirit Qilin. They found Bone-Eroding Cult members attacking an Icefield Wolf near the realm, and prepared to intervene.

• Lei Lin exposed and destroyed a tracking curse hidden in the black-robed leader's bone staff, prompting Loran to search the lineage's ancient texts for the Frostfire Secret Realm.
• Loran and Lei Lin discovered that the Frostfire Ice Crystal could guide them to the realm, whose dangers included a fourth-tier beast and spacetime turbulence.
• Loran entrusted Fallen Maple Territory to Old Byrne and departed with Lei Lin for the Blackthorn Mountains after preparing supplies.
• Loran used a new dual-power move, Ice and Fire Slash, to kill three Blackthorn Wild Boars.
• Following the Frostfire Ice Crystal's growing light, Loran and Lei Lin found five Bone-Eroding Cult figures poisoning an Icefield Wolf and prepared to attack.

Loran and Lei Lin rescued the Icefield Wolf from Bone-Eroding Cult members and followed it to the Frostfire Secret Realm. They entered the realm with the wolf’s help, but found that the Snow Spirit Qilin was in danger inside the ice crystal palace.

• Loran and Lei Lin defeated the Bone-Eroding Cult attackers, and a surviving cultist revealed that the Bone Serpent Priest sought the Snow Spirit Qilin’s blood essence to make an Evil Bone Pill before dying from a poison curse.
• Loran and Lei Lin healed the Icefield Wolf, which used the Frostfire Ice Crystal to reveal the secret realm’s location and led them through the Blackthorn Mountains.
• At the valley entrance, the Icefield Wolf communicated with the Ice and Fire Two-Headed Python, persuading it to let Loran and Lei Lin pass.
• Loran and Lei Lin entered the Frostfire Secret Realm, where the dense ice and fire elements strengthened them and loosened Loran’s barrier at the peak of the third tier.
• The Icefield Wolf hurried toward the ice crystal palace, where Loran and Lei Lin sensed the Snow Spirit Qilin’s weakened aura and discovered sinister energy coming from inside.

Loran and Lei Lin rescued Snow Spirit Qilin from the Bone Serpent Priest after their Qilin Resonance helped Loran break through to the fourth tier. They learned the Bone-Eroding Cult was preparing a ritual in Bone Valley to open a passage to the Evil Bone Plane, and set out to seek reinforcements.

• The Bone Serpent Priest attacked Loran and Lei Lin while using an Evil Bone Barrier to keep them from reaching the chained Snow Spirit Qilin.
• Snow Spirit Qilin and Lei Lin triggered Qilin Resonance, empowering them and helping Loran merge his Dou Qi and magic to break through to the fourth tier.
• Loran defeated the Bone Serpent Priest’s nine-headed serpent phantom, shattered the barrier, and freed Snow Spirit Qilin.
• Snow Spirit Qilin and Lei Lin trapped the priest before he could detonate a Bone-Eroding Bomb, but he killed himself with poison after warning them about the Bone-Eroding Cult’s plans.
• Snow Spirit Qilin revealed that the cult was preparing the Evil Bone Grand Formation in Bone Valley to open a passage to the Evil Bone Plane.
• Loran decided to return to Fallen Maple Territory for Uncle Byrne and reinforcements before heading to Bone Valley with Lei Lin, Snow Spirit Qilin, and the icefield wolf.

Loran and the twin qilin returned to Fallen Maple Territory as the Bone-Eroding Cult pursued them and sabotaged the territory. After defeating infiltrators and uncovering a trap aimed at the twin qilin, Loran found a map to Bone Valley and planned to strengthen the group at the Ice and Fire Spring before confronting the cult.

• Snow Spirit Qilin estimated that the Evil Bone Grand Formation would open a passage to the Evil Bone Plane in about half a month, and Loran hurried toward Fallen Maple Territory.
• Loran and the twin qilin defeated five fourth-tier Bone Demons in the Blackthorn Mountains and discovered that more cultists were lying in ambush nearby.
• Old Byrne told Loran that royal reinforcements had been diverted and that the Bone-Eroding Cult had destroyed a third of the territory's grain; Snow Spirit Qilin also found tracking powder on Old Byrne.
• Loran killed an infiltrator disguised as a guard and found a talisman demanding that the twin qilin be brought to the west gate within three days.
• Loran and the twin qilin used the icefield wolf as a decoy to lure the cultists into activating their Evil Bone Trap, then defeated the ambushers and recovered a map showing three Saint-tier experts guarded the Evil Bone Pillar.
• Snow Spirit Qilin found an Ice and Fire Spring marked on the map, and Loran decided the group would cultivate there before heading to Bone Valley.

Loran and the two qilins strengthened themselves at the Ice and Fire Spring before defeating Bone-Eroding Cult trackers and uncovering a plot against Fallen Maple Territory. They chose to attack the nearly completed Evil Bone Grand Formation at its source and entered Bone Valley to destroy the Evil Bone Pillar.

• Loran reached the middle stage of the fourth tier, Lei Lin attained fifth-tier strength, and Snow Spirit Qilin repaired his source of cold and learned the Ice Prison Formation.
• Loran and the two qilins defeated three Bone Crow Envoys who attacked and poisoned Icefield Wolf, with Loran killing their transformed leader.
• Loran learned from a captive and a token that fifty Blood Bone Knights had been sent toward Fallen Maple Territory and would arrive in three days.
• Snow Spirit Qilin decoded a secret letter revealing that the attack would lure the qilins into a trap and that their blood essence was needed to open a planar passage.
• Loran chose to head directly to Bone Valley to destroy the Evil Bone Pillar, while Snow Spirit Qilin treated Icefield Wolf and traveled ahead with Lei Lin.
• Loran reunited with his companions outside Bone Valley two days later and led their attack on the nearly completed formation despite the presence of three Saint-level experts.

Loran and his companions fought to stop the Bone-Eroding Cult’s Evil Bone Grand Formation, and Loran broke through to the late fourth tier before destroying the Heart of Evil Bone. The Bone-Eroding Pope then appeared with power nearing the God level, leaving Loran and Elder White preparing for a decisive battle.

• Lei Lin attacked the Blood Bone Knights while Snow Spirit Qilin and the icefield wolf disrupted the cultists guarding the Evil Bone Pillar.
• Loran failed to break the pillar’s shield, then fought Elder Purple Snake and broke through to the late fourth tier to defeat his Saint-level attack.
• Elder Black Bone appeared and strengthened the formation, but Elder White arrived and held off both elders while Loran attacked the pillar.
• Loran destroyed the Heart of Evil Bone, interrupting the formation and causing the planar rift to begin closing.
• The Bone-Eroding Pope appeared with power nearing the God level, and Loran and Elder White prepared to face him.

Loran, Lei Lin, Snow Spirit Qilin, and Elder White fought the Bone-Eroding Cult's demigod-level pope in Bone Valley. Loran wounded him by fusing the origins of ice and fire, and reinforcements drove the pope away, but the threat remained.

• The pope emerged in Bone Valley and overwhelmed Elder White and Loran with his demigod-level power.
• Lei Lin and Snow Spirit Qilin formed the Twin Qilin Guardian Barrier, and Loran joined their power with his Ice and Fire Domain to resist the pope's attack.
• As the barrier began to fail, Loran fused his power with the qilins' ice-and-fire origins, broke through to early fifth tier, and wounded the pope with the Twin Qilin Ice and Fire God-Breaking Slash.
• The pope exposed his evil core and tried to open a larger planar passage, but Old Byrne and royal capital reinforcements arrived and forced him to retreat.
• Elder White healed Loran as the generals cleared Bone Valley, and Snow Spirit Qilin warned that they needed to grow stronger before the pope returned.

Loran and his companions trained in the Radiant Temple, gaining new powers before setting out to stop the Bone-Eroding Pope from awakening a Nether Bone Dragon. The chapter ended with Loran’s party racing toward the Bone Abyss as the pope prepared to sacrifice over a thousand captives.

• Loran, Lei Lin, Snow Spirit Qilin, and the icefield wolf used the Holy Spring to heal and strengthen themselves, while Loran developed a three-element Purification Slash.
• After three days, Loran stabilized at early fifth tier, the two qilin reached middle fifth tier, and the icefield wolf reached peak fourth tier.
• Elder White revealed that the Bone-Eroding Pope was preparing a Blood Bone Sacrificial Formation to awaken the Nether Bone Dragon and restore his power.
• Liya arrived with elven aid, and Elder White provided saint-rank knights and a Radiant Teleportation Scroll for the expedition.
• Loran’s party departed for the Bone Abyss at dawn, while the pope held over a thousand captives for the planned sacrifice.

Loran and his companions attacked the Blood Bone Sacrificial Formation in the Bone Abyss, destroyed its nexus, and rescued the civilians, but the Nether Bone Dragon began awakening anyway. With Elder White's reinforcements, they purified the Ice Dragon Magicite Core and put the dragon back to sleep, while the Bone-Eroding Pontiff escaped; the group left knowing the threat remained.

• Liya gave Loran and the Saint-level knights Tree of Life pendants to protect them from the evil-corrosion spores, and Snow Spirit Qilin scouted the abyss with Radiant Ice Doves.
• Loran split the group between fighting the black-robed figures, freeing the civilians, and destroying the formation's core, but the Bone-Eroding Pontiff arrived and forced the formation to accelerate the Nether Bone Dragon's awakening.
• Loran and the two qilin shattered the nexus pillar and its evil crystal with Three-Element Evil-Breaking Slash, but the dragon's consciousness awakened and the pontiff transformed to attack them.
• Loran and the qilin suppressed the dragon's awakening while Snow Spirit Qilin identified an Ice Dragon Magicite Core that could seal it, and Elder White arrived with temple knights and drove the pontiff away.
• Loran, Lei Lin, and Snow Spirit Qilin purified the Ice Dragon Magicite Core, returning the Nether Bone Dragon to slumber, while Liya treated the rescued civilians and the group prepared to leave the Bone Abyss.

Loran organized an alliance to stop the Pope from completing the Evil Bone Battle Armor, sending Liya to seek the Bronzebeard dwarves while leading a scouting party toward the Blackstone Mountain Range. As the Pope’s armor neared completion, both sides advanced toward an impending battle.

• Loran returned to Fallen Maple Territory with the rescued civilians, and he, Elder White, and Old Byrne learned that the Pope had fled to the Blackstone Mountain Range to exploit an evil mine and an Evil Bone passage.
• A rescued civilian’s Bone-Eroding Evil Seed awakened, but Loran, Liya, and Snow Spirit Qilin subdued and purified him; Elder White warned that other civilians might carry seeds, and Liya arranged for the elves to send Dew of Life.
• Over three days, Loran’s group treated civilians and trained while the elves sent Dew of Life and fifty Nature Guard warriors; Elder White reported that the Pope was forging Evil Bone Battle Armor and seeking help from the Black Dwarf Tribe.
• Liya proposed seeking aid from the Bronzebeard dwarves, and Loran split the forces: Liya rode east with elven warriors while Loran, Elder White, the qilins, and the saint-level knights headed for the Blackstone Mountain Range.
• As Loran’s group approached the mine, the Pope learned that a Black Dwarf envoy would help finish the armor in exchange for territory, and he vowed to complete it in three days and kill Loran.

Loran’s party scouted the Blackstone Mountain evil mine and discovered the pope was forging Evil Bone Battle Armor and planned to summon an Evil Bone General. After retreating and joining forces with the Bronzebeard dwarves and Liya’s elves, Loran organized an assault that began at dawn.

• Loran and the three saint-level knights silently eliminated an Evil Bone Guard patrol before Snow Spirit Qilin sent an ice dove to scout the mine.
• The ice dove revealed the Evil Bone Battle Armor was nearly complete and the Bone-Corroding Emissary planned to summon an Evil Bone General, but the pope spotted the scout and sent forces after Loran’s party.
• Loran’s party fought its way out of the pursuit and decided to target the tunnels, where the dark dwarves needed to mine evil soul steel.
• Loran learned that Liya had persuaded Copper Hammer and the Bronzebeard dwarves to bring Sacred Hammer Warriors, smiths, and sacred ore to support the assault.
• Loran, Copper Hammer, Liya, and Elder White agreed on a four-pronged attack against the vein, Evil Bone Passage, perimeter forces, and furnace.
• At dawn, Loran’s combined force set out for the evil mine to destroy the armor and prevent the Evil Bone General from being summoned.

Loran and his allies attacked the evil mine on four fronts, destroying the cannon battery and evil soul steel vein, sealing the Evil Bone Passage, and defeating the pope. The pope survived despite losing his evil core, so Loran and the others prepared to hunt him down before he could recover.

• Copper Hammer led the Sacred Hammer warriors through the eastern tunnel, where they overcame the evil iron golems after Liya cleared the strengthening evil mist with her nature magic.
• Liya and the elven guards trapped the Bone-Eroding Emissary and continued sealing the Evil Bone Passage while Elder White and the knights destroyed the cannon battery and cleared the perimeter.
• Loran fought the pope beside the furnace, and his sacred-ore-coated sword cracked the evil bone battle armor while Lei Lin and Snow Spirit Qilin protected him.
• After learning that the passage was nearly sealed, the ore vein destroyed, and the perimeter clear, Loran joined Elder White, Liya, and Copper Hammer in stopping the pope's self-destruct attack and shattering his evil core.
• The furnace went dark and the valley's evil mist dispersed, but Elder White warned that the pope was still alive, and Loran vowed to track him down.

Loran discovered that the pope was using a Soul-Devouring Ritual to recover his strength and learned that the pope planned to claim the Bone Heart at the Evil Bone Altar in the Extreme Cold Icefield. Loran gathered elven and dwarven reinforcements for a race to stop him, while the pope waited at the awakening altar.

• Liya deciphered the Evil Bone Fragmentary Scroll, and Loran learned that the pope could restore his damaged Evil Core with a Soul Crystal refined from living souls.
• Loran and his companions found the pope performing the ritual near Graystone Town, rescued the bound villagers, and uncovered a map and scrolls revealing the Evil Bone Altar and its Bone Heart in the Extreme Cold Icefield.
• Loran learned that the Bone Heart would awaken in three days and that the pope intended to unite it with the Soul Crystal and Evil Core to become the Lord of Evil Bones.
• Loran and Elder White rallied the elves and Bronzebeard Dwarves, and the combined forces set out for the Extreme Cold Icefield.
• The pope waited before the awakening Bone Heart beneath the ice, promising to kill Loran when he arrived.

Loran and his companions fought through the corrupted Extreme Cold Icefield and reached the Evil Bone Altar, where the pope was using the Soul Crystal and Evil Core to prepare the Bone Heart’s awakening. After they breached the altar’s barrier, Loran and the pope clashed as the Bone Heart pulsed and the final battle began.

• Loran’s party defeated an Ice Soul Giant Bear and purified its evil soul, then fought through more corrupted beasts on their way to the altar.
• Loran confronted the pope, who activated a barrier and used the Soul Crystal to repair the Evil Core and increase his power.
• Loran combined his power with Lei Lin and Snow Spirit Qilin to find the barrier’s weak rune, while Elder Aila and Liya led the others against the summoned beasts.
• Loran, Chief Copper Hammer, Elder White, Lei Lin, and Snow Spirit Qilin broke the altar’s energy node and opened a breach in the barrier.
• The pope descended from the altar at late saint level and attacked Loran, whose combined strike with Lei Lin and Snow Spirit Qilin forced both combatants back.
• The pope charged again as Lei Lin and Snow Spirit Qilin shielded Loran, the Icefield Wolf waited to strike, and the Bone Heart’s pulse quickened.

Loran unified his three elemental powers with the qilins’ sacrificed origins, defeated the Pope, and helped seal the bone heart. A month later, he celebrated peace in Fallen Maple Territory and declined the Radiant Temple’s offer to become an Emissary of Light, while promising to protect the continent if danger returned.

• The Pope overwhelmed Loran and his companions, while his evil power trapped Elder White and Chief Tongchui in an evil bone cage.
• Lei Lin and Snow Spirit Qilin sacrificed part of their origins to help Loran break through to the fifth tier and unify his three elemental powers.
• Loran severed the Pope’s bone wings, then used the awakened power of the bone heart to purify and destroy him.
• Elder Aila, Chief Tongchui, Elder White, and Loran combined the Tree of Life, sacred ore, holy spring, and unified elemental power to seal the bone heart and cleanse the Extreme Cold Icefield.
• One month later, Loran celebrated in Fallen Maple Territory and refused the Radiant Temple’s invitation to become an Emissary of Light, choosing to remain with his family and companions.

Loran and his companions traveled to Green Forest Town to stop evil vines that were attacking villagers, then destroyed their Vine King in the Old Elven Ruins. Elder Aila identified traces of the Abyss Insect Race from the Rotting Soul Abyss, leaving Loran facing evidence of a new threat.

• Elder Aila found Evil Vine Spores on a leaf, and an envoy told Loran that aggressive vines had attacked Green Forest Town and infected villagers.
• Loran led Lei Lin, Liya, Snow Spirit Qilin, and the Icefield Wolf to Green Forest Town, where they discovered the vines were tied to the Old Elven Ruins.
• The party fought off the evil vines and learned that a Vine King was growing inside the ruins and threatening the corroded elven guardian runes.
• Loran and his companions attacked the Vine King, and Liya used a Spirit-Calming Flower to protect Loran from its remnant-soul attack as he destroyed its core.
• The Vine King's vines withered and released the villagers' souls, while Elder Aila found traces of the Abyss Insect Race and warned that they came from the Rotting Soul Abyss.