Chapter Summaries

After a fourth fire meteor appeared, Nagesi questioned Zhang Xuezhou about the coordinate transmissions and learned of the giant moth in the Thousand Islands Alliance. Convinced enough to investigate, Nagesi joined Zhang Xuezhou’s group on a flight to hunt the creature.

• Omega alerted Nagesi that a fourth fire meteor had appeared, and Nagesi returned to question Zhang Xuezhou about who was transmitting coordinates.
• Zhang Xuezhou pointed Nagesi toward the Thousand Islands Alliance and described the ferocious giant moth in the Gebala Cave Corridor as a possible source of the transmissions.
• Nagesi agreed to help hunt the giant moth and arranged for Zhang Xuezhou’s detained companions to be released.
• Nagesi assembled Angus and Arnold, coordinated with the Thousand Islands Alliance, and invited Qimeng Haige to join the mission.
• Zhang Xuezhou, Nagesi, and their companions boarded Nagesi’s airliner for Shuangliu Airport, leaving the group puzzled by how quickly he had gained Nagesi’s support.

Zhang Xuezhou and Nagesi learned that the giant moth had plunged Laiyata City into chaos and that the Thousand Islands Alliance had lost track of it. Nagesi demanded a massive search within twenty-four hours, while Tuer Kalanduo recognized that the operation could shift power back to the Tuer Clan’s chieftains.

• Tuer Kalanduo explained that warnings and evacuation efforts had failed, and that people in Laiyata City had transformed into worms and giant moths.
• Gongyi Xingguangyu and Tuer Kalanduo admitted that they had no recent information on Laiyata City or the giant moth’s location.
• Nagesi demanded that at least a thousand soldiers search Laiyata City and produce an answer within twenty-four hours.
• Gongyi Xingguangyu ordered a thorough search and asked the council members and Tuer Kalanduo to support the operation.
• Tuer Kalanduo realized that the council’s operation could destroy unruly Divine Grace Lineages and return power to the Tuer Clan’s chieftains.

The Thousand Islands Alliance mobilized a huge force to investigate Laiyata City within Nagesi’s twenty-four-hour deadline. As the search teams set out, Nagesi spotted a fifth fiery meteor and prepared to confront the possibility that a giant moth had descended.

• The Tuer Clan mobilized more than 2,300 people for the Laiyata City search, while Tuer Kalanduo learned from Zhang Xuezhou and Tuer Kelanduo why the Lineage heads had to send elites.
• Nagesi criticized the region’s poor transport infrastructure as aircraft and trucks carried the search teams toward Laiyata City.
• Nagesi spotted a red streak in the sky and recognized it as the fifth fiery meteor, considering several reasons a giant moth might be broadcasting its coordinates.
• Nagesi agreed with Zhang Xuezhou that they had to go to Laiyata City immediately and called on Tuer Bato, Gongyi Xingguangyu, and the other Sequence-level fighters to prepare.
• Gongyi Xingguangyu revealed that two hundred rockets would be ready in about a day and a half, and the group planned to bombard the giant moth once they confirmed its location.

As the group traveled toward Laiyata City, Ren Anran, Zhou Rihui, Wang Li, and Zhang Xuezhou discussed disaster response, Nagesi’s authority, and the dangers of fighting the giant moth. Zhang Xuezhou planned to have Zhou Rihui retrieve the beast’s Demon Core if the stronger fighters killed it.

• Ren Anran, Zhou Rihui, and Wang Li discussed how the Scarlet Alliance State might respond to disasters and why rapid, authoritative orders mattered.
• Zhang Xuezhou said Nagesi had likely silenced opposition by killing his opponents, and Zhou Rihui complained about the injuries he had suffered.
• Zhang Xuezhou explained that his cultivation had strengthened his healing ability, delighting Zhou Rihui, who hoped to avoid treatment with silver needles.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Zhou Rihui discussed using powerful firearms against the giant moth, while Ren Anran and Wang Li pointed out the practical limits of explosives and the value of Sequence abilities.
• Zhang Xuezhou weighed whether Qimeng Haige and Nagesi could survive the giant moth’s attacks and decided Zhou Rihui should retrieve its Demon Core if they killed it.

Zhang Xuezhou arranged for Zhou Rihui to retrieve the giant moth’s Demon Core and traveled with the others to a military base near Laiyata City. After assessing the base and the danger of the coming battle, he planned to shelter underground and approach the moth’s remains for its core.

• Zhang Xuezhou urged Zhou Rihui to obtain the giant moth’s Demon Core so it could serve as a catalyst for his Potent Spirit-Forging Pill.
• Zhang Xuezhou and his companions reached the military zone near Laiyata City, where Tuer Kelanduo warned Tuer Kalanduo to be careful about forms of address amid factional tensions.
• Tuer Kelanduo showed Zhang Xuezhou the base’s weapons and execution stakes while explaining its layout and the political conflicts within the Tuer Religion.
• Ren Anran advised that underground spaces offered the best shelter from the giant moth, while Zhang Xuezhou discussed how Nagesi and Qimeng Haige might fight and use others as distractions.
• Zhang Xuezhou decided to hide at the military base and try to reach the giant moth’s Demon Core after it fell.

Nagesi's team searched for the giant moth Ferocious Beast while debating the dangers of confronting it, until a message arrived claiming to know its location. Wang Li recognized the account demanding the reward as Song Fengying's, leaving him alarmed that his partner had entered the danger zone.

• Nagesi and Qimeng Haige discussed how to kill the giant moth, and Tuer Yongduolu revealed that Tuer Lantu had fought it before being beaten to death.
• The communications department received a message claiming the giant moth's location in exchange for a thirty-million-alliance-coin reward.
• Gongyi Xingguangyu agreed to pay, but the team struggled to reply because no one could write in the Scarlet Alliance State's script.
• Wang Li wrote a reply asking the sender to identify themselves, and the sender responded with an account number demanding payment first.
• Wang Li recognized the account as Song Fengying's alternate account and feared that his partner had entered the danger zone seeking a scoop.

Zhang Xuezhou learned that his mother, Song Fengying, had entered Laiyata City and was photographing the giant moth from dangerously close range. As he tried to persuade her to escape, she demanded thirty million and continued withholding the creature’s location.

• Wang Li told Zhang Xuezhou that Song Fengying was in Laiyata City, and Zhang feared the giant moth could kill her.
• Nagesi and Gongyi Xingguangyu received images of the giant moth from an unidentified photographer who demanded thirty million for more information.
• Qimeng Haige warned that the photographer was only a few seconds from danger, and Zhang sent Song Fengying a message urging her to leave.
• Song Fengying replied that calling her mom would not help and that she wanted the thirty million.
• Zhang wondered how Song Fengying had managed to approach and film the giant moth without being detected.

Zhang Xuezhou warned Song Fengying to leave Laiyata City before the rocket strike, then drove toward the city alone as the others prepared to attack the giant moth. The approaching group found signs of widespread deaths and contamination outside Laiyata, suggesting the disaster inside was even worse.

• Zhang Xuezhou added Song Fengying’s account and sent her a warning to leave after sharing the giant beast’s coordinates with the Tur People.
• Zhou Rihui told Zhang Xuezhou that more than two hundred rockets would saturate the target area in an hour, then joined the group heading to Laiyata City.
• Zhang Xuezhou borrowed Tuer Kalanduo’s car and communicator and left alone, while Ren Anran and Tuer Kalanduo stayed behind to make defensive preparations.
• Nagesi’s trucks drove toward Laiyata City with Zhang Xuezhou following until a trench forced his small car to turn back.
• Nagesi saw refugees coughing up thick white substance and ordered his group to wear masks and get medical examinations after the battle.
• As Nagesi’s group neared Laiyata City, they saw giant moths, dead scouts, bloodstained remains, and evidence that most people still inside had been killed.

Zhang Xuezhou drove into moth-infested Laiyata City and learned that the giant moth had evolved into a humanlike creature and may have captured Song Fengying. He identified a possible street marking in her message and contacted Tuer Kelanduo to locate her.

• Zhang Xuezhou fought off a giant moth and drove around the trenches and defenses into Laiyata City.
• Zhang Xuezhou encountered a Sixth Sequence councilor suffering from the poisonous powder and promised to give him a ride back later.
• Zhang Xuezhou received Song Fengying’s multimedia message showing a humanlike creature in an exoskeleton and realized the giant moth had evolved and might be using devices to deceive people.
• Zhang Xuezhou spotted a blurry street-number-like marking in Song Fengying’s message and sent Tuer Kelanduo a message to identify the location.

Song Fengying observed Warrior Puresainuoru at the Tuer Shrine as he explained his plan to revive his Devil Lord by implanting him into new arrivals. As the Thousand Islands Alliance prepared to bombard Laiyata City, Song Fengying moved away from the shrine to watch from a safer distance.

• Song Fengying secretly sent a photograph of Warrior Puresainuoru to the contact for Tuer Andrew.
• Warrior Puresainuoru used his arms to send giant moths into an unknown place and said the power of faith was creating new coordinates for his plans to revive the Devil Lord.
• Song Fengying and Warrior Puresainuoru discussed the arrival behind her and agreed to present their masters as friendly allies.
• Warrior Puresainuoru said he would use his shed shell and moths to draw cannon fire at Red Brahma Square and eliminate the mortals' strongest forces.
• Warrior Puresainuoru allowed Song Fengying to observe the coming clash, and she carefully left the shrine to avoid the poisonous powder outside.

The Tuer forces began bombarding Laiyata City and prepared a full-scale assault. Ren Anran and Tuer Kalanduo flew toward the city to help, leaving Tuer Kelanduo to order the army forward.

• The military base fired rockets at Laiyata City, though Ren Anran learned that most were likely to miss their targets.
• Ren Anran persuaded Tuer Kalanduo to fly to the city with her, and Wang Li piloted Councilor Achino’s aircraft.
• Tuer Kelanduo learned that her daughters had flown into Laiyata City and decided she could not hold them back.
• Tuer Kelanduo ordered the entire army to put on protective equipment and attack the city.
• The Tuer forces cut through the barbed wire and advanced toward Laiyata City in trucks, armored vehicles, and troop carriers.

Zhang Xuezhou survived a rocket barrage in Laiyata City and sent his Yang Corporeal Soul out to search for Song Fengying. He discovered Puresainuoru had survived too, while Puresainuoru suspected another Descender was nearby and prepared to attack the high-sequence experts.

• Zhang Xuezhou drove into the target area, where rocket artillery overturned his SUV and trapped him in a shop under fire.
• Zhang Xuezhou used the Halt Warfare Formula to endure the barrage, then sent his Yang Corporeal Soul out to search for Song Fengying.
• Zhang Xuezhou spotted the armored Puresainuoru, recognized him as the giant moth’s evolved form, and floated away without being able to communicate.
• Puresainuoru suspected a corpse-controlling Descender was nearby and decided to cripple the high-sequence experts rather than kill them.
• Puresainuoru sent his moths diving toward the ground and darted toward the experts to attack.

Song Fengying was injured during the rocket bombardment and trapped by Puresainuoru’s moths until Zhang Xuezhou found her. With Puresainuoru tracking her through his Essence Blood and the battle threatening to spread, Zhang Xuezhou prepared to try a witchcraft incantation despite lacking a Fortune Body.

• Song Fengying filmed the rockets as they struck Laiyata City, but shrapnel wounded her arm and the house sheltering her began to collapse.
• Mangled moths tried to attack Song Fengying, but she held up Puresainuoru’s Essence Blood and made them recoil.
• Song Fengying struggled to heal her injury with the Supreme Purity True Technique until Zhang Xuezhou arrived, crushed the moths, and treated her wound.
• Song Fengying explained that Puresainuoru could track her through his Essence Blood, leaving her unable to escape the city safely.
• Zhang Xuezhou considered using the Witchcraft and Gu Incantation Technique to curse Puresainuoru, though he had not condensed a Fortune Body in reality.

Zhang Xuezhou used Puresainuoru’s Essence Blood to make and curse a paper effigy, while Song Fengying reflected on how to protect their standing and future. The curse appeared to take effect amid the battle, but Puresainuoru remained active in the moth swarm and prepared another attack.

• Zhang Xuezhou smeared Puresainuoru’s Essence Blood onto photo paper, shaped it like a person, and used witchcraft and a Fortune Technique prayer to curse him.
• Song Fengying considered building a public voice and a positive image through developing Alliance No. 9 so they would not be treated as outsiders like Puresainuoru.
• Zhang Xuezhou told Song Fengying that drawing a little effigy worked, then admitted he had been playing around when she challenged him.
• Song Fengying explained that Puresainuoru had become her friend through a recurring dream and had called her Lady Tuer Nana and the Observer.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Song Fengying watched from the ruins as people fought off the moths, while Puresainuoru slipped through the swarm and chose a white-haired Tur People high-Sequence Holder for his next attack.

Qimeng Haige discovered that a black-armored Ferocious Beast was attacking the Thousand Islands Alliance amid the moth swarm and fought it using his wire weapon and assassination skills. Nagesi recognized the creature as resembling the Predator Race and resolved to kill it.

• Nagesi pressed Qimeng Haige to ambush the elusive figure while his team fought off the moths.
• Qimeng Haige sensed the black-armored Ferocious Beast, countered its attack, and hit it with his spring-loaded blade before it fled with the weapon caught in its neck.
• Qimeng Haige sent high-voltage electricity through the blade's copper wire, chased the creature, and wounded its arms with his knee-mounted steel needles.
• Qimeng Haige and the creature clashed at high speed, using the copper wire to track and pull against each other.
• Nagesi saw the black-armored figure and recognized it as resembling the Predator Race, then vowed to kill it.

Zhang Xuezhou led Song Fengying away from the battle and pieced together what Puresainuoru had revealed about the Tur People's faith, the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons, and the danger of being exposed. As he continued cursing Puresainuoru, Zhang Xuezhou began planning to rise within the Scarlet Alliance State and use his international connections to secure allies and support.

• Zhang Xuezhou led Song Fengying away from the battlefield and questioned her about the Essence Blood witchcraft medium and recent events.
• After hearing about Puresainuoru and the Tur People's faith, Zhang Xuezhou concluded that an object in the shrine held their Power of Faith and needed to be destroyed before another Descender found it.
• Song Fengying worried that the photos and videos could make people mistake them for monsters, prompting Zhang Xuezhou to consider how to protect their reputations and position.
• Zhang Xuezhou resolved to pursue a place on the Sequence Committee and considered how Nagesi, the Tuer Clan, and tensions between the British Alliance State and the Scarlet Alliance State could aid him.
• Zhang Xuezhou chanted over the Essence Blood witchcraft medium, continuing to curse Puresainuoru with misfortune.

Qimeng Haige and Nagesi fought Puresainuoru, but their attacks failed to stop him from escaping after he implanted something in Nagesi. As Nagesi warned that the creature inside him could hatch rapidly, a scream from the distant plaza suggested that more fighters were dying.

• Nagesi struck Puresainuoru with his greatsword, and Qimeng Haige restrained him with copper wire and high-voltage electricity.
• Nagesi transformed into his Sequence form and pursued Puresainuoru while Qimeng Haige tightened his restraints and attacked.
• Puresainuoru pierced Nagesi with a black object, released a swarm of moths, and vanished into the dust.
• Nagesi told Qimeng Haige that a Divine Technique could make the object inside him hatch quickly, and urged him to help finish Puresainuoru.
• Qimeng Haige began asking Nagesi for details, but a scream from the distant plaza interrupted him.

A black-carapaced Ferocious Beast slaughtered the defenders as Gongyi Xingguangyu struggled to survive and realized humanity needed weapons beyond genetic evolution. After injecting liquid extracted from a Ferocious Beast in hopes of reaching the Seventh Sequence, he was attacked again and collapsed, his fate uncertain.

• The monster drained Amofu of his blood and carried away his severed leg bones while Nagesi urged Gongyi Xingguangyu to defend himself among the ruins.
• The monster pierced Gongyi Xingguangyu with its mouthpart and rapidly drained his blood, leaving him too weak to fight back.
• Gongyi Xingguangyu recognized the vast gap between humans and Ferocious Beasts and resolved to survive so he could warn others to prepare.
• Gongyi Xingguangyu injected liquid extracted from a Ferocious Beast, hoping to break into the Seventh Sequence and gain the strength to resist.
• The monster returned and drained Gongyi Xingguangyu again, leaving him collapsed on the ground with only a trembling finger raised.

Tuer Kelanduo led the Tur People’s forces into devastated Laiyata City to attack the giant moth swarm, while Zhang Xuezhou remained focused on a spell battle. Ren Anran recognized the poisonous city as a chance to advance her Poison Avoidance Art, leaving the group facing a deadly place that might also help them grow stronger.

• Tuer Kelanduo arrived in Laiyata City, saw its destruction, rallied her troops with prayers, and ordered them to charge the moth swarm.
• The Tur forces opened fire on the moths as Tuer Kelanduo steeled herself against doubts about whether the devastation was divine punishment.
• Tuer Kalanduo and the others found Zhang Xuezhou chanting curses near Song Fengying, who complained that he would not leave.
• Ren Anran realized Zhang Xuezhou was conducting a long-range spell battle and urged the others not to disturb him.
• Ren Anran removed her protective gear and tested the poisonous dust, discovering that Laiyata City could help her advance the Poison Avoidance Art.

Zhang Xuezhou used Puresainuoru’s Essence Blood to curse him during the battle in Laiyata City, strengthening his Fortune Technique while nudging events in the fighters’ favor. When Puresainuoru’s moth-wreathed figure rushed toward the group, Zhang and his teammates sheltered in a nearby house, where Zhou Rihui confronted him.

• Zhang Xuezhou’s curse against Puresainuoru took effect and advanced his Fortune Technique, though he learned that his curses could only influence events that suited the circumstances.
• Zhang Xuezhou repeatedly cursed Puresainuoru as Nagesi and Qimeng Haige fought him and artillery struck the moths around Red Brahma Square.
• Zhang Xuezhou sensed Puresainuoru approaching, and Ren Anran, Song Fengying, Wang Li, Tuer Kalanduo, and Zhang took shelter inside a nearby house.
• Zhang Xuezhou cursed Puresainuoru to be unable to enter and watched a slender object pierce the door and pin his curse’s photographic paper.
• Zhou Rihui shouted from outside as he dared to confront Puresainuoru, whose moths could not penetrate Zhou’s protective power.