Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu and the Immortals entered the Demon King Tournament and faced Heaven’s Chosen Clan in a heavily watched opening match. After Maximus chose the Lost Temple map, both teams prepared to fight among its altars, furbolg villages, and ancient guardians.

• Xiao Yu entered the tournament as Azathoth with Leah Bloodmoon, Big Water Cunt, Ragnaros, and his other selected units, which were copies made for the competition.
• Xiao Yu assigned Ragnaros and Leah Bloodmoon to lead the first match while Big Water Cunt stayed back, promising him a share of the prize money if they won.
• Streamers Crow Mouth and Brother Panda introduced the Immortals and Heaven’s Chosen Clan as the opposing teams, while viewership passed one hundred million.
• Azathoth and Peerless Centaur arrived on the platform, and Azathoth let Maximus choose the match map.
• Maximus drew the Lost Temple, a large battlefield with seven guarded sun altars, four furbolg villages, hidden treasures, and a seven-skull Shadow of the Sun God.

Xiao Yu deployed a ranged-heavy force and sent Leah Bloodmoon to secure the temple ruins while he flew alone toward the centaur camp as a Chaos Dragon. When Maximus and Maradona learned he was approaching, they abandoned their search for map elements and turned back to confront him.

• Xiao Yu chose fire elementals, fire demons, hydras, and wind elementals, then explained to Leah Bloodmoon that he expected the centaurs to rely on mounted archery.
• Xiao Yu sent wind elementals to scout, ordered Ragnaros to guard the camp, and dispatched Leah Bloodmoon to activate altars at the temple ruins.
• Xiao Yu transformed into a Chaos Dragon and flew alone toward the centaur camp as Maximus and Maradona led their forces out to gather map elements.
• Spur the Swift Horse reported that Azathoth was approaching alone, prompting Maximus and Maradona to reconsider their plan.
• Maradona decided that both centaur leaders would return to the camp and try to kill Azathoth, even at the cost of abandoning the map elements.

Xiao Yu attacked the centaur camp as Azathoth, using his dragon form and powerful spells against Maximus and the gathered forces. Rain of Chaos summoned infernals to assault the base, while the centaur and quilboar leaders rallied their troops and healing magic to resist.

• Xiao Yu flew over the centaur camp, drawing its defenders’ attention while he waited for Maximus and the other bosses to return.
• Azathoth and Maximus traded boasts before Azathoth opened the battle with Flame Storm, burning quilboars and prompting the centaurs to scatter.
• Maximus ordered his archers to fire, and hundreds of arrows struck Azathoth as the livestream audience and streamers watched.
• Azathoth cast Rain of Chaos, killing centaurs with falling meteors and summoning infernals that charged toward the base.
• Second Senior Brother sent quilboar warriors against the infernals and placed Healing Totems, while Maradona healed the injured centaurs with Group Healing Wave.

Azathoth summoned a mass of fire elementals to attack Maximus’s centaur army, but the centaurs’ buffs and archers inflicted heavy damage before the elementals’ self-destructs devastated their melee forces. Furbolg reinforcements arrived, while Leah Bloodmoon gained two Sun God blessings, leaving Xiao Yu confident he could keep wearing down the defenders.

• Maximus struck Azathoth with his ancestral spirit bow, but its curse and execution effect failed against Xiao Yu’s Chaos Elemental form.
• Xiao Yu opened an Elemental Gate to the Fire Elemental Plane, and hundreds of fire creatures poured into the centaur camp.
• Maradona used Voodoo to make the centaurs invincible long enough to destroy the portal, then cast Mass Bloodlust as they attacked the fire elementals.
• The centaurs’ archers wounded Azathoth, who raised a Chaos Barrier and ordered his dying fire elementals to self-destruct, causing heavy casualties among the centaur army.
• System notifications announced that Carlos and Peerless Centaur had recruited two furbolg groups, and fifty furbolgs arrived at the camp with more reinforcements expected.
• Leah Bloodmoon defeated the guardians at Sun God Altars No. 3 and No. 5, gaining increased skill damage and maximum health, while Xiao Yu prepared to wear down the defenders further.

Xiao Yu’s Chaos Dragon overwhelmed Maximus’s forces, using Ragnaros to crush the defenders and kill Maradona. Maximus’s Cloud-Piercing Arrow unexpectedly caused Xiao Yu intense pain, but Xiao Yu retaliated by tearing Maximus apart.

• Maximus gathered the surviving centaurs to make a final stand, while Xiao Yu realized they had already spent their strongest abilities.
• Xiao Yu summoned Ragnaros, who landed on the boar-man warchief and began smashing him into the ground.
• Xiao Yu seized Maradona and carried him high into the sky, then used Gravity Shackles to make him fall to his death.
• Maximus fired a Cloud-Piercing Arrow through Xiao Yu’s forehead, causing him unprecedented pain.
• Xiao Yu seized Maximus and tore him in half.

After Azathoth brutally defeated the Horse King, Xiao Yu’s headache returned, and a doctor warned that his brain tumor had worsened and might leave him only a month without treatment. As Xiao Yu tried to secure a treatment budget, he received an unexpected offer to endorse a men’s vitality supplement because of Azathoth’s performance.

• Xiao Yu ordered Ragnaros and Leah Bloodmoon’s forces to destroy the centaur camp core after Azathoth killed the Horse King.
• The system declared the Immortals victorious, and Xiao Yu logged out and called for a remote medical diagnosis.
• The doctor said Xiao Yu’s tumor was worsening, advised him to avoid mental exertion, and estimated that he had at most a month without treatment.
• Xiao Yu agreed to budget up to ten million for treatment and recorded the doctor’s promise that the amount would be enough.
• A caller from Love's Treasure Medical Technology Co., Ltd. offered Xiao Yu an endorsement deal for a men’s vitality supplement because Azathoth was famous.

Xiao Yu rejected a low-paying endorsement offer and tried to understand how his emotions had let him unleash his full power against Maximus. He watched Naiser’s match against the Blade's Edge Force and saw Naiser confidently challenge the ogres after cutting through the undead on Boneyard Ridge.

• Xiao Yu turned down Big White Dog’s offer of five hundred thousand for an aphrodisiac endorsement.
• Xiao Yu recalled unleashing his power in a rage when he tore Maximus apart and wondered whether emotion was the key to Medivh’s power-control technique.
• Xiao Yu returned to the game pod to practice summoning his anger, but could not recreate the feeling.
• An employee told Xiao Yu that Naiser’s match had started, so Xiao Yu logged out and watched the livestream.
• Naiser charged through the undead on Boneyard Ridge and slaughtered them as he made his way to the Blade's Edge Force camp.
• The ogres surrounded Naiser, but he calmly challenged Typhon the Gronn and urged the Blade's Edge Force to attack.

Naiser defeated Typhon and the ogres, while Xiao Yu identified the source of Naiser’s growing strength and discovered how to unleash his own elemental power. Xiao Yu left ready to prepare for a one-on-one fight with Naiser.

• Naiser slaughtered the ogres, killed both ogre bosses, and finished off the wounded gronn Typhon.
• Xiao Yu explained to Big Water Cunt that Naiser grew stronger while fighting and gained power from facing multiple enemies.
• Xiao Yu decided he needed to strengthen himself and began recalling his rage over Wan Yanmo Lingzhu’s death.
• Xiao Yu used his rage to amplify Fire Bolt and then controlled flames directly, compressing them into an explosive fireball.
• Xiao Yu realized he could command the elements around him and grew confident about facing Naiser.

Xiao Yu learned to control energy beyond the limits of the game's skills by deliberately stirring his emotions, then used that control to reproduce and invent powerful abilities. A man from the Council of Sages appeared in the Chamber of Chaos, and Xiao Yu suspected he was a hallucination before calmly addressing him.

• Xiao Yu discovered that intense emotions let him control energy freely, while a calm mind left him limited by the system.
• After practicing emotional control, Xiao Yu condensed Blizzard's frost energy into a gigantic hailstone and simulated skills he had never learned.
• Xiao Yu recreated compound skills such as Frostfire Bolt and Biting Wind Protection, then combined elements to invent new abilities.
• A man in black robes from the Council of Sages appeared behind Xiao Yu and praised his progress.
• Xiao Yu sensed no elemental power where the man stood, concluded he might be a hallucination, and calmly told him he had been waiting.

Xiao Yu confronted a man in black who offered to teach him the principles behind magical power, but Xiao Yu ordered him to explain instead of obeying. The man vanished, then appeared before Naiser in the Endless Battlefield and offered him power, only for Naiser to attack and kill him.

• The man in black told Xiao Yu that his improvised elemental skills wasted energy and explained that mastering their principles would let him use Fission Orb.
• Xiao Yu suspected the man was his subconscious trying to control him and ordered him to explain how to use power.
• The man in black vanished, then appeared behind Naiser in the Endless Battlefield after Naiser finished slaughtering demons.
• The man offered Naiser power and an alliance, claiming Azathoth might surpass him through superior mastery.
• Naiser refused to beg for help and cut the man in black in two, causing him to vanish.

Xiao Yu entered the second day of the Demon King Tournament confident he could defeat Cybertron, a necromancer lord from the Underworld. The match map was generated as the Prison of the Gods, where both armies would fight to rescue their imprisoned demon kings.

• Xiao Yu told Leah Bloodmoon to defend their base while he handled the match alone.
• The host introduced Xiao Yu and Cybertron as the first contestants competing for a place in the top eight.
• Xiao Yu and Cybertron took the stage, and Cybertron asked to choose the match map instead of flipping a coin.
• The system generated the Prison of the Gods, a vast prison guarded by warders and containing powerful imprisoned demon kings.
• The map’s victory condition was to kill the opposing demon king, and its defeat condition was the death of their own demon king.

Xiao Yu discovered that the system-generated map would imprison both demon kings and chose Leah Bloodmoon to lead his rescue force. The match began with both teams teleporting into the Prison of the Gods.

• Cybertron explained that he had gambled on a system-generated map, where both demon kings would be imprisoned and their teams would have to rescue them.
• The livestream hosts noted that the Undead Lord's player-controlled bosses and undead forces gave his team an advantage over Xiao Yu's roster.
• Xiao Yu selected Leah Bloodmoon to lead his team, and she argued that fire units would be effective and mobile enough for the rescue mission.
• Xiao Yu and Leah Bloodmoon assembled a force of fire elementals, fire fiends, lava giants, and wind elementals, with Leah Bloodmoon and Ragnaros as bosses.
• Xiao Yu instructed the troops to scout for Azathoth and then concentrate their forces to rescue him or fight the enemy.
• At 9:30, both teams' selected units were teleported into the match map.

Xiao Yu found himself trapped in the Aquarius Chamber of the Prison of the Gods, where his attacks could not break the divine cage and Loken guarded him. After considering the prison’s rules, Xiao Yu tried to persuade Loken that he was trapped there too, but Loken insisted the gods had a reason for everything.

• Xiao Yu discovered that his troops had been separated from him and found himself inside an unbreakable cage in the Aquarius Chamber.
• Xiao Yu identified Loken as the guardian of the prison and studied the map’s information about the prisoners and Warden Algalon.
• Xiao Yu reasoned that the guardians might also be imprisoned and decided to try talking Loken into helping him.
• Xiao Yu asked Loken how long he had guarded him, and Loken said he had watched over him for 13,238 years.
• Xiao Yu argued that Loken was more pitiful than he was because Loken could have chosen to leave, but Loken defended the gods’ orders.

Xiao Yu, posing as Azathoth, tried to persuade Loken that the gods had abandoned the prison and that Loken deserved freedom. Loken agreed to open the cell door after Xiao Yu swore to kill the warden and free the prisoners.

• Azathoth told Loken that the gods had fallen ten thousand years earlier and forgotten the prison, unsettling the jailer.
• Azathoth asked Loken about Freya and described a life beyond his duty, stirring Loken’s longing for freedom.
• Xiao Yu argued that Loken’s duty was pointless and proposed killing the warden to free everyone.
• Loken doubted Xiao Yu could defeat the warden but became persuaded to help.
• Xiao Yu swore to kill the warden and free the prisoners, and Loken agreed to open the cell door.

Xiao Yu escaped the Aquarius Chamber and made his way through the Jail of the Gods to confront Warden Algalon. After refusing to release a suspicious prisoner in cell No. 13, he discovered that the golden figure in Algalon's hall was only a statue and faced the revealed level 60 boss.

• Xiao Yu released himself from the magic-suppressing prison and left, promising Loken he would return to free him.
• Xiao Yu chose to seek out the warden rather than regroup with his subordinates, despite the barrier suppressing his strength.
• A mysterious prisoner in cell No. 13 offered to help Xiao Yu win, but Xiao Yu refused to release him and continued onward.
• Xiao Yu reached Warden Algalon's palace and destroyed the golden figure, discovering it was a statue.
• Algalon appeared from the star-filled dome and revealed himself as a level 60, eight-skull boss with 22.1 million health.

Azathoth fought Algalon in a battle of starlight and chaos, then summoned an army of elementals and infernals to overcome him. Algalon was defeated, but warned Azathoth that the Great Dark Beyond would eventually fulfill his fate.

• Azathoth transformed into the Chaos Dragon and exchanged powerful attacks with Algalon, destroying Algalon's stellar orbital cannon with a Simulated Black Hole.
• Algalon summoned four Living Constellations, while Azathoth called forth infernals, wind elementals, storm creatures, and Ragnaros.
• Azathoth's forces overwhelmed and killed the four Living Constellations, prompting Algalon to detonate their remains and destroy many of Azathoth's summons.
• The surviving creatures and Ragnaros joined Azathoth in defeating Algalon, who warned that the Great Dark Beyond would still bring about Azathoth's fate.

After defeating Algalon, Xiao Yu used the Power of Starlight to take control of the twelve watchers and the prison. He found that Sage of Wisdom Alodi was imprisoned in cell twelve and went to see him.

• Xiao Yu picked up the Power of Starlight after Algalon vanished and learned that it gave him command over the watchers.
• Ragnaros told Xiao Yu that Leah Bloodmoon had been attacked by three enemy bosses, so Xiao Yu summoned the watchers to the palace.
• Xiao Yu refused to free the watchers, claiming their agreement only promised to kill Algalon and release them from Algalon's control, then ordered them to obey him.
• Xiao Yu had the watchers list the prisoners and check the prison, and learned that Necromancer Lord Cybertron had escaped.
• Xiao Yu saw that Sage of Wisdom Alodi was held in cell twelve and went to his room.

Xiao Yu questioned Alodi in the Pisces Chamber and learned that the Sage believed the Prison of the Gods was a mirror world, while denying that it had a thirteenth cell. Outside, Leah Bloodmoon sacrificed herself in a fiery explosion, and Xiao Yu defeated Cybertron’s undead army at the palace and won the match.

• Xiao Yu offered Alodi freedom in exchange for information, and Alodi agreed to answer three questions as a deposit.
• Alodi explained that he suspected the prison was a mirror world, had entered it for safety, and believed it contained only twelve cells.
• Leah Bloodmoon transformed into a Spirit of Flame and exploded, destroying many undead troops as she died for Azathoth.
• Cybertron led his remaining army to the palace, where he found Xiao Yu waiting with twelve warders.
• Xiao Yu routed Cybertron and his subordinates, killed the Undead Lord with a Hammer of Chaos, and won the match.

After winning his second tournament match, Xiao Yu returned to the studio and heard Leah Bloodmoon had landed an herbal tea endorsement. Ma Xiaoyun then warned him away from the Sage of Wisdom and confirmed the Alliance of Sages was pursuing an evil plan possibly tied to a fired game designer.

• Xiao Yu won his second match, returned to the studio, and received Leah Bloodmoon's message asking him to come back.
• Leah Bloodmoon told Xiao Yu she had been chosen to endorse Old Man Li Herbal Tea for one million.
• Big Water Cunt asked to compete in the next match, and Xiao Yu agreed to let him play in the final group-stage match.
• Ma Xiaoyun warned Xiao Yu not to contact the Sage of Wisdom, an important Council of Sages strategist under close surveillance.
• Xiao Yu asked Ma Xiaoyun about the Alliance of Sages, and Ma Xiaoyun said it was carrying out an evil plan possibly connected to a fired game designer.

Ma Xiaoyun warned Xiao Yu about Shen Yuan, revealed that the company had planted an undercover agent in the Alliance of Sages, and explained why he and the others should avoid endorsements. The next day, Xiao Yu faced the Demon Island Guild in a match on Adventurer’s Paradise, a map where killing adventurers affected the opposing side’s forces.

• Ma Xiaoyun told Xiao Yu that the company had countermeasures against Shen Yuan and an undercover agent in the Alliance of Sages.
• Ma Xiaoyun urged Xiao Yu not to contact Shen Yuan and warned him and Leah Bloodmoon against accepting endorsements before a future virtual idol event.
• Leah Bloodmoon read the game agreement and discovered that the operators could claim up to ninety percent of profits from commercial use of their characters, upsetting her and Big Water Cunt.
• Xiao Yu arrived for his next match against the well-funded Demon Island Guild, whose leader chose a map card instead of a system-generated map.
• The match map was set as Adventurer’s Paradise, where the two demon kings occupied separate zones and killing adventurers caused more to spawn for the opposing side.