Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu impersonated Emperor Odyssey after an assassin poisoned him, then led the Rhine Empire to defeat the four-kingdom coalition in Odyssey’s memory. Once Odyssey’s soul awakened in the tomb, Xiao Yu challenged him to return to reality and rebuild the empire.

• Olorin admitted that his family had been kidnapped, and Odyssey transferred command of the cavalry legion to Steve.
• An assassin stabbed Odyssey with a poisoned dagger, so Odyssey gave Xiao Yu his crown and ordered him to impersonate the emperor.
• Wearing the enchanted helmet, Xiao Yu rallied the generals and led the Rhine Empire’s forces against the four-kingdom coalition.
• Steve attacked the enemy from behind, helping the imperial army rout the coalition and complete the quest that awakened Odyssey’s soul.
• Back in the tomb, Odyssey blamed himself for the empire’s destruction, and Xiao Yu urged him to return to reality and restore the Rhine Empire.

Xiao Yu tried to persuade Emperor Odyssey to give him the Emperor's Majesty helmet, but instead inspired the emperor to reclaim his ambition. Odyssey appointed Xiao Yu an Imperial General, then resurrected himself and his fallen soldiers, leaving Xiao Yu with no chance to seize the crown.

• Xiao Yu tried to undermine Emperor Odyssey's confidence and convince him to surrender the helmet so Xiao Yu could restore the Rhine Empire in his place.
• Emperor Odyssey interpreted Xiao Yu's insults as an attempt to rouse him and resolved to fight for the empire again.
• Emperor Odyssey appointed King's Return an Imperial General, unlocking the Feats of Strength System and recording a new feat.
• Emperor Odyssey entered his corpse, rose as a Level 15 Imperial Emperor and Level 1 Skeleton King, and awakened more than a dozen undead soldiers.
• Xiao Yu gave up on taking the helmet and told Emperor Odyssey they should leave.

Xiao Yu returned to the Burying Ground with Emperor Odyssey and his resurrected Rhine Empire troops, then chose the Skeleton General advancement. As the group’s members gained new classes, Emperor Odyssey agreed to help Andrew defeat the Kern Kingdom in exchange for an army of his own afterward.

• Emperor Odyssey entered the Burying Ground with his skeleton army, and the Undead there knelt as he declared that their emperor had returned.
• Andrew rewarded Xiao Yu for completing his mission and granted him the choice between Skeleton Knight and Skeleton General.
• Xiao Yu chose Skeleton General, gaining stronger attributes and the ability to command Skeleton Soldier followers.
• Big Water Cunt, Sword of the Fallen Angel, Voldemort's mummy, and Chenghong Moli each advanced to new classes with new abilities.
• Andrew asked Emperor Odyssey to join his cause, but Emperor Odyssey agreed to fight the Kern Kingdom only if he received an army to found his own empire afterward.

Xiao Yu accepted Andrew’s offer to become an Undead Warlord so he could get close to the God of Death’s chosen one and pursue his Blasphemous Saint quest. After learning an undead assault on Fang Citadel would begin in three days, he faced an angry crowd demanding to know how to become a Blasphemer and promised to explain.

• Emperor Odyssey offered Xiao Yu command of the future First Legion, and Andrew countered by granting him the title of Undead Warlord.
• Xiao Yu realized Andrew was a chosen one of Naraku and accepted Andrew’s offer, hoping to earn enough Power of Blasphemy by targeting him.
• Andrew told Xiao Yu to organize his army before the attack on Fang Citadel in three days, and Xiao Yu left planning to recruit players.
• Hundreds of undead players confronted Xiao Yu outside the mausoleum, accusing him of misleading them and demanding to learn how to become Blasphemers.
• Xiao Yu denied spreading the rumors, then told the crowd he would explain how to take Blasphemer as a secondary class.

Xiao Yu revealed how players could take Blasphemer as a secondary class and recruited more than three thousand players for his Undead Legion ahead of its attack on Fang Stronghold. After logging off, he sparred verbally with Chenghong Moli about their bet before settling in to watch Extraordinary Hero and see what happened to Naiser.

• Xiao Yu explained that Faithless intelligent players could enter the Mist Wilderness and wait to be called to become Blasphemers, then described their unrestricted access to divine spells and level-up spell slots.
• Many players logged off to create new characters, while Xiao Yu stayed behind and recruited level-five-and-above players for his Undead Legion ahead of the attack on Fang Stronghold in three days.
• Xiao Yu and his companions recruited more than three thousand people before he stopped to save spaces in the legion and logged off.
• Chenghong Moli warned Xiao Yu not to make improper demands based on their bet, and Xiao Yu mocked her while agreeing to think of a reasonable one.
• Xiao Yu noticed that Extraordinary Hero was about to start, asked Chenghong Moli for popcorn, and turned on the TV to follow Naiser's story.

Xiao Yu watched Naiser’s progress on Great Hero of Humanity, worried that Naiser might win a pardon and seek revenge. In the game, Naiser and Li Li prepared to leave a ruin after Gao Daquan entered alone to retrieve antigravity engine technology, but Naiser refused to wait beyond the agreed twelve hours.

• Xiao Yu watched the reality show because he feared Naiser could win a release and take revenge on him.
• The expedition team dwindled from twelve participants to three: Naiser, Gao Daquan, and Li Li, who carried Phantom Spirit Race data cases across the desert.
• The three found a ruin guarded by a Destruction Colossus that contained antigravity engine technology, and Gao Daquan argued that they could not let the Goke claim it.
• Gao Daquan handed his data cases to Li Li and entered the ruin alone, asking them to wait twelve hours and deliver the technology to the state if he did not return.
• After twelve hours passed without Gao Daquan emerging, Naiser insisted that he and Li Li leave, despite Li Li hoping to wait longer.

Naiser returned from the staged alien expedition believing he had secured a heroic victory, only to discover that the events had been a reality show and that the audience would judge his actions. As Gao Daquan won over the crowd with his speech, Naiser scrambled to find a way to salvage his chances.

• Naiser shot Li Li and Gao Daquan in the ruins, took their data cases, and escaped the desert with the Phantom Spirit Race technology.
• Naiser returned to the starting point expecting praise, but was led onto the set of the reality show Great Hero of Humanity.
• Li Li slapped Naiser, and the host revealed that participants would compete for the title through audience voting and could win a chance to make a wish.
• Gao Daquan gave an emotional speech about wanting to sacrifice himself for humanity, earning cheers from the audience.
• Naiser realized Gao Daquan was becoming the favorite and resolved to gamble on a desperate idea.

Naiser delivered a forceful defense of his ruthless actions, arguing that humanity needed victors rather than self-sacrificing heroes. The host then opened the vote for the Great Hero of Humanity selection, leaving Naiser’s fate undecided.

• Naiser clapped to draw attention and told Gao Daquan that his heroic sacrifice would have meant nothing if the expedition had been real.
• Naiser argued that history called successful conquerors heroes and that humanity needed a ruthless victor willing to sacrifice lives to win.
• Naiser accused Gao Daquan of being a nameless failure and insisted that he would make the same choices in reality.
• Xiao Yu was surprised by Naiser’s persuasive defense, while the host welcomed the renewed suspense.
• The host summarized the contestants’ accounts and invited viewers to vote for their hero of humanity.

Gao Daquan defeated Naiser in the final vote to become the thirty-sixth Great Hero of Humanity, leaving Naiser to return to prison for life. A mysterious old man then offered Naiser a chance to leave prison if he agreed to work for the man’s company and play a game.

• Xiao Yu and Chenghong Moli voted for Gao Daquan as Naiser’s popularity nearly matched his.
• Gao Daquan took the lead after the studio audience votes, but Naiser briefly overtook him.
• Li Li cast the final contestant vote for Gao Daquan, making him the winner and the thirty-sixth Great Hero of Humanity.
• Naiser returned to prison, where his life sentence remained unchanged and he learned he would not be granted a reduction.
• An old man visited Naiser and offered to get him out of prison if he worked as a technical adviser and played a game.

Xiao Yu’s Underworld Dynasty grew through battles and the spread of the Blasphemer class before joining a massive Undead assault on Fang Fortress. As the siege began, the defenders prepared to summon the Light God’s envoy and awaited reinforcements, leaving the Undead with three hours to capture the fortress.

• Xiao Yu led the Underworld Dynasty to defeat adventurers and capture Kaolin Camp, then fought a costly battle outside Bode Camp.
• Players across the game adopted Blasphemer as a secondary class, and Xiao Yu recruited more than five hundred Blasphemers into the Underworld Dynasty.
• Andrew and Emperor Odyssey assembled a vast Undead army, and Xiao Yu’s legion marched with it toward Fang Fortress.
• The defenders of Fang Fortress prepared a ritual to summon the Light God’s envoy as players awaited reinforcements from the Kern Kingdom.
• Andrew ordered the Undead army to attack after system announcements revealed that the envoy would arrive in three hours and reinforcements in two.

Xiao Yu used scouting information to find Fang Citadel’s lightly guarded rear gate and sent Chenghong Moli’s evil spirits to seize it while the main siege raged at the front. Chenghong Moli’s squad opened the gate, allowing Xiao Yu’s Undead forces to enter the fortress.

• Andrew covered the battlefield in darkness, and ghosts disrupted the defenders while siege towers and elite Undead broke through the walls.
• Xiao Yu held back his players because deaths would remove them from the battle, then received a detailed map of Fang Citadel from his shadow scouts.
• Xiao Yu found the narrow rear gate and sent Chenghong Moli with evil spirits to control its guards while he led three thousand troops around to the back.
• Chenghong Moli possessed Isaac, gathered the soldiers, and had evil spirits take control of the rear-gate guard unit.
• Chenghong Moli’s controlled soldiers opened the rear gate, and Xiao Yu’s skeletal troops charged into Fang Citadel.

Xiao Yu led undead into Fang Fortress to loot its armory, then retreated to the rear gate when adventurers counterattacked. As the fortress walls neared collapse, Kern Kingdom cavalry reinforcements appeared on a distant hillside.

• Xiao Yu led thousands of undead through Fang Fortress's rear gate, killed a patrol, and ordered his troops to seize the armory for equipment.
• Xiao Yu's undead looted the armory, but Kern Kingdom's general issued a quest that drew adventurers away from the walls to retake it.
• The Earl of Monte Cristo joined Qingwu Feiyang and other adventurers, revealed hidden combat abilities, and helped fight undead approaching the armory.
• Xiao Yu ordered a retreat to the rear gate and had the undead scatter the armory's equipment in the streets, prompting adventurers to stop and loot it.
• Emperor Odyssey committed several thousand elites against the weakened walls, but Kern Kingdom cavalry reinforcements appeared as the defenders were close to being overwhelmed.

Xiao Yu’s Undead forces fought the adventurers at Fang Fortress, but the Earl of Monte Cristo organized a counterattack and a Light God Envoy turned the siege against the Undead. The Undead retreated to the Burying Ground, and Chenghong Moli told Xiao Yu that Old Li wanted to speak with him.

• King Odyssey turned his skeleton army to fight the Kern Kingdom reinforcements while Andrew continued attacking Fang Fortress and sent Corpsefire to reinforce King's Return.
• Xiao Yu used plague, arrows, wraiths, and a coordinated charge to rout several thousand disorganized adventurers at the back gate.
• The Earl of Monte Cristo revealed he was the Kern Kingdom’s fourth prince, reorganized the adventurers, and led them to defeat Corpsefire’s troops and push back Xiao Yu’s forces.
• Xiao Yu unleashed Death Ripple against the organized adventurers, but the Light God Envoy descended and destroyed hundreds of Undead with holy attacks.
• Xiao Yu covered his retreat with Plague Cloud as Andrew and King Odyssey withdrew their armies, ending the siege of Fang Fortress.
• Chenghong Moli told Xiao Yu that Old Li, the National Guard Bureau agent, wanted to talk with him.

After the National Guard Bureau asked Xiao Yu to attract the Moha Religion’s attention, he decided to make a bigger commotion in the game. Earl of Monte Cristo contacted him with a plan to kill Andrew, offering to help Xiao Yu kill a divine envoy of the God of Light in return.

• The siege battle ended in a draw, and Earl of Monte Cristo gained permission to establish the Avengers Alliance after organizing adventurers to retake the castle.
• Old Li and Young Zhang told Xiao Yu that he was first on the game company’s priority watchlist and that the Moha Religion had prepared an operation against him.
• Old Li and Young Zhang asked Xiao Yu to draw the Moha Religion’s attention while they tracked its members in the real world.
• Xiao Yu returned to the game and learned from Chenghong Moli that her knight character Isaac could gain experience by killing monsters, NPCs, or adventurers without being attacked first.
• Earl of Monte Cristo contacted Xiao Yu and proposed that they cooperate to kill Andrew, offering to help him kill a divine envoy of the God of Light.
• Earl of Monte Cristo laid out his plan, and Xiao Yu was alarmed by how devious it was.

Xiao Yu and the Earl of Monte Cristo prepared to exploit the battle between the Light God Envoy and Andrew, while separately turning Emperor Odyssey and the Kern Kingdom’s forces against their supposed allies. The chapter ended with the Light God Envoy agreeing to attack Andrew personally as the armies prepared to clash.

• The Earl of Monte Cristo and Xiao Yu agreed to let the Light God Envoy and Andrew weaken each other, then move against them, and Xiao Yu spent the next week training the Underworld Dynasty guild.
• Xiao Yu assembled his guild for the siege, and the Kern Kingdom’s army drove the undead from the Death Wilderness toward the Burying Ground.
• Andrew divided his more than one hundred thousand undead into forces to surround the Kern Kingdom’s army, assigning Emperor Odyssey’s legion to the center.
• King’s Return persuaded Emperor Odyssey to let enemies break through the center and abandon Andrew so Odyssey could take command after Andrew’s death.
• The Earl of Monte Cristo arranged for the Kern Kingdom’s forces to withhold support from the Light God Envoy while keeping enemy reinforcements away.
• The Earl of Monte Cristo asked the Archbishop of Light to send the Light God Envoy against Andrew, and the envoy agreed to kill him herself.

The Kern Kingdom’s army fought through the undead to create an opening for the Light God Envoy to attack Andrew. She reached his bone tower and destroyed his flesh golems, but Andrew summoned a bone dragon to block her strike.

• The Kern Kingdom’s forces were surrounded by more than a hundred thousand undead after defeating the first detachments.
• The Earl of Monte Cristo and the Avengers Alliance split Odyssey’s undead legion, opening a gap for the Light God Envoy’s elite force.
• The Light God Envoy led the charge through the gap toward Andrew’s bone tower while the Mad Lion Knights drew the lesser undead apart.
• The Light God Envoy destroyed the flesh golems surrounding her, then endured Andrew’s eighth-tier Finger of Death and struck at him.
• A bone dragon appeared behind Andrew and blocked the Light God Envoy’s sword, leaving her facing the creature.

Xiao Yu and the Earl of Monte Cristo each sent their forces to attack a weakened opponent, and both armies courteously passed each other by keeping right. Xiao Yu’s Undead overwhelmed the Light God Envoy Eifeld, whose death made him a Blasphemous Saint and drew the God of Light’s attention.

• Xiao Yu and the Earl of Monte Cristo ordered their forces to wait until Andrew and the Light God Envoy were weakened, then attack separate targets.
• The Light God Envoy destroyed Andrew’s bone dragon, but both she and Andrew were close to exhaustion when reinforcements arrived.
• King's Return led Xiao Yu and the Undead toward the Light God Envoy while the Earl of Monte Cristo led the Avengers Alliance toward Andrew; both forces kept right and passed each other without fighting.
• Xiao Yu’s Undead surrounded the Light God Envoy, while the Avengers Alliance besieged Andrew and his bone tower.
• After her holy sword lost its power and her wings vanished, Xiao Yu struck Eifeld with three Bone Spears and killed her.
• The system awarded Xiao Yu 12,374 points of Power of Blasphemy, named him a Blasphemous Saint, granted him Divine Power Seizure and access to the Blasphemy Council, and warned that the God of Light would threaten him with divine punishment for seven days.

After winning the Light God Envoy Eifeld’s Soul Fire Fragment, Xiao Yu relived her memories and learned how she became a Heroic Spirit. The fragment granted him a toggleable Heroic Spirit form, changing his template and combat attendants.

• Xiao Yu auctioned the Light God Envoy’s loot, then bought her Soul Fire Fragment for 1,000 guild points.
• Xiao Yu absorbed the golden Soul Fire and witnessed Eifeld’s memories of growing up, training as a knight, and dying while defending civilians from Gnolls.
• The God of Light resurrected Eifeld as an envoy, and Xiao Yu glimpsed Lilith among the other Light God Envoys.
• Xiao Yu comprehended Holy Spirit’s Will, which fused into Heroic Spirit Avatar and changed his character template to Undead/Celestial Realm creature.
• Xiao Yu activated Heroic Spirit Avatar, gaining a Heroic Spirit form and replacing his skeleton soldiers with Heroic Spirit Warriors.

After learning from Andrew’s soul fragment about an ancient ruin beneath Fang Fortress, Xiao Yu and the Earl of Monte Cristo agreed to help each other seize their targets. They killed the Kern Kingdom’s general and Emperor Odyssey, leaving the Earl in temporary control of Fang Fortress as they prepared to explore the ruin together.

• The Earl of Monte Cristo absorbed Andrew’s Soul Fire Fragment, advanced to Blasphemous Saint, and gained the Death Avenger class.
• The Earl told Xiao Yu that Andrew had been sent by Naraku to capture Fang Fortress because an ancient ruin lay beneath it, possibly connected to a secret from before the gods’ birth.
• Xiao Yu and the Earl agreed to cooperate, with Xiao Yu helping kill the Kern Kingdom’s general and the Earl helping Xiao Yu kill Emperor Odyssey.
• Xiao Yu’s Undead Legion surrounded and killed the Kern Kingdom’s general while the Earl’s forces blocked reinforcements.
• The Earl killed Emperor Odyssey, and the two players prepared to explore the ruin beneath Fang Fortress together.

Xiao Yu led a party of Blasphemers toward ancient ruins after Chenghong Moli warned him that his success and the Earl of Monte Cristo’s cooperation seemed suspicious. Along the way, the party hunted strange Dark Wanderers for Soul Fire Fragments and reached an abandoned temple entrance near the ruins.

• Chenghong Moli questioned why everything had gone so easily for Xiao Yu, especially the Earl of Monte Cristo’s eagerness to cooperate, and Xiao Yu said he would keep an eye on the Earl.
• Xiao Yu gathered twenty high-level Blasphemers and led them from the Burying Ground toward Fang Fortress and the ruins’ entrance.
• The party encountered a Dark Wanderer, killed it, and received a guaranteed Soul Fire Fragment; Sweet and Sour Ribs won it and learned Dark Prayer.
• Xiao Yu and his party encountered and killed several more Dark Wanderers, while Xiao Yu remained wary of their strange black Soul Fire Fragments.
• The party arrived at an abandoned temple near the earthen hill, where the entrance to the ancient ruins lay.