Chapter Summaries

Shen Xing placed the Chaos Hunter Nest in his territory and reviewed the gains that had greatly strengthened his forces. He brought Kratos to the Moon in the Sky, where Kratos discovered that striking the Moon Laurel Tree improved his understanding of combat.

• Aqi went after Logan to discuss the book, while Shen Xing headed to the western district and placed the Chaos Hunter Nest beside the Shadow Dragon Nest.
• Shen Xing asked Ding Han to obtain Breath of Chaos and other materials, then assessed his territory’s troops, buildings, and powerful heroes after ten days of growth.
• Shen Xing planned to reach Master rank before the Myriad Worlds Arena opened and prepare materials for his troops to break through to Grandmaster.
• Shen Xing teleported Kratos to the Moon in the Sky, where Kratos sensed that a deity had once existed there.
• Shen Xing ordered Kratos to strike the Moon Laurel Tree, and Kratos found that its strange force could help him advance his combat skills toward the Great Grandmaster realm.

After placing first in the Two Worlds Leaderboard, Shen Xing returned to Blue Star and caught up on messages about the coming arena battle and his friends' rankings. He and the group arranged to meet Xia Wanyin in Jiangcheng in four days.

• Shen Xing thanked Kratos for his dedication and left him chopping trees beneath the Moon Laurel Tree.
• Shen Xing logged off and saw news reports highlighting his first-place finish and Blue Star's smaller number of leaderboard contenders.
• Ding Han told Shen Xing that his requested materials had been found, though the Tier Four Lord's Heart was still being arranged.
• Shen Xing discovered that his friends had all made the top thousand, including Qin Lang, while Xia Wanyin had reached the top hundred.
• Xia Wanyin said she would visit Jiangcheng in four days to fulfill the bet, and Shen Xing and the others agreed to meet her at the airport.

Shen Xing received a shipment of advancement materials and construction plans, then returned to his territory to distribute upgrades and order a rescue mission. He left his generals beginning Tier Four breakthroughs while Da Hou prepared to bring Logan’s family to safety.

• Shen Xing received materials from Ding Han’s side, including Tier Three and Tier Four advancement materials, Chaos resources, and a Level 4 Black Crystal City Wall Blueprint.
• Shen Xing transferred most of the shipment into the Land of Mist and brought the materials into his territory, leaving the Space Crystals for later.
• Shen Xing summoned his generals and ordered them to distribute the Tier Three materials among their troops.
• Shen Xing gave Tier Four materials to Xiao Hei, Upper Rank One, Black Arrow, Fried Chicken, Big Demon, and Paratrooper Number One so they could attempt to advance.
• Shen Xing ordered Da Hou to lead an orc squad to Black Iron City, find Logan’s wife and children, and bring them safely to the territory.

Shen Xing and Xia Wanyin agreed to expand their adjoining territories together, with Shen Xing covering the construction in exchange for two Chaos Magic Stones. He began organizing the work, while events on Blue Star hinted that a major moment was unfolding there.

• Shen Xing invited Xia Wanyin to discuss expanding their territories, and she proposed sharing construction duties and costs.
• Shen Xing offered to build the walls and arrow towers in exchange for two Chaos Magic Stones, which Xia Wanyin accepted.
• Shen Xing surveyed the joined territory, calculated the expansion's scale and cost, and planned a seven-kilometer-by-three-kilometer enclosure.
• Shen Xing assigned his heroes and foreman Monday to build walls and clear the land, and construction began across both territories.
• On Blue Star, people gathered around screens and watched an event they believed would make history.

Conrad told a fiery dragon lord that Lin Yi possessed the origins of two five-colored dragons, prompting the dragon to emerge from its volcano and fly toward him. Meanwhile, Chongfu met a man in a trench coat to exchange the Red Sand World's goods for information about Blue Star.

• Blue Star's countries publicly apologized to the Heavenly Star Nation, which accepted and called for unity against the coming crisis.
• Conrad reported to the dragon lord that Lin Yi had absorbed multiple dragon origins and was on the Blackwing Plains.
• The dragon lord agreed to take Lin Yi's dragon origins and erupted from the volcano with a host of fiery dragons.
• Chongfu met a man in a trench coat among the ruins and warned him to honor their deal for information about Blue Star.
• The man in the trench coat agreed to make the exchange and reached out to take the goods.

Shen Xing ordered defenses built around his and Xia Wanyin’s territories, including level 5 Walls of Chaos and specialized arrow towers. The chapter left the walls under construction and the upgrades and towers still to be completed.

• Shen Xing inspected the newly completed construction area and saw a band of blue light surrounding his and Xia Wanyin’s territories.
• Shen Xing told the heroes to upgrade the walls to level 5 Walls of Chaos once construction finished.
• Shen Xing ordered ten arrow towers to be built every hundred meters along the walls, with five upgraded into Cold Ice Arrow Towers, three into Lightning Arrow Towers, and two into Chaos Arrow Towers.

Shen Xing oversaw his troops’ breakthroughs and used Life-Sacrifice Evolution to advance Fried Chicken into an Overlord, gaining powerful scouting and wind-domain abilities. With the city walls taking shape, he planned to upgrade them and prepare for the coming calamity.

• Xiao Hei reported that five troops had reached Master Rank, sixty had reached Expert Rank, and Big Demon had failed his Master Rank breakthrough; Shen Xing reassured Big Demon.
• Shen Xing chose Fried Chicken, the Hippogryph, as the first newly advanced Master to undergo Life-Sacrifice Evolution.
• Fried Chicken advanced to Overlord★, evolved into a Wind King Warhawk, and gained Firmament Vision and the Aerospace Storm Domain.
• Shen Xing recognized that Fried Chicken could scout through the mist and share his vision, while his domain improved his ability to evade enemies.
• Shen Xing watched Fried Chicken fly off, then noted that the city walls were taking shape and planned to upgrade them before preparing for the calamity.

Shen Xing decided to save the essence for Leina while he continued training his mental power. In Weideng Royal City, Black Hawk City's deputy city lord arrived, agreed to destroy a Chosen territory, and revealed plans with Lord Haidesen to overthrow the king before Haidesen turned on the Blood Origin Cult.

• Shen Xing decided to give the essence to Leina and returned to the Lotus Pond to train toward the third stage of mental power.
• Black Hawk City's deputy city lord, Grandmaster Hector, entered Weideng Royal City and promised the Blood Origin Cult the compensation Lord Haidesen had pledged.
• Hector told Lord Haidesen that someone had escaped the city and reported to Black Hawk City, and he offered to wipe out the Chosen territory found nearby.
• Hector revealed that he and Lord Haidesen planned to invade Weina'er Imperial City and overthrow the king once Haidesen reached Grandmaster Rank.
• The Blood Origin Cult's bishop refused to join the rebellion and demanded their promised compensation, but Lord Haidesen declared that they were the compensation and trapped them inside the hall.

Haidesen and the deputy city lord of Black Hawk City trapped the Blood Origin Cult in Weideng Royal City, while a pale hand from the gray mist seized the cult’s Grandmaster. The next morning, Shen Xing visited the expanded territory and learned Nimue had developed an extraordinary new food.

• The deputy city lord of Black Hawk City revealed that Haidesen planned to consume the trapped Blood Origin Cult members and their Grandmaster’s blood energy to advance toward Grandmaster Rank and eventually Great Grandmaster.
• Bishop Atticus called on a hidden Grandmaster to attack, but a huge pale hand emerged from the gray mist, captured him, and dragged him away despite his resistance.
• After the Blood Mist Frenzy ended, Shen Xing finished training with his Telekinesis Orbs and toured the expanded territory at dawn.
• Shen Xing smelled a fragrant food from the processing factory and suspected Nimue’s research had succeeded.
• Nimue met Shen Xing and told him she had developed the most impressive food of her life, so they headed to the factory to see its effects.

Shen Xing named the cooks’ newly developed youth-restoring food the Rejuvenation Pill and learned it could bring his territory enormous profits and reputation. He rewarded the cooks and Nimue, then revealed that Nimue’s real mysterious gift was still to come.

• Nimue showed Shen Xing the cooks’ new steamed food and explained its exact recipe.
• Shen Xing examined the food, discovered its healing and youth-restoring effects, and named it the Rejuvenation Pill.
• The system announced that the recipe would bring Shen Xing’s territory up to 100,000 reputation as the pills spread through the Land of Mist.
• Shen Xing rewarded the cooks with Elite Souls, prompting Nimue to ask for her promised gift.
• Shen Xing gave Nimue a Tier Three advancement material as a work reward and told her the real gift was still coming.

Shen Xing collected a large batch of Rejuvenation Pills and inspected Natalie’s successful cultivation of Beast Strength Mushrooms, which could also enable bulk Gold Coin Mushroom production. When Natalie offered herself because her mother had taught her to give her first night to the lord, Shen Xing dressed her and refused to take advantage of her.

• Shen Xing stored 412 Rejuvenation Pills and told the cooks to continue making more.
• Natalie told Shen Xing that she had cultivated Beast Strength Mushroom spawn and had advanced to Master Rank Planting Mastery.
• Natalie pushed Shen Xing’s wheelchair to the underground mushroom chambers, where he saw the Beast Strength Mushroom spawn nearing maturity.
• Natalie undressed and said that her mother had taught her to give her first night to the lord.
• Shen Xing put Natalie’s clothes back on, fastened her belt, and returned to his wheelchair.

Shen Xing toured his rapidly expanding territory and met Lila, who explained that internal opposition at the Ouroboros Chamber of Commerce had delayed its plans to make his territory a trading post. Lila then revealed the caravan’s unusual cargo: a Wind Spirit Stone that gathered wind particles and produced Wind Spirits.

• Shen Xing inspected his upgraded defenses and decided to face the coming calamity without waiting for the wall upgrades to finish.
• An orc told Shen Xing that a caravan claiming to know him had arrived, and Shen Xing recognized it as the Ouroboros Chamber of Commerce.
• Lila greeted Shen Xing and marveled at how much his territory had grown since her last visit.
• Lila explained that factions within the chamber opposed her succession and had delayed making Shen Xing’s territory a trading post pending an inspection.
• Lila presented the caravan’s shipment, uncovering a huge Wind Spirit Stone and explaining that it gathered wind particles to create Wind Spirits.

Shen Xing bought Lila’s Wind Spirit Stone and showed her a Rejuvenation Pill, asking whether she would help him make another deal. After Lila tried the pill and felt its powerful effects, the Ouroboros Chamber of Commerce members were astonished by its ability to heal injuries and delay aging.

• Wind Spirits formed around the Wind Spirit Stone, and Lila explained how they could help develop Shen Xing’s territory.
• Lila offered to sell Shen Xing the scarce stone for three million silver coins, but Shen Xing insisted on paying its normal price.
• Shen Xing bought the Wind Spirit Stone from Lila for 4.5 million silver coins.
• Shen Xing stopped Lila from leaving and asked if she would help him make another deal.
• Shen Xing gave Lila a Rejuvenation Pill to try, and she swallowed it despite her companions’ concerns.
• Lila felt the pill heal her old injuries and improve her condition as Shen Xing explained that it could delay aging by ten years, astonishing the Ouroboros Chamber of Commerce members.

Shen Xing agreed to sell Rejuvenation Pills to Lila and the Ouroboros Chamber of Commerce for Soul Stones, securing a major trading partnership. After handing over the first batch, he invited Lila and her companions into his territory to rest before their journey.

• Lila offered to buy Rejuvenation Pills for one hundred thousand Soul Stones each, and Shen Xing agreed to sell four hundred in the first batch and two thousand per week afterward.
• Lila pledged that the Ouroboros Chamber of Commerce would gather the Soul Stones and deliver payment weekly, while Shen Xing gained favor with her and reputation with the chamber.
• Shen Xing handed Lila the first four hundred Rejuvenation Pills, worth forty million Soul Stones, and trusted her to pay a week later without leaving her token as collateral.
• After completing the transaction, Shen Xing invited Lila and the chamber members to rest in his territory before continuing their journey.

Shen Xing hosted Lila and the Ouroboros Chamber of Commerce in his territory before preparing his forces for an approaching calamity. He strengthened Gorehowl and recruited 120 Chaos Hunters, then inspected their abilities as his assembled army prepared for battle.

• Shen Xing showed Lila the Golden Ancient Tree and his territory, then saw her caravan depart with her promise to bring Soul Stones in one week.
• Shen Xing summoned more than five thousand combat units, including sixty-one Shadow Dragons, and the newly arrived Kratos joined them.
• Shen Xing warned his forces to prepare for a battle potentially far more intense than the Blood Mist Frenzy and used 3,000 Agility to help Gorehowl advance to Overlord★.
• Shen Xing spent resources to recruit 120 Tier Two Chaos Hunters, activating their hundred-member Sanity Restoration bond.
• Shen Xing inspected a Chaos Hunter and reviewed its sanity-based skills and Chaos Corrosion talent.

Shen Xing gave Leina the Ancient Tree of Life Essence, causing her aptitude to break through its limit and awaken a powerful presence. The system warned that her attempt to become perfect had summoned a great calamity, and an ominous chill swept through the territory.

• Shen Xing appointed four Chaos Hunters as Kratos's King's Royal Guard and granted them powerful skills.
• Gorehowl completed his metamorphosis, advanced to Overlord★, and gained the Bloody Battle on the Battlefield domain.
• Shen Xing gave Leina the Ancient Tree of Life Essence, and a divine phantom appeared behind her as the Sacred Flame Platform's flames expanded.
• Shen Xing watched Leina's aptitude rise beyond 90 and realized she had broken through the aptitude limit.
• The system declared that a great calamity was coming, and a sinister wind chilled the territory.

Shen Xing prepared his territory for a calamity and easily destroyed an initial monster attack, but the Red Dragon Sovereign Glomak appeared and threatened the defenders. Conrad revealed himself as the one who had brought Glomak to Shen Xing’s territory.

• Shen Xing ordered his forces to prepare for battle and warned Xia Wanyin to defend her territory.
• A force of Frenzied Corpses and Abominations emerged from the mist, but Shen Xing’s archers and knights wiped it out.
• Orcs sent to collect the loot were burned to ash by a powerful presence, and Glomak’s giant eye appeared in the fog.
• Onyxia recognized Glomak as the Red Dragon Sovereign, who offered to spare her if she submitted to him.
• Conrad emerged from the mist, taunted Shen Xing, and revealed that he had brought Glomak to the territory.

The Red Dragon Sovereign, now calling himself Glomark, attacked Shen Xing’s territory, but Shen Xing summoned the Black Dragon Lord-Kazdoreth to stop him. Kazdoreth confronted Glomark, and the two prepared to fight over Shen Xing.

• Shen Xing used his Dragon Lord authority to force Conrad to kneel, but Glomark empowered Conrad and freed him from the suppression.
• A bald orc struck Conrad with a battle-axe, and Conrad fell to the ground after Shen Xing dismissed him as unworthy.
• Glomark launched a mass of magma toward the territory, and Kazdoreth emerged from a rift to seize and extinguish it.
• Kazdoreth called the crimson-eyed enemy Glomak, who revealed that he was now the Lord of Incineration, Glomark.
• Kazdoreth demanded that Glomark leave, and Glomark challenged him by recalling their past fight and boasting of his battle talent.
• Kazdoreth revealed that his physical strength had advanced to the sixth realm at perfection, and the two dragons began preparing to fight.

The Red Dragon Sovereign Glomark attacked Shen Xing to seize the source power within him, but Kazdoreth agreed to fight Glomark while Shen Xing faced the red dragon legion. With both armies preparing to clash, the battle for Shen Xing’s territory began.

• Glomark dispelled the fog over the Blackwing Plains and summoned more than a thousand powerful lava dragons.
• Kazdoreth offered to retreat with Shen Xing, but Shen Xing insisted they kill Glomark and promised to split the source power from its body.
• Kazdoreth ambushed Glomark and dragged the Red Dragon Sovereign into the sky, leaving their armies to fight below.
• Conrad persuaded the lava dragons to attack Shen Xing’s territory while Glomark was occupied.
• Shen Xing ordered his Overlords to activate their domains and directed his ranged and melee troops to attack the invading legion.

Shen Xing’s forces overwhelmed the Red Dragon Legion with overlapping domains, Onyxia’s roar, concentrated ranged attacks, and a ground assault by Black Moon Knights and frenzied orcs. As six powerful Lava Dragons descended to attack the city wall, Shen Xing sent six of his strongest fighters to meet them.

• Shen Xing’s seven Overlord Rank creatures activated their domains, but a peak Tier Four Crown Rank Lava Dragon resisted and ordered the legion to attack.
• Onyxia stunned the Lava Dragons with Dark Abyss Roar, allowing Shen Xing’s ranged units to bombard them as they fell.
• Black Moon Knights used Dark Moon Chains to pin the dragons down, while Hellscream’s Desperate Brawl drove the orcs into a strengthening melee frenzy.
• The Crown Rank dragon summoned six Tier Four Overlord Rank Lava Dragons to strike the city wall.
• Shen Xing sent Onyxia, Hellscream, Gorehowl, Luna, Kratos, and Fried Chicken to fight the six dragons, and the two sides clashed.