Chapter Summaries

Wang Yue posed as Lister at the Void Corridor to draw the Emerald Royal Court into acting early, while the real Lister remained at the Machine-Slaying Federation. The deception was exposed when the false Lister’s saber strike proved too weak, and Wang Yue vanished as the fighting escalated.

• Isaac struck the Lord of Void Spirits while Lister’s threatening presence kept Void Spirit and Phantom wary.
• The Lord of Void Spirits summoned an Abyss Evil God, which recognized Lister and attacked him.
• The Mist Death Monarch and King Aogu arrived as reinforcements, and the Mist Death Monarch questioned why Lister had left the Machine-Slaying Federation exposed.
• Ocas tried to shield Lister, but Lister’s weak slash against the Abyss Evil God made the World Annihilation experts suspect his identity.
• Ocas pulled Lister out of the Lord of Void Spirits’ spatial lock, and the others realized the supposed Lister was not the real one.
• Wang Yue let his simulated aura disappear and withdrew, revealing that the real Lister had stayed at the Machine-Slaying Federation.

The Emerald Royal Court invaded the Machine-Slaying Federation, and Lister’s preparations brought its forces into a battle at the Babylon Galaxy. The chapter ended with Lister confronting Sailianna and striking at her with a powerful saber attack.

• Lilina reported that the Emerald Royal Court had invaded the Twilight Galaxy with three World-Ending experts, and Lister ordered citizens evacuated as the invasion advanced toward the Babylon Galaxy.
• Sailianna, Varalos Yongcui, and Aiselyn Eververdant attacked the Federation’s core, where Kavin activated the Star Machine Civilization’s Ultimate War defense protocol.
• Kavin’s mechanical fortress withstood Varalos’s assault and deflected Aiselyn’s arrow, but Sailianna’s power of Wither began draining Kavin’s life force.
• Lister appeared before Kavin and resisted Sailianna’s Wither attack, shocking the Emerald Royal Court’s experts.
• Lister unleashed a saber strike at Sailianna, who redirected her Wither power to slow it and had to face the attack directly.

Lister fought Sailianna, Kavin, Aiselyn, and Varalos in the Babylon Star Domain, where Sailianna’s healing and root network kept her allies alive. Lister killed Aiselyn and nearly killed Varalos before two more World Annihilations arrived with their legions.

• Lister assessed Sailianna’s powerful healing and revival abilities as Kavin renewed his attack on Varalos and Aiselyn.
• Kavin’s mechanical rays wounded Aiselyn, but Sailianna used Life Elegy to save her and drew battlefield energy into roots that restored her own health.
• Sailianna attacked Kavin with Withering while Lister let Varalos strike him, building his strength before turning on Aiselyn.
• Lister’s empowered slash annihilated Aiselyn, and Varalos charged him in grief, surviving Lister’s next attack only because Sailianna healed him.
• Sailianna stopped attacking Kavin to protect Varalos, and the two sides paused as the World Annihilations of the Spirit Remains Star Abyss and Eternal Night arrived with their legions.

Lister and Zoya joined forces against Sailianna’s group after Aiselyn’s death, and Sailianna chose to fight rather than withdraw when Lister refused to let them leave. Lister killed the Lord of Curses and Grudges, while Sailianna and Varalos escaped; the remaining Hegemons were hunted down.

• The Silent Night King and the Lord of Curses and Grudges arrived and realized Aiselyn was missing, while Varalos demanded that Sailianna continue fighting Lister.
• Zoya Lang arrived to support Lister, and Sailianna decided to withdraw, but Lister attacked and insisted that none of them could leave.
• Sailianna linked her health to Varalos and fought alongside him as Zoya used the Power of the End against her roots and Kavin sent war machines into battle.
• The Lord of Curses and Grudges attacked Lister with Curses and Grudges Heavenly Net, but Lister was immune to the curse and killed him with one slash.
• The Silent Night King fled, while Sailianna used her roots to teleport herself and Varalos away from the battlefield.
• Lister killed most of the fleeing Hegemons with a slash, and Kavin’s war machines killed the few who survived.

After the Machine-Slaying Federation battle, Ocas’s group withdrew to the Azure Galaxy, where Zoya described Lister’s immense strength and the Spirit Remains and Eternal Night leaders debated how to respond to him. As Lister’s forces cleared the Babylon Galaxy battlefield, the system announced that the players’ server would disappear in three days unless he postponed it.

• Ocas ordered a retreat, but Emily continued fighting until she unleashed Destruction energy that left the battlefield in ruins.
• Aboard the fleet, Emily pressured Wang Yue to reveal more about her abilities until Zoya arrived and stopped her.
• Zoya told Isaac and the others that Lister had killed Aiselyn and the Lord of Curses and Grudges with single slashes, and that his attacks could threaten even Sailianna.
• At a Spirit Remains Hall meeting, the Eternal Night King urged the Spirit Remains Lord to wait, feign commitment to the war, and eventually support Lister against the Church of the End.
• Leviathan helped clear the Babylon Galaxy wreckage while Kavin recovered, and Lister received notice that the players’ server would shut down in three days unless he postponed it.

The original universe collapsed, shutting down the system’s servers and ending players’ access to experience-based advancement while preserving their items and ongoing quests. Lister learned that the Power of the Plane had sustained his abilities and a single resurrection, then went to the Atas Star Domain to await the Seed of Eternity’s birth.

• Lister agreed to postpone the system shutdown, but three days later announcements confirmed the servers would disappear as the players’ universe merged into the higher cosmic plane and then collapsed.
• Players found that their items and quests remained, and Chen Shanqiang’s backup public channel let them discuss life without the system’s usual features.
• Lister’s stored items solidified through the Power of the Plane, which then consumed the energy reserved for his original resurrection and permanently retained that one chance under certain conditions.
• Lister tested his abilities and discovered that killing enemies no longer granted experience, while players could no longer gain experience or accept new advancement quests.
• Two months later, Lister waited in the Atas Star Domain as the Lord of Qingteng prepared for the Seed of Eternity’s birth, which was due in two months and four days.

Lister witnessed the Seed of Eternity complete its birth in the Atas Star Domain and claimed its protection contract after the Emerald Royal Court failed to appear. Sailianna then arrived alone and attacked, aiming to destroy the Seed rather than take it.

• Varalos told Aiwei that Eternal Night and the Spirit Remains Star Abyss would send only Silent Night and the Mist Death Monarch, who would not take orders, while the Void Corridor also showed reluctance to fight.
• Two months later, the Seed of Eternity began forming in the vine-covered Atas Star Domain as Lister and the Lord of Qingteng watched.
• Xavier, the Church of the End, and the Crimson Covenant arrived to guard the birth, while the Tree of Eternity's power renewed the Seed's gestation.
• Lister signed the Seed's contract after scanning for hostile forces, and its initial birth was completed without the Emerald Royal Court appearing.
• Sailianna suddenly appeared, sealed the area, and attacked Lister with roots and the power of Wither, revealing that she intended to destroy the Seed of Eternity.

Lister killed Sailianna after the Tree of Eternity restrained her power and created an opening, though Xavier revealed that she could eventually revive. With the Emerald Royal Court left without its leader, Church of the End forces advanced on its stronghold while Aiwei and Varalos learned of Sailianna’s death.

• Sailianna attacked the Seed of Eternity with her power of Wither, but the Tree of Eternity emerged from the seed and shielded it while draining Sailianna’s life energy.
• Lister seized the opening and struck Sailianna with his Merrick Saber Technique, killing her and ending the spatial blockade.
• Xavier and the other World Annihilation experts returned, and Xavier confirmed that Sailianna could revive but would need tens of thousands of years to recover.
• Xavier offered to lead the Church of the End’s remaining campaign against the Emerald Royal Court, and Lister agreed to let both sides regroup.
• Aiwei and Varalos learned from an elder and a Void Corridor envoy that Sailianna had been killed in a one-on-one fight with Lister.
• The Void Corridor envoy warned Aiwei that Church of the End World Annihilators, including Xavier, were approaching the Emerald Royal Court, then fled.

After Sailianna’s apparent death, Xavier’s forces destroyed the Emerald Royal Court’s last defenders, Varalos and Aiwei. Meanwhile, the Eternal Night King and the Spirit Remains Lord asked Lister to oppose the Church of the End, but he had not decided whether to go to war.

• Varalos and Aiwei learned that Sailianna’s life imprint had vanished and decided to retreat, hoping she would eventually be resurrected.
• Xavier trapped the Emerald Royal Court, killed Varalos, and left Aiwei to escape through a rift he had opened.
• Ocas restrained Aiwei, Isaac struck her, and Emily destroyed her with a beam of the End while Zoya urged the others to move on.
• The Eternal Night King and the Spirit Remains Lord met with Lister and asked him to fight the Church of the End.
• Lister told them he had not decided whether to go to war, since he had little interest in ruling the universe.

Lister accepted the Spirit Remains Star Abyss and Eternal Night Royal Court as allies, then met Xavier at the Void Corridor’s Floating City and agreed to end the World Annihilation War. The factions established a new order, leaving the Machine-Slaying Federation dominant and the players celebrating.

• Lister warned the Spirit Remains Lord and Eternal Night King not to join the Church of the End, and accepted their pledge to support the Machine-Slaying Federation.
• One month later, Lister and Xavier arrived at the Void Corridor’s Floating City with their allied World Annihilation experts and agreed that the war should end after the Void Corridor was dealt with.
• The group found Phantom dead and learned from three Hegemons that Void Spirit had reached another universe while Phantom had died in the rift between universes.
• Ocas annihilated the three Hegemons, and Lister and Xavier confirmed the terms for sharing resources and ended the World Annihilation War.
• The Spirit Remains Star Abyss and Eternal Night Royal Court survived under the new order, while the universe and the players celebrated the Machine-Slaying Federation’s growing dominance.

After the World Annihilation War ended, Chen Shanqiang proposed concentrating Scourge Legion resources on elite players through the Overlord Plan, and Lister agreed to let the players decide for themselves. The plan triggered a backlash from players who feared losing access to resources, leaving Chen Shanqiang facing a fierce dispute within the community.

• Players on XG-7 celebrated the end of the war, while some worried that peace would bring harsher competition for resources without the Game System.
• Chen Shanqiang and other top players discussed the shrinking Scourge Legion and considered how to preserve the player community as a faction.
• Chen Shanqiang presented the Overlord Plan to Lister, proposing that Scourge Legion resources be concentrated on elite players and Hegemons.
• Lister agreed to concentrate the legion's resources if the players carried out the plan themselves, while declining to help impose it.
• Players protested in the public chat that the plan would deprive ordinary and mid-tier members of resources, and Chen Shanqiang struggled to persuade them.

After the Seed of Eternity matured into the Tree of Eternity and created a Plane Barrier, Lister discovered the Tree’s main body was taking most of the Power of the Plane he believed he controlled. He fought its projection over the resource and left the dispute unresolved after it offered him one-tenth.

• Chen Shanqiang conceded to a resource-sharing agreement, and Lister delayed the Scourge Legion’s resource reductions for twenty years while granting benefits to departing members and players who relinquished future allocations.
• Nine years later, the Seed of Eternity transformed the Atas Star Domain and reached its growth stage, creating a Plane Barrier around itself and the surrounding region.
• Lister entered the barrier and found that the young Tree of Eternity gathered Power of the Plane in a pond, but its mature main body’s projection absorbed nearly all of it.
• Lister attacked the projection, and it explained that its avatars gathered Power of the Plane to sustain the main body; Lister insisted the power belonged to him under their contract.
• The Tree of Eternity’s projection attacked Lister with spectral roots, but his blade struck its true body across cosmic planes, after which the projection offered him one-tenth of the Power of the Plane.

Lister forced the Tree of Eternity to honor their agreement and give him access to the Power of the Plane, then discovered how it could create objects and spaces but could not directly strengthen him. He realized the power might let Mastermind Zone 71 reactivate the Game System, giving him and the players a way to advance further.

• Lister repeatedly slashed the Tree of Eternity's Phantom and threatened to kill the growth-stage sapling unless the Tree honored their original agreement.
• The Tree of Eternity's protective mark blocked Lister's attack from killing the sapling, but Lister's soul strike left it near death and forced the Tree to yield the Power of the Plane.
• Lister sampled the Power of the Plane and found that it restored his body and soul but could not directly increase his strength.
• Lister used the Power of the Plane to create potions, materials, equipment, and a small spatial barrier that absorbed ambient soul power.
• After several days of experimenting, Lister realized that Mastermind Zone 71 might use the Power of the Plane to reactivate the Game System and improve the players.

Lister secured administrator permissions for the player system and later watched the Scourge Legion’s Mars reach Overlord Tier, completing the player faction’s tenth advancement. With only the final stage of his Fifth Advancement quest remaining, he observed the accelerating cosmic fusion before Hoffman became the Machine-Slaying Federation’s third World-Ending Level powerhouse.

• Lister learned that Mastermind District Seventy-One could not restart the player system during the universes’ merger, but it granted him administrator permissions as Mastermind of District Forty-Two.
• Five years later, Mars began advancing to Hegemon on Honed Edge Planet while Chen Shanqiang, Li Xiang, Wells, and the other Hegemons watched.
• Lister arrived to observe Mars’s breakthrough, and half a month later Mars reached Overlord Tier, bringing the player faction to ten Overlord Tier beings and completing the objective in Lister’s Fifth Advancement quest.
• Lister went to the cosmic fusion zone, sensed the Tree of Eternity sapling drawing the Power of the Plane, and learned that Hoffman was nearing a World-Ending Level breakthrough.
• Hoffman used Void Corridor Hegemon corpses and fragments of the Emerald Royal Court’s Mother Tree of Life to complete a master puppet, then emerged three months later as the Machine-Slaying Federation’s third World-Ending Level powerhouse.

After the universes merged, Lister completed his Fifth Advancement and became a transcendent being of will who could perceive and manipulate the current universe’s rules. The World Annihilation powerhouses watched his breakthrough and lowered their heads before his overwhelming presence.

• Thirty years after Xavier chose to wait, the universes merged, and he and the other World Annihilation powerhouses found no powerful lifeforms from the other universe.
• The merger changed the surviving players, integrating them fully into the current universe and weakening the legacy of their original system.
• Inside the Plane Barrier, Lister completed all three stages of his Fifth Advancement quest and activated the super-tier lifeform transition program.
• Lister drew in Power of the Plane and energy from countless cosmic planes as his body and will underwent a fundamental transformation.
• Xavier and the other World Annihilation powerhouses arrived at the Atas Star Domain, realized Lister was breaking through, and held back from intervening.
• Lister completed his evolution, reassembled outside the Plane Barrier, and compelled the World Annihilation experts to lower their heads.

After gaining full control of the God's Rise system and overwhelming the World Annihilation experts, Lister secured their submission and studied how the system used the Power of the Plane. He traveled to another universe in search of more Trees of Eternity, where insect race mothers fought over the energy gathering around him as he formed a body.

• Lister scanned himself and discovered that his SSS rank meant god rank in the current universe.
• Xavier yielded the Power of the Plane to Lister, and the gathered factions agreed to obey him in cross-plane operations.
• Lister investigated the player system and realized its operation depended on enormous amounts of the Power of the Plane.
• Lister asked the Tree of Eternity sapling to locate other Trees, then followed its spatial mark into a new universe.
• Four insect race mothers fought over the energy gathering around Lister while he reconstructed his body and found that this universe had weakened his power.

Lister confronted the four World-Ending Level insect mothers, killed Yake when he tried to capture him, and forced the survivors to answer his questions. Ramos revealed that the Tree of Eternity had contracted with him and led Lister to its home in the Eternal Order Secret Realm.

• The four insect mothers surrounded Lister and argued over who would claim him and investigate his universe.
• Yake trapped Lister in gray mist and tried to seize him, but Lister broke free and killed Yake with a single saber strike.
• Lister intimidated the remaining three insect mothers and asked whether they knew the Tree of Eternity.
• Ramos admitted that the Tree of Eternity had contracted with him two hundred thousand years earlier, trading resources for shelter.
• Lister ordered Ramos to take him to the tree, and Ramos led him through his race's breeding base to the Eternal Order Secret Realm while the other two insect mothers fled.

Lister plundered the power of the plane from the Tree of Eternity’s avatars across several universes, then used it to restart and modify the players’ system. He selected fifty thousand warriors for a trial invasion of the Elf Plane, hoping their growth there would send its plane power back to him.

• Lister found the Tree of Eternity avatar in Ramos’s secret realm and forced it to release its stored power of the plane.
• Lister severed the avatar’s ties to the universe and Ramos, threatened it, and took the released power through a passage to his original universe.
• Lister raided Tree of Eternity avatars in several other universes, gathering enough power of the plane to form a vast golden lake.
• Lister restarted and partially restructured the players’ system, while Lilina sent confidential mission invitations to selected candidates through the Machine-Slaying Federation.
• Lister selected fifty thousand warriors, including Federation soldiers and Scourge Legion members, for a trial mission in the Elf Plane.

Lister activated a modified system and sent a fifty-thousand-strong vanguard into the Elf Plane to establish a foothold and gather resources. Under Chen Shanqiang, the vanguard seized dwarven territory and defeated a counterattack, leaving the campaign deep in the dwarves’ core region.

• Lister opened a gate to the Elf Plane, summoned the vanguard, activated the Plane System, and issued a quest to establish territory and obtain resources.
• Chen Shanqiang led the vanguard to a remote dwarven galaxy, where they captured a fortress and claimed its mines, workshops, and rune technology.
• Lister observed the system’s use, including its limited resurrection feature and the experience points that flowed back to him.
• The vanguard advanced into the dwarves’ core region, capturing mining areas and starports while defeating patrols.
• Baron and two other dwarven experts confronted the vanguard, but Chen Shanqiang gravely wounded Baron and the Scourge Legion’s Overlords killed him.

After establishing a foothold in the elven universe, Lister gathered the universe’s World Annihilation powerhouses to explain his plans for expansion. He offered to send them to other universes with the Machine-Slaying Federation’s auxiliary system, and the chapter ended as he clarified they could decline its benefits.

• Chen Shanqiang’s vanguard settled in the Kalindo Galaxy and partnered with the humans of the Gan’er Galaxy to continue its development and offensive.
• Three months later, Lister returned to the Milky Way Galaxy and summoned all fifteen World Annihilation powerhouses to Scarlet Peak.
• Lister proposed keeping the current universe’s resource distribution unchanged while letting the Machine-Slaying Federation oversee the distribution of resources from the new universe.
• Lister showed the gathered leaders a battle in an elven universe and confirmed he could send World-Ending Level powerhouses there, not just warriors up to Overlord Tier.
• Lister explained that visitors would need Merrick Chips and could use an auxiliary system powered by the Power of the Plane, but they were free to reject its benefits.