Chapter Summaries

The Chief Gods of the Divine Court discussed their weakening Authorities, the missing Crosser Ming Yuanwu, and the danger posed by the Demon King and the Survivors. They ordered Apollo to track a vanished Scholar and prepared to defend against another incursion into the Land of Darkness.

• The Command Chief God learned that Ming Yuanwu had disappeared after leaving the Divine Court and suspended the Ascension Plan while ordering divine envoys to explore.
• Hecate recalled how the Chief Gods had drained their world, created the False Divine Court, and used it to trap Crossers and invading worlds.
• Apollo explained that a woman who had inherited his divine position vanished about two hundred and four Divine Court lengths away, and the Command Chief God assigned him to find the Scholar.
• The Command Chief God ordered Hermes, Aphrodite, Hecate, and Dionysus to prepare for the Demon King and told the other Chief Gods to explore the Land of Darkness and seek a way out.
• The Command Chief God looked toward the Three Fates' empty thrones, recognizing that the three fate-wielding Chief Gods had died.

After the Chief Gods discovered that three of their number had died, they worked to stabilize their world and investigated the Survivors’ traces and strange treasure chests in the Land of Darkness. Hecate introduced them to the powerful Void Zerg, but before the Chief Gods could pursue cooperation, the Void Zerg declared war on the Divine Court.

• The Chief Gods awoke to find three of their number dead, and the Command Chief God used their Authority to slow the world’s devouring.
• The subordinate Gods found traces indicating that Survivors had recently left the area, along with treasure chests containing materials, blueprints, items, potions, and Skill Books.
• The Chief Gods studied the Skill Books and debated the Survivors’ purpose, then discussed whether they could take the world and escape.
• Hecate reported that her forces had encountered the Void Zerg, a civilization whose individuals were nearly immune to conventional attacks and could crush most subordinate Gods.
• The Command Chief God proposed trying to cooperate with the Void Zerg, but Hecate’s vanguard urgently reported that they had declared war on the Divine Court.

Yun Xiaoxiao and Kin Number One, Xiao Xiao Luo, entered [Galaxy] and found themselves as pure information in a vast world where information and physical matter coexisted. A representative of the [McGill] civilization explained that the world was an advanced Virtual World whose mainframe was [Galaxy]’s body and whose computing array was spacetime itself.

• Yun Xiaoxiao and Kin Number One, Xiao Xiao Luo, marveled at the divine beasts and immense worlds inside [Galaxy].
• Yun Xiaoxiao and Kin Number One, Xiao Xiao Luo, discovered that they had become information states, and Kin Number One, Xiao Xiao Luo, found a quark-sized Micro Black Hole in his head.
• A man in a white suit introduced himself as a representative of the [McGill] civilization and said their civilization’s status had been changed to [free civilization].
• The man explained that the [Butterfly Civilization] governed subsidiary civilizations across the [Local Supercluster], then offered them a free display pet based on their culture.
• Yun Xiaoxiao asked why the creatures resembled Little Broken Ball’s myths, and the man said they had been generated by an algorithm using their culture.
• The man revealed that the world was a Virtual World, with [Galaxy]’s body as its mainframe and spacetime as its computing array.

Kin Number One Xiao Xiao Luo and Yun Xiaoxiao learned how the [Butterfly Civilization] converts visitors into information and prepared to meet the [Galaxy]. Qin Lang explained the rival civilizations and war-torn dimensions, leaving Xiao Xiao Luo eager to discover the greater powers behind them.

• The man in the suit explained that the [Galaxy] converted visitors into information through Black Holes, and Kin Number One Xiao Xiao Luo realized the process resembled a [Black Hole Computer].
• Kin Number One Xiao Xiao Luo learned that the [Butterfly Civilization] was an [Ascension Body] and asked to speak with the [Galaxy], whose representative would be available in about a day.
• Yun Xiaoxiao met Qin Lang, who explained that the Mutual Aid Association was not moving many people to the [Galaxy] because the [Butterfly Civilization] could reproduce what it analyzed.
• Qin Lang said the [Butterfly Civilization] had mistaken the newcomers for a scheme by the [Dome Civilization] before studying Mana and meeting the [String Civilization].
• Qin Lang described Three, Five, and Six Dimensions as peaceful, while Four and Seven Dimensions had been devastated by war, and Kin Number One Xiao Xiao Luo welcomed the prospect of encountering stronger powers.

Qin Lang explained the Milky Way’s civilization rankings and his negotiations with its five star cluster civilizations to Yun Xiaoxiao and her companions. After they left to meet the [Butterfly Civilization]’s Heroic Consciousness, the [Divine Court World]’s forces waited in the Land of Darkness for the approaching [Void Zerg], but their vanguard’s warning never came true.

• Qin Lang told Yun Xiaoxiao how the [Galaxy Ranking] classified civilizations, from those barely recognized by the [Butterfly Civilization] to the five [star cluster] powers governing the Milky Way.
• Qin Lang said he was negotiating with the five star cluster civilizations and that the Scholar could reach their level by mastering spatial technology.
• After talking for more than half a day, the Kin Number One, Xiao Xiao Luo, and Yun Xiaoxiao left to meet the [Butterfly Civilization]’s Heroic Consciousness in the Higher Dimension.
• Yun Xiaoxiao ascended while vomiting, and Qin Lang suspected that the [Butterfly Civilization]’s greatest problem was a shortage of resources.
• On the third day of the [Void Zerg]’s war declaration, a subordinate God and a Superior God waited in the Land of Darkness, puzzled that the enemy army had not appeared despite its vanguard’s earlier report.

The [Void Zerg] emerged from the Dreamscape and devastated the [Divine Court]'s main army, killing millions before Aphrodite intervened. She destroyed most of the swarm, but an unknown attacker then struck at her Authority and divine throne.

• The God of Armies suspected the [Void Zerg] had bypassed the [Veil] and warned the rear legions.
• The [King] led the [Void Zerg] out of the Dreamscape, where three hundred thousand new-model Zerg appeared between the early-warning front and the main army.
• The [Void Zerg] concealed themselves and slaughtered millions of subordinate Gods, driving the main army's front line back.
• Aphrodite used her Authority to expose and subdue the swarm, and Eros's arrow destroyed most of the Void Zerg.
• Black Flame ignited on Aphrodite's Authority and divine throne as an unfamiliar voice told her she did not deserve to be called the [Goddess of Beauty].

Su Luo used Heartfire and his Ten Thousand Laws Domain to counter Aphrodite’s beauty-based Authority and force her to destroy her projection. He then pursued and slaughtered the fleeing subordinate god legions as Heartfire burned through the Void Zerg.

• Su Luo examined Aphrodite’s Boss-tier status and used Heartfire to obscure the Authority linking her projection to her true body.
• Aphrodite ordered Eros to shoot Su Luo with an arrow that imposed the Law of being in heat, but Heartfire burned away its effects.
• Su Luo spread his Ten Thousand Laws Domain over Aphrodite’s Sea of Foam and reasoned that Law—Evolution applied his own evolution rather than asserting a World Rule.
• Aphrodite transformed through Love Domain Weaving, but Heartfire evolved an opposing Ugliness Authority, so she destroyed her projection to protect her true body.
• Su Luo’s domain consumed the Sea of Foam and caught the retreating subordinate god legions, while Heartfire adapted to the Void Zerg and burned hundreds of thousands of them.

Su Luo fought off the Void Zerg and Aphrodite while the Divine Court’s forces retreated, then faced the Night Chief God and eight more Chief Gods who arrived in their true bodies. Surrounded by nine Chief Gods, Su Luo was in grave danger.

• The Void Zerg sent a mutated Demigod advanced unit after Su Luo, but he seized and refined it, analyzing the Aberrant Element within.
• Su Luo expanded his Ten Thousand Laws Domain, pursued the Void Zerg, and used their materials and energy as resources while holding off both sides of the battle.
• Aphrodite revived from the Sea of Foam and tried to make Su Luo fall in love with her, but he burned away her threads of desire and crushed her fading projection into the System Space.
• The Night Chief God descended in her true body and struck Su Luo with her jeweled dagger, causing his condition to plunge.
• Su Luo sensed eight more Chief Gods arriving in their true bodies and sealing off the world around him.

After the Chief Gods believed they had killed [Scholar], they debated the [Void Zerg] threat and chose to seek peace while studying the [Void]. Su Luo resurrected with six Authority curses attached and realized he would need to escape far from the [Divine Court] or kill the Chief Gods to remove them.

• The Wine God and [Wisdom Main God] questioned whether [Scholar] was truly dead and considered how the [Survivors] and [Void Zerg] might be connected.
• The [Death Chief God] argued that the [Void Zerg] could drain the [Divine Court]'s resources, while [Wisdom Main God] proposed studying their technology.
• The nine Chief Gods returned to the [Divine Court] and decided to pursue peace with the [Void Zerg], study the [Void], and seek a way to migrate.
• The [Hunting Chief God] sensed [Scholar]'s resurrection but could not catch him as he fled.
• Su Luo woke in the [Physical Configuration Backup Pod] with six Authority curses, which he calculated he could remove by traveling a third of a light-year away or killing the corresponding Chief Gods.

After escaping the Divine Court, Su Luo examined the authority curses the Chief Gods had branded on him and tried to suppress them with his own power. The curses remained active, leaving him to study how authority and the world’s rules worked.

• Su Luo tidied his base, hid his main body in the Dream World, and fled at full speed away from the Divine Court.
• Su Luo reviewed his attribute gains and used [Law—Extreme Speed Increase] to travel at roughly three times the local speed of light.
• After several hours of flight, Su Luo concluded the Chief Gods were unlikely to pursue him and began examining their authority curses.
• Su Luo brought out his true body and tried to suppress the curses with [Law—Suppression], but the [Oath Thunder Technique] struck him and immobilized him for one second.
• Su Luo considered the curses’ effects: [Orphan Curse] had no blood relatives to target, while [Vast Sea, Sinking Bones], [Knowledge Blindness], [Shadow-Hunting Pursuit], and [Fruit of Strife] posed other threats.

Su Luo analyzed why [Law] conflicted with [Evolution] and ordered Xiao Luo to build a Laboratory modeled after the Divine Court. Meanwhile, Jing Yunxin repeatedly resurrected Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, until he removed the [Killing Rule], then learned that Su Luo would not be visiting soon.

• Su Luo concluded that [Law] imposed static results and might be incompatible with his path of [Evolution], but rejected the idea that he could not use it.
• Su Luo told Xiao Luo to build a Laboratory modeled after the Divine Court, then stayed behind to study the Curses.
• Jing Yunxin repeatedly resurrected Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, while he endured [Evolution Purgatory] to dismantle the [Killing Rule].
• Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, completed the dismantling, but [Evolution Purgatory] killed him before he could report it; Jing Yunxin eventually stopped resurrecting him.
• [Evolution Purgatory] released Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, and stored the results in a Gold Card after pouring energy into Jing Yunxin's Sanctuary.
• Jing Yunxin told Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, that Su Luo had postponed the Laboratory and wanted them to help the Mutual Aid Association instead.

Jing Yunxin prepared to receive Guizishi, setting up a lethal trap to test returning Survivors before resurrecting them. She also considered whether the dead might one day be brought back, while the Mutual Aid Association gathered for a rare meeting.

• Jing Yunxin reassured Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, who accepted that her work on the Laboratory had been delayed and began planning its construction.
• Number Two warned Jing Yunxin that Guizishi was about to return, and Jing Yunxin unfolded her Sanctuary into a vast jade-green flower.
• Jing Yunxin prepared a cage of Legendary items around a Black Hole to kill returning Survivors before resurrecting them, guarding against technological tampering.
• Jing Yunxin wondered whether the dead could be saved if Survivors eventually gained enough power to travel between zones and extend Resurrection's time limit.
• Jing Yunxin gave the [Perching True Spirit] to Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, and left to attend a rare Mutual Aid Association meeting.

The chapter shifted from concern over missing Survivors in a Large Dungeon to Kin Number One, Xiao Xiao Luo, and Yun Xiaoxiao’s meeting with the Butterfly Civilization in the Seven Dimensions. Psyche accepted the Scholar’s preliminary terms and offered advanced dimensional and wormhole technologies in exchange for basic resources.

• The world had seven Rainbow Badges, while more than five hundred Gold Badges and several Silver Badges who entered the Large Dungeon had not returned or spoken for six and a half days.
• Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, learned that the multi-winged [Perching True Spirit] could speak and was ordered to prepare her gear for study.
• Yun Xiaoxiao and Kin Number One, Xiao Xiao Luo, reached the [Seven Dimensions], where Yun Xiaoxiao was knocked unconscious by the complex space.
• [Psyche] introduced herself as a heroic unit of the [Butterfly Civilization] and explained that the civilization had already received the information Su Luo encoded in the visitors.
• Kin Number One, Xiao Xiao Luo, asked about the dimensional boundaries, and [Psyche] said the realms above Seven Dimensions belonged to ancient civilizations while the One and Two Dimensions had been weaponized.
• [Psyche] accepted the Scholar’s preliminary terms and offered an [Encapsulated Dimensional Fragment], a [Complete Encyclopedia of Star Cluster Civilization Knowledge], and customized [Wormhole Technology] for basic Transcendent Side resources.

Kin Number One Xiao Xiao Luo and Yun Xiaoxiao learned from [Psyche] that the multidimensional universe was crowded with civilizations fighting over scarce resources, while the fate of those trapped below the ancient civilizations was extinction. Su Luo received the [Butterfly Civilization]'s information and an [Encapsulated Dimensional Fragment], and was left contemplating how hopeless his home universe was.

• [Psyche] explained that the [Butterfly Civilization] had observed more than a hundred million powerful civilizations and described the universe as a vast multidimensional [ocean] where civilizations fought for resources.
• [Psyche] told Kin Number One Xiao Xiao Luo and Yun Xiaoxiao that ancient civilizations controlled dimensions above the seventh and that civilizations across the lower dimensions faced eventual [Extinction].
• [Psyche] revealed that [Ye Fan] likely resulted from a leak in the [Butterfly Civilization]'s Ascension Body Experiment over a billion years earlier and offered a complete information file on Blue Star.
• Kin Number One Xiao Xiao Luo and Yun Xiaoxiao sent Su Luo the information and the [Encapsulated Dimensional Fragment] before returning to the Dream World.
• Su Luo examined the lollipop containing the transaction's knowledge and the packaged dimensional fragment, noting that it had been produced a hundred million years earlier and warning that its effects spread at the [speed of light].

Su Luo reconsidered the nature of World Rules and developed a new understanding of [Evolution] as changing patterns of interaction. He used that insight to evolve [Law] itself, ending with the ability to nullify other [Laws].

• Su Luo set aside his plans to build a Laboratory and studied his Path, laying out five Radiant Gold Cards containing his [Laws].
• Su Luo reflected on how [Law] suited the [Accumulation] Path but felt too static for his own dynamic [Evolution].
• Su Luo concluded that World Rules were patterns of relationships that shifted as interactions changed, and redefined [Law] as forcibly fixing local relationships.
• Su Luo used Heartfire to accelerate the changing relationships around [Fruit of Strife], making its divine mark dissipate after three days.
• Su Luo gained the ability to nullify other [Laws] through [Evolution].

Su Luo refined his [Evolution-Nullification Law] and considered how to strengthen himself while dealing with his Eternal Curses. After testing the ability, he began developing a way to resist other [Laws] by covering himself with a protective [Law].

• Su Luo explained that [Evolution] made the [Fruit of Strife] consume energy faster until its effect began to fade, then named his ability [Evolution-Nullification Law].
• Su Luo recognized that his weak true body had been drained by exploration and examined the cultivation resources and materials in his possession.
• Su Luo decided not to cultivate other Paths directly, choosing instead to learn from them and develop his own [Evolution-Scholar Path].
• Su Luo continued wearing down his Eternal Curses with [Evolution-Nullification Law], but found that his unclear understanding of the world's rules made progress slow.
• After testing the [Command Chief God's] Thunder Curse, Su Luo reasoned that conflicting [Laws] could contend and proposed shielding himself with a [Law] containing [Source Essence] to resist or burden an enemy's [Law].

Su Luo chose to develop an Evolution-Countermeasure Law, while the Chief Gods grew alarmed as his mark-breaking accelerated and the Survivors’ strength threatened them. The Divine Court fled into the darkness as the Gods prepared Void equipment, and the Wisdom Main God discovered that the Void Zerg were actively evolving.

• Su Luo settled on using Evolution to create a Law that could counter opponents’ Attributes and resist their Laws.
• Aphrodite told the Chief Gods that Su Luo wore away her mark in three days, while the Command Chief God’s stronger mark lasted only six hours.
• The Chief Gods concluded that Su Luo could threaten them within a month and decided to move the Divine Court away, despite knowing it could not outrun him.
• The Wisdom Main God reported that the Gods could not produce Void material but could harvest it from Void Zerg, with the first equipment ready in a day.
• After the meeting, the Wisdom Main God examined a Zerg corpse and sensed that its self-directed changes were Evolution stirring her dormant Authority.

The [Wisdom Main God] studied the [Void Zerg] and realized that Authority had to evolve to reach the [Star Lord] realm. As the [Divine Court] escaped the Zerg pursuit, an unknown Immortal Dao expert struck it with a sword, while Survivors discussed the difficult second Large Dungeon.

• The [Wisdom Main God] studied the [Void Zerg], concluded that their autonomous Evolution could transform Authority, and informed the other Chief Gods of her discovery.
• The subordinate Gods used newly forged [Void Equipment] to defeat the Zerg vanguard as the [Divine Court] accelerated away.
• Zuo Guxian and the [King] halted the main Zerg pursuit because their resources were running low, leaving scouts behind and sending the main force to help build the Laboratory.
• A dark cyan sword silhouette pierced the [Divine Court], revealing the presence of an unknown Immortal Dao expert and a new Lost Civilization.
• Survivors, including Jiang Mengrui, discussed how the second Large Dungeon lasted eight days and had stronger average participants and a smaller time-flow advantage.

Han Song watched the Mutual Aid Association’s experts plan a laboratory, but they lacked the enormous supply of [Void Matter] needed for its main structure. Xiao Luo ordered them to build it in the Dream World and use [Falsehood] as a temporary substitute, while Han Song realized how many resources a [Demigod]-level facility required.

• Gold Badges discussed the brutal Large Dungeon, the worlds at risk of shutting down, and the shift toward Continued Battles as the main struggle over badges.
• Ye Fan and Su Luo reported that a new, powerful lost civilization had appeared in [Little Abyss], while Shan Yixian said he had advanced to [Demigod] and entered the [Career Advancement Dungeon].
• The Mutual Aid Association supplied [Cores] for the laboratory, and Kin Number Two Xiao Xiao Luo argued with Zuo Guxian over the cost of building it from [Void Matter].
• Xiao Luo told the group to build the laboratory in the Dream World and temporarily fill its [Void Matter] sections with [Falsehood].
• Han Song saw that the laboratory would require more than thirteen thousand Legendary-quality items just for its assorted components.

Su Luo devoured the endless bones produced by the [Skeletal Royal Court] while considering the awakening monsters and preparing for the District War. The Royal Court finally noticed him and opened its rift wider, sending out a vast undead domain to confront his [Ten Thousand Laws Domain].

• The Land of Darkness grew more dangerous as level 10 monsters, black membranes, eyeballs, and small planes began appearing.
• Su Luo found the level 11 [Skeletal Royal Court] producing endless bones and devoured them for experience.
• Su Luo considered how the awakening monsters threatened Survivors and planned to save his experience just below level 12 before the District War in three days.
• After Su Luo devoured bones for nearly half a day, the [Skeletal Royal Court] stopped producing them and an eyeball formed from soul fire spotted him.
• The [Skeletal Royal Court] widened its rift and sent out a vast sea of bones that pushed back Su Luo's [Ten Thousand Laws Domain].