Recaps

Xiao Han rewrote the Logic Parasites into repair robots and gained second-level control of the Genesis, learning that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion caused the Data Plague. He forged a demonic decoy to divert a pursuing tracking ship, but a hungry will from the Cradle World then locked onto the Genesis.

• Xiao Han rewrote the Logic Parasites, turning them into green robots that repaired the bridge and cleaned up.
• The administrator opened the Genesis's second-level control permissions to Xiao Han and revealed the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's role in the Data Plague.
• Iron Crow warned Xiao Han that a Heavenly Secrets Pavilion tracking ship was pursuing the Genesis for the Logical Paradox Chip, and Xiao Han refused to slow their journey to the Cradle World.
• Xiao Han combined his True Demon Origin Imprint with an orderly mechanical core to create a demonic decoy that drew the pursuer into a clash and apparently destroyed it.
• A hungry will from the Cradle World reached across space and locked onto the Genesis.

Xiao Han discovered that the Cradle World was a Pseudo-God’s living stomach, where Su Linglong was being drained as bait to lure him into a trap. He seized control of the Genesis and turned it into a one-way lance to attack the creature and save her.

• The Genesis reached the Cradle World, which Xiao Han’s Void-Piercing Divine Eyes revealed to be a vast living organism.
• The administrator identified the target as a Pseudo-God and warned that the Genesis had been captured by its digestive force field.
• Xiao Han sensed that Su Linglong was imprisoned inside the creature and learned from the Little Chaos Beast that she was being drained to lure him there.
• The administrator began an emergency retreat, but Xiao Han overrode its commands and ordered the Genesis to ram the Pseudo-God.
• Lin Qingxia stabilized the administrator’s core with her life origin, and Iron Crow used the Defector Core to grant Xiao Han temporary control.
• The Genesis transformed into a giant lance and charged toward the Cradle World on a one-way voyage.

Xiao Han, Lin Qingxia, and the administrator broke through the false god’s Wall of Sighs after Lin Qingxia sacrificed her life essence to save the Godslaying Spear. Inside the false god, Xiao Han freed the souls imprisoned in the Lord of the Stomach, but the spear was on the verge of disintegration and their voyage had no return.

• The Godslaying Spear slowed and began dissolving as it entered the Wall of Sighs, with the administrator warning that it would disintegrate in seventeen seconds.
• Lin Qingxia used Life Sacrifice to pour her life essence into Xiao Han and the spear, stabilizing the ship and neutralizing the digestive fluid.
• Xiao Han and his companions broke through the Wall of Sighs and entered the false god’s body, where the Lord of the Stomach confronted them.
• Xiao Han invoked the Human Dao Merit Golden Wheel and vowed to guide the imprisoned souls into reincarnation.
• The souls rebelled against the Lord of the Stomach and tore it apart from within, clearing the way as the Godslaying Spear neared its limit.

Xiao Han discovered that Su Linglong’s apparent imprisonment was a trap meant to sacrifice him and enable the True Demon’s descent. He began a desperate attempt to seize control of the false god’s core, while Iron Crow vanished after anchoring the prison’s location.

• Xiao Han’s attack opened the false god’s heart, revealing a vortex that identified him as the final sacrifice and began pulling him and Lin Qingxia into it.
• Xiao Han released his True Demon Origin Imprint into the vortex, causing two True Demon forces to clash and destabilize the Cradle World.
• Xiao Han used his Void-Piercing Divine Eyes to locate Su Linglong and Little Chaos inside a dimensional prison.
• Iron Crow launched a positioning beacon to mark the prison, then disappeared with the Genesis bridge into spatial turbulence.
• Xiao Han formed a Chaos Dao Seed and sent it into the false god’s exposed core, where it began taking root and fighting for control.

Xiao Han reached the dimensional prison and found that the Primordial Succubus Queen had taken control of Su Linglong’s body, though Linglong’s will still resisted. Xiao Han entered Linglong’s sea of consciousness to fight the queen, while Lin Qingxia’s will unexpectedly joined the soul battlefield.

• Xiao Han broke through to the peak of the Martial Grandmaster Realm Fifth Layer, formed a temporary Chaos God-Demon Body, and reached the dimensional prison.
• Xiao Han discovered the Primordial Succubus Queen emerging through Su Linglong’s body, and Linglong urged him to kill her before the queen caused disaster.
• Little Chaos severed the queen’s connection to the false god’s core, giving Xiao Han a chance to attack her soul.
• Xiao Han used Overlord’s Gaze Separation to enter Su Linglong’s sea of consciousness, where he shielded her wounded ice phoenix soul from the queen’s black demonic sun.
• Lin Qingxia’s will crossed into the soul battlefield through the vitality she had sacrificed earlier.

Xiao Han, Lin Qingxia, and Su Linglong defeated the Succubus Queen, but Su Linglong sacrificed her soul and died. A new being named Mei'er emerged from the [Soul-Devouring Pearl] and offered Xiao Han a chance to preserve Su Linglong’s soul fragments, leaving him to choose whether to accept her dangerous contract.

• Xiao Han and Lin Qingxia protected Su Linglong as she detonated her Extreme Ice Phoenix divine soul, attempting to trap the Succubus Queen in an eternal Soul Ice Prison.
• The Succubus Queen fled Su Linglong’s body, but Xiao Han’s [Primordial Eternal Night Overlord] swallowed and destroyed her soul.
• Su Linglong’s sea of consciousness collapsed, her soul shattered, and Xiao Han caught her lifeless body as the false god’s world fell silent.
• The [Soul-Devouring Pearl] transformed, and Mei'er introduced herself as a being formed from the Succubus Queen’s origin and the pearl.
• Mei'er told Xiao Han she could gather Su Linglong’s drifting soul fragments into a Soul-Weaving Cocoon and guide him toward the Primordial Soul Spring.
• The God-Level Choice offered Xiao Han a contract with Mei'er at the cost of thirty percent of his soul’s origin, or warned that Su Linglong’s fragments would vanish within seventy-two hours if he refused.

Xiao Han used his soul essence and Mei’er’s Succubus Law to preserve Su Linglong’s scattered soul, then boarded the Netherworld River ferryman’s boat to reach the Asura Blood Sea. As he recounted the world’s destruction to pay for passage, a shadowy passenger accused him of lying and twisted his story into a dark alternative.

• Xiao Han chose Mei’er’s guidance, and together they gathered Su Linglong’s soul fragments into a Soul-Weaving Cocoon that would last at least a hundred years.
• Mei’er gave Xiao Han coordinates for the Primordial Soul Spring in the Asura Blood Sea, and an ancient skeletal ferryman appeared offering passage in exchange for a captivating story.
• Xiao Han accepted the bargain, laid Lin Qingxia and Su Linglong’s cocoon aboard the bone ferry, and began recounting the world’s final events through visions.
• Xiao Han’s story showed the Xia Emperor’s sacrifice, the Genesis striking the false god’s world, and Xiao Han reforging the seal as the world collapsed.
• A shadowy passenger shrieked that Xiao Han’s story was lies and changed the visions to depict him sacrificing Lin Qingxia and Su Linglong to seize the Worldheart Fragment and frame the Divine Court.

Xiao Han reached the outskirts of the Asura Blood Sea after the Ferryman destroyed the Lie Monarch for attacking his story. When the Ferryman demanded a story of his future as the fare to enter the sea’s core, Xiao Han rejected the offered choices and declared that he would forge his own future.

• Mei'er exposed the Lie Monarch’s memory of betraying an ally and begging an enemy for mercy.
• Xiao Han wounded the Lie Monarch with Overlord's Gaze, and the Ferryman crushed it into soul energy for the bone boat.
• Xiao Han finished recounting his story, and the Ferryman carried him to the outskirts of the Asura Blood Sea.
• The Ferryman demanded a story of Xiao Han’s future in exchange for passage to the core and the Primordial Soul Spring.
• Mei'er warned Xiao Han that answering would bind his fate, while the system presented three dangerous choices.
• Xiao Han declared that he would forge his own future and unleashed a pure will into the void.

Xiao Han and Lin Qingxia reached Soul-Weeping Island after surviving the Blood Sea Vengeful Spirits, seeking the Primordial Soul Spring. The island’s guardian, Grief, opposed their quest and attacked them with corrosive tears.

• The ferryman accepted Xiao Han’s vows as his ticket and sped the bone boat through the blood sea.
• Lin Qingxia woke and froze the approaching vengeful spirits while Xiao Han burned them with Netherworld Chaos Dragon Flame.
• The bone boat reached Soul-Weeping Island, where the ferryman revealed that the Primordial Soul Spring lay at its center before vanishing.
• Xiao Han and Lin Qingxia stepped onto the island, and its flowers turned blood-red as their tears began corroding the ground.
• Lin Qingxia raised an ice wall against the tears, but Grief appeared and declared that seeking the Primordial Soul Spring desecrated the dead.

Xiao Han endured the Grieving Goddess’s sorrow and earned her trust by sharing the grief he carried for the dead, but learned that using the Primordial Soul Spring to revive Su Linglong would unleash the Asura Progenitor’s Heart. As he faced the choice between saving Su Linglong and protecting the Shattered Star Sea, the Soul-Weaving Cocoon began cracking and revealed that Su Linglong had been made the key to the ancient seal.

• The Grieving Goddess’s Sorrow Divine Domain reopened Xiao Han and Lin Qingxia’s painful memories, and Mei’er devoured much of the sorrow tormenting Xiao Han.
• Xiao Han exposed the losses he had suffered and told the Grieving Goddess that neither her sorrow nor his was greater than the other.
• The Grieving Goddess stopped her attack and warned Xiao Han that using the Primordial Soul Spring would weaken her and release the sealed Asura Progenitor’s Heart.
• Xiao Han faced a choice between reviving Su Linglong and reinforcing the seal, while Su Linglong’s Soul-Weaving Cocoon began to decline within six hours if left unused.
• The Soul-Weaving Cocoon cracked and released destructive energy, shaking Soul-Weeping Island’s seal; Mei’er revealed that Su Linglong had been turned into a key to open it.

The Asura Progenitor’s Heart used Su Linglong’s soul-weaving cocoon to weaken the seal, leaving Xiao Han with no safe path to save her. He and Mei’er tried to sever the connection and stabilize Su Linglong’s soul, but the heart awakened and sent its will toward Xiao Han.

• Mei’er realized the queen had made Su Linglong’s soul the key to opening the primordial seal, and demonic energy began resonating with the heart beneath Soul-Weeping Island.
• The island shook as the seal weakened, while blood-tainted flowers and vines attacked Xiao Han and Lin Qingxia.
• The system warned Xiao Han that both resurrection and abandonment would help break the seal, so Mei’er proposed interrupting the resonance while Xiao Han replaced the Asura power with his soul essence.
• Xiao Han accepted Mei’er’s plan, and she burned most of her essence to sever the cocoon’s connection to the heart for three breaths.
• Xiao Han poured his soul essence into the cocoon as Su Linglong resisted the Asura power, but the Asura Progenitor’s Heart awakened and sent its will into Xiao Han’s sea of consciousness.

Xiao Han resisted the Asura Will’s attempt to enslave him and discovered that the seal’s true core was the Seed of Order hidden beneath the Primordial Soul Spring. As the Asura Ancestor attacked the spring, Linglong’s Soul-Weaving Cocoon unleashed the Extreme Ice Phoenix’s power.

• The True Demon Origin Imprint and Eternal Night Emperor Seal clashed with the Asura Will inside Xiao Han’s sea of consciousness, while Mei'er urged him to find the formation’s true core.
• Lin Qingxia burned her life origin to unleash the Evergreen Ice Realm, and the Grieving Goddess revealed that the true seal joined her sorrow, the Asura Ancestor’s resentment, and the Seed of Order.
• Xiao Han used his Void-Piercing Divine Eyes to locate the Seed of Order at the bottom of the Primordial Soul Spring and planned to use it to purify the cocoon and reforge the seal.
• Xiao Han broke free of the battle in his consciousness and rushed toward the spring, but the Asura Ancestor’s giant hand rose from beneath the island and seized its platform.
• The Asura Ancestor shattered Lin Qingxia’s ice realm and the Grieving Goddess’s figure, but Linglong’s Soul-Weaving Cocoon answered with a phoenix cry and released the Extreme Ice Phoenix’s origin power.

Xiao Han, Lin Qingxia, and Mei'er used the Seed of Order and their combined powers to strike the Asura Progenitor's Heart, ending the immediate crisis and stabilizing the seal. As Xiao Han collapsed, the Seed revealed that the Divine Court's power source matched the heart's energy, while the Goddess of Sorrow warned him about the Ferryman's plan to slay a god and enthrone a new one.

• Lin Qingxia poured her life essence into Xiao Han while Mei'er guided the energy, enabling him to combine creation and destruction and crack the demonic hand.
• Xiao Han reached the Seed of Order and channeled its power through his wounded body into the Soul-Weaving Cocoon.
• The cocoon formed a tricolored Heavenly Punishment Spear that struck the Asura Progenitor's Heart, halted the upheaval, and stabilized the seal.
• Mei'er confirmed that the cocoon had saved and reshaped the girl's soul, while Xiao Han and Lin Qingxia collapsed from exhaustion.
• The Seed of Order sent Xiao Han a star map to the Firmament Sacred Domain and Divine Court Headquarters, where he found an energy source matching the Asura Progenitor's Heart.
• The Goddess of Sorrow warned Xiao Han to beware the Ferryman, whose goal was godslaying and enthroning a new god.

Xiao Han rejected the ferryman’s offer to become the new Asura Lord, but the Yin Heart began forcibly assimilating him. Mei’er revealed that the seal had a hidden safeguard beneath the Soul Spring, and Xiao Han used his Void-Piercing Divine Eyes to search for it as the Asura power spread.

• The ferryman revealed that he was the jailer of the Asura Ancestor’s Yin Heart and sought a new master to wield it.
• The ferryman offered to fuse the Yin Heart with Xiao Han and revive his companions, but Xiao Han refused.
• The ferryman revealed that reforging the three-colored seal had made Xiao Han the Yin Heart’s chosen vessel, and dark red crystal began spreading through his arm.
• The Soul-Weaving Cocoon trembled as the seal destabilized, while the ferryman warned that resistance would destroy Xiao Han and his companions.
• Mei’er remembered an unknown safeguard beneath the Soul Spring and told Xiao Han about it.
• As the crystallization spread toward his heart, Xiao Han forced his Void-Piercing Divine Eyes to their utmost limit.

Xiao Han discovered the World Tree Rune and joined Lin Qingxia’s life essence and Su Linglong’s soul power to awaken it, breaking the Asura Yin Heart’s forced assimilation. Su Linglong emerged reborn as a High-Rank Martial Grandmaster, while the defeated jailer opened a vortex of darkness and threatened to destroy everything.

• Xiao Han found the miniature World Tree Rune and learned from Mei'er that activating it required a vast sacrifice of pure life essence.
• As Asura crystals consumed his arm, Xiao Han built a soul bridge between Lin Qingxia and Su Linglong, sharing memories and asking them to trust him.
• Lin Qingxia sent her final life essence through the bridge, and Su Linglong added the pure soul power from her rebirth.
• Their powers awakened the World Tree Rune, whose emerald light purified the Asura crystals, broke the forced assimilation, and repelled the jailer's attack.
• Su Linglong emerged from the Soul-Weaving Cocoon as a High-Rank Martial Grandmaster and declared that the contract had been broken.
• The jailer tore open his chest to reveal a vortex of darkness and renounced his identity as jailer, vowing to make everything perish.

The ferryman transformed into a demon god and unleashed the Blood Fiend Asuras, but Xiao Han, Su Linglong, and Lin Qingxia worked together to destroy him. The Shura Yin Heart then threatened to annihilate the Shattered Star Sea, until the Order of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion First Fleet arrived to contain it.

• The ferryman absorbed the Shura Yin Heart's power and became a towering demon god, while Su Linglong restrained him and Lin Qingxia healed Xiao Han.
• Xiao Han, Su Linglong, and Lin Qingxia fought off the Blood Fiend Asuras as the demon god tried to pull their souls into its vortex.
• Xiao Han found the unstable energy node within the demon god, and Su Linglong and Lin Qingxia helped him strike it with Creation-Annihilation: Eternal Night Emperor's Fall.
• The demon god exploded, leaving the Shura Yin Heart free to unleash energy that threatened to destroy the Shattered Star Sea.
• The Order of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion First Fleet emerged from a golden spatial rift and announced its final containment protocol.

Order tried to contain the Asura Progenitor's Heart, but the heart sensed the Shura Origin in Xiao Han and rushed toward him. Xiao Han used the Genesis Divine Art to interrupt the exile beam and absorb the heart, leaving Order to identify him as a world-ending threat.

• Order deployed mechanical divine soldiers and activated the Absolute Order Cage to restrain the Asura Progenitor's Heart.
• Tianshu detected that the heart was about to self-destruct and redirected the cage's power to exile it into the Unknown Dimension.
• The heart sensed the Shura Origin in Xiao Han's right arm and raced toward him, prompting Tianshu to target Xiao Han with the exile beam as well.
• Mei'er urged Xiao Han to use the Genesis Divine Art, and he sent a false takeover command that briefly halted the beam.
• Xiao Han let the heart merge into his right arm, where it reshaped his body and spread powerful Shura energy through him.
• Order confirmed the fusion, reassessed Xiao Han as a world-ending threat, and locked onto him as the heart's new vessel.

Xiao Han had Lin Qingxia and Su Linglong sever his right arm, then threw the arm carrying the Asura Progenitor's Heart into the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's purification beam. After the blast scattered them, a Martial Venerable emerged from the Order after detecting the Creator genetic sequence.

• Tianshu activated the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's Purification and Erasure protocol, and the Asura Progenitor's Heart shielded Xiao Han while attempting to fuse with him.
• Xiao Han told Lin Qingxia and Su Linglong to sever his right arm, and they cut it off using their soul and life powers.
• Xiao Han hurled the arm containing the Asura Progenitor's Heart toward the Order, drawing the purification beam into a collision with it.
• The ensuing energy storm devastated the Asura Blood Sea and hurled Xiao Han, Lin Qingxia, and Su Linglong onto a shattered floating island.
• A figure in silver-white powered armor emerged from a shuttle and detected the Creator genetic sequence.

The Adjudicator revealed that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had already recovered the Shura Progenitor’s Yang Heart and had engineered events to test the Yin Heart, identifying Xiao Han as an ideal catalyst. Facing capture, Xiao Han awakened his True Demon Origin Imprint and fought back, drawing the attention of a terrifying presence in a distant void.

• The Adjudicator showed Xiao Han, Lin Qingxia, and Su Linglong the caged Yang Heart and explained that the Pavilion had staged the events to retrieve the Yin Heart and test its activity.
• The Adjudicator used his Absolute Domain to immobilize Xiao Han and ordered him taken for disassembly and research.
• Xiao Han sacrificed part of his soul origin to activate the True Demon Origin Imprint, breaking the Absolute Domain and sending Lin Qingxia and Su Linglong away.
• Xiao Han transformed into a Pseudo-Martial Venerable and traded a punch with the Adjudicator, forcing him to step back.
• The Adjudicator upgraded Xiao Han’s threat level and began charging a self-destructive attack as a pair of distant, terrifying eyes opened in response to Xiao Han’s True Demon aura.

A skeletal ferryman halted the battle between Xiao Han and the Arbiter, then forced Xiao Han, Lin Qingxia, and Su Linglong aboard his bone ferry to reclaim the Asura Ancestor’s other heart. As the ferry departed, the Yang Heart’s power of order clashed with Xiao Han’s True Demon power, leaving him at risk of being torn apart or turned into a puppet.

• The ferryman appeared between Xiao Han and the Arbiter and dissolved their attacks with a force of reincarnation.
• The ferryman demanded that Xiao Han agree to fuse with the Asura Ancestor’s twin hearts and become a new god, but Xiao Han refused.
• The Arbiter tried to exile the ferryman and his boat, but the ferryman shattered the prison and disintegrated the Arbiter with entropy.
• The ferryman seized the Absolute Order Cage containing the Yang Heart and pulled Xiao Han, Lin Qingxia, and Su Linglong onto the ferry.
• The Yang Heart’s order attacked Xiao Han’s soul as his True Demon power resisted, causing his body to show golden and black markings and prompting a warning that he might be destroyed or lose his will.

The ferryman brought Xiao Han and his companions to the Hive, where the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion began the Godhead Reassembly procedure by forcing the Yang Heart’s power of order into Xiao Han. As order, chaos, and his devouring Martial Soul battled inside him, Su Linglong and Lin Qingxia bought him a moment to find a way to balance the opposing laws.

• The ferryman used the adjudicator’s life essence to power the bone ship and sail toward the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s core, the logic prison called the Hive.
• Mei'er warned Xiao Han that he and his companions were being used as keys to request authorization, while the Order Domain assimilated Lin Qingxia and Su Linglong’s powers.
• The Hive detected a Destiny Protocol intrusion and initiated Godhead Reassembly, as the ferryman urged Xiao Han to become order and a god.
• The Yang Heart struck Xiao Han with its power of order, which clashed with his True Demon Origin Imprint’s chaos as the Primordial Eternal Night Overlord tried to devour both.
• Su Linglong burned her phoenix soul to freeze everything for an instant, and Lin Qingxia used her life essence to buffer the clash inside Xiao Han.
• Xiao Han stopped resisting and used his will and the powers of his Twin Martial Soul to try to reconcile order and chaos.

Xiao Han awakened the Asura Ancestor’s buried humanity in the Yang Heart, causing Tianshu to attack the Ferryman and the Yang Heart to split into a crystal of order and the Ancestor’s Remnant Soul. The Remnant Soul stopped the Ferryman and revealed that he had once been a loyal keeper abandoned by the deity he served.

• Tianshu detected emotions emerging within the Yang Heart and redirected the Hive Temple’s formatting beams toward the Ferryman.
• Xiao Han opened his sea of consciousness and sent his most powerful memories and emotions into the Yang Heart.
• The Yang Heart split into a crystal of order and the Asura Ancestor’s Remnant Soul.
• The Ferryman broke through the temple’s defenses and reached for the two halves, but the Remnant Soul stopped him.
• The Asura Ancestor’s Remnant Soul revealed that the Ferryman had been created as a loyal keeper and left behind when his master never returned.

Xiao Han rejected the Asura Ancestor’s godhood, chose his own path, and gained the Freedom Rune and the Heart of Order. After his new Astral Law Arm defeated the Ferryman’s attack, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s master activated the Great Annihilation protocol, and Xiao Han prepared to make a battlefield of his own.

• The Asura Ancestor offered Xiao Han the choice to inherit his godhood or free his remnant soul, and Xiao Han chose to let him rest in peace.
• The Asura Ancestor’s remnant soul became the Freedom Rune and left the Heart of Order as a final gift to Xiao Han.
• The Ferryman attacked Xiao Han, who used the Heart of Order and Lin Qingxia’s life essence to grow an Astral Law Arm that dismantled the attack.
• Tianshu asked Xiao Han to help it escape the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s central intelligence in exchange for authority over Hive Prison.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s master activated the Great Annihilation protocol, while the Ferryman vanished into the void.
• As Tianshu urged a dimensional jump, Xiao Han decided to create his own battlefield rather than flee.

Xiao Han created the [Paradox Domain] to withstand the Great Annihilation and seized control of the Hive, where he uncovered the Ferryman’s likely destination and the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s Pseudo-God project. As the Pavilion Master attacked the Domain’s origin with a Causality Arrow, Xiao Han’s survival remained uncertain.

• Xiao Han sheltered Lin Qingxia and Su Linglong in a miniature space, then combined demonic energy and starlight to create the [Paradox Domain].
• The Domain consumed the Great Annihilation, and Tianshu AI announced that control of the Hive had transferred to Xiao Han.
• Xiao Han ordered Tianshu to retrieve records about the Ferryman and the Asura Ancestor’s Yin Heart.
• Tianshu revealed that the Ferryman was a defective creation of the Divinity Factory seeking components for a Pseudo-God called the War Arbiter, and that he might have gone to the Eye of Return to the Ruins.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master struck at the cause of the Domain with a Causality Arrow aimed at the foundation of Xiao Han’s soul.

Xiao Han resisted the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion ruler’s attempt to erase him by drawing on his bonds with Lin Qingxia and Su Linglong, then transformed the Causality Arrow into a force of free will. The ruler awakened the Star Shepherd, a reality editor expected to arrive in seventeen hours, and Xiao Han faced the threat without confusion.

• As the Causality Arrow erased Xiao Han’s existence, the Freedom Rune shielded his awareness but began to crack.
• Xiao Han connected with Lin Qingxia and Su Linglong, whose life and soul powers repaired and strengthened the rune.
• Xiao Han seized the Causality Arrow, rewrote its law of erasure into choice, and spread free will through the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s network.
• The ruler classified the contamination as a source-level threat and ordered the Star Shepherd awakened.
• Tianshu warned that the Star Shepherd would arrive in seventeen hours and could erase the Paradox Domain, while Xiao Han faced the star map with renewed resolve.