Recaps

Eternal Night began as Li Chen advanced through the Black Mist toward Huizhou City, overcoming the defenders’ attacks. Light Fiend confronted him about home and the Human Race, but Li Chen rejected his appeal, and Light Fiend charged into battle to buy the border time.

• The Black Mist swept away the light as the Four Passes prepared for the decisive battle against the Eerie Monsters.
• Li Chen walked toward Huizhou City, and his Forbidden power turned the defenders’ attacks to ashes.
• Dunhuang warned Light Fiend that the Eerie Lord’s advance threatened the Human Race, while Light Fiend said humanity had already made its choice to fight Li Chen.
• Light Fiend became a giant of light and asked Li Chen whether he had found a home, but Li Chen accused humanity of tormenting and condemning him.
• Light Fiend said goodbye to Dunhuang and charged at Li Chen, while Yan Qing said he was sacrificing himself to buy time for the border.

Jian Wuqing drew the Sword Ancestors’ sword and set out to fight the Eerie Lord, while Jianping and Jian En headed for Dawn Pass. As Eerie Monsters assaulted Shenzhou City, Su Xian and Mu Hen joined the defense, leaving Su Xian with renewed hope.

• Jian Wuqing declared he would stand with the sword cultivators against the Eerie Lord, drew a sword formed from the broken blades on Sword Mountain, and vanished.
• Jian En told Jianping that their master had drawn his sword and urged him to go to Dawn Pass; Jianping left, hoping he would one day meet and kill Li Chen.
• Su Xian struggled to defend Shenzhou City from the endless Eerie Tide and prepared to use a forbidden spell as Calamity and Lust approached.
• Su Xian donned demonic armor and charged to stop Calamity, while Mu Hen arrived carrying the Soul Coffin and unleashed his Wasteland Realm power against the Eerie Monsters.
• Mu Hen struck down a Calamity Realm Eerie Monster with the Boundary Stele, and Su Xian recognized him and called him Henzi.

Mu Hen and Su Xian fought to stop Calamity from spreading the plague, while Mu Hen summoned the souls of fallen human warriors to strengthen his Tomb People. Su Xian prepared to kill Calamity as Mu Hen faced the Eerie Tide, and he rejected Calamity’s invitation to join Li Chen.

• Su Xian used a Purification Formation to contain the plague while Calamity unleashed a Plague Tide against the Sequence Users and nearby cities.
• Mu Hen summoned Tomb People, struck Calamity apart with the Boundary Stele, and agreed with Su Xian that Calamity had to be killed.
• Mu Hen crushed a bead and called on fallen human warriors, whose souls willingly joined him to raise a vast army of Tomb People.
• Su Xian continued preparing a purification formation around Calamity as Calamity tried to recruit him to Li Chen’s side.
• Su Xian rejected Calamity’s offer, saying Li Chen was wrong to want to destroy the world.

Su Xian questioned Calamity’s defense of Li Chen’s plan to destroy the world, then ordered Mu Hen to withdraw as the Eerie Tide pressed the front. At Ruined Pass, Yu Qingnian revealed that he was gambling on Li Chen becoming a god, even though failure would doom the Human Race.

• Su Xian asked Calamity whether Li Chen’s destruction of the world was justified, and Calamity defended his lord before dissolving while claiming to be immortal.
• Su Xian warned Mu Hen to retreat, and Mu Hen pulled back the Tomb People army as the Eerie Monsters renewed their attack.
• Su Xian worried about the Eerie Tide’s source and hoped Su Zhe was holding out in Magic City.
• At Ruined Pass, Yu Qingnian and Gu Cheng questioned why the Eerie Tide had not attacked and considered Li Chen’s possible intentions.
• Yu Qingnian showed Gu Cheng a repaired headless golden statue and said he was betting on Li Chen becoming a god; Gu Cheng asked what would happen if he lost.

Su Zhe recalled his lonely childhood and met Li Chen at Chuanhai Academy, where he eagerly declared him his first friend and took him out for noodles. As Li Chen asked why Su Zhe had chosen him, Su Zhe paused, leaving his reason unexplained.

• As a child, Su Zhe watched his father drink heavily and feared his father would abandon him.
• Su Zhe reflected that people saw him as a rich kid, though he wanted a family's love and believed his father hated him.
• At Chuanhai Academy, Su Zhe approached the solitary Li Chen, introduced himself, and called him his first friend.
• Su Zhe invited Li Chen to a meal, then met him after class and took him by bicycle to the noodle shop One-Noodle Encounter.
• While they ate, Li Chen asked Su Zhe why he had chosen him, and Su Zhe paused before answering.

Su Zhe revealed that he was the Su Group heir, and Li Chen accepted him without treating him differently. After Su Zhe was kidnapped and tortured by a man who claimed Su Ming had ordered his death, Li Chen rescued him, leaving Su Zhe wondering who Li Chen really was.

• Su Zhe told Li Chen he was the heir to the Su Group, and Li Chen responded without fear or deference.
• Su Zhe and Li Chen shared noodles, then rode a bicycle together beneath the setting sun.
• A burly man tortured Su Zhe and claimed Su Ming had ordered his death, but Su Zhe refused to believe his father would kill him.
• Li Chen arrived, killed the burly man, and helped Su Zhe up, reminding him that he still owed him another bowl of noodles.
• Su Zhe later woke in a dim dungeon and wondered which of Li Chen’s faces was real.

Li Chen fought Light Fiend above Huizhou City while Human Race experts watched and prepared to take turns against him. As Light Fiend weakened, Li Chen claimed the Human Race’s powers were borrowed from the world’s rules and declared that the Path to Godhood was a dead end.

• Light Fiend unleashed a tide of light figures against Li Chen, but Li Chen blocked them with Black Mist before one pierced his body.
• Li Chen and Light Fiend clashed across the sky as Sequence Users in Huizhou City watched and realized Li Chen had reached the Wasteland Realm.
• Dunhuang and Yan Qing discussed Light Fiend’s chances, while Yan Qing attacked nearby Eerie Monsters after suspecting Li Chen was transferring his injuries to them.
• Light Fiend began to tire as Li Chen remained unharmed and told him that every ability had limits while his own did not.
• Light Fiend asked whether Li Chen had found the Path to Godhood, and Li Chen replied that it was a dead end and humans could not become Gods.

Li Chen battled Light Fiend and Yan Qing while an enormous Ink blade threatened Huizhou City, until Yu Qingnian appeared. At Ruined Pass, Sword Elder unleashed his sword qi and sent Yu Qingnian onward while he held the pass.

• Li Chen formed a towering Ink blade and drove it toward Huizhou City, forcing Light Fiend to intercept it and Dunhuang to strike it with his silver hook.
• Light Fiend’s attacks failed to stop the blade as Forbidden Substance injured him and devoured his swords of light.
• Yan Qing charged Li Chen with a flaming sword, but he shattered her weapon, slapped her, and kicked her away while challenging her claim to justice.
• Yu Qingnian appeared amid golden lightning above Huizhou City, and Dunhuang welcomed him.
• At Ruined Pass, Sword Elder unleashed his stored sword qi, told Yu Qingnian to pursue his purpose, and vowed to guard the pass as he raised his sword.

Li Chen rejected Bai Qinglian’s offer to cooperate, and the battlefield grew even more dangerous as three Wasteland Realm Eerie Monsters appeared. Wangyang struck the monsters down with his Fist Dao, prompting Li Chen to wonder whether martial paths could lead to godhood.

• Yu Qingnian and Wangyang arrived to join the Human Race experts confronting Li Chen, while Bai Qinglian appeared and offered the God-Binding Cult’s help in exchange for opening the Forbidden Door.
• Li Chen refused Bai Qinglian’s offer and summoned a vast web of black threads and a throne of darkness.
• Yu Qingnian attacked Bai Qinglian, accusing her of breaking their agreement, and Dunhuang questioned what Yu Qingnian had promised her.
• Three Wasteland Realm Eerie Monsters emerged behind Li Chen, further shifting the battlefield against the Human Race.
• Wangyang used two punches to smash the chests of the Eerie Monsters and demonstrated his Fist Dao.
• Li Chen reflected that martial paths might lead to godhood and questioned whether his understanding was wrong.

Li Chen fought the Human Race’s Wasteland Realm experts while resolving to destroy the world’s restrictions and seek a future beyond the universe. Dunhuang secured the Second Sequence’s help in exchange for a hundred top-quality Soul Fish, though he would restrain Li Chen for only one quarter of an hour.

• Li Chen reflected on the Human Race’s rapid rise and concluded that he would end the age of restrictions and explore what lay beyond the universe.
• Wang Yang charged Li Chen but was trapped by Eerie Monsters, while Yan Qing attacked Li Chen and Light Fiend struck him from behind.
• Li Chen transformed his arm into a blade to send Yan Qing flying, then used black light to blast Light Fiend before the old man rescued him with a golden hook.
• Light Fiend and Dunhuang agreed that their abilities were insufficient to defeat Li Chen in close combat, and Dunhuang appealed to the Second Sequence for help.
• The Second Sequence agreed to come in exchange for a hundred top-quality Soul Fish but would restrain Li Chen for only one quarter of an hour.

Li Chen faced attacks from Yan Qing, Light Fiend, Dunhuang, and Wangyang, then entered the sixth door and confronted another Li Chen over the meaning of his struggle and the path to godhood. The chapter ended with the other Li Chen asking whether he wanted to ascend.

• A Supreme Being summoned a Great Bell that trapped Li Chen, while Light Fiend argued with the unseen man who had summoned it.
• Yan Qing ordered Light Fiend, Wangyang, and Dunhuang to attack Li Chen, and the four struck him together as he accepted the blows.
• Li Chen entered the sixth door, where six keys appeared and a chessboard revealed pieces representing people he had encountered.
• Li Chen questioned whether he was fighting for his life or the Dao, whether the Forbidden had accepted him, and how he could ascend to godhood.
• The other Li Chen crushed a chess piece and asked Li Chen whether he wanted to ascend to godhood.

Li Chen crushed the pieces representing people he knew as Li Chen challenged him to sever every tie and pursue Godhood. After Li Chen destroyed the piece bearing Su Zhe’s aura, a black staircase appeared, but the Eldritch God warned that the Forbidden was devouring him.

• Li Chen crushed the pieces one by one, leaving only those representing Su Zhe, Mu Hen, Su Xian, Ji Shao, and Yu Qingnian.
• Li Chen hesitated to destroy the five remaining pieces and questioned Li Chen about why he wanted him to lose everything.
• Li Chen accused Li Chen of hiding his desire to free others and called him tenderhearted, prompting Li Chen to admit his fear of losing his humanity.
• Li Chen crushed the piece bearing Su Zhe’s aura and demanded to know where his path ended and why Li Chen was helping him.
• Li Chen revealed a pitch-black staircase and urged Li Chen toward the Path to Godhood, but the Eldritch God appeared and shouted that the Forbidden was devouring him.

Li Chen confronted the Eldritch God and Li Chen over the road to godhood, suspecting their plans had made him a tool for breaking the planet’s limits. Li Chen admitted he had lied but insisted that ascension was his wish, while Li Chen questioned whether freedom was still worth pursuing and ended in despair.

• Li Chen urged Li Chen to take the road to godhood, while the Eldritch God pleaded with him to avoid it.
• Li Chen suspected that other Gods were watching and that his ascension would free Gods trapped inside the planet.
• The Eldritch God mocked Li Chen, who silenced him and dragged him back with Dark Flame.
• Li Chen admitted that he had lied and revealed that the sixth door had become the Path to Godhood through reincarnation.
• Li Chen accused Li Chen of treating him as a piece on a board and questioned the point of fighting for freedom.
• Li Chen told Li Chen that he had come into being because Li Chen could no longer escape, then shouted his name.

Li Chen revealed that he had spent countless cycles trying to restore his destroyed home and had created Li Chen as a chance to escape the universe’s confinement. As the original Li Chen vanished, he passed the Forbidden Authority to Li Chen and left the fight for freedom in his hands.

• Li Chen questioned Li Chen about his aims, and Li Chen said he wanted to return to the moment the universe collapsed and restore its origin.
• Li Chen explained that the Elder Gods had destroyed his original universe and that he had failed to escape the Godforsaken Land.
• Li Chen recounted using Reincarnation Authority to bring humanity back and creating Li Chen as a life-form capable of merging with Forbidden.
• Li Chen and Li Chen agreed that they would fight their way out and continue searching for freedom.
• Li Chen began to dissolve into starlight as the six shattered Authority keys lit up and the pitch-black key appeared before Li Chen.
• Li Chen passed King's Power, which he identified as Forbidden Authority, to Li Chen.

Li Chen ascended to godhood, becoming the Lord of Taboo as the world and its people transformed around him. Light Fiend pleaded for the Human Race, but Li Chen dismissed its fate and erased him.

• Li Chen stepped onto the heavenly staircase, and the Eerie Monsters broke through the Rules Cage into the human world.
• As Li Chen climbed, Forbidden Substance transformed his body and soul while black rain turned some Sequence Users into members of the Eerie Race.
• Li Chen reached the final stair and took the dark throne, completing his ascension as the Lord of Taboo.
• Li Chen erased the Eerie Monsters with a snap of his fingers, and Light Fiend asked him to spare the Human Race.
• Li Chen said the Human Race was doomed regardless, then clenched his hand and turned Light Fiend into black mist.

As the world fell into darkness, Li Chen revealed that he would reduce all living beings to zero, then visited Su Zhe and told him to run south and survive for ten years. He next appeared at Canglan Academy, where he waited for Su Xian and several bloodied companions.

• Li Chen announced to humans and the Eerie Race that the End had begun and that he would cleanse all living beings, while Yan Qing, Dunhuang, Yu Qingnian, and the others stopped fighting.
• The spreading darkness led Wangyang and the others to believe the world was being swallowed, and they abandoned their pursuits as Dunhuang left.
• Li Chen entered a dungeon, found Su Zhe, and told him to run south to a place of regret and stay alive for ten years.
• Su Zhe left his cell and saw people fleeing beneath a vast mass of Black Mist and eerie sounds in the sky.
• Li Chen went to Canglan Academy, waited on a bridge, and greeted Su Xian and several bloodied figures as they arrived.

Li Chen explained that he would destroy the world and left Su Xian a request to find hope in the south, while Su Xian chose to move the people there and seek Li Chen himself. At Yao Peak, Li Chen met Teacher Yu, who suggested that their world was a cage and that Li Chen alone could venture beyond it.

• Li Chen told Su Xian that the world needed to be destroyed so new life could be free, and said he had repaid his debt to them.
• Before fading, Li Chen told Su Xian to find a place of regrets in the south, warned him to kill Li Chen if he forgot himself, and said they had ten years.
• Su Xian grieved Li Chen’s choices, then ordered Mu Hen to lead the Human Race and Eerie Race south while he went to see the world for himself.
• At Yao Peak, Li Chen joined Teacher Yu, who was playing chess and appeared close to ascending to godhood.
• Teacher Yu said their world was a sunless cage, that their true enemies lay far away, and that Li Chen was uniquely able to go outside.

Yu Qingnian explained how Li Chen’s choices had preserved a future for the Human Race, and Li Chen left to explore the unknown world after promising to spare a tenth of humanity. At Dawn Pass, Jianping fought Li Chen, then asked whether he was truly his enemy and what freedom meant to him.

• Li Chen accused Yu Qingnian of scheming against him, and Yu Qingnian said Li Chen’s remaining human feelings had given the Human Race hope.
• Li Chen shattered the chessboard, said he would spare a tenth of the Human Race, and vanished to explore the unknown world.
• Yu Qingnian told Xiao to let people escape south, where the black mist had dispersed, and reflected that Gu Cheng had stayed behind to meet Lan Feng.
• At Dawn Pass, Jianping attacked Li Chen with the Demon Blade, but Li Chen defeated him in a clash of swords.
• Jianping asked Li Chen whether they were enemies, and Li Chen said he was pursuing freedom but feared losing himself.
• Li Chen asked Jianping to cut through the freedom that should not exist, and Jianping asked what Li Chen was trying to do.

Li Chen returned to the ruined city and rested after discovering the truth, while Jianping was left to ponder Li Chen’s request to seek him in the future. Li Chen considered the dangers beyond his contaminated universe and faced the choice of leaving it or waiting for it to be cleansed.

• Li Chen told Jianping to pursue his own Dao and seek him in the future, then vanished, leaving Jianping wondering what had happened.
• Li Chen walked through the Black Mist-covered city, returned to his old home, and fell asleep in the balcony rocking chair.
• Li Chen dreamed of Su Zhe describing a vision of his death in a scarlet void, then woke and wondered whether he was destined to die alone in the universe.
• The Eldritch God warned Li Chen that killing him would release the six great Authorities and attract the gods, but Li Chen questioned the Eldritch God’s strength and knowledge.
• Li Chen reasoned that the outside Great World had exiled his universe because it was contaminated, and that its gods could be far stronger than him.
• Li Chen decided he would not give up his pursuit of freedom and considered leaving the universe or waiting for it to be cleansed.

Li Chen weighed whether to leave his universe and decided to pursue freedom despite the danger. After five years of strengthening himself, he found a crack in the barrier and stepped through it.

• The Eldritch God urged Li Chen to release him, but Li Chen considered the danger of exposing the Six Great Authority to outside Gods.
• Li Chen chose to leave the universe, accepting that the journey could bring death or other dangers.
• After five years of absorbing Forbidden Substance, Li Chen set out across the silent universe, his power having grown immensely.
• Li Chen sensed a barrier, scattered Forbidden Substance into the void, and opened a crack.
• Li Chen stepped through the crack and announced that he had arrived.

Li Chen emerged from his universe into a bone-strewn mass grave in the Ghost Country, where he subdued a woman and her Bone Dragon to learn about the world. The woman explained that ten thousand years earlier the Elder Gods had destroyed the Dimensional World, leaving six great races to establish six empires across seven regions.

• Li Chen arrived in a strange world covered in bones and wondered whether his universe was merely a small world within it.
• A woman riding a Bone Dragon attacked Li Chen, but he caught her kick and threw her into the bones.
• The Bone Dragon tried to bite Li Chen, who destroyed it with one finger and demanded answers from the woman.
• The woman identified the place as the Ghost Country and explained that it was founded by the Underworld and the Ghost Race and ruled by the Nether Emperor and Ghost Emperor.
• The woman said that ten thousand years ago the Elder Gods destroyed the Dimensional World, after which six great races established six empires across seven regions.

Li Chen learned about the seven plates, the Ghost Race, and the Elder Gods before his suspicion that the woman knew his identity led him to attack her. After defeating the Ghost Race man who came to rescue her, Li Chen absorbed his memories and realized he had entered a dangerous new world, while the Sea of Chaos and the Elder Gods remained among his enemies.

• The woman explained that the Ghost Race had gained a place among the races after a Ghost Emperor was born, and described the sealed Sea of Chaos and the aberrations tainted by the Elder Gods.
• Li Chen suspected the woman had guessed his identity, seized her, and tried to search her memories, but a furious voice intervened to defend the Ghost Race's princess.
• A middle-aged man in black-and-red robes appeared and summoned Ghost Race creatures to attack Li Chen.
• Li Chen tossed the woman into the air and destroyed the summoned creatures with a wave of Dark Energy, then turned the middle-aged man into black water and absorbed his memories.
• Li Chen learned that this world had seven plates, a powerful God Race, and a Human Race living on the Green Lotus Plate, and wondered whether his Authority had hidden his universe.
• Li Chen concluded that the whole world remained his enemy and focused on the Sea of Chaos and the Elder Gods.

Li Chen surveyed the peaceful Dark Abyss World and reflected on his envy of its people and the ruined universe he had left behind. He learned how the six great worlds and their cultivation realms were organized, then resolved to grow stronger cautiously rather than risk entering the Sea of Chaos.

• Li Chen looked over the peaceful world and admitted that he envied its inhabitants, even as he regarded it as an enemy because of his origins.
• The woman awoke and silently realized that she had underestimated Li Chen, who had come from a polluted universe.
• Li Chen explained that the land belonged to the Dark Abyss Empire and named the six great worlds, including the Human Race's Green Lotus World.
• Li Chen compared the world's Qi-based cultivation system with his own and assessed himself as being in the Third Heaven of God Realm.
• Li Chen considered returning to his universe to absorb Forbidden Substance but dismissed the Sea of Chaos as too dangerous to enter alone.

Li Chen tested whether Qi could strengthen the Forbidden and resolved to pursue freedom despite the danger. He took the Ghost Race's fourth princess toward the Green Lotus World and planned to use her to ignite a war between the races.

• Li Chen devoured a large amount of Qi, which the Forbidden overwhelmed and converted into nourishment.
• Li Chen recognized that he feared death and reaffirmed that he would risk everything to find freedom.
• The fourth princess tried to stab herself to avoid being taken to Human lands, but Li Chen stopped her with a glance.
• Li Chen told the fourth princess he needed her help and considered using her to start a war between the Human Race and the Ghost Race.
• The fourth princess silently hoped that her imperial uncle would come save Xing'er.

Li Chen planned to use the Ghost Race and the Demon Race to stir up conflict, but Long Shou intervened and cast him into the Sea of Chaos as reincarnation began. The story ended with Li Chen’s fate left to Fate.

• Li Chen refused to release the Ghost Race princess and considered using the Ghost Race to provoke conflict.
• Li Chen planned to approach the Demon Race, whose people resented being given the harsh Barren World.
• Long Shou and his followers appeared before Li Chen and declared that Divine Authority would not allow a Forbidden to survive.
• Long Shou struck Li Chen into the void and cast him into the Sea of Chaos, leaving his survival to Fate as reincarnation began.