Recaps

Li Chen awakened in the Sea of Chaos, absorbed Forbidden Substance, and broke free from its boundary. He returned to the Savage World and began annihilating everything, convinced he had found the answer at the end of the world.

• Li Chen woke in the void, confused about his memories, his home, and why others wanted him dead.
• Forbidden Substance poured into Li Chen as ancient monsters and Elder Gods gathered and fed him more of it.
• A voice called Li Chen the final swan song, and the boundary wall holding back the Sea of Chaos shattered.
• Li Chen merged with an unidentified fragment and declared that he was free.
• Li Chen emerged in the Savage World and plunged a corner of it into eternal darkness, devouring countless people.
• Li Chen decided that annihilating everything was the answer he had found at the end of the world.

Li Chen emerged from the Sea of Chaos as a Quasi-Emperor and devastated the Savage World, forcing the Heavenly Court to call an emergency meeting of the world’s strongest experts. Long Shou revealed that the Heavenly Court might have its own Quasi-Emperor, but the assembled Venerable Emperors still had no plan to stop Li Chen.

• Li Chen advanced through the Savage World, killing living beings and transforming experts with his aura as God Kings recognized his Quasi-Emperor strength.
• Dynasties appealed to the Heavenly Court to stop Li Chen, prompting an emergency Eternal Meeting attended by Venerable Emperors from every region.
• Long Shou asked whether the gathered experts had anything to say about the world’s imminent destruction.
• An old man in a redbud cap blamed Long Shou for casting Li Chen into the Sea of Chaos and said the assembled experts could not defeat him.
• Long Shou asked whether the old man intended to flee while the world and its living beings were destroyed.
• Long Shou claimed the Heavenly Court might have a Quasi-Emperor of its own and urged the experts to face the enemy.

Refugees fled the Savage World as one stubbled man recalled the destruction of his home and unleashed his power aboard a spirit ship. Elsewhere, Li Chen continued killing, and the chapter ended with him extinguishing the sun.

• An old man comforted a girl as refugees escaped the ruined Savage World on spirit ships.
• A stubbled man remembered how his world and its people had been destroyed, then revealed himself as a God King powerhouse aboard a refugee ship.
• The stubbled man departed in a streak of red light, and his sword qi annihilated everything within ten li.
• Li Chen pulled his hand from a burly man, who became one of the Eerie Monsters behind him.
• Li Chen caught and killed a flaming bird, darkening the sky as he said he would put out the dazzling light.

As monsters spread across the worlds and the Savage World’s death toll climbed, a fat man in the Green Lotus World mourned the loss of his home and wondered whether Chen-ge could stop the apocalypse. After hearing people mock the human commanding the monsters and threaten his people, he opened a void that swallowed the tavern.

• Monsters spread across the worlds as the races suffered rising casualties, while the Heavenly Court remained inactive.
• In a Green Lotus World tavern, the fat man lamented that his people had lost their home and condemned those who had treated them as slaves.
• Tavern patrons speculated that the Heavenly Court would defeat the monsters and ridiculed the human commander who had escaped the Sea of Chaos.
• The fat man stood up and formed a pitch-black sphere in his palm, sucking the entire tavern into the void.

Li Chen recalled his name and confronted the ruined world that seemed to be rejecting him, questioning why destroying everything only deepened his pain. As he stood amid the devastation, two masked figures appeared and greeted him.

• In a pitch-black world, a little boy found a group photograph and realized his name was Li Chen.
• At the border of the Withering World, Li Chen felt his memories and identity fading as the world seemed to drive him out.
• Li Chen appeared in the Savage World, where Elder Gods fed on a Venerable's corpse and Eerie Monsters gathered to worship him.
• Li Chen destroyed a hut hiding someone, but his heart continued to ache as he questioned whether annihilating everything was right.
• Two masked figures appeared before Li Chen and greeted him, saying they had not seen him in a long time.

In a ruined world, Li Chen confronted two masked figures who argued over his suffering, his lost memories, and the pursuit of freedom. The white-masked figure urged him to stop, while the black-masked figure insisted that despair was awakening a world from the past; Li Chen finally asked the Taboo God what it wanted.

• Li Chen leveled the ruined land beneath black rain, but the white- and black-masked figures remained untouched.
• The white-masked figure revealed a face identical to Li Chen’s and spoke of the Forbidden devouring everything and of his own guilt.
• The black-masked figure accused Li Chen of forgetting the past and said their actions fulfilled an oath tied to the lamp flower and a curtain call.
• The white-masked figure lamented Li Chen’s lonely pursuit of freedom, while the black-masked figure insisted that despair, fear, and death were awakening a new world.
• The black-masked figure warned them not to awaken Li Chen’s memories, and Li Chen asked the Taboo God what it wanted.

Li Chen confronted the Eldritch God over the plan to turn Li Chen into an Annihilator, explaining that he wanted to protect the family Li Chen had always sought. The Eldritch God rejected that hope and forced the Six Paths Keys into Li Chen, who glimpsed freedom as the power surged.

• Li Chen questioned the Eldritch God’s desire to destroy the world and warned that Li Chen’s rise could collapse the universe.
• Li Chen said he was trying to make up for Li Chen’s pain and regrets, and that Li Chen’s deepest wish was to protect his family.
• The Eldritch God argued that Li Chen had never known genuine family or kindness and urged Li Chen to let the plan for annihilation proceed.
• The Eldritch God unleashed scorching power, shattered the heavens, and sent the Six Paths Keys piercing into Li Chen’s body.
• Li Chen tried to pull the merging keys out of Li Chen as Li Chen declared that freedom seemed close.

Li Chen sacrificed himself and sent a transparent key into the Li Chen within the Black Mist as the allied forces gathered to face the invasion from the Sea of Chaos. The armies charged, and the figure on the flesh-and-blood throne ordered them to be annihilated.

• Li Chen warned the Eldritch God that its actions would bring the world and universe to an end, but the Eldritch God chose to help him anyway.
• Li Chen established the rule of Sacrifice, dissolved, and sent a transparent key into Li Chen in the Black Mist.
• Dragon Head rallied the Venerable and the assembled allied forces against the invasion from the Sea of Chaos.
• The allied forces charged the creatures emerging from the Black Mist, while the Demon Race offered to carry humans.
• A figure seated on a throne of flesh and blood watched the armies approach and commanded them to be annihilated.

Li Chen faced the allied forces as Long Shou attacked him, but Li Chen’s power overwhelmed the strike and crushed many fighters. Long Shou then revealed that he had captured people from Li Chen’s hometown and trapped them in stone pillars, leaving a black-robed man horrified.

• Long Shou praised Eerie Lord Li Chen’s power and declared that a being of darkness could not belong in the world before attacking him with a Dao weapon.
• Li Chen shattered Long Shou’s strike with a raised finger, then stood and unleashed an oppressive force that killed many fighters.
• Long Shou summoned stone pillars filled with captured people from Li Chen’s hometown and asked how Li Chen would respond.
• A black-robed man recognized the captives as innocent people and cried out in horror.

Li Chen slaughtered the beings opposing him as the world collapsed, while Long Shou chose to undergo his tribulation and attack him. As destructive power gathered in Heaven, Li Chen wondered why everyone wanted to stop him.

• Li Chen killed an attacker who struck through a tear in space, then sensed Heaven trying to expel him and the power behind him fading.
• Long Shou recognized that Li Chen had become the Eerie Lord and decided to hold him off so people could flee to the Polluted Universes.
• Long Shou discovered that the Forbidden had tainted him and chose to fight one last battle at the peak of his power.
• Long Shou forcibly underwent his tribulation, slaughtered approaching Elder Gods, and rushed toward Li Chen as others fled.
• Li Chen sensed destructive force gathering in Heaven and asked why everyone wanted to stop him.

Long Shou drew on the myriad races’ support to face the great tribulation and ascend toward the Emperor’s throne, while Li Chen confronted his isolation and unleashed Forbidden Power across several worlds. The chapter ended with Li Chen severing the support sustaining Long Shou and declaring that his final curtain had come.

• Powerhouses from across the world entered the Thunder Pool to strengthen the great tribulation, and Long Shou challenged Li Chen to face it with him.
• The tribulation struck, cracking both Long Shou’s and Li Chen’s bodies as Long Shou realized he had to kill Li Chen before he died.
• Countless races sent their life force to Long Shou, repairing him and urging him to destroy Li Chen and ascend to the Emperor’s throne.
• As Long Shou prepared to ascend with the myriad races behind him, Li Chen reflected on his loneliness and the world’s united opposition to him.
• Li Chen poured Forbidden Power across several worlds, blackened their skies, and forcibly severed the myriad races’ support for Long Shou.
• With his body seemingly dissipating, Li Chen declared that his final curtain had come and that he faced death or freedom.

Li Chen endured the world's collapse, convinced that destroying it was the only way to find freedom, while Long Shou failed to stop him. After Li Chen faded away, the Eldritch God used the Forbidden First Record to draw in the Elder Gods and waited until the book opened to its last page.

• Long Shou watched the realms collapse and despaired as he realized he could no longer save the living beings or become Emperor.
• The Elder Gods fled to the Sea of Chaos as heaven and earth broke apart, leaving Li Chen and Long Shou at the world's center.
• Li Chen spoke to a fading butterfly about his endless reincarnations, his pain, and his search for freedom as his body became insubstantial.
• The Eldritch God took the throne behind Li Chen and used the Forbidden First Record to pull the Elder Gods into the book.
• The Eldritch God waited alone through the world's destruction until the book opened to its last page, where he said he had found his freedom.

The author reflected on Li Chen’s destined, tragic ending and explained the backgrounds and fates of several characters. The author then declared the book finished and hinted that a new story and another game had begun.

• The author said the ending had been destined from the start and described Li Chen’s path from incomprehension to understanding and letting go.
• The author discussed the rushed Academy and Sin arcs and acknowledged the story’s flaws.
• The author summarized the fates and traits of Su Zhe, Su Xian, Ji Shao, Jianping, Mu Hen, Yu Qingnian, Elder Gu, Sword Elder, and Cangyue.
• The author explained that Li Chen had been a mad god whose only opponent was himself, and described another side of Li Chen as the humanity he had lost.
• The author announced that the book had ended and said a new round of the game had begun.