Chapter Summaries

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.

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.