Chapter Summaries

Dawn evaded Sutherland’s blood net and severed her control over the Flesh Garden, forcing her to sacrifice the Divine Kingdom to prepare a final Blood Plague. He reached the altar and poured the Divinity of Flash Shadow into her heart, throwing its beating into chaos as the curse neared completion.

• Dawn vanished before Sutherland’s blood net could catch him, then reappeared unharmed beyond it.
• Dawn used the Mekong Jaw Blade to sever the Twisted Treants and other parts of the Divine Kingdom from Sutherland’s Ownership.
• Sutherland gave up control of the rainforest and drew its blood, curses, and life force into the heart atop the altar to form an ultimate Blood Plague.
• Dawn charged at the altar and reached Sutherland’s heart just before its final beat could release the curse.
• Dawn pressed his hand against the heart and poured in the Divinity of Flash Shadow, disrupting its rhythm and terrifying Sutherland.

Dawn defeated Curseblood Mother Sutherland by using his Divinity of motion to accelerate her heart until her own Blood Plague destroyed her core. He sensed Sword Master in the Snow and Senior Brother En-En fighting Soul Devouring Monarch Grego in the Arctic Ocean and flew to join them.

• Dawn forced the concept of motion into Sutherland's heart, making it vibrate uncontrollably and rupture its blood vessels.
• Sutherland tried to control her heart, but her efforts made the vibrations more violent as Dawn explained that he had accelerated her ritual beyond what her vessel could withstand.
• Sutherland's heart collapsed inward, and her own curse erased her and the heart from existence.
• With Sutherland's core gone, the rotting rainforest collapsed and the land returned to normal.
• Dawn reflected on applying the lesson of using rules to fight rules, then sensed Sword Master in the Snow and Senior Brother En-En battling Grego.
• Dawn flew toward the Arctic Ocean, seeking to join the fight and face another Divine Authority.

Sword Master in the Snow and Senior Brother En-En descended to Gregor’s Soul Furnace and fought Soul Devouring Monarch Gregor. After Senior Brother En-En identified the core of Gregor’s Soulforged Armor, Sword Master in the Snow slipped through its barriers and struck the Heartguard Mirror.

• Sword Master in the Snow shattered Gregor’s Soul Chains as he and Senior Brother En-En descended to the Soul Furnace.
• Gregor attacked the pair, but Senior Brother En-En teleported them out of his reach and explained how the armor distributed damage among its souls.
• Sword Master in the Snow tried to form a storm vortex, but Gregor flooded the Sea Trench with a Sea of Souls that suppressed their powers and threatened their souls.
• Senior Brother En-En detected an unusually strong soul fluctuation in the Heartguard Mirror on Gregor’s chest and identified it as the armor’s core.
• Sword Master in the Snow used Unbroken Windwalk to slip between the Soul Barriers and thrust his sword into the Heartguard Mirror.

Sword Master in the Snow and Senior Brother En-En defeated Gregor by dismantling his soul armor and destroying his true form. Dawn rejoined them after dealing with Sutherland, and the three headed toward Europe to help Evergreen and the Water God face Sylvia.

• Sword Master in the Snow severed the connections in Gregor's Soulforged Armor, causing its protective law to collapse.
• Gregor abandoned his crumbling armor and transformed into a giant soul-energy maw to devour Sword Master in the Snow and Senior Brother En-En.
• Senior Brother En-En pierced Gregor's true form with his Silver Light Blades, and Sword Master in the Snow dispersed it with an invisible flow of wind.
• The Soul Furnace went cold, freeing the imprisoned souls to drift toward reincarnation.
• Dawn appeared after defeating Sutherland and warned that Evergreen and the Water God might be in danger from Sylvia.
• Sword Master in the Snow, Senior Brother En-En, and Dawn sped toward the European continent to confront Sylvia.

Evergreen and the Water God struggled to resist Sylvia’s Fear Dream Domain until Dawn, Sword Master in the Snow, and Senior Brother En-En arrived to help. Dawn located an energy convergence point, and the five deities charged toward it, but Sylvia revealed she had lured them into a deeper nightmare.

• Sylvia’s Fear Dream Domain attacked Evergreen and the Water God with illusions that exposed their fears and wounded their wills.
• Dawn, Sword Master in the Snow, and Senior Brother En-En arrived and joined Evergreen and the Water God.
• The five deities agreed they needed to defeat Sylvia on the mental level, since physical attacks could not destroy the Dream Domain.
• Dawn detected an energy convergence point southeast and nine hundred meters underground, and identified it as Sylvia’s heart.
• Evergreen turned his Holy Light Domain into a drill, and the five deities charged toward the convergence point.
• Sylvia revealed that she had opened a gate to the true nightmare, where a vortex of twisted bones and weeping souls awaited them.

The five gods entered Sylvia’s sealed Demiplane and faced living projections of their deepest fears, which grew stronger as they fought. Dawn recognized that fighting would drain them to death and told the others to stop.

• The five gods broke through Sylvia’s barriers and entered the Demiplane containing her Divine Kingdom Core.
• Sylvia summoned five living figures shaped from Evergreen’s regret, Water God’s doubts, Sword Master in the Snow’s failure, Senior Brother En-En’s chaos, and Dawn’s Stillness.
• Sword Master in the Snow, Evergreen, and Water God attacked their projections, but their powers were countered and their Divinity drained.
• Dawn charged the motionless figure but found its Stillness slowing him at the level of law, so he retreated and noticed a strange light at the Bone Vortex’s center.
• Dawn warned the others to stop fighting because continuing would kill them.

Dawn exposed that Sylvia’s Nightmare Avatars drew their power from the Bone Vortex, her Divine Kingdom Core, and the five gods attacked it instead. As the vortex’s defenses held, Senior Brother En-En prepared to open a passage to the core for one breath, giving the others a single chance to strike.

• Dawn dodged Stillness’s field and warned the others that the Nightmare Avatars drew their energy from the Bone Vortex.
• Dawn attacked the vortex, revealing Sylvia’s Mental Barrier and showing the others that the vortex was the true target.
• Sword Master in the Snow, Evergreen, and the Water God joined Dawn in striking the vortex, weakening the Nightmare Avatars and cracking its surface.
• Dawn realized their attacks could not reach the core through its defenses, and Senior Brother En-En offered to open a brief passage through space.
• Senior Brother En-En told the others to prepare their strongest attacks because the passage would last only one breath.

Senior Brother En-En opened a path through the Void, allowing the other four to destroy Sylvia’s Divine Kingdom Core and collapse the Bone Vortex. As the Demiplane began to fall apart, an unknown voice thanked them and used the bones to form a throne.

• Senior Brother En-En created a passage through the Bone Vortex, shielding the five from Sylvia’s Mental Storm.
• Sword Master in the Snow, Dawn, Evergreen, and Water God sent their attacks through the passage and extinguished Sylvia’s Divine Kingdom Core.
• The Bone Vortex shattered, its evil vanished, and Senior Brother En-En fell into Water God’s arms as the Demiplane began collapsing.
• The five celebrated their victory, but the falling bones halted in midair and an unfamiliar voice thanked them for defeating the guard.
• Ghostly green flames joined the bones into a vast throne at the center of the cavern.

Bone King Ulrich revealed that the five had freed him by destroying Sylvia’s Divine Kingdom Core, then used his authority over bones to attack them. He began twisting Senior Brother En-En’s wings, leaving the group facing the ancient ruler’s power.

• The Pale Throne formed from countless bones, and its pressure forced Sword Master in the Snow to brace himself with his blade.
• Dawn accused the throne’s voice of using them to break Sylvia’s seal, and Bone King Ulrich explained that Sylvia had imprisoned him as a source of power for thirteen thousand years.
• Bone King Ulrich introduced himself as the former ruler of Nidhogg Plain and declared that he would claim the five’s Divinity and bones.
• An army of skeletons rose around the five, and Bone King Ulrich targeted the weakened Senior Brother En-En for his Spatial Divinity.
• Bone King Ulrich used his authority over bone to twist Senior Brother En-En’s wings, snapping one of their main bones.

Dawn used the Mekong Jaw Blade’s vibrations to shake the Pale Throne and disrupt Bone King Ulrich’s control over bones, freeing his allies from their injuries. Ulrich rose from the throne in anger and threatened to pull Dawn’s bones out one by one.

• Bone King Ulrich crippled Senior Brother En-En and twisted Sword Master in the Snow’s wrist, while Evergreen’s Holy Light failed to protect them from his control.
• Dawn stepped forward, but Ulrich’s Divine Authority froze his body in place.
• Dawn channeled his Flash Shadow divinity’s Kinetic Energy into the Mekong Jaw Blade, sending vibrations through the cavern floor toward the Pale Throne.
• The throne resonated and shook, weakening Ulrich’s control so Sword Master in the Snow and Senior Brother En-En could recover.
• Ulrich rose from the shaking throne, unleashed a surge of Death Aura, and threatened Dawn.

Dawn used his [Flash Shadow] Divinity to evade Bone King Ulrich’s Divine Authority and launch a counterattack. Ulrich survived Dawn’s strike by re-forming on his throne and declared that he could not die while his domain existed.

• Bone King Ulrich intensified his Divine Authority, trying to crush Dawn’s bones while the others watched helplessly.
• Dawn vibrated until he slipped outside reality, causing Ulrich’s attack to lose its target and explode through the cavern.
• Senior Brother En-En explained that Dawn was using [Flash Shadow] to dodge reality itself.
• Ulrich sent a torrent of bones at Dawn, but Evergreen, Sword Master in the Snow, and the Water God protected him long enough for him to evade it.
• Dawn dodged Ulrich’s bone whips and slashed at his neck, but Ulrich collapsed into bones and re-formed on the throne, saying the domain made him immortal.

Dawn used the Mekong Jaw Blade’s resonance to take control of Bone King Ulrich’s skeleton and destroy his body. Ulrich abandoned his bones and began transforming into a vortex of ghostly green energy.

• Bone King Ulrich re-formed on his throne and trapped Dawn with enormous skeletal hands.
• Dawn changed the Mekong Jaw Blade’s vibration frequency, causing Ulrich’s bones to resonate and disrupting his control over them.
• Senior Brother En-En explained that Dawn had imprinted vibrations into Ulrich’s bones when he cut him apart.
• Ulrich unleashed Death Divinity, but Dawn’s resonance persisted and shattered Ulrich’s skeleton into fragments.
• Ulrich’s soul flames flared among the fragments, and he turned the bones and bone dust into a ghostly green energy vortex.

The Bone King shed his skeleton and spread across the cavern as a liquid sea of death, threatening Dawn and the others. Senior Brother En-En identified the Bone King’s two synchronized soul flames as one divided core, but just as Dawn and Sword Master in the Snow attacked them, the flames merged and multiplied across the ceiling.

• The Bone King dissolved his bones into a green sea that devoured stone and Water God’s water, then reached for Dawn while Evergreen’s Holy Light Barrier weakened.
• Sword Master in the Snow failed to cut the liquid hand, and Senior Brother En-En revealed that the two synchronized soul flames formed the Bone King’s divided core.
• Evergreen pinned down the sea of death with a Holy Light formation as Water God reinforced it, while Dawn and Sword Master in the Snow prepared to attack the flames together.
• The Bone King merged the two flames and scattered into more than a hundred identical soul fires across the cavern ceiling, challenging the fighters to choose one.

Dawn overclocked Flash Shadow to create a hundred copies of himself and strike Bone King's scattered soul fires at once, forcing him back into one unstable form. Bone King then detonated the Demiplane, but as a singularity began consuming everything, an unknown presence intervened.

• Bone King threatened the exhausted group while green liquid tentacles broke through Evergreen's failing Holy Light Formation.
• Dawn overclocked Flash Shadow, producing more than a hundred copies of himself that each targeted a soul fire.
• Dawn's simultaneous strikes pierced the soul fires and forced them to merge into Bone King's unstable true form.
• Bone King admitted defeat, then released the Source of Death to make the Demiplane collapse around the group.
• As a singularity began swallowing the world, a calm voice said, "Enough," and a hand appeared to press against it.

Qin Chuan stopped the singularity and saved the exhausted guild members, then showed Dawn how to use Flash Shadow more effectively. The Demiplane was erased, and Dawn learned to focus countless strikes through a single blade attack.

• Qin Chuan emerged from a Space Rift, halted the singularity, and erased it with one hand.
• Qin Chuan collected Bone King Ulrich's remaining Source of Death and gave the crystal to Evergreen.
• Qin Chuan stabilized Dawn's failing Divinity and explained that Overclocking Flash Shadow wasted power by making every duplicate perform a full strike.
• Qin Chuan borrowed Dawn's Mekong Jaw Blade and cut the frozen Demiplane into countless tiny fragments, then erased it with a breath.
• Qin Chuan told Dawn to use his speed to make one blade strike appear at countless points instead of creating copies of himself.

After Qin Chuan erased the Demiplane with a single slash, the survivors returned to the Magic City Stronghold and reflected on the lesson his attack had shown them. Dawn and Sword Master in the Snow headed off to cultivate, while Evergreen decided to study the Law of Death in the crystal he had received.

• Qin Chuan opened a Space Rift to the Magic City Stronghold and sent Water God, Senior Brother En-En, Sword Master in the Snow, Evergreen, and Dawn back to recover.
• Evergreen explained that Qin Chuan had applied the law of cutting to the entire Demiplane, attacking the law governing matter rather than matter itself.
• Dawn left for the depths of the corridor to rebuild his understanding of [Flash Shadow] instead of seeking treatment.
• Sword Master in the Snow went to the training area to contemplate the essence of slashes.
• Evergreen said the Death Divinity Crystal held the key to law and resolved to discover what lay at the end of death.

Evergreen told Dies Martin that his Node Avatar skill had gained the Divine Might Myriad Self Unification, causing Evergreens and their worlds from other timelines to merge with the main world line. He revealed that enemies he had defeated in those timelines were merging too, leaving Dies Martin to grasp how the skill’s past use had opened the way.

• Evergreen reviewed the unstable status of Dawn, Sword Master in the Snow, and Dies Martin before closing their screens.
• Dies Martin confronted Evergreen about rushing to strengthen his allies and asked what enemy had made him impatient.
• Evergreen explained that Node Avatar had gained the Divine Might Myriad Self Unification, which was drawing his other selves and their worlds into the main timeline.
• Evergreen revealed that his defeated enemies from other timelines were also following into the merged world.
• Evergreen explained that retrieving an avatar created a small-scale world fusion and left a vacancy that the world’s corrective force could not completely fill.

Qin Chuan explained that Myriad Self Unification would bring enemies from other timelines into the Main World, then traveled to Vulcan’s Divine Kingdom to take the God of Forging’s Divine Authority. Vulcan threatened to kill Qin Chuan and Dies Martin after Qin Chuan demanded the authority.

• Qin Chuan told Dies Martin that the merging timelines would drag unanchored enemies into the Main World through fragile scars.
• Qin Chuan said he intended to hunt the coming visitors and identified Vulcan’s forging authority as the key to equipping his people.
• Dies Martin warned that Vulcan’s Eternal Forge was protected by a barrier made from Orichalcum, but Qin Chuan bypassed it by touching the Divine Kingdom’s location on the star map.
• Qin Chuan and Dies Martin appeared inside Vulcan’s forge as Vulcan worked at his Obsidian Anvil.
• Qin Chuan demanded Vulcan’s Divine Authority, and Vulcan threatened to kill him and forge a Divine Artifact from his power.

Qin Chuan used Origin Shot to erase Vulcan, destroying the God of Forging and his army inside the Eternal Forge. As the unleashed star caused the Divine Kingdom to collapse, Qin Chuan walked toward the obsidian anvil that embodied Vulcan Authority.

• Vulcan summoned more than a hundred stellar-metal war puppets and a giant god phantom to attack Qin Chuan and Dies Martin.
• Qin Chuan used Origin Shot to sever Vulcan’s existence at its Causal Line, erasing him and dissolving the puppets and phantom.
• Vulcan’s death broke the Divine Kingdom’s control over its captive star, triggering a catastrophic energy storm and the realm’s self-destruction.
• Dies Martin urged Qin Chuan to escape, but Qin Chuan walked toward the surviving obsidian anvil at the storm’s center.

Qin Chuan survived the destruction of Vulcan’s Divine Kingdom and reshaped the Obsidian Anvil into a warhammer, gaining the God-Level Authority Myriad Creation. After the Radiant Divine Kingdom noticed Vulcan’s fall, Qin Chuan returned to the Magic City Stronghold to arm his people.

• Qin Chuan crossed the collapsing Divine Kingdom’s energy storm and reached the Obsidian Anvil.
• Qin Chuan used Shadow Reforge to reshape the anvil and absorb Vulcan’s Forging Authority, creating Myriad Creation.
• The Vulcan Divine Kingdom and its spatial coordinates were erased, leaving Qin Chuan, Dies Martin, and the new warhammer in the Void.
• Dies Martin warned Qin Chuan that the God of Light System would retaliate for Vulcan’s death.
• Qin Chuan opened a rift to the Magic City Stronghold and said they should arm their own people before confronting the Radiant Divine Kingdom.