Chapter Summaries

Dragon Soaring World confronted Night Cherry Tangle over the Trial of the Gods and learned that it was designed to give ordinary players hope and stabilize the Yan Country War Zone. Though he still wanted an explanation from Qin Chuan, he ordered the Dragon Soaring Dynasty to stop pursuing Ghost Shadow and focus on monsters and equipment.

• Dragon Soaring World accused Night Cherry Tangle of treating the Dragon Soaring Dynasty unfairly after Ghost Shadow earned over a hundred points and obtained a Divinity Shard.
• Night Cherry Tangle explained that the trial offered ordinary players a path to challenge the existing order and vent their frustrations, helping prevent unrest across the war zone.
• Night Cherry Tangle said the Apocalypse Core Rules had taken over the trial, so he could not interfere or provide the Dragon Soaring Dynasty with extra help.
• Dragon Soaring World asked for an explanation from Qin Chuan, and Night Cherry Tangle invited him to wait in Magic City until Qin Chuan emerged from seclusion.
• Dragon Soaring World ordered his guild to stop searching for Ghost Shadow and to continue attacking Area Lords in the Black Stone Fortress, focusing on points and equipment.

Dragon Soaring World halted the Guild Alliance's hunt for Ghost Shadow, convinced that fighting over the Divinity Shard would only waste lives. Meanwhile, Wind Full Building's scheme to use the Iron Blood Alliance as bait in a Gargoyle Nest collapsed when Night Owl attacked his forces.

• Dragon Soaring World rejected Hegemon Sword's demand to keep hunting Ghost Shadow and warned the alliance that the shard would provoke infighting.
• Dragon Soaring World sent his explanation to the alliance leaders and watched players die in the trial zones on the war map.
• Wind Full Building lured Iron Blood War Song and two elite squads into a Gargoyle Nest with false intelligence about Ghost Shadow.
• Iron Blood War Song realized Wind Full Building had used his troops as cannon fodder and led them toward the canyon entrance.
• Night Owl attacked Wind and Cloud Pavilion at the canyon mouth, igniting a battle between the trapped Iron Blood Alliance and Wind Full Building's forces.

Amina returned to the Land of Promise with thousands of desert refugees, overwhelming Water God and Evergreen with the challenge of feeding and housing them. The gods gave the newcomers land and tools, and as they began building a settlement, faith power flowed to Water God and Evergreen.

• Water God and Evergreen spotted Amina, Kyle, and thousands of refugees approaching the Land of Promise.
• Amina explained that word of her team saving the Black Rock Tribe had drawn refugees from across the desert.
• Water God raised a towering wall of water to stop the crowd and declared that newcomers had to work to earn food and water.
• Evergreen transformed more than a thousand acres of desert into fertile land, and Water God supplied the refugees with building materials and tools.
• Ula led the newcomers in taking up tools, while Amina, Kyle, and their team organized them into work groups.
• As the refugees began settling, faith power gathered around Water God and Evergreen, and Water God sensed his Divine Might and capacity growing.

The Water God benefited from Faith Power and sent Amina and Kyle to seek more believers, but their next mission brought them to a tribe devoted to doing nothing. A global announcement revealed the Breath of Sloth’s spread, and its influence began overwhelming Amina’s team.

• The Water God praised Amina and Kyle and ordered them to resume spreading his faith after a day’s rest.
• Amina’s team found a tribe whose people rejected work and declared that lying down was the truest way to resist the world.
• The Apocalypse System announced that the Breath of Sloth had spread through the African War Zone and offered Divine Authority to those who sacrificed their laziness.
• Amina realized the tribe worshiped laziness, while the Water God reacted with alarm to the announcement.
• Gray-white mist from a tribesman weakened Gru and filled Amina’s team with an overwhelming urge to stop working and lie down.

Amina and her team were trapped by the Sloth Tribe chief’s domain, which suppressed action and made people fall into a peaceful stupor. Evergreen decided that visible rewards from effort could counter Sloth and sent Amina a point of Life Divine Might to help her grow hope within the domain.

• Amina resisted the Sloth chief’s influence and warned her team, but many members collapsed into a peaceful sleep.
• Amina realized the gray Breath of Sloth made deliberate action nearly impossible and identified the chief as its source.
• The Water God learned that Sloth was eroding the world’s motivation and that anyone trying to escape its domain would be trapped.
• Evergreen stopped the Water God from entering the domain, explaining that his Divine Might would become stagnant there.
• Evergreen said harvest could oppose Sloth and sent Amina a point of Life Divine Might so she could grow a field of hope.

Amina resisted the Sloth Domain by finding joy in the reward of effort, then began growing an oasis with her companions. In the Land of Promise, the Water God realized faith deserts were allowing Sloth to spread and urged Evergreen to launch a continent-wide campaign in Africa.

• Amina picked and ate a fruit grown from the Life Origin, clearing her mind and weakening the Sloth Domain's effect on her.
• Amina began digging in the sand to grow an oasis, and Kyle and the other awake teammates joined her.
• The Water God told Evergreen that despair and abandoned faith across the continent had created the conditions for the Breath of Sloth to appear and spread.
• Evergreen agreed that the gods had been defending rather than expanding their faith, while the Water God proposed turning the entire continent of Africa upside down.

Water God and Evergreen used their divine powers to turn the Land of Promise into a spreading chain of fertile land and oases, breaking into the Sloth Domain. Meanwhile, Qin Chuan appeared at the Magic City Stronghold and identified Sloth as an entity of the same system as the God of Wrath.

• Water God announced that he would transform the Land of Promise into a City of Promise and purify the fog-covered region, while Evergreen agreed to help.
• Water God cast Myriad Illusory Tides as Evergreen used his Life Divine Might, spreading water, fertile soil, and vegetation across the desert.
• Amina and Kyle watched the current force open the Sloth Domain’s gray fog and restore faint clarity to those infected by the Breath of Sloth.
• Dragon Soaring World sensed Qin Chuan arrive at the Magic City Stronghold and greeted him excitedly.
• Qin Chuan explained that Sloth arose from living beings’ despair and numbness, and compared it to the God of Wrath.

Qin Chuan showed Dragon Soaring World the Water God and Evergreen battling Sloth in Africa, explaining that the negative emotions behind such gods could not be permanently destroyed. He left the fight to them and summoned Night Cherry Tangle, Season Star, Dawn, and Mirror.

• Qin Chuan opened a mirror showing the Water God and Evergreen reshaping Africa as they pushed back Sloth's gray mist.
• Sloth attacked the Water God with a wave of weariness, but the Water God burned Faith Power to resist and grew stronger through the struggle.
• Qin Chuan explained that Wrath and Sloth arose from living beings' negative emotions and would return while the conditions that formed them remained.
• Qin Chuan said the Water God and Evergreen could handle Sloth for now, then summoned Night Cherry Tangle, Season Star, Dawn, and Mirror.

Qin Chuan gathered the Apex members and divine incarnations to warn that the Seven Sin Gods could continually emerge from humanity’s negative emotions. He called for faith to spread across the world and judged Night Cherry Tangle’s Trial of the Gods too narrow and exclusionary, leaving its redesign ahead.

• Qin Chuan summoned the Apex members and divine incarnations, then revealed that Wrath and Sloth belonged to a group of seven gods from outside the Apocalypse System.
• Qin Chuan explained that the Sin Gods could reappear wherever despair and negative emotions gathered, and said expanding faith could suppress them.
• Night Cherry Tangle spoke about the Trial of the Gods, and Qin Chuan praised its start before criticizing its limited coverage, soldier-focused rankings, and emphasis on competition and plunder.
• Qin Chuan concluded that the Trial of the Gods needed a comprehensive upgrade to include more regions and roles and to prioritize protection and construction.

Qin Chuan reshaped the Trial of the Gods into a broad system that let people across Yan Country and Blue Star contribute to the future Divine Kingdom. He assigned Season Star, Dawn, and Mirror distinct trials, and the chapter ended with four systems covering combat, creation, exploration, and intellect.

• Qin Chuan criticized Night Cherry Tangle's Trial of the Gods for focusing too narrowly on elite warriors, and Night Cherry Tangle accepted the criticism.
• Qin Chuan explained that the trials should give ordinary people a path to contribute and help defeat the Seven Sin Gods at their roots.
• Qin Chuan tasked Season Star with creating the Creation Steps to evaluate and reward production-class players' work.
• Qin Chuan designed Swift Shadow Echo for Dawn, challenging players to reach dangerous coordinates and complete difficult missions.
• Qin Chuan designed Myriad Flower Mirror Domain for Mirror, testing players' intellect, willpower, and imagination.

Qin Chuan assigned the four Demon God incarnations trials that completed his plan for building a Divine Kingdom civilization in the Yan Country War Zone. Their agreement left eight distinct trials ready to test and shape the region’s players and systems.

• Qin Chuan told Dies Martin that his followers’ talent for deception could help expose flaws in the other trials, then established the open [Thousand Faces Gambit] for that purpose.
• Dies Martin accepted the plan and welcomed the chance to challenge the other systems through deception.
• Qin Chuan assigned Aleisa the [Eternal Night Barrier], where trial-takers would protect lives and purify corrupted lands after nightfall.
• Qin Chuan created the Lord of Torture’s [Heart Refining Furnace], testing participants’ will and resistance to fear and illusion without physical harm.
• Qin Chuan established the Lord of Lava’s [Molten Fire Baptism] at an active volcano, where participants would face lava, flame beasts, and destructive trials.
• The four new trials joined War, creation, exploration, and wisdom to form eight distinct trials across the Yan Country War Zone.

Qin Chuan revealed a plan to reshape the Path to Godhood by creating eight Lesser Ladders that could guide players from the Holy Domain to Demigod rank. After he manifested the ladders, Dragon Soaring World asked to change his own path to godhood.

• Qin Chuan explained that the Apocalypse System's existing route to godhood wasted the potential of players trapped at the Peak Holy Domain.
• Qin Chuan proposed a Gate of Sacred Domain that would let players earn World Contribution through the eight trials and qualify for entry into the Holy Domain.
• Qin Chuan unveiled the Lesser Ladder to Godhood, which would let Holy Domain experts advance through Apostle, God's Chosen, and Demigod ranks in a trial discipline.
• Qin Chuan assigned the eight gods and Demigods to oversee the ladders, linking each ascendant to their Divine Positions and strengthening their Divine Thrones.
• Qin Chuan manifested all eight Lesser Ladders beneath a starry sky, and Dragon Soaring World asked to change his path to godhood.

Dragon Soaring World asked Qin Chuan to sever his [False Contract] Godhead so he could pursue the [War Ladder] instead. After accepting the severe risks and losses, he committed to changing paths, and Dies Martin proposed making his departure the New Order’s first law about betrayal and atonement.

• Dragon Soaring World confessed that the [False Contract] Godhead had changed him into a schemer and declared that the [War Ladder] suited him better.
• Dies Martin confronted Dragon Soaring World, but Qin Chuan reframed the challenge as the first act of Dies Martin’s [Thousand Faces Gambit].
• Qin Chuan warned Dragon Soaring World that severing the Godhead would damage his soul, strip away his powers and protection, and force him to start over as an ordinary challenger.
• Dragon Soaring World accepted the costs and chose to change paths to godhood.
• Dies Martin agreed to let Dragon Soaring World leave but proposed that Qin Chuan make betrayal and atonement the New Order’s first law.

Qin Chuan turned Dies Martin’s attempt to punish Dragon Soaring World into the first law of the New Order: people could change paths, but had to atone for their choices. Dragon Soaring World accepted a brutal trial and had his Godhead stripped as it began.

• Dies Martin proposed a law of betrayal and atonement, hoping to force Qin Chuan to choose between his principles and Dragon Soaring World.
• Qin Chuan declared that people in his Divine Kingdom could change paths, and made Dragon Soaring World the first to test the new law.
• Qin Chuan accepted Dies Martin’s proposal and appointed him to devise and judge Dragon Soaring World’s atonement trial.
• Dies Martin sentenced Dragon Soaring World to survive a thousand fatal contractual traps in the False Contract Prison within seventy-two hours.
• Dragon Soaring World accepted the trial, and Qin Chuan ordered his Godhead stripped as the first law took effect.

Dragon Soaring World endured the extraction of his Godhead, losing nearly all his power before Dies Martin sent him into the False Contract Prison. Trapped among a thousand deceptive contracts, he began searching for the one he could tear apart using only his warrior’s resolve.

• Dragon Soaring World resisted Dies Martin’s soul extraction until the Godhead was pulled from him, leaving him at the threshold of the Holy Domain Initial Tier.
• Qin Chuan caught Dragon Soaring World as he collapsed, while Dies Martin swallowed the Godhead and declared the first step, “Severance,” complete.
• Dies Martin sent Dragon Soaring World into darkness to begin the second step, “atonement.”
• Dragon Soaring World awoke in the False Contract Prison, where Dies Martin challenged him to find and destroy one true contract among a thousand without using deception-related abilities.
• Dragon Soaring World ignored the tempting contracts and began searching through them one by one.

Dragon Soaring World discovered that the contracts in Dies Martin’s prison retaliated when attacked, and used that to identify the one contract that offered a way out. He began punching through the shelves despite the soul-damaging curses, while Dies Martin warned Qin Chuan that Dragon Soaring World might not survive many more backlashes.

• Dragon Soaring World resisted the contracts’ mind-corroding text and realized he needed to approach Dies Martin’s prison through sheer will rather than cleverness.
• He punched a black stone contract and suffered a vicious curse, discovering that the traps retaliated against anyone who tried to destroy them.
• Dragon Soaring World concluded that the sole chance of survival would not strike back with a curse and decided to test every contract with his fists.
• He endured curses of desire, mental assault, and soul scorching as he kept punching through the prison’s contracts.
• Dies Martin appeared beside Qin Chuan, acknowledged that Dragon Soaring World had found his loophole, and warned that another backlash might destroy his Divine Soul.

Dragon Soaring World survived Dies Martin’s trial, restored his warrior’s will, and completed his atonement. Qin Chuan established a law allowing people to change their path to godhood and announced the New God Era to all of Blue Star, revealing eight Paths to Godhood.

• Dragon Soaring World’s final punch shattered a parchment scroll, healing his Divine Soul and collapsing the prison.
• Dragon Soaring World thanked Dies Martin, then told Qin Chuan he was ready to climb the War Ladder again.
• Qin Chuan declared Dragon Soaring World’s atonement complete and inscribed a law permitting people in his Divine Kingdom’s system to choose or change their path after enduring Bone Scraping Marrow Extraction and an Atonement Trial.
• Qin Chuan proclaimed the New God Era across Blue Star, and eight stairways representing the Paths to Godhood appeared in the sky.
• Qin Chuan announced that players who reached the level cap could begin a path’s Gate of Sacred Domain quest and later contend for a Divine Seat.

The Main God Qin Chuan announced the start of the New God Era and revealed eight paths to godhood for Apocalypse’s People. Players celebrated and debated which paths suited them, then learned that reaching max level would unlock a Sacred Domain starting quest; the chapter left them wondering what the Gate of Sacred Domain looked like.

• At Boulder Fortress, Blazing Hearts players finished defending against Abyssal Worms and saw a Star Map replace the sky.
• The Main God announced the New God Era and revealed eight paths to godhood, including the War Ladder and Creation Steps.
• Da Shan Zhu Jiu recognized the War Ladder as a path suited to warriors and felt eager to pursue it.
• Players around the world flooded the forums, celebrating the new paths and speculating that crafting professions could also lead to godhood.
• The Main God explained that max-level players could choose a path and begin its Sacred Domain starting quest, then ascend the Lesser Ladder to contend for a Divine Seat.
• The sky returned to normal, and players discussed the announcement before asking what the Gate of Sacred Domain looked like.

The Holy Domain module opened for max-level players, who chose among eight Ladders to Godhood and received difficult starting quests tailored to their abilities. As players began preparing for their challenges, the world’s forums filled with complaints about the quests’ extreme demands.

• Da Shan Zhu Jiu chose the War Ladder and received a quest to defend Boulder Fortress’s weakest breach alone through the next Abyssal Tide.
• Da Shan Zhu Jiu accepted the deadly challenge and prepared his shield, declaring that defending the gate alone was what a warrior should do.
• Number One Blacksmith Under Heaven chose Creation Steps and received a quest to reforge the legendary sword Star Breaker using rare materials.
• Number One Blacksmith Under Heaven closed his shop and set out to seek the materials for his quest.
• Max-level players around the world received hellishly difficult quests, including infiltrating a Demon Lord’s palace, capturing ancient magic, and enduring a volcano’s magma.

After the Ladders to Godhood left the North American players in the Court of Sin Punishment feeling excluded, Leon asked the Sword of Sin Punishment for guidance. It revealed the Holy Spirit Ascension path for servants, and Leon entered its trial.

• Adams told the North American players to accept their status as servants and focus on obeying the gods and clearing nearby Corrupted Creatures.
• Leon argued that the Main God must have prepared a different path for servants and prayed to the Sword of Sin Punishment for guidance.
• The Sword revealed that servants could sacrifice pure faith to the Sin Punishment Forge and attempt Holy Spirit Ascension, becoming immortal Holy Spirits of the Divine Kingdom.
• Leon declared his willingness to give up his mortal body and began the trial as white flames engulfed him.