Chapter Summaries

He Ao found a way to pierce the unstable passages between the distorted spaces and rescued Goya from the Black Shadows. They crossed into a lightning-filled hall crowded with more of the shadows.

• He Ao used the Eye of Truth to identify a passage node and opened a hole through the corridor wall.
• Goya fought off Black Shadows with her Emerald Staff but was ambushed from behind as they closed in on her.
• He Ao emerged through a circular opening, destroyed the shadow behind Goya, and helped her defeat the attackers.
• He Ao showed Goya how to open another passage, and they jumped through it together.
• He Ao and Goya arrived in a trembling hall filled with lightning and surging Black Shadows.

He Ao used Li Cheng’s lightning to stun the Black Shadows, then sent the Shadowless Sword into their shared dream and destroyed the Phantom, destabilizing the distorted space. After escaping the collapsing mountains with Goya and Li Cheng, the group saw flames and volcanic clouds erupting from the crater ahead.

• He Ao realized the Black Shadows’ endless regeneration was tied to the distorted space and asked Li Cheng to stun them without killing them.
• Li Cheng found the right level of force, while Goya raised a vine barrier to protect the group during his two-second charge.
• After Li Cheng stunned the Black Shadows, He Ao used Dream Severing to destroy the Phantom’s incomplete soul, causing the Black Shadows to decay and the hall to begin collapsing.
• He Ao opened passages through the unstable space and led Goya and Li Cheng out as the mountains collapsed, then accelerated the collapse by disturbing key points.
• Goya asked how He Ao had defeated the Black Shadows, and Li Cheng recognized that He Ao had identified and exploited their weakness.
• He Ao, Goya, Li Cheng, and the middle-aged man looked toward the crater as flames erupted and volcanic clouds blotted out the sky.

He Ao fought the Plain Robed Old Man, a powerful martial arts guardian, on a platform above lava and learned to adapt the old man's techniques as they clashed. He Ao killed him with a carefully concealed combination of martial skills and extraordinary abilities, then watched the old man's fragmented soul fade.

• He Ao faced the Plain Robed Old Man and used the Blood-Moistening Jade Pendant to study the old man's Energy Circuit during their sword fight.
• He Ao refined Force Collapse Mountain Shattering by copying missing details from the old man's stronger Heavy Strike technique.
• The old man disarmed He Ao and drove him toward the edge of the platform, but He Ao learned to combine the old man's wind-based movement with his own techniques.
• He Ao used the improved movement and spear techniques to break the old man's guard, wound his wrist, and knock away his broadsword.
• He Ao used Pawn, Telekinesis, and his martial techniques to seize control of the fight and pierce the old man's chest, striking all three Energy Convergence Points.
• The old man praised He Ao before his body and fragmented soul began to fade, and He Ao gently closed his eyes.

He Ao accepted the polluted Martial Arts Empowerment left by Old Man and learned a cultivation method before heading toward the buildings beyond the lava. At Volcano Park, he joined Li Cheng and Goya in confronting the King Slayer wraith, and the three began an assault after He Ao identified its Energy Convergence Point.

• He Ao absorbed Old Man’s Light Orb, endured its pollution, and gained Heaven and Earth Two Qi along with a cultivation method that might lead from C-rank to B-rank.
• He Ao thanked Old Man and crossed the lava toward the cliffside buildings.
• At Volcano Park, a giant King Slayer wraith emerged from the erupting volcano and attacked He Ao, Li Cheng, and Goya with a blast that devastated their stone platform.
• He Ao identified the giant as the wraith of the Angel-level King Slayer, while Li Cheng and Goya resisted its influence.
• Li Cheng drew the wraith’s attention with lightning as Goya summoned vines and healing to help He Ao charge toward it.
• He Ao dodged the wraith’s crimson beams and recognized that it had an Energy Convergence Point, meaning it could be killed.

Lin Chichi reached the Floating Base’s final battlefield and faced the metal giant formed from its pillars. He Ao entered the underground Research Institute and fought the Radiance Evil Spirit fused with Jie An, leaving the giant’s chest split open and Jie An exposed.

• Lin Chichi left the sealed compartment and realized the power that had carried her through the Floating Base was connected to the girl in the coffin and Hao Yi Gege.
• Lin Chichi crossed the platform’s boundary, causing eight metal pillars to combine into a towering metal giant, then charged at it with her scythe.
• He Ao reached the underground Federation Starry Sky Research Institute and encountered a radiant figure that appeared to be Jie An, controlled by a corrupted consciousness.
• He Ao used the Eye of Truth to discover that Jie An’s soul was inside the Radiance Evil Spirit and that its Energy Convergence Points were gathered around him.
• He Ao dodged the giant’s attacks, wounded its shoulders, and used the black broadsword to split open its chest and abdomen, exposing Jie An.

He Ao freed Jie An from the Radiance Giant by deconstructing the connections binding them, then attacked the weakened Evil Spirit Angel in its true form as a radiant sand pile. The Angel pursued him through a collapsing building, and the chapter ended with He Ao climbing upward amid the falling rubble.

• He Ao used the Eye of Truth to find and deconstruct the lines binding Jie An to the Radiance Giant, pulling Jie An free as the giant collapsed into glowing sand.
• He Ao learned that Jie An remained unconscious from mutations and residual Evil Spirit power, then sent him through a doorway when the sand pile attacked.
• He Ao identified the radiant sand pile as the Evil Spirit Angel's true form and shattered a second Energy Convergence Point with his black spear.
• The weakened Evil Spirit Angel attacked He Ao with a flurry of arms, and their blows caused the building to collapse.
• He Ao climbed through the falling rubble while the Evil Spirit Angel pursued him upward, believing it was close to killing him.

He Ao killed the Evil Spirit Angel, removed its remaining influence from Jie An, and escaped the collapsing underground cavern aboard the Old Train. On the Floating Base, Lin Chichi was trapped by the metal giant until the ash-gold-haired girl in the coffin opened her eyes.

• He Ao pierced the Evil Spirit Angel's final Energy Convergence Point with his greatsword, then recovered the Blood-Burning spear from its corpse.
• He Ao used the Eye of Truth to extract the Evil Spirit Angel's remaining radiance from Jie An and tested how it held power drawn from the jade pendant.
• As the underground Lava Cave collapsed, He Ao picked up Jie An and escaped the surging lava aboard the Old Train.
• Lin Chichi fought the metal giant and destroyed one of its small metal forms, but the giant trapped her between its hands and chains.
• As Lin Chichi prepared to face death, the upright coffin opened and the ash-gold-haired girl floated out with her eyes opening.

Lin Chichi survived the metal giant’s attack with the Maid Puppet’s help, while He Ao used the Blood-Moistening Jade Pendant to destroy the giant in its true form. As the Floating Base collapsed, He Ao escaped with the exhausted Maid Puppet aboard the Verola, while Li Cheng continued the battle at Volcano Park after seeing the beam in the sky.

• The Maid Puppet’s Unowned Domain disrupted the metal giant’s control over its body and chains, then her beam pierced its giant form and the Floating Base.
• He Ao revealed that the Maid Puppet’s angelic pressure and domain had bought time for him to use the charged Blood-Moistening Jade Pendant to kill the Evil Spirit Angel.
• The Floating Base began breaking apart, and Lin Chichi rushed to the Maid Puppet before the Old Train appeared and carried her away.
• He Ao put the exhausted Maid Puppet into the coffin and boarded the Verola as the remains of the giant flowed into his pendant and the train vanished.
• At Volcano Park, Li Cheng saw the radiance tear through the ash cloud, wondered whether it came from an angel or K, and returned his attention to the King Slayer Evil Spirit.

He Ao and Li Cheng battled the King Slayer One-Eyed Giant above the volcano, coordinating their attacks while Goya and a gaunt middle-aged man supported them. After Li Cheng's lightning spear pierced the giant and immobilized it, He Ao used Shadowless Sword to unleash Please Enter the Dream on its fragmented soul.

• He Ao and Li Cheng attacked the One-Eyed Giant together, with He Ao climbing onto its body and Li Cheng gathering lightning for a powerful strike.
• He Ao dodged the giant's weapons and crimson beams, suffering burns as he climbed toward its head.
• He Ao and Li Cheng coordinated a plan to stun the giant while Li Cheng built up a lightning attack.
• The One-Eyed Giant drew a crimson arrow toward Li Cheng, but He Ao used Mental Interference as the gaunt middle-aged man restrained it with hurricanes.
• Li Cheng's lightning spear pierced the giant's lower abdomen, and He Ao used Please Enter the Dream on its fragmented soul.

He Ao used Dream Severing and Mental Interference to weaken the One-Eyed Giant, then survived its soul-targeting red needle by switching from his avatar to his true body. He destroyed the giant’s final Energy Convergence Point, and the chapter left him facing a gaunt middle-aged man who recognized something familiar about him.

• He Ao shattered the One-Eyed Giant’s chest Energy Convergence Point with Dream Severing, but its head core remained intact and the giant recovered.
• Goya rescued the falling Li Cheng as the One-Eyed Giant’s red attacks wounded her and threatened them both.
• He Ao drove the Shadowless Sword into the giant’s head, but its barriers and weapons knocked him away before he could reach the core.
• The One-Eyed Giant fired a red needle at He Ao, and the Old Train rescued his avatar before his true body took his place as Hao Yi.
• He Ao used Deconstruct to break the red needle, then unleashed five uses of Mountain Collapse and Tsunami to restrain the giant.
• He Ao pierced the One-Eyed Giant’s eye and destroyed its final Energy Convergence Point, bringing it crashing down before he met a gaunt middle-aged man who recognized a familiar feeling about him.

He Ao obtained the secret medicine for Talent Sequence 144: Miracle Scholar after the middle-aged man vanished, then reunited with Li Cheng and Goya as the Echoes of the Past Ruins began collapsing. As a hidden force emerged from the cracks in the sky, He Ao prepared to confront it.

• The middle-aged man thanked He Ao before fading away, and He Ao gathered his radiance to learn the materials, preparation method, and ritual for Talent Sequence 144: Miracle Scholar.
• The radiance fused with the Miracle Wand and extracted its secret medicine, leaving the wand shattered; He Ao then reflected on how the sequence, the wand, and the middle-aged man were connected to his own Talent Sequence.
• He Ao returned as "Hao Yi" and reunited with Li Cheng and Goya, who treated his injuries; he explained that the three Evil Spirit Angels were linked and had to be defeated almost simultaneously to destroy the ruins.
• He Ao told Li Cheng that Jie An had been rescued but remained unconscious, as the volcano and the ruins began to break apart.
• Blood-red light and enormous black tentacles burst from the cracks in the sky, and He Ao identified them as the force behind everything.
• Inside the Verola, He Ao used the energy gathered from the One-Eyed Giant to replenish his power and summoned the radiance separated from Jie An.

Yan Yue coordinated the evacuation as a blood sun appeared over West Land, while Jodel and Liu Zhengyun feared the looming descent would trap its people. In the Echoes of the Past Ruins, He Ao revealed that the angel was summoning a Great Existence from Outside of Time and Space, then used the Maid Puppet and jade pendant to counter its descent as his avatar declared they could win.

• Yan Yue learned that the evacuation of southern Ika Republic had ended without deaths and ordered districts to warn people against calling or looking at the sky and to prepare for earthquakes and tsunamis.
• Jodel and Liu Zhengyun discussed the descending blood sun and rising tides, and Jodel sensed a powerful presence gathering above West Land.
• Goya, Li Cheng, and He Ao realized the angel was forcing its way into the Main World after the destruction of the Echoes of the Past Ruins, while tentacles emerged from underground.
• A vast presence from Outside of Time and Space began forming in the sky and pressed He Ao, Goya, and Li Cheng down with overwhelming pressure and contamination.
• He Ao revealed that the angel had sacrificed part of itself to summon a Great Existence, then sent the Maid Puppet with the jade pendant to create a giant hand and red magic circle.
• He Ao's avatar watched the radiance pierce the enormous planet and said they could win.

He Ao killed the Echoes of the Past Ruins angel, and a god’s power pierced the blood-red planet before the collapsing ruins returned to the void. He Ao escaped aboard the Verola with his companions, seized an Angel-level Item, and drank the potion for Talent Sequence 144: Miracle Scholar.

• Yan Yue, Jodel, Liu Zhengyun, and Wu Ganglie witnessed a giant hand form an array and pierce the blood-red sun, while holy radiance shielded them from some of the contamination.
• The Echoes of the Past Ruins projection shattered after He Ao killed its angel, and the collapsing planet hurled He Ao, Goya, and Li Cheng into the void.
• Lin Chichi pulled Goya aboard the Old Train, and Goya rescued Li Cheng and Hao Yi as He Ao’s clone joined them.
• He Ao’s true body watched the god’s scattered lights vanish, then used the Verola to escape the ruined space and seize a black, ash-like Angel-level Item from a sacrifice array.
• The ash absorbed the Echoes of the Past and became a damaged page from the Book of Past Days.
• He Ao drank the potion for Talent Sequence 144: Miracle Scholar as the Verola traveled through the void.

After the Blood-Colored Sun vanished, Li Cheng and the others contacted Liu Zhengyun and confirmed they had returned safely with He Ao’s help. At the hospital, He Ao revealed he had reached Rank B, received councilor-level access, and agreed to keep his advancement secret while the group considered the threat from unknown Rank Bs.

• Yan Yue called the last number she had received, but the call could not connect.
• Liu Zhengyun and Wu Ganglie feared Li Cheng and the others were stranded until He Ao and the group appeared on a video call and confirmed they were back.
• Yan Yue received He Ao’s message instructing her to proceed with the backup plan, then replied that she had received it.
• Jodel praised He Ao’s arrangements for managing the aftermath, and Li Cheng joked that his former staff may simply have ignored his orders.
• He Ao told Li Cheng he had reached Rank B; Li Cheng granted him councilor-level Research Institute access and asked him to keep his advancement undisclosed because other Rank Bs might pose a threat.
• Jie An learned he had slept through the entire incident and lamented that he was the only one who had become a historical joke.

He Ao completed a Control Array on the Page of the Book of Past Days and used its authority to destroy the remaining Bubble Spaces of the angel’s ritual before its hidden power could sacrifice the Missing Persons. The Missing Persons returned safely, and the chapter ended with a child asking He Ao if he was K and thanking him.

• He Ao endured the page’s contamination and completed the Control Array, allowing him to summon Past Phantoms and gain control of the ritual core.
• He Ao discovered that the ritual’s hidden power was rebuilding the Descent Ritual using the Missing Persons trapped in Bubble Spaces.
• He Ao activated Ritual Reversal and used the page’s authority to make the Bubble Spaces disappear before the ritual could sacrifice their inhabitants.
• He Ao escaped the collapsing void in the Verola and returned to the sanatorium, exhausted and in pain.
• Yan Yue told He Ao that the Missing Persons had returned and were being sent to the Temporary Hospital.
• A young girl asked He Ao whether he was K and thanked him before her mother took the phone.

After gaining a new ability from the Page of the Book of Past Days, He Ao considered the aftermath of the Blood Sun incident and slept while others worked to cover up the public’s memories. Jodel persuaded He Ao to oversee reforms in the World Tree from the Ika Republic, while Goya warned him that He Ao’s conditions would shift power away from Jodel; the chapter ended with Jie An thanking He Ao and He Ao absorbing the last of the Heaven and Earth Two Qi.

• He Ao discovered that the Page of the Book of Past Days had gained the Past Days Space ability, which could draw a target into a space recreating a profound memory at significant cost.
• Liu Zhengyun and the others carried the Forget Sorrow Stone and the World Tree’s Forgetfulness Spring across the West Land to cover up memories of the Blood Sun, while He Ao rested and controlled Hao Yi’s avatar.
• Li Cheng asked Hao Yi about angels’ ability to retain their sanity, and He Ao noticed a figure moving through the corridor before Jodel came to recruit him for World Tree reforms.
• He Ao refused to leave the Research Institute but agreed to serve as a consultant overseeing reforms if Jodel gave him authority over the Ika Republic, personnel, and opponents; Jodel secured Li Cheng’s approval.
• Goya pointed out that He Ao would hold substantial influence through the Ika Republic and his allies, and Jodel recognized that his conditions would strengthen He Ao’s position.
• Jie An secretly thanked He Ao for rescuing him, and He Ao then finished absorbing the Heaven and Earth Two Qi and noticed a subtle change as he circulated his divine consciousness.

After recovering from the Blood Sun incident, He Ao left the sanatorium and learned that survivors were returning home while K worship spread across West Land. He reflected on his new Rank B Miracle Scholar abilities and sensed that his martial arts were close to advancing beyond Rank C.

• He Ao said goodbye to Li Cheng, left the sanatorium, and accepted a black trench coat from him before Yan Yue drove him away.
• Yan Yue told He Ao that the Missing Persons were receiving treatment and that about eighty percent of Mote City's residents had returned.
• He Ao saw K murals and learned that K worship and stories about K were spreading as a lasting response to the Blood Sun trauma.
• He Ao instructed Yan Yue to monitor K worship and prevent extremists from exploiting K's name.
• He Ao reviewed his new Azure Sky Light miracle and improved Rank B versions of his earlier miracles, then sensed that his martial arts were nearing advancement.

After leaving the sanatorium, He Ao met Lin Chichi, who asked whether she could become K’s believer so she could grow stronger and protect those she loved. He Ao told her faith was not a bargain, wished her a happy birthday, and offered to find her a teacher as they left her future training open.

• He Ao said goodbye to Jie An, then spotted Goya and exchanged farewells with her and Li Cheng before leaving the sanatorium.
• Lin Chichi secretly waited outside the gate, and He Ao guessed she had packed up her belongings and snuck out of the ward.
• Lin Chichi asked whether her Gift came from K and whether she could become K’s believer; He Ao confirmed the Gift’s source and explained that K’s power did not depend on transactional faith.
• He Ao gave Lin Chichi strawberry sugar-coated haws for her birthday, and she cried as she thanked him.
• He Ao offered to find Lin Chichi a teacher, and she said she wanted strength to protect her mother and grandfather.

He Ao advanced reforms to centralize World Tree and appointed Yan Yue and Como to lead the creation of a new system. Meanwhile, Lin Chichi arrived at a secluded residence and saw a Martial Arts Hall sign hung before its gate as she waited for the teacher He Ao had mentioned.

• He Ao finalized personnel recommendations with Yan Yue and Como, planning to dispatch special consultants to World Tree branches and recruit local officials to help draft a new system.
• He Ao assigned Yan Yue to lead a dedicated System Group and Como to serve as deputy, then left the office.
• Como praised He Ao as a reliable leader, and Yan Yue agreed that his ability exceeded his reputation.
• Lin Chichi followed her phone navigation through a secluded alley to an old residence, where a red-eyed girl greeted her and said a teacher would arrive soon.
• The girl drove iron nails into the wall and hung a wooden sign reading Martial Arts Hall, which Lin Chichi felt seemed to brighten the world around her.

Lin Chichi visited He Ao’s newly established Martial Arts Hall and saw Elifia defeat her with martial arts. After He Ao invited Lin Chichi to study under him, she became his disciple, and Elifia also formally asked him to teach her.

• Elifia introduced the Martial Arts Hall and challenged Lin Chichi to spar, using martial arts to overcome her despite Lin Chichi’s superhuman strength.
• He Ao arrived, and Lin Chichi discovered that he was the hall’s teacher and the “sir” Elifia followed.
• He Ao asked Lin Chichi to study martial arts under him, and she accepted; he stopped her from kneeling and accepted her tea instead.
• He Ao also accepted tea from Elifia after she asked him to teach her, and the ceremony stirred unseen ripples through the world.