Chapter Summaries

Xia Fan explained that the Moon’s collision with Earth would devastate the planet and that humanity could survive only by using immortal artifacts to transform people. He recruited Taxisis to help secretly gather the population into first-tier cities, leaving the Homecoming Plan’s timeline dependent on when the shelter discovered it.

• Xia Fan described how the Moon’s impact would melt and reshape Earth for millions of years, making survival in human bodies impossible.
• Xia Fan said immortal artifacts could preserve humanity by transforming people, but activating them required everyone to gather in first-tier cities.
• Taxisis agreed to organize the Western Pole’s residents, while Momola warned that shortages and public resistance could cause unrest.
• Xia Fan assured them that expanding productivity and public outreach could make the gathering cities livable.
• Xia Fan said the plan had no fixed deadline and had to remain secret until the world’s will forced humanity to depart.

Chu Pu announced the Bureau of Military Affairs’ surrender to Qi State and its disbandment, arguing that ending the unwinnable war would protect the people. Afterward, Gao Sheng explained why he had made her Yuheng Envoy and warned her that profiteers might resist peace.

• Chu Pu announced that the Bureau of Military Affairs would surrender Yongding City to the Tianqi Army in three days and defended her decision against the officials’ protests.
• Chu Pu urged the sorcerers to keep pursuing their goals in new positions after the Bureau of Military Affairs dissolved, then left the conference hall.
• Gao Sheng visited Chu Pu to bid farewell and revealed that he had chosen her because he feared being blamed for the Bureau’s downfall.
• Gao Sheng admitted he had recognized the war was unwinnable after Gongshu Wang died in Shangyuan City and said he felt relieved by Chu Pu’s decision.
• Gao Sheng warned Chu Pu that officials benefiting from the war might try to keep it going, then left to retire.

Ning Wanjun accepted the surrender of Yongding City, but a hidden group attacked the ceremony to sabotage the peace. As the battle erupted, Chu Pu and the Seven-Star Envoys revealed that they had anticipated the plot and prepared for it.

• Ning Wanjun arrived at the surrender ceremony, where Chu Pu presented the letter on behalf of the Seven Stars Bureau of Military Affairs.
• Ning Wanjun asked Chu Pu about Xia Fan and learned that he was well in Shangyuan City.
• Black smoke burst from the surrender letter and struck Ning Wanjun as more than thirty attackers leaped from the crowd.
• The attackers fought Ning Wanjun’s guards, Chu Pu, and the Seven-Star Envoys, seeking to provoke the Qi State into abandoning the surrender.
• Chu Pu withdrew to a corner as the Yaoguang Envoy and Tianxuan Envoy revealed that they, too, had taken her appearance, creating three Yuheng Envoys.

Chu Pu used her domain to defeat Zhu Qingfeng and the attackers who tried to disrupt the surrender ceremony. As she explained that the Tianqi Army had once overcome the domain, Gao Sheng emerged from the shadows and stabbed her.

• The attackers realized the ceremony had been transformed into a palace and learned that Chu Pu's domain had drawn them inside it.
• Zhu Qingfeng revealed himself as the mastermind and ordered the Fangshi to kill Chu Pu.
• Chu Pu's real doubles overwhelmed the attackers, and she wounded Zhu Qingfeng.
• Chu Pu explained that her domain could encompass Yongding City, but admitted she did not know how the Tianqi Army had broken it.
• As Chu Pu struck Zhu Qingfeng, Gao Sheng appeared behind her and stabbed her in the spine.

Gao Sheng revealed that he had used the surrender ceremony to pursue the Heavenly Court and tried to kill Chu Pu with the Sword of Authority. A hidden Shadow killed him, leaving Chu Pu alive and confirming Xia Fan’s secret protection had become her trump card.

• Gao Sheng explained that the Bureau of Military Affairs had discovered a possible way to open the Heavenly Court and that he had concealed his ambitions from the other Seven-Star Envoys.
• Chu Pu realized Gao Sheng had manipulated the surrender ceremony and intended to sacrifice her and others to awaken an immortal artifact.
• Gao Sheng dismissed Chu Pu’s suggestion that she was bait and prepared to kill her with the Sword of Authority.
• A Black Arrow drew Gao Sheng’s attention as a silenced bullet struck him from the side and fatally tore through his body.
• A young woman revealed herself as the Shadow Lord Xia Fan had secretly sent to protect Chu Pu, who had chosen to trust her at the crucial moment.

Yu Linglong learned that Chu Pu had used herself as bait to defeat the Yuheng Envoy, then discovered the surrender ceremony outside the hall was real. Ning Wanjun accepted Xu State’s surrender and declared the war over.

• Yu Linglong helped Chu Pu heal her spinal wound, and Chu Pu explained that she had used herself as bait to lure the enemy.
• Shadow emerged with a severe wound and complained to Yu Linglong, who asked Chu Pu about the Immortal Art domain and Ning Wanjun’s convincing appearance.
• Chu Pu revealed that Ning Wanjun at the surrender ceremony was real and told Yu Linglong to open the hall doors.
• Yu Linglong opened the doors and saw that the hall stood atop Yongding City’s East City Wall, overlooking the real surrender ceremony.
• Chu Pu presented the dissolution scroll to Ning Wanjun, who accepted Xu State’s surrender and declared the war over.

Chu Pu explained how she had divided allies and enemies between parallel realities, then asked Yu Linglong to carry her to safety after the surrender. Two days after Qi took Yongding City, Ning Wanjun entered a neglected palace to meet her father, Ning Qingchao.

• Chu Pu explained that she had used the Yuheng Envoy’s technique to guide conspirators into a false version of events while the uninvolved continued toward the eastern outskirts.
• Yu Linglong carried the wounded Chu Pu from the battlements, and Chu Pu asked Xia Fan to spare the Xu State Fangshi who had fought in the war.
• Chu Pu told her guards that Yu Linglong was her friend and thanked her as they carried her to the Bureau of Military Affairs.
• Shadow urged Yu Linglong to take Chu Pu’s inheritance, but Yu Linglong refused and left with him.
• Qi took control of Yongding City, established a temporary Affairs Bureau, and began a sweep against local criminals.
• Ning Wanjun entered a neglected palace and found her father, Ning Qingchao.

Ning Wanjun confronted Ning Qingchao about her mother’s death and learned that her parents had planned for her to hate him so she would stay clear of the Bureau of Military Affairs and the great clans. She refused to forgive him but left him alive to face the consequences of his choices.

• Ning Wanjun found Ning Qingchao waiting in the palace and demanded to know whether he regretted what he had done to Qiu Xingyun.
• Ning Qingchao said he had regretted Qiu Xingyun’s death and revealed that she had wanted Ning Wanjun to hate him for her own protection.
• Ning Qingchao explained that the Qi and Fei clans’ technique practitioners had poisoned Qiu Xingyun, and that he and Qiu Xingyun had arranged for a booklet to make Ning Wanjun believe he was responsible for her death.
• Ning Wanjun said she would not forgive Ning Qingchao, since his greed and inaction had still contributed to Qiu Xingyun’s death.
• Ning Wanjun refused to kill Ning Qingchao, saying that losing everything and living with remorse was a fitting punishment, then left the palace hall.

Three and a half years after unification, Xia Fan governed the federation while Ning Wanjun focused on her own pursuits, and their family enjoyed a quiet afternoon in the palace garden. Ning Wanjun then left with Mo Yun and Olina to test the new Sky Crane.

• The Qi State became a federation under the Qi State Affairs Bureau, and Ning Wanjun and Xia Fan married, with Xia Fan taking command of the court and army.
• Qian Zhi found Xia Fan and Li’s young son hiding underwater during a game of hide-and-seek, and Li defended her rule-breaking tactics.
• Xia Fan reflected on the busy years since unification and the children he had with Li and Ning Wanjun.
• Olina arrived at the palace garden, and Ning Wanjun joined Xia Fan after testing the Sky Crane was arranged.
• Ning Wanjun and Mo Yun climbed onto Olina’s back and flew to the New Mechanical Bureau’s testing site.

Xia Fan learned that a migration Tree Boat had sunk in the Ice Crystal Sea, leaving nearly ten thousand people missing, and ordered an investigation without halting transport. Three days later, he gathered officials to view surveillance footage of the incident site.

• Li asked Xia Fan whether the present still mattered if the Return would erase everything, and he said they had to value the lives they lived now.
• High Priestess Sainiya reported that a Morning Wind Tribe migration Tree Boat had sunk after an explosion and violent tremors, with nearly ten thousand people missing.
• Xia Fan ordered the migration route to remain open, compensation for the victims’ families, stricter inspections, and separate transport for Qi Sense Users and non-Qi Sense Users.
• Xia Fan sent a Flying-class shuttle and a Dragon Priest with a Reproduction Scroll to investigate the site.
• Three days later, Xia Fan summoned officials and told Thought Control to project surveillance footage from the Ice Crystal Sea.

Xia Fan watched a Reproduction Scroll reveal that a Migration Tree Boat had been destroyed by a powerful spell, then rushed toward an explosion at the Integrated Mechanical Bureau. The Deity appeared to warn him against challenging the Listener order, leaving Xia Fan with confirmation that the Brain used Stayers as its hands and feet.

• Xia Fan and the others watched a Migration Tree Boat erupt in flames after a powerful spell, and Qian suspected Immortal Art or a new Listener was responsible.
• A blast struck the Integrated Mechanical Bureau, and Xia Fan learned the explosion had caused a major fire and injured pedestrians.
• Xia Fan prepared to fly to the Bureau to check on Ning Wanjun and Mo Yun, but the world turned black and white and the Deity appeared through a stone gate.
• The Deity admitted that she had caused the Tree Boat's sinking and the Bureau explosion as a warning against Xia Fan's teachings about Listeners.
• The Deity ordered Xia Fan to remove the disputed teaching material, and he agreed before asking what the Sanctuary's mortal world meant to her.
• The Deity called herself the Brain and said she needed hands and feet, telling Xia Fan that he was one of them.

After a Listener’s explosion killed and wounded workers at the new Mechanical Bureau, Xia Fan and the senior officials discussed the threat posed by the Sanctuary and Heavenly Dao. Xia Fan agreed to remove the challenged material from textbooks while announcing that the Great Migration Plan would enter its second stage as the Return Plan.

• Xia Fan reunited with Ning Wanjun and Mo Yun, who told him the Sky Crane had flown successfully around Shangyuan City.
• Xia Fan received the Police Bureau’s report confirming that Listener Jiela had caused the factory explosion and died, killing forty-five people and injuring more than one hundred and twenty.
• Xia Fan presented the report and recounted the Gate of Heavenly Dao’s warning to the senior officials.
• An argued that becoming a Listener required the Sanctuary’s recognition and resources, and predicted that Listeners would grow exponentially as humanity advanced.
• Xia Fan accepted the warning, agreed to remove the relevant material from textbooks, and renamed the Great Migration Plan’s second stage the Return Plan.

Xia Fan and An activated the Escape Tower’s final launch, transforming its Skywell into a way to propel molten material from the Moon Satellite’s core. The first launch hurled a dazzling rain of magma into the skies above Baiyao Mountain.

• Xia Fan inspected the Skywell reconstruction with An and learned that the tower had been altered for a final launch despite the Sanctuary’s likely response.
• Xia Fan demonstrated the teleportation ability he had inherited from Moonshadow Temple.
• Xia Fan pressed the launch button, triggering alarms and evacuation announcements throughout the Skywell.
• Xia Fan and An watched from a monitoring station as molten core material flooded into the Skywell.
• The Skywell launched the molten material at extreme speed, sending a rain of magma above Baiyao Mountain.

Xia Fan and An watched Skywell launch the Moon Satellite by ejecting its core material through a shattered sky, destroying the Escape Tower in the process. As the Moon Satellite began its fatal journey toward Earth, Shangyuan City received an end-times evacuation warning beneath a vast, newly appeared sphere.

• Skywell pulsed core material into a rising plume, but its launch shaft overheated and began to collapse before the ejection reached its target velocity.
• An told Xia Fan that the qi sustaining the inner-wall artifacts would help Skywell endure, and the torrent of molten material broke through the Sanctuary's sky into the abyss.
• The plume became a blue-white stream, and Thought Control confirmed the launch had succeeded before Skywell's core and central control system were destroyed.
• Xia Fan and An left as the Moon Satellite began moving toward Earth, destined to break apart after its core pressure fell.
• In Shangyuan City, evacuation broadcasts directed residents to the Heavenly Court as a gigantic silver-white sphere appeared above the city.

Xia Fan and his allies evacuated humanity to the Heavenly Court while defending Shangyuan City from the World Will’s attacks. The World Will challenged the evacuation, claiming the Heavenly Court would imprison everyone’s souls and accusing Xia Fan of deceiving them.

• Luo You'er guided the residents of Shangyuan City as they transformed into blue cubes and uploaded to the Heavenly Court, while Xintao worried about seeing her again.
• Xia Fan returned to Shangyuan City, learned that nearly a million people had been evacuated, and opened portals to the royal capitals of the Six States to guide more people.
• A stone gate appeared in Shangyuan City, but Mo Yun activated the Sanctuary barrier and destroyed it before it could open.
• The barrier suppressed the World Will’s attempts to transmit through the Gate of Heavenly Dao, while Academy disciples took turns sustaining it as the migration continued.
• Luo Qingqing’s avatar emerged from a stone gate outside the city and warned that the Heavenly Court would imprison humanity’s souls, leaving Qian, Yan Qing, and the others questioning Xia Fan’s promise.

Xia Fan revealed that the Heavenly Court had preserved people by storing their consciousness and bodily information, and his allies accepted their origins without resentment. The World Consciousness launched an assault on Shangyuan City with Evil Spirits and its own followers, and the Tianqi Army and Dragon Legion fought back.

• Xia Fan explained that the Heavenly Court had stored people in a dormant state rather than transforming them, while Qian, Chi, Miss Dragon, the High Priestess, Li, and Yan Qing reassured him they did not care about their origins.
• The World Consciousness summoned white stone gates outside Shangyuan City, and Thought Control identified the arriving forces as Chaos entities.
• Ning Wanjun ordered the Tianqi Army into position as Evil Spirits and winged Listeners poured through the gates.
• Ning Wanjun ordered the searchlights activated and the Tianqi Army opened fire, devastating the advancing Evil Spirits.
• Thought Control warned of flying Evil Spirits, and Taxisis Eternal Wing led the Dragonborn into the sky with Sorcerers from the Department of Military Affairs riding on their backs.

A volcanic eruption and tsunami forced Momola and Muli to evacuate Azure Fort through Xia Fan’s passage to Shangyuan, where they witnessed the end-times battle against the Evil Spirits. Ning Qingchao refused to leave, choosing to remain in the collapsing world with Xingyun’s lock of hair.

• Momola and Muli waited for the evacuation passage to open, but communications failed and an undersea volcano erupted, sending a tsunami toward Azure Fort.
• Muli organized the crowd while Momola chose to leave the gates open so the disaster would drive the remaining residents toward the passage Xia Fan had opened.
• Momola and Muli led the evacuees through the passage to Shangyuan, where lightning struck Evil Spirits attacking the city amid the end-times calamity.
• Ning Weiyuan fled the palace, but Ning Qingchao stayed behind after recognizing his daughter’s old warning letter as evidence she had foreseen the disaster.
• Ning Qingchao held Xingyun’s lock of hair to his chest and resolved to remain in the world so she would not be alone.

The narrator took a day off to have the car repaired after the insurance company notified them that it could be taken in. The car had been damaged in an earlier crash and had not been repaired before the holiday.

• The narrator recalled crashing the car earlier.
• The narrator delayed repairs because the holiday was approaching.
• The insurance company notified the narrator that the car could be taken in for repairs.
• The narrator took a day off to deal with the car repair.

As the World Will attacked Shangyuan City by exposing Sanctuary to vacuum and opening breaches in its barrier, Xia Fan and the defenders tried to protect the population and hold the city. The chapter ended with “Luo Qingqing” striking down Taxisis, cleaving the Dragon Girl’s body in two.

• Xia Fan opened the final passage to Natating and used the Heavenly Court’s stored qi to maintain the connected passages.
• The World Will summoned Lightwing Angels, which altered gravity and learned to bypass Sanctuary’s barrier while Evil Spirits attacked through the breaches.
• Chi calmed the gale with his domain, and Xia Fan used the Heavenly Court to rescue people swept into the air as the World Will opened Sanctuary’s dome to vacuum.
• The Tianqi Army donned protective suits while Taxisis attacked the Lightwing Angels to slow the barrier breaches.
• “Luo Qingqing” trapped Taxisis in Formless Reality and Illusion and struck her with Dragon Scale, cleaving the Dragon Girl’s body in two.

Taxisis spent her last strength returning to the Heavenly Court as the Evil Spirits overwhelmed Shangyuan City's defenses. With the barrier gone, the World Will ambushed the defenders and trapped Li, Yan Qing, and Chu Pu in its attack.

• Taxisis removed her ring and sent her consciousness toward the Heavenly Court as the Tianqi Army reported that the western wall had fallen under the Evil Spirits' assault.
• Ning Wanjun led the Mechanical Beast troops into the breach, where their weapons and flames pushed back the Evil Spirits until the city walls fell and the fighting moved into the streets.
• Li and the sorcerers of the Six States held the inner-city front until the sky barrier vanished, and Mo Yun reported that the Mechanical Bureau had exhausted its reserves.
• Three White Gates appeared inside the city, and Li ordered the defenders to leave the inner Evil Spirits to the Xuanwu Army rather than break the line.
• The World Will attacked Li, Yan Qing, and Chu Pu with flying swords and Heaven-Earth Reversal, then raised Nine Nether Fire to strike them.