Chapter Summaries

Orsaga learned that Iolam would eventually be killed, then later witnessed Yeg give up most of his divine portfolios and elevate three mortals to godhood. The chapter ended with Mala demanding a share of Yeg’s power after being left out.

• Orsaga admired Iolam’s radical transformation into an undead Mind Flayer Overlord, but foresaw that he would be killed eleven thousand years later.
• Many years later, a ripple announced that several people had ascended to godhood in Toril’s Kingdom of the Dead.
• Yeg offered to give up his position as Death God, and three mortals nearly killed one another competing for it.
• Yeg stopped their fight and proposed a skull-rolling contest to choose the successor.
• When Mala tried to join the contest, Yeg divided most of his divine portfolios among the three mortals by having them draw lots with his fingers.
• The three mortals ascended to godhood, while Mala complained that Yeg had not given him a share.

Orsaga learned that Gann had answered his long-standing question about cooperation, and he opened Black Ruin Heaven to welcome the visitor into Crimson Heaven. The arriving figure’s immense presence overwhelmed the witnesses and filled their minds with revelations.

• Orsaga saw Iolam envy the three newly ascended gods and privately reflected that luck had mattered more than effort or talent.
• Gann finally answered Orsaga’s question about cooperating with him, delighting Orsaga and his avatars.
• Orsaga opened the clouds above his palace, revealing Black Ruin Heaven, where discarded worlds and other unwanted things were consumed.
• Beings across Crimson Heaven recognized the rare opening as a sign that Orsaga was welcoming a distinguished guest.
• A radiant humanoid figure entered through the black vortex, and its presence froze witnesses while stirring revelations and techniques in their minds.

Gann visited Orsaga in Crimson Heaven, inspected its forces, and agreed to a deal allowing Orsaga to spread his influence in Gann’s territory through a reincarnated portion of his consciousness. They toasted to their new partnership.

• Gann arrived in Crimson Heaven and observed its Demonic Beasts and the troops being bred and tested in its nested spaces.
• Orsaga invited Gann to a feast, and Gann sampled food made from a law of causality.
• Gann agreed to cooperate with Orsaga but permitted only a portion of Orsaga’s consciousness to enter his territory through reincarnation.
• Orsaga accepted the restriction, and he and Gann raised their cups to a pleasant partnership.

After Gann left Crimson Heaven, Orsaga used the special account Gann had given him to send a fragment of his consciousness into Gann’s spacetime, planning to return under the title Bloody King. He expected to wait for his identity to develop before confronting Pennywise and Mazhuling, though he believed he might eventually have enough power to challenge them.

• Gann gave Orsaga a special account that would let his consciousness enter Gann’s spacetime with a respectable identity and status.
• Orsaga recalled Pennywise and Mazhuling and decided he would return to their world under the title Bloody King.
• Orsaga split off a fragment of his consciousness, fused it into the dark purple seal, and sent it beyond Crimson Heaven.
• Elsa asked whether Orsaga would immediately seek revenge, and Orsaga explained that his avatar would need time for its identity to develop.
• Golanel teased Orsaga about the risk of being beaten again, while Orsaga said Gann had promised him a high growth limit and he might eventually match his old enemies.

Gann named his expanse of time and space the Dark Tower Plane, whose inhabitants and guardians watched a violet-red radiance enter the Dark Tower. Orsaga began developing inside it under Gann’s command that no one interfere before he was formally born.

• Gann named the vast realm under his control the Dark Tower Plane and described the Dark Tower, its levels, and the beings who lived within it.
• A violet-red streak of light emerged from another time and space and drew the attention of the Dark Tower’s guardians and powerful inhabitants.
• Pennywise recognized Orsaga’s familiar aura and welcomed his return, but did not act.
• Gann’s will instructed everyone not to interfere with Orsaga before his formal birth, so the onlookers let the radiance enter and take root in the Dark Tower.
• Orsaga calmly surveyed his surroundings and began to develop despite the many gazes upon him.

Orsaga proposed taking his wives on a trip to a Different Time and Space Plane after finishing urgent business in the Dark Tower Plane. The chapter explained how his wives and subordinates handled Crimson Heaven’s internal affairs while Orsaga mostly avoided political work, though he had recently agreed to take on some secondary matters.

• Orsaga explained why he had focused on exploring planes within his original Time and Space Plane rather than visiting Different Time and Space Planes.
• After dealing with urgent matters in the Dark Tower Plane, Orsaga invited his wives to travel to a Different Time and Space Plane.
• Allison and Keliya suspected that Orsaga simply wanted to wander off, and Philala pointed out that this was typical of him.
• Orsaga’s wives handled most of Crimson Heaven’s reported affairs, while Orsaga only intervened when they could not decide.
• After Golanel and the others persuaded him, Orsaga agreed to handle some secondary political matters and insisted that his avatars remained active in battle.

Orsaga’s family travel plans fell through, so he sent part of his consciousness through Crimson Heaven’s network of Time and Space Channels to explore a different plane. He chose a channel with confirmed but unassessed value, leaving its destination’s true worth unknown.

• Orsaga abandoned his family travel plans and set out alone by sending a portion of his consciousness along Crimson Heaven’s channels.
• Orsaga’s subordinates transmitted discovered spacetime coordinates to Crimson Heaven, where forces opened concealed channels and fought to secure new planes for merit.
• The chapter described how Ozhaki avatars spread across distant planes, established forces, and supplied stable coordinates for further exploration.
• Orsaga selected a channel provided by an Ozhaki that had been confirmed as useful but had not yet been fully assessed.

The Huiluo Realm’s green, demon-tainted sun had caused supernatural calamities ever since the Sky Demon Invasion, and factions sometimes joined forces to contain the threats it produced. At Jinzang Temple, Saint Monk Duxin sensed an abnormality during the annual ritual to suppress the Sky Demon Remains and sent for reinforcements.

• The Sky Demon Invasion changed Huiluo Realm’s golden sun into a sinister green one that bred Demonic Beasts and supernatural incidents.
• Righteous and evil factions sometimes set aside their conflicts to deal with dangerous Supernatural Lifeforms created by the Sky Demon’s influence.
• Monks at Jinzang Temple chanted before a giant Buddha Statue to reinforce the seal on the Sky Demon Remains during the sun’s most active season.
• Saint Monk Duxin sensed an abnormality and looked toward the Ink Green Scorching Sun, but could not determine what had happened.
• Saint Monk Duxin sent streaks of golden light across the heavens to summon reinforcements.

Orsaga arrived on an infected star and took control of its highest authority, finding the Ozhaki’s viruses had made the world suitable for his exploration. He ordered the prostrating Ozhaki to continue its plan and prove its loyalty through the final sacrifice.

• Orsaga sensed that the star and the surrounding world had been infected by viruses released by an Ozhaki.
• Orsaga surveyed the star and took control of its highest authority with a thought.
• An Ozhaki apologized for being unable to manifest an avatar or provide a suitable sacrifice and offered to kill itself.
• Orsaga told the Ozhaki not to kill itself and instructed it to continue its plan, handle the cleanup, and prove its loyalty with its final sacrifice.

A party led by a burly man approached Moon Halo Sect’s headquarters, where a spreading virus had turned the area into a terrifying wasteland. Orsaga left the sect’s main hall for another infected location, and the hall transformed further as a violent roar reached the approaching travelers.

• The burly man and his party rode through the deserted streets near Moon Halo Sect, where frightened residents watched from their homes.
• The party saw the green tide spreading from Moon Halo Mountain and hesitated, but the burly man ordered them to prepare their tools and advance another one hundred and fifty li.
• Orsaga watched the approaching party from Moon Halo Sect’s corpse-filled main hall and decided to visit another place where the virus existed.
• Orsaga vanished, and the main hall’s furniture and floor transformed into writhing flesh and bone that spewed blood.
• The approaching party heard a violent roar from Moon Halo Mountain.

An Ozhaki Derivative emerged from the collapsing Moon Halo Mountain and used its alienating power to transform nearly everyone in the surrounding area into monsters. After the burly man detonated his golden Secret Treasure, the creature seized its energy and unleashed a force that reshaped and destroyed a region spanning tens of millions of square kilometers, leaving a vast ball of earth.

• Moon Halo Mountain collapsed, revealing a Mature Body Ozhaki Derivative that rose into the sky.
• The burly man ordered a retreat, but the Ozhaki Derivative spread its Power of Alienation and transformed nearly all the residents into powerful monsters.
• With only a few people still untransformed, the burly man used his golden Secret Treasure to destroy the monsters around him.
• The Ozhaki Derivative seized the golden energy, turned it ink green, and spread its radiance across tens of millions of square kilometers.
• The land buckled into enormous canyons and rising ranges as four immense palms closed around the region, leaving only a gigantic ball of earth.

At Jinzang Temple, Orsaga watched a distant battle between the Ozhaki Derivative and allied fighters, warning Saint Monk Duxin that the mortals were about to lose. The Derivative slaughtered them all, leaving Orsaga to dismiss their abilities as limited before explaining the profound gap between Mortal things and Ozhaki.

• Saint Monk Duxin watched a distant battle through a water curtain while the Ozhaki Derivative fought monks and allied fighters.
• Orsaga told Saint Monk Duxin that his side was about to lose, though Duxin trusted his allies’ hidden trump cards.
• Orsaga said mortals did not understand what they were facing.
• The Ozhaki Derivative suddenly killed the monks, faction members, and independent cultivators, seizing their souls without giving them a chance to resist.
• Orsaga pointed to the massacre as proof that Mortal things were limited, then described the deeper differences between mortals and Ozhaki.

Orsaga explained to Saint Monk Duxin that the Ozhaki Derivative’s apparent growth was actually the recovery of power suppressed by the world, aided by long-term pollution. He denied causing the changes himself and said the Ozhaki Clone had acted to impress him.

• Saint Monk Duxin struggled to accept the Jinzang Temple’s losses and the Ozhaki Derivative’s unexpected strength.
• Orsaga explained that the Derivative had recovered some of its suppressed power rather than grown stronger.
• Orsaga described how Ozhaki pollution altered the world and weakened its native cultivation system over thousands of years.
• Saint Monk Duxin sensed that Orsaga was extraordinarily dangerous and confronted him about the changes.
• Orsaga denied having done anything and said the Ozhaki Clone had caused the changes to show off in front of him.

Orsaga’s presence provoked the sealed Ozhaki Clone into breaking free and attacking Saint Monk Duxin, devastating the land around Jinzang Temple. As the enraged Sky Demon Remains unleashed its other sealed limbs across the world, Orsaga watched calmly from above.

• Saint Monk Duxin distrusted Orsaga’s claim that he had done nothing and attacked him with the Buddha Dharma Form and Jinzang Temple’s formation.
• The Buddha statue sealing the Ozhaki Clone shattered, and a tentacle blocked Saint Monk Duxin’s golden chains while denouncing him for blaspheming the Crimson King.
• The clash destroyed the hall’s defensive formation and devastated the surrounding land, while many monks were killed or mutated.
• Saint Monk Duxin recognized the freed creature as the Sky Demon Remains that Jinzang Temple had sealed for thousands of years.
• The enraged Ozhaki Clone attacked Saint Monk Duxin and broke its other sealed limbs free across the world, killing many native powerhouses as Orsaga watched calmly.

Orsaga extracted the concept of Buddha from the destroyed Huiluo Realm and followed it to the Tathagata Realm. He arrived before Great Sun Tathagata Buddha, who stopped the assembled Bodhisattvas and Arhats from attacking him and welcomed him as a guest.

• The Ozhaki destroyed the Huiluo Realm, leaving behind a deep-blue gemstone that Orsaga claimed.
• Orsaga extracted the concept of Buddha from the gemstone and used the Magic Wheels to find spacetimes containing it.
• Orsaga followed a path to the Tathagata Realm, where Great Sun Tathagata Buddha was teaching Bodhisattvas and Arhats.
• A blood-red vortex opened above the Sacred Mountain, and a tide of blood poured toward it.
• The Bodhisattvas and Arhats tried to attack Orsaga, but Great Sun Tathagata Buddha erased their attacks and called Orsaga a rare, honored guest.
• Orsaga emerged before Great Sun Tathagata Buddha as the blood tide became a dark red robe, and he remarked that he had not expected to encounter him.

Orsaga visited the Tathagata Realm out of curiosity and met Great Sun Tathagata Buddha, whom he recognized from myths in his former mortal life. By revealing a line of causality, Orsaga proved that this Buddha was the very being connected to those myths, and the conversation ended with the Buddha remarking on Orsaga’s complicated opportunities.

• Orsaga explained that he had come looking for food or entertainment and stayed after recognizing Great Sun Tathagata Buddha from myths he had heard as a mortal.
• Orsaga observed the five Tathagata incarnations in the realm and considered how they differed from his own independent incarnations.
• Great Sun Tathagata Buddha explained that many counterparts could share names and titles, while causality and faith could distinguish which being they referred to.
• Orsaga extracted a Causality Line from his past timeline, confirming that the Great Sun Tathagata Buddha before him was connected to the myths he remembered.
• Great Sun Tathagata Buddha remarked that Orsaga’s opportunities were extraordinary or complicated, and Orsaga accepted the description.

Orsaga asked Great Sun Tathagata Buddha whether the Tathagata Realm controlled the plane and learned that it was divided among hundreds of factions under rules that limited conflict. When Orsaga sought to join the competition for territory, Great Sun Tathagata Buddha rejected him because Abyss Creatures were forbidden, leaving Orsaga protesting the discrimination.

• Orsaga asked Great Sun Tathagata Buddha whether the plane had become his territory.
• Great Sun Tathagata Buddha explained that the Tathagata Realm held about eleven percent of the plane and named hundreds of other factions that controlled territory.
• Great Sun Tathagata Buddha described the plane’s rules, under which factions competed for territory through regulated contests with stakes.
• Orsaga asked whether he could legitimately claim a piece of the plane, but Great Sun Tathagata Buddha said Abyss Creatures were blacklisted.
• Orsaga protested the exclusion and offered to help the factions experience trust, but Great Sun Tathagata Buddha calmly declined.

Great Sun Tathagata Buddha gave Orsaga a map of nearby planes and explained why he had welcomed him rather than treat him as an enemy. After Orsaga departed, some Bodhisattvas chose to spread word of his presence, and the Buddha foresaw that their decision greatly increased the possibility of a future battle.

• Great Sun Tathagata Buddha showed Orsaga a map of planes and offered it as a gift, explaining that most nearby valuable territories were already occupied.
• After Orsaga left, a Bodhisattva questioned why the Buddha had treated the powerful demon kindly despite the lingering Buddha's Grudge.
• Great Sun Tathagata Buddha identified Orsaga as a Lord-level Abyss Demon and explained that the two sides had no fundamental conflict, the dead could be revived, and war would cause greater calamities.
• Several Bodhisattvas and Arhats asked permission to spread news of Orsaga's arrival so others could prepare; Great Sun Tathagata Buddha agreed despite the damage it could do to their goodwill.
• Great Sun Tathagata Buddha foresaw that the decision had sharply increased the possibility of a future battle with Orsaga and awaited the outcome with a faint smile.

Orsaga decided to visit the Heavenly Court after observing a possible future and finding the coming changes interesting. The Six Emperors permitted his arrival, and he appeared at the South Heavenly Gate after his Blood Light shattered the Monster-Revealing Mirror and left the guards disoriented.

• Orsaga accepted the unexpected future without anger and set out to visit the Heavenly Court.
• The Six Emperors sensed Orsaga's approach, discussed it, and agreed to let him enter.
• The Monster-Revealing Mirror unleashed a River of Light at Orsaga's approaching Blood Light.
• The strange clash disoriented the Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals, making them mistake their comrades for threats.
• The Monster-Revealing Mirror cracked, and Orsaga appeared beneath the South Heavenly Gate.

Orsaga defeated and captured Great Immortal Guang Ling Shou Sheng at the South Heavenly Gate, then learned that this Heavenly Court had no True Lord Erlang Shen. An old immortal arrived with the Jade Emperor’s order admitting Orsaga to an audience, and asked him to release his captive.

• Great Immortal Guang Ling Shou Sheng attacked Orsaga with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, but Orsaga blocked the strike and seized him by the neck with his tail.
• Great Immortal Guang Ling Shou Sheng tried to free himself, but Orsaga tightened his grip and injured him.
• Orsaga asked the Heavenly Generals whether their captive was True Lord Erlang Shen, and they identified him as Great Immortal Guang Ling Shou Sheng.
• An old immortal arrived from the South Heavenly Gate, declared the conflict a misunderstanding, and said the Jade Emperor had ordered Orsaga admitted to the Hall of Miraculous Mist.