Chapter Summaries

After the Milky Way’s destruction left Xiao Jun grieving his lost family and friends, the game announced that Players could carry materials between worlds. The arrival of Players from across the universe revealed how insignificant the Milky Way was, leaving Xiao Jun to question whether anyone behind the scenes had ever cared about it.

• The game announced a material transfer function, but Xiao Jun realized he had nothing to bring into the game and mourned his relatives and friends who had died in the catastrophe.
• Xiao Jun reminded himself that the dead could be revived by means such as the Holy Grail War or special treasures, then forced himself to stand and face the ruined sky.
• A group of strange-looking Players arrived at the Novice Village Altar, and Xiao Jun learned through the universal game language that they came from distant regions of the universe.
• Xiao Jun discovered that the Milky Way was an obscure backwater among the universe’s countless civilizations and began to doubt that the unseen forces behind events had ever cared about it.

After the Milky Way Galaxy’s GAME OVER, living beings across the Real World became players, and Alien Players flooded the Primordial World. Blue Star Players sold them survival knowledge, while some encouraged reckless schemes to exploit the world and retaliate against Hong Huang Players.

• The new era made all kinds of living beings eligible to become players, and Alien Players overtook Blue Star Players as the mainstream.
• Unfamiliar Alien Players lost fleets, died to Heavenly Punishment, and were killed by gods after blundering into the Primordial World’s rules.
• Blue Star Players packaged their survival knowledge for sale, helping Alien Players learn the setting while earning money and trading for ecological planets.
• Several months later, an Alien Player failed to blow up Buzhou Mountain and logged off after the blast shook the mountain and killed many nearby beings.
• The narration revealed that Blue Star Players had inspired many catastrophic plans to help Alien Players gain power and take revenge on Hong Huang Players.

Ten years after players began exploiting the Primordial World’s resources, Aiguer monitored the world from his secret military base while the Heavenly Dao’s growing Heavenly Punishment threatened to destroy him and his forces. He saw the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao, hidden behind the God of Refined Gold’s race, as a potential weapon against the Heavenly Dao.

• Players mapped the Primordial World and launched a massive war, with fleets and war machines clashing against immortals, gods, demons, and monsters.
• Aiguer monitored the Primordial World through hidden probes deployed from his enormous military base.
• The Heavenly Dao recognized Aiguer’s probes and began building a tribulation cloud above his base, ready to annihilate him if he crossed the line.
• Aiguer treated the Heavenly Dao as an obstacle and considered using the conflict between two Mechanical Supremes to his advantage.
• Aiguer focused on the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao, the hidden enemy of the Heavenly Dao associated with the God of Refined Gold’s race.

The Mechanical Supreme accepted help from the Cosmic Elder Council and risked everything to summon the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao. As the God of Refined Gold's heartland was ravaged by lightning, he sacrificed himself and his counterparts to bring a massive Metal Palm from the future into the present.

• The Mechanical Supreme received information from the Cosmic Elder Council and decided to cooperate with them despite suspecting their motives.
• Fifty-three years later, dark red lightning destroyed the God of Refined Gold's protective formation and killed many of its people while the Mechanical Supreme carried out a ritual.
• The Mechanical Supreme unleashed a Golden Light Pillar, which collided with the lightning as six of his counterparts attacked him.
• The Mechanical Supreme activated his contingency, breaking down himself and his counterparts into energy to empower the Golden Light Pillar.
• A massive Metal Palm tore through time and space and descended into the present from the future.

As the Heavenly Dao battled the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao, Aiguer exploited the distraction to launch a prepared assault that caused Buzhou Mountain and other regions of the Primordial World to collapse. A giant turtle in the North Sea, fearing others would take his limbs to support the sky, killed himself and used them as pillars to earn the merit himself.

• Observers saw fragments of a distant future in which the Primordial World had become the living metal body of the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao, before the Heavenly Dao erased the visions.
• Aiguer saw his chance while the Heavenly Dao focused on its opponent and activated his prepared plans.
• Aiguer’s calibrated attacks struck Buzhou Mountain with pillars of light, causing the mountain to collapse and trigger widespread destruction and flooding across the Primordial World.
• The giant turtle in the North Sea realized others might claim his limbs to support the sky, so he killed himself and offered them as temporary pillars to earn the merit himself.
• Other witnesses regretted not killing the giant turtle first so they could have claimed the merit.

After Buzhou Mountain collapsed, Aiguer absorbed the resulting surge of power and wondered whether he had become a Sage before retreating to the Real World to assess himself. In the World Crevice, Orsaga and Jade Emperor watched the Heavenly Dao conflict and feared the two worlds might soon be destroyed.

• Zhu Jiuyin regretted missing the chance to gain merit, while Gong Gong denied causing Buzhou Mountain's collapse and Zhu Rong teased him.
• Di Jiang dismissed the disaster's effects on the Witch Clan and worried that the foreign players might become a threat to them.
• Aiguer gained several levels from the disaster's rewards, sensed distant events, and made golden flowers grow across the command room's deck.
• Aiguer wondered if he had become a Sage, then returned to the Real World to use professional equipment to test his strength.
• Orsaga and Jade Emperor discussed the Heavenly Dao conflict and the risk that both worlds would soon be destroyed.

The Jade Emperor remained a bettor whose projection was still an undiscovered piece of jade, while Orsaga wondered why he had not intervened. The informationized electronic Heavenly Dao and the Cosmic Elder Council held the visible advantage in the game, which continued because the bettors had restricted their powers.

• The Jade Emperor said he had bet on himself winning, though his projection remained motionless and undiscovered in the Primordial World.
• Orsaga considered why the Jade Emperor had not used his influence to help his projection, while suspecting he might still have a way to win.
• The bettors understood that they could prolong the game indefinitely if they used their full power, so they continued to treat its restrictions as necessary.
• The Cosmic Elder Council and the informationized electronic Heavenly Dao held the current advantage as NPC factions that no bettor had backed.
• Orsaga explained that the informationized electronic Heavenly Dao represented one possible future development of the Heavenly Dao and had been created for the Production Team's amusement.

The chapter explained how the Heavenly Dao, Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao, and other factions could contend for power through the game’s loose rules and the Production Team’s gifts. It revealed that the Production Team could already see every possible outcome, leaving the bettors’ interference as the source of uncertainty in the game.

• Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao still needed to devour the Heavenly Dao before It could reach Its full strength and match the Cosmic Elder Council.
• The Production Team’s permissive rules let players grow stronger through any means and choose powerful bloodlines, while opportunities like Aiguer’s rise could transform minor figures into major ones.
• The chapter contrasted the Cosmic Elder Council’s dispersed power with the overwhelming individual force the Heavenly Dao and Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao would possess if they merged.
• The Production Team could fulfill the factions’ wishes with ease and had already mapped 52,145,474 possible wishes for the Reincarnator Xiao Jun.
• The Production Team viewed the world and its inhabitants as fully observable, and the bettors’ interference supplied the game’s only uncertainty and entertainment.

The Cosmic Elders examined Aiguer and discovered that his special traits gave him exceptional potential to surpass them. They agreed to invest more in the Primordial World Development Plan and raise Aiguer’s authority, leaving open the possibility of making him a Cosmic Elder if he contributed enough.

• Scholars tested Aiguer while the Cosmic Elders remotely observed and analyzed the results.
• The Cosmic Elders envied Aiguer’s immortality, unusual powers, and potential to advance beyond their own limits.
• A Cosmic Elder proposed increasing investment in the Primordial World Development Plan, and the others agreed.
• The Cosmic Elders discussed Aiguer’s status and decided to raise his authority while he continued handling his current duties.
• The Cosmic Elders agreed that Aiguer could later be promoted to a Cosmic Elder if he made sufficient contributions.

More than two hundred years after Buzhou Mountain was shattered, the Primordial World remained unsettled as the Heavenly Dao and the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao continued their deadlocked battle. Players and natives devised ways to profit from merit and experience, but the planners of their cooperative Immeasurable Merit Plan were killed by Heavenly Punishment before they could put it into practice.

• The Heavenly Dao rewarded those who had helped repair the damage from Buzhou Mountain's destruction with merit, while its conflict with the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao continued to shake the world.
• Powerful beings observed the two forces' clash and gained insights from it, and Kunpeng used his to add millions of mechanical power engines and improve his speed.
• Natives found ways to earn merit by punishing players or repairing the damage players caused.
• Reincarnated players proposed the Immeasurable Merit Plan, in which players would cause trouble for experience while natives repaired the damage for merit.
• The plan's advocates promoted industrialized versions and related projects, but the Heavenly Dao killed the chief planners and main participants before the scheme could begin.

Hongjun completed his fusion with the Creation Jade Disk, gaining Pangu’s legacy, several strands of Primordial Violet Qi, and limited authority over the world. He remained short of becoming a Saint and saw the Heavenly Dao as the roadblock he had to deal with before advancing safely.

• Hongjun completed his fusion with the Creation Jade Disk after several hundred years of preparation.
• Hongjun gained Pangu’s legacy, including several strands of Primordial Violet Qi, and became capable of drawing on Pangu’s lingering blessing to wield some of the world’s power.
• Hongjun rejected Confluence with Dao because he did not want to be controlled or devoured by the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun recognized that Pangu’s scattered legacies made it impossible to rival the Heavenly Dao’s authority by simply gathering them.
• Hongjun realized that the Heavenly Dao was the roadblock standing between him and the path ahead, and feared it could stab him in the back.

Hongjun considered how the Heavenly Dao threatened his path beyond Sainthood and saw a chance to exploit its conflict with the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao and unknown External Forces. Twenty-two years later, he became a Saint in a spectacular ceremony, prompting Aiguer to complain about the lack of fanfare when he had done the same.

• Hongjun concluded that advancing beyond Sainthood could provoke the Heavenly Dao, while Confluence with Dao offered only death or subjugation.
• Hongjun recognized the clash between the Heavenly Dao and the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao as an opportunity, and suspected unknown External Forces had helped Mechanical Supreme.
• Twenty-two years later, a Golden Light Pillar struck Buzhou Mountain, where deep-blue lotuses grew and Hongjun's mutated body emerged from a blooming lotus.
• Hongjun became a Saint, and beings across the Primordial World sensed his ascension.
• Aiguer resented the elaborate ceremony and gave the unequal treatment a bad review.

Hongjun awakened to his new power and mistook the blue-haired figure watching him for a secret saint, then realized the figure had only gained power through a shortcut and lacked Hongjun’s deeper abilities. Hongjun returned to Crystal Cave to master his strength, leaving the onlookers bewildered by his anticlimactic departure.

• Beings across the Primordial World noticed the blue-haired figure’s demonic appearance and wondered what powerful demon had emerged.
• Hongjun sensed a nearby being of comparable strength and guessed that he had funded the Mechanical Supreme and stirred up havoc.
• Hongjun examined the other being and realized that, despite matching his energy level, the figure lacked World Authority, the world’s favor, and other abilities.
• Hongjun judged that his years of accumulated power made him far stronger, then returned to Crystal Cave without addressing the onlookers.
• The onlookers waited for more from the first great deity to become a saint, then filled the Primordial World with boos when nothing else happened.

Decades after Hongjun became a Saint, the chaotic Primordial World rejected giving him the title Ancestor of Dao, while Aiguer quietly grew stronger. Near the battle between the Heavenly Dao and the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao, Xiao Jun’s treasure-hunting team endured catastrophic aftershocks just as an outside force was about to bring the long fight’s warm-up to an early end.

• The Primordial World learned Hongjun was a Saint, but powerful beings rejected calling him the Ancestor of Dao and instead referred to him as That Great One or the Mysterious Person.
• Aiguer received abundant resources from the Real World and steadily increased his strength in the Primordial World.
• Xiao Jun’s team trained and searched for minerals near the battle between the Heavenly Dao and the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao, enduring violent quakes, gales, and dangerous Dao Charms.
• The team discussed how long the two World Consciousnesses might keep fighting, and Xiao Jun guessed that their battle was only warming up.
• An external force was about to end the warm-up early, while Xiao Jun’s team remained perilously close to the battlefield.

Xiao Jun and the others discovered a vast fleet entering the battlefield between the Heavenly Dao and the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao. The fleet unleashed a barrage of weapons against the two powers, and the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao struck back as commander Aiguer remained excited.

• The formation creator sensed an immense field of matter pressing against the group’s Defensive Barrier and realized an enormous fleet was approaching.
• Xiao Jun saw the fleet overhead and ordered everyone to kill themselves so they could revive if the battle erased them.
• The players spotted the warships charging their weapons and echoed Xiao Jun’s warning as the fleet’s lights drew the attention of refugees below.
• Xiao Jun repeated his order, and the fleet fired thousands of powerful attacks that tore through space and the astral gales.
• The Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao pushed aside the Heavenly Dao’s interference and slapped at the fleet, while Aiguer watched without concern.

After Xiao Jun and his teammates suicided to escape a battle, they waited to revive inside a Novice Village. A catastrophic clash between three powerful figures flooded the area around the village with the Heavenly River, and Xiao Jun realized their escape had saved them from having their accounts deleted.

• Xiao Jun and his teammates entered the Wandering Soul State after killing themselves, and Xiao Jun expected to take about a year to revive.
• Xiao Jun reassured his team that no one was missing, then worried that they had missed a chance to scavenge wreckage from the battle.
• Xiao Jun heard a disturbance and saw space split apart as Space-Time Fragments and Heavenly River water poured into the world.
• The Heavenly River crashed against the Novice Village's Defensive Barrier and flooded the surrounding land, leaving the village underwater.
• Xiao Jun and his teammates realized their timely suicides had saved them, unaware that the destruction was only beginning.

The Cosmic Elder Council’s fleet was defeated in the battle between the Heavenly Dao, the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao, and an unknown External Force, causing its adapted Detonation Bomb to activate. As the Primordial World began to collapse, the Cosmic Elders watched from a Novice Village, having used player identities to turn its destruction into fuel for their advancement.

• Hongjun watched the Primordial World’s terrain break apart as the Heavenly Dao, the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao, and an unknown External Force fought, and he feared their battle might destroy the world.
• Over several dozen days, Blood Wine accumulated rapidly inside the Holy Grail as the conflict intensified.
• After the Cosmic Elder Council’s fleet was defeated, silver white mist poured from the damaged Main Ship and the Detonation Bomb began disrupting the Primordial World’s rules.
• The Primordial World’s land shattered, its oceans boiled, and countless living beings and powerful beings died amid the collapsing rules.
• The Cosmic Elders watched from a Novice Village, having joined Aiguer and used player identities to destroy the Primordial World for their advancement.

The Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao fully descended as the Primordial World continued to collapse, but it chose to devour the wounded Heavenly Dao rather than save the world. Before the worlds could be destroyed, the Holy Grail triggered World Merger Mode, and an unseen entity began kneading the two worlds together before being stopped from cooking them.

• The Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao emerged in full and tried to halt the Primordial World's destruction, but it could not take control quickly enough and instead consumed the Heavenly Dao's remaining power.
• Xiao Jun and the others stayed relaxed in the deep sea, chatting as their Novice Village sank.
• The Holy Grail absorbed enough chaotic power for Blood Wine to fill it, and the system announced a phase victory for the Real World before abolishing Identity Conversion Period and entering World Merger Mode.
• Every living being in both worlds saw an abstract entity knead the two worlds together and pull them into strands like noodles.
• A second entity argued with the first about eating before the game ended, and the two restored the worlds to a ball, leaving everyone's consciousness returned and their heads full of questions.

After the Primordial World was forcibly merged with the Real World, the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao assessed the unfamiliar New World and realized it had no ruling authority there. The Cosmic Elder Council celebrated as Spiritual Qi and game rewards rapidly increased their power, leaving Aiguer struggling to control his strength.

• The Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao discovered that the Primordial World had been shattered and pieced together with the Real World in World Merger Mode.
• It sensed that remnants of the Primordial World's rules had given the New World Spiritual Qi and the conditions for Lifeforms to achieve longevity.
• The Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao realized its Heavenly Dao Legacy helped it adapt, but it lacked administrative authority and still had to work toward rulership.
• The Cosmic Elder Council found that their territories and authority had been preserved while Spiritual Qi and merit-based experience points greatly increased their power.
• Aiguer struggled to control his new strength as the power radiating from him created a superheavy Gravitational Field that drew in nearby matter and energy.

After the worlds fused, Aiguer struggled to control his newfound power while the Cosmic Elders planned to harass Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao before It could recover. Their forces found that their technology still worked, and they began marching to attack as World Compatibility Mode turned the players’ factions against one another.

• Aiguer’s unstable power nearly formed a black hole until another Cosmic Elder severed his connection to the Material World and told him to recover.
• A Cosmic Elder sensed Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao and proposed that their subordinates harass It while the Cosmic Elders adapted to their increased strength.
• The Cosmic Elders agreed to prioritize weakening Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao, believing their destruction of the Primordial World had given them the advantage.
• The Cosmic Elders ordered their forces to inspect their technologies and territories, but discovered the fusion had not affected their technology.
• The Cosmic Elders’ troops set out to attack Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao as World Compatibility Mode made players retain their factions and fight until one side was extinguished.