Chapter Summaries

Lu Yao learned that Eastern King Duke betrayed Kunlun to pursue power over the Feathered Ones, and agreed to help Queen Mother of the West track him down. After confirming her account with Halo and Charon, Lu Yao obtained the Five Severities Token and considered contacting Raphael for information.

• Queen Mother of the West assessed Lu Yao, taught him how to obtain and use the Five Severities Star, and asked him to locate Eastern King Duke for her.
• Queen Mother of the West revealed that Eastern King Duke had killed Lu Wu and sacrificed Kunlun’s gods to advance his plan to become a Transcendent.
• Lu Yao returned to the River of Oblivion, where Halo questioned the Nether Beast and Charon and confirmed Queen Mother of the West’s identity and account.
• Lu Yao sent Isabelle to Queen Mother's Ruins, recited the decree, and received the Five Severities Token from the Sovereign of Heavenly Calamity.
• Lu Yao examined the token’s punishments, stored it in his item bar, and decided to contact Raphael about the Feathered Ones.

Lu Yao met Raphael, settled the dispute over Gabriel, and collected Sacred Artifacts through a demon commission. Raphael located Da Meng working in Amer’s territory, but Da Meng disappeared before Lu Yao could act.

• Lu Yao accepted Raphael’s gift, asked for Weituotian’s title, and Raphael agreed to retrieve it while offering compensation for Gabriel’s destruction of a Kunlun god’s Godhead.
• Lu Yao commissioned demons to locate Sacred Artifacts and collected eleven, including a Sacred Insect that he gave to Tyrant to study.
• Lu Yao gifted a Sacred Stone to Raphael, who explained how scarce Sacred Artifacts had become and agreed to help find Da Meng of the Nightmare Moth.
• Raphael reported that Da Meng was working on a dam in Amer’s Black Matter territory, and Lu Yao passed the information to Queen Mother of the West.
• Raphael then reported that Da Meng had disappeared from Amer’s territory.

Lu Yao learned that the Feathered Ones were divided among rival monarchs, then began his vacation as Nidhogg recalled how the Norse gods had used and abused him. Nidhogg realized Odin had planned to turn him into the root of a new World Tree, and he ended his memories resigned to having been deceived.

• Raphael explained to Lu Yao that rival Feathered One monarchs controlled the Time Stop Zone’s large hollows, while lower-ranking Feathered Ones struggled to establish territories.
• Lu Yao learned that the monarchs’ conflicts and slow coordination had allowed Da Meng to escape, then sent Raphael away and began his vacation.
• Nidhogg woke as a small snake in Hvergelmir and remembered how Thor beat him while Loki urged him to embrace his role as an evil destroyer.
• Nidhogg recalled that he had endured humiliation to gain the toxins and power of the World Tree’s root, then rejoiced when Ragnarok began and the root broke.
• Nidhogg tried to fly away but was dragged down by the corpses of gods and their roots, realizing Odin had arranged to make him the root of a new World Tree.
• Nidhogg accepted that the chance he had cherished was a lie and that Odin had manipulated him from the beginning.

Nidhogg adapted to life in Mist Country, growing into a celebrated resident of Immortality City while quietly regaining strength. When the World Tree's roots erupted and attacked the Nibelungen children, Nidhogg fought back to protect them.

• Nidhogg was discovered beneath the ice by Nibelungen children, who rescued it and brought it to Mayor Baras.
• The children kept Nidhogg in a crystal box until Mayor Baras recognized its need for poison and death, then arranged for it to be fed poisonous spring water.
• Nidhogg grew strong enough to leave the box and swim through the poison spring, accepting food from locals and visitors while remaining near the Blood Knight.
• Over ten years, Nidhogg became a famous resident of Immortality City, gained a Snake Castle, and refused offers from Apostles to move elsewhere.
• The roots of the World Tree burst from the ground and seized Nibelungen children, including a girl Nidhogg knew.
• Nidhogg tore into the World Tree's roots to defend the children as they ran toward Snake Castle.

Nidhogg helped the Yao Tribe defeat and capture the root-born Odin, who was exploiting the Inexhaustible Spring to restore himself. After the Blood Knight ascended to godhood and left Immortality City, Nidhogg took over his watch before eventually becoming a god of the Yao Tribe himself.

• Nidhogg lured the root-born Odin to the surface, where the Blood Knight’s Psionic Blocker and Silver Fish Guardians disabled him and the Yao Tribe captured him for study.
• [Myriad Incarnations] identified Odin on the tree roots as a God-Monster and said he would erase Odin’s mark, allowing the World Tree roots to return to their natural form.
• Mister Tree gradually mimicked the Blood Knight, while the Blood Knight guarded the Inexhaustible Spring for hundreds of years and bid farewell to departing Nibelungen children.
• The Blood Knight received Divine Qualification and left on a new mission, telling Nidhogg to guard the Mist Country in his place.
• Nidhogg later became a god of the Yao Tribe, while Immortality City raised statues of him and Mister Tree beside the Inexhaustible Spring.

Lu Yao learned that Odin had used the Inexhaustible Spring and Nidhogg to create a threat to the Mist Country, then rewarded Nivd for containing it by granting him Divine Qualification and appointing him to command Resurrection Kingdom. Nidhogg took over guarding the Mist Country, while the Yao Clan scholars continued investigating the strange World Tree creature left behind.

• Lu Yao met his former university roommates, Zhou Qiang and Huang Yibo, and heard about their unusual work and relationship stories.
• Slaimod told Lu Yao that Odin had connected a root of Yggdrasil to the Inexhaustible Spring, creating a backdoor that could produce an Odin-like creature and consume the Mist Country.
• Lu Yao granted Nivd Divine Qualification and ordered him to take command of Resurrection Kingdom with Mao Cao and Daisy assisting.
• Nivd recommended Nidhogg as his replacement, and Lu Yao appointed the Underworld Serpent to guard the Mist Country with the Apostle's Mark.
• Slaimod explained that the World Tree creature had lost Odin's mark and now mimicked Nivd, while Yao Clan scholars continued researching it.

Lu Yao learned how the Spirit Realm had created Berths to attract mythologies and decided to let Yggdrasil's Root grow naturally. When Di Jun's power awakened, Yanjui volunteered to inherit it despite the risks, and Lu Yao chose him as the next Di Jun.

• Lu Yao learned that Yggdrasil's Root could be cultivated into a new World Tree, but the cost was too high, and he discovered that the Spirit Realm had used Berths to bind and support mythologies.
• Slaimod reported that the World Tree's growth was slowly expanding Mist Country, and Lu Yao assigned Soldier Spirit squads to Slaimod and Tyrant.
• Halo explained that Nidhogg was an Underworld Serpent seeking to become a dragon so he could escape the limits of sunlight and enter the outside world.
• After Di Jun's power awakened, Lu Yao learned from Mao Cao that the number of Di Jun Idols had reached 100 and convened the Yao Clan gods to choose a successor.
• Most of the gods declined to inherit Di Jun's power because of its risks, but Yanjui volunteered, and Lu Yao appointed him as the next Di Jun.

Lu Yao helped Yanjui awaken as Di Jun and explore the Zodiacal Orbit, then bought the Pala Civilization for him to develop. The chapter ended with Demon God Xiu delivering the world in the Wanderer's Chariot and agreeing to exchange contact information with Lu Yao.

• Lu Yao accepted Di Jun's vassalage through Yanjui, granting him the Heavenly Emperor title, powerful abilities, and access to the Zodiacal Orbit.
• Yanjui used Heavenly Emperor to enter the Zodiacal Orbit and projected the Simulated Creation Star and Descended Morning Star, whose powers required sacrifices of Gods.
• Lu Yao reasoned that the Zodiacal Orbit used Gods as resources, while Yanjui asked permission to develop a new world and build more worship statues.
• Lu Yao consulted Gulu, learned that most civilizations for sale were declining, and let Yanjui choose the one-star Pala Civilization.
• Lu Yao paid six million Faith for the Pala Civilization and placed it in the Ring of Worlds.
• Demon God Xiu delivered the civilization aboard the Wanderer's Chariot, and Lu Yao asked for his contact information; Xiu agreed.

Lu Yao sponsored Xiu’s travels and hired Chesia to gather rumors from Hell and Heaven. Chesia’s latest report revealed that Joseph’s Guerrilla Army was being aided by a powerful foreign God, leaving Lu Yao worried that he had become entangled in its conflict.

• Lu Yao gave Xiu ten million Flames of Faith to support his journey mapping the living worlds of the Border Zone.
• Chesia asked Lu Yao to unify Mystic Arts Country and let her move people to other Yao Clan worlds, but he refused both requests.
• Chesia asked to borrow Faith, and Lu Yao agreed to pay her for gathering news from Hell and Heaven.
• Chesia shared rumors about relationships and factions among the Demon Gods and angels, then reported on the conflict in Hell and the Black Matter flood in the Time Stop Zone.
• Chesia told Lu Yao that Joseph’s Guerrilla Army had received aid from a powerful foreign God, and Lu Yao realized he might be considered that faction’s sponsor.

Joseph tried to build the Guerrilla Army’s fame in the Time Stop Zone so that Lord Yao might notice him and help him return. After surviving a surge of Black Matter, he and his companions found a vast hollow and fled from the overwhelming presence behind them.

• Joseph, the Unawakened, and Bearded Scholar discussed how immortality had left the Time Stop Zone’s inhabitants stagnant and why the Guerrilla Army needed to spread its name.
• Joseph explained that the army’s scattered Curse Worm soldiers had been weak, but its reputation could attract followers and help recruit Winged Warriors.
• Joseph promoted the slogan “Join the Guerrilla Army, enjoy a feathered life!” and urged his companions to offer hope even though the promise was not yet fully true.
• As Black Matter surged, Joseph and his companions wrapped themselves in Feather Molts and drifted through the zone while Joseph remembered his former life and hoped Lord Yao would notice him.
• When the Black Matter quieted, Joseph realized he had forgotten part of a conversation with Curse Worms, and Bearded Scholar spotted a vast hollow ahead.
• Joseph, the Unawakened, and Bearded Scholar turned to flee as a suffocating pressure descended behind them.

After the [Guerrilla Army] died while trying to reach the Divine Domain, Joseph and his companions sought passage through Amer’s territory and were tasked with finding a Leviathan. Joseph returned from another death to find the others had also died, but a dying Leviathan entrusted them with its infant, and Joseph entered the passage with it.

• Joseph and The Unawakened agreed to leave the Time Stop Zone for the Divine Domain, and the Bearded Scholar joined them to seek the resources needed to become a Monarch.
• The three Winged Warriors visited Amer, who promised to open a passage if they brought back a large Leviathan near its outer passages.
• Joseph, the Bearded Scholar, and The Unawakened found a Behemoth eating a small Leviathan and its white infant, so Joseph charged in to draw the predator away while the others tried to save the infant.
• Joseph awoke in his Holy Coffin alongside the Bearded Scholar and The Unawakened, who said the Behemoth had killed them all.
• A dying Leviathan opened a vortex passage and entrusted its infant to the group, so Joseph grabbed the infant and entered the passage to scout ahead.

Joseph and his companions searched the Divine Domain for Lord Yao, while The Unawakened revealed its origins and its hope of saving the Meditation Tower. After Joseph warned the local Apostle of a disaster omen, a messenger sent by God Yao arrived to take him home.

• Joseph led the Bearded Scholar and The Unawakened north, where they encountered a vast school of Void Fish guarding worlds they used as farms.
• The Unawakened explained that it had grown up in the collapsing Meditation Tower, where it learned through visualization, and that it had sought the secrets of time stop to save the tower and its inhabitants.
• Joseph and his companions traveled south through Divine Kingdoms, asking about Lord Yao, until Xiong Bi of Fishing Platform directed them toward Roman Mythology and the Messenger of the Gods.
• The Unawakened detected the disaster omen Mars Guards Heart, and Joseph warned Xiong Bi, who reported it to Lord Taigong Wang.
• A messenger sent by God Yao arrived at Fishing Platform and offered to take Joseph home, astonishing the Bearded Scholar and The Unawakened.
• Joseph accepted the offer and invited his companions to meet his hometown and the God he followed.

Lu Yao learned how Monarchs suppressed Feathered Ones in the Time Stop Zone, then helped Joseph and his companions establish the Yao Clan Winged People Autonomous Association. He decided to open the eighth floor of the Abyss to provide the association with Curse Clan members and Curse Worms.

• Chesia explained how Monarchs used Blood Oaths to secure loyal Curse Worm groups and killed lower-ranking Feathered Ones to prevent new Monarchs from rising.
• Raphael agreed to seek out [The Madman], and Lu Yao accepted the [Weituotian] title before passing it to Weituotian.
• Yanjui reported that the Treants were thriving after Lu Yao helped them migrate and adapt their way of life.
• The Messenger of the Gods delivered Joseph's coded message, and Lu Yao sent Xiu to bring Joseph and his two companions to Resurrection City.
• Joseph, Bearded Scholar, and The Unawakened pledged themselves to Lu Yao, and he renamed their group the [Yao Clan Winged People Autonomous Association].
• Lu Yao decided to open the eighth floor of the Abyss so the association could recruit Curse Clan members and Curse Worms.

Lu Yao arranged for Joseph and two other winged people to establish the Winged People Autonomous Association as an outsourced group serving the Yao Clan Civilization. He sent them to the Abyss under Malik’s supervision and ended the chapter wondering how to raise the young Leviathan, which he learned was a common Spirit Race pet.

• Lu Yao proposed making the Winged People Autonomous Association an outsourcing group, and Joseph agreed to lead it with the Unawakened and Bearded Scholar.
• Joseph reunited with Fahai and visited Sekhmet, who agreed to examine his memory loss regularly.
• Lu Yao reviewed the Four Directions Country’s population challenges and its unusual secret societies, then told Hai Zhe and Stoke about the association.
• Lu Yao stationed Malik and three companies of Soldier Spirits in the Abyss, sent the three Winged Warriors to the eighth layer, and sealed the passage.
• Lu Yao asked the Spirit Duke Tablet how to raise the juvenile Leviathan and learned that Leviathans were widely kept as pets by the Spirit Race.

Lu Yao and Isabelle raised a young Leviathan by feeding and educating it, discovering its strong appetite for Dark Element and unusually rapid growth. After naming it Little Li, they saw it open an unknown passage to an elementless anomalous world, possibly outer space.

• Lu Yao had Isabelle test the Leviathan hatchling's diet with elemental crystals, and Isabelle found it strongly preferred Dark Element while rejecting Lone Element.
• Isabelle balanced the hatchling's meals and trained it, helping it grow smarter and become a pitch-black young Leviathan that recognized her as its elder.
• Isabelle told Lu Yao that Leviathans rejected Godheads but could use some Power of Faith, and that the hatchling could already open a passage to the Time Stop Zone.
• Lu Yao named the young Leviathan Little Li, and Isabelle continued monitoring its rapid growth.
• Little Li formed two vortexes, one opening to the Time Stop Zone and another leading to an unknown world with no detectable elements, which Lu Yao suspected might be outer space.

Lu Yao sent Skeleton expeditions through a Light Gold passage into an unfamiliar world, where the Yao Clan warriors suffered severe interference and silver corrosion. Nivd returned with most of the missing warriors, but Luka remained lost on the Silver Plain.

• Lu Yao learned that the special passage required Light Gold and sent a trained Resurrection Kingdom expedition to investigate it.
• The first five Skeleton squads disappeared, and the sixth squad led by Luka also lost contact after entering the vortex.
• Nivd led the seventh squad through the passage and later returned carrying Skeletons transformed into metal statues.
• Sekhmet treated the survivors, but five members of the first squad died from corrosion.
• Nivd described the Silver Plain, where Godhead powers and rule-based tools failed, the Bone Ancestors became weak and began silverizing, and Luka was swept away by silver waves.

Luka struggled across a heavy, scorching silver world as its vibrations threatened to assimilate him, then found a tombstone containing the supposedly dead traveler Yao Yuan Shou. Yao Yuan Shou revealed he was alive and helped Luka return to the spatial passage, where Luka brought him back as a guest.

• Luka fought his way back across the silver ground as his body grew rigid and the marks guiding him toward the passage faded.
• Luka found a circular underground shelter and heard Yao Yuan Shou's recorded warning that strong periodic vibrations could assimilate him unless he used the black protective material.
• Yao Yuan Shou revealed that he was alive, moving on eight metal legs, and had buried his body to conserve energy.
• Yao Yuan Shou transformed his legs into wheels and carried Luka quickly across the silver ground toward the spatial passage.
• Luka promised to help Yao Yuan Shou, then led him through the vortex and invited him to join the Yao Tribe.

Luka returned to the Silver Plain with Yao Yuan Shou after discovering that the Yao Clan World’s vibrations were lethal to it, and he secured the Blood Knight’s help in supplying it. Yao Yuan Shou showed Luka a hidden Safe Zone protected by a fallen Electric Vibration Star fossil, but the fossil’s interference suddenly drove Yao Yuan Shou to flee while Luka felt nothing.

• The Blood Knight treated Luka’s Silverization, and Luka reported finding Yao Yuan Shou stranded in the Silver Plain.
• Luka carried Yao Yuan Shou through the vortex and learned that the Yao Clan World’s vibrations would disrupt and destroy it.
• Yao Yuan Shou explained that its passage home had collapsed, and Luka arranged for the Yao Tribe to provide its requested supplies.
• Yao Yuan Shou led Luka underground to a Safe Zone where Black Walls and a fallen Electric Vibration Star fossil countered the Silver Plain’s assimilation.
• The fossil began interfering with Yao Yuan Shou, which screamed and fled while Luka sensed nothing.

Luka and Yao Yuan Shou explored the mine beneath the Silver Plain and learned about Yao Yuan’s civilization, while the Blood Knight delivered supplies and protective suits sent by Lord Yao. As they headed underground, Yao Yuan Shou revealed that fossils like the Electric Vibration Star might be buried nearby and proposed that they survey the area and split any gains.

• Luka and Yao Yuan Shou descended into the mine, where Luka collected the adhesive Black Wall from deep among the layered Silver Alloy.
• Yao Yuan Shou described Yao Yuan’s web-shaped settlements, its information channels, its people’s bodies and docking customs, and the divide between Outer Layer and Inner Layer members.
• Yao Yuan Shou admitted that it had left Yao Yuan hoping to earn a chance to enter the Inner Layer and change the civilization’s unfair system.
• The Blood Knight brought supplies and Protective Suits made with [Lone Element] crystal structures, which reduced the harmful vibrations affecting Luka and Yao Yuan Shou.
• Yao Yuan Shou told Luka that unassimilated Electric Vibration Star fossils might lie beneath the Silver Plain and proposed surveying for them and splitting the gains.

Luka and Yao Yuan Shou investigated the Silver Plain, where cultivated Polished Roses appeared to absorb Black Wall and potentially stabilize the land. After further experiments and excavation, they found an Electric Vibration Star Fossil and a mysterious egg-shaped object, which Yao Yuan Shou ordered Luka to take back to the Yao Clan Civilization.

• Luka and Yao Yuan Shou found that time passed far more slowly on the Silver Plain and saw the Yao Clan's survey station equipped with vibration monitors and an Observatory.
• Luka saw Polished Roses bloom in the metallic farmland, and Yao Yuan Shou learned that the roses had been cultivated from Sand Roses using Polished Element and Black Wall.
• Yao Yuan Shou realized the roses could absorb Black Wall and might reduce ground vibrations, so Luka reported the discovery to the Blood Knight while the Yao Clan began experiments to verify it.
• Yao Yuan Shou refined a drill and worked with Luka to excavate underground, while discussing the Yao Yuan Civilization's lack of gods and their wish to keep exploring the Silver Plain together.
• After ten days, Luka and Yao Yuan Shou uncovered an Electric Vibration Star Fossil and a complete egg-shaped object wrapped in Polished Element, and Yao Yuan Shou told Luka to take both back to the Yao Clan Civilization.