Chapter Summaries

Yu Xunge fought Zhuri on the Clock Dial Battlefield, countering her teacher’s time-based skills with her own abilities. The match ended with Zhuri realizing she could no longer activate her Deity Talent Word, “Missed Opportunity,” because she had made peace with her past.

• Yu Xunge was jolted from her memories and faced Zhuri on the Clock Dial Battlefield.
• Yu Xunge fought Zhuri with daggers, using [Absurd Story] to reflect damage while teasing her about their past.
• Zhuri reversed the clock to seal Yu Xunge’s skills, then sped herself up and damaged her apprentice with rapid magic circles.
• Yu Xunge activated [Wildfire Rekindled] and [Never Change], preventing Zhuri’s attacks from causing further damage.
• Zhuri tried to use her Deity Talent Word, but its crown-like sign dimmed, and she told Yu Xunge that “Missed Opportunity” no longer worked because she had let go of the past.

Yu Xunge and Zhuri resumed their duel after Zhuri pretended to meditate, and Yu Xunge realized that Zhuri had discovered her Deity Talent Word: her own name. The chapter ended with Zhuri holding back its power while she waited to see Yu Xunge's Deity Talent Word.

• Zhuri revealed that her apparent contemplation had been a trick, then charged at Yu Xunge again.
• Yu Xunge trapped Zhuri in a lightning net with [After the Funeral], but Zhuri escaped by vanishing from the clock dial.
• Yu Xunge reminisced about her dream of defeating Zhuri and fought her with a golden longsword and [Crown of Flowers Pilgrimage].
• Yu Xunge guessed that Zhuri's Deity Talent Word was “Zhuri,” and Zhuri confirmed it.
• Zhuri told Yu Xunge that she was waiting for Yu Xunge to reveal her own Deity Talent Word.

Yu Xunge and Zhuri’s duel led Zhuri to use her Deity Talent Word, sending Yu Xunge into a different timeline where she met Dawn Smoke Disciple and Dawn Cicada. She learned that this timeline’s Zelan Wildfire was expected to join an invasion of Zichuan, but the other Dawn members knew nothing of the bell toll.

• Zhuri activated her Deity Talent Word, freezing the battlefield and sending Yu Xunge falling through the Star Sea into Dawn.
• Dawn Smoke Disciple recognized that Yu Xunge was not Zelan Wildfire and told her she had brought the requested Godly Game Course and palace blueprints.
• Dawn Cicada asked where Dawn Wildfire was, and Yu Xunge asked whether Dawn had annexed Zelan and learned that Zelan Wildfire had the [Invasion Sequence].
• Dawn Smoke Disciple said the Star Sea year was 6799, and Yu Xunge asked how many times the bell had tolled and whether they had faced a pendulum impact.
• Dawn Smoke Disciple and Dawn Cicada revealed that they knew nothing about any bell toll.

Zhuri met Wildfire, an alternate-timeline version of Zai Jiu Xunge, after using her ability to help Xunge comprehend a deity talent word. Wildfire questioned Zhuri about Xunge and the disrupted timelines, then defended Qihua; in the Demon Tavern, Qihua and Yudun considered keeping this timeline’s Wildfire from returning.

• Zhuri’s use of her ability exhausted the moonlight in her crown, and Wildfire appeared where Zai Jiu Xunge had been standing.
• Wildfire introduced herself as Zelan Wildfire, Dawn Wildfire, or Undead Wildfire, and asked Zhuri which world’s Xunge was present.
• Zhuri identified Xunge as Zai Jiu, the Zaijiu Arbiter, and explained that she had helped Xunge comprehend a deity talent word.
• Wildfire said Yudun had told her it was not yet time to comprehend a deity talent word, then told Dawn Cicada to be more respectful when speaking of Qihua.
• At the Demon Tavern, Qihua and Yudun agreed they wanted this Wildfire to stay, while Chimney Smoke suggested they had given her the flower branch and gemstone eye.
• Mangmang explained that the Camellia Verse Jazz flower needed affection and attention, and would leave if neglected or no longer sincerely loved.

Yu Xunge learned more about Zelan Wildfire’s past and realized that her rebirth had made her the force shaping the Chaotic Star Sea. She awakened the incomplete deity talent “Sovereign,” whose first ability let her save timelines and load people or versions of herself from them.

• Yu Xunge met Dawn’s former Zelan leaders and learned that Zelan Wildfire had an Ice Dragon and a Mechanical Race pet named B, and possessed both Fragrant Branch’s Flower Branch and the Firecolor Race’s gemstone eyes.
• Dawn Smoke Disciple told Yu Xunge that Zelan Wildfire had been taught by Isolated Island Zhuri, and explained that an Elf had left Isolated Island after discovering the truth about the world to find Wildfire.
• Yu Xunge reflected on how the timelines’ events and relationships remained familiar while her choices could still change their course, and concluded that she was not a player but a “Sovereign.”
• Yu Xunge awakened her incomplete deity talent, “Sovereign,” at 30% progress and gained the ability to save a timeline and temporarily load someone’s data from a backup timeline.

Yu Xunge chose Undead Wildfire’s timeline as a save, sacrificing part of her Soul Fire as the two timelines began to intersect. When Yu Xunge returned to the Arena, she caught Zhuri inviting Wildfire to stay longer and confronted her.

• Yu Xunge considered whether Undead Wildfire’s timeline could help her avoid having her own timeline pruned.
• Yu Xunge used her Deity Talent Word to save Wildfire’s timeline, permanently putting 10% of her Soul Fire in a used state.
• Zhuri and the other god players talked with Undead Wildfire about her world while the match was put aside.
• Zhuri asked Undead Wildfire to stay in the timeline longer, and Yu Xunge returned and reproached her.
• Yu Xunge told Zhuri she could let her see Undead Wildfire again.

Yu Xunge summoned Undead Wildfire to meet her and asked her to help defeat Zhuri in a match. After Wildfire agreed in exchange for a flowering branch, Qihua and Yudun drank together at the Demon Tavern and found comfort in the realization that Cooking Teacher sounded better than Etiquette Teacher.

• Yu Xunge used Load Game to summon Undead Wildfire and met her other self, who introduced her Godly Relic [Carve Errors].
• Yu Xunge asked Undead Wildfire to team up against Zhuri, but Wildfire initially refused because Zhuri was her favorite teacher.
• After Yu Xunge gave her a flowering branch of [Heartless Allure], Undead Wildfire agreed to fight Zhuri and proposed that Yu Xunge tank while she dealt ranged damage.
• At the Demon Tavern, Qihua and Yudun drank together while Feiju explained the Beagle comparison to Mangmang.
• Qihua said she felt better because Cooking Teacher sounded a little better than Etiquette Teacher.

Yu Xunge fought Zhuri in the Clock Dial Battlefield while trying to understand why Zhuri’s apparent Time Skills did not trigger Undead Wildfire’s [Wildfire Rekindled]. She realized Zhuri was using hypnosis to make her perceive time effects, then ended her Load Game ability and faced Zhuri alone.

• Zhuri expanded her Time Pointer across the battlefield, slowed Yu Xunge and Wildfire, and struck them both with her daggers.
• Yu Xunge realized Zhuri’s apparent time manipulation was hypnosis that shaped her perceptions and expectations.
• Yu Xunge spotted Wildfire floating near the spectator stands as a ghostly blue flame, leaving Yu Xunge to take Zhuri’s aggro alone.
• Yu Xunge concluded Wildfire was unwilling to act before understanding the situation and felt disappointed by the limits of Load Game.
• Yu Xunge smiled, ended Load Game, and watched the ghostly blue wildfire dissipate.

Yu Xunge overcame Zhuri’s hypnosis by clearing her mind and fought her apprentice in a close dagger duel, ultimately winning. After the match, both women’s Deity Talent Words continued to progress, and Zhuri revealed that hers had reached nearly 80%.

• Yu Xunge realized Zhuri was using hypnosis, blocked its influence by shutting out the Time Pointer, and began fighting back despite remaining partly slowed and unable to see.
• Yu Xunge and Zhuri battled with identical daggers and combat skills until their HP reached an even 50:50, and the match ended with Yu Xunge victorious.
• The spectators considered Yu Xunge the likely first-place finisher, while both her and Zhuri’s Deity Talent progress increased after the match.
• Yu Xunge learned that Zhuri’s Deity Talent Word had reached nearly 80% progress after only one match, and the two returned to the stands bickering.
• Huang Jin explained that Zhuri’s Deity Talent Word meant all living beings should pursue her while she pursued the sun, and she offered Zhuri a blessing as the next match began.

Zhuri and Mistblade faced off in the tournament, trading teasing remarks until Zhuri used her Deity Talent Word to shrink Mistblade to the size she had been at age three. The match left Mistblade tiny and Zhuri listening to the spectators speculate about her strategy.

• Mistblade eagerly left the stands to face Zhuri in their tournament match.
• Zhuri offered to let Mistblade use her Deity Talent Word first, and Mistblade teased her about waiting being a privilege of the strong.
• Yu Xunge and Huang Jin joked about Zhuri's anger, and both Zhuri and Mistblade overheard them.
• Zhuri used her Deity Talent Word to shrink Mistblade to her three-year-old size while retaining her combat power.
• Mistblade rebuked Zhuri in a childish voice, and spectators joked that Zhuri's choice of size came from her experience training with Aihao.

Zhuri and Mistblade began their duel after silencing disruptive spectators and exchanging words about Mistblade’s power and heritage. As Zhuri used her imagination ability to accelerate herself, she copied Mistblade’s Warden ability, setting their weapons and talents against each other.

• Zhuri and Mistblade asked for the audience to be muted, and the request silenced Zai Jiu Xunge and Isolated Island Huang Jin.
• Mistblade warned Zhuri not to underestimate her combat power, while Zhuri explained she had left it unchanged because she wanted a serious duel.
• The match began as Scarlet Chains bound Mistblade to the Clock Dial and Black Mistblade emerged to fight Zhuri.
• Zhuri used Brilliant Imagination to choose an accelerated state, then invoked Mistblade’s Warden ability and bound herself with white chains.
• Mistblade challenged Zhuri to compare Qihua with Beaver Duke and sent blood-red threads toward Zhuri’s clock.

Mistblade used [Flower Deception] to steal Zhuri’s [Brilliant Imagination], but Zhuri altered the skill with [Mail Carrier] and forced Mistblade to choose an outcome. The trick ended in another draw, and both accepted their ongoing Warden fight as a fair duel.

• Mistblade’s skill studies revealed that she and Huang Jin were far ahead of their classmates at learning [Flower Deception].
• Mistblade used [Flower Deception] on Zhuri’s three Time Pointers, while Zhuri modified [Brilliant Imagination] with [Mail Carrier].
• Zhuri’s altered skill made Mistblade receive several imaginations and choose one; Mistblade selected the outcome that Zhuri would temporarily gain her Deprivation Skill, then canceled [Flower Deception].
• Zhuri could not use the stolen skill, and the match ended in another draw without either fighter losing HP.
• Mistblade and Zhuri agreed that their Warden battle was a fair duel despite their differing experience, size, and soul fire costs.

Zhuri and Mistblade fought to a draw after a duel lasting over an hour, and Yu Xunge then defeated Maple Sugar by summoning her counterpart from another timeline. Maple Sugar conceded after questioning Dawn Maple Sugar about her history with Yu Xunge, and the original Maple Sugar returned furious about the time that had passed.

• Zhuri and Mistblade continued fighting until the Godly Game declared their hour-long duel a draw.
• Yu Xunge entered the arena against Maple Sugar, who demanded that Yu Xunge defeat her within ten minutes or she would refuse to help make cookies to save the Star Sea’s living beings.
• Yu Xunge used [Load Game] to summon Dawn Maple Sugar, who fought until she had only 3 HP left.
• Dawn Maple Sugar asked Yu Xunge about their relationship, and Yu Xunge explained that they were childhood classmates and arch-nemeses who needed each other’s help.
• Dawn Maple Sugar conceded on behalf of the current Maple Sugar, and Yu Xunge won the match.
• The Godly Game returned the original Maple Sugar to the arena, where she glared at Yu Xunge for making her wait.

The competition ended with Zai Jiu Xunge in first place, and the players were sent back to the Godly Educator's island instead of their worlds. Yu Xunge opened her anonymous reward and found a familiar revolver and a pocket watch, then taunted Yudun by claiming the Godly Game had given her the gun.

• Isolated Island Zhuri explained that she had extinguished her previous Deity Talent Word by firmly believing it was unworthy of her, and players with low comprehension eagerly considered asking her for help.
• The Pendulum Impact bell rang, and the standings showed Zai Jiu Xunge in first place with 32 wins, Isolated Island Zhuri in second with 30, and Zai Jiu Mistblade in third with 29.
• The players received glowing gift boxes and were teleported to the Godly Educator's island, where a notification said they would return to their worlds when the remaining 2 hours and 21 minutes of Game Time ended.
• Yu Xunge opened her reward and found a familiar revolver and a pocket watch inside.
• Yudun returned to the island, and Yu Xunge waved the revolver at her, claiming it was an anonymous reward from the Godly Game.

Yudun explained the Burial Ground and the pocket watch’s powers to Yu Xunge and the other students before Yu Xunge asked her to try the Romance bullet. The bullet’s effect promised to return a lost treasure if its wielder won a wager on a personality trait.

• Yudun led Yu Xunge and the other four students through the Toy Palace and explained that the next Godly Game would send all players from the Star Sea and the Mountains to the Burial Ground.
• Yudun described how gods’ and demons’ remnant souls appeared during specific stretches of time, and Yu Xunge asked whether her pocket watch was a map.
• Yudun confirmed that the watch would reveal the time in the Burial Ground, become a map whenever the bell chimed, and grow warm when a named god appeared.
• Yudun told Maple Sugar that Godly Relics could help players find when a particular god was buried, and advised Dawn Cicada and Queque to seek instruction from their own kind in the Burial Ground.
• Yu Xunge followed Yudun and offered to demonstrate the Romance bullet; she explained that its wielder had to wager a personality trait, and winning could return any lost treasure regardless of rules, time, or space.

Yudun declined to use the Romance bullet, saying she had no lost treasures, and later gave Yu Xunge a Burial Ground address to investigate. Queque and the others persuaded Yu Xunge to help search Flower Island in the clouds for Question My Heart, offering her a bag of gems in return.

• Yu Xunge offered Yudun the Romance bullet and asked whether she would wager a personality trait to recover a lost treasure.
• Yudun pushed the gun toward Yu Xunge’s throat, then returned it with the bullet and said she had no lost treasures.
• Yudun asked what IKEA was, rejected Yu Xunge’s joking answer, and called out a Burial Ground address as she left.
• Yu Xunge resumed exploring the Toy Palace and checked the Ladder Ranking while considering how the combat assessment might relate to the final competition.
• Queque, Rage Prayer, Dawn Cicada, and Maple Sugar asked Yu Xunge to join them in searching Flower Island in the clouds for Question My Heart.
• Rage Prayer gave Yu Xunge a bag of gems, and Yu Xunge agreed to go with the group.

Yu Xunge and her companions searched Flower Island for the dewdrops called [Question My Heart] while her Crown of Flowers Murder swept across the island seeking [Camellia Verse Jazz]. The petals gathered above the flower field where the escaped Camellia Verse Jazz had once grown, while Qihua watched.

• Yu Xunge arrived on Flower Island with her companions, and they carefully followed Dawn Cicada toward the Flowers of Deceit after Qihua allowed them to stay.
• Yu Xunge let her Crown of Flowers Murder scatter across the island as she searched for [Camellia Verse Jazz], and Mistblade joined the group on their way to find [Question My Heart].
• Tulan asked Little Seahorse about Xie Xie and learned that Qihua had called it in to discuss its search for a Deity Talent Word.
• Dawn Cicada explained how to recognize [Question My Heart] among the Flowers of Deceit, and Yu Xunge teased her about her pale-gold hair.
• Qihua watched the petals gather above a flower field where the flowers had all run away and remembered that [Camellia Verse Jazz] had grown there.

Yu Xunge watched a replay of her final encounter with Su Yitong and wondered what she had felt about their unresolved relationship. After returning to Zai Jiu, she learned that the Chaotic Star Sea had opened its first public vote on whether the next epoch should have an Invasion Sequence, and recognized that the coming war would involve all living beings.

• Yu Xunge watched Su Yitong's soul wave goodbye in the game replay and questioned whether she had felt helplessness, relief, or happiness about how their conflict ended.
• Yu Xunge asked Maple Sugar whether Feng Mu, Feng Cang, and Feng Ran were doing well, and Maple Sugar said Zaijiu Yitong's strength could be raised easily and that she might not know whether she was Feng Mu or Yitong.
• The Chaotic Star Sea announced that the final battle would determine whether the Star Sea or the Mountains faced the Order Pendulum at the end of the next epoch.
• The Chaotic Star Sea began its first public vote, asking existing Godly Game players whether the Star Sea would need the Invasion Sequence in the next epoch.
• Yu Xunge considered ways to spare most living beings from the war, then realized that letting a few players decide everyone else's fate would be unfair.

Yu Xunge voted for the Godly Game and chose her active magical items after the Star Sea’s second public vote ended evenly. The rankings and settlement rewards appeared, leaving her with the choice of manually upgrading Echoes of the Snow Country or letting a deity redraw it.

• Yu Xunge voted that the Star Sea needed the Godly Game, and the vote passed unanimously, though the later choice between the Godly Game and Demon Game ended in a tie.
• The Star Sea removed equipment slots and limited players to six effective magical items; Yu Xunge selected Furious Moon, Cat's Ideal, My Sigh, Cat's Schedule, and Gashapon Machine alongside her Player Relic.
• The combat rankings placed Yu Xunge first, Mistblade second, and Tingzhou Jing'e tenth, while Zhuri ranked 101st.
• Yu Xunge received the Godly Game No. settlement rewards, including a Star Sea Treasure Chest, honor points, and an opportunity to upgrade Echoes of the Snow Country manually or through a deity's redraw.

Yu Xunge had Zhuri send her to the most brilliant timeline, where she received the Brilliance bullet. She discovered it could call a living being’s weapon in the Backup Timeline, while Zhuri asked to try it herself.

• Yu Xunge left Tulan to help Yan Tu with Zai Jiu’s renovations and went to Isolated Island to find Zhuri.
• Yu Xunge marked Ignorant Game with the Soul Fire brand before Zhuri sent her to the most brilliant timeline.
• A golden bullet struck Yu Xunge’s head, and Zhuri praised her as the brilliance of the moment.
• Yu Xunge read the Brilliance bullet’s ability to turn Ignorant Game into a temporary telephone for calling a living being in the Backup Timeline.
• Zhuri demanded to use the bullet to make a call, but Yu Xunge refused.