Chapter Summaries

Xie Antong revealed that the Princess’s memories had been altered and that the wedding might be a ritual prepared for a god. Lu Ce resisted the weapon’s divine power as the castle shook and day and night began to turn, while a battered prisoner in the dungeon recognized the sign and recited the Heaven and Earth Society’s slogan; Lu Ce’s fate remained unclear.

• The guards entered the room, but Lu Ce and the Princess ordered them out before they could take Xie Antong away.
• Xie Antong told Lu Ce and the Princess that the Princess’s memories had been altered and that her groom might be the Son of God.
• Lu Ce became radiant with golden light and used both hands to suppress the weapon as its divine power shook the palace.
• Xie Antong suggested the wedding was a ritual, and the castle erupted into an earthquake as a beam of light rose from its summit.
• The sky began switching from day to night, prompting the people outside to kneel in awe.
• A battered figure in the dungeon saw the sun and recited, “The sun and moon turn in cycle... the cycle repeats...,” while Xie Antong worried about Lu Ce amid further explosions.

Lu Ce emerged from the light after absorbing its energy, but his attempt to free the weapon from the boulder left it stuck. Xie Antong confronted him over the Gate of the Death God, and the chapter ended with her unexpectedly confident as she demanded that he use it.

• Xie Antong tried to reach Lu Ce through the light and urged him to use the Gate of the Death God, while Princess pulled her away from danger.
• The game interface announced that the world's rules had been reversely rewritten and that game time had accelerated by twelve hours.
• Lu Ce appeared after the light faded, but he could not pull his bloodied weapon free from the cracked boulder.
• Xie Antong demanded the Gate of the Death God back and told Lu Ce that refusing to use it out of arrogance was stupid.
• Lu Ce asked whether Xie Antong was trying to educate him, and she again offered him the choice to return the item.

Lu Ce faced Xie Antong over returning the borrowed item, then watched the supposed Son of God arrive at the palace as a second figure matching his appearance. Xie Antong wondered whether the Princess’s lover had been possessed, and the castle began shaking again.

• Lu Ce promised to return what he had borrowed from Xie Antong and told her not to speak to him in that tone again.
• The Princess’s guards searched the palace for the missing attendant while Sun remained chained in the dungeon.
• At dawn, Griffins carrying armored warriors flew toward the palace, and the crowd saw both Lu Ce and the arriving Son of God, each appearing divine.
• Xie Antong asked the Princess whether the arriving figure was her lover, and the Princess said his appearance had been etched in her heart for years.
• Xie Antong wondered aloud whether the Son of God was possessed, and the castle began shaking violently.

Lu Ce wanted to provoke another tremor by killing the people outside, but Xie Antong persuaded him to wait for the wedding. The Princess chose to marry the prince despite the possibility that he had once been possessed, saying she would walk toward her own fate.

• Lu Ce arrived after the castle stopped shaking and asked Xie Antong whether the prince's possible possession had caused the Princess's confused memories and emotions.
• Lu Ce proposed killing the people gathered outside to trigger a stronger tremor, but Xie Antong urged him to wait and see what happened at the wedding.
• The Princess confirmed that her prince was outside and, despite her hatred and the possibility that he had been possessed, chose to marry him.
• The Princess told Xie Antong that her choice was not about love but about walking toward her own fate.

Xie Antong heard the Princess explain that her wedding was believed to secure the nation’s good fortune, while the Princess accepted the cost of sacrificing herself for her people. Lu Ce challenged her belief that their fates depended on her and urged her to take control of her own fate, leaving her shaken and in tears.

• The Princess told Xie Antong that the people gathered below the castle expected her wedding to bring a new ruler and end famine and calamity.
• Xie Antong questioned whether the wedding could truly be a good omen when the Princess had been driven unstable and forced to change lovers.
• Lu Ce interrupted the Princess’s self-pity and asked what would happen if disaster continued after the wedding or the gods changed their decision.
• Lu Ce argued that the people’s fates depended on the gods, not the Princess, and challenged her to die if she believed his promise to bring favorable weather.
• The Princess asked what she could do, and Lu Ce told her and the people to fight for their own lives rather than surrender their fates to others.

Lu Ce confronted Princess over her despair and argued that she still had opportunities to act by using him as a variable. He left her with a harsh warning that if she could not fight for every possible hope, her country was already doomed.

• Princess admitted she felt powerless and said she would die if her death could reverse the disaster.
• Lu Ce argued that obedience and defiance could both lead to death, but Princess misunderstood him as telling her to kill herself.
• Princess insisted she had no chance because she could not trust her memories or understand what she was facing.
• Lu Ce pointed out that Princess could have used him to test the marriage candidate, free the weapon sealed in stone, or redirect the calamity.
• Lu Ce told Princess that her heart had already submitted and that her country was finished if its fate depended on her.
• Xie Antong heard compassion beneath Lu Ce's harsh words and recognized him beneath the mask.

The Princess questioned whether she should keep resisting for her kingdom, while Xie Antong urged her to seize the opportunity Lu Ce represented. As Lu Ce watched the Son of God from the palace roof, Xie Antong asked him whether he had deliberately wanted the wedding to fail.

• Lu Ce left the Princess’s room and went to the palace roof to watch the dynasty fall and see what the Princess wanted him to see.
• The Princess canceled the other attendants’ visits and kept Xie Antong to discuss whether she had made the wrong choices.
• Xie Antong told the Princess that Lu Ce had faced seemingly impossible hardships by seizing every available opportunity without fearing failure.
• Xie Antong pointed out that Lu Ce’s presence offered the Princess a chance to act rather than give in to despair.
• Lu Ce watched the Son of God from the palace roof, and Xie Antong arrived and asked whether he had wanted the wedding to fail.

Xie Antong and Lu Ce discussed whether to stop the Princess's wedding, and Lu Ce warned her that her assumptions about the ceremony might be wrong. Their conversation turned personal, leaving Lu Ce wondering whether Xie Antong had guessed something about him.

• Xie Antong told Lu Ce she would support him if he stopped the wedding, and Lu Ce rejected her joking explanation that he wanted to save the Princess from an unhappy marriage.
• Xie Antong identified the samurai as the Son of God's wedding counterpart, and Lu Ce warned her to reconsider her earlier guesses because partial truths could mislead her.
• Lu Ce said the Son of God seemed unusually pure and weak, and that he felt the man was a good person.
• Xie Antong reflected that the wedding might offer the Princess a chance to escape a life she did not want, and Lu Ce suggested that her empathy came from her own circumstances.
• Xie Antong admitted she wanted to be willful for once, prompting Lu Ce to suspect she had guessed something about him; she denied having guessed anything.

Xie Antong urged Princess to abandon the wedding if she did not want it, but Princess insisted she was choosing her own happiness. As the forty-eight-hour deadline arrived and the prince met her on the rainbow bridge, the All-Knowing Eye caught a flash of sharpness in Princess's hand.

• Xie Antong left Lu Ce after speaking with him, while Lu Ce watched her go and struggled with his growing irritation.
• At dawn, the nation prepared a grand wedding, and Princess waited on the palace rooftop as the groom approached on a rainbow bridge.
• Xie Antong offered to take Princess anywhere if she wanted to escape the wedding, but Princess said she was walking toward her beloved.
• Princess met the prince at the bridge as the forty-eight-hour game deadline arrived, and the All-Knowing Eye noticed a flash of sharpness in her hand.

At the wedding, the Princess stabbed the Prince, then tried to turn the dagger on herself as another force took control of her. Xie Antong tried to intervene, but a golden figure emerged from beneath the castle and declared that the game had only just begun.

• The Princess and the Prince kissed before the crowd, and Xie Antong realized neither of them was pretending to love the other.
• The Princess summoned a transparent dagger and stabbed the Prince in the chest, but missed his heart.
• The Princess pulled out the dagger and tried to stab herself, while a second presence forced her hand and healed the Prince.
• Xie Antong lit the Burning Demon Incense, and the Princess briefly regained control and told her to leave.
• The castle shook as a cracked stone and a golden figure burst up from beneath it.
• The golden figure landed atop the stone and told them the game had only just begun.

Lu Ce arrived at the palace and learned that the Princess, not the prince, had been possessed by a god. After killing the prince at his request, Lu Ce forced the possessing deity to emerge and faced the Chosen of Lust God.

• Lu Ce demanded a brief explanation, and Xie Antong revealed that the Princess was this world's Highest Will and the one controlled by a god.
• The wounded prince asked Lu Ce to kill him, and Lu Ce vaporized him with Hell Roar.
• The Princess asked Lu Ce to help save her country, and he told her to let the possessing god come out.
• The deity took control of the Princess, and Lu Ce swung the massive boulder at her, collapsing the palace platform as she dodged.
• The Princess became the Chosen of Lust God and exerted divine pressure, but Lu Ce answered by unleashing stronger golden light and challenging her.

Lu Ce confronted the Princess with the Arrogance Mask amplifying his power and arrogance, while Xie Antong kept her distance. As the Chosen of Lust God transformed and unleashed her power, Sun burst out from beneath the castle and began absorbing the pink energy.

• Lu Ce warned Xie Antong to stay away while he dealt with the Princess, and she moved the All-Knowing Eyes to the perimeter.
• Lu Ce’s Arrogance Mask resisted the Princess’s divine pressure and made him taunt her as an inferior being.
• The Princess revealed her identity as a fragment of the Chosen of Lust God and grew enraged at Lu Ce’s insults.
• The Princess dyed the sky pink and began expanding her strength as she prepared to attack.
• Sun burst upward from beneath the castle and used Sun and Moon Rotation: Cyclical Loop to draw the pink energy toward himself.

Sun stole the Chosen of Lust God's abandoned divine power and confronted Lu Ce, then fought him while the Chosen was driven from the battlefield. Sun held his ground against Lu Ce as his newly acquired power surged through him.

• Sun emerged in a massive fireball after stealing the Chosen of Lust God's divine power with his God Desecrator medal.
• Sun mocked the gods and told the Chosen of Lust God that he would take the power for himself.
• Lu Ce called Sun and the Chosen worthless, and Sun thanked Lu Ce for giving him the chance to seize the power.
• Sun rushed Lu Ce and met his fist, holding his ground despite previously being weaker.
• Sun's fireball struck the Chosen of Lust God and ordered her to leave the battlefield.

Lu Ce spent Pain points to raise his Strength to the human Gene Lock limit, then overwhelmed Sun with a single strike. The chapter ended with Sun crashing into the mountains as Lu Ce challenged his claim of superior strength.

• Princess caught Sun’s fireball, realized he had wrapped stolen power around his attack, and began absorbing power to recover.
• Lu Ce and Sun separated after trading blows, and Lu Ce noticed that Sun had scorched his hand and increased his Pain points.
• Lu Ce allocated his 106 Pain points to Strength, raising it from 60 to 100 and reaching the upper limit of the human Gene Lock.
• Lu Ce’s power caused the magnetic field around him to twist, alarming Xie Antong and the livestream viewers.
• Lu Ce charged forward and struck Sun with the giant stone, sending him through the air and into the mountains before asking whose strength was inferior.

Lu Ce struck Sun with the boulder and battle weapon with such force that Sun was badly injured, then fought him again as Princess tried to recover her divine power. When the Chosen of Lust God unleashed more power, Lu Ce shattered the boulder and revealed the golden battle axe inside.

• Lu Ce hit Sun with a one-handed blow that sent him crashing into a mountain and damaged his Flame Armor.
• Sun drank a high-grade potion, then set the mountain ablaze and transformed into a fire dragon to charge Lu Ce.
• Princess dodged Sun’s charge, and the fire dragon absorbed her divine power as it attacked Lu Ce.
• Lu Ce repeatedly clashed with Sun’s fire-dragon form, forcing the Chosen of Lust God to stop conserving power and unleash a massive pink vortex.
• As divine force pressed down on him, Lu Ce’s aura surged and he punched the boulder apart, revealing a golden long-handled battle axe.

Lu Ce broke the seal on the Extreme Path Battle Axe and bound it to his Arrogance Mask, turning it into his exclusive weapon. He used it to wound the sun and clash with the Princess, collapsing the palace level as the battle continued below.

• Lu Ce shattered the stone casing around a gigantic axe, and the Princess tried to pull the weapon toward herself with divine power.
• Lu Ce overpowered the Princess's pull with golden radiance, and the game offered him the option to bind the Extreme Path Battle Axe as Arrogance's exclusive weapon.
• Lu Ce agreed to the binding, and the axe settled into his hand as though made for him.
• Lu Ce struck the fire dragon above with one axe blow, splitting it apart and forcing the sun back into humanoid form, where it coughed up blood.
• Lu Ce swung again at the Princess, whose divine power met his axe in a blast that destroyed the palace level and sent everyone falling below.
• The Princess questioned how Lu Ce had taken and activated the weapon, and Lu Ce accused her of trying to steal his things.

Lu Ce, Sun, and their allies faced Princess as she unleashed the power of Chosen of Lust God, but Xie Antong helped the players resist her influence. Challenged by Xie Antong, Lu Ce’s Arrogance surged, and he invited Princess and Sun to fight him together.

• Princess stopped Sun’s Ruthless Blazing Sun attack, drove Lu Ce back, then retreated several steps when he struck her with the Extreme Path Battle Axe.
• Princess spread the influence of Chosen of Lust God through the castle, incapacitating weaker NPCs and disrupting the players.
• Shui Zhongmeng used Soul Striking Hand to restore Sun’s clarity, while Xie Antong burned Demon Incense to weaken Princess’s influence and urged the players to escape.
• Xie Antong stayed behind and challenged Lu Ce to protect his teammates from Princess.
• Lu Ce’s Arrogance surged, and he beckoned Princess and Sun to join forces against him.

Lu Ce used the Extreme Path Battle Axe to withstand the Chosen of Lust God's attack and turn the fight against her. After knocking away her attempt to claim the weapon, he launched a waist-severing strike, leaving Princess in danger.

• Lu Ce and Sun taunted Princess, prompting her to attack Sun and Shui Zhongmeng with pink currents.
• Princess unleashed a powerful tide of divine energy at Lu Ce, who blocked it head-on with the Extreme Path Battle Axe and protected a path through the ruins.
• Lu Ce threw the axe at Princess, then followed it and pinned her face beneath his foot.
• Princess tried to assimilate the weapon, but Lu Ce twisted the axe and shook off her divine power.
• Lu Ce swung the axe in a golden arc toward Princess's waist as the ground beneath her exploded.

Sun and Lu Ce fought Princess, and Sun surprised her with a slap that enraged her into unleashing far greater power. As Princess’s energy overwhelmed the arena, a spinning object struck Shui Zhongmeng and carried a message that he was the key to the game.

• Princess healed her wounds and continued building up her divine power while Lu Ce held her off with the Extreme Path Battle Axe.
• Sun emerged from underground and slapped Princess, using the humiliation to absorb divine power.
• Lu Ce and Sun argued while the stunned audience watched, and Princess erupted in rage.
• Princess released a powerful pink energy wave that blasted Sun and the others into the ruins, leaving Lu Ce standing.
• A spinning object struck Shui Zhongmeng in the temple and transmitted a message telling him he was the key to the game.

Xie Antong used her All-Knowing Eye to secretly tell Shui Zhongmeng that he could exploit Princess’s unstable aura and the two souls in her body with his Soul Striking Hand. After Lu Ce knocked Sun out of the central battle, Shui Zhongmeng went to speak with him, while questioning Xie Antong’s claim that he was the relatively normal one.

• Xie Antong contacted Shui Zhongmeng by vibrating messages through his skull and told him to slap Princess when her aura peaked.
• Shui Zhongmeng objected that his Soul Striking Hand was unlikely to work on a god, but Xie Antong explained that Princess’s original soul remained and her aura was unstable.
• Xie Antong predicted that Lu Ce would soon knock Sun away, creating a chance for Shui Zhongmeng to approach him.
• Lu Ce struck Sun with the flat of his axe and sent him flying from the battlefield.
• Shui Zhongmeng decided to approach Sun, and Xie Antong insisted he would agree to help.
• Shui Zhongmeng paused as he looked at Blank behind the boulder and wondered whether she was truly normal.