Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yuan regained his fighting spirit after Arrogance challenged him to stop relying on prophecy and choose for himself. As Lu Ce unleashed Life Burn and attacked the Death Emissary, Arrogance joined the assault and proposed a bet.

• Arrogance mocked Jiang Yuan for seeking validation and believing in prophecy, and Jiang Yuan renewed his resolve.
• The Death Emissary broke free of Arrogance’s suppression and struck Jiang Yuan into a massive pit, badly injuring him.
• The Death Emissary taunted Jiang Yuan and challenged him to bet that the world’s final hope would be shattered.
• Lu Ce activated Life Burn and launched a powerful aerial attack, while Perfect Life helped Arrogance cross the Death Emissary’s slowed-space domain.
• Arrogance attacked the Death Emissary with his golden-flaming axe and suggested they make a bet of their own.

Arrogance fought the Death Emissary while burning through his life, and the Death Emissary recruited angels and Saints to overwhelm him. As Arrogance prepared to charge again, the Extreme Path Battle Axe recognized him and activated Divine Weapon Ascension.

• Arrogance challenged the Death Emissary to see how long it could survive and said his weakened body could still burn to restore his power.
• Arrogance and the Death Emissary clashed, shattering space and sending the Death Emissary crashing into the ground.
• Arrogance tore the damaged Misty Cloak into bracers as the Death Emissary ordered the angels and Saints to attack him.
• A Saint player accepted the Death Emissary's offer, and several Saints joined the angels in surrounding Arrogance and restraining him with chains.
• Xie Antong noticed that most of Lu Ce's hourglass had run out as Arrogance prepared another charge.
• The Extreme Path Battle Axe awakened, recognized Arrogance as its master, and activated Divine Weapon Ascension.

Pride’s battle axe began ascending from a Ruined Divine Weapon toward a true divine weapon, alarming Death Emissary and making him question Pride’s identity. Pride then strained against the chains and charged at Death Emissary, but several Saint players rushed in to meet him.

• Pride felt a powerful connection to his battle axe as it began its Divine Weapon Ascension, and the Black Knight noticed it might gain the ability to speak.
• Death Emissary realized the axe was awakening into a true divine weapon and asked Pride who he really was.
• Sun insulted Death Emissary, who held back from retaliating while keeping his attention on Pride.
• Pride stretched against the chains, dragged the angels holding them, and charged toward Death Emissary.
• Several Saint players rushed in from the flank and struck at Pride.

Arrogance and Death Emissary continued their battle as Yang Feng and other players intervened, and Death Emissary landed a severe wound on Arrogance. Perfect Life exposed Yang Feng’s motive and blocked his attack, insisting that Arrogance’s death would not make Yang Feng number one.

• Players rushed in to attack Arrogance, and he knocked them back, disrupting Lu Ce’s movement and giving Death Emissary an opening.
• Death Emissary trapped Arrogance with spatial seals and struck him with his scythe, leaving a deep wound across his chest.
• Yang Feng announced his name and rank, then said he wanted Arrogance dead so he could rise in the rankings.
• Perfect Life accused Yang Feng of acting on an Emissary’s promise and revealed that the game had also tried to recruit him.
• Yang Feng tried to attack Arrogance again, but Perfect Life crossed through space and blocked him with a crescent-bladed halberd, saying that Arrogance’s death would not make him number one.

Perfect Life switched sides and helped Pride fight the Death Emissary, rejecting the Saints’ pursuit of power through the game. He committed to helping “Sin” win as an Eight Trigrams diagram appeared over the battlefield.

• Perfect Life blocked five top-ranked Saint players, freed Pride from his chains, and let him attack the Death Emissary.
• Pride and the Death Emissary clashed with nearly equal power, and both spat blood before the Death Emissary fell back.
• Perfect Life rebuked Yang Feng and the other players for choosing the Saints’ shortcut, calling them vermin and suggesting they had helped cause a world’s destruction.
• Perfect Life explained that “Sin” could not win under the game’s current rules, so turning an impossible situation into victory was the only hope.
• After Bai warned that he could lose his perfect-clear streak, Perfect Life declared that he would make “Sin” win and unleashed an Eight Trigrams diagram over the city’s angel.

Perfect Life turned against Death Emissary to help Sin, and Xie Antong realized that inspiring people to change sides could weaken Death Emissary. Jiang Yuan called on the people to awaken, and their response further diminished Death Emissary's power.

• Perfect Life concluded that the game had stacked the odds against Sin and decided to fight alongside him despite their rivalry.
• Perfect Life attacked Yang Feng, keeping the angels at bay and giving Sin room to focus on Death Emissary.
• Xie Antong noticed Death Emissary weaken after Perfect Life switched sides and suspected that people could be converted through their actions.
• Chiyo Eon gave Jiang Yuan two bottles of perfect potion, and he used his power to call on the people in nearby cities to wake up and remember him.
• As people emerged from meditation, Perfect Life noticed that the golden energy feeding Death Emissary had diminished again.

As Jiang Yuan tried to awaken the controlled people and disrupt the Death Emissary’s power, Xie Antong seized an excuse to defect and help Lu Ce. With the battlefield descending into chaos, Lu Ce pressed his attack and warned the Death Emissary that the wager was about to come true.

• Perfect Life urged Jiang Yuan to gather the people’s faith, and Jiang Yuan pressed his palm to the ground to awaken them.
• Perfect Life tried to persuade Xie Antong to oppose the Death Emissary, but she interpreted his words as permission to act.
• Xie Antong scattered burning incense flames across the city, weakened the angels, and secretly empowered Lu Ce before attacking Yang Feng.
• Chiyo Eon attacked the saint players as Spirit Speaker—Bai withdrew from the battlefield, while Sun wondered whether to join the fight.
• The Death Emissary’s aura declined as Lu Ce attacked faster, and Lu Ce told It that the wager was about to come true.

Lu Ce gained the upper hand over Death Emissary as the Sun, Perfect Life, and Xie Antong helped deprive it of power. Just as Arrogance prepared to kill Death Emissary, a mysterious voice stopped him and demanded that the match be declared a draw.

• Creator explained in Lu Ce's livestream that Perfect Life and Blank had recognized the game’s cruelty toward worlds and chosen to help him.
• Lu Ce shattered Death Emissary’s defenses, and Arrogance’s pressure left the weakened Emissary unable to fight back effectively.
• The Sun attacked Death Emissary, saying it wanted to earn medal points, and helped drive it to the ground.
• Arrogance stomped on Death Emissary and raised his axe to deliver the final blow.
• A strange frequency seemed to freeze time, and a voice told Arrogance to lower the axe and negotiate a draw.

Lu Ce refused Death’s offer to end the game in a draw and called on the Extreme Path Battle Axe to help him kill the Death Emissary. As the world froze beneath a destroyed sun, the weapon’s Divine Weapon Ascension succeeded.

• Pride pinned the Death Emissary beneath his foot, but Death’s arrival drained the emissary of his strength and stopped the battle.
• The game livestream went black, and the players searched for Death as its voice declared the game would end in a draw.
• Death appeared to the city by crushing the sun, plunging the world into darkness and freezing cold.
• Jiang Yuan recognized Death’s power and shouted for it to reveal itself, while Lu Ce ignored Death’s offer and tried to strike the emissary.
• Lu Ce asked the Extreme Path Battle Axe to help him cut off the emissary’s head, and Divine Weapon Ascension succeeded.

Lu Ce awakened the Extreme Path Battle Axe as a divine weapon and used it to overpower the Death Emissary. Despite Death's warnings and offer to end the game in a draw, Lu Ce killed the Emissary, embracing whatever consequences followed.

• The Extreme Path Battle Axe awakened its divine artifact soul and evolved into a divine weapon.
• Arrogance pressed the axe against the Death Emissary, burning through their defenses and forcing Death to intervene.
• Death urged Arrogance to accept a draw, warning that victory would bring unforeseen changes and consequences.
• Arrogance ignored Death's threats and smashed the Death Emissary's head with the axe.
• Lu Ce declared that he would not go against his heart, regardless of the consequences.

Lu Ce killed Death’s emissary instead of negotiating, and Death departed after warning that they would meet again. As the world began to collapse, Sun offered the last survivor, Jiang Yuan, a place in the Heaven and Earth Society.

• Lu Ce killed Death’s emissary with his axe, shocking Xie Antong and the others.
• Perfect Life defended Lu Ce’s choice, saying that anything a god wanted to take was something it wanted.
• Sun caught Jiang Yuan before he could kneel, told him to find a more respectable way to die, and asked whether he wanted to join the Heaven and Earth Society.
• Death asked Lu Ce if he knew what he had done, then said they would meet again.
• Lu Ce replied that War had said the same thing and told Death to decide a winner first.
• Death departed, and the world began to collapse.

After the game ended in a perfect clear for the surviving players, Perfect Life attacked players who had sided with the Divine Envoy while the world collapsed. Pride offered Jiang Yuan a way to leave with them, and Sun questioned whether carrying a world forward was the turning point foretold by the prophecy.

• Xie Antong explained that all players who survived until the game ended counted as having achieved a perfect clear.
• Perfect Life attacked Yang Feng and the players who had made a deal with the Divine Envoy; two died and Yang Feng lost an arm as the others exited the game.
• Perfect Life asked Lu Ce about Death’s warning, but Lu Ce remained silent as the world began to collapse.
• Pride approached Jiang Yuan and gave him an Exit Coin so he could choose whether to leave with the players.
• Perfect Life explained how Jiang Yuan could use the coin, and Sun asked whether carrying a world forward was the slim chance of a turning point.

Jiang Yuan chose to leave his collapsing world and seek revenge, while Lu Ce completed the special-mode game with a perfect clear and received a World Relic. The chapter ended with Lu Ce examining his rewards after surviving the game’s deathtrap.

• Jiang Yuan hesitated over the Exit Coin as Xie Antong told him he could still seek revenge, but Arrogance and the other visitors left before he could ask for help.
• The Sun told Jiang Yuan to seek out the Heaven and Earth Society if he needed guidance, and Xie Antong welcomed him to Divine Punishment before departing.
• Jiang Yuan decided to set out again, and azure light enveloped him as he vanished from his collapsing world.
• Lu Ce awoke after the perfect clear and removed the Arrogance mask, relieved that he had survived the game’s scheme.
• Lu Ce received an SSS-rank perfect clear, bringing his consecutive perfect clears to twelve, and found that five masks had entered Overload Mode and his battle axe had become a divine weapon.
• Lu Ce collected a Death Token, two Death Affinity Cores, and a World Relic from the game’s rewards.

Lu Ce received a World Relic and used Death Affinity Cores to upgrade the Gate of the Death God and the Black Knight. After Sin’s victory over the Death Emissary was announced, the game revealed that the top ten thousand players would receive ranking rewards and be surveyed.

• Lu Ce received a World Relic and wondered whether Jiang Yuan had escaped the destroyed world.
• Lu Ce used one Death Affinity Core to upgrade the Gate of the Death God, giving it new ways to bond with a host and preserve an imprint.
• Lu Ce used the second Death Affinity Core on the Black Knight, who gained the Dead Silence Line cannon.
• The game announced that Sin had won the Human-Deity Arena and killed the Death Emissary.
• The game announced ranking rewards for the top ten thousand players and said it would conduct a survey questionnaire.

Lu Ce woke in upgraded quarters as the game reshuffled its rankings and asked top players to make choices on humanity’s behalf. The Grand Elder warned that the game and the world were about to undergo major changes, while the questions left players and nonplayers questioning who had the right to represent humanity.

• Lu Ce woke in a spacious room, and the Black Knight celebrated having enough space to unfold into motorcycle form and show off its new cannon.
• The game announced new rankings and sent players a questionnaire, which Lu Ce suspected was connected to the upheaval Death had predicted.
• Players ranked 1,001 to 10,000 received rewards and were asked whether they agreed that the world would ultimately belong to players; over 80 percent chose “Correct.”
• The top 1,000 players were asked whether they would pursue greater power and the possibility of transcendence, prompting Xie Antong and Lu Ce to suspect something was wrong.
• The Grand Elder told Xu Long and the others that the game was changing because of Sin and that the whole world might be entering version 2.0.
• Players and nonplayers questioned why only high-ranked players could choose on humanity’s behalf, especially when many people had never been chosen to participate.

The game surveyed elite players about ascension and whether they believed they could reach the top, while Jiang Yuan appeared in fifth place on the Pinnacle Leaderboard and cast his first vote. The game then prepared to question Sin, the undisputed No. 1.

• Seventy percent of players chose that they would ascend, and the top hundred all accepted the Divine Might Baptism reward.
• Xie Antong noticed she had reached 98th place and wondered why the ascension question had been extended to the top hundred.
• The rankings placed Jiang Yuan fifth, though he appeared in an unfamiliar world and knew little about the game.
• Jiang Yuan voted yes when asked whether he could be the one person to reach the very top, joining seven other players while Creator voted no.
• The Chosen Ones felt their hearts tremble as the game prepared to address Sin, the player who had held first place since the leaderboard opened.

The Arbitrator offered Lu Ce a rank above the divine envoys and promised he could become the “god” of his world. Lu Ce rejected the offer, and the Arbitrator presented him with a Gambling Agreement with the Gods.

• The game celebrated Sin’s first-place Peak Rankings finish with a grand starry spectacle.
• The game began a private Q&A with Lu Ce, hiding the conversation from viewers.
• Lu Ce asked who was speaking, and the voice identified itself as the Arbitrator.
• The Arbitrator offered Lu Ce ascension and a position above all divine envoys.
• Lu Ce dismissed the offer as another form of constraint, so the Arbitrator produced a Gambling Agreement with the Gods.

Lu Ce rejected the game's offer to become a human god, triggering a wager agreement that granted him a Godhead Seed and set every future game to the highest difficulty. The game announced its suspension for an update to Game 3.0, a proxy war in which all humanity could be selected as gods’ spokespersons.

• Lu Ce refused to read the wager agreement, but the Arbiter forced its terms into his mind after he rejected the offer to become a human god.
• The agreement granted Lu Ce a Godhead Seed, removed fixed limits on his growth, and set his future games to the highest difficulty with rules the game could interpret freely.
• The agreement declared that Game 3.0 would create opponents meant to kill Lu Ce, with his death as his failure condition and no failure condition for the game.
• The Arbiter left without answering Lu Ce’s questions, and the game announced that it would suspend for an update to Game 3.0: Proxy War.
• The game announced that all humanity could be selected as Chosen Lucky Ones and gods’ spokespersons, with the first large-scale selection taking place on Blue Star.

After Lu Ce rejected another offer from the game, Grand Elder warned that Game 3.0 would bring a worldwide selection of divine envoys and the game’s immediate descent into reality. As public opinion split over Sin’s role, Jiang Yuan tried using the Heaven and Earth Society’s secret phrase to find Fire Man.

• Lu Ce dismissed Black Knight’s warning about becoming a scapegoat and said he considered the coming changes his achievement.
• Grand Elder told the Dragon Group that Game 3.0 would begin worldwide divine-envoy selection and warned that the game would descend into reality at full force.
• Grand Elder ordered the Dragon Group to prepare for nationwide wartime conditions and urged the elders to take part in the selection.
• People around the world argued over the new Game Mode, with some thanking Sin and others blaming him for forcing a change on everyone.
• Jiang Yuan said the Heaven and Earth Society’s secret phrase to a passerby, who fled, so Jiang Yuan began looking for a crowded place to try again.

After appearing in the new world, Jiang Yuan drew the Dragon Group’s attention by flying through K City and loudly proclaiming that the world belonged to the Heaven and Earth Society. Xie Antong stopped the confrontation and offered to take him to see Lu Ce if he joined Divine Punishment.

• Jiang Yuan flew into a plaza and shouted that the world belonged to the Heaven and Earth Society, sending the crowd fleeing.
• Jiang Yuan continued shouting as he flew through K City, prompting Dragon Group members to chase him.
• Xie Antong received a video of Jiang Yuan’s antics from a Divine Punishment member and laughed at the sight of him.
• Xie Antong arrived in K City and told the Dragon Group members to stop because she knew Jiang Yuan.
• Xie Antong greeted Jiang Yuan and secretly told him to join Divine Punishment so she could take him to see Lu Ce.