Chapter Summaries

As netizens learned that World Lines and predestination were shaping the conflict, the Daughter of Sheng Lin sought the Super Ancient God’s help against unification. Si Ba Lu arrived to confront the Great Joy Emperor, believing himself invincible despite knowing he might not get another chance to restart.

• Netizens and game streamers reacted to the revelation that powerful beings were manipulating World Lines, and they feared the Great Joy Emperor was destined to win.
• Du Xue asked the Daughter of Sheng Lin why they would not fight, and the Daughter of Sheng Lin explained that she had come to ask the Super Ancient God to reject unification.
• Si Ba Lu arrived as another Middle God, prompting the Daughter of Sheng Lin to reflect on how he and she each believed themselves invincible.
• Si Ba Lu’s past revealed that his Magic Eye of Fate let him return to the previous day whenever he died, and he used countless deaths to save Makise Emily and rise to the summit.
• The Great Joy Emperor welcomed Si Ba Lu as a worthy opponent, and Si Ba Lu declared, “I am invincible,” despite sensing this battle might be his final chance.

Great Joy Emperor overwhelmed Si Ba Lu and the other gods by using layered spaces to evade attacks and return their energy. As defeat seemed certain, Xu Zhi offered to close off fate and leave the outcome unknown, then summoned a colossal black giant.

• Si Ba Lu burned his lifespan to unleash a barrage of punches that shattered Great Joy Emperor’s mirror layers, but failed to reach him.
• Great Joy Emperor reflected the gods’ stored attacks and battered Si Ba Lu into a skeleton, though Si Ba Lu’s extraordinary will kept him alive.
• Daughter of Sheng Lin foresaw the group’s defeat, while Du Xue offered to restrain Great Joy Emperor and help attack him.
• Xu Zhi told Daughter of Sheng Lin he could temporarily close off fate so the group would no longer see the future chosen by the Pillar Gods.
• Daughter of Sheng Lin chose to face the unknown, and Xu Zhi raised his arm as a gigantic black being approached.

Xu Zhi arrived in the Ancient Lava Land wearing a colossal Mechanical Armor made from the remains of a Ninth-Order existence, and his presence forced the Three Pillar Gods and most living beings into hibernation. With fate disrupted, Daughter of Sheng Lin and Du Xue moved to confront the Great Joy Emperor as a crimson-lit ancient existence emerged from a coffin.

• A gigantic black Mechanical Armor appeared over the land, and the deities recognized that its body might be the remains of a Ninth-Order existence.
• Xu Zhi said he was testing the newly completed armor, while its presence shut down the Three Pillar Gods' computer clusters and put most inhabitants into suspended animation.
• Xu Zhi told Daughter of Sheng Lin to change her fate and stop the Great Joy Emperor, and she rushed to confront him as Du Xue vanished to begin an assassination.
• Balloon Fish begged Xu Zhi to accept him as a disciple, while an existence beneath the earth recognized the armor and praised Xu Zhi for breaking fate.
• The being left the coffin and began wandering across the land in crimson divine light.

Caroline crossed the Lava World and concluded that the Super Ancient God had seen the Ixdar civilization’s possible futures, offering its leaders choices at pivotal moments. She reached Xu Zhi and asked whether she, too, was a slave to fate.

• Caroline’s Divine Sense spread across the Lava World, putting its people, beasts, and plants to sleep as a suspected Ninth-Order mechanical giant crossed the land.
• Caroline considered how the multiverse and the combined trajectories of living beings could explain fate and the future of civilizations.
• Caroline recalled the Super Ancient God offering Mr. Levi’s a choice and reasoned that the Ixdar People’s refusal led them toward destruction and another cycle.
• Caroline concluded that her meeting with the Super Ancient God had also been fated and that she might be a future protagonist whose path he had foreseen.
• Caroline arrived before Xu Zhi and asked him whether she was his slave to fate.

Xu Zhi admitted to Caroline that he had shaped her destiny, leaving her convinced that her life had been manipulated from birth. Xia Ni Ming misread their exchange as scandalous gossip and, when the pair noticed him sneaking away, nervously offered them condoms.

• Xu Zhi realized Caroline believed she had been his slave to destiny and struggled to respond without revealing the truth.
• Xia Ni Ming overheard Caroline asking whether she was Xu Zhi’s slave and assumed she was eagerly seeking a lover’s acknowledgment.
• Xu Zhi told Caroline that he had calculated her future and arranged their fated meeting at the Milk Tea Shop.
• Caroline bitterly concluded that Xu Zhi had controlled her life since birth, while Xia Ni Ming secretly took screenshots and tried to flee.
• Xu Zhi and Caroline noticed Xia Ni Ming retreating, and he awkwardly asked whether they needed condoms.

Xu Zhi helped Caroline reconsider whether fate controlled her or merely followed her choices, leaving her resolved to stand beside him as another fate. As the Battle of Fate continued, Caroline proposed creating a parallel universe for the dead to be reborn in as Transcendents.

• Caroline angrily struck the Balloon Fish away after it interrupted her and Xu Zhi with an offensive remark, but the wounded creature crept back to eavesdrop.
• Xia Ni Ming watched the battle and worried that Great Joy Emperor had foreseen Du Xue’s hidden attack, while he sent screenshots to the outside world.
• Xu Zhi used a rolling stone to explain to Caroline that fate observed and followed her choices rather than controlling them, and Caroline accepted that she had become an independent fate.
• Caroline kept the stone as a Fate Stone and told Xu Zhi that she had recreated his old cup as the Holy Grail in her universe.
• Caroline asked whether the dead could be reborn in her universe, and Xu Zhi agreed that they could be called Transcendents.
• Caroline envisioned multiplying parallel universes from her Ancient Lava Land, and Xu Zhi approved her idea.

Xia Ni Ming and the players learned that the universe contained parallel worlds, while Balloon Fish shared deductions about the Super Ancient God and the mysterious female god. The chapter ended with the forum realizing that the female god was likely a Caroline from another parallel universe who had risen to Ninth Order.

• Xia Ni Ming overheard the Super Ancient Gods discuss parallel spacetimes, then left to consider how the new information might help him.
• Xu Zhi told Caroline that repeated lies could become accepted as fact as the players spread their assumptions about the Multivariate Extraordinary Universe.
• Players discussed the Super Ancient God's power, the fallen Ninth-Order corpse, and the possible conflict between the Land of the Gods and the Ancient Lava Land.
• Balloon Fish explained that branching World Lines created parallel universes and said the Super Ancient God and the mysterious female god had descended from other parallel-world fates.
• Take Your Life Three Thousand deduced that the mysterious female god was Caroline from a parallel universe where the Ixdar People survived and she became a Ninth-Order god.

Scare Your Life Three Thousand’s account of the Lava World’s multiverse shocks online spectators and Earth’s scientists, who realize the game may be revealing real Parallel Universes. Balloon Fish’s further report confirms that rulers of other universes recruit the dead as Transcendents, leaving researchers convinced that Earth faces a vast new reality.

• Scare Your Life Three Thousand summarizes how Caroline rules a Parallel Universe and how powerful beings from other worlds came to witness the Lava World’s changing World Line.
• Online players celebrate the revelations while Earth’s scientists debate whether the game has provided evidence for finite Parallel Universes.
• Scientists and Red Name Players discuss the Super Ancient God, the limits of the multiverse, and the possibility that Earth is only one world among many.
• Balloon Fish reports that a female god from Ixdar civilization recognized him and Du Xue and described recruiting talented dead people into Parallel Universes.
• Researchers conclude that the game has confirmed the existence of Transcendents and that beings are manipulating cross-universe rebirth to strengthen their own worlds.

Xia Ni Ming persuaded the gods to help Du Xue forge a Middle God sword using techniques supplied by players from other worlds, creating a variable that could challenge Great Joy Emperor. After gaining Caroline’s approval to establish Umbrella’s Main God Space, Xia Ni Ming watched Du Xue depart to fight Great Joy Emperor.

• Players sent Xia Ni Ming complete cultivation methods, and he arranged for Du Xue to use them to strengthen herself and her sword.
• Great Joy Emperor rejected Daughter of Sheng Lin’s appeal and attacked her, declaring that he had freely chosen his ambitions and wanted worthy enemies.
• Xia Ni Ming convinced the gods to contribute treasures and sacrifice ten of their number to forge Du Xue’s sword while she modified her cultivation technique.
• Great Joy Emperor recognized the forging as an unpredictable change and charged toward it, while Si Ba Lu and Daughter of Sheng Lin held him off.
• Xia Ni Ming offered Caroline the ten gods and proposed creating an organization to manage Transcendents; Caroline accepted them and granted him temporary access to her world.
• The gods completed Du Xue’s Middle God sword, and she set off to kill Great Joy Emperor.

Du Xue unleashed a devastating sword strike that killed Great Joy Emperor, but the attack left her gravely injured. Xu Zhi assessed the technique’s enormous burst power and severe limitations as Du Xue began her recovery.

• Du Xue transformed through her Ancestral Witch True Body and zombification states, then released a sword attack that shattered Great Joy Emperor’s defenses.
• Great Joy Emperor tried to resist with his determination and mirror surfaces, but Du Xue’s sword light destroyed him.
• Si Ba Lu, Daughter of Sheng Lin, and Caroline watched in alarm as Du Xue’s strike cleaved the sky and overcame Great Joy Emperor.
• Du Xue fell to the ground gravely injured, and Xia Ni Ming explained that the strike had used Bring Head to Borrow Sword.
• Xu Zhi evaluated the technique as an exceptionally powerful single-target attack whose user became vulnerable after one strike.

Caroline absorbed Great Joy Emperor’s Remnant Soul and planned to pass his technique to powerful gods in her internal world. After reflecting on Caroline’s Parallel Universe and the ninth-rank path, Xu Zhi left the Ancient Lava Land and prepared to integrate a new gene.

• Caroline captured Great Joy Emperor’s Remnant Soul, absorbed it, and learned that his technique could strengthen the gods in her internal universe.
• Caroline planned for Hai Landong to cultivate Great Joy Emperor’s technique and hoped to obtain Du Xue’s technique to build a force of powerful enforcers.
• Xu Zhi considered the ninth-rank threshold and Caroline’s Death God Eternal Life Dao Art, which could give the dead real bodies and return them to the main universe.
• Xu Zhi left the Ancient Lava Land, and Caroline returned to develop her Parallel Universe.
• Xu Zhi reflected on Caroline’s role as the Ancient Lava Land’s multiversal god and worried that she might discover he had no universe inside his body.
• Xu Zhi decided to integrate the System Gene and begin cultivating the Ancient Lava Land’s system.

Xu Zhi fused the Magic Core Gene, transforming his brain and becoming a four-gene lifeform. He began designing a system for his magic core and planned to wait until his Dao Cultivator path reached the Seventh-Order Heavenly Emperor Realm before creating a spiritual world.

• Xu Zhi merged the Magic Core Gene with his Intelligent Sub-brain, enduring extreme pain as his brain and mental power transferred into the magic core.
• Xu Zhi inspected his gene chain and found that he had four genes, with only one slot remaining.
• Xu Zhi discovered that the Magic Core Gene had changed his brain matter into protective cushioning and left the magic core as his only fatal weakness.
• Xu Zhi wrote down how his virtual spiritual world and material world complemented each other, then considered what gene to place in his final slot.
• Xu Zhi began programming his magic core but decided to wait for his Dao Cultivator path to reach the Seventh-Order Heavenly Emperor Realm before creating a virtual world.
• Xu Zhi looked toward the Three Realms, which had fallen into turmoil after the first Monstrosities deity was born.

Six hundred years after the war, Elder Cheng led Shu Mountain disciples through an assessment against the Martyrs and explained their tragic origin. All Knowing Scholar appeared and asked about the Peach Banquet before the group departed, leaving a young man to awaken from a black coffin and wonder whether the scholar was another version of himself.

• Elder Cheng brought Shu Mountain disciples to the former Blood Domain Great World to face the Martyrs, and five disciples failed the assessment.
• Elder Cheng explained that the Martyrs arose from grieving families’ belief that heroes were doomed to become martyrs, and he dismissed disciples whose motives or combat ability did not meet Shu Mountain’s standards.
• All Knowing Scholar appeared, exchanged knowledge with the disciples, and asked when the Heavenly Court’s Peach Banquet would begin.
• After All Knowing Scholar vanished and the disciples left, a young man awoke in a black coffin and realized Hila was sleeping within his sea of consciousness.
• The young man wondered whether All Knowing Scholar was another version of himself.

Xu Zhi explored the Monstrosities of the Mortal World and learned how society had adapted to them over six hundred years. He reunited with Hila, now a Martial Emperor, and saw how her physical cultivation and the Martial God Palace had helped reshape the era.

• Xu Zhi discovered that a dark All Knowing Scholar was an exceptionally intelligent Monstrosity, then identified the hidden dream-walking god Spring Dream.
• Xu Zhi's consciousness stirred, and Hila awakened in a muscular battle form before shrinking back to her slender appearance and explaining her rise to the Heavenly Emperor Realm through physical training.
• Hila told Xu Zhi that Liu Wenjian remained alive through physical cultivation, while the Heavenly Dao and gods such as the Blood Emperor had emerged over the centuries.
• Hila explained that government offices had spread fear of relatively controllable Pseudo Neighbors to direct public fear away from more dangerous Monstrosities.
• Xu Zhi and Hila visited a town where muscular martial artists filled the streets, and Hila revealed that her compressed form still weighed 3,700 pounds.

Xu Zhi explored the Great Zhou Dynasty and examined the body-refining system practiced by the Female Martial God Palace, learning how its members trained and lived. After meeting Xiao Feng, Luo Caiwei, and the others, he learned that Earth Mother Azure Vine was expected to become a god at the upcoming heavenly court Peach Banquet, and went with them to attend.

• Xu Zhi learned how the Mortal Realm's cultivation systems and the united Three Realms had developed, then asked Hila to let him examine her body and blood.
• Hila's immense weight cracked the street when Xu Zhi tested her, and he reflected on the body-refining system and the rivalry between cultivation factions.
• Hila brought Xu Zhi to the Female Martial God Palace, where he met Xiao Tu, Xiao Feng, Luo Caiwei, and the other women who trained their true forms in their Inner Worlds.
• Xu Zhi collected blood from the women and spent several days researching their system and learning about the Three Realms.
• Xiao Feng told Xu Zhi that Earth Mother Azure Vine was expected to become a god at the heavenly court Peach Banquet, and the group took him to attend.

Xu Zhi learned that the mysterious All Knowing Scholar might have designs on the Peach Banquet, then joined the demon girls as they revealed their powerful true forms. After Lin Hongfeng challenged him, Xu Zhi defeated her with a single amplified punch, and the others hurried back to their card game.

• Xu Zhi told Hila and the demon girls about the All Knowing Scholar and his interest in the Peach Banquet.
• Xu Zhi asked to see the girls’ true demon forms, and they revealed that the Martial God Palace’s female Martial Emperors were powerful demons.
• Lin Hongfeng transformed into her muscular battle form and ambushed Xu Zhi, prompting the other girls to gather excitedly around their fight.
• Xu Zhi amplified his strength with wizardry, the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, and Gene Lock, then knocked Lin Hongfeng unconscious with one punch.
• The girls dragged Lin Hongfeng away, returned to human form, and pretended nothing had happened as they resumed playing cards.

Xu Zhi defeated Lin Hongfeng and Pan Xuexian after Pan Xuexian tried to recruit him with a system, then traveled with the Martial God Palace women to the Peach Banquet in the Heavenly Court. The group passed through the South Heaven Gate and entered the Nine Heavens.

• Xu Zhi reflected on the demon girls’ body-cultivation and realized he needed time to adjust to his rapidly advanced realm.
• Pan Xuexian recognized clues linking Messiah Monarch Great Emperor to the ancient conflict between the Super Ancient God and Hermes, then decided to recruit him with a system.
• Pan Xuexian offered Xu Zhi several system choices, including a harem system, but he stayed silent until he discovered her hiding nearby.
• Xu Zhi defeated Pan Xuexian after she transformed into a muscular demon, and the girls dragged her away alongside the unconscious Lin Hongfeng.
• The next morning, Lin Hongfeng and the Martial God Palace group flew to the Heavenly Court for the Peach Banquet and entered through the South Heaven Gate.
• Xu Zhi gazed at the vast, resplendent Immortal World after the group entered the Nine Heavens.

At the Peach Banquet, Xu Zhi watched the Martial God Palace’s female Martial Emperors draw admiration while they discussed their training, systems, and growing lineage. The gathering took a startling turn when the mysterious All Knowing Scholar approached them, despite Hermes also being known to them as the scholar of old.

• Lin Hongfeng refused a fairy’s offer of wine and described the Martial God Palace’s relentless training and discipline.
• Lin Hongfeng explained that the Palace’s female fighters were rare and powerful, while Mu Yuling and Pan Xuexian boasted about the lineage and advantages their system had created.
• Pan Xuexian secretly posted pictures online of herself being beaten up, and Xu Zhi dismissed the cute images as deceptive.
• Xu Zhi noticed the All Knowing Scholar surrounded by admiring Heavenly Emperors, who praised his knowledge and his disciples Hu Renong and Liu Wenjian.
• The Martial God Palace members realized that Hermes was also known as the All Knowing Scholar, and the All Knowing Scholar walked toward them.

At the Peach Banquet, All Knowing Scholar revealed that Monstrosities mirrored the gods and planned to spread fear across the Three Realms by projecting an attack on Earth Mother Azure Vine’s ceremony. As Ghost Night Palace’s assault began and the Beautiful Dream God threatened to grow stronger, Lin Hongfeng stopped All Knowing Scholar by using his rules to make him solve an arithmetic problem.

• All Knowing Scholar revealed to Lin Hongfeng and the female Martial Emperors that Heavenly Emperor Li Mi was the Monstrosity Vanity, and he explained that gods and Monstrosities arose as opposing reflections of the world’s light and darkness.
• All Knowing Scholar disclosed that three thousand Monstrosity Heavenly Emperors were imprisoned in the Shu Mountain Demon Suppression Tower and Styx River, and said Ghost Night Palace had come to the Peach Banquet as Earth Mother Azure Vine’s guardians.
• At the Peach Banquet, All Knowing Scholar’s Monstrosity god pulled the divine palace into a dream while Vanity exposed his monstrous form and attacked the Heavenly Emperors.
• All Knowing Scholar summoned five Monstrosities and projected the battle across the Three Realms, urging all living beings to fear Ghost Night Palace and the Beautiful Dream God.
• Lin Hongfeng confronted All Knowing Scholar with a difficult arithmetic problem, compelling him to stop projecting the disaster and explain how to solve it.

Lin Hongfeng restrained All Knowing Scholar and questioned him about the Evil Clan’s ambitions, but he revealed that the Peach Banquet’s unseen attack could still spread fear. He left her confronting the possibility that her resistance and the broken projection had both served his calculations.

• The sky mirror abruptly shut down, cutting off the mortal world’s view of the attack on the Peach Banquet, while All Knowing Scholar acknowledged the Monstrosities’ disadvantage against the Three Realms.
• Lin Hongfeng told All Knowing Scholar that his channel for spreading fear had been cut off, but he argued that people might fear the unknown even more.
• All Knowing Scholar privately described his goal of ruling the Three Realms, founding an Evil Clan Heavenly Court, and gaining strength from the fear and dread of living beings.
• Lin Hongfeng explained that the Evil Clan would suppress rather than kill powerful gods and mortals because their fear could provide greater incense offerings.
• All Knowing Scholar showed Lin Hongfeng a terrifying vision of the world he wanted to create and claimed that her fear was already nourishing his future rise to godhood.
• All Knowing Scholar suggested that the attack and the loss of the projection might be part of his calculations, leaving Lin Hongfeng alarmed as he continued solving his problem.