Chapter Summaries

Xu Zhi hid in an Arcane Library while the Arcane Gods debated his origins and the meaning of his prophecy. Three years later, Cyberton entered Misha’s life, and as he prepared to act in Wanghe Town, the gods’ descendants watched the final gear of fate begin to turn.

• Vinachi warned Xu Zhi that his words had stirred the world and left him to avoid endangering him.
• Xu Zhi concealed himself in an Arcane Library and studied the era’s arcane knowledge.
• Daughter of Sheng Lin and the Arcane Gods concluded that Xu Zhi might be an ancient magic-core creature and organized a search for him.
• Daughter of Sheng Lin proposed that the prophecy’s final line could concern Misha, Elusa, or Cyberton being castrated, with the event setting an upheaval in motion.
• Three years later, Cyberton arrived in the great city, impressed Misha with his talent, and spent ten years working at her carriage company.
• Cyberton’s companions encouraged him to act in Wanghe Town, while hidden descendants of deities watched and debated which of them would become the era’s protagonist.

Xu Zhi watched his prophecy about Elusa unfold in Riverwatch Town as a local Monstrosity drove the villagers to attack her. Cyberton fused with the creature and fought Elusa, whose arcane sword awakened with the power of a rising emperor.

• Xu Zhi asked Beautiful Dream God to help carry out his plan and continued studying arcane knowledge, regretting that his casual warning had set events in motion.
• The villagers of Riverwatch Town stormed Elusa’s home, and Misha and Elusa fought their way through the mob.
• Cyberton healed his wound, but the villagers’ resentment fused with him and transformed him into a Shikigami empowered by the Monstrosity Accumulated Grievances Become Disease.
• Beautiful Dream God realized that the Three Pillar Gods had exploited the unfolding prophecy to make Cyberton a protagonist of the era.
• Cyberton attacked Misha and Elusa, but Elusa’s Son of Heaven Sword erupted with power and clashed with him.

Elusa and Misha fought Cyberton after Elusa’s sword gave birth to an evil god that could restrain him, but Cyberton escaped. Beautiful Dream God and the Arcane Gods realized the conflict had been engineered to create Cyberton’s weakness and began searching for the mysterious ancient being behind it.

• Elusa and Misha attacked Cyberton, whose power Elusa’s sword naturally countered, and he fled into the darkness after declaring he would return.
• The carriage-house observers split up, with some choosing to follow Cyberton and others choosing Misha and Elusa.
• Beautiful Dream God concluded that someone had created a weakness for the Three Pillar Gods by giving Cyberton great power and making Elusa his natural enemy.
• The Arcane Gods discussed how the mysterious ancient being had used hidden information and the sword’s transformation to turn Cyberton’s rise into his downfall.
• The Arcane Gods agreed to keep searching for the mysterious ancient existence.

Cyberton’s fusion with Monstrosities let him conquer Skyrim Province and establish the Sacred Hundred Flowers Dynasty centuries ahead of schedule, while the Three Pillar Gods fought for control of him and their subordinate gods began rebelling. Xu Zhi watched the upheaval and the public’s wild reactions, then turned to studying the principles of the arcane art.

• Cyberton spread terror and infection across Skyrim Province, brought it under his rule, and founded the Sacred Hundred Flowers Dynasty.
• Xu Zhi reflected that the Three Pillar Gods were struggling over Cyberton while their gods rebelled, creating an opening for the Six Realms.
• People in the National Arcane Library discussed Skyrim Province’s horrific infection, and rumors spread that Mentor Bidsey and his students had fallen there.
• Online fans praised Messiah for helping Elusa, while businesses rushed to sell Messiah-themed merchandise and self-defense products.
• Forum users debated the coming disaster in the Ancient Lava Land, and Mao Tiao proposed Balloon Fish as a key variable.
• Xu Zhi secretly checked whether anyone was targeting him, closed the internet, and began organizing what he had learned about the arcane art.

Xu Zhi studied the Ancient Lava Land’s arcana and recognized it as a continuation of Ixdar technology, then continued preparing to become a god by cultivating body refinement. The chapter ended with Caroline discovering the Ancient Lava Land’s changes and entering the conflict between the two worlds.

• Xu Zhi analyzed the arcane models and realized they were spiritual versions of mechanical weapons that continued Ixdar civilization’s technology.
• Xu Zhi left his avatar in the Ancient Lava Land while divisions among its factions delayed their search for Messiah Monarch Great Emperor.
• Xu Zhi checked on Medusa and the Phoenix, whose bodies had both transformed after absorbing mysterious substances.
• Xu Zhi weighed the energy and time required to reach godhood, then began cultivating body refinement to complete his collection of systems.
• Xu Zhi noticed that Caroline had returned to the Ancient Lava Land and discovered its changes, raising concerns that she could disrupt the coming war.

Caroline completed her Small Universe and reflected on the universe’s cycles before discovering that the Ancient Lava Land had connected to the world from the stories. After locating a path toward Dao Changsheng, she appeared before the Arcane Gods and challenged them to choose between her and the Pillar Gods.

• Caroline finished calibrating the forty-seven planets and contemplated the universe’s eventual death and rebirth.
• She returned to the Ancient Lava Land, where she discovered that Pseudo Neighbor, Xiao Wei, and other Monstrosities had arrived from another world.
• Caroline used her knowledge and counterfeit Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique to locate a suspected path to Dao Changsheng’s world.
• Caroline sensed Xu Zhi watching her and chose to settle her retreat and test the current era’s strength.
• Caroline appeared atop an Arcane Tower and asked the Arcane Gods whether they served the Pillar Gods or her, the ruler of the old era.

Caroline, revealed as the ancient Sacred Sakura Great Emperor, forced the Three Pillar Gods to suspend fate for an hour so she could travel to another world without being tracked. She left the Arcane Tower and crossed through time and space toward the world where Dao Changsheng sensed her arrival.

• The gods learned that Caroline was the Sacred Sakura Great Emperor, and she demanded that all living beings be put to sleep while she traveled to another world.
• Caroline killed two gods who opposed her, then transformed their corpses into white porcelain servants with her Death God Eternal Life ability and declared herself the Fourth Pillar God.
• Du Xue refused to shut down fate, but the Three Pillar Gods agreed to suspend it for one hour, and Caroline left the Arcane Tower.
• Caroline traveled through time and space to meet the characters in the story, while Dao Changsheng sensed a terrifying presence arriving in his world.

Balloon Fish revealed that Caroline, now the Fourth Pillar God Sakura Great Emperor, had forced the Three Pillar Gods to shut down the Hour of Fate so she could enter the Ancient Lava Land. Caroline approached Dao Changsheng and offered to alter his mind and infect him, then traveled to the Demon World, where Ermin confronted her.

• Balloon Fish told the group that Sakura Great Emperor had defeated the Three Pillar Gods and made them shut down the Hour of Fate, then warned that she had descended into their world.
• Caroline appeared before Dao Changsheng and offered to remove flaws in his mind and make him one of her people, but he refused.
• After Caroline vanished, Dao Changsheng told the gathered gods that she infected people by killing them and knew their world's history.
• Caroline searched the Demon World for Medusa, then cleared the sky with a blast and drew the attention of its gods.
• Ermin emerged from the Netherworld and identified Caroline as a Pillar God from another world.

Caroline, the Fourth Pillar God, met Ermin and revealed that she could infect the Six Realms but refused to use that tactic. With the Dao Lord fallen, she challenged Ermin to defeat her or be ruled, and the chapter ended as they prepared to fight.

• Caroline arrived as the Fourth Pillar God and sat with Ermin, asking about Medusa, the Origin Demon God, and the Dao Lord.
• Caroline explained that she had used a modified Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique to find Dao Changsheng and that her tangible form ruled intangible subjects.
• Ermin told Caroline that the Dao Lord had fallen and that Grantham had saved her and extended her lifespan.
• Caroline said she would not infect the Six Realms, but changed her mind about challenging them openly after learning the Dao Lord was gone.
• Caroline challenged Ermin to defeat her or be ruled, and Ermin sent the others back before agreeing to fight.
• Xu Zhi watched the two gods face off while Medusa slept beside him.

Ermin and Caroline fought after both revealed that they had mastered the other world's body cultivation techniques and arcane arts, with Caroline gaining the advantage through her Mental Universe and greater experience. As Ermin began to falter, Earth Mother Azure Vine summoned a mysterious black serpent from beyond the void, revealing the world’s own causal-law weapons.

• Earth Mother Azure Vine told the gods to activate the Demon World Land Dragon Vein Array Map and explained how far Ermin and Caroline had progressed along the Ninth-Order Road.
• Ermin and Caroline transformed into enormous bodies and fought, each wielding copied techniques from the other's world.
• Caroline used her Mental Universe and the arcane art Kaguya to trap Ermin in a cage of light and gradually gain the upper hand.
• Xu Zhi watched the battle and considered how cultivating multiple systems might make the Ninth-Order Road harder to complete.
• Earth Mother Azure Vine summoned a vast black serpent through a dark gate, identifying causal law weapons as the world's answer to arcane arts.

Ermin wielded the Guixu World as a world-level causality weapon, but Caroline revealed that she could summon her civilization’s gods and assemble a powerful mechanical battle armor. The confrontation ended with Ermin agreeing to stop the war, while the two sides’ weapons revealed their shared pursuit of a path toward a Ninth-Order World.

• Earth Mother Azure Vine revealed that the Guixu World was a living monstrosity and gave Ermin its destructive causality weapon.
• Ermin’s whip shattered Caroline’s Mirror Reflection and corrupted Sakura Great Emperor’s White Porcelain Bone Umbrella.
• Caroline proposed ending the conflict, but Ermin challenged her claim that she could leave safely.
• Caroline opened a passage to her Mental Universe, materialized more than seventy gods, and formed a vast mechanical battle armor from her remaining body.
• Caroline warned Ermin that the Ixdar People’s battle machine was a world-level weapon, and Ermin agreed to stop the war.

After the conflict ended, Ermin and Caroline set aside their hostility and began exchanging knowledge and resources between their civilizations. The chapter left Meng Mei watching the two leaders forge a profitable alliance in the Netherworld.

• Ermin and Caroline agreed that they could become friends as equals and withdrew their true forms to continue talking in the Netherworld.
• Meng Mei announced that the crisis had ended, and the internet mocked her report about the leaders’ friendly military exercise and negotiations.
• Ermin and Caroline discussed their battle’s gains, then Caroline toured the Alchemy Emperor’s laboratory and admired the Six Realms’ living matter and dense spiritual energy.
• Caroline traded a Second Generation Whole Clan figurine to Ermin for access to matter.
• Caroline gave Ermin a magic core containing the Three Pillar Gods era’s arcane knowledge in exchange for Ermin’s use of the Barren Ancient Humans’ bloodline and the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique.

Caroline and the Alchemy Emperor exchanged ideas about creating a Mental Universe inside an artificial magic core, while the gods discussed its limits and possible improvements. Their conversation gave Xu Zhi inspiration for a new world and a true multiverse.

• Caroline and the Alchemy Emperor discussed how every realm could be considered a bottle and shared ideas for overcoming the Alchemy Emperor’s inability to leave his own.
• Caroline proposed turning an octahedral magic core into a bottle and gave the Alchemy Emperor Fenba’s divine magic core as a reference for building an artificial brain.
• The gods discussed how a Mental Universe could house ghosts but could not create new life or reach the domain of the God of Creation.
• Meng Mei offered to advise on the array patterns inside an artificial magic core, and Dao Changsheng, Liu Wenjian, and the Blood Emperor listened.
• Xu Zhi recognized that the gods’ discussion had inspired a new world, a true multiverse, and ordered the Intelligent Sub-brain to record their words and actions.

Xu Zhi decided to develop the Soul World into a new sandbox and considered a future of glass-bottle universes on his bookshelf. Meanwhile, Caroline left to explore the Six Realms, but Meng Mei stopped her for a photo.

• Xu Zhi chose the Soul World as a possible fourth sandbox, hoping its Magic Core Brain research would help him create a mental universe.
• Xu Zhi imagined a bookshelf of glass bottles, each containing a universe, and watched the gods continue their research in the underworld.
• Ermin and the Alchemy Emperor returned to their laboratory to experiment with magic cores.
• Caroline set out to study the Six Realms, including Dao Lord's body, the Martial God Palace, and Hermes's remnant consciousness.
• Meng Mei asked Caroline to pose for photographs and directed her through several poses.

Caroline and Meng Mei traveled through the demon realm to find Hermes, discussing why the Six Realms had been able to undergo reform while the Ancient Lava Land remained oppressive. They encountered a farmer who explained how vast lands and belief in fate kept people from resisting, and Meng Mei denied that she could reform the other world.

• Meng Mei offered to lead Caroline to Hermes, and Caroline accepted in exchange for the photos she had taken.
• Caroline praised Meng Mei’s character and public trust as the reasons she had been able to lead land reform in the Six Realms.
• Caroline and Meng Mei met a farmer who had once been a physical education teacher and history lecturer.
• The farmer explained that vast territories made people believe destruction would affect someone else, while belief in fate discouraged resistance.
• Caroline suggested the Ancient Lava Land should join Meng Mei’s Earth Mother Pillar, but Meng Mei said the Three Pillar Gods would stop her.
• The farmer put away his hoe and asked why the gods from another world had come to find him.

Caroline sought Hermes’s guidance on reaching the ninth order, but his brief answer left her searching through history for its meaning. At the village blacksmith, she recognized the story of Liu Wenjian forging her arm into the Bingyi Sword as a clue to the fusion of soul and flesh.

• Meng Mei secretly told the players that Caroline’s meeting with Hermes might reveal a complicated ancient history.
• Caroline asked Hermes how she could become his successor and fulfill his mission, then said she feared she would not reach the ninth order in time.
• Hermes asked Caroline to explain the ninth order and said its answer had already been given long ago.
• Meng Mei explained how past questions had been answered through historical events, prompting Caroline to search for the relevant history.
• Caroline recalled Liu Wenjian forging her arm into the Bingyi Sword and realized that the story described the fusion of soul and flesh.

Meng Mei recognized that Hermes had embedded the concept and method of ninth-order advancement in the mortal systems he taught centuries earlier. She and Caroline traveled to Mount Shu to study its sword lineage, while Meng Mei wondered whether she could inherit the ancient being’s position.

• Meng Mei realized that Hermes had taught Hu Renong and Liu Wenjian systems that foreshadowed Caroline’s explanations of ninth-order life and advancement.
• Caroline stopped Meng Mei from approaching Hermes again, and the two left to visit Mount Shu.
• On the way, Caroline studied body cultivators, Pan Xuexian’s system chip, and a prescription before they departed two days later.
• Meng Mei asked Caroline about the truth between the Super Ancient God and Hermes, but Caroline said some truths were better left unknown.
• At Mount Shu, Meng Mei watched the disciples practice swordsmanship and questioned whether she could take over the position of an ancient existence.

Caroline discovered that Shu Mountain’s brutal sword-forging tradition embodied a form of Soul-Flesh Unity that could inform the Ninth-Order path, and she joined the mountain to learn its spirit and discipline. After the revelation spread, gods from across the Six Realms sealed their divine power and began climbing Shu Mountain, while Xu Zhi continued preparing the Origin Land for his new world.

• Liu Wenjian showed Caroline Shu Mountain’s forges and explained how disciples endured years of training before sacrificing an arm to forge a sword.
• Caroline realized that Shu Mountain disciples fused their arms’ souls and flesh into their swords, explaining why their arms could never be restored.
• Caroline proposed that Shu Mountain’s ordeal could guide Ninth-Order cultivation and asked Liu Wenjian to let her join as an ordinary disciple.
• Earth Mother Azure Vine spread the revelation, prompting gods across the Six Realms to connect Shu Mountain’s path to the Ninth-Order road.
• More than a dozen gods sealed their divine power and began climbing Shu Mountain to seek the Dao.
• Xu Zhi continued arranging his study as the Origin Land of his planned Crystal Wall System world.

Ermin and the Alchemy Emperor completed an artificial magic core that could house Quality, and Xu Zhi used their research to begin making Genesis Bottles in his new laboratory. He explained how the bottles could contain virtual universes, then carried the sleeping Medusa inside to begin his experiment.

• Ermin and the Alchemy Emperor spent years developing a transparent artificial magic core, then placed Quality inside and confirmed it worked.
• The Intelligent Sub-brain notified Xu Zhi that their research was complete, and he reviewed their records in his newly equipped laboratory.
• Xu Zhi accelerated time and learned the process before producing glass Magic Core Bottles from clay and engraving neural pathways into them.
• Xu Zhi described the bottles as walls around virtual universes, whose parameters he could set and which could connect into a Crystal Wall System.
• Xu Zhi carried the sleeping Medusa into the laboratory to begin his experiment.

Xu Zhi studied Medusa’s rapidly evolving body and placed her in a glass bottle to test a carefully calibrated Mental Universe. With the bottle world prepared, he was ready to wake Medusa and begin the experiment.

• Xu Zhi examined tissue samples from Medusa and found that her 129,600 organisms had become far more compatible as she evolved toward maturity.
• Xu Zhi estimated that Medusa needed another day or so to finish evolving and decided to keep her in his laboratory.
• Xu Zhi placed Medusa inside a glass bottle and adjusted the Mental Universe’s environmental and world parameters to match reality as closely as possible.
• Xu Zhi added water, animals, plants, and salt to the bottle, then sealed it with Medusa inside.
• Xu Zhi connected two more glass bottles to Medusa’s bottle and prepared to wake her.