Chapter Summaries

Gu Shen, Chu Ling, Bai Xiu, and Bai Xiaochi coordinated their powers to trap Gu Lushen on the Snowy Wasteland. Gu Shen severed Gu Lushen’s hand, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Gu Lushen attacked Bai Xiu, who revealed the Thunder Realm Walker’s true form and blocked the strike by drawing in nearby Transcendent Source Matter.
• Chu Ling controlled thousands of Clear Tomb Array Pattern strands, using her calculations to target Gu Lushen’s weaknesses and steer his movements.
• Gu Lushen shattered a forming array cage and turned back to attack Bai Xiu, but Bai Xiaochi used Shadow Illumination and Bai clan patterns to lock him into the completed trap.
• Gu Shen combined the Iron Throne, Blazing Fire, and Truth Ruler to form an iron sword and cut off Gu Lushen’s hand.

Gu Shen and the Bai family nearly killed Gu Lushen, but a mental Snow Tide shattered their trap and let him escape with all five family head tokens. Gu Shen pursued him toward the Colossus Ruins, while Bai Xiaochi noticed a white shadow clinging to Gu Shen’s golden radiance.

• Gu Shen severed Gu Lushen’s hands and limbs with his iron sword while Chu Ling’s Golden Thread Jade Garment trapped him, and Bai Xiaochi refused to help Gu Lushen break free.
• A powerful mental ripple unleashed a Snow Tide, and Gu Lushen used Obscure Moon to deflect Gu Shen’s sword before charging into the storm and breaking the cage garment.
• The Snow Tide severed Gu Shen’s Mental Link with Chu Ling, while Gu Lushen regenerated his limbs with the God of Wine's Throne's Divine Power and recovered the last Li family token.
• Gu Lushen flew toward the Colossus Ruins to activate the array suppressing the Third Fire Seed, believing he could claim its power and become God's Throne Gu.
• Bai Xiaochi found Gu Shen and Bai Xiu safe, and Gu Shen immediately chased Gu Lushen as Bai Xiaochi saw a familiar white shadow beside him.

Bai Xiu and Bai Xiaochi organized the evacuation of Clear Tomb Cemetery as the King of the Underworld Fire Seed awakened, while Chu Ling and Master Chino worked to open the exit. Gu Shen pursued Gu Lushen to the Colossus Ruins and called on Bai Zhu, whose voice answered him.

• Bai Xiu handed the unconscious Li Qingsui to Bai Xiaochi, then agreed to help evacuate the cemetery instead of following Gu Shen.
• Chu Ling learned that an ownerless Fire Seed lay beneath the Colossus Ruins and warned that a mental tsunami would soon threaten everyone in the cemetery.
• Bai Lu arrived with nearly a hundred Bai Family transcendents and reported that Gu Shen had already sent them to find scattered survivors.
• Chu Ling assigned the evacuation search and said she and Master Chino would try to decipher the Golden Gate and open the cemetery's exit.
• Gu Shen followed Gu Lushen to the Colossus Ruins and called out to Bai Zhu, asking him to fight; a voice answered, "Yes."

Gu Shen reunited with Bai Zhu, who revealed his connection to A-009 and explained the origin of Nagano’s Five Great Families. As Gu Lushen activated the Colossus Ruins and exposed the Fire Seed, Bai Zhu reversed the array’s power and began closing the rift.

• Gu Lushen attacked Gu Shen with Obscure Moon, but Bai Zhu emerged from the snow and shattered the domain without being sensed.
• Bai Zhu thanked Gu Shen for restoring his hope and revealed that he and Zhou Jiren had sought to revive an uncontrolled one named Li Rou, also known as A-009.
• Bai Zhu explained that five ancient travelers gained power from the colossal statues and founded Nagano’s Five Great Families.
• Gu Lushen activated the Colossus Ruins with the five Family Head's Orders, opening a rift that revealed a Fire Seed.
• Bai Zhu said he had absorbed all the Bai colossal statue’s bloodline power, then reversed the array and began closing the rift.

Bai Zhu confronted Gu Lushen in the Colossus Ruins and stripped away the God of Wine's Throne's Divine Power. After defeating Gu Lushen through all one hundred of his lives in a fair duel, Bai Zhu took his head, leaving the spark behind him.

• The Wooden Tokens activated the Colossus Ruins' bloodline array, and Bai Zhu began reversing the Snow Tide while Gu Shen watched.
• Bai Zhu dismantled Gu Lushen's powered punch, shattered his body, and used reversal to strip away the Divine Power of the God of Wine's Throne.
• Bai Zhu offered Gu Lushen a fair duel without reversal, promising the spark if Gu Lushen could defeat him once.
• Gu Lushen repeatedly attacked using only his completed Obscure Moon, but Bai Zhu shattered him until all one hundred of his lives were spent.
• Gu Lushen gave up, and Bai Zhu took his head and tossed it onto the snow.

Gu Shen and Bai Zhu examined Gu Lushen’s corpse and discussed the strict requirements for controlling a Fire Seed, learning that Gu Lushen had been disqualified by his past contact with other divine powers. Gu Shen urged Bai Zhu to tame the King of the Underworld Fire Seed and join the ongoing God War, but Bai Zhu revealed that he could not because he had touched the Fighting Fire Seed years earlier.

• Gu Shen and Bai Zhu examined Gu Lushen’s corpse, and Bai Zhu explained the immense cost of controlling a Fire Seed.
• Bai Zhu restored Gu Lushen’s severed head and praised his spirit and Fire Seed-affine body after he had endured repeated deaths in battle.
• Bai Zhu explained that Gu Lushen’s contact with the Fighting Fire Seed and the God of Wine’s Throne had tainted him, making him unable to tame the King of the Underworld Fire Seed.
• Gu Shen reasoned that Fire Seeds’ rejection of people carrying other divine powers helped preserve peace among the Thrones of God.
• Gu Shen felt a strange familiarity as he looked at the King of the Underworld Fire Seed’s black flames, while Bai Zhu assured him that contemplating a Fire Seed Dream would not affect him.
• Gu Shen urged Bai Zhu to tame the King of the Underworld Fire Seed and join the God War, but Bai Zhu said he could not because he had touched the Fighting Fire Seed years earlier.

Bai Zhu explained that the King of the Underworld Fire Seed was awakening and that his reversal flow could only delay the disaster. As the Transcendents gathered at the Meeting Point, Gu Shen joined the effort to hold back the approaching mental tsunami while Chu Ling continued decrypting the Golden Gate.

• Bai Zhu said the King of the Underworld Fire Seed would revive unless a Throne of God intervened, and gave the Wooden Tokens to Gu Shen.
• Bai Xiaochi and other teams assembled more than five hundred Transcendents at the Meeting Point while Chu Ling worked to decrypt the Golden Gate.
• Chu Ling warned that the next mental tsunami would arrive before the Golden Gate was fully decrypted, and a massive Snow Tide surged across the Snowy Wasteland.
• The gathered Transcendents joined their powers to form a barrier, but the Snow Tide kept advancing.
• Gu Shen appeared before the avalanche and used golden array patterns to slow it, while Bai Xiaochi saw an elderly figure behind him helping resist the force.

After the Golden Gate opened, the Transcendents escaped Clear Tomb Cemetery and exposed Zhu Wang and Han Dang as believers of the God of Wine's Throne. Zhu Wang and Han Dang tried to flee, but Gu Nanfeng and Song Ci arrived to block their path.

• Bai Xiaochi organized the Transcendents' evacuation as the Golden Gate appeared and they emerged from Clear Tomb Cemetery.
• Zhu Wang and Han Dang sensed the God of Wine's Throne's Divine Power fading and discussed fleeing Nagano for the Source Tower if their plan had failed.
• Zhou Wei and Mountain Master saw the wounded Transcendents return through the Golden Gate, and Bai Xiaochi told them to arrest Zhu Wang and Han Dang.
• Mountain Master attacked Zhu Wang and Han Dang, but Han Dang struck back with the Truth Domain and Divine Power, allowing them to break free and flee.
• Mountain Master struck Han Dang, and Gu Nanfeng cut his cheek with a wind blade before stopping their escape.
• Song Ci arrived with Transcendents from Dadu, revealed his Apostle Emblem's power, and joined Gu Nanfeng in confronting Zhu Wang and Han Dang.

Song Ci defeated Han Dang as the God of Wine's Throne reclaimed its power, while Zhu Wang surrendered and the pair were arrested. Song Ci then entered Clear Tomb Cemetery to reach Gu Shen, but the collapsing Golden Gate shattered and left him gravely burned; he saw that Gu Shen had endured an even worse blast.

• Song Ci overwhelmed Han Dang with a knee strike and two slaps, then knocked him unconscious as the God of Wine's Throne withdrew its Divine Power.
• Gu Nanfeng held Zhu Wang back until Mountain Master and Zhou Wei arrived, after which Zhu Wang surrendered and Han Dang and Zhu Wang were arrested.
• Song Ci learned Gu Shen was still inside Clear Tomb Cemetery and decided to enter despite Gu Nanfeng's warning about the collapse.
• The Golden Gate shattered under the Great Avalanche as Song Ci entered, and he fell outside with severe burns.
• Song Ci saw Gu Shen inside the cemetery had endured an explosion several times more violent than his own.

Gu Shen survived the King of the Underworld Fire Seed’s Snow Tide and witnessed the seed in his Four Seasons Wilderness grow into a Su Xuan Wood. There he met Gu Changzhi, who revealed that he was already dead and recognized Gu Shen as the new King of the Underworld.

• Bai Zhu withdrew his reversal as the Snow Tide hit Gu Shen, but the cemetery’s invisible barrier kept the tide from breaking inside.
• Gu Shen awoke in the Four Seasons Wilderness, where Tie Wu told him the seed he had planted had just sprouted.
• Gu Shen approached the seed as Blazing Fire and the wilderness’s accumulated Transcendent Source Matter fueled its rapid growth into a towering Su Xuan Wood.
• Gu Changzhi appeared to Gu Shen beside the tree and explained that Di Jiu had entered the cemetery and that the released Great Cold Disaster Zone could not hold him for long.
• Gu Changzhi told Gu Shen he was already dead, then called him the King of the Underworld, Gu Shen.

Gu Shen learned that the King of the Underworld Fire Seed had chosen him, making him the next King of the Underworld, though he was not yet strong enough to fuse with it. Gu Changzhi revealed that the Pure Land and Su Xuan Wood could help Gu Shen face the coming God War, and asked him to find his remains and awaken him so he could fight for Nagano once more.

• Gu Shen asked whether he had once been the King of the Underworld, and Gu Changzhi explained that Gu Shen carried the familiar aura of his former close friend, the previous King of the Underworld.
• Gu Changzhi told Gu Shen that the King of the Underworld Fire Seed had chosen him, but warned that he was not yet strong enough to fuse with it and that its power could erode his spirit.
• Gu Changzhi revealed that the King of the Underworld had helped create the Four Seasons Wilderness and dreamed of a Pure Land where the dead could gain new life.
• Gu Changzhi showed Gu Shen how the Su Xuan Wood and Pure Land could let him face the God War with only a wisp of Fire Seed power.
• Gu Changzhi asked Gu Shen to find his remains and use the Pure Land to awaken him so he could burn once more for Nagano.

After the Golden Gate shattered, the God of Wine's Throne escaped the frozen inner cemetery and learned that Gu Changzhi's death had left Nagano without its protector. As the Throne confronted Chu Ling, the King of the Underworld struck Gu Changzhi's tomb with an arrow, igniting a pillar of Soul Fire.

• Song Ci regained consciousness outside Clear Tomb Cemetery and told Gu Nanfeng that Gu Shen had endured the avalanche tide, while Bai Lu reported that Chu Ling remained trapped inside.
• The God of Wine's Throne's Divine Power destroyed the cemetery's Holy Light Barrier, leaving the survivors to fear that Gu Changzhi had failed to stop him.
• The God of Wine's Throne opened his eyes, concluded that Gu Changzhi was dead, and emerged from the stone gate to face Chu Ling.
• Chu Ling rescued Master Chino from the God of Wine's Throne and fled toward Gu Shen, while the Throne sensed ominous black clouds gathering over the cemetery.
• The King of the Underworld fired an arrow at Gu Changzhi's mountain tomb, collapsing it and sending the Soul Fire of the deceased blazing into the sky.

Gu Shen’s arrow awakened Gu Changzhi’s light, allowing him to confront the God of Wine’s Throne above Clear Tomb Cemetery. Gu Changzhi defeated Di Jiu and made him pay for opening his eyes by blinding him.

• Gu Shen fired an arrow toward the Wilderness Mystic Realm, and a pillar of light rose above Clear Tomb Cemetery.
• Zhou Wei and the others saw the light protect the aircraft and recognized it as Gu Changzhi’s power.
• Gu Changzhi appeared behind Di Jiu and reminded him that he had been forbidden to open his eyes.
• Di Jiu gathered his bestowed Divine Power and attacked Gu Changzhi with a vast Purple Sea.
• Gu Changzhi tore through the Purple Sea, seized Di Jiu, and burned his eyes until he became blind.

Gu Changzhi defeated the God of Wine's Throne, burning away his sight and overwhelming his Purple Sea. Gu Shen then struck the final blow, and Gu Changzhi destroyed the still-living God of Wine's Throne's head.

• Gu Changzhi burned out the God of Wine's Throne's eyes and told him he was far weaker, then offered him the chance to die with dignity.
• The God of Wine's Throne unleashed his Purple Sea and fled, but Gu Changzhi's Fighting Fire Seed compressed and burned it.
• The God of Wine's Throne detonated his Purple Sea, and Gu Changzhi used the Clear Tomb Grand Array to contain the blast before punching him into the Bastion of Light.
• Gu Shen emerged from the black clouds and severed the God of Wine's Throne's head with his Iron Axe.
• Gu Changzhi caught the still-living head and smashed it apart.

Gu Shen and Gu Changzhi killed the God of Wine's Throne, freeing Tie Wu from his fear and ending the God War. As Gu Shen and the others hid in the black clouds, the Sky God's Throne arrived and confronted Gu Changzhi.

• Gu Changzhi struck the God of Wine's Throne with one punch, killing him, and the watching Nagano transcendents learned of his victory.
• Tie Wu sensed the God of Wine's Throne's death, received confirmation from Gu Shen, and silently thanked him.
• Gu Shen reunited with Chu Ling, Master Chino, and Bai Zhu, but Gu Changzhi warned them to hide as a powerful presence approached.
• The Sky God's Throne descended over Clear Tomb Cemetery on a red Thunder Dragon, and Gu Changzhi challenged him about whether he intended to fight.

Sky God's Throne arrived at Nagano to claim the God of Wine's Fire Seed, while Gu Changzhi resisted and negotiated its return in exchange for repealing the Awakening Act in Eastern Continent. The chapter ended with Sky God's Throne agreeing to withdraw the proposal there and saying the act would instead be implemented in Southern Continent.

• Sky God's Throne stopped above the cemetery and refused Gu Changzhi's challenge, recognizing that Gu Changzhi was trying to lure him into a fight with the King of the Underworld.
• Sky God's Throne sensed Gu Shen hidden in the King of the Underworld's black clouds, but Bai Zhu shielded him and Gu Shen concealed his emotions.
• Sky God's Throne demanded the God of Wine's Fire Seed, arguing that Eastern Continent already had two Fire Seeds and that the Source Tower needed the God of Wine's power.
• Gu Changzhi agreed to hand over the Fire Seed if the Source Tower permanently repealed the Awakening Act.
• Sky God's Throne said he could only guarantee the act's repeal in Eastern Continent and revealed that he planned to implement it in Southern Continent.

Gu Changzhi completed his bargain with Sky God's Throne, surrendering God of Wine's Fire Seed to protect the Eastern Continent from the Awakening Act. As his life neared its end, he offered Fighting Fire Seed to Bai Zhu, who reached for it after Gu Changzhi challenged him to become Fighting God's Throne and fight him again.

• Gu Changzhi threw God of Wine's Fire Seed to Sky God's Throne, who accepted it and left the Eastern Continent.
• After Sky God's Throne departed, Gu Shen, Bai Zhu, and Chu Ling emerged from the King of the Underworld black cloud and learned that Gu Changzhi had little time left.
• Gu Changzhi warned that the Eastern Continent still needed a Throne of God while Gu Shen worked toward smelting King of the Underworld Fire Seed.
• Gu Changzhi offered Fighting Fire Seed to Bai Zhu and explained that its meaning was not simply winning every battle.
• Gu Changzhi challenged Bai Zhu to refine Fighting Fire Seed and become Fighting God's Throne if he wanted another chance to fight him.
• Bai Zhu took a deep breath and reached toward Fighting Fire Seed.

Bai Zhu inherited the Fighting Fire Seed from Gu Changzhi, taking responsibility for Eastern Continent as Gu Changzhi relinquished his power and began to age. In Gu Shen’s Pure Land, Gu Changzhi reunited with the revived Chino, who told him she had chosen everything willingly.

• Bai Zhu fused with the Fighting Fire Seed, and Gu Changzhi recognized him as Bai the Invincible and entrusted Eastern Continent to him.
• Gu Changzhi let go of the Fighting Fire Seed’s power, aged rapidly, and asked Gu Shen to see him and Chino off.
• Gu Shen brought Gu Changzhi and Chino into his Pure Land beneath the Su Xuan Wood, where the laws of life and death could preserve her mind.
• Gu Changzhi dispersed the Great Cold, and Chino awakened in his arms and realized their reunion was real.
• Chino touched Gu Changzhi’s cheek and told him she had willingly accepted everything.

As her soul faded beneath the Su Xuan Tree, Chino asked to see Chu Ling and revealed that she had come from the Old World. She explained how she survived the wreck of a massive mothership and was rescued by Gu Changzhi, leaving Chu Ling with startling questions about the world beyond the Great Walls.

• Gu Changzhi used the Fighting God Power to repair Chino's shattered face, while Gu Shen tried and failed to keep her soul from dissipating.
• Chino told Gu Shen she had accepted her fate, then asked to speak with Chu Ling.
• Chino revealed to Chu Ling that she was not from the Five Continents but had come from the Old World beyond the northern Great Walls.
• Chino recounted waking in a Hibernation Pod inside a gap in a ruined mothership surrounded by black holes of Order Collapse.
• Chino said she had survived because she met Gu Changzhi, who had ventured into the distant Old World.

Chino asked Chu Ling to take over the cemetery’s array inscriptions, warned her about the cost of Forbidden Arts, and revealed that Chu Ling’s body was slowly dissipating. Gu Changzhi explained his past battle with the King of the Underworld before revealing that his fatal mission had been to capture the world-famous fugitive Alan Turing.

• Chino asked Chu Ling to manage the cemetery’s array inscriptions, and Chu Ling agreed.
• Chino warned Chu Ling that the Divination Technique carried a price and said her body needed Transcendent Source Matter to endure.
• Gu Shen asked Gu Changzhi whether the Pure Land could preserve him, and Gu Changzhi explained that containing his spirit was far beyond Gu Shen’s current power.
• Gu Changzhi told Gu Shen that the King of the Underworld had asked him to kill him after a three-day battle, but that the battle had not caused his death.
• Gu Changzhi revealed that the Federal Government had assigned him an SSS-Rank mission to capture a fugitive in the Old World: his old friend, Alan Turing.