Chapter Summaries

Xilos recognized that Kolun had bypassed her power and begun sacrificing himself to draw on the Elf Tree, while Mei Fu was dormant inside it. Shen Yi used Time Reversal to undo the sacrifice, leaving Kolun before the glowing tree and its faint emerald phantom.

• Xilos realized Kolun was sacrificing himself by drawing directly on the Elf Tree and had placed Mei Fu into dormancy.
• Xilos nearly collapsed after seeing Kolun's sacrifice, but Shen Yi restored her with a pale bubble and reminded her not to let Kolun's sacrifice go to waste.
• Xilos explained that Kolun's sacrifice was still in its initial stage and tried to stop him herself.
• Shen Yi questioned why Xilos kept taking everything upon herself and enveloped the ice crystal in a gray-white bubble.
• Shen Yi reversed the power around Kolun, undoing his sacrifice until Kolun stood before a small glowing tree containing a faint emerald phantom.

Shen Yi returned to Mountain City and saw that Long Aoshuang had successfully reorganized the Shelter and helped the city recover. His arrival caused Lin Tu to mistake Natalie for his daughter, and Lin Zhiwei came out after hearing the commotion.

• Shen Yi told Xilos that Kolun had sacrificed himself because Xilos was too weak, then released Kolun from the time field and left with Natalie.
• Shen Yi inspected Mountain City and saw that Long Aoshuang had reduced and refined the Guard Team while distributing protection and resources throughout the recovering city.
• Lin Tu saw Natalie sitting close to Shen Yi and assumed he had fathered a child with another woman.
• Lin Tu tried to alert the other women through Shen Yi's Mental Link, but Shen Yi blocked her message.
• Lin Zhiwei emerged from her laboratory after Lin Tu called for help and continued complaining about the disturbance.

Shen Yi returned to the research institute and found Lin Zhiwei exhausted from working without rest, so she collapsed into his arms and slept for fourteen hours. He told Lin Tu that he planned to reduce the Black Mist corrosion across Blue Star, leaving his stay dependent on how the work went.

• Lin Zhiwei saw Shen Yi, relaxed, and fainted from exhaustion as he caught her.
• Lin Tu explained that Lin Zhiwei had worked relentlessly on potions, tested them on herself, and refused to rest.
• Shen Yi comforted Lin Tu and acknowledged how hard everyone had worked.
• Lin Zhiwei slept beside Shen Yi for fourteen hours after more than five days without proper rest.
• Shen Yi told Lin Tu he planned to contain the Black Mist across Blue Star and explained that recovery and rebuilding would take months and decades, respectively.

Shen Yi returned to reassure Lin Tu and Long Aoshuang, then explained that he would soon leave for a distant outer realm and might be unable to return for a very long time. He promised to leave supplies and protection behind, but warned that the Black Fog had only been temporarily contained and that Blue Star would need to keep developing without him.

• Shen Yi told Lin Tu that she and Lin Zhiwei should not exhaust themselves rebuilding Xia Country, then went to meet Long Aoshuang.
• Shen Yi explained the source of the Black Fog to Long Aoshuang and the other women through Mental Link.
• Shen Yi told Long Aoshuang that his next journey would take him much farther away than his previous trips and keep him gone for a long time.
• Long Aoshuang protested that Shen Yi's absence would leave her and the other women missing him, but she struggled to ask him to take them along.
• Shen Yi promised to leave Long Aoshuang supplies and a powerful safeguard for the Elf race, then warned that the Black Fog was only temporarily isolated and Blue Star needed to develop without his constant presence.

Shen Yi discussed Blue Star’s recovery and Long Aoshuang’s leadership while preparing to leave for another world. He reassured her that the Elf race would remain loyal and offered her resources to strengthen Blue Star’s defenses.

• Long Aoshuang told Shen Yi that the women he had sent out had become more independent during his absence and were making progress in the cities.
• Shen Yi asked whether anyone challenged Long Aoshuang’s position, and she said the remaining sisters respected her, partly because they feared him.
• Shen Yi offered Long Aoshuang resources to improve her strength or constitution, but she declined to accept an advantage that might cause trouble with the other sisters.
• Long Aoshuang voiced concerns about whether the Elf race would remain obedient after Shen Yi left.
• Shen Yi reassured her that the Elf race would not harm the women by his side and would protect and assist them.

Shen Yi reassured Long Aoshuang about the elves and described his immense strength and plans to contain Blue Star’s Black Mist Rifts without alerting creatures beyond the World Barrier. Winnie brought Shimada Yukimi to confront him about how he treated her, and the chapter ended with Yukimi crying after Shen Yi asked why he should feel guilty.

• Shen Yi told Long Aoshuang he could arrange help from other races, but accepted her refusal to bring the succubi to Blue Star.
• Shen Yi told Long Aoshuang he had become powerful enough to suppress Winnie and Natalie together, and explained that he planned to confine Blue Star’s Black Mist Rifts without drawing attention from beyond the world.
• Winnie arrived with Shimada Yukimi and criticized Shen Yi for leaving Yukimi psychologically shaken despite her help managing Neon Country and gathering faith for him.
• Shen Yi calmly asked why he should feel guilty, and Shimada Yukimi began to cry.

Shimada Yukimi proposed building statues of Shen Yi across Blue Star to gather faith, and Shen Yi agreed to let her manage the project with Long Aoshuang. After Yukimi left, Winnie warned Shen Yi that the situation beyond the realm might differ from what he had been told and revealed that she may have fallen even earlier than Lilith.

• Winnie confronted Shen Yi about his cold treatment of Shimada Yukimi, and Long Aoshuang urged him to hear Yukimi out.
• Shimada Yukimi proposed erecting statues of Shen Yi across Blue Star and strengthening his worship in Neon Country.
• Shen Yi approved the plan and assigned Yukimi and Long Aoshuang to oversee the statues and mobilize resources.
• Winnie sent Yukimi away and asked Shen Yi whether he had told the other women where he was going; he confirmed he had not.
• Winnie said her restored source power and awakened memories suggested the truth about what lay beyond the realm might differ from what Tanamo and the person inside Shen Yi had told him, and said she may have fallen before Lilith.
• Long Aoshuang asked whether she should step away while Winnie explained further.

Winnie explained how Lilith’s manifestation had weakened Natalie and raised doubts about Lilith’s knowledge and motives. Although Winnie believed Lilith’s memories made her nonhostile toward Shen Yi, she worried that going Beyond the World could be deadly, but Shen Yi remained willing to take the risk.

• Winnie explained that Lilith’s prolonged manifestation had harmed Natalie, leaving her in a much younger state.
• Winnie pointed out that Lilith had recognized Shen Yi’s power but never reacted to Winnie’s past self, suggesting Lilith might be hiding information.
• Shen Yi and Winnie considered whether Lilith’s omissions could leave them dangerously uninformed, while Long Aoshuang asked how they could verify Lilith’s claims.
• Winnie said Lilith’s implanted memories made her dependent on Shen Yi and likely truthful, but worried that the Black Fog had killed powerful deities.
• Winnie wished Shen Yi and Yukimi would stay on Blue Star, but Shen Yi said the risk of going Beyond the World came with a great payoff.

Shen Yi, Winnie, and Long Aoshuang discussed how dangerous and demanding a journey to Beyond the World would be, as Winnie explained how gods controlled the rules of the universe with far greater efficiency than ordinary beings. Wen Ke'er arrived and cautioned Long Aoshuang not to dismiss Winnie’s explanation, leaving the group aware of the vast gap between worlds and universes.

• Shen Yi said Lilith had likely concealed the dangers of Beyond the World and might already have other gods as companions.
• Winnie estimated that reaching the edge of the world would require many spatial transfers and questioned whether Shen Yi could endure the journey.
• Winnie explained heat death and described life as fixing or plundering the universe’s matter and rules.
• Winnie compared gods’ control of universal rules with ordinary beings’ abilities and explained that Shen Yi could perform spatial transfers at a fraction of her cost.
• Wen Ke'er arrived, reproached Shen Yi for leaving Long Aoshuang out of his earlier explanations, and warned Long Aoshuang that the differences between worlds and universes were enormous.

Shen Yi discussed how to expand Xia Country’s recovery and gave Long Aoshuang teleportation stones for the women close to him. He agreed to Long Aoshuang’s plan to establish a force in Tianjing under Murong Xue, then considered rewarding Murong Xue for her achievements.

• Long Aoshuang said she would pass Winnie and Wen Ke'er’s explanations about power and authority to Lin Zhiwei.
• Shen Yi gave Long Aoshuang two untraceable teleportation stones and asked where to station forces to support Xia Country’s recovery.
• Long Aoshuang recommended focusing on Tianjing, Longchuan, and Luodu, and explained why Tianjing was a better choice than the heavily damaged southern region.
• Long Aoshuang proposed sending Murong Xue to lead the force in Tianjing, with Fu Yunxi and the other women assisting her.
• Wen Ke'er described Murong Xue’s increased strength and her role in killing several major ability users who had betrayed them in Russian Country.
• Shen Yi said he might give Murong Xue a reward.

Shen Yi and the others planned to establish a Psionic Association, with Murong Xue as its president and the women around him holding its core authority. Before Long Aoshuang went to inform Murong Xue, she asked Shen Yi to take them with him when he traveled beyond the world, but he said he could not.

• Shen Yi rejected the idea of giving Murong Xue a conventional position and proposed keeping her as hidden support for Long Aoshuang after he left.
• Winnie explained that Murong Xue could hold an independent public role while secretly supporting Long Aoshuang, without being directly commanded in ordinary situations.
• Shen Yi proposed creating a Psionic Association requiring all ability users to join, with Murong Xue as president and the women around him controlling over forty percent of its core content.
• Wen Ke'er suggested including a small number of the Elf race as recluses who could guide loyal and qualified psionics, while Murong Xue intervened only in special situations.
• Long Aoshuang agreed to notify Murong Xue, then quietly asked Shen Yi whether she and the others could accompany him beyond the world; Shen Yi said they could not.
• Shen Yi reflected that authority holders might have left their worlds voluntarily, since authority holders could not ordinarily be killed directly.

Shen Yi reflected on Lilith’s hidden plans and the authorities she had distributed, while Wen Ke'er asked Winnie whether strength without authority could eventually rival gods. Winnie explained that powerful beings could reach that level without authority and suggested Enrosis might still be alive.

• Shen Yi suspected Lilith had made extensive backup plans for her revival and was concealing why authority holders had left their worlds.
• Shen Yi took Long Aoshuang back to Mountain City, leaving Wen Ke'er and Winnie together.
• Wen Ke'er told Winnie she planned to go to the Beyond the World and asked whether those without authority could become as powerful as Shen Yi.
• Winnie explained that authority was a direct route to godlike strength, but sufficiently powerful beings could reach that level without it.
• Wen Ke'er asked about special authorities and Enrosis's power to revive the dead.
• Winnie described gods who held different aspects of the authority of death and said Enrosis might truly still be alive.

Shen Yi investigated Wen Ke'er’s unexplained feeling and discovered that the jade ring left by Enrosis carried an authority that could alter and strengthen other powers. When Wen Ke'er touched the ring with her own power, it manifested a cosmic tree that Winnie identified as the Primordial World Tree.

• Winnie sensed that Wen Ke'er’s unexplained feeling might come from a bloodline or power connection and asked Shen Yi to examine her.
• Shen Yi found no external aura affecting Wen Ke'er and suggested the connection might involve her soul or authority.
• Wen Ke'er recalled that Enrosis’s remnant had helped her endure her transformation and brought out the jade ring he left behind.
• Winnie and Shen Yi sensed the ring’s authority nourishing and amplifying Winnie’s power.
• At Shen Yi’s request, Wen Ke'er touched the ring with her power, causing it to form a cosmic tree and seed surrounded by countless worlds.
• Winnie recognized the manifestation as the Primordial World Tree and reacted with terror and disbelief.

Shen Yi, Winnie, and Wen Ke'er saw a ring reveal the Primordial World Tree, which Winnie explained was the legendary ancestor of all worlds and the source of primordial authorities. Winnie suspected Enrosis had glimpsed the tree's essence and might have left before the Black Fog invaded, leaving Wen Ke'er shaken and the mystery of Enrosis unresolved.

• The ring's void tree rapidly grew into a vast starry map of worlds, then disintegrated until one blue-lit star stood out.
• Winnie identified the vision as the Primordial World Tree and described its legendary origins as the ancestor of all worlds and life.
• Shen Yi wondered whether the authorities they possessed had originated from the tree.
• Winnie suggested Enrosis's death authority might connect her to the Primordial World Tree and that she might have left before the Black Fog invaded.
• Wen Ke'er rejected the idea that Enrosis had abandoned her world, while Winnie questioned whether the weak aura they had encountered truly belonged to a primordial authority.

Wen Ke'er activated the ring and revealed a star map, but the effort left her unconscious. Shen Yi and Winnie realized Enrothis had deliberately designed the map and ring to survive Wen Ke'er's alienation, though they did not know how to locate the map's nearby node.

• Wen Ke'er infused the ring with Wood Elf power, revealing a star map filled with fine lines and nodes.
• As the star map unfolded, Wen Ke'er rapidly exhausted her power, and Shen Yi stopped her before she collapsed.
• Winnie caught Wen Ke'er while Shen Yi determined that she was not seriously hurt and had only drained too much power.
• Shen Yi concluded that Enrothis had designed the ring to resist the Black Fog and to activate only if Wen Ke'er retained her consciousness and gained sufficient strength.
• Shen Yi remembered the nearest node on the star map, but he and Winnie could not determine its location or direction.

Shen Yi planned to leave Blue Star and asked Winnie to create durable Spatial Nodes across Xia Country so his women could travel to safety. As Winnie agreed to build them, Shen Yi began using Void-breaking Stones to form a simulated small world around himself.

• Winnie said that without coordinates or navigation tokens, finding other worlds from the edge of the star map was dangerous, and she considered waking Lilith for advice.
• Shen Yi said he had a clumsy method to test before asking Lilith, while Wen Ke'er woke up and recovered enough to stand after being drained by the ring.
• Shen Yi asked Winnie to create Spatial Nodes that would last at least a hundred years and support repeated transport for large groups of people.
• Winnie said she could make one stable node per day, and Shen Yi told her to prioritize destinations across Xia Country using coordinates he would provide.
• Shen Yi summoned thousands of Void-breaking Stones and used their spatial power to create a domain over ten thousand meters wide, where simulated laws formed a rough small world.

Shen Yi created a crude minor world to serve as a sealed temporary Shelter for the women he would leave behind. With Winnie's advice, he adjusted its space, time, temperature, and light to resemble Blue Star, then left it with only the rules needed to sustain it temporarily.

• Shen Yi explained that his constructed minor world could operate for a limited time but could not sustain itself.
• Winnie identified Shen Yi as an upper mid-tier god and realized he intended to use the minor world as a temporary Shelter.
• Shen Yi said the spatial nodes he left behind could teleport the women into the Shelter if danger arose while he was gone.
• Winnie stabilized herself against the minor world's spatial differences and accompanied Shen Yi inside to inspect it.
• Winnie advised Shen Yi to create a familiar sky, day-night cycle, and warm climate, and Shen Yi adjusted the world's conditions to resemble Blue Star.
• Shen Yi declined to add Blue Star's other rules because maintaining them would consume too much power.

Shen Yi explained how he planned to protect his independent shelter and its spatial teleportation nodes, using the Void-breaking Stone’s chaotic spatial power to repel unauthorized visitors. He left Winnie questioning whether his precautions were purely defensive.

• Shen Yi decided to keep the shelter’s time flow synchronized with the outside world to spare its occupants the strain of a large difference.
• Shen Yi explained that only women marked with his aura and members of the Elf race could use the spatial teleportation nodes, and that trusted individuals could revoke others’ access.
• Shen Yi compressed chaotic power from a Void-breaking Stone into a barrier that would randomly teleport away anyone who tried to enter the shelter without permission.
• Winnie objected that using valuable Void-breaking Stones as a defensive barrier was wasteful.
• Shen Yi said he would conceal the nodes and place suggestions and restrictions on their users to prevent them from revealing or abusing them.
• Winnie asked why Shen Yi was focusing only on defense instead of attacking.

Shen Yi explained to Winnie why he maintained external threats: he feared that without them, Blue Star’s people would turn against one another and misuse their powers after he left. He then went to the Succubus race to check on preparations, where he learned that the Clan Leader and Vice Clan Leader were in seclusion over the crisis in Twilight Abyss.

• Shen Yi told Winnie that the Black Fog’s presence helped keep Xia Country and its people united, and that he feared the women around him might cause turmoil after he was gone.
• Shen Yi explained that he would protect his family by arranging for them to be transported to a prepared small world if an irreversible danger arose.
• Shen Yi asked Winnie to fulfill her promise and said he might later bring Shimada Yukimi to his side; then he left, and Winnie departed as well.
• Shen Yi appeared above the Succubus race and asked about the preparations.
• A Succubus told Shen Yi that Dorian and Tanamo had been in seclusion for six hours to discuss Twilight Abyss’s collapse, alongside the Dragon race’s new Clan Leader and other prominent races.

Shen Yi returned to find the Shadow World torn by massive rifts and the Succubus race under threat. He found Tanamo badly injured in the Twilight Abyss, where True Demons had attacked her over Lilith’s authority.

• A succubus told Shen Yi that violent tremors had split the Shadow World with huge rifts, and that the collapse beneath the Twilight Abyss was linked to the disaster.
• Shen Yi went to the Twilight Abyss and found Tanamo injured behind a barrier, surrounded by battered True Demons.
• Tanamo explained that the True Demons blamed her for hiding Lilith and demanded that she hand over Lilith’s authority.
• A dragon-headed True Demon threatened to spare the Succubus race if Tanamo surrendered the authority, while Tanamo admitted she could no longer kill them herself.
• Shen Yi replenished Tanamo’s strength, then summoned a dozen familiar gleams that left Tanamo staring in shock.