Chapter Summaries

Shen Yi learned that the Authority Holders who attacked his territory were bait for a larger plan, then returned to Cangwu Hall and confronted its Hall Master. The Hall Master revealed that he intended to unleash the black fog again and make Feng Qingyao the enemy of Beyond the World.

• The Authority Holder told Shen Yi that a larger organization had sent his group to cause a diversion, and Shen Yi killed him after questioning him.
• Xilos burned the remaining three Authority Holders to ashes as Shen Yi worried that the Hall Master of Cangwu Hall would act elsewhere.
• Shen Yi, Aoyue, Enrosis, and their companions returned to Cangwu Hall and found it deserted except for the Hall Master.
• The Hall Master said Feng Qingyao had been framed as responsible for the black fog outbreak and would be branded a heretic if he unleashed the fog again.
• Aoyue condemned the Hall Master for risking another catastrophe, and Shen Yi asked whether the Authority Holders had been sent to distract them.

Shen Yi subdued the Cangwu Hall Master and rushed to the Mechanical Divine Domain, where he learned that Byron had led a powerful presence away. He left the captured Hall Master with Alvin and demanded to know what other plans he had.

• The Cangwu Hall Master revealed that he had prepared for Shen Yi's arrival and for the Black Fog, prompting Shen Yi to overpower and capture him.
• Shen Yi brought Aoyue, Enrosis, and the others through a portal to the Mechanical Divine Domain.
• Alvin told Shen Yi that the domain was safe thanks to Byron, who had taken Wen Ke'er to help Lilith recover.
• Alvin explained that Byron had led away a powerful presence whose energy threatened the domain.
• Shen Yi tossed the captured Cangwu Hall Master before Alvin and demanded to hear his other plans.

Enrosis killed the Hall Master of Cangwu Hall after concluding he would not reveal useful information, then gave Shen Yi a Life Source Crystal that could restore Feng Qingyao’s damaged authority. Shen Yi warned Alvin of a far more dangerous Black Fog eruption and traveled to Feng Qingyao, finding her world flourishing as she greeted him.

• Enrosis stripped the Hall Master of Cangwu Hall of his life after Aoyue explained that he would never change his mind or share useful information.
• Enrosis gave Shen Yi a Life Source Crystal made from her accumulated power and the Hall Master’s life essence, explaining that it could help restore Feng Qingyao’s authority.
• Shen Yi warned Alvin that the Black Fog would erupt again on a greater scale, explaining that the Hall Master of Cangwu Hall had caused it and that the Death Abyss held a more destructive outbreak.
• Shen Yi left to find Feng Qingyao, sensed that spatial laws had weakened and Black Fog was scarce, and arrived at her flourishing world.
• Feng Qingyao greeted Shen Yi outside her familiar cottage.

Shen Yi gave Feng Qingyao a Life Source Crystal from Enrosis to help her recover from the black fog’s corrosion. After absorbing most of its power and restoring her strength in a day, Feng Qingyao asked Shen Yi what had gone wrong at the Holy Land.

• Shen Yi gave Feng Qingyao the Life Source Crystal and confirmed that he had encountered Enrosis.
• Feng Qingyao explained that she had recovered only sixty percent of her strength and would need one day to absorb the crystal’s power.
• Feng Qingyao absorbed the crystal’s life source energy as it burned away the black smoke rising from her wound.
• After a day, Feng Qingyao opened her eyes with nearly three-quarters of the crystal’s power depleted and thanked Enrosis for the help.
• Feng Qingyao asked Shen Yi what had gone wrong at the Holy Land.

Shen Yi learned from Feng Qingyao why Enrosis had supported him and why the Hall Master of Cangwu Hall had triggered the black fog in the Death Abyss. Feng Qingyao revealed that the Hall Master’s son had been corrupted by the fog and killed by her, and the chapter ended with her asking Shen Yi whether he had gained anything from the sword she gave him.

• Feng Qingyao explained that Enrosis had supported Shen Yi because he carried the faith of many elves and was connected to their survival.
• Shen Yi told Feng Qingyao that the Hall Master of Cangwu Hall had triggered the black fog in the Death Abyss before dying.
• Feng Qingyao revealed that the Hall Master of Cangwu Hall had sent his son into the Death Abyss, where the black fog corrupted him beyond saving.
• Feng Qingyao said she had killed the corrupted son herself, after which the Hall Master of Cangwu Hall cut off contact with her and grew obsessed with her.
• Feng Qingyao asked Shen Yi whether he had gained anything from the sword she had given him, and he said he was unsure.

Feng Qingyao revealed that her myriad forms matrix could sever the connection between rules and Authority, then used it and Shen Yi’s ancient sword to hold back a vast eruption of Black Fog. As the sword’s barrier began draining her strength, she sent Shen Yi to find Mia and retrieve the Cangwu Branch before the Black Fog reached Beyond the World.

• Feng Qingyao explained that her myriad forms matrix could strip Authority Holders of their powers and harm beings transformed into rules.
• Shen Yi and Feng Qingyao entered the Cosmic Void and found an immense Black Fog advancing, far larger than the eruption Feng Qingyao had triggered before.
• Feng Qingyao blasted a gap in the Black Fog, but it quickly filled again, alarming the Authority Holders and Realm Lord of the Primal Stone Realm.
• Feng Qingyao used Shen Yi’s ancient longsword to form a universe of rules that temporarily held back the Black Fog, at the cost of nearly half her power.
• Feng Qingyao told Shen Yi to go to the Immortal Sacred Land, retrieve the Cangwu Branch, and track Mia’s aura so they could stop the Black Fog from entering Beyond the World.

Shen Yi took over Feng Qingyao’s ancient longsword and used his primordial beginning authority to push back the Black Fog, giving Feng Qingyao hope that it could be stopped. They prepared to enter the Death Abyss to seek more relics while the other Authority Holders were ordered to evacuate.

• Feng Qingyao explained that the ancient longsword could hold back the Black Fog for a limited time, and Shen Yi took it from her.
• Shen Yi infused the sword with his power, causing its engraved characters to amplify the defense and drive the Black Fog back.
• Feng Qingyao realized Shen Yi possessed primordial beginning authority and proposed searching the Death Abyss for three similar swords.
• Shen Yi said the sword’s infusion would last six hours and noted that Enrosis was retrieving the Cangwu Branch while he had sent word to Mia.
• A dozen Authority Holders arrived to offer help, and Feng Qingyao told them to evacuate the others and stay away from the Black Fog.

Shen Yi entered the Death Abyss with Feng Qingyao and cultivated his emerging primordial beginning authority amid the black fog. After letting the fog corrode and transform him, he discovered he could reverse it into normal laws.

• Feng Qingyao used a Voidforget Fish to take Shen Yi directly into the depths of the Death Abyss.
• Feng Qingyao left Shen Yi behind to grasp his power while she searched for the remaining objects resembling the ancient sword.
• Shen Yi allowed the black fog to corrode him and sensed that it transformed his body and authority instead of merely destroying them.
• Shen Yi instinctively reversed the black fog around him into normal laws when he thought about meeting Feng Qingyao.
• Shen Yi touched another mass of black fog and transformed it into normal laws, realizing the two forces were sides of one whole.

Shen Yi rescued Feng Qingyao from the Death Abyss, grasped how time, space, rules, and black fog interacted, and used the four ancient swords to compress the black fog. He left the outbreak delayed for an extraordinarily long time, warning that it would return when the balance failed and kill all Authority Holders.

• Shen Yi entered the Death Abyss, sensed Feng Qingyao, and guided her toward him with a mote of authority light.
• Shen Yi witnessed cycles of time and space forming and collapsing, and understood how black fog and rules balanced each other.
• Shen Yi brought Feng Qingyao out of the Death Abyss, where the ancient sword and three relics drove back the black fog.
• Shen Yi restored Feng Qingyao with the myriad forms matrix and returned to the Death Abyss to retrieve the four ancient swords.
• Shen Yi compressed the black fog into a tiny point and told Feng Qingyao that he had only delayed its next eruption, which would kill all Authority Holders when the balance failed.

After suppressing the black fog in Beyond the World, Shen Yi left Feng Qingyao to maintain its balance and returned to a transformed Blue Star. He reunited with Long Aoshuang and the other women, who asked him to spend time with them.

• Shen Yi accepted the Kunwu Branch from Enrosis as the black fog settled and Beyond the World’s upheaval subsided.
• More than a month later, Shen Yi asked Feng Qingyao to watch over the black fog seal while he returned to Blue Star, and she told him the Immortal Sacred Land had dealt with his enemies and the Shattered Universe was being rebuilt.
• Shen Yi arrived at Blue Star, where orbital defenses warned him against approaching without authorization, and he asked that Long Aoshuang be notified.
• Shen Yi reached his old home in Mountain City and reunited with Long Aoshuang and the women who had been waiting for him.
• Long Aoshuang set aside her responsibilities, and the women asked Shen Yi to spend quality time with them.