Chapter Summaries

As Schlei Territory struggled through the Long Night, Catherine and the Knight Order confronted the possibility that the sun would not return. Lu PingAn’s group weighed the damage caused by earlier outsiders and decided how to use their limited Ship Ticket allowances before continuing their mission.

• Catherine learned that the lord had warned the Knight Order the sun might not return, while some knights spread the Doomsday Theory and she questioned her faith.
• Lu PingAn reviewed reports of earlier outsiders who had betrayed local trust through destructive profiteering, leaving residents suspicious of newcomers.
• Lu PingAn reminded his companions that they were not saviors and had come to complete their mission and secure a better future for their own world.
• Xia Qin asked whether the group could use extra Ship Tickets to bring people back, and Lu PingAn allowed everyone to decide how to use them.
• Lu PingAn’s companions relaxed after he granted them access to the extra tickets, and the group turned to finding valuable things to take away.

Lu PingAn refused to trade grain for devalued Great Coins or retired weapons, and demanded Truth-level Items in exchange for ship tickets. He explained that the Mending the Heavens Plan sought to acquire World's Logic to strengthen humanity's world, leaving him determined to avoid the looming God War in the Holy City.

• Lu PingAn told the Female Knight that Great Coins had become worthless in many regions and refused to accept them for grain.
• Lu PingAn rejected the Female Knight's offer of retired Knight Order weapons and equipment because they would soon lose their value.
• Lu PingAn recalled Premier Song's briefing, which identified Rules, or Truth-level Items, as the most valuable things for Explorers to obtain.
• Lu PingAn demanded Truth-level Items, divine artifacts, or equivalent substances in exchange for a ship ticket.
• Lu PingAn explained that gods linked to a world contributed World's Logic, helping it resist pollution and develop professional paths.
• Lu PingAn concluded that the Mending the Heavens Plan aimed to seize World's Logic for humanity's own world, and that he needed to leave the Holy City before a God War erupted.

After learning that Rule-level items and World's Logic were valuable trade targets, Lu PingAn sought treasures and intelligence from Schlei Territory’s lord. The lord offered a Ship Ticket for secrets about ruins in the forest and Catherine’s service, and Lu PingAn agreed to discuss the deal.

• Premier Song explained how gods connected to worlds and identified Rule-level items and other sources of World's Logic as priorities for the explorers.
• Lu PingAn tested the authorities with an offer to trade for Rule-level or Truth-level items, then asked them to reconsider and verify the value of his Ship Ticket.
• Catherine told Lu PingAn that Schlei Territory had owned two Truth-level Items, but outsiders had stolen both.
• Catherine revealed that the lord would trade intelligence about a fallen evil god’s remains and Holy Temple Ruins in the forest for a Ship Ticket, with the Knight Order offering assistance.
• Lu PingAn rejected the offer as insufficient until Catherine offered to leave the Knight Order and serve him, prompting him to discuss the details.

Lu PingAn told Catherine that the Sun God had fled and that others were competing for the vacant divine seat. He left her to decide whether to trust the new god when the sun returned or place her confidence in him.

• Catherine came to Lu PingAn as the lord’s envoy and asked whether the Sun God had abandoned them.
• Lu PingAn said the sun might rise again, then revealed that the former Sun God had fled and others were fighting over the vacant divine seat.
• Catherine dropped her cup in shock as Lu PingAn explained that a replacement god would not be the former one and might soon leave as well.
• Lu PingAn described the competition for the Sun God’s vacant powers and warned that the world’s decline would continue.
• Lu PingAn told Catherine to wait for the sun to reignite before choosing whether to trust its new god or him.

Lu PingAn’s team prepared to explore the forest in Schlei Territory while he uncovered the reason the world was doomed and warned the team. On the fourth day, they set out with thirty-seven guard knights.

• Lu PingAn recorded his dealings with the lord, Catherine’s pledge of loyalty, the team’s preparations, and his failed experiments with the Holy Fire.
• After locals turned hostile toward the Outland Visitors, Lu PingAn refused the lord’s offer of the Factory and its land, then told the team that the world was already doomed.
• Lu PingAn explained that the force protecting the world was also causing its destruction, and the team accelerated its work after hearing the news.
• Ba Manzhen’s forest explorations revealed a fallen canine Beast God and many valuable wolf species, prompting Lu PingAn to have Fang Wen build more cages.
• On the fourth day after arriving in Schlei Territory, Lu PingAn’s team entered the forest with thirty-seven guard knights.

Lu PingAn’s group entered the Gray Forest with Commander Benn and the knights, who demonstrated their combat formation while fighting a pack of mutated Blade Tooth Wolves. The wolves fled after a howl, and Benn warned that a Lord-level Wolf King had been born.

• Commander Benn led the knights into the Gray Forest to accompany Lu PingAn’s group.
• Lu PingAn considered the lord’s dealings with the other extradomain travelers and the value of the Explorers’ Ship Tickets.
• A pack of mutated Blade Tooth Wolves appeared, and the knights formed a defensive line under Benn’s command.
• Catherine cast Sacred Fire behind the group while the knights fired arrows and killed the wolves.
• A howl made the surviving wolf cubs flee, and Benn identified the source as a newly born Lord-level Wolf King.

Lu PingAn’s team learned that dangerous contamination was widespread in the wilderness, despite the gods’ protection of the city. Lu PingAn decided they would investigate the nearest contamination site and continue their mission.

• Ben Knight warned that a suspected Wolf king could follow the team and cause trouble near the city, but Lu PingAn ordered them to prioritize the mission and deal with it only if necessary.
• Lu PingAn examined a research report stating that the mutated wolf corpses were unusable for taming and had likely been exposed to intense radiation.
• Lu PingAn asked Feng Luanhua to use her Spirit Sight to search for the source of the contamination, and she found at least seventeen high-risk locations nearby.
• Lu PingAn asked Catherine about the city’s divine protection and realized that the Twin Moon God’s protection had kept contamination from affecting civilized settlements as severely as the wilderness.
• Lu PingAn chose to investigate the nearest contamination site, which appeared less intense than the others.

Lu PingAn and the knights investigated a pollution source and discovered a forest of twisted faces and polluted beasts. The Earth Mother Sealing Technique failed, and a strange face appeared on Valastarod as someone began to awaken.

• Lu PingAn led Ben Knight and the knights to a mapped pollution source, where Spirit Sight revealed trees made of twisted faces and a stream of corrupted water.
• An arrow struck a mutated elk, triggering a brief battle in which the beasts attacked silently and fell without fleeing.
• The knights tried to burn the trees, but their damage immediately regenerated, and Lu PingAn recognized the forest as high-stasis pollution leakage rather than a magic plant.
• The knights invoked Mother Earth Gena’s sealing power, but the Earth Mother Sealing Technique failed and the forest grew taller.
• Lu PingAn realized the forest was like the earth’s hair, while gods in the void saw a smiling face emerge on Valastarod and sensed that someone was about to awaken.

Lu PingAn explained that pollution had corrupted the planet itself, making the world’s destruction inevitable, while the knights mistook a temporary sealing success for progress. Catherine had learned enough to grasp the truth, and Lu PingAn hoped she might become a savior whose power the explorers could harvest.

• Lu PingAn concluded that centuries of burying pollution had corrupted the planet and awakened the colossal pollutant beneath the world.
• Ben Knight and the knights sealed the tree’s stream into the earth, though their earlier attempts to seal the forest had failed.
• Big Cat compared Earth Sealing Technique to the Courtyard’s power and noted that it complemented the explorers’ abilities.
• Catherine grew pale after learning the truth through the explorers’ teachings, while Ben Knight failed to notice her reaction.
• Lu PingAn observed that the world was creating children of destiny and hoped Catherine would become a powerful apocalypse hero.

Lu PingAn’s group learned how the region’s Sealing Knights and Holy Fire Knights developed their powers, and Lu PingAn considered how to secure those abilities for his people. He left the chapter looking for a way to obtain Purification Flame without enduring it himself.

• Lu PingAn realized Cat Cat had been talking with Catherine, rewarded her with head rubs, and told her to keep chatting with the Female Knight.
• Guan Xinxian questioned Knight Benn, who explained how Sealing Knights cultivated spirits inside weapons and described their regional methods.
• Catherine showed the group her Holy Fire scars and explained the deadly, agonizing process of mastering Purification Flame and the limits it imposed.
• Lu PingAn compared Holy Fire Knights with spirit-attuned knights and recognized the region’s supernatural knowledge as a valuable opportunity for his people.
• Lu PingAn lamented that the Sun God had disappeared and that he could not withstand Purification Flame, until Big Cat suggested using magical plants and beasts to handle dangerous powers for Life-type people.

Lu PingAn had Little Flame successfully inherit the holy fire, shocking the Holy Fire Priests and revealing new ways for his team to study local powers. The advance team then reported that Outland Visitors were searching for God's Remains ahead, and Catherine identified them as traitors.

• Lu PingAn ordered Little Flame to swallow Catherine's holy flame, and it absorbed the fire seed without harm.
• Catherine confirmed the inheritance had succeeded, while the Holy Fire Priests were shaken by the beast's ability to wield holy fire.
• Lu PingAn considered using skill-book pages to teach Little Flame holy-fire skills and wondered whether he could fill his third creature slot in this world.
• Cat Cat, Su Zhizhu, and Fang Wen gained ideas from studying the local Sealing Knight and holy-fire systems.
• The advance team reported finding Outland Visitors searching for God's Remains, and Catherine called them traitors.

Lu PingAn led the knights in pursuit of the Glass People, whose betrayal had left the Knight Order eager for revenge. The group found evidence of several factions fighting over the Glass People and the fallen Beast God's legacy, and Lu PingAn decided to press on despite the danger.

• The knights described the Glass People's attacks and debated their combat strength as Lu PingAn decided to hunt them down.
• Lu PingAn and the knights followed the Glass People's trail and found shattered Glass People and a dead man bearing Evil Bone's snake tattoo.
• The group discovered that the Red Sand Pirates and Evil Wolves had also fought nearby, with many bodies scattered across the battlefield.
• Lu PingAn chose to continue toward the Beast God's legacy, and Big Cat urged him to fight for the God Ascension Foundations.

Two fugitive Shepherd Silver People fled through the ruins as the chapter revealed why their former allies had turned against them and how valuable their compass was. Lu PingAn's group reached the ruins' outskirts and found dead Red Sand Pirates, fellow humans from another world.

• The Shepherd Silver People recalled that the lord's assassins had attacked first after they spread news of the approaching doomsday, though both sides believed they had been betrayed.
• The Shepherd Silver People blamed Evil Bone for betraying their agreement, while Evil Bone's bandits pursued them to seize their compass for a buyer from the Holy Capital.
• Evil Bone hurried his gang onward as rival outer-realm bandits also joined the hunt for the Shepherd Silver People.
• Lu PingAn's group entered the outskirts of the ruins and found the corpses of the Red Sand Pirates, whom Lu PingAn recognized as fellow humans.

Lu PingAn’s group investigated the Red Sand Pirates, learned they were Flower Flag fighters with a dangerous Rule-level item, and gathered local materials while traveling. They finally reached the Place of God’s Fall, where the sight of the Sun God’s Remains shocked the team.

• Lu PingAn’s group learned from the dog tags that the Red Sand Pirates were from Flower Flag and likely had only first- or second-rank fighters.
• Lu PingAn recalled that Flower Flag’s God of Freedom had ascended to godhood and warned his group to handle the pirates and their Rule-level item carefully.
• Lu PingAn gathered mutant remains and ancient timber while Fang Wen and her workers made Earth-made Sealing vessels for the knights to assess.
• After several days of travel and collecting materials, Lu PingAn’s group reached the Place of God’s Fall on the fifth night.
• The team saw the Sun God’s Remains, and several members reacted with shock.

The chapter explained how the departure or fall of the chief gods dismantled the world’s defenses against corruption and left the remaining gods and peoples exposed. As the second prophecy came true with the Long Night and the Sun God’s disappearance, the story left the narrator questioning whether a divine tomb also held the Sun God’s contingency plan.

• The chapter described the chief gods’ duties and explained how their deaths and departures weakened the world’s defenses against corruption.
• The Sea God, the God of Wind, and other gods had fled, prompting more gods to prepare to escape as well.
• The Lord of Rainbows’ prophecy was repeated, and its first disaster was confirmed by the earth’s rot and the fall of Crown of Honor.
• The second prophecy foretold the Long Night and the fall of another crown, turning it into a trigger for the gods’ desertion.
• The Long Night arrived, the Sun God vanished, and the narrator wondered whether the location was a tomb and the Sun God’s contingency plan.

Lu PingAn and the Holy Fire team discovered murals depicting a Sun God's child and a series of calamities, including the return of the dead. As the murals revealed a skeletal Beast God rising from beneath the earth, the wolf pack launched its final hunt.

• The team interpreted a mural showing the Sun God's child receiving divine tears and being put into eternal sleep, while Big Cat pointed out the possibility of a powerful Life-type bloodline.
• Xue En's cave-in exposed a mural of a Human-Faced Tree, and the team uncovered seven paintings whose first two appeared to have come true.
• The third mural showed skeletons rising through cracks in the earth, and Lu PingAn recognized the Beast God among them.
• A priest accused Lu PingAn's group of being demons, but the wolves emerged from the shadows and silenced him.
• The skeletal wolf king appeared as the pack attacked, while a Rainbow Church inscription described the Third Calamity and warned of the ancient gods' revival.

Lu PingAn and the knights fought the undead wolf pack, while he used the forest’s magic plants to trap the Wolf King and Zhi Xi revealed her Living Armor form to kill it. The battle ended with the knights and Outland Visitors recognizing Lu PingAn’s strength and Zhi Xi’s nature.

• Commander Benn rallied the knights, who formed ranks and met the wolf pack as Holy Fire Priests burned undead beasts with Sacred Fire.
• Lu PingAn examined a skeletal wolf, then used cards to awaken treants and turn the forest into a battlefield against the Wolf King.
• The Outland Visitors joined the fight as the knights held off the wolves, while treants battered the Wolf King and kept it from using its abilities.
• Zhi Xi descended in her Metal Giant armor, broke the Wolf King’s bones, crushed its skull, and absorbed its pale green soul flames.
• The knights and Outland Visitors noticed Zhi Xi’s Living Armor form and regarded Lu PingAn with increased respect.

Lu PingAn and the others discovered that pollution had revived the Wolf King’s body and realized that buried corpses, including sealed gods and monsters, could rise during the Third Calamity. Lu PingAn warned the priests and knights that their Earth Sealing Technique might doom their world, while Commander Benn resolved to confront the threat in the nearby Divine Tomb.

• Lu PingAn dissected the Wolf King and confirmed that pollution had mutated its body rather than restored its soul.
• Lu PingAn and the others realized that the polluted earth could revive buried dead, and that long-term burial put countless corpses at risk.
• Lu PingAn recognized that sealed ancient gods and monsters could also revive, making the calamity potentially worse than the previous ones.
• Lu PingAn judged that the Third Calamity had begun and that they needed to leave by the Fifth Calamity at the latest.
• Lu PingAn hinted to the priests and knights that the Earth Sealing Technique threatened their world, and Commander Benn understood the danger.
• Commander Benn decided they had to eliminate the threat near Schlei Territory, and Lu PingAn agreed that they should enter the Divine Tomb.

Lu PingAn led his group into the ruins after finding signs that several groups and a giant beast had entered but none had come back out. They found fresh corpses fleeing toward the exit, then cautiously advanced to a great hall where the murals continued the story of the Beast God.

• Lu PingAn reflected on the Twin Moon God's role in preserving social order and wondered how long the deities could endure.
• Lu PingAn's scouts found tracks from the Shepherd Silver People, Evil Bone's people, the Red Sand Pirates, and a huge wild beast, but no signs of anyone leaving the ruins.
• Lu PingAn ordered his group to prepare for the worst, left two Holy Fire Priests and two knights behind, and led the rest into the passage.
• Lu PingAn's group found fresh corpses of locals and Red Sand Pirates facing the exit, including a fallen Lieutenant Officer, suggesting they had tried to escape.
• Lin Feng and Su Zhizhu placed sensing devices as the group cautiously explored the passage, then they reached a great hall containing murals about the Beast God.

Lu PingAn learned that the murals depicted Aksuun’s death at the hands of the Sun God and suspected the Beast God’s followers had built the tomb to revive their deity. After sensing that no deity was below, he warned the others that hostile attackers were approaching.

• Lu PingAn read the murals and learned that Aksuun had opposed the Sun God’s secret attempt to make peace with the abyssal enemy, so the Sun God killed him.
• Catherine recognized the hall from recurring dreams, and Lu PingAn helped her and used an Investment buff to encourage her memories.
• Lu PingAn suspected the Beast God’s followers had built the tomb in hopes of hastening their deity’s resurrection.
• Lu PingAn used his Seventh Sense to question the surrounding nature and learned that no deity was below, though many lives were present.
• Lu PingAn sensed through the moss that approaching attackers were hostile and told the others to prepare for battle.