Chapter Summaries

In 2012, Ye Fan searched for Zhou Ping after his family disappeared, while Zhou Ping’s past revealed that his parents had tried to sell him to organ traffickers. A monster swallowed the boy, but Zhou Ping emerged alive with a powerful heart and swordsmanship, leaving Ye Fan stunned as the boy stood amid the monster’s remains.

• Uncle Shang told Ye Fan to keep observing Zhou Ping, and Zhou Ping left his convenience-store job without asking Meng Xiang for a loan.
• Ye Fan returned to Zhou Ping’s home in 2012, found the family gone, and asked the Night Watchmen to trace them.
• Zhou Ping’s parents drove him into the mountains to sell him, but he escaped and was struck by a van carrying organ traffickers.
• The traffickers restrained Zhou Ping for organ removal, but a blue-gray Mystery appeared, killed them, and swallowed him.
• Ye Fan found Zhou Ping’s parents and brought them to the monster’s lair, where he fought the blood-colored spider with a performance sword.
• Zhou Ping burst out of the spider with his eyes pierced and his heart exposed, seized the sword, and sliced the monster apart, shocking Ye Fan.

Ye Fan rescued young Zhou Ping from a spider Mystery, treated his eyes, and left him to the law and his guardian, Third Uncle. In 2016, Uncle Shang offered to train Zhou Ping, who unexpectedly sensed a power called Klein, while in 2012 the Seer of Secrets approached Jinian.

• Young Zhou Ping killed the Heart-Devouring Spider with a sword, and Ye Fan healed his injured eyes with Buddha's Light.
• Ye Fan let Zhou Ping decide his parents' fate; Zhou Ping chose to leave them to the law, and Ye Fan secretly dealt with them after they fled.
• Ye Fan told Zhou Ping to live freely and left, while Uncle Shang explained that the Eye of Time Sequence could not change history.
• In 2016, Uncle Shang offered to train Zhou Ping, who said he wanted to become a great hero and then reported sensing an overflowing bottle called Klein.
• In 2012, the Seer of Secrets appeared in an alley and introduced himself to Jinian.

Jinian accepted a deal that might let her return to the True World, while Zhou Ping began mastering his sword-like Forbidden Ruin under Uncle Shang’s guidance. In 2012, Ye Fan learned Zhou Ping was fated to die unless someone became his scabbard, and chose to protect him; years later, Uncle Shang parted from Zhou Ping and encountered Kronos at sea.

• Jinian used her Dao Divine Ability, accepted the shadow’s deal, and destroyed the letter before he vanished.
• Uncle Shang took Zhou Ping to the mountains to train his control, where a toy sword unleashed his sword aura and broke apart.
• As Zhou Ping read The Smiling, Proud Wanderer in a downpour, his Sword Intent kept the rain from touching him, and Uncle Shang recognized his potential.
• At Mount Jiuhua, Wang Qing warned Grandmaster Golden Cicada and Ye Fan that several chief gods were approaching Great Xia, while Grandmaster predicted Zhou Ping would die unless someone bore his calamity.
• Ye Fan resolved to become Zhou Ping’s scabbard and protect him, and Grandmaster Golden Cicada identified the fierce boy at the temple as Cao Yuan.
• Uncle Shang bid Zhou Ping farewell after training him, then encountered an old man named Kronos, who froze the sea and offered him a deal.

Wang Shang foresaw Wang Qing’s confrontation with Gaia and agreed to give Kronos his eyes after the battle. When Loki joined Gaia and the fight turned against Wang Qing and Ye Fan, Wang Shang offered Kronos everything in exchange for saving Great Xia, but Kronos refused and took the Eye of Time Sequence.

• Kronos told Wang Shang that he wanted his Eye of Time Sequence in exchange for a life, and Wang Shang foresaw a student dying in a traffic accident during an earthquake.
• Wang Shang learned that two Lord Gods and three Lesser Gods were approaching Cangnan City, agreed to Kronos’s deal after the battle, and predicted the gods’ locations for the Human Apexes.
• Wang Qing left Ye Fan behind, went alone to fight Gaia at sea, and used the Lightning Concealment Treasure Pestle to trap her.
• Loki rescued Gaia from Wang Qing’s lightning cage, and the two gods overwhelmed Wang Qing until Ye Fan arrived and engaged Loki in his Buddha form.
• Wang Shang foresaw Ye Fan’s defeat and Wang Qing’s death, then tried to stab himself to force Kronos to intervene.
• Kronos froze the battlefield, refused Wang Shang’s offer to save Great Xia, and took the Eye of Time Sequence, leaving Wang Shang blind.

In 2016, Zhou Ping learned that Wang Shang had died, then used a bridge through time to help his teacher fight Loki and Gaia during the God War of 2012. After the battle, Zhou Ping began a new life as Ye Fan recruited him to become Great Xia’s Sword Saint.

• Zhou Ping killed a Sea Realm Mystery with one sword, then learned from Li Biao that Wang Shang had supposedly died in the God War four years earlier.
• In 2012, Kronos used the Eye of Time Sequence to open a narrow bridge between past and future, allowing Zhou Ping to send three sword strikes into the God War.
• Zhou Ping wounded Loki with his first two strikes and drove him down with a third, while Ye Fan and Wang Qing fought Gaia and Wang Qing sealed her at the cost of her life.
• After the time bridge vanished, Zhou Ping learned that Wang Shang had survived the God War but died of illness the previous year.
• Kronos made the dying Wang Mian his agent, and a silver-haired girl left the hospital’s fate in Lin Qiye’s hands as she drove into the desert.
• Zhou Ping gave Third Uncle birthday shoes, then met Ye Fan and agreed to become Great Xia’s Sword Saint.

At Lin Qiye and Jialan’s wedding, Lin Qiye revealed that he had become master of his world after escaping its creator’s control. He crossed the barrier with Jinian, reunited her with her father Ji Qianming, and learned that the real world was losing its technology; the chapter ended with Lin Qiye agreeing to bring Shen Qingzhu to help stabilize a new story set in reality.

• Lin Qiye and Jialan held their wedding, where Baili Pangpang teased Shen Qingzhu about never getting married.
• Lin Qiye told his friends that he had sensed the reality barrier and that he now ruled the world beyond Azathoth’s control.
• Lin Qiye took Jinian across the barrier after receiving a message, and they met her father, Ji Qianming, and the world’s creator, whom Lin Qiye called The Author.
• Jinian reunited emotionally with Ji Qianming, then fought with him over her years away from home before they both put away their Star Annihilator Cannons.
• The Author explained that a crimson meteor had caused civilization in the real world to regress and asked for help creating a new story; the group chose a villainous protagonist and the Lego Grand Theater as his cheat.
• The Author said someone from Lin Qiye’s world had to enter the new story to stabilize it, and Lin Qiye agreed to bring Shen Qingzhu.

On New Year's Eve, Lin Qiye returned to Cangnan and saw Hong Ying grieving for her fallen comrades. He used karma to give her a dream reunion with Team 136, and she woke at dawn with a renewed resolve to carry on.

• Lin Qiye left the Fifth Universe celebration and traveled to Cangnan, where he met Zhao Kongcheng and Chen Muye outside the Heping Agency.
• Hong Ying drank alone in the snow while mourning Xiao Nan, Leng Xuan, and Deputy Captain Wu, and Lin Qiye decided to give her a dream reunion.
• Lin Qiye connected karma to Hong Ying and Wen Qimo, bringing the deceased Team 136 members into Hong Ying's dream for New Year's Eve.
• In the dream, Hong Ying reunited with her friends as Chen Muye celebrated Team 136 and entrusted Cangnan's future to Hong Ying and Wen Qimo.
• Hong Ying woke at dawn, saw the group photo, and watched three figures depart before telling Wen Qimo that the agency was open for business.