Chapter Summaries

Lingbao Tianzun learned how the Three Pillars had devastated Earth and discovered that Earth's Origin could protect gods from Lovecraftian pollution. Dark Ancestor instructed the Great Xia Gods to cultivate near it, and Lingbao Tianzun summoned everyone back to the central platform.

• Lingbao Tianzun explained Earth's current state to Dark Ancestor, who realized the Three Pillars had nearly wiped out life to cut off the gods' faith.
• Dark Ancestor led Lingbao Tianzun to Earth's Origin, which could anchor gods to Earth and help shield them from Lovecraftian pollution and the mist.
• Dark Ancestor told Lingbao Tianzun that the gods could absorb the Origin's aura by breathing and cultivating near it for half a day.
• Lin Qiye collapsed as Dark Ancestor's aura receded, and Lingbao Tianzun laid him beside Earth's Origin to absorb its aura while asleep.
• Lingbao Tianzun used the mother flag to summon the other Great Xia Gods to the central platform.

Lu Wuwei found an Earth Origin in the stone arrays, and the Great Xia Gods and Human Apexes began meditating around it. In Lin Qiye’s consciousness, the Dark Ancestor awakened the full power of the Dark Origin within him, leaving Lin Qiye with a surge of new abilities.

• Lu Wuwei revealed that he had found an Earth Origin in a bare stone house inside the Earth Ancestor Stone Array.
• Lingbao Tianzun explained that Origins had once filled the stone arrays and told the Great Xia Gods and Human Apexes to meditate around the Earth Origin.
• Lin Qiye regained consciousness in the Dark Ancestor Stone Array and met the Dark Ancestor’s Remnant Soul.
• The Dark Ancestor asked Lin Qiye to return the Dark Origin, but Lin Qiye refused because Nyx had given it to him.
• The Dark Ancestor agreed to lend Lin Qiye the Origin and broke the restraint within it, awakening its full power and flooding Lin Qiye with new abilities.

Kronos was trapped by Shub-Niggurath and the Key of Doors fragment, which blocked his escape through time. Unable to flee, he attacked Zeus, but Shub-Niggurath intervened just as his cane pierced Zeus.

• Kronos recognized the Black Goat as Shub-Niggurath and realized he was outmatched by her, Lucifer, and Zeus.
• Zeus admitted he had pledged Olympus to Shub-Niggurath’s side, and Lucifer warned Kronos that Olympus could not withstand them alone.
• Kronos tried to travel back through time, but a fragment of the Key of Doors sealed his path and weakened his Time Law.
• Lucifer attacked Kronos, who dodged and then charged at Zeus with killing intent.
• Kronos slowed Zeus with his Time Law and drove his cane toward Zeus’s heart, but Shub-Niggurath’s tentacle seized his wrist.

Michael and Primordial Celestial Venerable sensed that Kronos had died, but neither could discover what had happened to him. At the Primal God Temple, Lin Qiye woke with an anchor in his consciousness and greatly enhanced powers, while King Mask’s eyes revealed a strange disturbance in time.

• Michael sensed that Kronos’s Time Law had returned to nature and, worried about Olympus and Great Xia, chose to remain on the Moon guarding its seal.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable found the sea where Kronos’s Time Law had returned, failed to uncover any trace of his death, and flew toward Great Xia.
• Lin Qiye woke in the Primal God Temple and learned from Lingbao Tianzun that an anchor had been planted in his consciousness.
• Lin Qiye sensed that his Mental Power had reached human-apex strength and that he could command and transform into darkness.
• King Mask opened his eyes as rings appeared around his pupils and time twisted around him.

King Mask absorbed Kronos's time law and ascended to godhood, but immediately began suffering dissolution into the Dao. He survived by repeatedly reversing time with increasingly precise control, though he was left exhausted and weakened.

• Lingbao Tianzun revealed that King Mask was about to ascend to godhood as Kronos's time law descended upon him.
• King Mask began absorbing the time law, and Lingbao Tianzun and the Great Xia Gods stopped another god from taking it.
• King Mask absorbed the final wisp of time law and ascended, but dissolution into the Dao began tearing apart his body.
• King Mask repeatedly reversed time to restore himself while Lingbao Tianzun advised him to narrow the area he reversed.
• After more than twenty minutes, King Mask reduced his time reversal to a small area and limited its cost, then collapsed onto the ground, exhausted.

Zeus returned to Olympus after killing Kronos, but the battle left him gravely wounded and aged, so he ordered the gods to prepare to kill Brahma. At Chennan Pass, An Qingyu remained unable to find spacetime clues in the materials he had gathered.

• The Olympus gods sensed that the Time Law had vanished and realized Kronos was dead, then Zeus staggered back to Mount Olympus gravely wounded and aged.
• Si Xiaonan offered Zeus a staff and was the first to pledge obedience when he declared that he would continue ruling Olympus.
• Zeus ordered the Olympus gods to mobilize secretly and prepare to kill Brahma, then commanded Si Xiaonan to attend him at all times.
• At Chennan Pass, An Qingyu continued investigating spacetime information but found no clues, while Jiang Er urged him to rest.

An Qingyu failed to locate the missing Great Xia Gods, while the Primordial Celestial Venerable returned to warn that the Black Goat might attack Great Xia. He planned to pursue and kill the Black Goat’s true body as the Taoist Celestial Venerable defended against its offspring, leaving Shao Pingge and the Night Watchmen facing the looming threat.

• An Qingyu tore down his failed calculations, and Jiang Er comforted him as he struggled to find the missing Gods.
• Cao Yuan brought An Qingyu a metal case containing a mutated arm covered in Worm Eyes and tentacles.
• The Primordial Celestial Venerable returned to Chennan Pass and learned that the Taoist Celestial Venerable had wounded Vishnu, who escaped by splitting himself in two.
• The Primordial Celestial Venerable and the Taoist Celestial Venerable suspected the Black Goat would attack Great Xia while Michael guarded the moon and the Great Xia Gods remained exiled.
• The Primordial Celestial Venerable planned to track the Black Goat’s offspring and kill its true body while the Taoist Celestial Venerable defended Great Xia, and Shao Pingge noticed An Qingyu, Jiang Er, and Cao Yuan in the command room.

With Great Xia facing an imminent invasion and Lin Qiye and the others missing, An Qingyu planned to use the Key of Doors to trace their location through the Lovecraftian Gods’ connection. Cao Yuan reluctantly agreed to stay beside him and cut away any flesh that became contaminated.

• Primordial Celestial Venerable told An Qingyu that he could not find Lin Qiye and the others before Great Xia ran out of time, and Shao Pingge appointed An Qingyu acting captain at Chennan Pass.
• An Qingyu led Cao Yuan and the others to his laboratory, where he prepared to use the Key of Doors to listen to the Lovecraftian Gods’ whispers.
• An Qingyu explained that the Key of Doors could reveal enough information to locate Lin Qiye and the others, but that listening to the whispers risked mental contamination.
• Cao Yuan tried to stop An Qingyu, but An Qingyu argued that his rapid regeneration made him the only person able to take the risk without endangering Great Xia’s Celestial Venerables.
• An Qingyu asked Cao Yuan to cut away any contaminated flesh, and Cao Yuan reluctantly agreed to watch over him.

An Qingyu reattached his contaminated arm and endured its corruption long enough for Cao Yuan to cut away the infected flesh, while Primordial Celestial Venerable severed contamination from his soul. As An Qingyu regenerated, the Celestial Venerable warned that the soul injury might leave him demented or unconscious, but An Qingyu said he had found them.

• An Qingyu cut off his right arm, attached the contaminated one, and fought to resist the spreading tumors and whispers.
• Cao Yuan prepared to strike, but An Qingyu stopped him and insisted he needed a few more seconds to hear something clearly.
• An Qingyu ordered Cao Yuan to cut away all contaminated flesh, and Cao Yuan used precise blade strikes to remove it and burn it away.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable severed a fragment of contamination from An Qingyu's soul and warned that the injury might impair his mind or leave him unconscious.
• As his body regenerated, An Qingyu clutched Primordial Celestial Venerable's robe and rasped that he had found them.

King Mask revealed that his new Time Law power only prolonged his life briefly while he endured constant dissolution into the Dao. A disturbance from their original time and space allowed Lingbao Tianzun to break through the Wall of Time and Space and lead everyone home, while the Ancestors remained behind to recover.

• King Mask told Lin Qiye that his lifespan had increased by nearly thirty years, but using time reversal rapidly drained it and left him only seven or eight years to live.
• Queen Mother of the West offered King Mask a peach of immortality, and Lingbao Tianzun promised to refine medicine to ease his suffering.
• Zuo Qing asked King Mask to rewind time to before Zeus exiled them, but King Mask explained that the gap was tens of thousands of years and beyond his remaining lifespan.
• A ripple from their original time and space struck the Wall of Time and Space, and King Mask recognized the source as their homeland.
• Lingbao Tianzun shattered the barrier with Primordial Chaos lightning, summoned the Primordial Dao Boat, and took everyone aboard toward home.
• After they departed, the Ancestors discussed staying in the Primal God Temple to recover as instructed by a mysterious figure and wondered about Hunt Ancestor on Earth.

Primordial Celestial Venerable welcomed Lingbao Tianzun and the rescued Great Xia Gods back to Earth, then summoned them to respond to Great Xia’s crisis. Lucifer warned Zeus that the Black Goat’s forces were moving to destroy Great Xia, and Zeus ordered the gods to attack Brahma.

• Primordial Celestial Venerable received the Primordial Dao Boat and thanked Lingbao Tianzun for returning with the Great Xia Gods and Human Apex figures.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable opened the Heavenly Court gates and told the group that Great Xia was in trouble.
• Lucifer questioned Zeus about Kronos’s corpse and said he and the Black Goat’s forces would attack Great Xia while its gods were banished.
• A horde of Black Goat spawn swept over Olympus, and Zeus realized Lucifer had shown them to the gods as a warning.
• Zeus asked Si Xiaonan whether the gods were ready to strike Brahma, then ordered them to act.

Fang Mo and the other Night Watchmen aboard a transport plane were sent to the western border after an enemy attack was detected. As the Black Goat’s offspring breached the fortress, a tentacle struck the plane and shattered its portholes.

• Fang Mo spoke with Lu Baoyou about their assignments and learned that Lu Baoyou wanted to fight enemies on the front lines.
• The transport plane changed course after signs of an attack appeared at the western border.
• The Night Watchmen saw the Black Goat’s offspring surging out of the Misty Wall and realized the monsters were stronger than Klein realm.
• The Black Goat’s offspring broke through the fortress wall as the plane prepared to parachute its passengers.
• A huge tentacle hit the transport plane, sending it spinning and shattering every porthole.

Lucifer appeared at War Pass and forced his agent Lu Baoyou to attack Fang Mo, but an old man wielding the Time Law emerged before Lu Baoyou could strike. Lucifer recognized that the old man might be a new human God of Time, appearing just after Kronos’s death.

• Lu Baoyou and Fang Mo escaped their crashing plane, landed near War Pass, and spotted Lucifer emerging from the Misty Wall.
• Lucifer caught up with them, recognized Michael’s aura around Fang Mo, and demanded that Lu Baoyou kill Lin Qiye.
• When Lu Baoyou admitted he could not defeat Lin Qiye, Lucifer tore off his wings and ordered him to kill Fang Mo instead.
• Lu Baoyou picked up his sword and approached the immobilized Fang Mo, but an old man in a gray robe stepped out of the River of Time.
• Lucifer identified the old man’s power as the Time Law and wondered whether he was a new human God of Time.

King Mask delayed Lucifer until Lingbao Tianzun and the restored Great Xia Gods arrived, and Lingbao Tianzun transported Lucifer away from Earth to fight him near Venus. Lingbao Tianzun trapped Lucifer in a space prison and prepared to attack with the sun’s coronal fire.

• King Mask revealed that he had come from the future and used his time powers to buy time before vanishing.
• Lingbao Tianzun emerged from a black hole and struck Lucifer with the Golden Scepter as the Heavenly Court and the Great Xia Gods returned to battle.
• Lin Qiye appeared and rescued Lu Baoyou and Fang Mo from the effects of King Mask’s time freeze.
• Lingbao Tianzun swallowed Lucifer into the Primordial Chaos Limitless cave and brought him into space near Venus.
• Lingbao Tianzun trapped Lucifer with savage lightning and summoned streams of solar fire while declaring that his thousands of years of reincarnation had not been idle.

King Mask rewound time to save Lu Baoyou and Fang Mo from Lucifer, then Lin Qiye and King Mask returned to the battlefield as the Great Xia Gods drove back the Black Goat's spawn. Primordial Celestial Venerable recognized a chance to kill the Black Goat before the other Three Pillars awakened.

• King Mask told Lin Qiye that he had traveled back in time to prevent Lu Baoyou and Fang Mo from dying and to stop Lucifer from discovering Lu Baoyou's rebellion.
• King Mask released Lu Baoyou and Fang Mo from their frozen state, and Lu Baoyou's blade missed Lucifer after the god had vanished.
• Lin Qiye told the two young Night Watchmen to stay behind and thanked King Mask for saving them.
• Lin Qiye and King Mask headed to the front lines as the Heavenly Court pushed the Black Goat's spawn beyond the Mist border.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable explained that the Black Goat feared the Great Xia Gods' aura of Earth's Origin and urged the others to seize the chance to kill it.

Lingbao Tianzun fought Lucifer on Venus and drove him to flee toward Earth. As the Black Goat’s spawn withdrew from the Heavenly Court, Primordial Celestial Venerable chose to wait for Lingbao’s return and secretly tracked the retreating enemy.

• Lingbao Tianzun battled Lucifer on Venus, using his divine artifacts and Primordial Chaos Limitless Cave to overwhelm him.
• Lucifer fled toward Earth, and Lingbao Tianzun pursued him through space.
• The Black Goat’s spawn stopped fighting the Great Xia Gods and retreated into the mist.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable explained that the Black Goat had withdrawn to avoid a prolonged battle and sent a wisp of breeze to track it.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable ordered the Great Xia Gods to return to the Heavenly Court and decided to wait for Lingbao.

After the battle ended, Lin Qiye returned to Chennan Pass with Zuo Qing and asked after his teammates. He found Cao Yuan at a medical room, where someone lay unconscious beneath the sheets.

• The black shadow vanished, and King Mask said he would use the Time Law to bring back the Mask Squad.
• Zuo Qing told King Mask that Lingbao Tianzun was waiting for him in Heaven, then brought Lin Qiye back to Chennan Pass.
• Shao Pingge and Yuan Gang discussed the withdrawal of troops and the work awaiting them at Chennan Pass.
• Zuo Qing returned to command headquarters, where Shao Pingge handed over command and reported that the fallen martyrs' bodies had been sent back.
• Lin Qiye asked where his teammates were, and Shao Pingge led him to a medical room.
• Cao Yuan greeted Lin Qiye, who entered and saw an unidentified person lying beneath the sheets, connected to medical instruments.

Lin Qiye learned that An Qingyu had saved him and Primordial Celestial Venerable by listening to the Lovecraftian Gods, leaving Qingyu comatose with a soul injury. As Lin Qiye took him to Shangjing in hopes that familiar places might help him recover, Lingbao Tianzun warned King Mask that saving the Mask Squad by changing history could endanger Great Xia.

• Primordial Celestial Venerable told Lin Qiye that An Qingyu had deciphered their location in space-time by listening to the Lovecraftian Gods, but the effort wounded his soul and left him in a coma.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable said that medicines could not heal An Qingyu and that only An Qingyu himself could recover; Shao Pingge suggested taking him somewhere familiar.
• Lin Qiye carried An Qingyu onto Night's aircraft and chose Shangjing as their destination, while Cao Yuan brought the Black Coffin aboard.
• Lingbao Tianzun gave King Mask a Pain-Suppressing Pill and said he was refining another pill to extend King Mask's lifespan.
• King Mask told Lingbao Tianzun he planned to rewind time and save the Mask Squad from the Fishing Village Law, but realized that erasing it could prevent Night from going to Fishing Village and Lin Qiye from entering Takama-ga-hara.
• Lingbao Tianzun warned King Mask that changing the timeline would create immense karmic force, shorten his lifespan, and put Great Xia in danger.

King Mask traveled more than a year into the past to Fishing Village, where he found the Mask Squad’s time loop and collected his fallen companions’ souls. He buried them in a cloth bag and returned more than a year later to retrieve it, welcoming them home.

• Lingbao Tianzun gave King Mask a cloth bag and explained how to reduce karmic force’s impact as he traveled into the past.
• King Mask used the Time Law to travel more than a year backward, losing at least six years of his lifespan on the journey.
• King Mask entered Fishing Village’s time loop and heard the Mask Squad’s final words as they disappeared from the shore.
• King Mask used Soul Return to draw the squad members’ souls into the cloth bag, buried it, and traveled back to the future.
• More than a year later, King Mask dug up the cloth bag and welcomed the souls home.

Lin Qiye, Cao Yuan, and Jiang Er brought the unconscious An Qingyu to their residence in Shangjing City, where Chen Han invited them to the 006 Squad base. There, they learned that five of the squad’s Night Watchmen, including Zhang Zhengting, had died in battle, and Li Zhenzhen arrived just as she discovered their coffins.

• Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan cleaned their residence while An Qingyu remained unconscious and Jiang Er watched over him.
• Chen Han found the group and invited them to dine with the 006 Squad.
• At the 006 Squad base, Chen Han and Lin Qiye found Xu Liao mourning before five coffins.
• Xu Liao told them that Zhang Zhengting and four other members of the 006 Squad had died in battle.
• Fang Mo and Li Zhenzhen arrived, and Li Zhenzhen froze when she saw the coffins.