Chapter Summaries

Lin Qiye protected Jialan after defeating Mi Go and brought her to join Huo Qubing’s group for their journey. After helping her change into new clothes, he traveled with her in the carriage, where Jialan mistook Chloe for his beloved wife.

• Lin Qiye reassured Jialan that no one would take her away or refine her into a pill, and she asked who he was and why he was helping her.
• Huo Qubing arrived with Yan Zhong, Zhan Yuwu, Hu Jia, Gongyang Wan, and the others, and Jialan introduced herself as a Jade Pool Maidservant.
• Lin Qiye introduced the group to Jialan, and Gongyang Wan urged him to take Jialan to change out of her worn clothes before they set off.
• Lin Qiye bought Jialan a dark blue Han-style robe and hair ornaments, and the group was surprised by her transformed appearance.
• Jialan joined Lin Qiye in his carriage and mistook Chloe for his beloved wife, insisting she would stay out of their way.

Lin Qiye and his companions learned that a mist had thrown the Jade Pool into chaos, and that Jialan had escaped carrying the Immortal Pill. Despite her warning to wait, Lin Qiye decided to rush to Kunlun Mountain and launched their carriages into the sky.

• Jialan warned Lin Qiye and the others not to go to the Jade Pool because a confusing mist had spread across the Kunlun Void and endangered everyone there.
• Jialan explained that Queen Mother of the West had entrusted her and Jiang Zhu with the Eternal Pill and the Immortal Pill, then sent them away to protect the vessels.
• Jialan recounted how monsters repeatedly tracked her down, leaving her injured before she was found in Qingshan County.
• Lin Qiye insisted on going to the Jade Pool immediately, while Jialan and the others warned that the journey would be dangerous.
• Lin Qiye released the horses and used the Emperor of Domination’s power to send both carriages flying toward Kunlun Mountain.

Lin Qiye led the group into the ruined Kunlun Void and opened the barrier around Yaochi’s Grand Three Halls. A Lord God-level guardian confronted him at the Pill Hall.

• Jialan activated the entrance to the Kunlun Void, teleporting Lin Qiye and the others into Yaochi’s ruins.
• Lin Qiye examined the corpses and Willow Branches, concluding that the dead had each been killed with a single blow and searching for survivors.
• Jialan explained that the Grand Three Halls had been protected by a barrier laid by the Queen Mother of the West.
• Lin Qiye used Karma Threads to open the barrier and entered, triggering an attack from a wooden dragon.
• Huo Qubing attacked the wooden dragon, and a cyan figure wielding a Broken Sword emerged and landed before the Pill Hall.
• A shepherd boy riding a green ox declared that he had been ordered by the Queen Mother of the West to guard Yaochi’s forbidden grounds.

Lin Qiye and Huo Qubing discovered that the Wood God Jumang was a counterfeit and fought him, only for the fire god Zhu Rong to reveal himself as well. Lin Qiye, Huo Qubing, and Chloe faced the two chief gods while Jialan led the others into a Dharma Hall for shelter.

• Lin Qiye recognized that the shepherd boy was a counterfeit Jumang, and he and Huo Qubing attacked him.
• Lin Qiye resisted Jumang's wood magic and used a Karma Thread to transfer his injuries to the god, while Huo Qubing struck Jumang with lightning.
• Jumang called for Zhu Rong, who emerged from the flames and joined him on the steps before the Pill Hall.
• Lin Qiye and Jumang faced off as Huo Qubing and Chloe took on Zhu Rong, and the five fighters clashed.
• Jialan shielded Wu Quan and the others as they entered a Dharma Hall and closed its doors against the battle's aftermath.

Yan Zhong discovered a secret technique in the Dharma Hall while Lin Qiye fought Wood God Jumang outside. The two Queen Mothers of the West appeared together, killed Jumang and Zhu Rong, and turned their attention to Lin Qiye’s group.

• Jialan lit the dark Dharma Hall and explained that it held secret techniques, most of them related to weapon forging.
• Yan Zhong found the Soul Concealment Technique, which described forging a dying person’s soul into a weapon to attain eternal life through a painful process.
• Jialan briefly opened the hall door, but an explosion and flames outside forced her to shut it again.
• Lin Qiye fought Jumang and questioned whether he was a counterfeit, but the Kunlun Mirror appeared and froze everyone nearby.
• Two Queen Mothers of the West emerged from the mirror and killed Jumang and Zhu Rong, who turned into Willow Branches.
• The two Queen Mothers of the West agreed that Yaochi had been bathed in blood and then looked down at Lin Qiye’s group.

Lin Qiye explained why Queen Mother of the West had slaughtered Yaochi, then used his ability to see Karma Threads to identify and kill her duplicate. After earning the real Queen Mother’s gratitude, he asked her for a Yaochi peach of immortality on behalf of a friend.

• Lin Qiye realized Queen Mother of the West had sent Jialan and Jiang Zhu away before slaughtering Yaochi to contain the duplicates and protect the Heavenly Court and the Eternal Immortal Pill.
• Jialan came out of the Dharma Hall and vouched for Lin Qiye, explaining that he had saved her from monsters who were pursuing her.
• Lin Qiye claimed he could tell the real Queen Mother of the West from the fake, then stabbed the Queen Mother on the right as a diversion.
• The real Queen Mother of the West helped destroy the fake, which turned into a Willow Branch with two eyeballs, and the Kunlun Mirror returned to her sleeve.
• Lin Qiye explained that he had used Causality and Karma Threads to identify the fake, then asked the Queen Mother of the West for a Yaochi peach of immortality for a friend.

Queen Mother of the West learned that Lin Qiye had come from the future and explained that the Heavenly Court had gone beyond the world to intercept the Death Star. After giving Lin Qiye the only remaining peach, he handed it to the gravely ill Huo Qubing.

• Queen Mother of the West summoned Lin Qiye to the Pill Hall while Huo Qubing collapsed coughing blood outside.
• Queen Mother of the West recognized Lin Qiye's Primordial Spirit Embryo, learned he came from more than two thousand years in the future, and offered him her help.
• Queen Mother of the West told Lin Qiye that the Heavenly Court had gone beyond the world to intercept the approaching Death Star.
• Jialan brought the last peach from the previous Peach Banquet, and Queen Mother of the West gave it to Lin Qiye.
• Lin Qiye gave the peach to Huo Qubing and told him to eat it.

Lin Qiye gave Huo Qubing a flat peach that restored his vitality, then took responsibility for Jialan consuming the Immortal Pill. Queen Mother of the West spared Jialan but expelled her from the Jade Pool, leaving Jialan kneeling in farewell.

• Lin Qiye persuaded Huo Qubing to eat the flat peach, and Huo Qubing began absorbing its power to restore his health.
• Queen Mother of the West discovered that the Immortal Pill was missing and confronted Jialan about consuming it.
• Lin Qiye stepped in and told Queen Mother of the West that he had caused Jialan to eat the pill as part of a cause he had planted for the future.
• Queen Mother of the West accepted Lin Qiye's plea to spare Jialan but expelled her from the Jade Pool and severed their ties.
• Jialan watched Queen Mother of the West leave, then bowed to the ground and bade her farewell.

After the Queen Mother of the West expelled Jialan from Yaochi, Lin Qiye promised to help her find work in the human world. He then persuaded the Queen Mother to join his plan against Cthulhu, and she gave him the Kunlun Mirror and a bow for Jialan.

• Jialan blamed Lin Qiye for saving her with the Immortal Pill and getting her expelled, then asked him to find her a job in the human world.
• Lin Qiye's companions accused him of pursuing Jialan and urged him to take responsibility for her.
• Lin Qiye asked his companions to watch the Marquis while he returned to the Queen Mother of the West to seek her help against Cthulhu.
• The Queen Mother of the West agreed to follow Lin Qiye's plan and gave him the Kunlun Mirror so she could intervene at the crucial moment.
• The Queen Mother of the West retrieved a pale yellow Hardwood Bow and asked Lin Qiye to give it to Jialan.

Huo Qubing recovered, and Lin Qiye led the group toward Cthulhu’s true body by following a Willow Branch’s karmic trail. As the Celestial Venerables attacked the approaching Death Star, the group stopped at a ruined temple, where Lin Qiye discovered a Go board.

• Huo Qubing woke, and Lin Qiye gave Jialan the Hardwood Bow that the Queen Mother of the West had kept for her.
• Lin Qiye used a Willow Branch’s Karma Thread to lead the group toward Cthulhu’s true body, while Huo Qubing brought out the carriages.
• The Taoist Celestial Venerable, the Primordial Celestial Venerable, and Lingbao Tianzun attacked the crimson Death Star with ancient divine figures.
• Lin Qiye’s group stopped at a ruined mountain temple after the passengers became sick from the carriages, and Lin Qiye found corpses and Willow Branches outside.
• Lin Qiye entered the temple with Yan Zhong, who searched for food, and Lin Qiye noticed a Go board on a clean stone table.

While sheltering in a ruined temple, Lin Qiye discovered that the Immortal Pill carried karma linked to the Key of Doors, so hiding Jialan’s karma alone would not keep her safe. An experiment with a pebble led him to a possible way to turn the tables, and he rushed to the Go board to test it.

• Yan Zhong found dried rations, and the group ate in the temple before continuing their journey.
• Lin Qiye realized the Key of Doors could keep tracking Jialan through the Immortal Pill’s karma, despite his promise to protect her.
• Lin Qiye hid Jialan’s Karma Threads, but the Immortal Pill’s thread remained visible because of its connection to Cthulhu.
• Lin Qiye successfully hid a pebble’s karma, then poured black Go stones onto the board and announced that he had found a way to turn the tables.

Lin Qiye explained that his future self had hidden crucial events in causal loops to evade the Key of Doors and give humanity a chance against the Three Pillars. He began recruiting people from this era as pieces in a game spanning two thousand years, and Huo Qubing agreed to fight.

• Lin Qiye revealed that his future self had used the Uncaused Cause and the Fruit of Predestination to conceal history in causal loops from the Key of Doors.
• Lin Qiye said Chloe’s First Sacred Covenant had made humanity’s chance of victory greater than zero, and he placed a white stone on the go board.
• Lin Qiye explained that he needed future fighters with potential and causal links to his past self so he could hide them from the Key of Doors.
• Lin Qiye proposed using Mind Wandering to let the people in the temple witness and participate in the future struggle.
• Huo Qubing took a white stone and pledged to fight for the people under heaven.

Lin Qiye assembled allies for the fight against the Key of Doors, then realized he needed a separate mind to manage their two-thousand-year chess game. He had Hu Jia sever the Fruit of Predestination and placed it in a clay Buddha statue, naming the emerging consciousness the Destined Buddha.

• Zhan Yuwu, Yan Zhong, Wu Quan, Chloe, and Hu Jia took chess pieces to join Lin Qiye, while Jialan was told to keep her Immortal Pill for someone who needed it more.
• Lin Qiye persuaded Gongyang Wan to join by suggesting Hu Jia might separate Gongyang Zhuo's consciousness and make his rebirth possible.
• Lin Qiye explained that he needed a superbrain to calculate and conceal the chess game's karmic traces, and proposed using the Fruit of Predestination as an independent player.
• Hu Jia entered Lin Qiye's Mental World and severed the Fruit of Predestination from him while Lin Qiye tethered it with the Uncaused Cause.
• Lin Qiye placed the Fruit of Predestination inside a clay Buddha statue and named the consciousness it would develop the Destined Buddha.

Lin Qiye and his companions reached the Iridescent Mist to confront Cthulhu’s true body, but a shattered crimson star sent deadly fragments toward Earth. Queen Mother of the West emerged from the Kunlun Mirror as the fragments approached, leaving the group facing an imminent catastrophe.

• Lin Qiye explained that the group’s white stones would remain inactive until two thousand years later, when their karmic ties had lessened, and everyone accepted the agreement.
• Lin Qiye told Huo Qubing about Gongyang Wan’s past, and Huo Qubing reflected on her story as she boarded the carriage.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable split the crimson star with the Heavenly Court Origin, but the star exploded and sent fragments toward Earth.
• Lin Qiye’s group found Cthulhu’s true body in the Iridescent Mist, intending to kill him and eliminate his offspring across the Great Han Dynasty.
• The group saw the star fragments approaching Earth, and Queen Mother of the West emerged from the Kunlun Mirror to face the danger.

Lin Qiye and the gods raced to stop the Death Star fragments from destroying Earth’s population and weakening the Power of Faith. As they split across Great Han territory, other ancient gods began destroying fragments on distant continents.

• Lin Qiye realized the Death Star fragments were meant to wipe out Earth’s living beings, so he and Queen Mother of the West organized the gods to stop them.
• Chloe used her ability to send Queen Mother of the West east and Lin Qiye with herself to the central region, while Huo Qubing stayed behind to handle three fragments.
• Huo Qubing lifted an entire mountain range into the sky and flew toward the fragments, telling Zhan Yuwu and the others to wait.
• Lin Qiye and Chloe divided the six central fragments between them and rode hurricanes into the sky to intercept them.
• The Holy Lord destroyed several fragments over another continent, and divine power flared from other distant lands as ancient gods joined the fight.

As the Star Fragment exploded, Yan Zhong, Zhan Yuwu, and Gongyang Wan discovered that the Iridescent Mist was approaching Western City and threatening its people. Yan Zhong and Zhan Yuwu rushed to confront it, while Gongyang Wan went to force the city's civilians to evacuate.

• Zhan Yuwu and Yan Zhong spotted the Iridescent Mist moving toward Western City and realized no powerful fighters were available to stop it.
• Yan Zhong and Zhan Yuwu decided to try to hold back the monster, while Yan Zhong urged Gongyang Wan to evacuate the civilians.
• Gongyang Wan reflected on Huo Qubing's efforts to calm her hostility and chose to help evacuate Western City, though she would not sacrifice her life.
• Gongyang Wan warned the people at Western City's gate about the approaching evil god, but the soldiers and civilians refused to believe her.
• Gongyang Wan transformed her face, destroyed part of the city wall, and split the ground to frighten everyone into fleeing into the city.

Gongyang Wan drove civilians from the western city but was caught by Cthulhu after trying to save a wounded boy. Huo Qubing arrived in time to rescue her and prepared to fight the Willow Tree, confident that the peaches of immortality gave him a chance to defeat it.

• Gongyang Wan forced soldiers back and sent civilians fleeing along her chosen escape route while speaking to Gongyang Zhuo.
• Gongyang Wan rescued a beggar boy from rubble, but a Willow Branch snatched him into the mist and drew her into battle with Cthulhu.
• Gongyang Wan fought the Willow Branches until they bound her and lifted her toward the monster's maw.
• Huo Qubing struck through the Willow Branches with a thunder dragon and caught Gongyang Wan in midair.
• Huo Qubing told Gongyang Wan that Zhan Yuwu and Yan Zhong were still alive and declared he could defeat Cthulhu with the strength granted by Lin Qiye's peaches of immortality.

Huo Qubing fought Cthulhu’s Willow Tree form in the ruined western city, using the Emperor of Domination to withstand devastating attacks and unleash a stronger state. The battle continued with Huo Qubing piercing the tree’s trunk as the Lovecraftian God began to fear him.

• Huo Qubing gathered debris into a colossal spear and charged through Cthulhu’s Willow Branches, but root tentacles crushed the spear and smashed the western city.
• Gongyang Wan warned Azhuo not to rush into the fight as Huo Qubing emerged from the rubble alive.
• Huo Qubing activated Emperor Crimson Blood again, tripling his aura and forming three layers of thunderclouds.
• Huo Qubing crossed the branches and tentacles to attack the Willow Tree’s main body, trading blows with the monster.
• Huo Qubing tore a tentacle from his chest and kept fighting despite his exposed, damaged heart, piercing the trunk until Cthulhu began to fear he might kill it.

Huo Qubing unleashed the full power of Emperor Crimson Blood and struck Cthulhu with a devastating attack, leaving the god badly wounded but still recovering. Chloe arrived to protect him as Lin Qiye began trying to seal Cthulhu with Karma Threads and Uncaused Cause.

• Huo Qubing hurled a spear charged with three kinds of lightning at Cthulhu, and their powers collided in a massive explosion that destroyed the western city and surrounding land.
• Huo Qubing emerged from the blast holding the Willow Tree's heart, but Cthulhu began recovering and sent its branches toward him.
• Chloe arrived and cut down the branches, then told Huo Qubing that Lin Qiye had begun sealing Cthulhu because they could not kill it.
• Lin Qiye pressed a hand to Cthulhu's shattered trunk and sent Karma Threads into it while Uncaused Cause rotated behind him.

Lin Qiye’s sealing plan trapped Cthulhu in a web of memories and Karma Threads, while Huo Qubing collapsed from his fatal wounds and struggled to reach Hu Jia before he died. As Chloe, Zhan Yuwu, and Yan Zhong searched for a way to get him there, Yan Zhong revealed that another option existed.

• Lin Qiye vanished into the shattered tree as Cthulhu’s sealed memories of Pirate King Zhang San and other figures awakened, binding Cthulhu with Karma Threads.
• The Willow Branches froze and the phantom tree stood rigid, allowing Huo Qubing to collapse into a pool of blood.
• Chloe discovered a fragment of Huo Qubing’s heart in his chest, and Huo Qubing asked whether Hu Jia had arrived.
• Zhan Yuwu and Yan Zhong reached Huo Qubing, who insisted they take him to Hu Jia so Hu Jia could transfer his Mental World into Huo Qubing’s mind.
• After Chloe explained that they could not safely move Huo Qubing through the Spatial Vortex, Yan Zhong said there was another way.