Chapter Summaries

No. 22 and the Divine Lust Heaven group tried to navigate the time maze by carving marks into the Antarctic ice, but the marks quickly disappeared as the ice changed. They lost their way, and after Kubera vanished while flying, only three people remained with No. 22, who ordered them to keep moving.

• No. 22 replaced ordinary numbers with secret symbols and led the group onward, but none of their marks could be found again.
• The group realized that the ice melted and refroze too quickly for their marks to last, leaving them unable to retrace their route to Lin Qiye’s marks.
• Kubera tried to fly above the maze to find their position, but vanished after rising only a few meters.
• With Divine Lust Heaven reduced to three survivors, No. 22 ordered the remaining group to choose a direction at random and keep moving.

Lin Qiye followed his markings through the Time Maze into the past and encountered the masked woman who had taken Si Xiaonan’s identity. She revealed herself as Lina Perin, heir to King Arthur, and Lin Qiye learned she had been ranked first among the Ten Imperial Predecessors.

• Lin Qiye used the numbers carved with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi to navigate the Time Maze and found a path leading farther into the past.
• Lin Qiye encountered a masked woman beside Demon Wolf Fenrir and recognized that she had posed as Si Xiaonan.
• Lin Qiye threatened the woman until she removed her mask and revealed that she was human.
• Lina Perin introduced herself as the legitimate heir of King Arthur and said she had been ranked first among the Ten Imperial Predecessors.
• Lin Qiye asked why Lina had disguised herself as Si Xiaonan.

Lina explained how Si Xiaonan made her the Hidden Gods’ successor before going undercover in Olympus, and how the group later stripped Lina of her authority. She also revealed that the Sword in the Stone let her sense the Time Maze’s structure, leaving Lin Qiye to infer that its deepest point lay at the era when the Gate of Truth shattered.

• Lina told Lin Qiye that Si Xiaonan had arranged for her to lead the Hidden Gods before infiltrating Olympus, where Si Xiaonan disappeared during the God War.
• Lina explained that the Hidden Gods had grown suspicious of her and stripped her of real power after she revealed she was human.
• Lin Qiye summoned two hospital employees to treat Fenrir and said he would not abandon Si Xiaonan’s chosen successor or her mount.
• Lina revealed the Sword in the Stone and explained that it had helped her evade Divine Lust Heaven by letting her sense time in the maze.
• Lina described the Time Maze as an inverted pyramid, with increasingly ancient periods toward its bottom and the Gate of Truth’s remnants likely at the end.

Lin Qiye and Lina headed toward the ruins of the Gate of Truth while Fenrir recovered, as No. 22’s group wandered through the Time Maze and found the Supreme God Vishnu. No. 22 killed a Lesser God who lost hope, then begged Vishnu to save him.

• Lin Qiye and Lina concluded that the Time Maze had become more stable and set off toward the ruins of the Gate of Truth with the recovering Fenrir.
• The chief god and the Lesser God argued as they wandered the maze with No. 22, and the Lesser God regretted leaving Lin Qiye’s side.
• No. 22 killed the Lesser God for complaining and warned the chief god not to lose his composure.
• No. 22 and the chief god encountered Vishnu, a Supreme God seated on the ice.
• No. 22 recognized Vishnu and dropped to his knees, pleading with him to save him.

No. 22 persuaded the hidden Vishnu to leave the Time Maze by claiming that the Heavenly Court had fallen and Divine Lust Heaven could help him rule the world. Vishnu agreed to kill Lin Qiye, and he led No. 22 and the Main God toward the maze’s deepest fragment to wait for him.

• No. 22 kowtowed to Vishnu and claimed he had come to invite him out of retirement, while Vishnu insisted they had never met.
• No. 22 told Vishnu that the Heavenly Court had vanished and described the events in the outside world, convincing Vishnu that he could become the world’s supreme god.
• Vishnu agreed to join No. 22 and grant his wish, then rose from the ice field with renewed confidence.
• No. 22 identified Lin Qiye as the person Vishnu needed to kill, explaining that he was a Main God and the leader of Great Xia’s forces.
• Vishnu agreed to kill Lin Qiye for bullying his godson and led No. 22 and the Main God toward the maze’s deepest fragment to wait for him.

Lin Qiye and Lina reached the deepest part of the Time Maze, where they encountered Vishnu, who had joined forces with No. 22. Vishnu pursued them across the temporal barriers, and Lin Qiye fought back as their escape became uncertain.

• Lin Qiye and Lina reached the Gate of Truth’s remnants in a time shard from a century after the gate’s destruction.
• Vishnu appeared with No. 22 and a familiar chief god, and No. 22 identified Lin Qiye as his target.
• Lin Qiye and Lina fled as Vishnu struck them with a massive golden palm, then pursued them through a temporal barrier.
• Vishnu knocked Lin Qiye and Lina into a boulder field and transformed into a towering golden giant.
• Lin Qiye confronted Vishnu’s vajra with his sword, and a graceful figure shot into the sky.

Lina summoned a phantom of King Arthur to help Lin Qiye repel Vishnu, then Lin Qiye escaped through the maze’s fragmented Time Shards while carrying her. Safe for the moment, Lin Qiye wondered what lay at the end of the future.

• Lina summoned King Arthur’s phantom through the Sword in the Stone, and she and Lin Qiye struck Vishnu’s vajra together, forcing Vishnu to resume his pursuit after they vanished.
• Lin Qiye carried the unconscious Lina through successive Time Shards, but Vishnu continued to track him.
• Lin Qiye followed his sword marks into the maze’s densely fragmented times and escaped Vishnu by leaping between them too quickly to follow.
• Vishnu failed to find Lin Qiye, then told No. 22 he would wait near the Gate of Truth to seal the maze’s exit.
• Lin Qiye brought Lina to the ice marked “0,” realized Vishnu would likely wait at the exit, and wondered what lay at the end of the future.

Lin Qiye searched the Time Maze for a path into the future, then followed Lina’s Sword in the Stone upward through the Time Shards. They emerged above the maze and saw its full shape as a Light Cone formed by the shattered Gate of Truth.

• Lin Qiye explored the unmarked ice near the maze entrance, carving numbers until he reached the farthest future point, 38, but nothing happened.
• Lina woke and explained that the Time Shards extended above them in three dimensions, making a ground-level search insufficient.
• Lina used the Sword in the Stone to sense the future’s direction and pointed directly overhead.
• Lin Qiye flew upward with Lina, passed through a Time Shard, and vanished with her into a black-and-white world.
• Lin Qiye saw the Time Shards gathered into a Light Cone around the shattered Gate of Truth and carried Lina toward its apex.

Lin Qiye and Lina found the Safe Passage beyond the Time Maze, but two goddesses ambushed them. After Lin Qiye identified himself and showed Nyx’s Night Origin, Athena and Artemis stopped attacking and acknowledged him.

• Lin Qiye explained that the Safe Passage led out of the Time Maze, and Lina saw Vishnu and No. 22 in a Time Shard.
• A golden arrow and a spear-wielding goddess attacked Lin Qiye and Lina, while a second goddess fired arrows from hiding.
• Lin Qiye fought off the attackers, used End King’s Law to reveal the hidden archer, and recognized the pair as Athena and Artemis.
• Lin Qiye introduced himself and said he had come to find Nyx, causing Athena and Artemis to halt their assault.
• Lin Qiye presented Nyx’s Night Origin, and Artemis apologized for the attack and said Nyx had mentioned him.

Lin Qiye learned that Nyx had entered the Gate of Truth nearly four years earlier to trade for the resurrection of her children. He tried to open the sealed gate with his Mortal Divine Domain, leaving Athena and Artemis watching.

• Artemis told Lin Qiye that Nyx had found the Gate of Truth and heard her past self describe its power of equivalent exchange.
• Artemis revealed that Nyx had entered the gate to resurrect her children, and Athena said their attempts to open it over nearly four years had failed.
• Lin Qiye placed his palm on the gate and unleashed his Mortal Divine Domain, pouring all his strength into trying to open it.

Lin Qiye entered the ruined Gate of Truth and discovered that its remnants were draining Nyx’s power. As he tried to free her, a light fragment manifested a younger, emotionless Nyx who attacked him.

• Lin Qiye used the Seraph’s Mortal Divine Domain to pry open the Gate of Truth, warned Lina to seek Zhou Ping if he did not return within a month, and entered with Athena and Artemis.
• Inside the gate, Lin Qiye realized it was only a remnant and suspected that Nyx had been lured into it under false pretenses.
• Artemis spotted a mass of dead tentacles that had trapped Nyx’s black sphere and were drawing on her Night Law as nourishment.
• Lin Qiye charged at the tentacles with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, but a falling light fragment stopped him and revealed a young version of Nyx.
• The young Nyx showed no recognition of Lin Qiye, identified him as an enemy of Olympus, and spread night across the land.

Artemis, Athena, and Lin Qiye faced a young Nyx controlled by the Gate of Truth, whose overwhelming power trapped Athena in a lethal patch of night. Lin Qiye freed Athena and confronted Nyx alone, while Athena and Artemis went to rescue the real Nyx from the starlight tentacles.

• Artemis called out to Nyx, but Athena explained that the Gate of Truth controlled Nyx and that she saw them as enemies.
• Athena attacked Nyx, but Nyx's night and black petals overwhelmed her and kept her from escaping as starlight swords struck.
• Lin Qiye intervened to block a starlight sword and used End King's Law to tear open the night, freeing Athena.
• Lin Qiye sent Athena and Artemis to fight the starlight tentacles and rescue the real Nyx, then prepared to face young Nyx alone.
• Lin Qiye entered the overlapping darkness and attacked, but Nyx dismissed his Divine Realm as she summoned a barrage of starlight greatswords.

Lin Qiye fought Nyx and discovered that absorbing her Night Law accelerated the birth of a law within his Dark Origin. He realized that young Nyx, manifested by the Gate of Truth, could provide far more of that law and looked at her and Shadow Maw as potential sources.

• Lin Qiye clashed with Nyx’s Star Splitter and attacked her with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, but her silver bracelet expanded into a defensive ring and repelled him.
• Nyx summoned three Dark Night Meteorfall spheres while Athena tried to help Lin Qiye, but starlight tentacles kept her and Artemis occupied.
• Lin Qiye used the End King's Law and sword strikes to destroy the first meteor, absorbing its Night Law and accelerating the growth of a new law in his Dark Origin.
• Lin Qiye destroyed the second meteor and saw the Dark Origin devour its Night Law, then realized young Nyx could provide a greater amount of it.
• Lin Qiye turned his attention to young Nyx and Shadow Maw, viewing them as nourishment for the law developing within his Dark Origin.

Lin Qiye defeated Nyx by using Transformation Magic and karma to disable her bracelet, then absorbed her laws through the Dark Origin. A fruit of darkness appeared before him, and he reached toward it as Athena and Artemis wondered whether he could wield Dark Law alongside Miracle Law.

• Lin Qiye used the Seraph clone's Transformation Magic to create a causal link to Nyx's silver bracelet, causing it to lose its starry form and fall.
• Lin Qiye struck down Nyx, whose shattered body dissolved into grains of sand that he captured with the Dark Origin.
• Athena was shocked that Lin Qiye had killed the young Nyx, while Artemis sensed that he was nearing Dark Law and questioned how he could possess two laws.
• A crack opened in the Dark Origin and produced a small black fruit that swallowed the surrounding light.
• Lin Qiye stared at the fruit and slowly reached toward it, wondering whether it was Dark Law.

Lin Qiye seized the Dark Law, and the conflicting powers of darkness and light overwhelmed him as he hurled Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi toward Athena and Artemis. The sword broke through the Gate of Truth’s tentacles and damaged Nyx’s sphere, while Lin Qiye vanished into an unstable black sun and the gate opened onto the Time Shard.

• Lin Qiye grasped the Dark Law, and its power clashed painfully with the Seraphim Divine Power inside him.
• Seeing Athena and Artemis trapped by the Gate of Truth’s tentacles, Lin Qiye infused Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi with both divine powers and threw it toward them before losing consciousness.
• Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi cut apart the tentacles and pierced Nyx’s black sphere, leaving cracks in its surface.
• Athena rescued the drained Artemis and realized Lin Qiye had vanished, replaced by an enormous, unstable black sun.
• The Gate of Truth opened onto the Time Shard instead of the Safe Passage, and Vishnu sensed something among the boulders.

Vishnu and No. 22 entered the Gate of Truth and found Lin Qiye attempting to fuse the Dark and Miracle Laws. As Vishnu attacked him and Athena, a woman wielding Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi emerged from the darkness and challenged Vishnu’s claim to be the Sole Supreme.

• The Gate of Truth opened, and Vishnu, No. 22, and another Lord God entered, seeking its rumored power to fulfill a request.
• Vishnu found Athena and Artemis among the ruins and recognized Lin Qiye’s Dark and Miracle Laws as he tried to fuse them.
• Vishnu moved to kill Lin Qiye, but Athena and Artemis attacked to stop him.
• Vishnu overwhelmed Athena and No. 22 urged her to submit to his adoptive father, whom they called the Sole Supreme.
• Darkness covered the world, and a woman wielding Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi emerged from a cracked sphere and challenged Vishnu.

Nyx fought Vishnu while No. 22 seized the chance to bargain with the starlit tentacle he believed was the Gate of Truth. The chief god was consumed as No. 22 offered him as a gift in exchange for power greater than Lin Qiye’s.

• Vishnu attacked Nyx, but she emerged unharmed and summoned twelve enormous Dark Night Meteorfall spheres.
• No. 22 and the chief god fled the battle’s aftermath as Vishnu engaged Nyx.
• No. 22 led the chief god to a surviving starlit tentacle and said it could trade power for a price.
• No. 22 shoved the chief god into the tentacles, which drained his divine power, laws, and life force.
• No. 22 offered the chief god to the Gate of Truth and demanded power beyond Lin Qiye’s.

Lin Qiye deliberately returned to the dark world to question the mysterious boy about his identity and the laws within him, but the boy warned that Lin Qiye and Nyx’s group were in danger. On the battlefield, No. 22 faced a choice when a starlight tentacle demanded King’s Scepter in exchange for power.

• Lin Qiye woke in the dark world and told the boy he had deliberately let the Miracle Law and Dark Law clash so he could meet him.
• Lin Qiye questioned the boy about his identity and the Uncaused Cause and Fruit of Predestination, and the boy directed him to seek answers from his Second Sacred Covenant.
• The boy warned Lin Qiye that he and Nyx’s companions were in danger, so Lin Qiye used his divine power in the Mortal Divine Domain to leave.
• On the battlefield, a starlight tentacle pointed to King’s Scepter and offered No. 22 power in exchange for it.
• No. 22 considered surrendering the scepter but worried that the tentacle might take it without honoring the bargain.

No. 22 tried to offer the King's Scepter to the Gate of Truth, but Yu Yi stole it and transferred control to An Qingyu. An Qingyu defeated No. 22, copied the heart fragment that let him use the scepter, and declared that No. 22 was no longer its only user.

• No. 22 pulled the King's Scepter from his body and reached toward the starlit tentacle, but Yu Yi snatched it away.
• Yu Yi transformed as An Qingyu's soul transferred into him, and An Qingyu struck No. 22 with a blow that tore a huge hole in his chest.
• No. 22 accused An Qingyu of luring Divine Lust Heaven to the maze with false information about the Gate of Truth, then attacked him with phantom snakes.
• An Qingyu resisted the snakes, froze No. 22, and examined his stitched body, prompting No. 22 to beg for his life and offer to help use the scepter.
• An Qingyu cut a fragment from No. 22's heart, copied its aura, and activated the King's Scepter before telling No. 22, "Now, you are not."

An Qingyu used the King's Scepter to drain Nyx and Vishnu of their divine power, revealing that Vishnu had allied with the Lovecraftians. He then spread the stolen power through the world behind the Gate, transporting everyone back to the Time Shard as the Gate of Truth ruins disappeared.

• Nyx attacked Vishnu until a Golden Scepter began absorbing divine power from across the battlefield.
• An Qingyu revealed himself as the wielder of the King's Scepter, and Vishnu held Nyx back while the artifact drained them both.
• Vishnu explained that he had allied with An Qingyu after learning the true balance of power and deciding he could not side with Great Xia.
• Nyx ran out of divine power and landed, while An Qingyu judged the scepter's charge sufficient.
• An Qingyu drove the King's Scepter into the ground, spreading divine-power patterns through the world behind the Gate and shifting everyone onto the Time Shard.