Chapter Summaries

Li Qi discovered that the outage had drained all electricity across the city, cutting off communications and trapping evacuees in underground elevators. He powered the elevators with his own energy while Zhao Hong sought guidance from superiors, leaving Li Qi able to sustain the emergency for only half an hour.

• Li Qi calmed the panicking crowd with an enormous Illumination Technique, then learned from Xie Yan that the entire city had lost power.
• Li Qi tested his phone and found that it still worked when charged from his puppet body, but its charge vanished as soon as he unplugged it.
• Li Qi went to Zhao Hong, who reported that the powerless elevators had trapped evacuees underground and severed all contact with them.
• Li Qi connected himself to the elevator backup power supply and restored electricity, restarting the elevators.
• Li Qi told Zhao Hong he could provide power for at most half an hour, and Zhao Hong left to contact his superiors through the Mother-Child Mirror.

Brigina refused to enter hibernation and set plans in motion to eliminate the other Twelve Stars and capture Meng An. Meanwhile, Zhao Hong learned that electricity had vanished across most of the world and that a Shaman God could restore it in Huaguo for only three days.

• White Bear told the Twelve Stars that their Clones would manage the Ruins Society while they hibernated, and the members logged off after exchanging farewells.
• Brigina stayed out of her Hibernation Pod, convinced the Ruins Society's leaders were pursuing a hidden scheme and deciding to remove the other gods.
• Brigina ordered Dong Hu to enact their plan, find the Agent in Huaguo, and bring her Zhang Fengyun's grandson, Meng An.
• Brigina entered the Gate of Life to wait while her plan proceeded.
• A superior told Zhao Hong that an oddity had erased electricity across most of the world and that the Shaman God could restore it in Huaguo for three days.
• After Zhao Hong agreed to seek a lasting replacement for electricity, his superior questioned whether he had once been a spy, and Zhao Hong recalled being undercover in the Tokyo Special Affairs Division.

After a mysterious rule change made electricity unusable through ordinary technology, Li Qi and Zhao Hong struggled to protect the Underground City while the Witch God’s 72-hour presence dwindled. Ye Yue, terrified by the world’s rule-altering powers, decided to leave and warned Li Qi to escape too, but he asked her to teach him Undead Race skills before she went.

• Chunhui City’s power returned, and Zhao Hong told Li Qi that an unknown force had prevented people from using Electrical Energy through conventional means.
• Zhao Hong said they had 70 hours left to find a replacement for electricity while he continued moving people into the Underground City.
• Li Qi returned to the Temporary Base and found Ye Yue, who announced that she planned to leave the world without having gathered enough Mental Power for her next life.
• Ye Yue explained that she feared the beings capable of changing the world’s rules and urged Li Qi to leave as well.
• Li Qi asked Ye Yue to teach him some Undead Race Exclusive Skills before she departed.

Ye Yue tested Li Qi’s Soul Strength and discovered that he had reached Level Six, far surpassing her expectations. After teaching him her method for observing World Rules, Li Qi saw a possible way to use the wondrous object without paying its price.

• Ye Yue asked Li Qi to attack her with his Mental Power, and his strike overwhelmed her and left her badly injured.
• Ye Yue realized Li Qi had Level Six Soul Strength and learned that Mu Xi had transformed him after he said he had been among the top three experts in his world.
• Ye Yue gave Li Qi a Spiritual Seed containing her method for observing World Rules, and he quickly learned to use it.
• Li Qi observed the World Rules until his Mental Power began to run low, then recovered it with the Meditation Method of Heavenly Craft Soul Transfer.
• Li Qi recalled the colored threads he had seen and realized he might be able to use the wondrous object without paying its price.

Li Qi learned the Undead Race’s Soul Strength levels from Ye Yue and reorganized Heavenly Craft Soul Transfer into nine layers to match them. After gathering cultivation systems from Ye Yue’s past lives, he began considering whether Divine Weapon forging, Rune World runes, and alchemy could let him create Strange Items that transferred their own costs.

• Ye Yue explained the Undead Race’s Soul Strength levels, including the risks of reincarnation and the abilities gained at higher levels.
• Li Qi revised Heavenly Craft Soul Transfer from seven layers to nine and classified his current cultivation as the Sixth Layer.
• Li Qi questioned Ye Yue about the five Cultivation Systems she had learned across her past lives and collected her knowledge.
• Li Qi returned to Dream Town and began organizing Ye Yue’s cultivation systems, including Daoist arts, beast-linking, Divine Weapons, magic, and runes.
• Li Qi connected Divine Weapon forging and Rune World runes with alchemy and his study of World Rules, then considered making Strange Items that could transfer their own price.

With Chunhui City's power supply set to fail within hours, Li Qi offered Zhao Hong a way to keep the Underground City running in exchange for the Twelve Golden Immortals Painting and a place on the ancient ruins expedition. The chapter ended with Zhao Hong agreeing and clearing the power plant so Li Qi could act in secret.

• Zhao Hong struggled to find an energy source before the 72-hour deadline, while Director Li urged him to rest.
• Xu Leying told Zhao Hong that Meng An wanted to see him at the Underground City's Power Plant.
• Zhao Hong told Li Qi that the power problem remained unsolved and that using the Wushen was their last resort.
• Li Qi said he could maintain the power supply if the higher-ups lent him the Twelve Golden Immortals Painting and took him on the ancient ruins expedition.
• Zhao Hong agreed to Li Qi's first two conditions, and Li Qi told him to clear the power plant so he could use his method privately.

Li Qi used blood forging and enchanting to make Chunhui City's nuclear power plant keep working under the altered world rules, saving its 1.2 million residents. As Zhao Hong prepared to contact headquarters, Bureau 057 learned that a mysterious organization had orchestrated the crises and intended to destroy the world.

• Li Qi combined blood forging with enchanting to convert the nuclear power plant's electricity into power that could function under the altered rules.
• With the seventy-two-hour deadline passing, Zhao Hong switched Chunhui City's power back to the plant, and all eight areas reported normal conditions.
• Zhao Hong thanked Li Qi for saving the city, promised to fulfill his conditions, and considered using the Mother-Child Mirror to contact headquarters.
• At Bureau 057 headquarters, the Intelligence Department minister reported that a nameless organization had orchestrated the nuclear attacks, virus, and blackout.
• The Strange Item Management Department minister said the organization had erased its existence, and the director suspected it had caused the end of the world.

Bureau 057 weighed using the Faceless Witch God Statue to locate the mysterious organization, while learning that Meng An could restore power and had made demands in exchange. After Wu Miao gave Meng An the Twelve Golden Immortals Painting, Meng An prepared to restore power in the next city.

• The bureau chief ordered Bureau 057 to find the mysterious organization within three days and use the Faceless Witch God Statue if they failed.
• The head of the Intelligence Department reported that Zhao Hong had confirmed Meng An could maintain Chunhui City's power supply and that Meng An had made three demands.
• The bureau chief agreed to Meng An's demands and arranged for him to come to the capital for a meeting.
• Bureau 057 brought Li Qi and his team to the capital's Underground City, where Wu Miao greeted him and handed over the Twelve Golden Immortals Painting.
• Li Qi accepted the painting and asked Wu Miao which city he should restore power to next.

After Huaguo recovered from the Great Blackout, Li Qi investigated the Ancient Ruins Society and studied the history of the twelve major ancient ruins. He ended by testing a soul-infused Substitute Doll on the Twelve Golden Immortals Painting.

• Li Qi attended Huaguo's national mourning ceremony and discussed the hidden Ancient Ruins Society with Wu Miao, who planned to coordinate a wanted notice with other countries.
• Li Qi reviewed records of the ancient ruins, their twelve doors, and the disasters linked to the Ancient Ruins Society.
• Li Qi noticed that twelve recurred across the ruins, the Ancient Ruins Society, and the Twelve Golden Immortals Painting, and he used the Method of Observation to examine the painting's Threads of Rules.
• Li Qi infused a palm-sized doll with part of his soul, strengthened it with Mental Power, and placed it on the painting as a test of his Substitute Doll.

Li Qi used a Substitute Doll to summon Zhu Xingyuan safely and questioned him about the Cultivation Civilization’s apocalypse and ancient ruins. Their discussion was interrupted when an anomalous object attacked from overhead with an indiscriminate mental assault.

• Li Qi redirected the Twelve Golden Immortals Painting’s price onto a Substitute Doll and summoned Zhu Xingyuan.
• Zhu Xingyuan told Li Qi that his era’s apocalypse had unfolded much like the present one, beginning with successive Days of Darkness and followed by demonic qi and bizarre phenomena.
• Zhu Xingyuan said he could not recall whether the Cultivation Civilization had discovered ancient ruins, and explained that cultivators had made their own extraordinary tools rather than relying on anomalous objects.
• Zhu Xingyuan sensed an anomalous object overhead and rushed toward it as Li Qi was struck by a sudden mental attack.
• Li Qi found the warrior guarding his door collapsed with blood flowing from all seven orifices.

Li Qi emerged from the capital’s Underground City after a mental attack paralyzed much of it and joined Zhu Xingyuan in battle against a Fallen Angel. As Li Qi fought her, Bai Tong and her allies confronted Qin Cheng outside the city’s Protective Grand Array, demanding to know why he had attacked Huaguo’s capital.

• A mental attack struck the capital’s Underground City, leaving countless people collapsed, and Li Qi spoke with Wu Miao before heading to Bureau 057’s headquarters to return the Twelve Golden Immortals Painting.
• Li Qi left the Underground City and saw Zhu Xingyuan fighting the Fierce Soul Banner of the Sacred Demonic Sect in the sky.
• Li Qi blasted away a Fallen Angel’s attack, then strengthened his body with a Super Enhancement Spell and punched her out of the sky.
• Bai Tong and the Black-Clothed Man helped Zhu Xingyuan defend the capital as Bai Tong used her array plate to restore the Protective Grand Array.
• Qin Cheng appeared with the demonic swords, and Bai Tong challenged him to explain why he was attacking Huaguo’s capital.

Li Qi defeated the Fallen Angel by using Xu Leying and the Substitute Doll to transform, then faced Qin Cheng as the attack on the capital's Underground City continued. After the Black-Clothed Swordsman checked Qin Cheng's array, Li Qi launched a new spell that pierced Qin Cheng, leaving the fight's outcome uncertain.

• Qin Cheng offered Bai Tong and her companions ten breaths to escape, but they refused, and Li Qi blasted him with a Magic Cannon before confronting him.
• Li Qi explained that Xu Leying's transformation and the Substitute Doll had let him sever the Fallen Angel's head and stop it from fighting.
• Qin Cheng deployed the Soul Locking Grand Array, while the Black-Clothed Swordsman opposed it and Li Qi prepared a powerful single-target spell.
• Li Qi cast Guaranteed Hit Spear, which vanished during its clash with Qin Cheng's sword and pierced Qin Cheng through the chest.

Li Qi and the others defeated Qin Cheng and the Fallen Angel, but Li Qi discovered that pollution had already begun spreading through the capital Underground City. As deaths mounted, Li Qi pursued the hidden source after Yi Cheng reported finding it.

• Li Qi pierced Qin Cheng's weak points, and the Black-Clothed Swordsman struck him down, but Qin Cheng revealed that he could not die while his strange item survived.
• Li Qi saw black Threads of Rules staining the capital Underground City's rules and recognized that pollution had begun spreading.
• People across the Underground City fell asleep and died, prompting Wu Miao to raise the emergency response to its highest level.
• Li Qi told Xu Leying to seek refuge in Dream Town, but she chose to stay and help rescue people; Xie Yan headed for Dream Town.
• Yi Cheng told Li Qi she had found the evildoer spreading the calamity, and Li Qi flew to her location.
• Li Qi found Yi Cheng attacking an apparently empty residential area with mind-targeting magic to force the hidden person out.

Li Qi and Yi Cheng uncovered a plot to spread pollution in the Underground City and learned that the Ancient Ruins Society believed civilization-wide destruction was necessary to end the apocalypse. The young man revealed that the disaster targeted civilizations, and Li Qi left with a clearer understanding of how humanity’s spark had survived earlier collapses.

• Li Qi sensed the hidden attacker’s Mental Power, struck him with a mental hammer, and Yi Cheng burned away his hiding place.
• The young man claimed he had come to protect Meng An, but Li Qi restrained him and discovered his box could store and release pollution.
• The young man said he had deliberately released pollution in various places to save the world, prompting Yi Cheng to threaten him and Li Qi to demand an explanation.
• The young man identified himself as a core member of the Ancient Ruins Society and claimed the previous four civilizations had been destroyed to end their apocalypses.
• After sending Yi Cheng to Dream Town, Li Qi learned that the apocalypse targeted civilizations and that humanity survived because the Cultivation Civilization’s people had lost their memories and records.

Li Qi learned that the apocalypse targeted civilizations and that the Unknown Organization claimed it was trying to end it by erasing humanity. After the capital lost contact with other cities, Li Qi and Wu Miao faced the possibility that Huaguo was under attack nationwide, leaving the Witch God Statue as a possible last resort.

• The young man claimed to be Zhang Fengyun's student and offered to take Li Qi to safety, but Li Qi killed him after learning he could not identify the Unknown Organization's headquarters.
• The Fallen Angel confirmed that the apocalypse targeted civilizations, described her Dark Angel civilization's attempt to survive as statues, and warned Li Qi to forget civilization's memories if he wanted to survive.
• The Fallen Angel returned to statue form, and Li Qi continued to Bureau 057 headquarters to speak with Wu Miao.
• Wu Miao said he would not summon the Witch God Statue because its price was unknown and appeared severe, even as the capital's Underground City faced collapse.
• Li Qi told Wu Miao that the Unknown Organization had attacked the capital to destroy human civilization, and Wu Miao discovered that no other cities answered his attempts to contact them.

As the capital fell to contamination, Wu Miao awakened the Faceless Witch God Statue, and Li Qi discovered he could communicate with the Witch God, Houtu. Houtu warned that the world could not be saved and revealed that using the statue erased entire human lineages from history, leaving Bureau 057 facing the collapse of civilization.

• As contamination overwhelmed the capital, Wu Miao brought Li Qi to activate Bureau 057's Faceless Witch God Statue.
• Li Qi's eyes and soul were damaged when he observed the statue's Threads of Rules, but Houtu spoke to him and helped repair his soul.
• Li Qi learned that the Witch God was Houtu and discovered that he could communicate with her spiritually, while Wu Miao asked him to learn the statue's cost.
• Houtu returned after trying to stop the contamination and warned that the cities could no longer be defended because the Heavenly Dao's rules were collapsing.
• Houtu revealed that each use erased a human lineage from history, and said humanity was beyond saving.

After learning that the Faceless Witch God Statue erased entire human lineages, Li Qi left Bureau 057 to investigate ancient ruins before the world ended. A mysterious figure guided him to a village in the mountains, and he set out toward it with Li Qiao.

• Li Qi told Wu Miao that using the Witch God Statue erased everyone connected to a lineage, leaving Wu Miao terrified about the six times they had used it.
• Li Qi decided to investigate the previous civilizations and their Cultivation Systems, then left the capital's Underground City without taking any oddities from Bureau 057.
• Li Qi searched a snowy region for an ancient ruin but found no trace of it, until a glowing phantom appeared in his Spiritual World and pointed toward a mountain settlement.
• Li Qi sensed people and fire near the mountain, summoned Li Qiao, and explained that he wanted to ask the village's Indigenous People about the ruin.
• Li Qiao helped Li Qi return to Dream Town to change into warm clothes, and they departed together for the village.

Sun Yu’s family struggled to endure the eternal night and the loss of electricity while strangers Li Qi and Li Qiao sought information about a vanished government facility. Sun Zhongguo confirmed the factory had disappeared beneath the snow, leaving Li Qi without an explanation for the missing base.

• Sun Yu’s family discussed their dwindling candles and failed attempts to restore electricity as the winter darkness continued.
• Sun Zhongguo let Li Qi and Li Qiao into the house after they claimed they had gotten lost in the mountains.
• Li Qi and Li Qiao introduced themselves and asked Sun Zhongguo about ancient ruins and government personnel.
• Sun Zhongguo recalled a government factory guarded by soldiers that had once stood at the foot of the mountain.
• Sun Zhongguo said the factory vanished after the sun disappeared, leaving only an empty stretch of land despite the villagers’ efforts to uncover it.

Li Qi returned to Dream Town after failing to find the vanished ruins and considered whether the Dream World might be hiding them. There, Ye Yue recognized Yi Cheng as Mu Xi, and Li Qi confirmed that Yi Cheng carried Mu Xi’s damaged Undead Race core, though Yi Cheng did not know who she was.

• Li Qi asked Kate about leaving Dream Town and learned that she knew nothing about the Dream World beyond the town.
• Ye Yue shouted that Yi Cheng was Mu Xi, but Yi Cheng knocked her into a pit before she could explain.
• Li Qi examined Yi Cheng’s soul and discovered a tiny, cracked Undead Race core connected to Mu Xi.
• Li Qi learned that Ye Yue had offered to transform Yi Cheng into an undead and discovered the core while teaching her how.

After discovering that Yi Cheng was Mu Xi, Li Qi and Ye Yue investigated why Mu Xi had become trapped in repeated reincarnations. Ye Yue successfully left the world, but Li Qi’s plans to restore Mu Xi’s memories were interrupted when the Sun Family began treating him and Li Qiao as relatives.

• Ye Yue and Li Qi suspected Mu Xi had been sent into the distant past or had failed to leave the world, and Ye Yue decided to test whether she could reincarnate out.
• Li Qi gave Ye Yue a Substitute Doll and shared his True Name with her before she reincarnated; she never returned, and the unchanged doll confirmed that she had left successfully.
• Li Qi buried Ye Yue’s body and decided to nourish Mu Xi’s core, help recover her memories, and search for the ruins.
• Li Qiao summoned Li Qi and said the Sun Family seemed to think they were relatives.
• Sun Zhongguo entered and warmly addressed Li Qi as family, though Li Qi knew he had never used Hypnosis Magic to make the Sun Family treat them that way.