Chapter Summaries

Odin returned from an Outer Gate exploration without completing his mission and told La Folia that he had encountered a serious problem. The chapter explained how the Nexus Hakoniwa used Invitation Letters to connect with other universes and send explorers to locate their focal points.

• Odin emerged from Outer Gate No. 335698 and lay on the ground, then got up after peeking at passing girls.
• La Folia teased Odin and asked whether he had completed his exploration mission for Level Six authority.
• Odin admitted that he had failed and began recounting the trouble he had encountered.
• The chapter described how Su Yang, Saint, Shuby, and others developed a plan to expand the Nexus Hakoniwa without requiring Su Yang to explore every universe himself.
• The awakened Contract God sent Invitation Letters into nearby universes to establish connections and prepare them for exploration.
• Explorers who found a universe's focal point could connect it to the Nexus Hakoniwa's computational core and begin accelerated calculations.

Su Yang reviewed Nexus Hakoniwa’s universe-exploration system and learned that La Folia had brought urgent news about Odin. After showing Saint the information about the world beyond a universe, he said he had found a way to deal with the anticipated problem.

• Su Yang noted that explorers usually investigated Earth first because universe consciousnesses were more likely to focus there.
• Su Yang reflected on the rewards that drew explorers to Nexus Hakoniwa and settled into a period of relative leisure.
• Ashtart told Su Yang that La Folia had an important matter to discuss and wanted Saint present, then whispered that Odin had gone somewhere.
• Su Yang asked Shuby to summon Saint and said the scenario they had anticipated had appeared.
• Su Yang showed Saint Odin’s information, and she judged the situation troublesome but suspected he had already found a solution.
• Su Yang confirmed that he had a similar solution and might need to act personally.

Su Yang explained his plan to use unintegrated universes to destabilize the Little Garden cosmology and said he would personally alter the Campione universe without integrating it into Nexus Hakoniwa. Saint reluctantly agreed to avoid disturbing nearby worlds while he was away.

• Su Yang showed Saint a tiny sphere representing an observed and absorbed universe, which he identified as a branch of the Little Garden cosmology.
• Su Yang proposed using several unintegrated universes as bombs because worlds with human history could greatly affect the other side.
• Su Yang revealed that he planned to visit the Campione universe and quietly change its essence, while preparing the unintegrated universes for later use.
• Saint accepted Su Yang's decision and said she would avoid touching the nearby worlds until he returned.

Su Yang left the Nexus Hakoniwa to fulfill his contract with Pandora, after entrusting the place to [Saint]. He appeared in the God of Fate’s domain, where Pandora recognized the golden Invitation Letter linking them.

• [Saint] asked how long Su Yang would be away, and he said he would return as soon as he could but not within a day or two.
• Su Yang entrusted the Nexus Hakoniwa to [Saint] and departed.
• Pandora watched the Human World from the domain of the God of Fate.
• Su Yang appeared beside Pandora and said he had come to fulfill their contract.
• Pandora’s golden Invitation Letter emerged, and she realized Su Yang was the Outer God who could grant every wish.

Su Yang visited Pandora to fulfill their old contract and asked her for a piece of her flesh and blood. Pandora gave him a drop of Essence Blood, which he planned to use to establish himself as a native inhabitant of the world.

• Su Yang explained that Pandora's old contract required her to agree to three requests when he arrived.
• Pandora welcomed Su Yang and agreed to fulfill requests within the contract's limits.
• Su Yang asked Pandora for a part of her flesh and blood, and she chose to give him blood.
• Pandora condensed a drop of Essence Blood and handed it to Su Yang.
• Su Yang said the Essence Blood would let him leave a record as a native inhabitant, then mentioned he had another important matter.

Su Yang hinted to Pandora that he had a purpose for visiting, while a meteorite carrying a mysterious man landed near Mount Lu. Luo Hao sent Lu Yinghua to investigate the stranger after he was affected by an illusion.

• Su Yang reminded Pandora that the Ring of Usurpation could take multiple Authorities because he had secretly enhanced it.
• Su Yang leaned close to Pandora and hinted at why he had come, exciting her.
• A fireball fell into a desolate area near Mount Lu, drawing Luo Hao’s attention.
• Lu Yinghua hurried to Luo Hao and reported that a man had been found inside a meteorite.
• Lu Yinghua told Luo Hao that he could not gauge the man’s strength and had been affected by an illusion.

Luo Hao investigated the mysterious man who had fallen from the sky and brought him to her home, where he awoke. Su Yang recognized her as Luo Hao, and the two met each other’s gaze.

• Luo Hao realized Lu Yinghua had been deceived by something weaker than an Unruly God and followed him to the impact site.
• Luo Hao found Su Yang lying amid vitrified land and decided to take him back for investigation.
• Luo Hao used sorcery to free Su Yang from the molten glass and filled in the crater with Daoist arts.
• Luo Hao watched over Su Yang as she wondered what kind of being he was and whether he was injured.
• Su Yang awoke, saw Luo Hao, and recognized her.

After reincarnating into the Campione universe, Su Yang followed fate to Mount Lu, where he met Luo Cuilian and her disciple Lu Yinghua. He pretended not to remember how he had arrived, leaving Luo Cuilian intrigued by his strange aura.

• Su Yang reflected on how reincarnation had made him a native of the Campione universe while preserving his original powers.
• Su Yang followed fate to Mount Lu, where he encountered Luo Cuilian.
• Luo Cuilian gave Su Yang her birth name, and Lu Yinghua explained that he had fallen from the sky without being injured.
• Lu Yinghua questioned whether Su Yang had practiced martial arts, but Su Yang claimed he did not know how he had appeared there.
• Luo Cuilian wondered what unusual quality had affected her feelings toward Su Yang as he pretended to suffer from amnesia.

Luo Hao believed Su Yang was a Celestial Being after he claimed to have lost his memories, and she became increasingly drawn to him as he rapidly learned her techniques. The chapter left Luo Hao more convinced that fate had brought Su Yang to her, while Lu Yinghua struggled with the gulf between their talents.

• Luo Hao questioned Su Yang and accepted his claim that he remembered only his name and nothing of his past.
• Luo Hao decided Su Yang matched the ancient scriptures' description of a Celestial Being and wondered if fate had sent him to her.
• Lu Yinghua brought Su Yang clothes at Luo Hao's request, and Su Yang thanked him.
• Su Yang asked Lu Yinghua why he did not use Luo Hao's Arts of the Way, and Lu Yinghua admitted that he had only mastered them rudimentarily.
• Su Yang quickly learned Luo Hao's levitation and Body-Form Step techniques, deepening Luo Hao's belief that he was a Celestial Being.

Su Yang considered how to alter the Campione cosmology by defeating gods in the Divine Realm and using the Ring of Usurpation to seize their Authorities. He left the immediate plan unresolved, weighing the gods’ immense power and wondering whether to start a civil war among Demon Kings.

• Lu Yinghua praised Su Yang’s talent and hoped he would eventually surpass Luo Hao, drawing her attention away from him.
• Su Yang reflected on his plan to change the Campione cosmology and considered creating Campiones or traveling into the past if necessary.
• Su Yang explained that he had modified the Ring of Usurpation to seize Authorities while slaying gods in the Divine Realm.
• Su Yang considered the gods’ power, citing Athena’s ability to remake the world and noting that mythological gods surpassed Unruly Gods.
• Su Yang wondered whether he should begin by fighting a civil war among Demon Kings.

The chapter recounted how the Campiones planned a civil war to weaken Rama, the Last King, before confronting him, while Su Yang considered holding a similar battle. Princess Alice entered Spiritual Vision and witnessed visions of the Last King creating the world.

• The Campiones arranged to exile all but the final victor so the remaining king could face Rama while he was at his weakest.
• Kusanagi Godou, Tony, and the other Campiones developed powerful new techniques during their battles.
• Su Yang considered whether to start a Demon King civil war to build strength for what lay ahead.
• Princess Alice experienced Spiritual Vision while sleeping at the House of Duke Golding.
• Alice saw a vision of a man taking steps that brought light, air, water, land, and vegetation into existence.

After Spiritual Vision showed Princess Alice a multitude of visions of a godlike existence, she recorded them and contacted Alexander to tell him she had seen something about the Last King. The chapter leaves Alexander eager for the information and Alice teasing him over the phone, while the man she had mistaken for the Last King yawned.

• Alice woke exhausted from the many visions she had seen through Spiritual Vision and wondered what kind of existence they showed.
• Alice recorded the visions, concluding that they depicted a god associated with salvation and creation.
• Alice called Alexander, knowing he was exploring ruins while investigating the Last King and Guinevere.
• Alexander snapped at Alice for calling late at night, but became interested when she mentioned her vision of the Last King.
• Alice teased Alexander by threatening to hang up and go to sleep, while he held back his frustration because he needed her information.
• The man Alice had called the Last King yawned boredly.

Luo Hao brought Su Yang and Lu Yinghua to deal with two rampaging Mountain Gods in the Five Prisons Sacred Cult’s territory. She left Lu Yinghua to fight one while Su Yang watched, and the chapter ended with Lu Yinghua insisting he could handle the battle himself.

• Luo Hao took Su Yang and Lu Yinghua to resolve a Mountain God crisis in her territory.
• Luo Hao reflected on Su Yang’s astonishing mastery of the martial arts she had taught Lu Yinghua and chose to keep him close rather than make him Lu Yinghua’s fellow disciple.
• Luo Hao assigned one of the two Mountain Gods to Su Yang and the other to Lu Yinghua.
• Luo Hao criticized Lu Yinghua for struggling and warned that she would intensify his training when they returned.
• Lu Yinghua used the Great Phoenix Without Heaven to evade the Mountain God’s attacks as Su Yang offered help, but he refused.

After Lu Yinghua defeated the Mountain God, Luo Hao explained to Su Yang how gods and Unruly Gods differed and how slaying a god could create a Campione. Su Yang demonstrated his unusual grasp of divine nature, while Luo Hao remained convinced that he could become a Campione.

• Lu Yinghua stalled the Mountain God for half an hour and defeated it at a cost.
• Luo Hao asked Su Yang about the being they had defeated, and Su Yang treated the Mountain God as unimpressive.
• Luo Hao explained that killing a god could grant its authority through Pandora's Dark Festival and create a Campione.
• Lu Yinghua explained that humanity needed Campiones to oppose the disasters caused by Unruly Gods.
• Su Yang and Luo Hao described how divine beings became Unruly Gods, and Luo Hao stated that only Unruly Gods or Campiones could oppose them.

Su Yang learned that Unruly Gods would appear in Sardinia and Zangnan, and chose to travel to Sardinia to slay one and become a Campione. Luo Hao sent Lu Yinghua with him, leaving them to set out together.

• Lu Yinghua explained that gods were nearly impervious to human weapons and magic, while Su Yang remained confident in his strength.
• Lu Yinghua reported signs of gods appearing in Sardinia and Zangnan, and Luo Hao said her instincts confirmed they would appear in both places.
• Su Yang chose Sardinia, reasoning that Luo Hao would handle the god near her own territory first.
• Su Yang said he intended to slay a god, and Luo Hao asked him to spar with her after he returned.
• Luo Hao ordered Lu Yinghua to accompany Su Yang and help him navigate the world, and Lu Yinghua gladly accepted.

Su Yang and Lu Yinghua traveled to Sardinia while the Black Prince also headed there using his lightning Authority. After arriving, Lu Yinghua researched the local myths, and Su Yang recognized the god connected to the island as Mekal.

• Lu Yinghua booked a flight to Sardinia with Su Yang and promised Luo Hao he would carry out her request, despite dreading the training she promised when he returned.
• The Black Prince used his lightning Authority to fly toward Sardinia, the destination Princess Alice had named.
• Su Yang and Lu Yinghua arrived in Sardinia, where Lu Yinghua eagerly enjoyed being away from Luo Hao.
• Lu Yinghua searched Sardinia’s history and mythology to identify which god might appear there.
• Su Yang explained that gods descended in places tied to their myths and identified the local god as his old acquaintance Mekal.

Su Yang set out with Lu Yinghua to follow fate’s guidance and find the god connected to him, Veleshrana. After wandering around, he chose a hang glider for their journey toward Sardinia.

• Su Yang discussed Baal’s many identities and his connection to Veleshrana, also known as the War God Bahram.
• Su Yang said the land and fate would guide him to his destination, and noted that Alice had become aware of his existence through Spiritual Vision.
• Lu Yinghua agreed to follow Su Yang, recalling the strange luck and spiritual phenomena that surrounded him.
• Su Yang decided to travel toward Sardinia by hang glider, leaving Lu Yinghua sweating at the unusual choice.

Su Yang and Lu Yinghua took a glider after a series of suspicious coincidences, and Su Yang accidentally destroyed a nearby communications base station. As they flew toward the gathering conflict in Italy, a powerful wind forced them to descend.

• Su Yang told Lu Yinghua to contact Italy’s Mage Association, then they obtained a glider after its manager fell ill and its lock was left unsecured.
• Lu Yinghua discovered his satellite phone could not connect and saw an explosion at a base station; Su Yang admitted he had caused it while avoiding surveillance.
• Su Yang reflected on the many powerful figures and gods converging in Italy, including the Campiones and Veleshrana’s scattered Incarnations.
• A Strong Wind Avatar swept through a city, forcing Su Yang and his companions to descend from the sky.

Su Yang and Lu Yinghua reached a Mediterranean island, where a white-robed boy used a golden sword to dispel the Strong Wind Avatar. Su Yang recognized the boy as Veleshrana, who was reclaiming his scattered Avatars, and realized events were following the novel’s fate line.

• Lu Yinghua asked Su Yang why their journey had brought them to the island instead of directly to the Unruly God.
• Su Yang pointed out a white-robed boy as someone capable of resolving the problem.
• The boy summoned a massive golden sword that dispelled the Strong Wind Avatar and cleared the skies.
• Su Yang told the boy he seemed to be repeating his own myth, and identified his Avatars as Strong Wind, Boy, and Warrior Holding a Golden Sword.
• Su Yang realized this was the novel’s fate line, in which Kusanagi Godou became friends with Veleshrana before taking the White Horse Avatar.

Su Yang met Veleshrana in Sardinia and discussed how fate had brought them together, while Veleshrana admitted that gathering his Avatars might make him complete. The chapter ended with a traveler asking for directions while carrying a stone tablet that held a god’s power.

• Su Yang greeted Veleshrana, who said he did not know why he had come, and Su Yang told him that fate had brought him there.
• Su Yang and Veleshrana introduced themselves and shook hands, while Lu Yinghua struggled to follow their conversation.
• Su Yang thanked Veleshrana for helping defeat an Avatar and asked whether he planned to seek out the others.
• Veleshrana said he had acted on instinct and felt that gathering the Avatars was necessary for him to become complete.
• A man asked for directions to Sardinia, and Veleshrana noticed that the stone tablet he carried contained a god’s power.