Chapter Summaries

Lu Sheng arrived to rescue Isla and fought Camille and Sifan after they revealed their attempt to lure him out and kill him. He overwhelmed both opponents, while Oul remained pinned down by Siril gunmen and the churches’ ambush began to collapse.

• Lu Sheng shattered the attack on Isla, arrived at the castle, and struck Camille with Infinite Magic Capital.
• Camille and Sifan identified themselves and attacked Lu Sheng as his armed followers surrounded the castle.
• Lu Sheng knocked Sifan through the floor and exchanged rapid attacks with Camille, eventually sending him flying into a tree.
• Camille used the Mark of Light to suppress his injuries and resumed the fight with Sifan, while both searched for a chance to escape.
• Siril gunmen and snipers kept Oul pinned down, wounded him repeatedly, and damaged his blood-colored short sword.

Lu Sheng defeated the Dark Gold Swordsman and claimed the castle as a Phantom Devil Sect stronghold, while Isla and Molly survived the battle. He discussed the Initial Book’s immortals and the coming conflict with Isis and the Night Arrival Church, then the Dark Sanctuary received news of its captain’s death as the seventh Black Void approached.

• Lu Sheng killed the Dark Gold Swordsman, while Camille escaped with Oul, and he declared the castle the Phantom Devil Sect’s fourth stronghold.
• Isla discovered Molly was being taken for treatment, but Jackson revealed she had only minor injuries and Isla collapsed from his own wounds.
• Lu Sheng explained to Jackson that the Initial Book’s page-bearers were immortal but unable to grow stronger, unlike Isla, and ordered the recovered armor examined.
• Lu Sheng told Jackson that strength provided security and that powerful people upheld stability, then urged him to train while there was still time.
• A church-protecting knight reported the Holy Light Knight Captain’s death to the masked man, who declined to recall the Dark Sanctuary and said the seventh Black Void was nearing.

Lu Sheng expanded Siril, organized monster rankings, built the Ansis defensive system, and oversaw a growing population and food program. Kundi summoned him to inspect a regenerative meat source called Sun No. 1, whose unexpected properties he was about to reveal.

• Lu Sheng compiled the Anomalous Monster Compendium and ranked monsters from A to E, helping Siril coordinate scouting and monster-clearing operations.
• Lu Sheng directed the construction of the Ansis defensive system, and Siril’s population grew to more than one hundred thousand by year’s end.
• Lu Sheng asked Mark Jennings about his desire for revenge, and Mark said he wanted to kill every monster.
• Lu Sheng visited Kundi’s greenhouses, where Kundi reported successful winter vegetable harvests and introduced Sun No. 1, a highly regenerative meat source.
• Kundi told Lu Sheng that Sun No. 1 had shown an interesting phenomenon and invited him to see it.

Lu Sheng inspected the Kun Xi Ta researchers’ work, developed the more combat-capable Blazing Sun, and returned to Siril with fifteen samples. A tampered letter then revealed that people he had been searching for might be in Aso Mother’s Northern District, prompting an offer that could lead him there.

• Kundi showed Lu Sheng Sun No. 1, whose genetic data resembled Fa Di En’s, and explained the plan to cultivate a controlled biological weapon.
• Lu Sheng examined the research, used Deep Blue to analyze the relevant sciences, and created the stronger lifeform Blazing Sun.
• Two months later, Lu Sheng returned to Siril with fifteen Blazing Sun samples and received a letter from Tang En through Jackson.
• Lu Sheng discovered a black mark added to the letter and recognized that the Isis Sect had tampered with it.
• A featureless black girl appeared from the mark, offered to help protect Isla, and told Lu Sheng that the people he sought were likely in Aso Mother’s Northern District.

Lu Sheng and his companions traveled toward Aso Mother, taking shelter in an abandoned Earth Fortress as freezing rain approached. A vast horde of Eyeless Ones surrounded the fortress, and the group realized they were facing a Void Tide.

• Lu Sheng left Siril with Mark, Ken, and Andy to travel toward Aso Mother, fighting monsters along the way and continuing on foot when their vehicle ran out of gas.
• As freezing rain approached, Lu Sheng's group found an abandoned Earth Fortress and agreed to share it with another group sheltering inside.
• Lu Sheng used Bahan's Meat to transform snow, grass, and stones into emergency food, which Mark cooked into soup for the group.
• Lu Sheng noticed the people across the fortress becoming alarmed, then heard countless creatures approaching through the snow.
• Mark and Lu Sheng looked outside and saw an enormous horde of eyeless, gray-skinned people surrounding the fortress; someone identified them as the Eyeless Ones and shouted that a Void Tide had arrived.

Lu Sheng’s group survived the first wave of the Void Tide, but Black Panther arrived with a vast force of powerful monsters and targeted Lu Sheng. After the battle, Black Panther fled into ancient ruins, where Lu Sheng confronted him and destroyed the stone house.

• Mark explained that a Void Tide brought waves of monsters to attack camps and Gathering Places, and Lu Sheng sent Ken to defend the gate.
• Ken slaughtered Eyeless Ones with Perceptual Deviation, while Andy tracked down and killed the white-haired Eyeless One launching ice rings.
• After more than three hours, the first wave receded, but Mark warned that a Void Tide had at least three waves and urged the group to leave.
• A spiked, two-headed monster attacked, then Black Panther entered the city gate and said he had come specifically for Lu Sheng as countless monsters advanced behind him.
• Black Panther fled after Lu Sheng overwhelmed him, but he collapsed from a chest wound and hid in an abandoned stone house.
• Lu Sheng reached the ruins and extended a hand, causing the stone house to explode.

Lu Sheng pursued Black Panther through an enemy stronghold, killing his allies and surviving a powerful ambush before confronting Xi Ning, the Northern Void Spirit World King. The chapter ended with Xi Ning questioning Lu Sheng about what he knew of the world's truth.

• Lu Sheng tracked Black Panther through a ruined temple, destroying stone bats and statues as Black Panther repeatedly fled and healed.
• Lu Sheng killed the five ambushers waiting at the temple's rear entrance, though their attacks briefly wounded him and cost Black Panther an arm.
• A man in white emerged from a black vortex and attacked Lu Sheng with False Light, but Lu Sheng evaded the cutting wave and recognized him as Xi Ning.
• Xi Ning confirmed he was the Northern Void Spirit World King and asked whether Lu Sheng knew the world's truth.
• Lu Sheng narrowed his eyes at Xi Ning's question about the truth.

Lu Sheng killed Xi Ning’s avatar in a Forbidden Universe after the universe’s laws loosened his restraints and helped him break through his body’s limits. Elsewhere, Mother River leaders learned that the avatar had fallen and agreed to make contact with whoever had defeated it.

• Xi Ning explained that the universe was a compressed Cosmic Graveyard, then attacked Lu Sheng with his Spirit-Transmuting Light.
• Lu Sheng shattered Xi Ning’s White Lion defense and wounded him, while the universe’s laws disrupted Xi Ning’s attempt to unleash the Nether Lion.
• As the restraints on Lu Sheng lifted, he transformed his body, broke through the twenty-ninth-stage limit, and beheaded Xi Ning’s avatar.
• Lu Sheng removed Xi Ning’s purple crystal heart and sensed that it carried the Power of Emptiness and might cause a qualitative evolution.
• At a Mother River conference, representatives argued over how to resist the Void Spirit World Kings and the worsening conflict.
• A messenger reported Xi Ning’s fallen avatar in a Forbidden Universe, and the leaders voted to make contact without entering it themselves.

Lu Sheng swallowed Xi Ning’s heart and endured the Power of Emptiness as Deep Blue developed a way to contain and transform it. After waking his disciples, he led them away from the destroyed Earth Fortress on foot.

• Beyond Mother River, a Red-Eyed Man returned to the Black Star and asked it to help him kill someone, but it warned that doing so would hinder its plan.
• Lu Sheng swallowed Xi Ning’s heart and used Deep Blue to deduce a new stage of the Ten Hearts Illusion Devil Fist that contained the Power of Emptiness and converted it into a strange energy.
• Lu Sheng tested the transformed energy, then noticed that the surrounding grassland had been left entirely lifeless.
• Lu Sheng found Ken, Andy, and Mark unconscious and woke them, telling them not to worry about the blood-eyed man they had encountered.
• Lu Sheng and his disciples returned to the Earth Fortress, found their vehicle crushed in the ruins, and set off on foot toward the next supply point.

Lu Sheng and his disciples reached the Pearl Strait, where a deadly presence lurked beneath the harbor. Lu Sheng used his newly created Gray Mist Power to connect with the sea monster Cicero Tower, and the group continued across the strait as it let them pass.

• Lu Sheng’s Gray Mist Power spread through his body as his group traveled to the Pearl Strait.
• Lu Sheng’s group found the harbor eerily lifeless, and Ken identified a recently damaged ship fragment with sharp scratches.
• Lu Sheng released Gray Mist Power into the seawater, then boarded a small pleasure boat with his disciples and set out across the strait.
• Lu Sheng sensed a dark-blue face beneath the boat and ordered Andy to accelerate as a gigantic nine-headed monster watched them pass.
• Lu Sheng realized his Unseen Hand had enabled communication with Cicero Tower, a lonely creature born from despair that trusted the hope his power offered.

Lu Sheng and his companions reached Aso Mother, only to find the Isis Sect’s headquarters abandoned beneath a monstrous White Mist Face. After the group retreated, Lu Sheng encountered the face’s voice, which identified itself as Bella and revealed that it had entered the universe to commit suicide.

• The Sea Spider accepted Lu Sheng’s yellow mist and chose not to attack the boat.
• Lu Sheng and his companions reached the island, saw ghostly figures on ships, and spotted a huge sailing ship burning in the sky.
• The group found Aso Mother deserted beneath the White Mist Face, and Lu Sheng sent yellow mist toward it before retreating with his companions.
• Mark suggested investigating the skyship, while Lu Sheng worried that the information about his relatives had been false.
• After hearing a voice from behind, Lu Sheng sent Mark and the others toward the beach and stayed in the forest to speak with the White Mist Face.
• The being appeared as a water mirror, called itself Bella, and said it had come to the universe to commit suicide as its mission.

Lu Sheng discovered that the Unseen Hand could contact places and beings, then returned to Siril to investigate the disappearance of human Gathering Places and prepare for the coming Void Tide. Over six months, Siril grew into a thriving stronghold under the Six Phantom Devils, while the Hope Church and Isis Sect brought news of Mi Guang Ying and the others; Lu Sheng prepared for what he believed was the right time to act.

• Lu Sheng contacted Bella through the Unseen Hand, learned its power could reach the island itself, and left after finding no trace of Mi Guang Ying or the others.
• Lu Sheng returned to his ship after three days, learned that battle damage near Aso Mother’s island was months old, and set out with Mark, Andy, and Ken for the other human Gathering Places.
• Lu Sheng’s emissaries reported that three nearby human Gathering Places had vanished, and he learned that the third wave of the Void Tide was approaching.
• Lu Sheng returned to Siril at level thirty-six, while Isla reached B-Rank and Phantom Devil Fist disciples developed into six specialized branches called the Six Phantom Devils.
• Over the following six months, Siril expanded under Isla and the Six Phantom Devils, and Lu Sheng’s reputation as the Phantom Devil God Galadir spread as monsters were diverted from the settlement.
• Members of the Hope Church and the remaining Isis Sect arrived with information about Mi Guang Ying and the others, while Lu Sheng reflected on his preparations and the approaching end of the world.

Lu Sheng agreed to inspect the survivors brought to him by Candice after she proved they had found people connected to the Mother of Pain. At the Gathering Place, he reunited with Lu Qingqing and Lu Hongying, learned that most of their family had died, and turned his attention to the last person who had arrived with them.

• Candice asked Lu Sheng to help more than a hundred thousand survivors and offered information about the people he sought; he agreed to consider helping after seeing them.
• Candice revealed that Mi Guang Ying had told them to mention the Mother of Pain, and she said four people had been found, including two who were seriously ill.
• Lu Sheng took the map to the Gathering Place and flew across the collapsing world, passing awakened monsters and a giant who tore apart Fa Di En.
• Lu Sheng reached the Gathering Place, where its representatives brought the people he was seeking to meet him.
• Lu Qingqing and Lu Hongying reunited with Lu Sheng and told him through their condition that Lu Quan'an and the other elders had died during their flight.
• Lu Sheng looked toward the last person who had arrived with Lu Qingqing and Lu Hongying.

Lu Sheng reunited with Lu Yiyi and his other relatives, then began evacuating Siril’s people through a rift into his Heart-Image World. As the universe’s Source Power poured through the passage, the Corpse Worm Princesses arrived to stop him, and Lu Sheng prepared to hold them off while the transfer stabilized.

• Lu Sheng reunited with Lu Yiyi and his other relatives, thanked Mi Guang Ying for helping him, and promised her Source Power Crystals.
• Lu Sheng returned to Siril and began preparing a passage from the collapsing universe into his Heart-Image World, arranging for the region’s people to evacuate.
• Lu Sheng opened a Cosmic Rift and connected it to his Heart-Image World, causing the universe’s Source Power to flow into it as hundreds of thousands of civilians began entering.
• The Corpse Worm Princesses appeared, and Lu Sheng summoned monsters and sent Isla and the other Dual Beings into battle.
• Lu Sheng remained by the rift as his forces suffered heavy losses, aiming to hold the enemy off for half an hour while the passage stabilized.

As the Super Energy Universe poured Cosmic Source Power into Lu Sheng’s Heart-Image World, he summoned powerful monsters to fight back the invading forces and confronted Xi Ning’s attack on Siril. Near the limit of what he could contain, Lu Sheng used Deep Blue to begin combining his powers and expanding his capacity.

• Black warships emerged from the sky, and their black humanoid soldiers joined the monsters in attacking Siril.
• Lu Sheng summoned Cicero Tower and Ku Yaen, whose attacks drove back the Corpse Worm Princesses and disrupted the warships as people evacuated through the rift.
• A giant black hand descended toward Siril, and Lu Sheng recognized Xi Ning’s aura before his six-eyed monster struck the hand.
• Lu Sheng split the black hand with Platinum Gold Flame, then sent the Hundred-Headed Devil Wolf to attack the black shadow behind it.
• As Cosmic Source Power pushed the Heart-Image World toward its limit, Lu Sheng called Deep Blue and fused his powers to strengthen his body.

Lu Sheng split his body across the Heart-Image World and used Deep Blue to advance the Ten Hearts Illusion Devil Fist, merging himself with the world and gaining control over its matter and energy. As the collapsing universe forced monsters through the rift, Lu Sheng defended the Heart-Image World, but a giant one-eyed head emerged from the crack and fixed its gaze on him.

• Lu Sheng scattered his body into six parts across the Heart-Image World and connected them with channels powered by Cosmic Source Power.
• Lu Sheng used Deep Blue to deduce the Ten Hearts Illusion Devil Fist, spending his remaining God-Entrusting Power until it reached Stage Two with three new traits.
• Lu Sheng's body fused with the Heart-Image World, which began absorbing Cosmic Source Power and extracting God-Entrusting Power from it.
• Lu Sheng absorbed the returning monsters into his sleeve and crushed the Corpse Worm Princesses that tried to enter through the Dark Gold Crack.
• Lu Sheng attempted to break the Heart-Image World away from the crack, repelled a giant black hand with the Infinite Phantom Devil Fist Heavenly Emperor, and faced a huge one-eyed head emerging from the rift.

Lu Sheng absorbed fragments of a destroyed Super Energy Universe, endured its memories, and witnessed its birth before awakening with a deeper understanding of his powers. He met an eagle-headed stranger who also wielded Gray Liquid and agreed to leave the Mother River with him.

• Lu Sheng destroyed the Dark Gold Crack, instructed the temples to settle the newcomers, and entered the Mother River to witness the Super Energy Universe's destruction.
• When the universe shattered, Lu Sheng absorbed its black fragments and endured repeated bodily destruction as its memories flooded into him and refined the Heart-Image World.
• Lu Sheng experienced the universe's birth as a silver sphere and learned that the hazy consciousness behind it was called the Voice of Chaos.
• Lu Sheng awoke beside the Mother River, where the destroyed universe had left a gray scar, and an eagle-headed man congratulated him for surviving the universal memories.
• The eagle-headed man revealed that he was born from the Mother River and wielded Gray Liquid, and Lu Sheng agreed to leave with him after introducing himself.

Lu Sheng joined the Gray Liquid Tower and received a mark that let him summon Chaos Devils, but he learned that Xi Ning was heading to the Heavenly Devil World to kill his family. He abandoned his plans to retire and rushed back in a fury.

• Gerrard brought Lu Sheng through the Anti-Void to meet Sharon, the branch manager.
• Sharon registered Lu Sheng as a member of the Gray Liquid Tower and explained the mark’s powers and risks.
• Gerrard warned Lu Sheng that Xi Ning was heading to the Heavenly Devil World to kill the family of someone named Lu Sheng.
• Lu Sheng realized Xi Ning meant his family, erupted in Platinum Gold Flames, and sped toward the Heavenly Devil World.

More than two hundred years after Lu Sheng left, he returned to the Heavenly Devil World and reunited with Ban Sai during a spacecraft’s spatial jump. He accepted Ban Sai’s granddaughter Mira as his disciple, then asked whether any powerful outsider had entered the world; Ban Sai said his detection system had found no trace of one.

• Ban Sai attended negotiations with Yudi Star Field Federation councilors aboard a spacecraft and then returned to his cabin, where his granddaughter Mira waited.
• Mira recalled that the Yuan Devil Sect’s river-system-level titan had been absent for more than two hundred years, leaving the faction without protection against the Ancient Beasts and Star Alliance.
• The spacecraft jolted during its spatial jump, and Mira found Ban Sai vomiting black slime before a tall stranger who had appeared in his room.
• Lu Sheng revealed himself to Ban Sai, noticed that Mira remained unaffected by his spacetime lockdown, and agreed to take her as his disciple.
• Lu Sheng asked whether any powerful being had entered the Heavenly Devil World, and Ban Sai said Yin E Shi Jia would have detected such an arrival.

Lu Sheng traced Xi Ning’s route through downstream universes and intercepted him inside a protected universe. The two World King-level forces fought fiercely, leaving the local guardians helpless as their world suffered immense destruction.

• Ban Sai discovered traces of Xi Ning’s route downstream of the Mother River, and Lu Sheng left to pursue him.
• Xi Ning broke through the universe’s inner wall and destroyed an Existence Power Alliance monitoring station.
• The universe’s guardians prepared to confront Xi Ning, but he flew past them toward another destination.
• Lu Sheng, transformed into a Platinum Gold Vermilion Bird, struck Xi Ning and began fighting him.
• Lu Sheng revealed his complete form and clashed with Xi Ning again, while the guardians watched from afar as their world was devastated.