Chapter Summaries

After returning to Zhongjing, Chen Chuan repeatedly observed the collision between worlds in the Other Side World, strengthening his domain and resolving to create an Immortal Abode of his own. At an Advisory Council meeting, Dai Xuming reported that incursions had struck nearly every region worldwide and raised the question of whether worse attacks would follow.

• Chen Chuan returned to his spatial domain, checked in with his family and team, and asked Nian Fuli about conditions in Jibei Province.
• Chen Chuan used his domain in the Other Side World to sense the worlds' collision, but withdrew when the effort dimmed his Spiritual Fire and exhausted him.
• Chen Chuan repeated his observations over several days, gaining insight into domains and deciding to create a place of his own.
• Chen Chuan attended the April 1 Advisory Council meeting, where Dai Xuming reported on the defense of the World Ring node in the Khanate of Rur.
• Dai Xuming showed that incursions had struck most regions worldwide and asked whether they were probes or the start of a stronger assault.

Dai Xuming urged Great Shun’s advisers to use its strong performance against the incursions to lead international efforts and assist other countries, preparing for a potentially escalating crisis before the Great Collision. The advisers approved his strategy, and he then revealed that Chi Luojia Duo had sent a harsh diplomatic protest over Great Shun’s armed personnel entering its territory.

• Kaiyang presented two possible trends for the ongoing incursions, while Dai Xuming reported that Mr. Jia expected the enemy’s strategy to remain uncertain and warned that the next one to three months could bring the greatest pressure.
• The advisers considered where the enemy might strike next and concluded that the Western Continent and other regions could be more vulnerable than the Federation.
• Dai Xuming proposed that Great Shun support other countries, weaken the enemy, and claim leadership of the international coalition before the Great Collision.
• The advisers agreed that Great Shun should pursue global leadership rather than yield it to the Federation, and the proposal passed.
• Dai Xuming told the advisers that Chi Luojia Duo had accused Great Shun’s armed personnel of killing and injuring civilians and Fighters on its territory and demanded an explanation.

At the Advisory Council meeting, Chen Chuan accepted the assignment to investigate the unresolved anomaly at the border and the dispute with Chi Luojia Duo. Afterward, he received intelligence suggesting that Huang Quji had failed to resolve the anomaly despite having detailed instructions, and set out to handle the matter himself.

• Advisors condemned Chi Luojia Duo’s accusations and supported a forceful response, while Tan Xubo questioned Huang Quji’s ability to handle the border anomaly.
• Xiao Yuanguang proposed that Chen Chuan investigate the anomaly and address the dispute, and Chen Chuan accepted.
• After the meeting, Tong Xin and Dai Xuming worried that Chen Chuan’s growing prestige would make him harder to oppose, and discussed keeping him occupied with international aid.
• Chen Chuan contacted Ren Xinshan, who reported that Huang Quji had controlled the situation but made little progress and might be unwilling to exert himself.
• Ren Xinshan gave Chen Chuan detailed Chi Luojia Duo government materials about the anomaly, and Chen Chuan asked for all relevant records and personnel lists.

Chen Chuan investigated the stalled anomaly response and went to the border to confront Huang Quji, turning Chi Luojia Duo’s protest into a chance to demand action. He left Huang Quji responsible for carrying out retaliatory measures against the officials and groups behind the protest.

• Chen Chuan reviewed the reports and concluded that the anomaly could be resolved most safely by coordinating with Chi Luojia Duo, a task that required higher-level intervention.
• Huang Quji learned that the higher-ups had sent Chen Chuan to hold him accountable, then sought assistance from a company and received approval for his request.
• Chen Chuan’s avatar arrived at the border fortress and took control of its equipment and personnel management authority.
• Chen Chuan asked Huang Quji to explain the anomaly’s causes and whether Great Shun should retaliate against Chi Luojia Duo’s protest.
• Huang Quji proposed targeted strikes against the protesting officials and the power blocs, corporations, and religious groups supporting them.
• Chen Chuan assigned Huang Quji responsibility for delivering results that satisfied all sides, and Huang Quji considered whether the task could benefit him.

Chen Chuan strengthened his personal field by absorbing Immortal Seeds, preparing it to support a breakthrough beyond his limits. When he used the field to observe the worlds colliding, he sensed that upper-level forces from both sides were watching too, and withdrew his spirit.

• Ming Chengzi returned to Zhongjing with evidence linking the Conservative Faction to its activities, and Chen Chuan judged the fragments sufficient to act on later.
• By mid-April, Chen Chuan had improved his cultivation and stabilized his field enough to attempt opening a place of his own in the Other Side World.
• Chen Chuan absorbed low-grade Immortal Seeds into his field, expelled their impurities, and found that a high-quality seed made the field much more stable.
• Chen Chuan merged with his Human Aspect near the World Ring and observed the collision between the two worlds for longer than before.
• Chen Chuan sensed elusive observers from upper-level forces on both sides and withdrew his spirit beneath the World Ring's protection.

Chen Chuan perceived the worlds’ growing convergence and resolved to investigate the Mutated Tissue by overlapping with his Second Self. He gathered low-quality Immortal Seeds for his plans while preparing to pursue the three-eyed corpse investigation, and Fan Zhentong warned that unseen enemies might stand in his way.

• Chen Chuan sensed the spiritual world pressing against the material world and realized higher powers were delaying their connection and blocking particles from entering.
• After recovering in the Lesser True Marvelous Realm, Chen Chuan decided to overlap with his Second Self next time and seek more Immortal Seeds.
• Chen Chuan requested low-quality Immortal Seeds from the Advisory Council, the Purity Faction, the Executive Government, and overseas contacts; Ring Lock Island offered its stockpile, and Ming Chengzi went to collect it.
• Han Yang agreed to trace the technology behind the three-eyed corpse, estimating the work would take one to two months, and Chen Chuan decided to send him the item.
• Fan Zhentong offered the Defense Department’s Flash Domains and warned Chen Chuan that his future enemies might not be the ones he could see.

Tong Xin sought Mr. Jia’s help in recruiting more allies for the approaching Great Collision, while Chen Chuan gathered Immortal Seeds to strengthen his domain. After refining the seeds and sensing the worlds’ impending collision, Chen Chuan felt an urgent pull toward something forming where they would overlap.

• Tong Xin visited Mr. Jia beneath Blue Lake and asked him to contact the Other Side World about sending more allies, and Mr. Jia agreed to make inquiries while remaining a liaison.
• Chen Chuan received Immortal Seeds and Flash Domains from several sources, including the Gao family, the Purity Faction, and the Celestial Mystery Sect.
• Chen Chuan judged that his incoming Immortal Seeds should let him form a domain unique to himself, then traveled to the Other Side World with the seeds.
• Chen Chuan merged the Immortal Seeds into his domain, making it more stable, and sensed changes brewing where the two worlds would overlap.
• Chen Chuan felt an intense urge from the Mutated Tissue toward something forming in the collision, which he sensed could benefit everyone aware of it.

Chen Chuan sensed that a coveted thing might emerge from the Great Collision and resolved to strengthen himself quickly so he could learn more and claim it. As the Outer Heaven Demons launched a coordinated assault on the Great Wei Dynasty Asian Alliance, Great Shun sent aid, but Chen Chuan judged the crisis and spreading pollutants to be signs that the world’s changes were accelerating.

• Chen Chuan ended his attempt to sense higher-level information when his Second Self began to fade, but the Mutated Tissue continued craving the thing he had glimpsed.
• Chen Chuan decided to improve his cultivation rapidly, collected newly arrived Immortal Seeds, and learned that the Great Collision was drawing near.
• The Outer Heaven Demons attacked the Great Wei Dynasty Asian Alliance, breached a Central City, and spread pollutants and turmoil across the region.
• The Federation and Western Continent refused the alliance’s request for help, so it turned to Great Shun, which dispatched five Profound Cave Observations with Active Consciousness Entities.
• Chen Chuan examined the black, difficult-to-remove pollutants and suspected they were markers placed by Outer Heaven Demons ahead of the Great Collision.
• Chen Chuan took the Immortal Seeds he had gathered and headed back to the Other Side World.

Chen Chuan refined Immortal Seeds until his field transformed into an Immortal Abode, then sensed a new connection forming between the two worlds. After returning to Great Shun, he found the spiritual world's encroachment had intensified, and an undersea earthquake had struck near the Linax Federation.

• Chen Chuan refined and merged low- and high-quality Immortal Seeds, transforming his field into an Immortal Abode and reaching the peak of his current cultivation.
• Chen Chuan united with his Human Aspect and Second Self to sense the merging worlds, locating concentrated areas of activity and witnessing a tendril form a stable connection as upper-layer forces clashed.
• Chen Chuan returned through the World Vein and found the heavenly vortex clearer, with energy from beyond the heavens entering him without effort.
• Xiao Yuanguang contacted Chen Chuan about the change, and Kaiyang reported tremors across several Great Shun provinces from an undersea epicenter near the Gessefetu Continent of the Linax Federation.

Chen Chuan responded to the tremors by checking on his family and directing officials to prepare as the Great Collision approached. After learning where several world-convergence points might appear, he planned to send power avatars to investigate them.

• Chen Chuan called Yu Wan, learned his family in Jibei Province was safe, and warned her to expect more tremors.
• Yu Wan told Nian Fuli about Chen Chuan's warning, and he urged the family to remain calm.
• Chen Chuan asked Xu Chan to keep watch on Jiao Mountain and told Chang Dong that the Jibei Province Purity Faction should cooperate with the government.
• Xiao Yuanguang asked Chen Chuan to support emergency authority for the Five-Person Group, invited him to join it, and asked him to coordinate with the International Investigation Group on the Polaris Project; Chen Chuan agreed to coordinate but declined to join.
• Chen Chuan asked Red Dust to map the convergence points, identified locations in Norland, the Connecting Gorge, the Great Wittia Alliance, and Great Shun, and suspected Heavenly Pole Peak would also be affected.
• Chen Chuan decided to send power avatars to investigate the likely convergence points and asked a telegraph operator to contact Miss Caldwell.

The earthquake and disrupted communications forced He Ruihai and He Zhilan to shelter Red Crown Island’s trainees, while a trainee’s father insisted they stay because the teachers could protect them. At Deep Sea Cave, Glaesim heard voices speaking Ancient Achalakan and later invited Advisor Chen to visit, even as the Nations Alliance warned that the cave might become an impact point.

• He Ruihai and He Zhilan gathered the trainees, erected tents, and received essential supplies from Red Crown Island’s management committee after an alert warned of storms.
• A Xiang trainee and his sister asked their father to bring them home, but he ordered them to stay and said the teachers could keep Red Crown Island safe.
• Glaesim heard unfamiliar voices speaking Ancient Achalakan from deep inside Deep Sea Cave, then lost them when an earthquake shook the area.
• A Norland official told Glaesim to stop excavating and warned that the cave could hide demons and become an impact point, but Glaesim refused and vowed to defend Achalaka.
• Glaesim received a telegram saying his friend wished to visit and sent an invitation to Advisor Chen of Great Shun’s Supreme Advisory Council.

Chen Chuan arrived in Daweidiya to help contain the breach at Kexivio Central City and prepare for the coming Great Collision. After reaching the frontline, he was unexpectedly recognized by Nian Qian as his cousin.

• Chen Chuan traveled to Daweidiya as the rescue team's interim commander while officials reported that contamination threatened Kexivio Central City and the Convergence Zone.
• Chen Chuan arrived in Xitriel Central City, met the alliance's leaders, and immediately continued to the besieged Kexivio Central City.
• Nian Qian inspected his regiment's defenses near the city as his troops guarded the only normal route in and out.
• Nian Qian welcomed the arriving superior, then recognized Chen Chuan as his cousin.

Chen Chuan arrived at the Daweidiya front to contain the expanding rift and warned Kong Zhian that the Old Sect followers had to be dealt with. As Chen Chuan suppressed the demons emerging from the rift, Kong Zhian persuaded Daweidiya’s government to pass a bill against cultists and cult gatherings.

• Chen Chuan met Nian Qian at the front without greeting him, then learned from the Profound Cave Observation Fighters that demons were trying to widen the rift.
• Chen Chuan told Kong Zhian that Daweidiya had to clear out its Old Sect followers, and Kong Zhian agreed to consult the military and Executive Government while asking Chen Chuan to hold back the disaster.
• Chen Chuan reached the rift with the other Fighters and used his domain to halt the attacking demons, allowing the others to destroy them.
• Kong Zhian returned to Westriel and urged the government and military to rely on Great Shun’s help and act against the cultists.
• Daweidiya passed a bill to expel and kill fanatic cultists and ban cult gatherings.

Chen Chuan helped the defenders annihilate demon waves at the rift, then went through it as the demons’ assault weakened. Elsewhere, the Great Wittia Alliance cracked down on cultists, while Nian Qian’s unit fought mutated creatures and established a foothold beyond a smaller rift; Nian Qian later encountered Chen Chuan and asked if it was really him.

• Chen Chuan’s domain field and profound sky fire let the fighters destroy demon waves, and he entered the rift when the attack subsided.
• The defenders used rituals and medicine to contain black contamination, while the rift began to contract.
• The Great Wittia Alliance arrested and killed cultists across Kexivio Central City, then offered reduced prosecution to those who left the cults.
• Nian Qian’s unit repelled waves of mutated creatures and received orders to establish a garrison beyond a small rift.
• Nian Qian led an assault squad through the rift, built makeshift fortifications, and withdrew after relief troops arrived.
• Nian Qian found Chen Chuan reading a comic in the rear bunker and quietly asked whether it was really him.

Chen Chuan reunited with Nian Qian at the military fortress, revealed his position on the Supreme Advisory Council, and warned that the Great Collision was near. As the worlds’ fusion accelerated and a valuable object began to mature early, Chen Chuan sensed trouble and left for Tandrilro Mountain.

• Nian Qian verified Chen Chuan’s identity, then learned that his cousin had joined the Supreme Advisory Council.
• Chen Chuan told Nian Qian that the Great Collision would likely arrive by the end of the month or sometime next month, and promised to protect their family.
• After Nian Qian explained the shortage of High-Energy Nutrients, Chen Chuan secured the Great Wittia Alliance’s promise to supply Great Shun’s Combat Creatures.
• Chen Chuan sensed that the worlds’ growing connection was causing an object at their intersection to mature early, while attacks continued against the Great Wittia Alliance’s Central Cities.
• Chen Chuan detected a breach in the World Ring barrier and saw spiritual power flowing into the material world as the object emitted strands of light.
• Chen Chuan left the military fortress as a fierce wind rose and a streak of light flew toward Tandrilro Mountain.

Chen Chuan used his self-cultivated Field Space to withstand the clash between two worlds at Tandrilro Mountain and gathered the leaking Convergence Matter. After the flow subsided, he sensed the matter clinging to his Mutated Tissue and decided to seek out more once he had dealt with the current situation.

• Chen Chuan reached Tandrilro Mountain and sensed that the forces of two worlds were colliding above it.
• Chen Chuan released his Field Space, shielding himself from the collision’s repulsive force as he watched the Convergence Matter form and fall.
• Demons attacked the rift while Chen Chuan’s allies guarded it, but the shrinking rift let them hold off the attackers.
• Chen Chuan reached out to the falling lights, drew the Convergence Matter into his Purple Qi Mutated Tissue avatar, then redirected the overflow into his true body.
• The dark clouds dispersed, and Chen Chuan sensed the collected matter clinging to his Mutated Tissue as he planned to gather more elsewhere.

After Great Shun secured Daweidiya’s defense, Tong Xin and Dai Xuming urged Xu Yingqing to support their plan to join the Outer Heaven Demons, while Chen Chuan prepared for another world merger. In the Achalaka Region, Glaesim heard the voices he had long sought and leapt into the Deep Sea Cave to find them.

• Chen Chuan returned to Kexivio Central City, and the demons withdrew after their attacks on Daweidiya’s five Central Cities weakened; Daweidiya then signed a mutual defense treaty that placed its defense under Great Shun’s control.
• Tong Xin and Dai Xuming told Xu Yingqing they planned to join a higher power beyond heaven after the Great Collision, and asked her not to oppose them; she left without agreeing or refusing.
• Tong Xin and Dai Xuming discussed using emergency authorization to bring in their allies, while planning to speak with Pei Xiyan and delay Xiao Yuanguang.
• Chen Chuan watched a second mist-like connection form between the worlds and prepared to defend both the Connecting Gorge and the Achalaka Region against the next merger.
• At the Deep Sea Cave, Glaesim and Chen Chuan heard faint voices that seemed to be a young couple speaking from the past; Glaesim declared he would find them and fell into the cave without using his powers.

Chen Chuan guarded the Deep Sea Cave as its rift opened during the worlds’ convergence, collecting the mysterious lights and destroying the demons that emerged. Glaesim broke through the final limit and thanked Chen Chuan, then pulled more Fusion Matter into the world.

• Chen Chuan realized Glaesim had entered the cave to pursue the answer to his century-long obsession and decided to guard the rift in his absence.
• The rift opened wider as the worlds’ powers converged, and Chen Chuan spread his field across the cave entrance.
• Demons emerged from the rift, and Chen Chuan destroyed them with his Life-Binding Weapon and Profound Sky Fire while drawing the mysterious lights into his body.
• After more than an hour, Chen Chuan had collected the lights, and the rift began shrinking as Glaesim appeared in a stream of light.
• Glaesim told Chen Chuan that his confirmation about hearing the same voice had helped him break through the final limit, and Chen Chuan credited Glaesim’s own persistence.
• Glaesim pulled countless brilliant invisible things from beyond the heavens into the area, adding to the Fusion Matter Chen Chuan had gathered.

Chen Chuan learned that Glaesim had broken through to a higher level and explained to Aitosin how his father's lifelong pursuit had led him there. After leaving Norland, Chen Chuan's other avatar arrived at the Connecting Gorge and met a Purple-headed Sea Eagle.

• Glaesim accepted the urgent summons of other higher-level powers and vanished, while Chen Chuan concluded that Glaesim had gone to the Other Side World.
• Aitosin questioned Chen Chuan about Glaesim's disappearance, and Chen Chuan explained that Glaesim had fulfilled his obsession and broken through to a higher level.
• Aitosin reconsidered his judgment of his father and regretted not having said goodbye, while Chen Chuan took his leave.
• Chen Chuan's other avatar arrived at the Connecting Gorge, a neutral city and major underground trading center linking the Eastern and Western Continents.
• Chen Chuan stood atop the Nifrat Obelisk, where a Purple-headed Sea Eagle landed and greeted him as an old friend.

Chen Chuan toured Connecting Gorge with Derek Walch, who showed him its street performances, food, and religious sites ahead of the coming clash between worlds. Chen Chuan found evidence that the Vibo Sect was colluding with the Outer Heaven Demons, while Central City’s apparent lack of response left its intentions uncertain.

• Chen Chuan met Derek Walch, who offered to guide him around Connecting Gorge before the grand drama expected to begin in a day.
• Walch took Chen Chuan to a street stall for beef wraps and pointed out that the city had plentiful meat because cult celebrations used high-backed cattle.
• Chen Chuan visited a Zen Sect temple and considered its Quiet Mind Awareness method and the sect’s stance against beings from beyond.
• Walch showed Chen Chuan several Old Sects, including the implant-revering Vibo Sect, whose god was assembled from animal limbs.
• Chen Chuan concluded that Vibo Sect believers were colluding with the Outer Heaven Demons and conducting frequent sacrifices, then questioned whether Central City’s leaders were deliberately allowing it.