Chapter Summaries

Chen Chuan discovered that the Pillar of Maltes was resonating with the forces behind the approaching collision between worlds, while Central City’s defenders prepared a secret operation against the Old Sects and Convergence Zone nobles. As a rift opened beneath the cliff, Chen realized that demons or other beings could emerge from the sea as well as from within the city.

• Chen Chuan refused Walqi’s invitation to enter the Vibo Sect and went to the southeastern cliff, where he identified the Pillar of Maltes as the likely focus of the world collision in Central City.
• Defense Commander Wilto learned that Chen Chuan was standing by the pillar and warned the command center that Great Shun’s advisor had appeared in the city.
• Wilto and the command center debated whether Chen Chuan’s presence meant Great Shun planned to interfere, then decided to announce their operation shortly before it began.
• Chen Chuan sensed the Pillar of Maltes resonating as the sky darkened and a rift opened beneath the cliff, suggesting another force might emerge from the sea.
• Chen Chuan concluded that destroying the pillar would likely not stop the rift and prepared to gather the Fusion Matter while preventing anyone from interfering.

Chen Chuan confronted the fissure opening beneath the Pillar of Maltes as Central City faced an invasion from the Convergence Zone and beyond the heavens. He restrained the attackers across the island and destroyed a vast extraterrestrial monster, while the battle and its cause were revealed to the world.

• Walqi saw the Pillar of Maltes sway and a fissure open beneath the sea, while Chen Chuan said the demons were only incidental to his purpose.
• Wilto announced Central City's preparations for the incursion, but the Joint Command Center detected a powerful field domain reaction beside the city and linked it to the Pillar of Maltes and Chen Chuan.
• Fissures opened throughout Central City, and Mer armies and other Convergence Zone creatures attacked as Throne Fighters fought to intercept them.
• Chen Chuan spread his External Field Domain across the island, suppressing the strength of fighters and monsters and forcing many attackers to the ground.
• Walqi stabilized the information field domain, allowing command centers, media, and embassies to see Chen Chuan face a vast monster emerging from the light.
• Chen Chuan released a brilliant streak of light that cut through the monster's shadow and scattered it, sending burning fragments toward the sea.

Chen Chuan sealed the rift at Central City, helped defeat the demon assault, and absorbed the Fusion Matter that appeared there. He then traveled to Beize in Haixi Province, where he found an old man sitting on a famous lakeside stone.

• The Great Shun Foreign Affairs Hall recorded Chen Chuan's defense of Central City as demons poured from the rift.
• Chen Chuan used his crystalline whip to destroy the demons and sealed the rift with his field while Walqi captured the battle on camera.
• Chen Chuan entered the rift, cleared the remaining demons, and returned to find Central City's defenders gaining the advantage.
• Chen Chuan absorbed the Fusion Matter that appeared above Central City and told Walqi he would return to Great Shun.
• Chen Chuan traveled to Beize in Haixi Province and saw an old man in tattered Old Era robes sitting on a lakeside stone.

Chen Chuan confronted Bai Yuzi at Qibao Lake, where Bai Yuzi argued that humanity should submit to gods and demons in exchange for power. Chen Chuan rejected his proposal, and Bai Yuzi broke free of his ancient imprisonment as the two heavens converged; Chen Chuan was struck back, just as pale golden light descended upon him.

• Chen Chuan discussed humanity’s history and future with the disguised Bai Yuzi, rejecting his claim that people should serve gods and ghosts rather than resist them.
• Chen Chuan identified Bai Yuzi as a former Xuan Sect True Person who had used bloody sacrifices in pursuit of ascension and had been imprisoned by Celestial Master Huo.
• Bai Yuzi declared that the merging of the two heavens had broken his restraints and that he would seize the chance to attain immortal power.
• Bai Yuzi attacked Chen Chuan with his fishing rod, sending Chen Chuan’s avatar kilometers away.
• A fissure opened in the void, and pale golden light descended onto Chen Chuan’s position.

Chen Chuan confronted Bai Yuzi as the worlds collided and Fusion Matter began to form in Beize. Chen Chuan collected the Fusion Matter while repeatedly smashing Bai Yuzi’s borrowed body, but Bai Yuzi escaped again and charged back into the fight.

• Chen Chuan arrived in Beize and overcame Bai Yuzi’s wave attack, forcing Bai Yuzi to reveal that he had possessed Duke of Great Yi Mountain’s body.
• A rift opened in the sky, and Chen Chuan and Bai Yuzi both sought the Fusion Matter forming amid the collision of the two worlds.
• Bai Yuzi attacked with his fishing rod, but Chen Chuan struck him so quickly that he destroyed the borrowed body and engulfed it in Profound Void Fire.
• Chen Chuan absorbed the Fusion Matter while Bai Yuzi reassembled himself and charged, but Chen Chuan punched him into a crater and suppressed his regeneration.
• Bai Yuzi sent fleshly duplicates and demon ghosts against Chen Chuan, who destroyed their attacks as Bai Yuzi escaped behind a massive underground body and charged again.

Chen Chuan fought off Bai Yuzi and the demon ghosts while absorbing the Fusion Matter, and Red Dust cleared the ghosts using Exotic Powers. Bai Yuzi finally broke free of Celestial Master Huo’s restraints and attacked Chen Chuan, who launched a counterattack.

• Chen Chuan blasted Bai Yuzi apart and used his field to stop many emerging demon ghosts, while Ling Su crushed those nearby.
• Bai Yuzi repeatedly attacked Chen Chuan as demon ghosts used their Exotic Powers against him, but Chen Chuan destroyed Bai Yuzi’s body and Red Dust swiftly killed the ghosts threatening him.
• Chen Chuan continued absorbing the Fusion Matter and realized that no rift had opened for Outer Heaven Demons.
• Bai Yuzi re-formed, broke the golden talisman chains that had restrained him for eight hundred years, and revealed that he had used his clashes with Chen Chuan to wear down the barrier suppressing the rift.
• Bai Yuzi’s God-Subduing Heavenly Rainbow failed to entangle Chen Chuan because Chen Chuan’s Aspect of Man resisted the Secret Technique.
• Chen Chuan sensed that Bai Yuzi was now vulnerable, attacked him with Spiritual Impacts, and struck with several white-gold beams of light.

Chen Chuan fought Bai Yuzi, whose alliance with the Outer Heaven Demons let him draw power through a rift in Beize and repeatedly escape destruction. Unable to defeat Chen Chuan by ordinary means, Bai Yuzi began transforming into an Outer Heaven Demon.

• Chen Chuan discovered that the demon ghosts carried Outer Heaven Demons and traced their passage through a rift in the waters of Beize.
• Chen Chuan broke Bai Yuzi's Aspect of the Gods with a One Yuan Divine Seal and Profound Sky Fire, but Bai Yuzi re-formed with help from a higher power.
• Bai Yuzi used One God Sees Yin and Yang to split into three incarnations, while Chen Chuan summoned a Simulacrum Body and sent Ling Su against them.
• Bai Yuzi evaded Chen Chuan's Simulacrum Body with a Lost Object and realized he could not win while his connection to the higher power remained.
• Bai Yuzi chose to use his secret investiture and began transforming into an Outer Heaven Demon as the monsters above watched approvingly.

Bai Yuzi embraced demonic power, gained new abilities, and fought Chen Chuan with a series of countermeasures. After Chen Chuan turned one of Bai Yuzi’s attacks back on him, Bai Yuzi used the Feast of Ghosts and Gods to trap Chen Chuan in a demon’s belly, where Chen Chuan prepared to cut his way out with the Snow Monarch Blade.

• Bai Yuzi transformed with demonic power, grew stronger, and sensed that Chen Chuan contained abundant Fusion Matter.
• Bai Yuzi covered his divine form with a controllable body of flesh and blood and created two figures to observe and use Secret Techniques for him.
• Chen Chuan attacked Bai Yuzi, who diverted a Spiritual Impact beyond the heavens and used corrosive mists against Chen Chuan’s Purple Qi avatars.
• Chen Chuan’s Purple Qi avatar opened a fissure that let the redirected Spiritual Impact return and engulf Bai Yuzi in white light.
• Bai Yuzi’s anger fueled his demonization, so he used the Feast of Ghosts and Gods to draw on higher-level demonic power and trap Chen Chuan inside a mass of flesh and blood.
• Chen Chuan summoned Profound Sky Fire, then drew the Snow Monarch Blade and slashed at the unstable enclosure.

Chen Chuan fought Bai Yuzi’s demon form at Beize and realized the true spirit of the Demon Subduing Style. As Bai Yuzi tried to break through to the upper level, Chen Chuan caught up and struck him down with the Long Jian.

• Bai Yuzi let demonic power take control and formed a gigantic body, but Chen Chuan used the Snow Monarch Blade to repeatedly destroy it and sever its connection to the Outer Heaven Demons.
• Bai Yuzi transferred his consciousness to a hidden thread of Divine Energy beneath Beize and began restoring himself as Chen Chuan gathered the last of the Fusion Matter.
• Chen Chuan understood that the Demon Subduing Style required the will to oppose demons, then saw Bai Yuzi surge toward the closing rift to escape into the upper level.
• Chen Chuan merged with his Second Self, caught up with Bai Yuzi, and struck him on the head with the Long Jian, scattering his radiance into fiery meteors over Beize.

Chen Chuan defeated Bai Yuzi at Beize and discovered that his Purple Qi Mutated Tissue could disrupt the connection to the upper layer. As he returned toward Zhongjing, reports of disasters and abnormal Eternal Rift activity prompted him to hurry back.

• Chen Chuan examined Bai Yuzi's remains and confirmed that the Purple Qi had erased his spirit completely.
• The Heavenly Human Secret Map absorbed the impurities left by Bai Yuzi and became more regular, revealing clearer patterns.
• An ancient Dragon Fish surfaced, bowed to Chen Chuan, and gave him a Jade Jue Lost Object that could conceal its owner.
• Chen Chuan called Ling Su back and left Beize; Qi Hui Shi arrived afterward, found the battle's lingering power, and confirmed the area was safe.
• Messages reported natural disasters across the world and demons and monsters restrained by the Federation at a deep-sea rift on Gessefetu Continent.
• Chen Chuan learned that many countries' Eternal Rifts, including Red Hill in Zhongjing, were acting abnormally, so he sped up his return.

After returning to Zhongjing, Chen Chuan prepared for the coming intermittent collision, reassured Wei Changan, and traveled to the Other Side World to study Purple Qi Mutated Tissue. He foresaw the collision’s likely impact point, while Ryan Cavity learned that Ascension Ladder members were heading there and chose to wait.

• Chen Chuan briefed the Five-Person Group on his travels, and Xiao Yuanguang told him Tianshu had warned that the intermittent collision was approaching.
• Chen Chuan learned that Eternal Rifts worldwide were reacting, reassured Purity Faction members and Wei Changan, and promised to stabilize Zhongjing.
• Chen Chuan crossed into the Other Side World and perceived a severed tentacle descending toward his world, which he believed would collide within two or three days.
• Two days later, Alura told Ryan Cavity that the first collision point was likely near Mulgallon Lava Lake in Sangma Woga Prefecture Council.
• Mister Gwen told Ryan that Ascension Ladder members were heading to Mulgallon Lava Lake, but Ryan decided they should wait and wish their companions success first.

Si Wen Lindenberg attended a ceremony in Biyulandi that promised the elite passage into the New World. As participants began ascending the newly appeared steps, Si Wen remained uncertain about joining, while Meriwether urged him not to wait too long.

• Si Wen flew to Biyulandi as a company representative for the World External Implant Exhibition and a ceremony tied to the New World Project.
• Si Wen reunited with Thaddeus Meriwether, and An Zhongxin explained that ceremony participants and their families would be among the first to reach the New World.
• Si Wen and Meriwether saw the elderly head of the Vilmore family, whom An Zhongxin said could participate because he had maintained a clean and pure body.
• Si Wen and Meriwether joined the witnesses at the Sky Rain Corridor, where elite participants gathered for the ceremony.
• At eight o'clock, a broad flight of steps appeared, and groups of participants began ascending toward the New World.
• Meriwether said he planned to apply after the ceremony and warned Si Wen that places were limited, while Si Wen said he needed more time to consider.

At Cloud Peak Hotel, the Ascension Ladder began its evolution ceremony as the first Intermittent Collision struck the World Ring and sent strange lights into the world. The ceremony transformed many participants and left others as Evolution Failures, while the newly evolved leaders prepared a second batch and hurried their members toward the New World.

• Xieni Karefa welcomed the Ascension Ladder participants and announced that he and his companion would lead the evolution ceremony.
• Chen Chuan watched the collision hit the World Ring and saw streams of light enter the world through cracks in its barrier.
• The descending lights trapped the ceremony participants in cocoons, and Si Wen and Merryweather watched as the transformation began.
• After more than four hours, participants emerged taller and stronger, while those who failed to evolve became grotesquely deformed Evolution Failures.
• Karefa called the failures tools for ruling the New World, and evolved Fighters ordered preparations for a second batch so members could reach the New World before the Great Collision.

Blood Staff accepted the Federation's offer to infiltrate the Ascension Ladder and eliminate a rogue Fighter, then left his base for Cloud Peak Hotel. Meanwhile, Chen Chuan merged with his Second Self and brought himself to the brink of breaking through.

• Blood Staff received a Strategic Affairs Department mission to kill a Federation figure attending an Ascension Ladder banquet and agreed to go alone with a subordinate.
• Diak ordered his staff to provide Blood Staff with whatever he needed, defended his choice of mercenary to a superior, and learned that Number 35 was reacting abnormally.
• Chen Chuan reached the peak of his cultivation inside the World Ring and decided to merge with his Second Self before breaking through.
• Chen Chuan raised his Second Self to match his own level and merged their power, making the barrier to his breakthrough extremely fragile.
• Chen Chuan found that the Convergence Matter he had absorbed helped him control the surging power.

After Chen Chuan merged with his Second Self, Convergence Matter let him wield his full power without an adjustment period, and he began planning a breakthrough and a campaign against internal traitors. He sent a purple incarnation to empower Blood Staff, who reached the Ascension Ladder’s ritual site after the organization waived its confidentiality requirement.

• Chen Chuan realized Convergence Matter had helped him merge with his Second Self smoothly and could assist his future breakthrough.
• Chen Chuan saw that the World Ring still blocked the descending mist while light seeped into the inner layer, and he decided to contact allies and eliminate traitors before the Great Collision.
• Chen Chuan reviewed reports about the Old Imperial Household’s invasion of the Convergence Zone and the Ascension Ladder’s New World ritual.
• Chen Chuan sensed Blood Staff traveling toward Sangma Woga and sent a purple incarnation to transfer power into him.
• An Ascension Ladder reviewer asked Blood Staff to sign a confidentiality agreement, but Blood Staff refused and started to leave.
• After an important figure approved Blood Staff, the reviewer waived the agreement, and Blood Staff headed toward the ritual site.