Chapter Summaries

Shen Lin faced a Bronze Iron Man sent through the blood-red sun and watched the being behind it absorb Soul Venerable and the Wraith Clan to bring the machine to life. The machine identified itself as an Imperial Vanguard J923-Class Mass-Produced Warrior and attacked Shen Lin.

• Shen Lin killed the monsters emerging from the passage and gained more than 120 billion years of Demon Lifespan.
• The being behind the sun sent out a Bronze Iron Man, which Soul Venerable recognized as a high-tier sacrifice.
• A phantom tentacle seized Soul Venerable and the Wraith Clan, compressed their souls into a bead, and fused it into the Bronze Iron Man.
• The Bronze Iron Man awakened, identified itself as an Imperial Vanguard J923-Class Mass-Produced Warrior, and designated Shen Lin as its target.
• The Bronze Iron Man fired a massive beam from its palm cannon at Shen Lin.

Shen Lin fought the Bronze Iron Man, a mass-produced war machine that wielded powers of the Great Dao and whose chest core resisted his saber. The machine generated targeted techniques and attacked him with three different Great Dao forces, ending with a barrage of lightning.

• The Bronze Iron Man struck Shen Lin with enough force to send him flying, and he recognized it as a programmed war machine called an Imperial Vanguard J923-Type Mass-Produced Soldier.
• Shen Lin targeted the pale-blue core in the machine's chest, but his saber only left a white mark while the Bronze Iron Man counterattacked with a Laser Saber.
• The Emperor Taowu told Shen Lin that the core had stopped his strike through sheer toughness, leading him to suspect it came from beyond the world.
• The Bronze Iron Man assessed Shen Lin and unleashed the Flame Rule technique, which Shen Lin countered with his Great Dao of Saber Techniques.
• The machine followed with the Low-Temperature Rule, freezing and shattering the Sea of Blood, then activated the Lightning Rule and sent ten thousand bolts toward Shen Lin.

Shen Lin fought a Bronze Iron Man that wielded several Great Dao Powers, then faced a real tentacle emerging from the Blood-Red Sun. The Heaven-Intercepting Marvelous Skill made him destroy seven divine statues, awakening Augustus Solodin and six other winged figures.

• Shen Lin blocked the Bronze Iron Man’s attacks with his Great Dao of Saber Techniques, then restored his strength using the system and Spirit Nurturing Pearls.
• The Bronze Iron Man detected abnormal temporal flow, failed to contact its superior unit, and suddenly stopped moving.
• A tentacle emerged from the Blood-Red Sun, broke through a barrier, and suppressed Shen Lin’s power.
• Shen Lin activated the Heaven-Intercepting Marvelous Skill, which made him slash the seven divine statues instead of the tentacle.
• The statues collapsed, awakening seven winged figures, and Augustus Solodin spread holy radiance that dispelled the world’s blood-red hue.

Shen Lin and the gods joined forces to sever part of The Collector’s body, but Sapphos revealed that The Collector was not The End. As the world began to collapse, Augustus Solodin led everyone onto a golden ship that carried them into the sun.

• Augustus Solodin and the gods attacked The Collector’s tentacle with their powers while Shen Lin cleaved off its damaged tip with the Taowu Saber.
• Shen Lin received a system notification identifying the severed body as part of The Collector, an Outer Void Realm being with a lifespan of one hundred quadrillion years.
• Augustus Solodin explained that The Collector had invaded worlds and used willing sacrifices to extend his influence, while Sapphos had foreseen the gods’ chance to strike.
• Sapphos clarified that The Collector was only an invader and that The End was something else, then the world began to collapse.
• Augustus Solodin summoned a golden ship, and Sapphos placed the Bronze Iron Man aboard; its pale-blue stone powered the ship as it carried everyone into the sun.

Shen Lin learned that the force destroying worlds was the End and that the Bronze Iron Man's power source contained an entire world. As the group escaped through a tunnel aboard the flying ship, Augustus Solodin revealed that Shen Lin had been the prophesied variable who enabled their escape, and the chapter ended with him confronting their plans for his world.

• Shen Lin asked Augustus Solodin about the End, and Augustus explained that it destroyed worlds as a natural law.
• Sapphos explained that the group had severed the tentacle controlling the tunnel, then revealed that the Bronze Iron Man's energy stone was a world.
• Sapphos told Shen Lin that the seven had found the flying ship through prophecy and had escaped their doomed world with his help.
• Shen Lin asked where they were headed, and Augustus Solodin assured him that they had no designs on his world and needed time to recover.
• Augustus Solodin and Sapphos recalled that they had once considered taking Shen Lin's world, but prophecy had shown Shen Lin slaughtering them and their clansmen.

Shen Lin discovered that the spaceship’s AI recognized him as a superior, and his system connected to it, suggesting both were tied to the Empire. After the ship crossed the Golden River, he saw two giants fighting at the point where the river’s ends joined, revealing what The End referred to.

• Sapphos asked Shen Lin about artifacts from higher civilizations and whether he knew anything about realms above the Dao Integration Realm.
• Sapphos summoned Luoya, whose AI awakened and recognized Shen Lin as a superior, opening all permissions to him.
• Shen Lin’s system connected to Luoya and accepted her permissions, leading him to suspect the system came from the Empire.
• Luoya guided the group out of the wormhole and through the Golden River, identifying the distant black spheres as an unexplored world.
• The flying ship emerged into a pitch-black void, where Shen Lin saw a giant with a stone axe battling an armored rider with a saber at the point where the Golden River’s Möbius ring joined.

Shen Lin learned that the River of Time and every world within it would be destroyed and reborn when two colossal beings clashed, and that even the Empire had likely perished in a greater Epochal End. As another collision approached, Roya detected the Collector coming for them.

• Roya explained that worlds drifted down the Golden River and were repeatedly destroyed and reborn by the two beings’ battle.
• Roya inferred that the Empire had been destroyed, likely by an Epochal End that could shatter the River of Time itself.
• Shen Lin realized that escaping the River of Time would not protect the Chaos Sea’s inhabitants from the two beings’ true collision.
• Sapphos despaired that death might be the fate of all living beings, while Shen Lin resolved to seek power sufficient to overcome every crisis.
• Roya detected an Outer Void Realm aura approaching, and Shen Lin saw the Collector flying toward them through the River of Time.

Shen Lin and his companions fled the Collector through the River of Time and escaped into a world using Luo Ya’s World-Domain Resonance System. They left that world through a wormhole, temporarily shaking off the Collector, and Luo Ya asked Shen Lin where they should go next.

• Shen Lin ordered Luo Ya to steer the flying vessel into the River of Time to escape the Collector, but the Collector followed them through it.
• Luo Ya explained that the Collector could withstand the River of Time’s corrosion, though most of his strength would be blocked inside a world’s domain.
• Luo Ya activated the World-Domain Resonance System, and the flying vessel entered a world before passing through its sun into a tunnel.
• Shen Lin ordered Luo Ya to take them through a wormhole and leave the world before the Collector could attack them there.
• Luo Ya explained that the tunnels were bubbles formed when the Epochal End reshaped the River of Time and the worlds, and Shen Lin noticed the system had consumed nearly half the Bronze Iron Man’s energy.
• Luo Ya asked Shen Lin where they should go, while Sapphos and the others waited tensely for his answer.

Shen Lin learned how the empire’s flying boat chose him as its master and heard Luoya explain the different paths to higher realms. Luoya revealed that the empire had mastered the laws of nature through science, leaving the group stunned by its power.

• Luoya acknowledged Shen Lin as the flying boat’s master, overturning Augustus Solodin’s plans to take the ship.
• Augustus Solodin asked Shen Lin to settle his people in any world after abandoning their plan to seek a newly reborn world.
• Sapphos explained that his people had carried living beings with them in hopes of using their Fortune Power to reach a higher realm.
• Luoya described the Inner Void Realm and Outer Void Realm, including the limits and costs of each form.
• Luoya revealed that the empire came from a world without spiritual power and had learned to quantify and master the laws of nature through science.
• Luoya said every person in the empire possessed Shen Lin’s current strength, shocking Sapphos and the others.

Luoya explained how the Empire’s citizens gained Dao Integration-level power and revealed that the Chaos Sea’s Human Race was connected to the Empire. After Shen Lin settled Augustus Solodin and the others on a new world and returned toward the Chaos Sea, its sun turned blood-red and blinked like an eye.

• Luoya told Shen Lin that the Empire could create constructs matching Inner Void and Outer Void strength, but could not grant that power to living beings, and explained the role of Fortune Power.
• Shen Lin learned that the Empire’s citizens looked like him and that other races descended from survivors of conquered worlds interbreeding with them.
• Shen Lin arranged for Augustus Solodin and the others to settle on a continent-filled world, where Augustus thanked him and wished him success against the Epochal End.
• Luoya located Shen Lin’s world through its connection to the Empire Sanctuary, and Shen Lin ordered the flying vessel to return to the Chaos Sea.
• As the vessel reached the familiar sea, Shen Lin felt his heart tremble, and the sun turned blood-red and blinked twice like an eyeball.

Shen Lin learned that The Collector would reach his world in three years and five months, and planned to gain power by comprehending all the Great Dao Power in the Bronze Iron Man’s core. When he returned to the Nine Heavens Ten Earths to seek Demon Lifespan, he found the Human Race gone and the region surrounded by demons, with several Dao Integration Realm beings turned into demons.

• The Collector sensed Shen Lin’s mark and continued along the River of Time, while Luoya estimated that it would arrive in three years and five months.
• Shen Lin refused to leave and asked Luoya to shrink the Bronze Iron Man’s core so he could carry it.
• Shen Lin decided to use the system to comprehend the core’s Great Dao Power, and considered exterminating the Demon Race to gain enough Demon Lifespan.
• Shen Lin found the Rakshasa Islands empty and saw no sentient life on his way to the Nine Heavens Ten Earths.
• Shen Lin found the Nine Heavens Ten Earths surrounded by demons and saw Dragon Venerable, Buddha Venerable, Feather Venerable, and Jianmu Tree transformed into demons.

After Shen Lin returned from the River of Time, he learned that a hundred years had passed in the Chaos Sea and found the Heavenly Demon had transformed several Dao Integration Realm cultivators into demons. The Heavenly Demon demanded Shen Lin join his plan to overcome The End, but Shen Lin refused, and their battle began as the Nine Heavens sensed his return.

• Shen Lin realized that the transformed Buddha Venerable, Yu Tianyuan, Dragon Venerable, and Jianmu Tree meant far more time had passed in the Chaos Sea than for him.
• The Heavenly Demon appeared and recognized that Shen Lin had left the world, then told him a hundred years had passed.
• The Heavenly Demon invited Shen Lin to join his plan to gather Fortune Power and avert The End, but Shen Lin refused, warning that the plan would consume the Chaos Sea’s living beings.
• The Heavenly Demon ordered the four transformed Dao Integration Realm existences to attack Shen Lin, who drew the Taowu Saber and unleashed his Saber Intent.
• The Immortal Venerable in Qingxu Heaven, the Demon Venerable in Mochara Heaven, and the Human Race in Haoling Heaven sensed that Shen Lin had returned.

Shen Lin fought the Heavenly Demon and four demonized Dao Integration Realm experts, discovering that the Heavenly Demon had merged their transformed Great Daos into the Demon Race's Great Dao. The Sword Venerable, Demon Venerable, and Immortal Venerable helped him escape into the Nine Heavens, while the Heavenly Demon ordered his forces to seek the Evil Venerable.

• The Buddha Venerable, Yu Tianyuan, and Jianmu Tree attacked Shen Lin, but he cut through their attacks with the Great Dao of Saber Techniques.
• The Heavenly Demon sent the demonized Dragon Venerable to join the siege, and Shen Lin used Saber Intent to strike at the opponents' Great Daos.
• The opponents' Great Daos fused into the Demon Cloud World-Destroying Diagram, and Shen Lin realized the Heavenly Demon had transformed their Great Daos into part of the Demon Race's Great Dao.
• The Heavenly Demon urged Shen Lin to swear allegiance and explained that he planned to absorb the world, but Shen Lin rejected him and resumed fighting.
• The Sword Venerable, Demon Venerable, and Immortal Venerable held back the demonized opponents, allowing Shen Lin and the others to retreat into the Nine Heavens.
• The Heavenly Demon stopped the Dragon Venerable from pursuing them and ordered his forces to find the Evil Venerable so he could become ruler of the world and reach the Outer Void Realm.

Shen Lin returned to Qingxu Heaven after spending what felt like a few days in another world, though a hundred years had passed in the Chaos Sea. The Immortal Venerable explained how the Heavenly Demon’s forces had devastated the surviving clans and revealed that Heaven’s Mystery Island might know the truth of The End.

• Shen Lin feared the Heavenly Demon would reclaim the providence of the transformed inhabitants and grow immensely stronger, so he followed the Immortal Venerable and the others to Qingxu Heaven.
• The Immortal Venerable told Shen Lin that the defenders had concentrated the Nine Heavens’ spiritual power and Dao laws into their barrier, and asked where Shen Lin had been for a hundred years.
• Shen Lin explained that the Soul Venerable had trapped him in another world where time passed differently, and he recounted his discoveries about the River of Time and The End.
• The Immortal Venerable and the Demon Venerable concluded that Heaven’s Mystery Island might have learned about The End from an artifact, but said no one had found the island.
• The Immortal Venerable began recounting how the Heavenly Demon had appeared ten years after Shen Lin vanished, severely wounded the gathered Dao Integration experts with a strange flying vessel, and captured Dragon Venerable and Jianmu Tree.

Shen Lin learned that the Human Race had safely relocated to Haoling Heaven and summoned the Human Emperor to identify the Heavenly Demon's mysterious flying vessel. Luoya recognized it as an Empire's Seventh Generation Exploration Ship, and Shen Lin concluded the Heavenly Demon likely could not power it at full strength because it required two World Cores.

• The Immortal Venerable told Shen Lin that the Human Race had moved to Haoling Heaven and suffered few losses thanks to the Demon Slaying Art.
• Shen Lin asked the Immortal Venerable to invite the Human Emperor so he could learn more about the Heavenly Demon's flying vessel.
• Zhan Wuji brought the Human Emperor to Qingxu Heaven, where Shen Lin summoned Luoya and asked the Human Emperor to describe the vessel.
• Luoya reconstructed the vessel and identified it as an Empire's Seventh Generation Exploration Ship equipped with powerful weapons.
• Luoya explained that the ship required two World Cores to operate at peak capacity, reassuring Shen Lin and the others that the Heavenly Demon probably lacked the energy to use its full power.

Shen Lin warned the Immortal Venerable and the others that the Heavenly Demon could draw strength from the demons he had transformed, making him their greatest threat. When they discovered that the Demon Race had stopped attacking and its numbers had nearly halved, the Immortal Venerable realized the missing demons might have been sent after Evil Venerable.

• The Immortal Venerable proposed a counterattack and asked Shen Lin to kill the Heavenly Demon, but Shen Lin said the Heavenly Demon was the real danger.
• Shen Lin explained that the Heavenly Demon could transfer power to transformed demons and reclaim their combined strength.
• Wealth Venerable noted that the Demon Race's attacks had slowed over the past ten years, while the Sword Venerable observed that its numbers had nearly halved.
• The Immortal Venerable concluded that the missing demons might have gone after the only other being in the Chaos Sea who had not been transformed: Evil Venerable.

Immortal Venerable revealed that Evil Venerable was the independent embodiment of evil thoughts he had severed while attempting to slay the Three Corpses. After Shen Lin realized the Heavenly Demon could use Evil Venerable and sufficient Fortune Power to reach the Outer Void Realm, Immortal Venerable called on everyone to stop hiding and deal with Evil Venerable first.

• Demon Venerable explained that Evil Venerable was powerful and cautious enough to evade the Heavenly Demon's array.
• Wealth Venerable and the others learned that Evil Venerable had attained the Dao Integration Realm before Demon Venerable, prompting them to ask Immortal Venerable about his origin.
• Immortal Venerable revealed that Evil Venerable had split from him when he tried to slay his Three Corpses, and that he and Buddha Venerable had once driven Evil Venerable back.
• Shen Lin asked Luoya whether the Heavenly Demon could reach the Outer Void Realm using Evil Venerable and enough Fortune Power, and Luoya confirmed that it could.
• Shen Lin warned that the Heavenly Demon could destroy the Chaos Sea if it transformed Evil Venerable, so Immortal Venerable ordered everyone to capture or eliminate him.

Shen Lin proposed gathering their forces to strip away the Heavenly Demon's Fortune Power instead of risking a search for the Evil Venerable. The Heavenly Demon discovered Heavenly Mystery Island, but his attack passed through it, and he saw the Evil Venerable kept as an old Daoist's pet just as his Fortune Power began to vanish.

• Shen Lin told Immortal Venerable and the others to gather their fighting strength and shave away the Heavenly Demon's Fortune Power.
• The Heavenly Demon discovered Heavenly Mystery Island, which could be seen with the naked eye but not detected through spiritual power or Dao laws.
• The Heavenly Demon raised his strength to the peak of the Dao Integration Realm and sent demons to surround Heavenly Mystery Island.
• The Heavenly Demon's palm passed through the island, and an old Daoist told him to leave because he had no affinity with Heavenly Mystery.
• The Heavenly Demon saw the Evil Venerable as a little octopus in the old Daoist's basket and then noticed his Fortune Power disappearing.

Shen Lin taught the Demon Slaying Art to an elite force in Qingxu Heaven, then led them out to strike the Demon Race before the Heavenly Demon could withdraw its Fortune Power. As the battle began, Shen Lin fought Yu Tianyuan and redirected his saber toward Buddha Venerable.

• Shen Lin imparted the Demon Slaying Art to the Immortal Venerable, Demon Venerable, and the assembled elite cultivators.
• Shen Lin rejected the Demon Venerable’s plan to wipe out the Demon Race, setting their objective as killing as many enemies as possible quickly before the Heavenly Demon could react.
• The Nine Heavens barrier opened, and the Demon Race charged the emerging cultivators despite Buddha Venerable’s warning to be cautious.
• Shen Lin struck Yu Tianyuan with the Taowu Saber, while the other cultivators engaged the Demon Race and the three Immortal Venerables confronted Buddha Venerable, Dragon Venerable, and Jianmu Tree.
• Yu Tianyuan unleashed the Demon Race’s Great Dao, and Shen Lin seized the opening to redirect his saber toward Buddha Venerable.

Shen Lin and the cultivators used the Demon Slaying Art to destroy the Demon Race army besieging the Nine Heavens and kill Buddha Venerable. The Heavenly Demon lost nearly one-fifth of his Fortune Power and could no longer use Evil Venerable or the beings on Heavenly Mystery Island to reach a higher realm.

• The cultivators activated the Demon Slaying Art, and its golden light weakened or burned away the surrounding Demon Race.
• Immortal Venerable, Sword Venerable, and Demon Venerable joined Shen Lin and Wealth Venerable to trap Buddha Venerable, while Yu Tianyuan extracted much of the Demon Race's Great Dao power.
• Shen Lin and four other Dao Integration Realm experts attacked Buddha Venerable together, shattered his body and Great Dao, and killed him.
• Yu Tianyuan attacked Shen Lin in a rage, but his power vanished and he turned to ash; Dragon Venerable, Jianmu Tree, and the rest of the Demon Race army also disappeared after the Heavenly Demon withdrew their Fortune Power.
• The Heavenly Demon found Evil Venerable near Heavenly Mystery Island, but after losing nearly one-fifth of his Fortune Power, he realized he could no longer reach a higher realm by transforming those nearby and left.