Chapter Summaries

Li Qing observed the Dark Matter scientists reverse a century of history inside a Crystal Wall World and decided to give Sylvie a copied version of their Dream Robe-inspired method so she could challenge their claim to it. He visited the researchers to warn them cryptically about the dangers of time research, claimed control of Despair Ancient City’s eighth district, and encountered Fat Dragon and Minis there.

• Dark Matter scientists successfully reversed time in their experimental Crystal Wall World, recreating the apocalyptic cycle associated with Dream Robe.
• Li Qing resolved to pass a copy of the experiment to Sylvie as an authentic Dream Robe inheritance so she could confront the researchers as its heir.
• Li Qing appeared as the Elf Ancient God and claimed the eighth district of Despair Ancient City, including its taxes and inhabitants.
• Li Qing warned Colorful, You Qin, and Despair that researching time was dangerous, then left them to continue their work while he toured his new territory.
• Fat Dragon approached Li Qing in the eighth district and introduced himself as a descendant of the Ancient God of Light, while Minis followed behind him.

Li Qing assigned Fat Dragon and Minis to manage the Eighth District of Despair Ancient City and planned to profit from the Million Gods by selling them fabricated information about proving the Dao. The chapter left Li Qing preparing to use his treacherous merchant persona to fleece their resources.

• The Elf Ancient God recognized Fat Dragon and invited him and Minis to help manage the Eighth District for the Church of Light and the Elven Ancient Tree.
• Li Qing brought Fat Dragon and Minis to the vast Eighth District and established a Crystal Wall World as their base of operations.
• Minis considered recruiting Professor Wales to help develop the newly built district.
• Li Qing instructed Fat Dragon and Minis to cooperate cautiously with the Million Gods and explained that he would sell them information about Nokron and Meng Yi's deaths.
• Li Qing revealed that he intended to invent sensational explanations about proving the Dao and sell as much fabricated information as the Million Gods would pay for.

Minis and the Holy Dragon developed Zone Eight with Li Qing’s backing while the Time Machine advanced. After another time jump, Li Qing’s consciousness entered the Million Gods’ Crystal Wall World as their scientists celebrated a successful experiment.

• Li Qing agreed to help Minis profit from the Million Gods and left Minis and the Holy Dragon to develop Zone Eight.
• Minis planned to recruit geniuses, develop local goods, and create servants to manage the expanding territory, while the Holy Dragon planned to establish the Church of Light.
• Over the next three hundred years, Zone Eight prospered as Minis worked with Black Star and Professor Wales, but they still lacked the gods needed to deduce a Rule Blueprint.
• Li Qing continued mining and calculated that he could eventually harvest the Dark Matter Universe’s sixty million worlds, though matching its total assets would take tens of thousands of years.
• The third Time Machine activated, and Li Qing’s consciousness entered the distant Crystal Wall World as the Million Gods’ scientists announced their breakthrough.

Li Qing secretly observed the Million Gods’ time experiment and discovered they had sent a Crystal Wall World into the Dark Matter Universe’s past to build a Timeline and create a Time Main God. The experiment returned to the present after its energy ran out, while Li Qing learned that Sicily was behind the plan and decided to keep acting alongside the Million Gods.

• The Elf Ancient God took Minis, Fat Dragon, and Professor Wales to watch Despair’s time experiment in District One.
• The Million Gods sent three hundred thousand Crystal Wall Worlds backward through time, and Li Qing secretly descended into one of them.
• In the Dark Matter Universe’s past, Sicily’s recorded voice asked the ancient civilization to calculate time-rule parameters and help create a Time Main God.
• Sicily revealed that the past was an incomplete map of garbled data and that the Million Gods intended to establish a Timeline across the universe.
• The Crystal Wall returned to the present after the traversal collapsed, and Despair told the Elf Ancient God that the experiment had failed.
• Li Qing recognized Sicily as the hidden mastermind and resolved to revise his plans around the Million Gods’ time project.

Li Qing considered the cost of making the Timeline system real and devised a map-loading model to support time travel without rendering every era at once. He called the observation-dependent model Quantum Mechanics, then worried future beings would realize the universe worked like a game.

• The Million Gods dismissed the Elf Ancient God’s schemes and decided to keep developing their Time system in secret, while Sicily urged them to delay proving Time Ancient Gods.
• The Elf Ancient God returned Minis and the others to Despair Ancient City’s Eighth District and offered to sell them Upper Ancient God blueprints for money.
• Professor Wales explained the ruling factions to Fat Dragon, describing Despair as warlike, Colorful as mad, and Youqin as nimble-minded fence-sitters.
• Li Qing returned to his Crystal Wall System Universe and worried that making every past and future Timeline into a movie would cost too much.
• Li Qing proposed loading only the Timeline maps that time travelers reached, with unobserved eras remaining data, and named the observation-based system Quantum Mechanics.
• Li Qing wondered whether later generations would notice that their universe behaved like a sandbox game.

Li Qing continued expanding his mining operation while the Million Gods developed a time-travel research project. When they traveled back 100,000 years to repeat their experiment, Li Qing followed and altered Sicily’s message to direct their research toward blueprints he could use.

• Li Qing decided to devote eighty percent of his resources to building Trans-dimensional Mining Carts and twenty percent to Crystal Wall Worlds while keeping watch on the Million Gods.
• Despair and the other Ancient Gods studied how to build layers of maps from different eras, hoping to multiply their computing power and create a vast civilization devoted to time rules.
• Three hundred years later, the Million Gods activated the Time Machine again, while Minis and his companions discussed their slow progress and lack of resources.
• Li Qing followed the Crystal Wall region 100,000 years into the past and planned to profit from the Million Gods’ research by steering it toward additional Rule Blueprints.
• Li Qing used Sicily’s voice to tell the prehistoric selves to research other Rule Blueprints alongside Time Blueprints.

Li Qing hijacked the Dark Matter Universe’s connection to the past, gathered time-rule blueprints, and began building the past timeline while secretly manipulating the Million Gods. When he sent Minis and the Saint Dragon to the prehistoric era, Sicily grew suspicious of the supposed future self, while the Million Gods began building a Crystal Wall world to research time rules.

• Li Qing posed as Sicily’s future self, obtained two Upper Time Ancient God blueprints, and returned to the present after promising the past Million Gods a future ascent.
• Li Qing spent centuries completing the local past timeline, then sent two lifeforms and ten million Crystal Wall worlds into the prehistoric era as experiments.
• Sicily suspected that the voice claiming to be his future self did not resemble him, and Youqin, Despair, and Colorful feared their future connection had been hijacked.
• Minis and the Saint Dragon landed in the prehistoric era after accepting the Elf Ancient God’s deal, and Minis planned to divide and recruit the Million Gods.
• Sicily’s Million Gods fused the Crystal Wall worlds into a vast structure and entered it to build a Dark Matter computer and calculate time-rule blueprints.

Li Qing used the Million Gods trapped in his mirror-image world to deduce new rules, but their factions eventually fought a devastating war. Sicily reclaimed the throne by revealing that the gods’ powers came from his countless past incarnations, then challenged the parasite hiding in time to defeat his past self.

• Li Qing advanced the Dark Matter Universe through the ages, repeatedly posing as his future self to collect Rule Blueprints and direct the Million Gods.
• The Million Gods split into competing factions, and the Colorful, Despair, and You Qin God Systems fought a ten-thousand-year war.
• More than one hundred thousand Upper Rule Ancient Gods emerged before Sicily and his guard Bu Jia E Er of the End swept through the divine systems and ended the chaos.
• Sicily declared that the gods and their authorities were derivatives of his past incarnations, then ascended as the God of Destiny and master of one-tenth of the time system and four-sevenths of the Past branch.
• A Time Machine arrived, and Sicily accused its occupant of being a parasite that had severed the past from the future; he invited it to try defeating his past self.

Sicily confronted Li Qing, whom he believed was his future self, and revealed that he had become an Ancient God through repeated leaps into the past. As Sicily challenged him to battle, Li Qing kept his villainous role intact, and the War of the Gods began.

• Sicily accused the figure aboard the Time Machine of manipulating his past, while Li Qing examined Sicily’s vast powers and authority over time.
• Sicily explained that he wanted to defeat the hidden hand and contact his true future self, but Li Qing argued that the future self might fear him.
• Minis and the Holy Dragon suspected Li Qing had been plotting to destroy the Million Gods, while Li Qing privately resented their misunderstanding.
• Sicily asked Li Qing when his civilization had been born, and Li Qing chose not to use secret permissions to answer.
• Sicily rose from his throne and ordered the three great divine systems and the Million Gods to launch the War of the Gods.

Li Qing used the Time Machine to attack the Sicily divine system in the past, then escaped when Bu Jia E Er proved too strong to defeat without revealing his power. Back in the present, he concealed what had happened and reflected on the civilization’s progress and its next trip into the past.

• Li Qing overwhelmed the past gods with Time Energy, killing thousands while taunting them as incomplete reflections of their future selves.
• Bu Jia E Er struck Li Qing with the same rules, and Li Qing decided to flee rather than reveal his full strength.
• Li Qing escaped through the Time Machine, while Sicily admitted he could not stop him and vowed to grow stronger.
• The Time Machine returned to the present, where the Upper Time Ancient God reported obtaining another Houtu Rule Blueprint, unaware of what had really happened.
• Li Qing praised the civilization’s progress, left the First District, and wondered what the gods would become before their next journey into the past.

Li Qing strolled through Despair Ancient City, where Chaos Ancient Gods traded and entertained themselves, then went to District Eight to watch a popular live-action cultivation drama. He settled in with a drink to watch Bai Qing’s story, having abandoned his battle with Sicily to catch the show.

• Li Qing wandered through Despair Ancient City and recalled how he had watched District One’s scientists use their Time Machine while harvesting their successful blueprints.
• A candied-hawthorn seller and a trafficker argued over how each exploited beings from Crystal Wall worlds, while Li Qing chose not to interfere.
• Li Qing heard that Erka Russia was hosting a ball, District Five was holding an Immortal Peach Feast, and District Eight had opened a new season of Flame Conferring God, so he headed back to his jurisdiction.
• Li Qing visited Professor Wales’s beverage street, where worlds sold drinks made from tea-leaf creatures, mermaids, and other living ingredients.
• Li Qing entered the theater, watched Bai Qing’s live-action story with the audience, and reflected that leaving his battle with Sicily had let him catch the premiere.

Li Qing observed the Ancient Gods’ elaborate entertainment worlds and reflected on how quickly the upper-level Rule Ancient Gods were advancing. In the Immortal Herb Region, Atabia set out with Herodotus’s reconstructed but unrevived soul, while Nokron planned to teach Sylvie the true power of the God of Dream Robe.

• Li Qing watched Crystal Wall worlds serve as elaborate plays and games, then assessed the rapid rise of the Time Ancient God and other Rule Ancient Gods.
• Li Qing monitored developments across the map as his Crystal Wall output reached 1.9 million worlds every hundred years.
• Atabia prepared to leave with Herodotus, whose shattered soul he had spent tens of thousands of years piecing together but still could not revive.
• Nokron told Atabia that a land facing a looming disaster might offer a chance to find higher-level rules, and Atabia agreed to go.
• Nokron promised to teach Sylvie the true inheritance of the God of Dream Robe—the power of time—so she could defeat the impostors studying it.

Li Qing prepared Sylvie to inherit the Time Blueprints and confront the Million Gods, then followed their seventh Time Machine experiment into the past. There, Minis and the Holy Dragon searched the Dark Matter Universe for Professor Wales’s home planet and found a modern world where a young Wales was alive.

• Li Qing gave Sylvie an Immortal Medicine that raised her Combat Aptitude to 103 and entrusted her with the Time Blueprints and a million Crystal Wall Worlds.
• Sylvie began accepting the inheritance as Atabia studied her research, and their group traveled toward the Million Gods while Atabia continued examining Herodotus’s corpse.
• Li Qing returned to his cultivation chamber as the Million Gods launched their seventh Time Machine experiment, and he followed it back forty thousand years.
• The Million Gods built a faith-based god system under their 120-rated emperor, while Sicily prepared for Li Qing’s expected return and a decisive battle.
• Minis and the Holy Dragon searched the Dark Matter Universe for Professor Wales’s home planet, descended onto a polluted modern world, and discovered a middle-aged genius named Wales.

Minis and the Holy Dragon found Professor Wales researching a virus meteorite in a distorted past and discovered that he had uncovered evidence that the universe was virtual. As the Time Machine arrived for the seventh time, Li Qing declared Judgment Day and vowed to destroy the era and cultivate a replacement, while Sicily welcomed the long-awaited confrontation.

• Minis and the Holy Dragon arrived at Umbrella Corporation’s laboratory in Phoenix City and realized Professor Wales might be his true original self, not a historical reflection.
• They observed Wales’s advanced research, including his conclusions that the universe was virtual and that observation brought reality into being.
• Minis and the Holy Dragon stayed in Phoenix City to watch Wales and learn how he might have escaped into the real past.
• The Time Machine crashed into the era for the seventh time, and its descent filled the Crystal Wall System Universe with alarm.
• The Elf Ancient God, Li Qing, announced that he would exterminate the era and create a new version from 200,000 years earlier.
• Sicily calmly told Li Qing that his dynasty had long awaited Judgment Day.

Li Qing attacked the prehistoric Dark Matter Universe, and Sicily responded by turning the Crystal Wall into a giant through the Tower of Babel Project. As the war to slay the gods began, Minis witnessed history repeating itself from a distant city on Earth.

• The Elf Ancient God Mirdus announced that he had come to destroy the civilization that once targeted the Ancient God of Light, then attacked the Million Gods.
• Li Qing slaughtered nearly one-third of the Ancient Gods, while Sicily watched and told Bu Jia E Er that he was not strong enough to fight him.
• Sicily described how civilization had stagnated and celebrated its renewed progress, then began the God-Creation Project using the Tower of Babel.
• The Million Gods transformed the Crystal Wall into a giant, and Sicily declared that he had become the God of Destiny.
• Minis saw the Primordial Ancient era return in a city on Earth as the war to slay the gods began.

Li Qing overwhelmed the Sicily divine system’s giant, while Sicily revealed a plan to fuse the Million Gods into Bu Jia E Er with the Dao Contention Pill. He claimed their combined pasts would complete the past branch and create a Fated Ancient God capable of advancing their civilization.

• Li Qing used his knowledge of his dependents’ thoughts to predict their attacks and repeatedly batter the Sicily giant.
• As the Million Gods’ Crystal Wall bodies shattered, Sicily proposed using the Dao Contention Pill to fuse them into Bu Jia E Er.
• Sicily persuaded the gods to accept the plan by promising the pill’s effects would be temporary and their lost aptitudes would be the main cost.
• Sicily explained that the gods’ accumulated past authorities could complete the missing portion of the past branch and make Bu Jia E Er the Fated Ancient God.
• Sicily urged the Million Gods to merge into Bu Jia E Er so their civilization could reach the Indestructible Level.

The Million Gods sacrificed themselves to help Bu Jia E Er become the Time Giant God, completing Sicily’s plan to forge the final seventh rule. Bu Jia E Er attacked the Elf Ancient God with his new time powers, declaring himself the god who looked down upon the River of Time.

• The Million Gods agreed to die and be devoured so their chaotic rules could help form the Throne of Time.
• The Million Gods died one after another, and their rule-cells fused within Bu Jia E Er as he transformed into a pure Time Ancient God.
• Sicily revealed that he had deceived the Million Gods and celebrated the success of his plan to build the Time Giant God.
• Sicily urged Bu Jia E Er to shoulder the burden and fight the Elf Ancient God.
• Bu Jia E Er used Time Stop and struck the Elf Ancient God, sending him flying and proclaiming his command over countless pasts.

Li Qing overpowered Bu Jia E Er in their battle over the Past branch, while Minis realized the Dark Matter Emperor was connected to the Million Gods’ past. Minis left Earth and rushed toward the battlefield, convinced that helping the Elf Ancient God was actually the true betrayal.

• Li Qing used the Past rule to stop Bu Jia E Er and blasted him backward, while Sicily watched helplessly from within him.
• On Earth, Minis and the Saint Dragon observed the apocalypse and the distant battle, agreeing to wait for the Elf Ancient God to win.
• Minis recognized similarities between Sicily and the mysterious emperor of the real world’s Dark Matter Dynasty.
• Despite the Saint Dragon’s warnings, Minis charged toward the battlefield.
• Minis told the Saint Dragon that the Dark Matter Emperor had been the Million Gods from the beginning, and that helping the Elf Ancient God was the real betrayal.

The Elf Ancient God overwhelmed Bu Jia E Er and Sicily, while Minis proposed using quantum mechanics to escape their false universe. Sicily accepted the plan, and Minis named the future civilization the Atabia Dynasty.

• The Elf Ancient God used his apparent knowledge of the future to defeat Bu Jia E Er and tear apart Sicily’s Crystal Wall body.
• Minis joined Sicily and explained that they were trapped inside a false universe and needed to escape to survive.
• Sicily said he could rewind time but could not reach the future, which he believed was necessary to escape.
• Minis presented Professor Wales’s quantum mechanics and proposed using observation, quantum entanglement, and Quantum Shuttle to shift outside the false universe.
• Sicily praised the plan and asked what his future dynasty would be called, and Minis named it the Atabia Dynasty.

Sicily used the Million Gods to create a trace of Quantum Entanglement and escape the false past with Professor Wales and Ning Guochang. Their crossing set fate against itself, and the chapter ended with Atabia awakening in the Primordial Ancient Era as the war against the Outer God began.

• Sicily gathered the Million Gods’ power and used Quantum Entanglement to break through the false world while the Elf Ancient God attacked.
• Minis and Bu Jia E Er prepared to cross over with the nearly digested Million Gods, using Ning Guochang as their anchor.
• Li Qing warned Sicily that disrupting the Timeline would create a paradox and give rise to Ning Guochang as a life born from the Time Law.
• Sicily escaped with Professor Wales and the Ning Guochang inhabited by the Million Gods, vowing to fight the God of Light’s divine system throughout time.
• Ning Guochang received memories of his parallel self as a Zombie Lord, then died in isolation months later as the Atabia Dynasty emerged.
• Atabia awakened in the Primordial Ancient Era, stood on his skeletal frame, and began the god-slaying war against the Outer God.