Chapter Summaries

Atabia’s memories of his past life as Sicily awakened, giving him control of the Time God Domain and revealing his return to reality. He rebuilt the Crystal Wall giant and Tower of Babel, declaring war on the God of Light system as the Million Gods confronted the truth about their past.

• Herodotus’s body resonated with the Dark Matter Universe, and his awakening triggered Atabia’s memories as Sicily.
• Atabia seized control of Sylvie’s Time God Domain and explained that he had escaped from the past into the present as a living person.
• Atabia extracted Minis and the Sacred Dragon from the temporal currents, while Herodotus regained memories of his previous life as Bu Jia E Er.
• Atabia revealed that the Elf Ancient God had been deceiving them and warned the Million Gods that they faced covert attacks.
• Atabia took control of Despair Ancient City’s Crystal Wall and transformed it into a giant, shocking the Million Gods with his identity and return.
• Atabia began rebuilding the Tower of Babel for the third time and announced the renewed war against the God of Light system.

Atabia revealed that the Elf Ancient God had attacked the Million Gods in the past, prompting the Dark Matter Gods to turn against the warden. The Elf Ancient God merged the eighth Crystal Wall region into a flowing divine being and prepared for a second battle.

• Atabia told the Million Gods that the Elf Ancient God had ambushed them in the past, leaving only him and Bu Jia E Er alive after the God of Light's faction hunted them.
• Sicily thanked Atabia for coming to the present, while the Dark Matter Million Gods blamed the Elf Ancient God for their past misfortunes.
• Li Qing privately welcomed the Million Gods' suspicions and used the Sacred Dragon's testimony to convince them that the universe was square.
• Atabia urged everyone to focus on the Elf Ancient God, whose eighth Crystal Wall region was the only one not absorbed back.
• The Elf Ancient God claimed his mastery of the Past made him stronger, then merged the eighth Crystal Wall region into a flowing divine being.

The Elf Ancient God overwhelmed the Million Gods with his power over the past, while Atabia proposed helping Sicily master the present branch of time. The Elf Ancient God then summoned his past self and began crushing the Sicily Dynasty giant, leaving the Million Gods facing imminent defeat.

• The Elf Ancient God transformed the Eighth District’s Crystal Wall into a giant and warped matter with a single step.
• Herodotus judged that he could not defeat the Elf Ancient God, and Atabia warned the Million Gods that their enemy had become overwhelmingly powerful.
• Atabia proposed sending Sicily through countless pasts so Sicily could master the present branch of time.
• The Elf Ancient God grabbed the Sicily Dynasty giant and summoned a version of himself from ten minutes earlier.
• The Elf Ancient God ordered his past self to kill the Sicily Dynasty giant as he battered it until its cells began to disintegrate.

Nokron explained the contest between the Thunder and Light pantheons and how the Elf Ancient God had stolen the authority of the Past to become a powerful rival. As Atabia’s forces fought him, Nokron said she could not intervene because her true body was absent and the pantheons were restraining each other.

• The Son of Heaven, Black Star, and Professor Wales sought shelter beside Nokron as the battle unfolded, while Nokron considered using the crisis to help Atabia rule the Dark Matter Universe.
• The Son of Heaven and Sylvie realized that the Dark Matter Emperor was Atabia from history, and Professor Wales wondered whether Atabia had caused his own traversal.
• Nokron explained that the Elf Ancient God had begun with a sliver of the Future rule, then schemed to steal the Past authority and transform into a formidable time god.
• Li Qing pointed out that Atabia had disrupted the Elf Ancient God’s plans and was building the Tower of Babel to resist him.
• When Sylvie asked whether Nokron would intervene if Atabia lost, Nokron said she could not act because her true body was absent and the two pantheons were holding each other back.

Herodotus drew on the dead of the Dark Matter Universe to overwhelm the Elf Ancient God, while Sicily returned from the past with Atabia’s research into the present. Atabia joined his past and present selves into one timeline and became the supreme god of time.

• Li Qing chose not to cheat in the fight, hoping Atabia and the others would develop a new Time Blueprint under pressure.
• Herodotus used the Gate of Truth to gather the wills of the dead across the heavens and attack the Elf Ancient God with overwhelming power.
• Herodotus’s time-powered blows forced the Elf Ancient God’s body and realm to decay, but the Elf Ancient God broke free and claimed that his Future Authority would outlast Herodotus’s strength.
• Sicily emerged from the past and reunited with the Atabia Emperor, announcing that he had completed his research into the present.
• Atabia merged his past and present selves, connected the timeline, and became a supreme god embodying the past and present and wielding Time Authority.

Atabia reached the Rule Level and used his authority over time to kill the Elf Ancient God, then challenged the Ancient God of Light. After the battle devastated civilization, Atabia rewove the Timeline, resurrected the dead, and began rebuilding.

• Atabia ascended to the Rule Level, merged his past and future, and gained authority over the universe's rules.
• The Elf Ancient God fled through the Timeline as four Shadow Gods, but Atabia used Sicily's destiny authority to track and kill him.
• The Ancient God of Light appeared through the Main Universe wormhole, dismissed the Elf Ancient God, and warned Atabia that he could not threaten his rule.
• The battle's aftermath left ninety-nine percent of the population dead and the worlds in ruins, so Atabia and Sicily merged and began restoring civilization.
• Atabia rewove the shattered Timeline and resurrected the dead, including Emperor General Herodotus, while Sylvie and the others discussed the civilization's new power.

A thousand years after the Atabia Dynasty began, Atabia gathered the Million Atabians and explained the limits of his ability to open maps of the Past. He chose to build the civilization’s strength while exploring the subspace region for other Above God Level civilizations.

• The Dark Matter Universe rebuilt its civilization across the giant divine realm, and the fused Emperor of Sicily and Atabia established the Atabia Dynasty.
• Over the next hundred years, the Atabians adapted to the new Rule Level civilization, while cultural legends spread and Nokron’s group settled in the former Eighth District.
• After a thousand years of sleep, Atabia summoned the Million Atabians and declared that their era had begun anew.
• Atabia explained that he could open the Past only in regions under his control and could not change history connected to his own growth without creating a paradox.
• Atabia refused to enter the Main Universe or the Crystal Wall World, and instead planned to explore the subspace region, find Above God Level civilizations, and absorb them.

Li Qing assessed the gains from Atabia’s return and recognized that Atabia’s time authority could erase people by killing them in the past, potentially changing the universe. Fearing that his own origins on Earth could be exposed, Li Qing went there to conceal Earth’s timeline and blamed the altered world on the Dream Robe Ancient God.

• Black Star and the Son of Heaven resumed managing the Eighth District, while Li Qing watched a show with Sylvie and Sylph and reflected on the Elf Ancient God’s hidden ambition.
• Li Qing inspected Atabia’s abilities and learned that merging his past and present selves had increased his aptitudes, while his time authority let him alter the present by changing the past.
• Li Qing realized Atabia could target enemies by traveling to their birthplace and killing them as children, though the resulting paradoxes could transform the universe and erase people connected to it.
• Li Qing decided to return to Earth and disrupt its past timeline so Atabia could not use it to discover or attack his origins.
• Li Qing arrived above Earth, which was enclosed in a cube among the Crystal Wall Worlds, and blamed its altered parameters on the Dream Robe Ancient God.

Li Qing secured Earth’s severed Timeline, then expanded the surrounding region into Trade Ancient City, a factory of boxed Crystal Wall worlds. He left Earth intact as merchandise and created sculptors to manage the factory, setting up its future development.

• After half a month of checking the Timeline, Li Qing confirmed it had been severed enough to keep Atabia from tracing him.
• Li Qing used Trans-dimensional Mining Carts to drag planets into the region and enclosed them in Crystal Wall Boxes, naming the new All Heavens map Trade Ancient City.
• Li Qing invented a history in which the planets were crafted and sold as Premium All Heavens Worlds, explaining why Earth remained in his Crystal Wall System Universe.
• Thirty years later, Li Qing saw Earth boxed as merchandise and decided the gift-box factory needed workers.
• Li Qing created talented Single Cells, turned two with ratings of 101 into giant sculptors, and gave them memories so they could make Mud Planets.

Li Qing finished concealing his lair and resumed mining across the universe, while the Million Gods followed Minis as their regent through subspace. Minis led them back to the Martial Arts Continent, where he and the Son of Heaven saw their homeland again.

• Li Qing transformed Earth's underground into a hidden Middle Thousand World and set out to mine the universe in earnest.
• Atabia and Herodotus went into seclusion to study the difficult branch of [Future], leaving Minis to govern the Million Gods.
• Minis explained that the Million Gods needed to gather resources and study spatial systems to find civilizations in subspace.
• Minis proposed searching either the Above God Level civilizations from the immortal-herb region or the Martial Arts Continent, and chose the latter.
• The Million Gods traveled to the Martial Arts Continent, where Minis and the Son of Heaven reflected on their return to their homeland.

Li Qing traced the origins of the Above God Level intruders and considered changing their civilizations’ histories, while Minis and the others returned to the Martial Arts Continent and explored beyond its Crystal Wall. Their expedition reached Earth and then uncovered a corridor where Earth and other planets were displayed as merchandise.

• Li Qing used time reversal to locate the intruders’ old homes, sent miniature avatars to investigate, and considered transforming their civilizations by altering the past.
• Minis and the others returned to the Martial Arts Continent, learned that Angre and Ning Guochang had died, and resurrected them.
• Professor Wales led a group through the Crystal Wall and emerged onto Earth, where Walton recognized the Sylph Dark Elf Academy.
• The group traveled into space, broke through a false starry-sky wall, and found a corridor containing Earth and countless other planets in Crystal Wall cells.
• Sylvie spotted Earth’s merchandise plaque, which described it as a failed product sculpted from clay and listed its inhabitants as violent low-level species.

Professor Wales and the others discovered that Earth was inside a Merchandise Box in a fog-shrouded merchandise area, then returned to Earth to discuss the implications. A past detector revealed that Earth's timeline had been severed, leaving them unable to investigate Meng Yi's history.

• Professor Wales and his companions explored the area outside the Merchandise Box and found Earth listed as a gift, then worried that a customer might buy it.
• Walton joked about a child spinning or playing with Earth, making the group imagine the destruction such handling could cause.
• Professor Wales led everyone back through the Crystal Wall to Earth and brought them to Sylph Dark Elf Academy in Phoenix City.
• Sylvie and the others discussed the hidden wormhole, the merchandise area, and the possibility that Meng Yi had discovered the truth about Earth before she died.
• Minis sent Professor Wales a super-secret past detector, but it revealed that Earth's timeline had been severed.

Professor Wales and the others concluded that Meng Yi’s Earth might be more dangerous than the territories of the other Ancient Gods, and they discovered that an outside observer considered Earth a gift box for sale. Wales decided to secretly help Earth grow stronger and investigate beyond its Crystal Wall.

• Professor Wales explained that traveling far into the past could change the present, making it impractical to resurrect Meng Yi and dangerous for Atabia to use his Time Authority recklessly.
• The group suspected Meng Yi might have died on Earth and chose not to enter through the wormhole, while Sylvie said Nokron’s time inheritance contained only a fraction of the past-related rules.
• A mysterious giant stopped outside Earth to write in a notebook, so the group hid their auras until he left.
• Professor Wales used the Time Machine to review the giant’s visit and learned that he viewed Earth’s developing extraordinary races as a product he might put back on the shelf and sell.
• Professor Wales went near Phoenix City and resolved to help Earth rise in secret and investigate the situation outside.

Li Qing traveled back 3.7 billion years to an isolated civilization, bestowed immortal cultivation, and arranged its history to avoid time paradoxes. After returning to the present, he found that the experiment had produced a level-four Above God civilization and several Rule Ancient Gods, though none had become a Rule Main God.

• Li Qing reasoned that he had to limit his time travels and chose an octopus-like civilization as his first test subject.
• He studied the civilization’s Timeline and calculated how to isolate its past and preserve its historical effects on the outside universe.
• Li Qing traveled 3.7 billion years into the past, bestowed the method of transcendence, and gave the primitive people a stele recording future historical events.
• He appointed and mind-controlled Single Cells to govern the civilization, keep it secluded, and ensure its history followed the recorded trajectory.
• After returning to the present, Li Qing confirmed the timeline remained stable and observed that the civilization had become a level-four Above God civilization with mature Rule Ancient Gods, but no Rule Main God.

Li Qing used Atabia’s Time Authority to revive historical geniuses across forty-four civilizations, harvesting Rule Blueprints and rapidly increasing his strength. After exhausting the nearby civilizations, he began baiting wandering Above God Level beings with false announcements to lure them into traps.

• Li Qing repeatedly crossed into the past of Above God Level technological civilizations and transformed them by teaching immortality, while keeping them isolated to prevent historical changes.
• Li Qing took on Meng Yi’s identity to alter the past, and the timeline recorded Fire Rope God’s fire-element Rule Blueprints.
• Li Qing revived more historical figures, including Thunder-Magnet Ancient God and Light-Track Ancient God, and recovered their blueprints to strengthen himself.
• After his combat power rose by two hundred percent, Li Qing found that the civilizations he had visited offered fewer new blueprints and that he had exhausted the forty-four known coordinates.
• Li Qing jumped to a distant region, broadcast a false invitation to the Main Universe, and planted more than a thousand baited fish pits in subspace to trap incoming Above God Level beings.

Li Qing traveled back a million years and brought forty-four Crystal Wall civilizations to the site of the Trade Ancient City, then corrected history so they would build it ten thousand years before the present. After helping the civilizations flourish and guiding Borona, he left the past and returned to the present world.

• Li Qing moved all forty-four Crystal Wall civilizations to the Trade Ancient City ten thousand years before the present and altered history to make their arrival part of the established past.
• Li Qing protected the Earth's gift box and spent years observing the civilizations and teaching them as the city developed.
• Borona became the era’s leading Earth Mother Goddess, and Li Qing began guiding her as she advanced the earth-element law to 4/9.
• Borona encountered a bottleneck while the civilizations continued developing under her leadership.
• Li Qing, appearing as the Dream Robe Ancient God, announced his departure and warned the city’s leaders to protect it.
• Li Qing returned to the present world ten thousand years later.

Li Qing let Borona manage Trade Ancient City while he opened countless holes into the universe, drawing civilizations in to mine resources so he could track and eventually punish them. After a century of upheaval elsewhere, Atabia’s Dynasty finally prepared to act against Trade Ancient City.

• Li Qing toured Trade Ancient City, judged Borona’s Earth blueprint too weak to face Atabia, and decided not to travel back and risk disrupting the Timeline.
• Borona noticed life emerging from the Earth gift box and believed the planet was the vulnerable hometown of Earth Mother Goddess Mengyi, whom she vowed to protect.
• Earthlings began entering Trade Ancient City to trade and seek their planet, while Borona secretly investigated them and found no useful information.
• Li Qing opened more than a hundred million passages into the universe, recorded the civilizations that entered to plunder its resources, and planned to reclaim everything later.
• After a hundred years of mining and conflict among outside civilizations, Atabia’s group remained unaware of the upheaval, and the Atabia Dynasty finally decided to make a move against Trade Ancient City.

Li Qing returned to Earth and watched the Son of Heaven use a future simulator to investigate the Trade Ancient City and improve his prospects. After finding a simulation in which he defeated the Fire Rope God, the Son of Heaven pursued a riskier path of adapting to Space Fragments through repeated bodily explosions.

• Li Qing returned to Earth, where humanity had learned that its universe was a higher-dimensional viewing tank, and chose to enjoy his time there while people prepared to develop themselves.
• Minis warned the Son of Heaven that entering the Trade Ancient City was dangerous, but the Son of Heaven used Atabia's Future Simulator to investigate it.
• The Son of Heaven's simulations showed him defeating the Fire Rope God and obtaining two-sevenths of the Fire Law Authority Blueprint, though he hoped to raise his aptitude and pursue the Level One God path instead.
• The Son of Heaven began eating Space Fragments to adapt to spatial rules, but a simulation showed him exploding and killing Professor Wales, Black Star, and Walton.
• Despite the deadly result, the Son of Heaven resolved to keep using the simulator and his martial arts method to adapt through injury and repeated attempts.

Atabia explained why he saw the Emperor as an exceptional creator, while the Emperor’s simulations yielded a first insight into space laws. Meanwhile, Li Qing surveyed a universe depleted by mining and shrinking toward a dark, hollowed-out end, then learned his machines had found a suspected large-scale Dark Matter Civilization.

• Atabia said aptitude scores could not determine someone’s potential and praised the Emperor’s constant struggle against his own genetic code as a form of natural evolution.
• After his seven-thousandth simulation, the Emperor gained a diagram of space laws he had faintly comprehended while fighting the Fire Rope God.
• Li Qing complained that the Million Gods kept camping outside the Trade Ancient City, while the Emperor continued repeating simulations instead of venturing beyond its Novice Village.
• Li Qing’s survey found that the Main Universe had shrunk to sixty percent of its original size and had lost about half its matter to excavation.
• Li Qing’s mining fleet grew to thirty-eight million carts as his power and number of Crystal Walls surged.
• Li Qing received notice that the miners had discovered a suspected large-scale Dark Matter Civilization and decided to investigate.

Li Qing created a hidden torch to investigate a vast Dark Matter civilization and, unable to survey it alone, sent a Crystal Wall lifeform named Gab into its world. Gab’s birth awakened immense knowledge and earth-based powers, which resurrected his father Barro and turned the tide of a war.

• Li Qing used a modified ghost-flame torch to secretly observe the enormous Dark Matter civilization, but found he lacked the energy to explore more than a tiny fraction of it.
• Li Qing created a Crystal Wall single-cell lifeform with earth-law powers and sent it into the civilization to investigate and strengthen Borona’s authority.
• The lifeform was born as Gab on Planet Misik, where his consciousness rapidly absorbed knowledge from the surrounding world.
• When Gab’s mother learned that her husband Barro had died, Gab instinctively gathered Barro’s soul and restored his body from earth.
• Barro survived repeated attacks, gained earth-based powers, defeated the invading forces, and returned to his wife and newborn son.