Chapter Summaries

After returning from the past, the White Shuttle and the Power Council dealt with the consequences of exposing their future crimes, while Li Qing gathered blueprints and secretly prepared to gain the Authority of matter. Over the following centuries, Li Qing kept the rival factions divided as they purged rebels and rebuilt the universe, ending with Cang Tian establishing new Cosmic Era Rules.

• The White Shuttle returned thirty years later, and the councilors decided to watch for Fist and eliminate the current Elise before she could become another Meng Yi.
• Li Qing chose not to revive Lin Qing, collected the interstellar civilization’s blueprints, and began piecing together the Authority of matter while planning Fist’s rise.
• A century after Elise’s death, her followers rebelled, and the Power Council and Dark Matter Alliance blamed each other for the foretold future atrocities and split apart.
• The two factions summoned god-level forces to crush rebellions across the worlds, driving the Rebel Army underground.
• After another three hundred years, the factions reorganized the Crystal Wall and Era Ancient Tree, and Cang Tian wrote new Cosmic Era Rules as the tree’s leaves began forming Crystal Wall Worlds.

Li Qing watched the Crystal Wall Universe expand as the All Gods developed new eras, factions, and laws, then left after Cang Tian accelerated time throughout the universe. He departed into the Chaos Corridor, leaving behind a memory-sealed clone to rise in his place as the accelerated future approached.

• Gab and Tang Xia submitted to the All Gods, and Tang Xia rose again as his Ten Snake Beads launched a universe-wide wishing era.
• Cang Tian introduced the Crystal Wall Flower, extending the universe through wormholes and expanding it beyond subspace.
• White Shuttle and the Dark Matter Alliance's nuclear weapon formed rival camps as their factions competed to lead civilization and grow the universe.
• Cang Tian added time rules that let the universe accelerate or slow down, prompting Li Qing to adjust his own time flow and escape the acceleration.
• Li Qing left resources for Min Shan and her daughter, then installed a memory-sealed Knuckle Nokron clone before departing into the Chaos Corridor.

Li Qing hid in the subspace civilization while observing the universe’s rapid development and the scientists’ experiments. He discovered that they were spinning the universe as part of a plan to create repeating cycles of cosmic collapse and rebirth, while he and they remained destined enemies.

• Li Qing left his accelerated Crystal Wall Universe and settled in a nearby subspace city to hide while studying the technological civilization’s network.
• Over successive weeks outside, Li Qing watched tens of thousands of years pass inside the universe as new generations rose and the completion of Level Two God Blueprints reached ninety percent.
• The scientists began spinning the entire universe, keeping its inhabitants from noticing the movement by modifying universal parameters.
• Li Qing learned that the scientists planned small cycles of Crystal Wall World birth and destruction and larger cycles of universal collapse and rebirth to prevent future theft of cosmic material.
• Li Qing recognized that the scientists’ plan might protect the universe from past tragedies, but concluded that they were still destined to be enemies.

Li Qing watched the new universe develop while his Nokron clone rose among the gods and became involved in White Shuttle’s struggle against the Power Council’s old guard. White Shuttle planned to secure his rule by purging resistant councilors and establishing recurring universal destruction and rebirth.

• The All Gods discovered Nokron’s exceptional fighting talent, cultivated him as a weak material-system god, and placed him on the Origin Ancient Tree’s crystal wall branches.
• White Shuttle asked Nokron to help fight rebellious permanent councilors in the Power Council, and Nokron advised him to purge the old guard and cultivate new generations.
• After White Shuttle returned and took Nokron into battle, Li Qing left the clone to fight automatically while he continued studying material blueprints and checking on Trade Ancient City.
• White Shuttle told Li Qing that he and Dark Fan had imprisoned some rebellious councilors, but he still wanted to preserve their knowledge and find a way to transfer their aptitudes to newcomers.
• White Shuttle explained that he wanted to establish a universal cycle of birth and destruction, arguing that the cataclysm would periodically clear the universe and secure the rulers’ position.

Bai Suo consolidated his rule and recruited Nokron into a new organization to oversee and clean up the Crystal Wall Worlds. Li Qing chose to let the powerful population wear itself down over time while he remained hidden and waited.

• Bai Suo explained to Nokron that he would use recurring cosmic calamities to purge future rebels and preserve his rule across universe eras.
• Bai Suo spent another thousand years suppressing the Power Council, installing loyalists, and reforming his government, while Li Qing watched the factions grow stronger.
• After young sages damaged Crystal Wall Worlds, Li Qing suggested creating Boatmen to retrieve shattered worlds and maintain the realms.
• Bai Suo appointed Nokron Prefect of the Inspection Prefecture, placing him in charge of the Boatmen.
• Li Qing decided not to confront the factions directly and instead planned to outlast them as their population and organizations gradually declined.

Li Qing observed Dark Fan God King prove the Dao by perfecting the Giant God realm, while Heaven's Will secretly grew resentful and ambitious. Li Qing chose to keep fishing and watch rather than interfere.

• Li Qing reviewed his quiet life managing cleaners in the Inspection Prefecture and dismissed Min Shan after hearing a routine report.
• Cang Tian announced that it had used spatial laws to perfect the Giant God realm, allowing cultivators to shrink their bodies to the scale of worlds within cells.
• Bai Suo told Li Qing that Dark Fan had proved the Dao first and gained authority over Giant God cultivators, then returned to push his directors to research the other realms.
• Heaven's Will resented Dark Fan's success and vowed to grow stronger as humanity advanced.
• Li Qing noticed Heaven's Will making secret moves but decided to observe it while fishing instead of acting.

Li Qing spent his time fishing while the Proving-the-Dao Calamity forced contenders for Ancient God positions to fight for exclusive control of each basic rule. Min Shan entered the conflict to seek revenge and claim a place, and she emerged as the last contender in the Gravity divine system.

• Li Qing fished across the Crystal Wall Worlds and learned that Min Shan wanted to fight for a place as an Ancient God and avenge Lin Qing and Elise.
• Cang Tian announced that the Proving-the-Dao Calamity had begun and that each basic rule could contain only one Ancient God.
• God King Bai Suo told Li Qing that he and Dark Fan would let their subordinates compete for the Three Thousand Ancient Gods' positions, then joined Li Qing in fishing.
• Min Shan led the Inspection Prefecture into the fighting after its battlefield-cleanup work exposed its ambushes against wounded fighters.
• The creatures Li Qing had fished up aided Min Shan, while the kangaroo became famous as the Fist Ancient God.
• Min Shan returned bloodied after becoming the sole contender in the Gravity divine system, supported by the Inspection Prefecture's research and logistics.

Min Shan defeated the counterfeit Fist Ancient God with the Inspection Prefecture’s gravity authority, while Li Qing and God King Bai Suo discussed guilt, the Dao Heart, and the uncertainty of shaping the universe’s rules. After the battle ended, Heaven’s Path announced a new age in which three thousand Ancient Gods held unique fundamental laws and later cultivators had to combine public blueprints to prove composite authorities.

• Min Shan credited Li Qing and the Inspection Prefecture for helping her complete the gravity blueprint and defeat the counterfeit Fist Ancient God.
• God King Bai Suo challenged Li Qing about indulging Min Shan, and Li Qing admitted feeling guilty over his friend Lin Qing’s death.
• Li Qing defended the Dao Heart as a restraint on powerful beings that could improve ordinary people’s lives, while Bai Suo voiced doubts about the universe’s rules.
• A week later, Heaven’s Path announced that the universe’s basic rules had been perfected and called on the Three Thousand Gods to preach throughout the world.
• Heaven’s Path’s reforms made the fundamental blueprints public but reserved each law for a unique Ancient God, requiring later cultivators to combine two authorities into composite blueprints.
• People realized that the three thousand fundamental gods could control access to their powers, marking the end of the Innate Ancient Gods’ age and the rise of the Acquired Ancient Gods.

Li Qing watched the universe expand and worried that its growing number of Crystal Wall Worlds would exceed his control. Bai Suo revealed that the God Kings faced a similar danger from overwhelming Authority, but chose to risk death exploring new possibilities, leaving Li Qing to continue fishing rather than become his successor.

• Li Qing saw the universe reach 15% of its eventual size and realized his share of the Crystal Wall Worlds was shrinking beyond his ability to control them all.
• The universe expanded to 20%, reducing Li Qing's share to 80%, and Bai Suo came to his Inspection Prefecture to discuss a crisis.
• Bai Suo explained that the expanding universe's torrent of data threatened to overwhelm his Authority and erase his sense of self through Assimilation into the Dao.
• Bai Suo said he would pause expansion but eventually explore higher possibilities, accepting that he might die and asking Li Qing to take over his divine-system branch.
• Li Qing understood Bai Suo's need for a pursuit but resolved not to become his successor and returned to fishing.

Li Qing rejected Bai Suo’s wish for him to become the next God King and continued cultivating, but a dangerous mutation caused by fused blueprints soon threatened the worlds. As a monster rampaged beyond the Crystal Wall, Li Qing realized the era was slipping beyond his control.

• Li Qing sent Bai Suo away and refused to inherit the role of God King, deciding that Thunder God King had to remain the next God King in history.
• Li Qing spent the following period cultivating his Life Blueprint and researching the branches of life while continuing to keep a low profile.
• In Red Maple Royal City, a monk who had gathered three blueprints attempted to fuse them, but the blueprints twisted into a monstrous creature and destroyed the world around him.
• A cleanup ferryman spotted the mutation outside the Silent Wasteland World and tried to report it, but Li Qing dragged him back through the Crystal Wall.
• Li Qing realized the mutation could produce a dangerous new rule, then the monster broke through the Crystal Wall and began slaughtering its way through the corridor.
• The native Ancient God fled and hid within his vast God Domain as people watched the monster kill their protectors and feared for their worlds.

The Innate Ancient Gods gathered on the Origin Ancient Tree while Min Shan descended, became a Composite God, and rose to power among the Acquired Gods. After the Three Frenzied God King failed to perfect their cultivation method and died at the Cosmic Membrane, Li Qing appeared and restrained Cang Tian.

• Bai Suo and Dark Fan proposed gathering the Innate Ancient Gods on the Origin Ancient Tree to defend against Composite Gods, while Min Shan secretly descended to the mortal world.
• Min Shan became a Composite God, slaughtered her way through the lower realms, and spread Elise's creed to revive her; the Innate Gods blamed Nokron for her actions.
• A thousand years later, Min Shan became a threefold Ancient God and faction God King, and she and the Three Seals God King concluded that Acquired Gods were being eroded by their borrowed origins.
• The Three Frenzied God King failed to perfect their cultivation method, went mad, and reached the Cosmic Membrane, where he lamented his defeat to Cang Tian.
• Li Qing appeared and immobilized Cang Tian; the Three Seals God King realized a greater force stood behind the universe's history and died, and Li Qing absorbed his wisdom before reincarnating his aptitude and talent.

Cang Tian reflected on the short lifespans of Acquired Ancient Gods after the Three Seals God King collapsed, while Li Qing moved to shape the era's future. Li Qing created the Houtu Human, a race designed to fuse Great Dao Blueprints, and prepared to leave the era before crossing back.

• Cang Tian lamented the Three Seals God King's death and explained that composite Great Dao rules caused Acquired Ancient Gods to have limited lifespans.
• Cang Tian considered Min Shan's transformation from an Innate Ancient God into an Acquired Ancient God and saw her as a possible breach in the Three Thousand Ancient Gods' defenses.
• Li Qing absorbed the Three Seals God King's aptitude and walked unseen through the Chaos Corridor, using the Crystal Walls to track the worlds around him.
• Li Qing evolved a new Martial Dao race and named it the Houtu Human, intending it to fuse blueprints and create new techniques and paths.
• Li Qing placed the new life on the ground and prepared to leave the era before crossing back, using Meng Yi's final crossing as cover.

In the Acquired Era, mortals developed new systems for cultivating multiple Great Daos, while Acquired Ancient Gods sought power to challenge the Innate Ancient Gods. Min Shan drove off the Sacred Wood God King, and a blood-stained woman crossed through time carrying a mysterious new life as her own life neared its end.

• Acquired Ancient Gods established new cultivation realms and debated how to oppose the Innate Ancient Gods, despite knowing their borrowed authority could be cut off.
• The Sacred Wood God King boasted that he could defeat an Innate Ancient God, then hunted Min Shan to seize her knowledge of composite blueprints.
• Min Shan struck the Sacred Wood God King three times and forced him to flee, revealing her strength as a Third Heaven Ancient God.
• A blood-stained woman crossed through time into the Acquired Era, carrying a mysterious new life and searching for a place to cast it into the world.

The God of Dream Robe traveled to the Acquired Era and spread blood-born life across many worlds while concealing where he would place a new race. He publicly revealed that the Martial Dao Clan would challenge Nokron and become central to the era’s rise.

• The God of Dream Robe arrived near death and decided that, since he could not stop the Innate Era, he would oppose the Acquired Era.
• Dark Fan and Bai Suo discussed the traveler’s fading strength and watched to see what he would do.
• The God of Dream Robe crossed many worlds, scattering blood-born life to obscure where he placed the Martial Dao Clan.
• Li Qing chose to openly take responsibility for deploying Three Seals Monk rather than secretly placing him in a world.
• When the Sacred Wood God King and Min Shan asked about the new era, Li Qing named the Martial Dao Clan and said it would contend with Nokron.

Meng Yi granted Min Shan the secondary authority of the Creator God before departing to welcome eternal sleep, while the gods searched for the mysterious child she had left behind. Thousands of years later, Min Shan ruled the Acquired Era and researched ways to withstand the corruption of composite authorities, but Sacred Wood God King became an aberration that threatened worlds across the heavens.

• Meng Yi gave Min Shan the ability to compile life, then disappeared into an unknown time to face her approaching death.
• God King Bai Suo ordered a search for Meng Yi's mysterious protagonist, while a cautious child secretly began deducing Martial Dao with Goddess Sister's blueprints.
• Min Shan became the Acquired Era's God King, submitted Sacred Wood God King, and worked to improve cultivation and extend the Acquired Ancient Gods' lifespans.
• Ten thousand years later, Sacred Wood God King succumbed to authority corruption, transformed into a monster, and dragged Nanyun Deity into the fog.
• Min Shan developed a method for balancing two blueprints with a Five Metals Artifact, then fought and killed the aberrant Sacred Wood God King after he warped worlds and god-level beings.

In the Cang Tian Era, Si Ye introduced the Martial Dao as a way to ease the dangers of composite authorities, but its cultivation methods still carried deadly precepts and the world filled with aberrations. After eighty thousand years of fighting the spreading horrors, aging God King Min Shan decided to take her death to the heavens and attack the Ancient Gods.

• God King Min Shan condemned the Gods on the tree for letting living beings suffer, while they admitted they planned to use others to clear the path toward a new era.
• Min Shan searched for the hidden Child of Destiny, and Si Ye appeared to introduce himself as the progenitor of the Martial Dao and pass it on to a new clan.
• Min Shan and the Heavenly Dao declared the Martial Dao the foundation of cultivation, but its arts carried dangerous precepts that could cause practitioners to mutate.
• Buddhism, Taoism, the Knight Church, and the Church of Light rose to consolidate cultivation methods and restrain their side effects as aberrant gods spread through the Chaos Fog.
• After another eighty thousand years, Min Shan neared the end of her life and resolved to attack the Ancient Gods in the heavens rather than die on the ground and become a great evil.

Min Shan led a doomed attack on the Origin Crystal Wall Ancient Tree, but used the Innate Ancient Gods’ suppression of her authorities to shed her acquired powers and revive as an Innate Ancient God. She escaped into the Origin World, while the gods grew wary of the threat she might become and she credited Nokron with saving her.

• Min Shan and her Acquired Ancient God followers attacked the Innate Ancient Gods at the Origin Crystal Wall Ancient Tree, prompting the gods to blame Nokron for failing to assess her state of mind.
• Nokron apologized and offered to resign from the Inspection Prefecture, while the Innate Ancient Gods formed up to test Min Shan’s forces.
• After three days of fighting, the Innate Ancient Gods shut off the attackers’ authorities, causing the Acquired Ancient Gods to fall in realm and die.
• Min Shan retained her innate Gravity Authority, used Life Authority to heal herself, and returned from acquired to innate status.
• Min Shan abandoned her fallen followers and escaped into the Origin World, leaving the Innate Ancient Gods worried about her future power.
• As she fled, Min Shan smiled and wondered whether Nokron had saved her through foreknowledge as the era’s Acquired protagonist.

Min Shan reflected on how Knuckle Nokron’s blood-vomiting method inspired her to extract her Authorities, heal, and begin a second life. Believing Meng Yi had deliberately stolen Knuckle Nokron’s opportunities, she decided to take his place as the Acquired Era’s protagonist and change the future.

• Min Shan recalled Knuckle Nokron explaining how he forced his body to adapt to Martial Arts backlash by vomiting blood and temporarily extracting his manuals.
• Min Shan revealed that she had extracted three laws and used her fragment of Life Blueprint to heal, giving herself a chance to fuse laws again.
• Min Shan reasoned that Knuckle Nokron’s rise depended on the Martial Dao Clan and Life Authority, and suspected Meng Yi had traveled through time to deprive him of both opportunities.
• Min Shan concluded that she had stolen Knuckle Nokron’s chance to become the Acquired Era’s protagonist and resolved to bear the burden of changing history.

Min Shan escaped the Ancient Gods by shedding her authority and returned to the world after living a second life. Five thousand years later, as she resumed her cultivation in Heaven, she suspected that the Thunder God King and the God of Light God King were corpse shells Nokron had shed.

• Li Qing asked God King Bai Suo why they had let Min Shan escape, and Nokron said his debts to her were settled while Dark Fan and Bai Suo defended allowing the age to develop freely.
• The Innate Gods lamented that Min Shan and Elise had both deceived them, while Nokron departed and the others acknowledged that he had no authority among the Three Thousand Ancient Gods.
• Min Shan returned to the world radiant and alive, and people across the All Heavens Worlds honored her and the fallen Acquired Ancient Gods.
• Five thousand years later in Heaven, Min Shan recovered and began cultivating anew, absorbing laws as she transformed from an Innate Ancient God into an Acquired Ancient God.
• Min Shan considered the terrifying corpse shells she would shed as she grew stronger and wondered whether the Thunder God King and the God of Light God King were bodies Nokron had shed.

Min Shan imagined that Nokron might become the cause of a future catastrophe, while Li Qing considered the dangers of shell-shedding cultivation. A thousand years later, the Innate Ancient Gods tried to reproduce Min Shan’s path, but Li Qing secretly blocked their research into Life Authority.

• Min Shan feared that Nokron’s future shed bodies might become self-aware and cause a catastrophe, and she imagined a tragic romance between Nokron and Mengyi.
• Li Qing watched Min Shan’s thoughts and reflected that shell-shedding might be necessary for surviving the Acquired Era’s cultivation backlash.
• A thousand years passed, and cultivation became widespread as people shed demonic shells and monsters filled the age.
• The Innate Ancient Gods investigated Min Shan’s method and began experimenting on living beings to find a way to reincarnate without Life Authority.
• Li Qing secretly tampered with the Crystal Wall, preventing the Ancient Gods from studying the Life Blueprint.
• Unable to research Life Authority, the Ancient Gods decided to pursue other Ancient God paths with nourishing life force.