Chapter Summaries

Min Shan endured repeated battles and experiments before fusing five Great Daos and becoming a Fifth Layer Ancient God and God King. Her new authority compressed and reshaped the universe, inaugurating the Acquired Epoch, while Bai Suo suggested that history’s protagonist had changed to Min Shan.

• Min Shan repeatedly provoked the Three Thousand Innate Ancient Gods, who weakened her authority and used the fights to test her as she struggled to advance.
• After many metamorphoses, Min Shan fused gravity with earth, fire, wind, and lightning and reached the Fifth Layer.
• Min Shan’s authority of plastic compression shrank the Crystal Wall Multiverses and transformed the universe into a vast landscape of World Sand, with Ancient Gods reduced to tiny beings among its grains.
• Min Shan became God King and reshaped sand into ordinary-looking houses that contained countless living beings within each grain.
• Bai Suo and Dark Fan God King discussed Min Shan’s power and identified her as a new Acquired God King, while Bai Suo suspected she had replaced Li Qing as history’s protagonist.

Min Shan inscribed her acquired rule into the Cosmic Membrane and became the first Acquired God King, while the Ancient Gods’ dangerous attempts to fuse with blueprints spread chaos and uncanny corpses across the worlds. Li Qing visited the martial world of Duo Qing Realm and decided Nokron would enter the age’s history as a hero.

• Min Shan wrote her earth, fire, wind, thunder, and gravity rule into the Cosmic Membrane, becoming the first Acquired God King.
• Bai Suo asked Min Shan about her plans, and Dark Fan offered a deal to help the Innate Ancient Gods shed their shells; Min Shan refused and warned them about the danger of her next death.
• New-generation Ancient Gods began fusing with blueprints, and their failures produced uncanny corpses and demons that made the worlds afraid to venture beyond the dense fog.
• Li Qing walked through Duo Qing Realm and heard rumors that a taboo-breaking cultivator had turned the Wang Family’s seventy-three members into dried corpses.
• Li Qing decided Nokron should enter the world and live a lifetime as a hero who would shape history.

Li Qing returned from the Crystal Wall World to the Origin Continent and saw how civilizations nested within one another beneath the Crystal Wall Tree. Min Shan reconciled with the Ancient Gods and envisioned a flourishing new age, while Li Qing returned to the tree as the coming calamity threatened its inhabitants.

• Li Qing withdrew from the Crystal Wall World and walked through the Origin Continent, reflecting on how its microscopic worlds resembled the old Microbial Kingdom.
• God King Min Shan joined Li Qing with her daughter and explained that civilizations were nested within one another and history followed its own course.
• Min Shan predicted that the Ancient Gods' discarded shells would populate the continent and begin a new age beneath the Origin Ancient Tree.
• Li Qing said farewell to Min Shan, climbed the Origin Ancient Tree, and traded barbs with Ancient Gods who resented her.
• Li Qing suspected Min Shan would eventually attack the tree again and wipe out the gods living there.

After Tangxia and Gab assassinated Innate Ancient Gods and seized their authorities, the Innate Ancient Gods turned on one another and fled the Origin Ancient Tree. Li Qing saw an opportunity to hunt them down and reclaim the Cosmic Membranes they carried.

• A mysterious third-layer being infiltrated the Origin Ancient Tree and killed the Prayer Voice Ancient God, allowing Tangxia to seize his authority.
• Tangxia and Gab killed more Innate Ancient Gods, claimed additional authorities, and escaped to the continent below.
• The Innate Ancient Gods realized that five Great Dao authorities could no longer be shut off and began slaughtering one another.
• Min Shan announced that she would kill four Innate Ancient Gods who held five Great Daos, while the two God Kings declined to intervene.
• The surviving Innate Ancient Gods fled and hid among strange beings and ascended cultivators, leaving the Origin Ancient Tree in ruins.
• Li Qing descended the mountain and announced that he would hunt the Innate Ancient Gods and claim their seats.

Li Qing, operating as Nokron, hunted Innate Ancient Gods to recover their natural Membranes while concealing his real objective. A century later, power-based god systems had begun to reappear, with Min Shan leading the strongest faction and Nokron’s growing reputation drawing her attention.

• Nokron attacked Toxin, Fear, and Carbon, killing them with his mastery of Matter and taking their vacant powers.
• Li Qing forcibly absorbed Carbon and the other two powers, then used cheats and blessings to increase his strength despite suffering internal damage.
• Nokron continued hunting Ancient Gods and mutated Evil Gods, planning to use a full-map search only occasionally to avoid suspicion.
• Over the following decades, Nokron became feared, while Innate Ancient Gods rebuilt small god systems and recruited Acquired Ancient Gods.
• Min Shan assembled the largest god system, with Tang Shrimp and Gab serving as powerful generals, and learned of Nokron’s fearsome fists.

Min Shan shed her demonic skeleton and prepared to recover while Nokron struggled to control six clashing authorities and continued collecting keys. As the new era flourished, Li Qing plotted against the God Kings’ reserves, and a wounded mecha arrived from the future declaring that Nokron had to die.

• Min Shan used four Heavenly Dao Divine Artifacts to shed and destroy her demonic skeleton, then told the Acquired Ancient Gods to guard her while she healed.
• Nokron endured six clashing authorities and noted that he had collected more than seventy keys containing the powers of defeated beings.
• Thirty years passed as the era of Innate Law Artifacts and the Origin Continent flourished, while Li Qing destroyed Cosmic Membranes and planned to target the reserves held by God King Bai Suo and Dark Fan God King.
• Dark Fan God King fished in Nokron’s branch and reflected on Min Shan taking the era’s supposed protagonist’s opportunity.
• A badly damaged white mecha tore through the chaotic void from the distant future and shouted that Nokron had to die for the universe’s future.

Bai Suo returned from thirty years in the future to warn Dark Fan God King that Nokron’s forced fusion of eleven authorities would birth a catastrophic ancient dragon and doom the era. Li Qing realized they had exposed part of his plans and intended to kill him, while Bai Suo and Dark Fan prepared a massive assault on Nokron.

• Bai Suo told Dark Fan God King that he had returned thirty years from the future, where Nokron’s rise had led to their defeat and the era’s destruction.
• Li Qing overheard them near the Crystal Wall Origin Ancient Tree and realized they had returned to kill him before Nokron could develop.
• Bai Suo explained that Nokron had forcibly fused multiple authority blueprints and would become a composite ancient dragon within three years.
• Bai Suo told Dark Fan that Nokron would remain a heroic Martial Arts Emperor, fight the calamities, and sacrifice himself, but the ancient dragon could no longer be stopped.
• Bai Suo urged Dark Fan to gather the Dark Matter Alliance and Power Council for an encirclement and annihilation of Nokron, and Dark Fan agreed.

Bai Suo crossed back from the future to warn the God Kings about the ancient dragon and provide data that could help them prepare for the coming crisis. Li Qing realized his hidden harvesting had been exposed, but the information Bai Suo brought also accelerated the ancient dragon gestating within Nokron.

• Bai Suo described the ancient dragon’s origins, mutations, and future threat to Dark Fan God King, who recorded the data and summoned the other God Kings and Acquired Ancient Gods.
• The recalled organizations returned to the Origin Ancient Tree, where Bai Suo announced a final joint operation to defend the universe.
• Bai Suo crossed back to the future, and the young present-day Bai Suo returned in his place.
• Li Qing recognized that future Bai Suo had uncovered his harvesting, but he used the supplied blueprints to strengthen the ancient dragon forming inside Nokron.
• Li Qing gained one-tenth of the Celestial Phenomenon Life authority, bringing his Life Blueprint power to six-tenths.

Li Qing gained new powers from the information God King Bai Suo brought back through time, but he realized that he was being maneuvered into facing two organizations alone. Keeping his identity concealed, he continued traveling openly on Origin Continent and killed two Ancient Gods who tried to lure him into a trap.

• Li Qing concluded that his future self had deliberately allowed God King Bai Suo to travel to the past, bringing back information about ancient dragons and mutated lifeforms while keeping Li Qing’s identity hidden.
• Li Qing weighed the strength of the opposing forces and accepted that his future self might be forcing him to choose between fighting alone and revealing his identity.
• A new branch of Life Authority transformed Li Qing’s blueprints, giving him the power to create chaotic Celestial Phenomenon Life and monstrous God Corpses.
• Li Qing continued walking across Origin Continent in the guise of Nokron and observed how the Crystal Wall had become a basic particle of the high-dimensional world.
• Three Acquired Ancient Gods tried to persuade Nokron to return to the Origin Ancient Tree, but he recognized their summons as a trap and killed two of them with a storm-wrapped punch.

Nokron continued cultivating the Ancient Dragon gestation blueprint while traveling, but Acquired Ancient Gods tried to take him back to the Ancient Tree. As his body mutated and his temper deteriorated, he slaughtered the pursuers while insisting he was still human.

• Nokron rested in a village and began combining violent authorities to condense an Ancient Dragon within himself, knowing the process could turn him into a bizarre creature.
• Seven Acquired Ancient Gods demanded that Nokron return to the Ancient Tree, but he rejected their story and fought them, quickly killing most of the group.
• The survivors mistook Nokron's mutation for a loss of reason and fled, while more Acquired Ancient Gods pursued him and tried to delay him with a battle formation.
• Nokron transformed into the Abyss Emperor form and caught one of his pursuers, crushing him into the ground as surrounding worlds were destroyed.
• Nokron's rage intensified, and he seized the leader before punching him apart and tearing through the remaining Acquired Ancient Gods.

Nokron transformed into a violent, armored Demon Emperor while retaining his sanity, then slaughtered the Acquired Ancient Gods who attacked him. Bai Suo and Dark Fan arrived to find him gone and set out to track him through the Timeline.

• Nokron claimed he was still human as the Acquired Ancient Gods recoiled from his mutation and tried to keep their distance.
• The Ancient Gods borrowed natural law and attacked Nokron while Bai Suo and Dark Fan hurried toward the battle, discussing the Ancient Dragon’s unexpectedly rapid growth.
• Bai Suo and Dark Fan arrived to find tens of thousands of Acquired Ancient Gods dead and Nokron missing.
• Bai Suo read the Timeline and saw Nokron brutally overpowering the group’s leader while demanding to know why they had attacked him.
• Bai Suo ordered Dark Fan to pursue Nokron through the Timeline as the gods’ encirclement closed around him.

Nokron transformed into an unstable, seven-authority Ancient Dragon and unleashed a spreading horde of Ancient Beasts across the Origin Continent. As the Power Council and Dark Matter Alliance were overwhelmed, God King Min Shan secretly advanced Elise’s resurrection, while the battle revealed how terrifying Nokron might have become in history.

• Li Qing analyzed God King Bai Suo’s Time Authority and concluded that Bai Suo could not travel through the current era again or reach Li Qing’s shielded birthplace.
• Li Qing perfected Nokron’s Ancient Dragon structure, loaded dozens of Heavenly Dao artifacts, and turned his body into an unstable creature capable of containing seven authorities.
• Nokron spawned swarms of Ancient Beasts that spread across the Origin Continent and attacked Ancient Gods, infecting them and destabilizing their authorities.
• God King Bai Suo recognized the outbreak as a possible early arrival of the Dark Epoch and ordered his forces to flee, form battle arrays, and seek innate Dao artifacts.
• God of Earth Gab told God King Min Shan that Elise’s resurrection was nearly complete, and Min Shan continued using the chaos to secretly bring Senior Elise back.
• God King Min Shan reflected that Nokron might have become an even greater threat in history if Senior Dream Robe had not returned to target him.

The gods prepared to fight Nokron’s Ancient Dragon while Si Ye revealed his own research into Composite Martial Dao. A second Ancient Dragon from the future fused with the first, and Nokron emerged claiming supreme power over the Crystal Wall.

• Si Ye admitted that his Ancient Dragon research was far behind Nokron’s, while Min Shan continued the ritual to resurrect Elise.
• Min Shan’s faction watched as disciplined armies contained the Ancient Beasts, and Bai Suo and Dark Fan prepared to kill the exposed Ancient Dragon.
• Bai Suo realized that a second Ancient Dragon might have infiltrated his future self and warned that their meeting could create a spacetime paradox.
• The two Ancient Dragons collided and fused, causing the Crystal Wall to tremble.
• Nokron appeared with crimson eyes and declared that he had gained power capable of controlling the Crystal Wall.

Nokron revealed that he had used a temporal paradox to gain the Ancient Dragon’s powers, including control over the Crystal Wall, and disabled the enemy army’s authorities. Dark Fan and Bai Suo abandoned their numerical advantage and prepared to attack him with elite forces, while Elise awoke and recognized Nokron as the prehistoric Abyss Emperor.

• Bai Suo realized his future self had accidentally brought the Demon Lord back through time, creating a temporal paradox.
• The Demon Lord, calling himself an Ancient Dragon BUG, revealed that he had gained control of the Crystal Wall switches and eleven blueprint card slots.
• Nokron shut down the Three Thousand Great Daos and stripped the advancing army of its authorities, reducing its troops to divine level.
• Dark Fan and Bai Suo learned their cosmic membrane reserves had been depleted and decided to hide most of the army while they and elite units confronted Nokron.
• Min Shan revived Elise, who awoke, saw Nokron, and recognized him as the prehistoric Abyss Emperor she had witnessed in the distant past.

Elise learned that Nokron’s present form proved he was destined to die in this battle, and she chose to accept the fate that she and her allies might perish with him. She left Min Shan’s group behind and joined the two God Kings in the fight against Nokron.

• Elise recognized Nokron as the figure she had seen resurrect in the future and concluded that his appearance meant he would die in the present.
• Elise reviewed Nokron’s history and realized Li Qing had forcibly aligned the Timeline by constructing his background and treating the present as prehistory.
• Min Shan proposed letting the two God Kings fight Nokron without help, but Elise warned that they too might be destined to die and said she accepted that fate.
• Min Shan fled with her trusted subordinates, while Elise refused Si Ye’s suggestion to pursue her.
• Elise joined the two God Kings on the battlefield, requested a natural Cosmic Membrane, and helped begin a three-God encirclement of Nokron.

Li Qing’s library turned Nokron into a rampaging cosmic calamity that grew stronger as he fought Elise, White Shuttle, and Dark Fan. Fearing the Ancient Dragon could not be stopped, Li Qing took control briefly and revealed Nokron’s weakness, helping the God Kings attack him.

• Nokron lost his self-awareness as the authorities in Li Qing’s library overwhelmed him, and Li Qing admitted he was losing control of the creature.
• Elise and White Shuttle supported Dark Fan as the three God Kings fought Nokron, who continued growing stronger and could activate ten authorities at once.
• Dark Fan struck Nokron with his strongest material attack, but Nokron retaliated and taunted him after his body exploded.
• Li Qing worried that the God Kings could not defeat Nokron and logged in again to take control of him.
• Nokron begged the God Kings to kill him and revealed that his Cloud Flame combination was vulnerable to carbon, water, and wind.
• Li Qing realized that Nokron had cooperated from within just as he had in the history he remembered.

God King Bai Suo’s forces used Nokron’s inside information to wound the Ancient Dragon while spending their Cosmic Membrane reserves, but the creature kept growing stronger and killed the Heavenly Dao by proving the Three Thousand Great Daos. As Elise insisted on fighting despite the danger, Li Qing decided to summon Atabia and the others from the future to help.

• God King Bai Suo sent soldiers with matching authorities to attack the Ancient Dragon using Nokron’s information, and the targeted strikes wounded it.
• Nokron revealed another flaw after a day of battle, prompting the forces to spend more Cosmic Membrane reserves and launch another successful attack as people across the universe watched and cheered.
• Li Qing realized the Ancient Dragon was still growing stronger and had developed instincts, then watched it attack Cang Tian and beat the Heavenly Dao unconscious while proving the Three Thousand Great Daos.
• Elise refused to retreat, believing the Ancient Dragon was fated to die, while Bai Suo and Dark Fan warned that they could no longer defeat it.
• Li Qing decided to summon Atabia and the others from the future to help fight the Ancient Dragon and gain battlefield experience.

Li Qing prepared to draw the long-secluded rulers of Trade Ancient City into the unfolding crisis as Dream Robe returned, bloodied, to face Nokron. Atabia concluded that Dream Robe had accepted her foretold death because it would lead to Nokron’s revival.

• Li Qing reflected that Atabia, Herodotus, the Son of Heaven, and the others had spent hundreds of thousands of years developing their strength in seclusion, and he devised a plan to bring them out.
• As Elise attacked Nokron, Li Qing quietly arrived at Trade Ancient City, where the Son of Heaven continued to refine his own path.
• Dream Robe emerged through a tear in the Timeline, and Sylvie recognized her as the legendary Time Ancient God.
• Borona welcomed Dream Robe as her master, while Dream Robe said Borona’s duty guarding the city was finished; Nokron greeted Dream Robe as though he had expected her.
• Atabia reasoned that Dream Robe had knowingly accepted her death at Nokron’s hands because she desired the future in which Nokron was revived.

Meng Yi took Atabia, the Son of Heaven, and Herodotus into the Dark Age to fulfill a fixed point in history, while Nokron stayed behind, unable to change what was coming. The arrivals mistook their journey into the recent past for a crossing into the prehistoric era, and Herodotus recognized the fateful battle with Nokron.

• Meng Yi told everyone that her time was running out and that she had to take them to complete established history.
• Meng Yi opened a time rift and sent Atabia, the Son of Heaven, and Herodotus into the Dark Age, leaving Nokron, his maids, and the less combat-capable figures behind.
• Li Qing altered Atabia's perception so he believed the group had traveled into the distant prehistoric past.
• God King Bai Suo and Dark Fan God King recognized Meng Yi's arrival and realized she had brought four people across time.
• Elise recognized Herodotus and understood that history was repeating itself, while Herodotus donned the Six-Thorned Crown of Thorns and accepted his connection to Nokron's future resurrection.

Meng Yi gathered the future travelers and allies to face the Ancient Dragon, declaring that her death and their victory were fixed by fate. As the battle began, Min Shan withdrew to protect the person she loved, while Dark Fan and Bai Suo passed on their Authorities to the next generation.

• Meng Yi told the assembled fighters that she would die in the battle and that they were destined to save the universe.
• Bai Suo honored Meng Yi's sacrifice, and Dark Fan agreed to fight; Min Shan refused to join and left to protect the person she loved.
• Dark Fan taught the Son of Heaven about the Space Authority, while Bai Suo resolved to pass some of the Time Authority's inheritance to Atabia.
• The Ancient Dragon grew larger, and Dark Fan urged everyone to unleash their full power as the fighters clashed and the sea of Space Fragments began to shake.