Chapter Summaries

Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling confronted the Divine General after discovering that the Half-God was behind the painting calamity. As the Divine General unleashed supernatural attacks that showed their deaths, the entire ruin turned hostile toward Jiang Qiao and his companions.

• Jiang Qiao unleashed the Sea of Thunder against the Divine General, who spoke across the ruin and condemned him for defying a Half-God.
• Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling accused the Divine General of causing the painting calamity and demanded justice for its victims.
• Survivors in another passage heard the confrontation and learned that the source of the painting calamity was a Half-God Evil Spirit.
• The Divine General advanced, causing bloody footprints and visions of Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling's deaths to appear.
• The Divine General invoked the words on his robe, and the tunnel and hall turned into living, rotten flesh that rejected Jiang Qiao and the others.

Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling kept the God General trapped across spacetime as it attacked the hall and issued deadly edicts. Liu Yuanyuan survived the weakened death edict, but the enraged God General raised his brush to unleash his true power.

• Jiang Qiao used Fierce Lightning to erase the God General’s influence as it tried to make the hall wrap around them.
• The God General issued the edicts “Freeze” and “Die,” weakening the thunder and sending a death curse through the hall.
• The death edict killed the man and woman beside Liu Yuanyuan, while she used more than a hundred clones to absorb and neutralize its remaining force.
• Jiang Qiao recognized Liu Yuanyuan’s ability to divert attacks through her clones, and Yang Ling watched the God General from the Jade Steps.
• After its edicts failed to capture them, the God General raised its brush and prepared to use its rule of painting.

The Divine General unleashed a terrifying painting power that transformed parts of the ruins and killed survivors, while the Painting Calamity expanded across Ma Dang Mountain. Outside the ruins, Lin Jie and Mr. Duke warned that the calamity could reach Demon Port within days and that several factions would be needed to stop it.

• The Divine General released ink-like powder that drained color and flattened the ruins, while Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling used their Taboo Weapons to resist it.
• The painting power spread to another hall, where exposed survivors turned into painted figures.
• Mr. Duke and Lin Jie arrived at Ma Dang Mountain and found the mountain range transformed into a spreading landscape painting.
• Lin Jie warned that the Painting Calamity could reach Demon Port within three days and said Resentful People Palace had not responded to his message.
• Mr. Duke said he had contacted Ghost King's Tomb and that a Myriad Spirits Hall representative might use a Taboo Weapon, but several factions would need to send reinforcements to end the threat.

Lin Jie and Mr. Duke discussed the looming painting disaster at Ma Dang Mountain and the likely devastation of Demon Port. As outside factions mocked the port, a burly Demon Port man killed two taunters, provoking a new confrontation.

• Lin Jie asked Mr. Duke whether he had killed Mr. Meishan, and Mr. Duke denied it before they discussed evacuating Demon Port from the painting disaster.
• Members of the Demon Port Management Committee and outside factions gathered near Ma Dang Mountain as outsiders mocked Demon Port and said they would abandon the ruins exploration.
• A burly man from Demon Port warned the taunters, then killed one with a sudden attack and snapped another man's neck.
• The outsiders erupted in anger, and a short, thick-haired middle-aged man challenged the burly man to face him.

As the painting disaster spread toward Demon Port, Lin Jie ordered an evacuation while Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling explored the supernatural world created by the Divine General. Yang Ling revealed that the Nether Sea’s aura resembled a Deity from her homeland, leaving Jiang Qiao startled.

• Mr. Duke and Lin Jie sensed something ominous brewing within the painting disaster, and Lin Jie ordered Demon Port’s residents evacuated.
• The painting disaster spread unevenly, prompting the Port Management Committee to send subordinates back to help relocate the port’s people.
• The Divine General’s rules transformed the hall into a strange, colorless city and then a charred forest, while Jiang Qiao, Yang Ling, and Liu Yuanyuan remained outside its world.
• Liu Yuanyuan and Yang Ling explained that Great Emperor Water Official was an ancient Deity and a symbol of the Nether Sea.
• Yang Ling said the Nether Sea’s aura resembled a Deity from her homeland, shocking Jiang Qiao.

Yang Ling explained how the Red Moon’s fall and Deity-Class battles transformed the Nether Sea, including the Great Emperor Water Official’s origins. As the divine general’s rules began erasing their surroundings, Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling faced its advance and found themselves in a strange eighteen-floor building filled with imprisoned rules.

• Yang Ling told Jiang Qiao that the Nether Sea had formed from the death of an ocean-connected Deity and grown dangerous after the Red Moon’s collapse and later Deity-Class battles.
• Yang Ling explained that the Great Emperor Water Official had been a regional rule that gained water symbolism after the Red Moon descended.
• The divine general’s rules began erasing the woods and city around Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling, but the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal protected Jiang Qiao.
• Jiang Qiao unleashed the Sea of Thunder as the divine general forced its way toward Yang Ling’s palace through shifting white and black realms.
• The scenery changed into an eighteen-floor residential building with figures at its windows, and Yang Ling warned Jiang Qiao that they were rules imprisoned by the divine general.

Jiang Qiao attacked the eighteen-story building after recognizing the danger of the rules imprisoned inside it, unleashing the Power of Chaos to strike it. Yang Ling recognized the power and realized Jiang Qiao must have encountered a Mountain Ghost who had mastered it in the Small World.

• Jiang Qiao failed to hold the blurry figures in his gaze and sensed that the building's rules posed an immediate danger.
• The eighteen floors lit up, revealing twisted lines that made Liu Yuanyuan see figures hidden inside a tarpaulin.
• Jiang Qiao unleashed the Sea of Thunder, grew into a giant, and struck the eighteen-story building with his enormous hand.
• Jiang Qiao transformed into a giant axe and attacked with the Power of Chaos.
• Yang Ling recognized the Power of Chaos and recalled that a Mountain Ghost in the Small World had mastered it.
• Yang Ling concluded that Jiang Qiao must have seen that Mountain Ghost during his journey through the River of History.

Jiang Qiao struck the Divine General’s eighteen-story building and discovered that its Seventeenth Floor was copying his life to create a false version of him. With Yang Ling still blocking the Divine General’s full entry, Jiang Qiao prepared to use the trapped Half-God as a sparring partner.

• Jiang Qiao’s Chaos Giant Axe split the building apart, and Yang Ling recognized the fused rules of the Small World within Jiang Qiao’s Thunder Art.
• The building instantly repaired itself, and its eighteen rules transformed into figures representing different ages.
• The Seventeenth Floor manifested a faceless figure matching Jiang Qiao, whose Fate Lines revealed a fragmented copy of his life after arriving on Blue Star.
• Jiang Qiao realized the figure was meant to connect a false version of him to his real self, and he attacked the building with his Thunder Art.
• Jiang Qiao noted that Yang Ling was preventing the Divine General from fully invading and decided to test his other abilities against it.

Jiang Qiao tested his strength against the Divine General and used the Six Beasts to form a supernatural formation around the eighteenth-floor building. As the Divine General’s false figure grew more dangerous despite failing to reconstruct Jiang Qiao’s past, their powers collided.

• Jiang Qiao unleashed the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal and Thunder Spirit, suppressing the Half-God and judging that he and Yang Ling could contend with one together.
• The Divine General failed to reconstruct most of Jiang Qiao’s life because his records were obscured by vast blank spaces.
• The Divine General altered the false figure’s aura and personality, making it resemble Jiang Qiao more closely and intensifying Jiang Qiao’s sense of danger.
• Jiang Qiao arranged the Six Beasts into a feng shui-like formation, combining their rules to trap and attack the building.
• The false figure finished building its power, and it collided with Jiang Qiao’s formation.

Jiang Qiao was being erased by the Divine General and experienced the puppet’s near-death journey toward death, but he realized their lives were bound and used the power of collapse to escape it. He struck back at the Divine General with the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal.

• The Divine General’s attack began destroying the building and erasing Jiang Qiao, who drifted through a tunnel toward a bright boundary.
• Jiang Qiao used Time Rollback to restore his body, but the Divine General distorted time and interrupted the technique.
• Jiang Qiao recognized that his near-death experience belonged to the puppet bound to him, and that crossing the boundary would kill him too.
• The Divine General mocked Jiang Qiao for challenging a Half-God and insisted his talent meant nothing against one.
• Jiang Qiao condensed his Essence, Qi, and Spirit with the power of collapse, escaped the tunnel, and sent the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal at the Divine General.

Jiang Qiao feigned capture by the Divine General, then used a hidden Thunder Pool to ambush him with the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal. He left the Divine General badly injured and continued attacking.

• Jiang Qiao transformed into a Giant Axe and attacked the Divine General, who caught the axe and began turning it into a painting.
• Liu Yuanyuan thought Jiang Qiao had been captured, but noticed the axe handle behaving strangely while Yang Ling remained calm.
• Jiang Qiao emerged from a Thunder Pool in the axe handle and smashed the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal into the Divine General’s face.
• Jiang Qiao followed the blow through the World Barrier and used Collapse and the Great Seal to interrupt the Divine General’s recovery.
• The Divine General restored himself, but Jiang Qiao struck again and reduced his face and half his head to ashes.

Jiang Qiao fought the divine general, but its power to create a space that rejected rules overwhelmed his attacks and forced him back. The Divine Firmament Thunder Seal then revealed an ancient aura that dispersed the white space, and Jiang Qiao struck the stunned divine general.

• Jiang Qiao used the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal and fused Black Tortoise Rule with Stalker to evade the divine general and destroy its iron chain.
• The divine general created a white space that rejected foreign rules, preventing Jiang Qiao from reaching it and dismantling his thunder attacks.
• Jiang Qiao realized the rule-rejecting area was limited and decided he could exploit traces left beyond it.
• The divine general invoked an overwhelming white force to imprison Jiang Qiao, who counterattacked with the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal.
• Jiang Qiao sensed an ancient aura in the Thunder Seal, which dispelled the white space, and struck the dazed divine general with a powerful blow.

Jiang Qiao used the mutated Divine Firmament Thunder Seal to heavily injure the Divine General, then held back as the two faced off. Outside Ma Dang Mountain, the Myriad Spirits Hall’s Taboo Weapon appeared, revealing that its rotating guardian had arrived.

• Jiang Qiao shattered the Divine General’s upper body with the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal, leaving him badly weakened.
• Jiang Qiao retreated to the tunnel entrance and considered how the Thunder Spirit might have triggered the seal’s hidden power.
• Liu Yuanyuan noticed Yang Ling facing a powerful presence and recognized the figure in the void as a statue from the Myriad Spirits Hall.
• Mr. Duke and Lin Jie identified the distant battle as involving either a Half-God or a Taboo Weapon.
• A strange vision spread across the area around Ma Dang Mountain, and onlookers recognized the Myriad Spirits Hall’s Taboo Weapon, Stone Old Man.

Old Tian arrived at Ma Dang Mountain with a Taboo Weapon and ordered the gathered forces to withdraw. After seeing Jiang Qiao battle a Half-God inside the ruins, Old Tian learned that the opponent was Great Emperor Water Official’s Divine General and regretted getting involved.

• Old Tian appeared above Demon Port and used the Taboo Weapon’s pressure to halt the Painting Calamity’s spread.
• Lin Jie reported a suspected Half-God battle, and Old Tian ordered everyone to leave Ma Dang Mountain and await news.
• Old Tian looked into the ruins and questioned Yang Ling about breaking his promise not to interfere in Demon Port’s affairs.
• Yang Ling said the Painting Calamity’s source was the Divine General under Great Emperor Water Official, who had descended after one of his believers was killed.
• Jiang Qiao charged into the tunnel and fought the Divine General with the Great Seal, revealing the opponent was a true Half-God.
• Old Tian realized the Divine General served a true deity and regretted coming to Ma Dang Mountain.

The Divine General used his Drawing Rule and the River of History to investigate Jiang Qiao, concluding that he was a remnant of the Ominous World. Jiang Qiao challenged the Evil Spirit’s hypocrisy, arguing that it had no right to condemn the world that had created it.

• The Divine General identified Jiang Qiao as a likely remnant of the Ominous World because of his aura, powers, and unusual Rules.
• The Divine General examined Jiang Qiao’s life in the River of History and found vast blank and incomplete stretches that even a Half-God could not retrieve.
• The Divine General used his Drawing Rule to create a relief of Jiang Qiao’s life, which showed the eighteenth floor of a residential building clearly while the lower floors remained crude outlines.
• The Divine General declared that Jiang Qiao should have perished with the end of the Nether Era and accused the Ominous World of destroying the original order.
• Jiang Qiao retorted that Evil Spirits had no right to condemn the Ominous World, since they had arisen from the Supernatural Invasion and slaughtered countless living beings.

Jiang Qiao faced the Divine General’s attempt to use the River of History to uncover his origins, while Yang Ling prepared to intervene. Before the attack could reach Jiang Qiao, the Divine General suddenly collapsed and died, leaving Yang Ling stunned.

• Jiang Qiao taunted the wounded Divine General but refused to enter the tunnel, wary of being trapped and unable to repeat his earlier attack.
• Yang Ling warned that the Divine General was drawing on the River of History’s power and that the Taboo Weapon might not stop him.
• The Divine General manifested scenes from Jiang Qiao’s past and used a tributary of the River of History to connect the images to him.
• Yang Ling moved to stop the attack, but the Divine General’s body, consciousness, and rules rapidly collapsed and vanished.
• Yang Ling stared in shock and wondered what had happened.

The Divine General disintegrated, triggering the phenomenon of a Half-God’s fall and ending the painting disaster at Ma Dang Mountain. People across Demon Port speculated about the fallen Half-God and its killer, while many residents quietly prepared to flee.

• The Divine General crumbled to ash inside the tunnel, and the Half-God’s fall unleashed a terrifying aura and celestial phenomena across Ma Dang Mountain and the surrounding region.
• The painting-like colors vanished from Ma Dang Mountain, leaving a gloomy pit, and the Awakened watching from the outskirts fled.
• Outsiders speculated that Old Tian or the Myriad Spirits Hall had caused the Half-God’s fall, while some doubted that a Half-God had died at all.
• Residents of Demon Port discussed the disaster with boastful confidence, though many secretly packed their belongings in case they needed to escape.
• A and B claimed they were making ordinary visits as they carried bundles out of the city, and B’s father-in-law appeared to question why B was still alive.

The Divine General used his painting rule to probe Jiang Qiao’s memories and concluded that Jiang Qiao was tied to survivors of the Ominous World. When a fragment in those memories revealed a seven-colored light associated with a god, the Divine General’s consciousness was overwhelmed, leaving Jiang Qiao to discover that he had died.

• The Divine General examined Jiang Qiao’s memories and found that Jiang Qiao’s rise and abilities were surrounded by unexplained gaps.
• The Divine General inferred that Jiang Qiao was an agent of a hidden faction connected to the Ominous World and ancient Daoist sects.
• A fragment in Jiang Qiao’s memories showed the Divine General a barren mountain range and a brilliant seven-colored light rising from it.
• The Divine General tried to cut off the memory fragment, but the force behind the light overwhelmed his mind and destroyed his consciousness.
• Jiang Qiao saw that the Divine General had disintegrated and realized that he had died after touching the secrets of the gods.

After the Divine General died, Jiang Qiao reflected on Chou God, his talents, and the limits of Fate Weaver. The Half-God’s fall empowered several of his talents, but it also drew the attention of the Great Emperor Water Official.

• Jiang Qiao realized the Divine General had seen his encounter with Chou God on Dragon Transformation Mountain and had been killed by the deity through the River of History.
• Jiang Qiao considered whether Fate Weaver had hidden uses, since it could not withstand a deity’s attack as Life Replacement Technique had.
• The Divine General’s fall triggered Share with Those Who See, which absorbed supernatural power and caused Jiang Qiao’s talents to level up.
• The Simulator recorded that the Great Emperor Water Official had noticed Jiang Qiao because of the Divine General’s fall.

Jiang Qiao studied the information revealed by his upgraded talents and realized that the Chou God had caused the Divine General to fall completely. Yang Ling and Old Tian were stunned by the Half-God’s death, and Old Tian cautiously asked whether Jiang Qiao was the famous Mr. Jiang.

• Jiang Qiao examined the talent information, speculating about fate, the Heaven-Penetrating Talisman, Stove Fire, the Stove God, and the Land of the Cold Crow.
• Jiang Qiao realized the Chou God had caused the Divine General to fall completely, leaving no chance of resurrection, and was shocked by the gulf between Half-Gods and gods.
• Yang Ling recognized that the Divine General had truly fallen and concluded that Jiang Qiao must possess a secret connected to gods.
• Old Tian saw that the Half-God had died and, feeling uneasy despite activating his Taboo Weapon, asked Jiang Qiao if he was Mr. Jiang from the surface of the Supernatural World.