Chapter Summaries

Jiang Qiao used the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal and repeated collapses to break through Yuan Yu’s Time Rule and wound her, but their fight became a draining stalemate. As Yang Ling’s preparations finished and the palace gates opened, a chant began and the surrounding spacetime changed violently.

• Yuan Yu used spacetime to pull Jiang Qiao toward her, but Jiang Qiao collapsed into a Singularity and blasted its power at her.
• Yuan Yu stretched time to keep Jiang Qiao’s fist one inch from her, but Jiang Qiao collapsed again and struck her chest, cracking her Taboo qipao and wounding her.
• Jiang Qiao repeatedly switched between his true form and the Singularity to attack Yuan Yu, while she used the Time Rule to block him and counterattack.
• Jiang Qiao realized that repeatedly using Collapse was exhausting him, while Yang Ling regrouped and completed his preparations.
• Yang Ling’s palace gates opened, a majestic chant resounded, and the surrounding spacetime began to change violently.

Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling tried to escape after Yuan Yu trapped them in a coffin of darkness, but Yuan Yu broke free and slipped through their escape route. The two rushed after her through the doorway, unsure whether she had already left the ruin.

• Jiang Qiao escaped the darkness by collapsing into a singularity and realized the space had been sealed like a tomb.
• Yang Ling explained that Yuan Yu was a powerful Half-God with a living body and ghostly consciousness, and that his Taboo Weapon could only hold her briefly.
• Yang Ling opened a hidden path to his captain's cabin and led Jiang Qiao toward the exit as the exploration team retreated.
• A strange figure appeared in the passage and entered the doorway, while Yuan Yu's coffin of darkness stood empty.
• Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling realized Yuan Yu had escaped and charged through the doorway after her.

Yuan Yu escaped the ruins by exploiting Yang Ling and Jiang Qiao’s plans, then unleashed the Corpse Pool over the Nether Sea and turned on them. As they prepared to fight, Yang Ling revealed a transformed presence and a mysterious figure appeared at the palace gates, which Jiang Qiao recognized as Yang Ling’s true trump card.

• Yang Ling realized Yuan Yu had predicted his actions and used the tunnel they opened to escape the ruins first.
• Yuan Yu tried to destroy the tunnel and trap Yang Ling and Jiang Qiao, but they followed her outside in time.
• Yuan Yu destroyed the Tianyu Fleet and summoned the Corpse Pool, which spread across the sky above the Nether Sea.
• Yang Ling and Jiang Qiao prepared to fight Yuan Yu, who intended to kill them.
• Yang Ling’s aura changed, and a tall figure emerged from the palace gates as Jiang Qiao recognized Yang Ling’s true trump card.

Yang Ling summoned the Half-God version of himself, revealing how he could draw on his sealed former power in moments of crisis. After the two merged, he unleashed a talisman-filled attack that tore through Yuan Yu’s Black Mist and split the Corpse Pool.

• Jiang Qiao recognized the figure emerging from the Heavenly Palace as Yang Ling’s former Half-God self and deduced that a talisman anchor allowed him to invoke that power.
• Yuan Yu sent a flood of Black Mist and corpses from the Corpse Pool up the Ninety-ninth Tier of steps to overwhelm the palace.
• Yang Ling dismissed Yuan Yu and merged with his Half-God body.
• Yang Ling manifested countless ominous talismans and fired azure light that destroyed the advancing corpses and cut through the Black Mist.
• Yang Ling’s azure attack struck the Corpse Pool and cleaved a massive gash through it.

Yang Ling returned to the Half-God realm and damaged Yuan Yu’s Corpse Pool, countering the distorted ghostly figure with Daoist spells. Yuan Yu interrupted his attack, but Jiang Qiao believed the real battle was only beginning because she had not yet used her Replication Rule or Time Rule.

• Yang Ling shattered the Corpse Pool, drawing Yuan Yu’s attention and making her sense danger for the first time.
• Yuan Yu summoned a distorted ghostly figure whose Negative Aura overwhelmed Awakened across the warships and threatened to collapse their minds.
• Yang Ling used the Golden Light Spell to make the ghostly figure tangible, split it into nine petals, and set it burning like incense.
• Yuan Yu dispersed the smoke talisman and stopped Yang Ling from completing his attack, but the ghostly figure burned halfway and the Corpse Pool’s gash widened.
• Jiang Qiao recognized Yang Ling’s Golden Light Spell and Incense Blessing Spell, then realized Yuan Yu had yet to use her Replication Rule or Time Rule.

Yang Ling and Yuan Yu fought a battle in which his Eight Great Curses countered her abilities, but Yuan Yu used the Grandfather Clock to summon her past and future selves. The three Yuan Yus began extracting time from the world, leaving Yang Ling facing them alone.

• Jiang Qiao recognized that Yang Ling's power rivaled Yuan Yu's despite his brief ascension to Half-God.
• Yang Ling used his Eight Great Curses and Earth Soothing Spell to damage Yuan Yu's Corpse Pool and resist her Time Rule.
• Yuan Yu's Grandfather Clock drew two additional, real versions of her from her past and future.
• The three Yuan Yus raised their hands together and began extracting time from the world.

Yuan Yu used her Three Lives Body to extract time and trap everyone, while Yang Ling struggled to reach her and asked Jiang Qiao for a trump card. Jiang Qiao decided to use the Red Moon power despite the danger of attracting something in the Nether Sea, and summoned the Red Moon.

• Yuan Yu manifested three full-strength selves, broke Yang Ling’s Earth Soothing Spell, and began extracting time from the area.
• Yang Ling used the Mouth Purifying Spell to claim he could jump out of time, then charged Yuan Yu through the growing resistance.
• Yang Ling told Jiang Qiao that his summoned Half-God power was temporary and asked whether Jiang Qiao had another trump card.
• Jiang Qiao decided to use the Red Moon power, despite fearing it might attract a terrifying entity in the Nether Sea.
• Jiang Qiao summoned blood-red light, and the Red Moon appeared in the sky.

Jiang Qiao unleashed Red Moon power above the Nether Sea, summoning a blood-red moon that drove spirits and ancient beings into panic. As he moved freely within the Red Moon’s vast will, he gained a clear view of the surrounding sea and realized its true secret.

• Jiang Qiao’s Red Moon power illuminated the sky and sent spirits and ancient shadows fleeing in terror.
• The Red Moon’s will enveloped Jiang Qiao, but unlike before, he remained himself and moved through it freely.
• Yang Ling recognized the Red Moon and realized Jiang Qiao had somehow gained control of its power.
• Jiang Qiao surveyed the Nether Sea from above, saw through its fog and supernatural interference, and understood its secret.

Using Red Moon power above the Nether Sea, Jiang Qiao perceived its depths, where space and time unraveled into a void stitched from countless fragments. When he tried to look beyond that void, something moved at its edge and terrified him, ending his vision beneath the Blood Moon.

• Jiang Qiao used Red Moon power and saw Evil Spirits dwelling below thirty thousand meters in the Nether Sea.
• Jiang Qiao perceived a barrier at thirty thousand meters, beyond which the water became void-like and wormholes linked distant regions.
• Jiang Qiao sensed that deeper regions had no ordinary space or time, with Evil Spirits separated across dimensions and eras.
• Jiang Qiao's perception crossed the Nether Sea's deepest structure and found a void stitched together from countless fragments.
• Jiang Qiao tried to look behind the void, saw something move at its edge, and lost his vision as the Red Moon's will receded.

Jiang Qiao used Red Moon power to restore the time Yuan Yu had stripped away and joined Yang Ling in attacking her. As they prepared to force Yuan Yu back, her Future Self addressed Daoist Master Jialing and asked whether the Daoist order was well.

• Jiang Qiao realized that Deities inhabited the void beneath the Nether Sea and appeared to stabilize its seams.
• Yuan Yu drained the time around Yang Ling, threatening to end his Divine Descent and leave him vulnerable.
• Jiang Qiao used Red Moon-empowered Time Reversal to restore the stolen time and free Yang Ling from Yuan Yu's blockade.
• Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling launched their strongest attacks, and Jiang Qiao nearly cut Yuan Yu's Past Self in half.
• Yuan Yu's Future Self sighed and asked Daoist Master Jialing whether the Daoist order was well.

Yang Ling and Jiang Qiao attacked Yuan Yu, whose Past, Present, and Future Selves wielded strange powers over time and space. The Future Self betrayed the Present Self and pushed her into the void created by Yang Ling’s attack.

• Yang Ling recognized that the entity before him had inherited Yuan Yu’s memories and warned that pretending to be her would not fool him.
• Jiang Qiao charged Yuan Yu with the Six Rules beasts, breaking through her temporal defense with Red Moon lightning and striking her Past Self.
• Jiang Qiao’s talismans collapsed space around Yuan Yu’s Past Self, reducing her to an apparently zero-dimensional point.
• Yang Ling struck Yuan Yu and created a Taiji-like void that erased time, space, rules, and thought within its bounds.
• Yuan Yu’s Future Self stabbed her Present Self and pushed her into the void, then floated away unharmed.

Yuan Yu regained her original consciousness and revealed that she had deliberately sealed herself away while waiting for Jiang Qiao’s birth. She began probing the River of History to learn what era she had awakened in, leaving Jiang Qiao stunned by her apparent knowledge of his origins.

• Yuan Yu killed her Past Self and Present Self, while Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling realized she might have recovered her original consciousness.
• Yuan Yu confirmed that her consciousness had returned and thanked them for helping her destroy her other selves.
• Yuan Yu stopped the chaotic void and told Jiang Qiao that she had waited through the ages because she believed he could be born.
• Jiang Qiao demanded to know what Yuan Yu knew about his birth, but she asked him to wait while she checked the era.
• Yuan Yu used the Time Rule to connect to the River of History and retrieve information, astonishing Jiang Qiao with her fearlessness.

Yuan Yu explained that the Black Tide was a living conceptual entity born from the combined wills of a destroyed civilization, and that the later calamities were attempts by the same force to awaken. She revealed that Zen Master Miaode died in the Abyss before the escape plan began, leaving a fragmentary warning that helped prompt the plan, while Yang Ling remained wary and without a clear way to stop the coming calamity.

• Yuan Yu told Yang Ling that the Black Tide was the single calamity behind the events he had witnessed, temporarily suppressed but trying to awaken again.
• Jiang Qiao asked what the Black Tide was, and Yuan Yu said it was a conceptual entity formed from the wills of a destroyed civilization in the Abyss.
• Yang Ling said he had never heard Yuan Yu's explanation, and she clarified that the conclusion had been reached after the escape to this world.
• Yuan Yu revealed that Zen Master Miaode perished in the Abyss shortly before the escape plan, transmitting a fragmented message about vitality, falsehood, and superposition.
• Yuan Yu explained that the old Celestial Master's vague prophecy and disturbances in the Abyss helped motivate the escape plan.
• Yuan Yu described the Black Tide as a dead civilization's shared fantasy of survival, alive as long as its dying illusion remained unbroken.

Yuan Yu explained that the Black Tide was a patchwork entity formed from the Supernatural Source civilization and the civilizations it had devoured, including her homeland. She said the Red Moon’s collapse let the Black Tide invade, and its arrival had accelerated the birth of this world’s deities; the chapter ended with her recounting that the survivors had lived peacefully with them until the passage seals failed.

• Yuan Yu said the Buddhist Sect had stayed behind to calm those awaiting evacuation and gather intelligence, but its disciples later appeared within the Black Tide.
• Yuan Yu revealed that her homeland had been consumed and that the Black Tide had absorbed its people and other civilizations that pursued the supernatural.
• Yuan Yu explained that the Red Moon collapsed before the Black Tide invaded, and that the Black Tide’s power surpassed ordinary deities because it had devoured civilizations with deities of their own.
• Yuan Yu said the Red Moon had accelerated the awakening of concepts and symbols, causing this world to produce an unusually large number of deities.
• Yuan Yu told Jiang Qiao that the survivors had coexisted peacefully with the deities after sealing the passages, until the seals failed and the Black Tide invaded.

Yuan Yu explained how the Red Moon’s collapse and the Green Lotus Sect’s betrayal turned the survivors from her homeland into targets of the world’s deities. She left Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling with the question of how the survivors had survived the remnants of the Black Tide and the deities’ attacks.

• Jiang Qiao asked Yuan Yu why the deities attacked her people during the Black Tide, and Yuan Yu explained that deities acted like the world’s immune system.
• Yuan Yu said the Red Moon had initially protected the survivors, who were searching for a safer world when the Black Tide interrupted their plans.
• Yuan Yu recounted how the contaminated Red Moon shattered and how several gods devised the Red Moon Reincarnation plan to cleanse and eventually restore it.
• Yuan Yu revealed that the Holy Mother of the Green Lotus Sect secretly left a path open for the Black Tide to return, disrupting the survivors’ plans.
• Yuan Yu explained that the Red Moon’s complete destruction exposed the survivors as invaders to the world’s deities, and that the deities and Black Tide nearly wiped them out.
• Jiang Qiao asked Yuan Yu how the survivors had resolved the crisis.

Yuan Yu explained how the Black Tide and the Deities had forced her homeland’s survivors into a fragile balance, while the Green Lotus Holy Mother later hunted the descendants. Yang Ling realized the Holy Mother benefited from the supernatural revival, and Yuan Yu warned Jiang Qiao about the coming Black Tide before withholding the secret of his origins until he became a half-god.

• Yuan Yu recounted how the Black Tide was driven back, how the survivors used the Deities’ instinct to repair the world to keep them occupied, and how the battle cost them nearly all their strongest fighters and five Deities.
• Jiang Qiao learned that the Green Lotus Holy Mother had hunted down the homeland’s descendants, and Yang Ling deduced that the Holy Mother’s Black Tide-based ascension made the supernatural revival and coming calamity beneficial to her.
• Yang Ling questioned whether Yuan Yu had broken her restraints by severing her past and present selves, and Jiang Qiao asked whether she was approaching the realm of gods.
• Yuan Yu said that becoming a Deity was still a distant prospect, then warned Jiang Qiao that the Black Tide would next descend from outer space and that the Deities had to regain their sanity before their power could be used safely.
• Yuan Yu refused to reveal Jiang Qiao’s origins or the secret he carried, explaining that he first needed to become a half-god and would then understand it naturally.

After returning from the Nether Sea, Jiang Qiao reflected on the approaching Great Calamity, the secrets he had uncovered, and the Simulator’s connection to the Red Moon. He left the chapter questioning what price he would pay for his extraordinary rise.

• Jiang Qiao declined Yang Ling’s invitation to Tianyu Ancient Village and sought solitude while considering the Black Tide and the coming Great Calamity.
• Yang Ling told Jiang Qiao that intact and ancient Taboo Weapons had drawn the Deity’s attention, explaining why many ancient villages were destroyed.
• Yang Ling confirmed that the ancient villages knew the Green Lotus Sect had created the Survivor system, which could be suppressed but not fully removed.
• Yang Ling and Jiang Qiao made preliminary plans for another journey to Yellow Springs Road before going their separate ways.
• Jiang Qiao concluded that the Simulator had been created from a fragment of the Red Moon and wondered what price his rapid rise would demand.

Jiang Qiao visited a permanent Secret Building shop to learn about the forbidden-zone abnormalities and their origins. The shop had records of the incidents and conjectures about their causes, but no confirmed information on the source.

• Jiang Qiao spotted a Secret Building shop and recognized it as the information-selling organization he had visited in Demon Port.
• Jiang Qiao showed his VIP card and asked whether the shop was permanent; the Paper Person told him it had been open for twenty years.
• Jiang Qiao asked for information about forbidden-zone abnormalities over the past six months and whether Secret Building had investigated their source.
• The Paper Person said Secret Building had incident details and conjectures, but no information on the source of the abnormalities.
• Jiang Qiao paid 20 billion for the information and began reading the document he received.

Jiang Qiao read a confidential report detailing the spreading fog and supernatural transformations at Golden Rooster Mountain. He learned that the Guangming Society had failed to stop it, while the Secret Building refused to reveal where it got its information.

• Jiang Qiao asked why the report used the Blue Star calendar, and the Paper Person beauty explained that time in the Supernatural World was unstable.
• Jiang Qiao read how the Golden Rooster Mountain fog developed from whispering sounds into a curse that replaced memories and transformed victims into Evil Spirits.
• The report stated that investigators found a shrine made from rotten vocal cords and that the fog continued to spread despite a two-hundred-kilometer quarantine zone.
• Jiang Qiao learned that the Guangming Society had been unable to disperse the fog and was considering an undecided formation to seal it.
• Jiang Qiao questioned whether the Secret Building had factional backing, but the Paper Person beauty refused to disclose its source or sell secrets about the organization.

Jiang Qiao read the Secret Building’s records of the Ascension Incident and connected Wild Dog Ridge to the underworld and the Netherworld. The incident had stopped after three monthly occurrences, but Jiang Qiao recalled that sudden anomalies could leave dangers waiting to erupt.

• Jiang Qiao read that Caomiao Village residents began ascending into the clouds on April 30, 2035, where witnesses saw explorers who had vanished in Wild Dog Ridge ten years earlier.
• The Paper Person beauty explained that the figures in the clouds were confirmed missing Caomiao Village residents, not the outsiders hired to explore Wild Dog Ridge.
• Jiang Qiao recalled that Wild Dog Ridge was once called Evil Dog Ridge and that a passage there led to the Netherworld, where Taoqiu had retrieved Taboo Weapons rather than a god’s corpse.
• Jiang Qiao read that the Ascension Incident recurred on the thirtieth of May and June, with five times as many victims each time, despite efforts by Taoqiu experts to intervene.
• A Half-God from Taoqiu arrived on July 30, but the incident did not recur; Jiang Qiao noted that the anomaly might still erupt again.
• Jiang Qiao reviewed other Forbidden Zone incidents and found that the Secret Building blamed them on the fusion of two worlds, a theory he knew was wrong.