Chapter Summaries

Jiang Qiao used a talisman to pray to his Main Body and create a passage for a true-body descent. His Main Body answered the prayer and descended beside the Osmanthus Tree in the Guanghan Ruins.

• Jiang Qiao failed to communicate with the Osmanthus Tree and the Thunder Seal beyond sensing their affection and familiarity.
• Jiang Qiao reasoned that his avatar's Fourth Order strength was too weak to interact with the powerful beings in the ruins.
• Jiang Qiao decided to use the Art of Talismans to pray to his Ninth Tier Peak Main Body and attempt a true-body descent.
• Jiang Qiao's Main Body sensed the prayer, learned how the conceptual connection worked, and drew a talisman to open a passage.
• Jiang Qiao's Main Body stepped through the passage and descended before the Osmanthus Tree.

Jiang Qiao descended into the Guanghan Ruins and discovered that the Moon Laurel was sealed by a Copper Lock that was likely a Taboo Weapon. He summoned his Half-God items and the Mad Scientist to inspect the lock, preparing to open it.

• Jiang Qiao unleashed his aura against the Moon Laurel and confirmed that its radiance carried Life Aura rather than supernatural power.
• Jiang Qiao restrained his power and praised the Moon Laurel for resisting despite being sealed.
• Jiang Qiao used his Dual Pupils to see an ancient, bloodstained Copper Lock wrapped around the Moon Laurel’s roots.
• Jiang Qiao brought out the Sin Mirror and the Heaven Measuring Staff and summoned the Mad Scientist to examine the lock.

Jiang Qiao used the Sin Mirror and Heaven Measuring Staff to open the Copper Lock, despite severely damaging both half-god items. A half-god force emerged from the lock and overwhelmed the area, leaving a gigantic figure rising through the shattered ceiling.

• Jiang Qiao spotted a flaw inside the Copper Lock and used the Sin Mirror and Heaven Measuring Staff to attack it.
• Jiang Qiao damaged both half-god items with a second attempt, but the Copper Lock finally opened.
• Killing intent and emerald-green death aura burst from the lock, and Jiang Qiao defended himself with his abilities and the Fate Weaver's scissors.
• Jiang Qiao recognized the force as that of a half-god as a huge finger emerged from the mist and suppressed the Moon Laurel's light.
• The mist shattered the ceiling, and a gigantic figure surged up from the ground.

Jiang Qiao became trapped on the moon when a Half-God emerged from the Copper Lock and sealed the surrounding space. He worked to connect to the Red Moon Restaurant as an escape route, but the Half-God targeted him before the connection was ready.

• Jiang Qiao discovered that the Half-God had sealed the moon and prevented him from returning to the real world or escaping through the ruins.
• Jiang Qiao activated his Supernatural Chef talent and began establishing a connection to the Red Moon Restaurant, estimating that it would take ten seconds.
• The Half-God revealed its exhausted, disheveled appearance and unleashed a mental assault of screams and a haunting funeral dirge.
• Jiang Qiao used Fate Scissors, the Stalker’s shadow figures, and Fate Weaver to redirect the mental damage, but the shadows began breaking faster than he could create them.
• The Half-God produced an ax as Jiang Qiao struggled to hold off its attack.

Jiang Qiao faced a Half-God head-on and was moments from being killed by its axe. An Osmanthus Tree intervened, leaving Jiang Qiao alive as the chapter ended.

• Jiang Qiao realized the Half-God had locked onto him and calculated that he had only seconds before its axe fell.
• The Half-God’s mental assault overwhelmed Jiang Qiao’s figures and Fate Weaver, while his flames and lightning failed to hold it back.
• Jiang Qiao opened a passage to the Red Moon Restaurant but could not escape before the Half-God swung its axe.
• The axe’s killing intent shattered Jiang Qiao’s body and plunged him into a deathlike vision of his memories and strange images.
• Jiang Qiao regained his senses and saw that an Osmanthus Tree had blocked the axe, taking a deep wound while leaving him unharmed.

Jiang Qiao was protected by the newly freed Moon Laurel as it blocked the Giant Spirit’s deadly attack and confronted the Half-God’s power. As the giant prepared another strike that summoned Void Abyss monsters, the Moon Laurel grew to five hundred zhang and asked to borrow Jiang Qiao’s body.

• The Moon Laurel shielded Jiang Qiao from the Giant Spirit’s attack with ancient palaces and mysterious characters.
• The Giant Spirit summoned corpses resembling statues worshiped by ordinary people and prepared another axe strike.
• A Shadow Figure joined the Giant Spirit, and cracks opened in the void to reveal countless monsters from the Void Abyss.
• The Moon Laurel’s blossoms transformed into tiny people who formed seals as the tree grew to five hundred zhang.
• The Moon Laurel told Jiang Qiao that the Giant Spirit was difficult to restrain and asked to borrow his body.

Jiang Qiao lent his body to Moon Laurel, which reopened the Red Moon Restaurant’s passage and explained that it contained the Red Moon’s Remnant Power and time. As Giant Spirit struck again with an axe carrying the force of Predetermined Fate, Moon Laurel remained in control of Jiang Qiao’s body.

• Moon Laurel warned Jiang Qiao that Giant Spirit had devoured Wu Xian of Xihe and had grown stronger, and Jiang Qiao agreed to lend it his body.
• A golden rune appeared on Jiang Qiao’s forehead as Moon Laurel took control and reopened the passage to Red Moon Restaurant.
• Moon Laurel explained that the restaurant was a tool containing the Red Moon’s Remnant Power, then used the shifting lights within it as time to wrap around Jiang Qiao.
• Jiang Qiao recognized Wu Gang’s anguished shadow among the souls Giant Spirit had imprisoned, while Moon Laurel said Giant Spirit had gone completely mad.
• Giant Spirit roared and brought down another axe, whose Predetermined Fate left Jiang Qiao nowhere to flee or evade.

Moon Laurel used Jiang Qiao’s Dual Pupils to search the River of History while the giant spirit’s predetermined ax strike bore down on them. Jiang Qiao realized that the Dual Pupils themselves made the impossible search possible.

• Jiang Qiao’s Dual Pupils released red ripples and silver-white Hieroglyphs that deferred the giant spirit’s fated ax strike.
• The giant spirit pressed its ax downward and crushed the ripples and Hieroglyphs, forcing the destined result closer.
• Moon Laurel kept using the Dual Pupils, leaving marks in the air as he searched the River of History for traces.
• Jiang Qiao recognized the search as a feat beyond ordinary Half-Gods and concluded that the Dual Pupils enabled it.

Moon Laurel used the Dual Pupils to draw power from the River of History and erased the Giant Spirit, killing the Half-God. A celestial phenomenon followed, but the thunder seal dispersed it, leaving Jiang Qiao beside the restored osmanthus tree.

• Moon Laurel controlled the Dual Pupils to search the River of History and draw out a ribbon embodying everything that had once existed.
• The Giant Spirit’s ax broke through the ribbon as killing intent and black threads surged toward Jiang Qiao.
• Moon Laurel tapped the void, erasing the Giant Spirit’s past, future, destinies, and possible endings until it perished.
• The Giant Spirit’s death triggered a planet-wide celestial phenomenon of darkness, blood rain, storms, and thunder.
• The thunder seal struck the firmament and ended the phenomenon, leaving Jiang Qiao and the seven-meter osmanthus tree behind.

Jiang Qiao asked Moon Laurel why it had dispersed the phenomenon and learned that powerful evil spirits could leave Imprints that attracted dangerous beings to the real world. Moon Laurel explained the fatal flaws in the Life Replacement Technique and the Fate Weaver, then challenged Jiang Qiao’s assumptions about the Great Qi World’s history.

• Jiang Qiao asked Moon Laurel why it had dispersed the phenomenon, and Moon Laurel said the giant spirit might attract beings that were neither human, ghost, nor god.
• Moon Laurel explained that people from the Nether Sea had tried to achieve immortality by imitating evil-spirit Imprints, bringing calamity upon themselves.
• Moon Laurel told Jiang Qiao that the Life Replacement Technique was flawed and described how the Fate Weaver’s efforts to cut and exchange fate ultimately caused its death and the deaths of its descendants.
• Jiang Qiao recounted the Great Qi World’s history and questioned how its people could preserve records from the Nether Era.
• Moon Laurel asked Jiang Qiao why he assumed the Great Qi World’s history had actually happened as its people believed.

Jiang Qiao learned Moon Laurel’s theory that the Ancestor Emperor had been a survivor of the Return Journey Research Institute who manipulated Great Qi’s history while seeking a path to godhood. Moon Laurel then revealed that they knew Jiang Qiao was an Earthling from the future.

• Moon Laurel suggested that Great Qi’s Ancestor Emperor had been an Institute survivor and that the recorded noble purge may have concealed the deaths of manufactured pawns.
• Moon Laurel explained that the Institute’s survivors sought to restore their living human bodies because they believed it could help them become gods.
• Jiang Qiao asked Moon Laurel about the Deities, and Moon Laurel warned him that they were false gods whose discussion could invite disaster.
• Jiang Qiao prepared to ask whether Moon Laurel came from Earth, but Moon Laurel anticipated the question and said they knew Jiang Qiao was a fellow Earthling from the future.

Jiang Qiao asked Moon Laurel about his journey from Earth, the fate of his homeland, and the origins of the supernatural. She could not explain who altered his fate or what happened to Earth, but she suggested the supernatural arose when advanced civilizations tried to harness chaos.

• Jiang Qiao asked Moon Laurel how she knew he had come from the future, and she explained that she had sensed his connection to the River of History.
• Jiang Qiao described his arrival on Blue Star, and Moon Laurel said someone may have altered his fate, though she could not identify who.
• Moon Laurel told Jiang Qiao that three cosmic cycles had passed since his home star system fell silent, making his arrival in the present era extraordinarily difficult to explain.
• Jiang Qiao asked whether True Gods had existed, and Moon Laurel said their traces had vanished and even the nature of a god was unknown.
• Jiang Qiao asked about Earth's destruction and the origin of the supernatural, and Moon Laurel said she believed advanced civilizations had learned to harness chaos.

Moon Laurel explained the origins of the Supernatural World, the Red Moon, and the Black Tide, helping Jiang Qiao connect his abilities to the history of his homeworld. He warned Jiang Qiao that the Chou God’s mark was necessary for his return and that he would be lost in the River of History if he tried to hide.

• Moon Laurel told Jiang Qiao that ancient seeds of the Supernatural World reached his homeworld, where they gave rise to Extraordinary Individuals and eventually infected civilization.
• Moon Laurel explained that ancient Evil Spirits emerged from the Abyss, that the galaxy was sealed against them, and that the True God and Red Moon appeared during that era.
• Moon Laurel said survivors escaped to this world's underworld, where the contaminated Red Moon drove the false gods mad and later shattered, with a fragment becoming Jiang Qiao's pupils.
• Moon Laurel described the Red Moon's fall as Taiyin Chenzhui, which caused the Black Tide, destroyed the underworld's established order, and preceded the Nether Era.
• Jiang Qiao thanked Moon Laurel and considered whether the Simulator was connected to the True God and how it might have helped him return through the River of History.
• Moon Laurel warned Jiang Qiao that the Chou God's mark would help him return in seven days and that losing its coordinates would destroy his body and soul in the River of History.

Jiang Qiao learned how the River of History affected ordinary people and Half-Gods before preparing to leave the Guanghan Ruins. Moon Laurel stopped him and offered him a gift, noting that he carried Red Moon fragments and talents from their homeland.

• The Osmanthus Tree told Jiang Qiao that the worlds would soon begin merging, closing the route back to the Guanghan Ruins.
• The Osmanthus Tree explained that changes made to ordinary people in the River of History would not carry into the Future World, while damage to Half-Gods and their items could.
• Jiang Qiao decided to leave for Bin City and did not press Moon Laurel about its origins or the giant spirit’s name.
• Moon Laurel said that their people had likely all perished and that Jiang Qiao’s meeting with it was fate.
• Moon Laurel shone silver-white light over Jiang Qiao and offered him a gift to make up for the two items he had damaged in the Guanghan Ruins.

Jiang Qiao pieced together how the Red Moon’s fragments, the weakening World Barrier, and the Green Lotus Sect’s actions led to Supernatural Revival. He tested the Red Moon’s power by erasing a Supernatural Space and the Paper Figure Maker’s clone, leaving him to consider how valuable the sealed power was.

• Jiang Qiao reconstructed the history linking his homeland’s destruction, the Red Moon, the Great Cataclysm, and Supernatural Revival.
• Jiang Qiao looked at a Supernatural Space in Bin City and used the Red Moon’s power to erase it.
• The Paper Figure Maker’s clone and the Supernatural Space vanished when the red light swept through them.
• Jiang Qiao explained that Supernatural Spaces were stabilized by chaos and that erasing one required destroying that chaos.
• Jiang Qiao concluded that the Red Moon’s sealed power was more valuable than a damaged demigod item.

Jiang Qiao examined the Simulator’s changes after the Red Moon power was merged into his Dual Pupils, raising his listed level to Divinity Ninth Tier. He concluded that the power was sealed within his eyes and that one of the Red Moon Restaurant’s vanished doors might still be accessible.

• Jiang Qiao saw that the Simulator now listed his level as Divinity Ninth Tier, though he did not know his position on the Divinity Staircase.
• Jiang Qiao reasoned that his combat power had likely reached the final two or three steps toward demigodhood.
• Jiang Qiao connected the Dual Pupils’ changes to Moon Laurel transferring Red Moon power from the Red Moon Restaurant into his eyes.
• Jiang Qiao recalled that Moon Laurel had sealed the Red Moon power because he could not yet control it, and that the transfer had brought him back from the Guanghan Ruins to reality.
• Jiang Qiao deduced that the Red Moon Restaurant and Supernatural Chef talent had disappeared because the restaurant depended on the Red Moon power now carried by his Dual Pupils.
• Jiang Qiao thought he could open one vanished iron door leading to the Nether Sea Shore, but could not yet open the other.

Jiang Qiao examined the upgrades he had gained in the Guanghan Ruins and concluded that the Thunder Spirit and Divine Firmament Thunder Seal could help him resist a Half-God. After finding the ruin empty, he was left wondering whether its selection had been intended to find a body for the thing once held in its collapsed tower.

• Jiang Qiao considered Moon Laurel’s immense power and its mysterious connection to the Red Moon and the True Gods.
• Jiang Qiao discovered that the Thunder Spirit had gained SSR potential and could control the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal.
• Jiang Qiao concluded that his upgrades involved Demigod-level Power and would remain with him when he left the River of History.
• Jiang Qiao sent a clone into the ruin and found it completely empty, with the tower at the grassland’s center collapsed.
• Jiang Qiao suspected the ruin’s selection had been meant to find a body for the thing that had been inside the tower.

With two days remaining until the Supernatural Revival, Jiang Qiao watched Bin City grow increasingly dangerous as Vicious Ghosts appeared in public. He noticed a drunken man carrying a bloody head and saw a headless female ghost approach him, just as someone spoke from behind Jiang Qiao.

• Jiang Qiao observed that rumors and supernatural incidents had spread while people stockpiled supplies, though leaving Bin City was the best chance of survival.
• A company boss who refused to let his employees leave work early was killed by a mysterious knife in the parking lot.
• Jiang Qiao watched Vicious Ghosts wander the streets from a rooftop near the hotel.
• Jiang Qiao spotted a drunken man carrying a bloody human head and realized the head was strange.
• A headless female ghost crawled from a trash can toward the man, and a cold voice behind Jiang Qiao asked if he had watched enough.

Jiang Qiao killed two modified Evolvers on a rooftop and deduced that they were vessels for an evil spirit’s Divine Descent. He spotted a man carrying a head entering a residential compound, where a wary security guard ran off to hide.

• Jiang Qiao taunted two strangers and noticed the murderer carrying a head with a headless female ghost following him.
• When the woman threatened him, Jiang Qiao killed her with one punch, then killed the fleeing man.
• Jiang Qiao realized the pair had been modified as vessels and reasoned that a powerful evil spirit was behind them.
• Jiang Qiao watched the head-carrying man leave the street and approach a residential compound.
• The security guard spotted the suspicious man, entered the compound, and ran to hide.

Rumors of supernatural events spread as residents investigated why all four elevators in a neighboring building had stopped at the vacant thirtieth floor. The group reached the floor and found its lights broken, leaving them facing an unexplained cold wind.

• The four elevators stopped on the thirtieth floor, and residents crowded the lobby while security guards called for maintenance and went to investigate.
• The Fat Security Guard said the thirtieth and twenty-ninth floors were mostly vacant, while the young security guard described hearing footsteps during his patrols.
• A resident said he had seen several motionless people on the balcony of Apartment Six the previous day.
• The group opened the emergency stairwell door on the thirtieth floor, where a gust of cold wind met them and they found the lights were broken.